Mining Services Giant, Metso Minerals Ghana has been slapped with a legal suit for contempt of court following the termination of appointment of its Former Managing Director and Finance and Administrative Director. Metso Minerals Ghana was hit with the suit after it went ahead to fire the two though the court ordered them not to ...
Citi Business News has learnt that Ghanaian companies in the oil and gas sector have received 584, 221 ,448.1 dollars in contracts since Ghana started drilling oil in 2010. According to the Communications Consultant at the Energy Ministry, Edward Bawa ,”as at March this year(2014) this is the total value of service that has gone to ...
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has confirmed to Citi Business News that the current nationwide load shedding exercise is due to the damage to a major gas pipeline from Nigeria. This coupled with maintenance works on the country’s power plants , low levels of water in the Akosombo and Bui dams have compounded the ...
The Minister of Interior Mark Woyongo has hinted of a massive recruitment drive to get more competent lawyers into the Police Service as a way of strengthening its legal department. According to him, the move will help address the problem of “shoddy prosecutions” which dents the integrity of the service. Speaking in an interview with Citi ...
The Northern Regional Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Umar Yussif Alhassan  has dispelled calls by a group calling itself NDC John for John Movement on delegates to vote all incumbent executives out of office. The group’s Secretary, Salifu A. Baba earlier in an interview with Citi News described the NDC Northern Regional executives ...
Citi FM’s Umaru Sanda Amadu has been presented with his international award after being adjudged one of the winners in the 2014 WASH Media Awards for their excellence in reporting on water, sanitation and hygiene related (WASH) issues. Sanda won the WASH in the future: The Post 2015 Development Agenda with his documentary “Water Wahala.” ...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to be adjourned indefinitely. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she still did not have enough evidence to proceed with the trial, which was due to resume next month. The trial has already been delayed several times, with key ...
Controversial former Member of Parliament (MP) for Lower Manya Krobo constituency, Michael Teye Nyaunu has challenged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest President John Mahama in the party’s presidential primaries. He was of the opinion that it will be wrong for President Mahama to stand for the flagbearership position unopposed. “Somebody must ...
As the apathy surrounding the Black Stars ahead of their African Cup of Nations qualifier against Uganda keeps growing, Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga has announced that the gates of the Baba Yara Stadium will be opened for free on Saturday. His decision would see the players and the Ghana Football Association breathe a huge sigh ...
Following the devastating fire on 2 September 2014 at the Big Brother house in Johannesburg, M-Net and Endemol SA have spent the last 48 hours searching both locally and internationally for a venue in which to produce Season 9 of the highly popular Big Brother Africa reality show. After exploring all possible options, the team ...
The youth in Nkanfoa in the Cape coast in the Central Region have demonstrated against the Municipal Assembly over the location of a landfill site in the area. According to them, the landfill site has contributed to the increasing number of cholera-related deaths in the area. Some of the demonstrators told to Citi News’ Central ...
Health Minister, Dr. Kwaku Agyemang Mensah says government is set to announce new measures to intensify its fight to curb the spread of the cholera outbreak. A cholera outbreak in seven regions in Ghana has claimed about 90 lives and affected over 10,000 people. The Health Minister was hopeful that the renewed efforts between his ...
A High Court in Accra has dismissed a suit filed by an aggrieved member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who attempted to place an injunction on the Greater Accra Regional elections. The plaintiff, Bossman Oduro-Fosu, sued the NDC for flouting aspects of the party’s constitution on the election of party executives. In his statement of ...
Citi 97.3 FM has launched a new campaign aimed at rallying Ghanaian together to boost national development. The campaign seeks to get Ghana united to promote healthy patriotic conversations about national issues and to get action taken to improve the state of the nation. Ghana, the first sub-Saharan country to attain independence 57 years ago, ...
Flames from a fuel tanker explosion at Assin Fosu in the Central Region, has spread to nearby stalls and homes, burning them down to the ground. A eye witnesses, Emmanuel Padmore Eduful say the tanker exploded after they noticed it was spilling its content. Narrating the incident to Citi News, Eduful said: “In the morning, there ...
“To get divorced because love has died, is like selling your car because it’s run out of gas.” – D. Sollee Charlotte and Finn thought they were on the verge of a painful and expensive divorce. They came for couples counseling because they had fallen out of love, or so they thought. There were frequent arguments and complete emotional ...
So I have been monitoring social media and all the brouhaha surrounding this year’s award of the journalist of the year by the GJA. Of course such controversies are not new to award ceremonies the world over. From showbiz to academia awards and controversies have been in tandem. I remember the furore that came with ...
Have you wondered why you are so often overlooked when others aren’t? It feels terrible to be constantly overlooked. This is the situation that Melanie is struggling with: “Even when I think I am fitting in to a group and talking to everybody okay, I always seem to be overlooked when it comes to invitations ...
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the African Division and Mashav/Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation) and the Ministry of Health (the Public Health Directorate) are joining the efforts to prevent the spread of Ebola in African nations which have not yet been affected by the disease. Israel will contribute by imparting exceptional knowledge in the ...
This baby spa in Houston, Texas provides floatation devices for children from 2 weeks to 6 months, allowing them to bob around a pool freely during each 20-minute hydrotherapy session. The tots are then treated to a gentle full body massage. Babies relax and enjoy their spa day in Houston, Texas. Wearing special floatation devices around their necks ...
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