Provisional Results Otiko Afisa Djaba won National Women’s Organiser Kamal Deen Abdullia won National NASARA Cordinator Sammy Awuku won National Youth Organiser Voting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Executives election ended at about 11pm Saturday. The Electoral Commission (EC) still has a lot to tackle, in terms of counting before the official results ...

There are reports of votes buying at the New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s national delegates conference held in Tamale. Some of the delegates confirmed to Citi News they received GHC 100 cedis from one of the aspiring national Chairpersons. Others claimed two of the aspiring General Secretaries whose names were withheld gave each delegate GHC 20 ...

Easter is always time for a variety of fun activities in the Kwahu area of the Eastern Region and telecommunications company, MTN, is poised to add a new dimension to the fun galore this year. Music will be a key part of deliberations as MTN for the first time, goes about organising what it calls ...

Minority leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has called for a united New Patriotic Party (NPP) after the Tamale national delegates’ conference. “We need to focus on the bigger battle ahead of us in 2016 and stop fighting among ourselves from within,” he advised. Addressing the NPP’s mammoth national delegates’ conference held in Tamale ...

Despite the controversy surrounding the 2012 flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo’s legitimacy to cast his vote at the party’s national delegates conference, he has finally voted. Chairman aspirant, Paul Afoko in a letter to the NPP National Election Committee raised concerns about the categories of voters by the party’s constitution, ...

A member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei has told Citi News, government must embark on massive cut backs in its expenditure. He is urging the Finance Minister to present a new budget that will reflect these cuts because government is still engaging in frivolous borrowing. Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei ...

NPP Congress: Paraphernalia sale booms in Tamale   The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Congress in Tamale has created businesses in the Metropolis as some persons have taken advantage of it and selling party paraphernalia. A lot of people, mostly women thronged Tamale Sports Stadium with various paraphernalia including ‘T’ shirts of the various contestants, NPP ...

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) will soon establish three new study centres in Ho, Sunyani and Somanya in line with efforts to increase enrolment on its distance learning programmes. This will increase its centres from 24 to 27. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, said by expanding its study centres, the university ...

If patrons who attended the Easter Monday  beach jam last year thought they had a good time, then, they are in for a bigger one this year at the Muuston Beach Resort located at Krokrobite in Accra on Easter Monday, April 21. The event organisers have put together a mouth-watering package to ensure that patrons ...

Google Glass will go on sale to the US public on 15 April for a single day, the company has announced. Users must be 18 years old and are required to fill in an online form in order to be eligible to buy the device. The eyewear will cost $1,500 (£894) and the BBC understands ...

Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today elect new national executives to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years. About 5,265 delegates from across the country will be voting for their prefered candidates at the Tamale sports stadium. The conference is going to be in two parts; the first ...

Nigeria has summoned Zimbabwe’s envoy over remarks President Robert Mugabe made about corruption, state media say. Mr Mugabe reportedly said last month that Zimbabweans were becoming “like Nigeria” when it came to corruption. Nigeria summoned Zimbabwe’s diplomat on Thursday, calling Mr Mugabe’s comments “vitriolic and denigrating”, Nigeria’s state news agency said. In its 2013 index, ...

A 35-year-old self-styled football coach is in the grips of the police for allegedly sodomising three children at Ankaful near Cape Coast. John Aidoo, said to be a coach and a decorator at Ankaful was said to have on different occasions given Olive Oil to three different boys between the ages of 10 and 13 ...

A misunderstanding between two brothers over cat meat has resulted in one of them being in critical condition at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). For causing unlawful harm to his brother, Eric Fobih, 28, a mason, has been sentenced to one year in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Eric, who pleaded guilty ...

The White House has refused to issue a US visa to Iran’s nomination for UN ambassador, who was involved in seizure of the US embassy in 1979. The decision in effect bars Hamid Aboutalebi from taking up the role at the UN, which is based in New York. Mr Aboutalebi was linked to the student ...

A 14-year-old girl in the northern Nigerian state of Kano has confessed to killing the man she was forced to marry, police say. Wasilu Umar admitted killing her husband, who was more than twice her age, by concealing rat poison in his food, the police in Kano said. Three other people also died and 10 ...

President John Dramani Mahama, on Friday sworn-in two envoys with a call on them to leverage bilateral relations that would attract investors into the country. He said the days of ambassadors popping champagne and having social pleasures are giving way to negotiations and agreements that could be mutually beneficial. The envoys are Mr Tony Aidoo, ...

An aspiring national chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Fred Oware says he is convinced he will emerge victorious in his chairmanship race as delegates gather to elect new national executives on Saturday. This, he said, was because he had made a number of sacrifices, including; “visiting almost all the constituency to talk to ...

The Northern Regional Police Command has indicated it is investigating and making efforts to arrest the unknown gunmen who shot and injured nine New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in Tamale. “We have picked some bits and pieces of information but we don’t want to share that information yet so I am telling you that we ...