A 67-year-old lotto receiver was on Wednesday sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for defiling a 13 year old pupil at Dome, a suburb in Accra. This was after the court had found Davis Kwadwo Danso guilty on the charge of defilement. The court presided over by Ms Sedina Agbemava, however, ...
Some consumer groups have threatened to sue telecom companies in Ghana if they implement a new charge on subscribers who use social media services. According to reports some telcos are likely to charge a standard rate of five Ghana cedis per month for WhatsApp, Tango, Viber and other services. But the WhatsApp application will attract ...
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is pushing for the enactment of a law that will force companies and institutions to submit data to the statistical service at a specific period for the computation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures. The call follows frustrations expressed by the statistical service that the data collectors often do not ...
Asante Kotoko have been banned from playing at the Baba Yara Stadium for the rest of the season after their fans beat up referee ER Biney in their defeat to Heart of Lions last month. This means the Ghana Premier League derby II clash against rivals Hearts of Oak on 11 May will be played ...
Chief Executive Officer of Inter Allies Football Club, Eric Delali Senaye, has underlined the impact of the team’s new signings as the reason for their marked improvement in the second round of the First Capital Plus Premier League. Â The Tema-based team has moved from the bottom of the log to 14th due to an impressive ...
Economic Analyst John Gatsi is calling for a revision of all macro economic targets for this year. The call comes after the Ghana Statistical Service announced a miss in the economic growth target for last year as well as the Bank of Ghana’s expressions that the inflation target of 9.5 percent for this year will ...
Commercial drivers who increased transport fares after recent increment in fuel prices are yet to revert to the old fares. The Ghana Private Roads Transport Union (GPRTU) ordered the drivers to revert to the old fares pending consultations with other stakeholders. However, Citi News checks indicate that the drivers are still charging the new unapproved ...
Braimah “Bukom Banku” Kamoko has said in an exclusive interview he will no longer face long time rival Michael Ayitey Powers on May 16. The much anticipated bout has been blighted by Powers’ refusal to sign a contract obliging him to face Banku after a prophecy from his spiritual advisor T.B Joshua. There have been ...
An Accra Fast Track High Court, presided over by his Lordship Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh has sentenced Mr. Asem Darkey, popularly known as “limping man” to 22 years imprisonment. Mr. Darkey, an alleged drug baron involved in the disappearance of the 76 parcels of cocaine, appeared before the court in 2012 and was brought under ...
Security has tightened in Tamale ahead of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Saturday’s mammoth National Delegates Conference. About seven temporary police duty posts have been established at some vantage points in the Tamale metropolis with one expected to be mounted within the Tamale ultra modern stadium where the main event would be held. The Northern ...
President John Dramani Mahama is paying a one-day official visit to Guinea-Bissau on Thursday ahead of the country’s elections this weekend. The President is visiting Guinea in his capacity as the new Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Guinea-Bissau’s presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed twice from November last year. ...
Ghana have dropped three places down on the latest Fifa/Coca Cola rankings released on Thursday for the month of April. The Black Stars of Ghana are currently ranked the 38th best country in the world, according to the latest Fifa Rankings. Ghana moved up two places in last month’s [March] edition but has seen a ...
A former flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan Kyerematen has expressed his desire and interest to contest for the party’s presidential candidate position for 2016. This was contained in a goodwill message to the NPP ahead of its National Delegates Conference in the Northern Region. ”Ladies and gentlemen, I know that some ...
And the good news keeps coming in. A huge congratulations to Chris Attoh and Damilola Adegbite who are expecting their first child. The ex “Tinselâ€Â co-stars got everyone saying “Aww…†when they announced in January 2014 that they are a couple. They later revealed they’ll be tying the knot this April. We sighted the big screen beauty sporting a baby ...
Oh my goodness; if I had a dollar for every lovely young woman who told me that the guy in question just wasn’t her type, then I’d be an unusually rich psychologist! But that isn’t my mission. What I am here to do, however, is to help you change course and encourage you to stop ...
The Citi Breakfast Show among others interviewed the Minister of Transport, Ms Dzifa Attivor on the rot revealed by Anas Aremeyaw Anas at the DVLA.She highlighted measures the Ministry will take to address the problem.
The Chairman for the technical committee on the conversion of polytechnics to technical universities, Dr G. M. Afeti, has underscored the need for adequate funding for the training of students of the proposed converted polytechnics, to make the system comparable with international standards. According to him, there was the need to bridge the huge gap ...
Millions of Indians are voting on the first big day of the general election pitting the ruling Congress party against the main opposition BJP. Polling is being held in 91 seats in 14 states, including in the capital Delhi and the key states of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Orissa. The nine-phase vote began on ...
The Minister of Transport, Ms. Dzifa Attivor has said the officers of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) who were found indulging in illegal acts in the latest Anas Aremeyaw Anas undercover investigation will be arrested. “The Police have put in place measures to arrest those people…. Wherever they go, their faces are on the video and we ...
When Reggie Rockstone announced a couple of months ago that he was joining VIP, many were those who thought it was a joke because they could not believe that the Grandpapa of Hiplife would do a thing like that. Showbiz can confirm today that indeed, Reggie is a member of VIP. Last Monday he told ...
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