One of the candidates seeking to be the next national chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dan Abodakpi says that his brief stint in prison will  not hinder his chances of leading the party. “As far as I am concerned and as far as the legal advice my lawyers give to me, there are ...

Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (512GB) of storage space – the highest capacity ever released. The card, which is the size of a postage stamp, will go on sale for $800 (£490). The launch comes a decade after the firm released a 512-megabyte (MB) SD card with one-thousandth of ...

The State on Thursday presented its first prosecution witness in the case involving Eric Amoateng, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, over a forged passport. Mr Ibrahim Issaka Lang-Hani, an Assistant Controller of Immigration Service told an Accra Circuit Court that he was on duty, when he was notified by the Bureau ...

Many constitutional experts and lay observers of Ghana’s 1992 constitution have argued that it unjustifiably sets up the winner of any general election as the sole distributor of ‘political and economic spoils’. It gets worse with a majoritarian parliament aligned to the winner president.  From economic decision making, laying of bills in parliament to appointing ...

A Seattle judge has ordered an HIV-positive man to stop spreading the disease and to seek treatment after he infected eight people in four years. The man, known only as “AO” in court documents, is required to show up for counselling and to protect future sexual partners. Officials maintain they are not trying to criminalise ...

One person was killed while several farms were destroyed by eight elephants who went on rampage in Garu Tempane in the Upper East Region. The Assembly member for Kurinatenga, Joseph Abango told Citi news on Friday that one of the elephants that killed the man was later killed by some soldiers. “We got up this ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential hopeful, Nana Akufo-Addo has picked the number one spot on the ballot paper which will be used during the party’s October 18 congress. The NPP on Friday conducted a balloting exercise for the three presidential aspirants who will be contesting to lead the NPP in the 2016 general elections. Two ...

A rescue operation is underway in Lagos after a building linked to Nigerian preacher T.B Joshua’s megachurch collapsed. This is according to the country’s emergency relief agency. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the building — a guesthouse for foreign members of TB Joshua’s the Synagogue Church of All nations (SCOAN) — came down ...

A human rights court has placed an injunction on this weekend’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) elections in three constituencies. The constituencies are the Madina, Ayawaso West Wugon and La Dadekotopon. This is the third such action in the Greater Accra Region in the last one month. In the latest development,  a member of the party, ...

Alan Kyeremanten is the only person who can wrestle power from President John Dramani Mahama and the New Democratic Congress (NDC) government in 2016, his campaign team has said. According to them, Alan Kyerematen’s involvement with the NPP’s grassroot supporters give him an added advantage over the other candidates vying to lead the party in ...

The Christian Council of Ghana has described the assault on some journalists at its Ablekuma office in Accra as unacceptable. Three journalists from Accra based Adom FM were reportedly assaulted by officials of the Ablekuma office of the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) for attempting to investigate complaints about delays from subscribers. The National Health Insurance ...

Cash from yesterday’s 1 billion dollar Eurobond issue is expected to hit the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) account in a few weeks. According to Finance Minister Seth Tekper ‘ once the processes are complete, the Bank of Ghana has an account which will take care of the proceeds as done in the past, i will ...

  The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed that they have parted ways with Black Stars coach James Kwesi Appiah. In a statement released by the association, they “have agreed to mutually part ways.” Appiah and officials of the FA met on Friday morning to reach the agreement on the departure of Mr. Appiah. The ...

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has kicked against the feeding fees announced by government for Senior High schools. According to them the GHC3.30 amount is inadequate to provide three square meals for the students. The Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) have rejected the amount saying they cannot provide nutritious ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Turkey to seek support for more military action against Islamic State (IS) fighters in Iraq and Syria. It comes after Turkey refused to allow the use of its southern air bases to launch attacks on the jihadist group. French President Francois Hollande is currently in Baghdad ...

  Cash from yesterday’s 1 billion dollar Eurobond issue is expected to hit the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) account in a few weeks. According to Finance Minister Seth Tekper ‘ once the processes are complete, the Bank of Ghana has an account which will take care of the proceeds as done in the past, i ...

Citi Business News has learnt that the Ghana Mine Workers Union will be finalizing discussions with  the leadership of Anglogold Ashanti on some recent developments in the company in the next three days. The discussion is expected to exhaust negotiations on the planned retrenchment of almost all staff of AngloGold at its Obuasi concession in ...

The 13th edition of the Ghana Banking Awards originally slated for Saturday, September 13, 2014, has been postponed to Saturday, November 1, 2014. The Ghana Banking Awards are the most hotly contested awards in the Ghanaian banking industry and presently concentrates on the Universal Banks sub-sector. Organized by Corporate Initiative Ghana, a not-for-profit entity, the ...

Prof. Agyemang Badu Akosa, a former Director General of the Ghana Health Service, has described Ghanaians as being “too obsessed with Serbian coaches.” According to him, Serbian coaches over the years have not been able to lead any country to win the World Cup, adding that there was no need to hire them. His comment ...

Young dancehall musician, MzVee, who often gets her audience excited by the way she twerks and winds her waist during live performances says most men get it wrong when they equate how well a woman dances to how good she may be in bed. “I don’t understand it”, she told Showbiz, “why some men think that ...