GENERAL NEWS

“The time is ripe for Ghana and Switzerland to transition their diplomatic ties to a level that will guarantee the exchange of expertise in statecraft and governance”, the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has said. As a budding democracy, he noted that there was a lot for …

A cargo truck believed to be carrying gallons of engine oil on Friday night, June 11, 2021, skidded off one of the flyovers at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra. The incident, according to an eyewitness, occured around 9:00pm. The eyewitness who spoke to citinewsroom.com said, the truck started reversing …

Former President, John Agyekum Kufuor has called for an end in the unnecessary attacks and insults on business mogul, Dr Kwaku Oteng. In an interview with Kofi Adoma on Anɔpa Bɔfoɔ on Friday, the man who made the development of the private sector his aim during his eight-year reign said …

The African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), a pan-African think tank, has recommended that the Ministry of Trade and Industry develop a comprehensive policy on Export Processing Zones in Ghana as soon as possible to lay the solid foundation for the strategic management of Export Processing Zones and their attendant …

Ghana obtained the highest number of votes of 185 out of 190 compared to the four other member states that were elected The General Assembly of the United Nations on Friday (11 June 2021) elected Ghana to serve a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council for the period …

The Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has announced that its members will embark on a partial strike on Monday, June 14. By this announcement, TUTAG members have been tasked to not teach, invigilate, mark examination papers and/or submit results and attend meetings of any of the Technical Universities. …

The Chairman of the bi-partisan parliamentary committee probing the collapse of UT Bank and uniBank, Joe Osei Owusu, says a response it received from the Bank of Ghana with regard to the case will be carefully considered as the committee continues with its work. He said the Bank of Ghana’s …

In the early 1960’s, Queen Elizabeth II, on her visit to Kumasi, one of the oldest-existing cities in sub-Saharan Africa, described it as the ‘Garden City of West Africa’. The accolade was apt for the traditional city, which reportedly was adorned in rich fauna and flora, some of the species …

Pope Francis on Thursday rejected the resignation of one of Germany’s most influential bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who had offered to step down to accept responsibility for the sexual abuse crisis in the German Catholic Church. Marx, the Bishop of Munich, wrote to the pope in a letter released this …

Today June 11, 2021, is Green Ghana Day, an initiative by the Government of Ghana as part of the broader strategy to recover alarming losses of forest cover and vegetation owing to illegal mining and chainsawing. At least five (5) million trees are expected to be planted nationwide. .The exercise …