Monday had been a particularly great day for me until news reached me that, Kwame Gyan, a colleague, brother and friend, has been suspended from work because he expressed his frustrations about the governance of our country on a social media platform. This development – akin to Idi Amin’s “There is freedom of speech, but ...

A neighbour of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has told a court in Pretoria that she was awoken by a woman’s “terrible screams” in the early hours of 14 February 2013. Mr Pistorius has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot dead the ...

Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has stated that the President’s announcement of free Senior High School (SHS) education in 2015 will start with students in public schools first. “Free means that from 2015 all day students in public senior high schools will not pay fees, government will absorb the fees,” he said. Throwing more light ...

The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe says the Free Senior High School policy is a not timely intervention, considering the current economic challenges that Ghana is bedeviled with. “This is not the time to roll out this policy, and even if it was time, the way it was even announced shows a ...

Featuring a delicious chip from Malaysia, a long-range free-kick from Brazil, a scissor-kick from Israel and a Pittodrie piledriver Kyaw Ko Ko (YANGON v Kelantan) Hamdi Slihi (Maccabi Haifa v HAPOEL ACRE) Elano (FLAMENGO v Emelec) Mirko Antenucci (TERNANA v Spezia) Aleix Febas (REAL MADRID v Napoli Youth Team) Jordi Gómez (Nottingham Forest v WIGAN ...

Jan Koum and Brian Acton, the cofounders of WhatsApp, made Forbes’ annual billionaires’ list with few moments to spare after Facebook offered a total of $19 billion to buy the company. The deal, if completed, will give Koum a fortune of $6.8 billion, according to Forbes. Acton will be worth at least $3 billion. The two were the subject of ...

Medeama Sporting Club have told Citi Sports in an interview that the team have already started preparations for the second leg of the first round of the CAF Confederation Cup against MAS Fez of Morocco. Ebenezer Aidoo, the club’s Public Relations Officer explained that they were getting ready for any eventuality they could face in the North ...

Wimbledon champion Murray will join Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya, Kirsten Flipkens in the Bangkok team. The line-ups were confirmed at the player auction which was held in Dubai with Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai also having teams. Novak Djokovic will lead the Dubai side, with Pete Sampras andRafael Nadal in the Mumbai team; meanwhile, Andre Agassi ...

Former Black Stars defender Samuel Johnson has advised the national team to rope in leaders in the team’s defence ahead of the 2014 World Cup. According to Johnson, the team lacks an organiser at the back to help direct matters especially as the nation faces top quality sides in Germany, Portugal and the United States. ...

Workers of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL)  have expressed fears about government’s plans to transform the ailing company. According to them, there is a likelihood for them to become redundant after the numerous rehabilitation works ongoing in the sector. They are therefore concerned about their fate as government rolls out its plans for the project ...

Legal practitioner, Chris Akcumey is calling for the prosecution of the three ladies who allegedly shoplifted at Mr Price at the Accra Mall. The police have arrested the security personnel who manhandled the three ladies, and will soon process them for court. The security personnel have been criticized publicly for ordering the three girls to ...

Just for the heck of it, let us say any country where more than one in twenty – five percent of the population, that is – is condemned to open defecation as a fact of daily and regular life, is a Buffoon state. For in that one single fact is bound to be a failure ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s deadline to relocate commercial activities at Sodom and Gomorrah to Adjin Kotoku in the Ga West Municipality has elapsed. Accra Mayor. Dr. Alfred Oko Vanderpuye earlier announced February 28 as the deadline for the relocation exercise. Citi News checks uncovered that the planned relocation exercise has stalled without any reasons from ...

A  Music Professor, John Collins has lamented the failure of the current crop of young musicians to make the needed international impact. According to him, though Ghana can boast of the impact a few musicians are making on the international scene, it is still not enough to cement their presence. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast ...

Some teachers in the Upper East Region are calling for improvements in the celebration of Ghana’s independence on 6th March. The teachers are also requesting for improved conditions for pupils who participate in the celebration. School children  engage in a number of activities during the celebrations. Over the years however, children collapse while a few ...

Water supply to Eastern parts of Accra is expected to normalize by the close of day Monday following the completion of maintenance works at the Kpong Water Treatment Plant. The Kpong plant was shutdown on Thursday, February 27, 2013 to allow contractors undertake critical pipeline interconnections. Rehabilitation works are underway at the plant under the ...

Fellow musicians and lovers of Ghanaian music; On behalf of the Musicians Union of Ghana, I wish to draw the attention of our great country to the 2014 GMW Festival, a very important development-oriented event coming off from 3rd March to Saturday,8thMarch 2014. GMW Festival is primarily about Education, Arts, Culture, Tourism, Awards and more. ...

Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it? The protesters who have overturned the politics of Ukraine have many aspirations for their country. Their placards called for closer relations with the European Union (EU), an end to Russian ...

President John Dramani Mahama has made the following changes in the posting of Regional Ministers. A statement from the Flagstaff House and signed by the Spokesperson to the President, Ben Dotsei Malor, said the Regional Ministers are to report to their new regions by the 15th of March, 2014. 1. Eric Opoku- Brong – Ahafo ...

Dare-devil robbers, on Sunday,desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, at Ibadan in Nigeria after their failed attempts to steal the church’s tithes and offering. Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken  away by his gang ...