The President of Ghana has called on world leaders to be courageous enough to undertake a massive reform of the United Nations in order to address imbalances in the global political systems. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the UN cannot reasonably purport to preach peace and fairness across the world when there are traces of unfairness and imbalance in the […]

Ghana continues to rank among the countries with the highest United States Visa application denial rates, according to the U.S. State Department. When it comes to B Visas, which deal with tourism or business, Ghana ranked 7th with 65.7% of such visa applications denied in the 2016 fiscal year, according to figures from the US Department of State. The US Department […]

Following reports of overpopulation recorded by some Senior High Schools, the Ministry of Education is to  embark on an exercise to re-distribute students to less populated schools. Some schools have been forced to convert sick bays and classroom blocks into dormitories as a result of the huge numbers sent to them. But the Minister of State in-charge of Tertiary Education, Professor […]

Top government officials have paid an unannounced visit to some senior high schools over cases of possible sabotage of the Free SHS education policy. The visit was also to assess the performance of the programme, less than a week after it was rolled out. Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, accompanied by some officials of the Ghana Education Service (GES), visited […]

The Minority in Parliament has declared total boycott of consideration of a private members motion for rescission demanding a reopening of the Ameri Power deal with government. The $510m deal approved by the House in March, 2015 obligated  AMERI to build the power plants, own and operate it for 5years before finally transferring it to the government of Ghana. A […]

The local currency may have relatively held its own against the US dollar for the greater part of this year, but against the Euro and Great Britain’s pound sterling, the cedi’s performance so far has been very woeful – a situation that would bring misery rather than relief to importers. In the beginning of the year, the Euro was being […]

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation’s second largest referral facility, has taken delivery of infusion pumps to help improve the quality of pediatric care. This would enable fluids – medication and substances containing nourishment essential for growth and maintenance of life – to be introduced into the body of the infant on admission, in the right amount, and in […]

Inflation peaked after four months of consistent decline to 12.3 per cent in August, representing a 0.40 percentage point rise from previous month readings of 11.9 per cent. This was due to inflation pressures from rising petroleum prices, new taxes and base effects on the CPI. Inflation at the food and non-alcoholic beverages settled at 7.4 per cent as against […]

The Tettekope beach in Keta in the Volta Region is the site of a rare scene as a dead whale washed ashore on Tuesday, September 19, 2017. It is unclear what might have led to the death of the whale, but a Chief fisherman in the locality, Seth Kedey, told Cififmonlin.com that the mammal could have been hit by a […]

Big cocoa companies from the Kingdom of Iran and China have expressed interests in setting up businesses in Ghana to trade in the cash crop. Apart from the two, other foreign and indigenous companies have as well expressed their interests in setting up and trading in the commodity which was one-time Ghana’s most reliable export crop. Public Affairs Manager of […]