Until the arrest of 34-year-old Edward Kwabena Botri, residents of Mataheko in Accra had for the past three years mistaken him for a military officer. Not only did he parade as a military officer in the area, but he also threatened and harassed the residents and on a number of occasions assaulted some of them. ...

Four persons, including a two-year-old baby girl and her mother, died on the spot yesterday when a Mercedes Benz tipper truck, with registration number ER 2752 X, collided head-on with a KIA Pride taxi in which they were travelling.  The deceased, who were yet to be identified as of the time of going to press, ...

On Thursday, a Malaysia Airlines flight crashed in Ukraine and Israel began a ground invasion into the Gaza strip. The Dow Jones index fell 161.39 points, or 0.94%, to 16,976.81, closing back below the symbolic threshold of 17,000. The S&P 500 plunged 23.45 points or 1.18%, to 1,958.12, and the Nasdaq index dropped 62.52 points or 1.41% to 4,363.45. ‘Eggshells’ Malaysia ...

Microsoft is to stop developing Android-powered smartphones beyond those already available, the BBC understands. Nokia X models will now become part of the Lumia range and run the Windows Phone operating system, although existing Android handsets will continue to be supported. The move comes as Microsoft announced 18,000 job cuts across its workforce. The tech ...

A collection of unusual items signed by South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is to be auctioned later in Johannesburg. The lots include a chess set, of figures from either side of the apartheid battle, and salt and pepper shakers of Mr Mandela and FW de Klerk. The sale items is expected to raise around ...

Graphic Online of 29 June 2014 carried a news story about “Ghana still reeling from corruption-“ attributed to Hon. Mr. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs at the tabling of a motion for the adoption of the report of his Committee on the National Anti-Corruption ...

A sizable part of the Kumasi Central Market has been razed down by fire. Citi News sources indicate that the inferno which  started around 9pm Thursday has destroyed many shops in the fire-prone market. The 18-yard area of the  market through to the second-hand clothing section are the worst hit areas. Eyewitnesses who have confirmed ...

Portions of the Kumasi Central Market have been destroyed in a fire suspected to have started  around 8:30pm on  Thursday evening. The blaze has destroyed shops and property worth thousands of Cedis. Eyewitnesses say the part of the market known as the 18-yard area  through to the second-hand clothes section were the worst hit  Reports indicate that ...

Minister for Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, has said he understands football ruling body, FIFA, and its decision to write to the Ghana Football Association over the Presidential Commission of Inquiry but he insists that there is nothing to worry about. He explained that FIFA’s wish to know what was happening in Ghana was very ...

The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper on Thursday answered urgent questions in Parliament on why his Ministry has delayed statutory payments to state agencies. In his answers to the House, the Minister defended his Ministry’s decision to hold off tax resources from the various statutory funds explaining that paying off the arrears could trigger more ...

Finance Minister, Seth Terkper,  answered questions on Ghana’s economy on a special edition of the Citi Breakfast Show. The minister answered questions from Citi FM’s Bernard Avle, Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhuyini and the general public aired on both 97.3 Citi FM and Radio Gold. The special breakfast session with the minister was heavily patronized on ...

Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has answered questions on Ghana’s economy on a special edition of the Citi Breakfast Show. The minister answered questions from Citi FM’s Bernard Avle, Radio Gold’s Alhassan Suhuyini and the general public aired on both 97.3 Citi FM and Radio Gold. The special breakfast session with the minister was heavily patronized ...

Current President of the Zambian Football Association Kalusha Bwalya says Ghana should pick valuable lessons from their disastrous World Cup campaign which resulted in the teams early exit from their group. According to him players called into the national team  must show reference for authority and the regulations that govern the squad. “To play in ...

Ghana’s cycling team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is getting itself ready for the event . Spokesperson for the Ghana Cycling Federation Dennis Moore has told Citi Sports that things are progressing well as they continue with preparations ahead of the games which begin later this month.  He disclosed that the cyclists have already spent ...

  Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military’s capability to fight militant Islamists. Mr Jonathan wrote to parliament, asking for the expenditure to be approved. Nigeria has a military budget of about $6bn a year but large sums are lost to corruption, critics say. Mr Jonathan has ...

The Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament, Alfred Agbesi, has said that the decision to rise early has nothing to do with the financial status of the legislature. Parliament will rise on Friday to make way for expansion and repair works in the House in order to conveniently accommodate all the 275 members, and according to ...

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed that the Association was requested by FIFA to confirm that a Commission had been set up by the government to investigate the issues surrounding the participation of the Black Stars in the 2014 World Cup. The spokesperson of the GFA, Ibrahim Sanni Daara told Citi News that the ...

Following the introduction of the automatic adjustment formula for the pricing of petroleum products, the average commuter has had to pay much more on transportation cost at least every two months. A review of the prices is done every two weeks. In 2014 alone, the regulator National Petroleum Authority has maintained the price of petrol ...

A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet. An aviation source in Moscow told ...

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold ...