The Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) has told Citi Business News it will come out with a comprehensive data base of all insurance holders in the country to help reduce insurance fraud. The move is also targeted at improving information sharing among insurance companies to synchronize information provided by clients. Speaking to Citi Business News at a forum organized by Dun ...

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger is pushing ahead with a deal for Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez and hopes the Algeria international can rediscover his best form, reports claim. Arsenal tried to sign Mahrez from Leicester last summer but the Foxes held firm and ultimately kept their star asset. However, he was unable to replicate the form of the 2015/2016 season where he ...

Ghana cannot meet the September 21, 2017 deadline set for the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting, the Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said. The country missed the initial June 2015 deadline set under the Geneva 2006 agreement of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for countries to migrate onto the digital platform, citing delays in accessing funding for ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that government is preparing to meet the board of the International Monetary Fund later this month. A team from the IMF led by Joël Toujas-Bernaté, earlier visited Accra on the 10th of February this year to welcome the government’s intention to conduct a full audit of outstanding obligations under the External Credit Facility ...

Since 2005, Ghana continues to show steady improvements in economic growth of over 7% per year on average, making it the first African country to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. However, as growth has accelerated the disparities between the Northern and Southern broad regions, in terms of economic development, becomes clearer. To ...

A group of 18 international rights organisations has told the Tanzanian government to stop threatening local civil society organisations which champion gay rights and the right for teenage mothers to return to school. Last week, the government threatened to deregister any organisation which continued to campaign for schoolgirls who get pregnant to be allowed to return to school after giving ...

Ghanaian actress and producer Joselyn Dumas says that it’s good to crush on yourself when your glam squad makes you look gorgeous. In a post on her Instagram page, she stated that if your glam squad is diligent in their work the end product is superb which makes her crush on herself. “It’s so much easier to crush on yourself ...

CHELSEA are reportedly ready to offer £53million (€60m) for Real Madrid ace James Rodriguez. The Colombian has been strongly linked with a move away from the Bernabeu after falling down the pecking order under Zinedine Zidane. A transfer looks inevitable for Rodriguez but no club is yet to reach the £53m valuation Madrid chief Florentino Perez has set. But Spanish ...

President of Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has explained that the Union leases some of their office space so as to survive. Bice Osei Kufuor popularly known in showbiz circles as Obour confirmed that “we have rented part of MUSIGA’s building to a church and chop bar because we have to survive”. In a recent interview on Hitz FM, he ...

Ghanaian football star Dede Ayew has endorsed dancehall act Shatta Wale as his all-time favourite artiste. In an interview late June, the West Ham United midfielder was unequivocal in stating that “he’s the number one. The son of the football legend told host of the entertainment segment on Joy News’ Touchline Becky, that Shatta Wale’s songs strikes a cord with ...