A 23-year-old mechanic who is accused of defiling his brother’s seven-year-old daughter has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Rahim Salifu charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. The court presided over by Mrs Marian Affoh admitted Salifu to bail in the sum of GHs 30,000 cedis with two sureties to reappear on May 22. Prosecuting ...

President Akufo-Addo has urged newly-elected French president, Emmanuel Macron to strengthen his country’s relationship with Ghana and the entire African continent as his predecessors have done. In a message to the 39-year-old former economy minister, Akufo-Addo commended the French leader for “decisive victory” in the presidential election run-off, held over the weekend. “I applaud the ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has intensified efforts to find a missing Ghanaian diplomat in the South Africa. The diplomat, Charlotte Nana Yaa Nikoi was last seen on March 21 as she walked on the Table Mountain in Cape Town on Human Rights Day. A rescue team in South Africa said, the Ghanaian who is also ...

The government has released an amount of over one hundred million Ghana Cedis for the payment of feeding grants for second cycle institutions. The amount covers feeding arrears for about two out of the four outstanding terms. According to a statement from the Ministry of Finance, the government is processing the claims for the other ...

The minority in Parliament has called on President Akufo-Addo to take urgent action against the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba and the New Patriotic Party Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu. According to them, the recent public altercation between the two threatens the country’s democracy and good governance. A statement ...

General indiscipline among some Nurses in public health facilities in the country has been identified as one of the major factors damaging the good image of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Dr Abdul-Razak Dokurugu, the Deputy Director of the GHS in charge of Clinical Health of the Upper East Region made the observation during a ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has been courting the support of African Heads of missions in the fight against illegal mining. According to him, the menace defies boundaries hence the need for a concerted continental effort to combat it. Speaking at an interactive session with African diplomatic missions in Accra ...

Members of the Yendi Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region on Tuesday confirmed Alhaji Ahmed Abubakari Yussif as the Municipal Chief Executive. He polled 31 out of 43 votes cast, and was subsequently inducted into office by the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed. The assembly members in a second round voting elected Ibrahim Zolge as ...

Citi Business News has gathered that the second 4G spectrum being sold by government may never be acquired by the telecom operators in the country. Discussions with operators in the telecom industry reveal that most of them will shy away from acquiring the license because of its high cost. The telecom operators argue that the ...

The Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Hackman Owusu Agyeman has expressed some misgivings at a multi-million dollar flats under construction in Tema Community 2 to house workers of COCOBOD. According to him, the 192 flats, which are being constructed by Amandi Constructions, have some deficiencies that raise questions of value for money. The agreement for the ...

Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation’s parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a vote on Tuesday. The lower house last year joined the Senate in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either house had done so. It followed a ...

A man has revealed how he slept in the same room as his wife’s body for six days after she died. Wendy Davison, 50, died at home in Derby last month after a 10-year battle with cervical cancer. Russell Davison, who has been left “heartbroken”, said he did not want her body to go to ...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, the government said in a statement, about two months after his previous such trip to the south Asian nation. Aged 93, Mugabe is the only leader the southern African country has known since independence in 1980, and his health is a hot ...

Italian football authorities may face disciplinary action over the treatment of Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari. Muntari, 32, was sent off after leaving the field claiming he was racially abused during a Serie A game. He was initially banned for one game but had this overturned by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). “We have a committee ...

A fresh study suggests there may be a link between taking high doses of Nsaid painkillers – such as ibuprofen – and heart attacks. The paper, published in The BMJ, builds on a previous body of work linking these drugs to heart problems. This research suggests the risk could be greatest in the first 30 ...

Microsoft has released an urgent update to stop hackers taking control of computers with a single email. The unusual bug, in Microsoft anti-malware software such as Windows Defender, could be exploited without the recipient even opening the message. Researchers working for Google’s Project Zero cyber-security outfit discovered the flaw at the weekend. The fix has ...

President Donald Trump has fired the director of the FBI over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the administration says. The White House shocked Washington by announcing that James Comey “has been terminated and removed from office”. But Democrats said he was fired because the FBI was investigating alleged links between the ...

Government’s decision on a possible extension of the IMF deal is likely to be concluded next month. This is the indication from the Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah. His comments come at a time that discussions on a possible extension of the deal have been on top of the agenda between ...

Reopening of second cycle institutions in the three regions of the north is in limbo because of government’s failure to reimburse three consecutive terms’ Feeding Grants. Continuing students are to stay home until further notice, whereas their counterparts in southern Ghana have resumed their course work. Heads of the affected schools have vowed never to ...