Anti-graft Agency, the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) says government must ensure it implements all recommendations made by the Technical Committee which investigated the payment of GHC 75 million to Subah Infosolutions by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). Though details of the report are sketchy, but Citi News is reliably informed that the Chief Director of the ...

Two days after maintenance works at the Kpong water treatment plant was completed, residents in the eastern parts of Accra, Tema and its environs say they are still experiencing water shortages. The Ghana Water Company assured that the maintenance works would add additional three million gallons of water after completion. A resident of Tema who ...

Ghanaian musicians have been advised to explore digital avenues to increase the revenue from their materials. The advise was borne out of discussions aimed at making the music industry more profitable, a part of the Citi Heritage Month discussions on the music industry. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, musician and CEO of ...

The Citi FM sports desk started their programmes to herald the coming football festival with the Citi Sports World Cup Minute. It started on Tuesday morning’s edition of Kickoff, the station’s morning sports bulletin, and it will feature snappy, one-minute profiles of pertinent issues and previews relating Brazil 2014. “The segment will be pre-packaged for airing ...

Mother of a 13-year-old defiled victim, Eunice Otoo has appealed to the public and the to hierarchy of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) to come to the aid of her daughter who was allegedly defiled several times by her 55 year old father. The thirteen year old victim after the ordeal cannot ...

On one stage, at the National Theatre, Ghana will experience History spiced with Humour, Music and Dance. Globe Productions in partnership with National Theatre and the Nkrumah centenary committee presents “The Second Coming of Nkrumah”, a beautiful play by Latif Abubakar The second coming of Nkrumah is a stage play enriched with the Ghanaian history ...

Musician, Yaw Siki, says he’s done doing secular music. Siki, who is recovering from an April 15, 2013, Tema-Motorway accident, posted on his Facebook page: “I’m now into gospel music”, attracting tons of messages from curious fans. He wouldn’t say what exactly led to his decision, choosing to remain silent over what may later be ...

Former Nigeria international, Nwankwo Kanu, has successfully undergone a corrective heart surgery at the weekend. Nigerian football legend and founder of the Kanu Heart Foundation, KHF, Nwankwo Kanu recently underwent a corrective heart surgery at the Cleveland Hospital Ohio, USA, Vanguard reports. The surgery was carried out during one of his normal yearly routine medical ...

Airtel’s Kwame Gyan’s gets suspended for supposedly violent comments on his private facebook page. The Citi Breakfast Show held discussions on the suspension. The show also continued with the Heritage series. The show in that regard interviewed personalities such as Okyeame Kwame among others on contemporary music.

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has come under fire for taking poor investment decisions that have denied the country the much needed foreign exchange in high demand. COCOBOD has been accused of selling the country’s entire cocoa exports in forward contracts in the futures market, departing from its normal practice of apportioning sales in the spot ...

The Deputy Head of the Africa Office at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikoley Heiberg, has hinted that Denmark will soon wean Ghana off its development support. He, however, said the process towards the change in Denmark’s relationship with Ghana from a development-oriented to an economic-focused co-operation, would take some years to become ...

The Sekondi-Takoradi Director of the Social Welfare Department, Madam Deborah Daisey Kwabia, has expressed disgust at the action by some unidentified men  impregnating mentally retarded women in the metropolis. She said the department had recorded three cases of pregnant mad women in the metropolis this year and her outfit was providing safety abode for them ...

Pope Francis dropped the Italian equivalent of an F-bomb during Sunday’s address from the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. No need to wash out the pontiff’s mouth with soap, though. It seems that the swear word was a simple slip of the tongue, NPR reports. Francis, speaking in Italian (not his first language, Spanish), said the Italian ...

The Minister in charge of Finance and Allied Institutions, Mr Fiifi Kwetey says government appointees have an obligation to defend the government in the media. According to him, while government appointees are free to defend and speak on government policies and decisions across the media, citizens working for private sector should consider company guidelines before ...

Some actors deliver great performances and get showered with awards. Others deliver great performances and just get hosed. Of course, not everyone can win an Oscar; otherwise, the awards wouldn’t mean anything. But when you look at the actors and actresses who were denied an Oscar despite a record of consistently great work, you have ...

  Newcastle manager Alan Pardew has been charged with improper conduct by the Football Association after headbutting Hull midfielder David Meyler. Pardew, 52, was sent to the stand for the incident during the second half of the Magpies’ 4-1 win at the KC Stadium. He apologised after Saturday’s match, but Newcastle have fined him £100,000 ...

Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at the Kotoka International Airport due to a sit-down strike by Air Traffic Controllers. The strike has led to all local flights being grounded. The Chief Operating Officer of Africa World Airline, a domestic airline company confirmed the development on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday. Apiggy Afenu explained that news ...

Oh, why oh why, do we fall into the trap of sleeping with our exes? Even when we know it’s not a halfway decent idea, it doesn’t stop so many of us from doing it. We’ve all slept with an ex at some point, haven’t we? In our recent Break Up With Your Ex survey, ...

The Ministry of Health has asked doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi to reconsider threats to attend to only 3 patients a day. The Ministry has also called on the National Labour Commission (NLC) to engage the health workers at the hospital. Doctors at the hospital have threatened not to attend ...

The African Media Initiative (AMI) has announced new funding opportunities for business and technology stories in its pan-African journalism competition. A statement from AMI revealed that the African Story Challenge is now inviting applications from individual journalists and newsrooms with unique story ideas or projects on business and technology that can only be produced with ...