Two key editors of newspapers affiliated to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) have criticized government’s handling of the economy and are asking senior members of the party to call the president to order. According to the editors of the Herald and the Informer , senior members of the governing party must speak up to put ...
President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma has praised President John Mahama’s performance as the Chairman of the Regional Body, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), describing him as a decisive leader. According to him President Mahama as Chairman of ECOWAS “has hit the ground runningâ€Â. The Sierra Leonean President says President Mahama has shown ...
About 200 Ghanaians who entered Brazil have requested for Asylum in the country. The Citi Breakfast Show focused on the show and spoke to the Minister of Information and Media Relations who revealed that government is investigating the report. The economy is facing crises in recent times. Two editors, Mr. Andy Kankam and Mr. Larry ...
One hundred and twenty pupil teachers sacked in the Upper Manya Krobo District are still on the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) payroll and receive their salaries every month. Investigations by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) revealed that the district is not faced with teacher deficit, rather the 120 sacked teachers falsified their documents. The indication ...
It has become a common phenomenon that Ghanaian women in their late 20′s to late 30′s receive what may be perceived as unnecessary pressure to get married. Citi FM’s Kessewa Akoto explores why there is a rule of thumb in the Ghanaian society about getting married at a certain age.
Thousands of pictures including “naked selfies” have been extracted from factory-wiped phones by a Czech Republic-based security firm. The firm, called Avast, used publicly available forensic security tools to extract the images from second-hand phones bought on eBay. Other data extracted included emails, text messages and Google searches. Experts have warned that the only way ...
The Ministry of Health together with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and other health sector stakeholders have ended a two-day workshop on costing of health services in Accra. Speaking at the program, Chief Executive of the NHIA, Sylvester Mensah underscored the importance of costing to the health service delivery system of the country. According ...
Repair works have began on the Bailey bridge on the River Akora at Agona Swedru which collapsed in February this year. The blasting of rocks in the area caused parts of the bridge to collapse, thereby impeding the movement of motorists and pedestrians in the locality. Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Agona West, Samuel Oppong ...
The Getfund Contractors Association is threatening to lock all school buildings they have constructed if government fails to pay outstanding arrears owed for the work done. The Association said the lack of payments to its members is impacting negatively on their families. In an interview with Citi News, a member and contractor of the Getfund Contractors Association, George ...
The Holland defender’s penalty was initially saved by Argentina’s Sergio Romero – but did it cross the line after bouncing? When Sergio Romero wheeled away in celebration and the realisation hit Ron Vlaar that his failure to convert Holland’s first penalty had given Argentina an immediate advantage in Thursday night’s penalty shootout, the main broadcast ...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ghana Football Association will, later today, engage about 60 football administrators to discuss issues concerning the development of soccer in the country. The two day retreat will seek to find answers to various questions about the future of the sport, that have arisen as a result of ...
A woman whom police describe as a high-end prostitute is under arrest after they say she injected a Silicon Valley tech executive with heroin and then casually left as he lay dying. Forrest Timothy Hayes, 51, had an “ongoing prostitution relationship” with Alix Catherine Tichleman, 26, when he was found dead November 23 aboard his ...
Ghana’s poor run in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has received more damning descriptions from the international public. According to a study conducted by the Cambridge University Press, the top words used by various media reports worldwide in relation to Ghana’s World Cup campaign were “moneyâ€Â, “strikeâ€Â, “powerfulâ€Â. These words stem from the Black ...
The 1989 year group of Osu Presbyterian Senior High School on Saturday June 28th 2014, handed over a refurbished library to the management of the school at a short ceremony. The project which cost GHC20,000 involved fixing ceiling fans, replacing windows, shelves, tables and chairs as well as painting the facility. Receiving the keys to ...
Germany publicly told the top U.S. spy official there to leave on Thursday, a rare and forceful act illustrating deep anger over revelations of American espionage that are disrupting one of Washington’s chief alliances. The action came amid investigations into foreign spying by government workers and open questions over U.S. surveillance in Germany, a spokesman ...
Amnesty International has identified those it believes are responsible for atrocities recently committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). Several leaders from rebels and militia groups, as well as former Presidents Francois Bozize and Michel Djotodia, are named by the rights group. The trouble in CAR began as Mr Djotodia’s mainly Muslim rebels seized power ...
A political science lecturer, Aminu Dramani has said the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should have prevented some of the presidential candidate aspirants from contesting if they deemed their participation as a waste of time. “If they knew they were not viable to contest, they should not have allowed them in the first ...
Ghanaians have been asked to wear red attires today in a campaign dubbed ‘The Red Friday’ aimed at forcing government to address concerns raised in the ‘Occupy Flagstaff House’ petition. The organisers of the two protests, the Concerned Ghanaians for Responsible Governance (CGRG), are also asking Ghanaians to comment on the state of economy on social media using ...
Henry Kofi Wampah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has called for stronger action from the Ministry of Finance and government to alleviate the country’s economic difficulties. “Fiscal consolidation will require a more aggressive stance in the second half of 2014. Government must continue to enhance revenue measures and rationalise expenditures to achieve the ...
Members of the Teachers Educational Workers Union (TEWU) of the College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana Medical School, Korle Bu, have embarked on an indefinite industrial action. This according to them is to press home their demands for the college management to pay them all outstanding market premiums owed them since last ...
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