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 ...

Dear President Mahama,   I wasn’t going to write about your State of the Nation address until I heard one of your ministers describe it as “the most rousing motivational and inspirational speech that the country has ever heard from a Ghanaian President.”  Clearly none of your men will be truthful with you. That speech ...

Nairobi pastor Reverend Njohi has introduced a form of worship at his Lord’s Propeller Redemption Church in which female members of the congregation are banned from wearing underwear so God can enter their bodies easily. After a recent meeting of the church’s elders, to debate the matter Reverend Njohi passed an edict banning the wearing ...

Mother of the missing baby at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Suwaiba Mumuni has told Citi News, she doubts her baby boy is dead and is hopeful he will be found. She bemoaned the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her baby which has generated ceaseless debate in media cycles. She implied that the disappearance ...

Are you just jealous? It’s a simple fact of living: Once you’re past the age of 20 or so, the love of your life is likely to have an ex-love. That means that a lot of your beloved’s “firsts” happened with someone else. First kiss, first weekend trip, and yes, first time having sex. It ...

Before there were hip-hop movement’s sprouting in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal or charities launched by Nigerian rap stars, there were African musicians whose songs told stories of a different Africa. From the 1960s into the early 1990s, it was Fela Kuti who called music ‘a weapon’ and Nigeria‘s military a troop of ‘zombies’ as ...

Access Bank (Ghana) Limited has launched two innovative card products onto the Ghanaian market targeted at both customers and non customers of the Bank. The two products, Visa Prepaid Card and the Access Link Cards, were formally launched at a breakfast meeting with selected customers, industry players and key stakeholders in Accra on Thursday. The ...

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Mathew Quarshie, has directed that all companies that have defaulted in supplying cost insurance and freight (CIF) goods ordered by Ghanaian soldiers on international peacekeeping operations are to supply the goods by April 30, 2014, without fail. The CDS has further stated that the Armed Forces ...

The owners of Accra Mall Limited have assured its tenants they will operate an open door policy and respect the individual lease agreement. The owners said they are committed to successful business operations of individual tenants of the mall. A statement issued by the owners over the weekend said: “We would like to assure Accra ...

The Ministry of Education has commissioned a committee to design modalities for addressing the issue of teacher absenteeism, as part of efforts to effectively implement the policy of Zero Tolerance for Teacher Absenteeism and to increase teachers’ time spent in the classroom. The inter-sectorial/agency committee is mandated to deliberate and submit proposals to address the ...

A snake has won a lengthy battle with a crocodile in northern Queensland, wrestling it, constricting it and then finally eating it. The incident at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, was captured on camera by local residents on Sunday. The 10-ft snake, thought to be a python, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two ...

25 officials of four assemblies have been interdicted for allegedly recruiting people, back-dating their appointments and paying the supposed salary arrears to themselves. The offence was committed between September and December 2013, during which period a number of staff were illegally recruited into the Local Government Service. However, luck ran out for the 25 who ...