Ghana’s national team arrived in Brazil, Wednesday evening for the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The Black Stars landed in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the tournament after their trip from Washington this morning. Kwesi Appiah’s team will move to Maceio where they will be based for the FIFA World Cup. ...

The Bui Power Authority (BPA) on Tuesday finally stopped generating power following its announced cut in generation capacity. The authority earlier complained about the dwindling level of water in the dam compelling it to limit the generation capacity to an average of about 1.44 million kilowatt-hours per day. This means the ongoing power crisis and ...

Sulley Ali Muntari has moved to clear doubts about the state of his marriage with Menaye Donkor, after rumors made rounds on social media. It was alleged earlier this week that the couple were having issues that had caused Sulley to begin divorce proceedings in Italy. The allegations went further to explain that Menaye didn’t ...

TECNO Mobile, the leading dual SIM-mobile phone manufacturer has launched a new addition to its Smartphone range of phones. The new TECNO R7, hailed as the brand’s most sophisticated device yet, was unveiled at a short ceremony in Accra. The R7, a modern handheld device with an incredible dose of quality is being launched on ...

The United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) has joined Hipsters of Nature and other environmentalists to mark this year’s World Environment Day with an environmental challenge dubbed “Bottle Up Accra”, which is aimed at raising awareness on the need to keep our beaches clean and the importance of recycling plastic bottle ...

With a day more to the World Cup, Michael Porter elaborates on the impact of national culture on people’s reaction to football on Wednesday’s edition of the Management Development Month series.

The Nigerian community in Ghana, says it will as a matter of urgency arrange to meet the Ministry of Trade over the latest threat by the Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA. GUTA has asked all foreigners involved in retail trade to leave Ghanaian markets by the end of June. According to the President of ...

Inflation for the month of May hit 14.8 percent. This means the average prices of goods and services went up by 14.8 percent between the period May 2013 and May 2014. This still continues to be the highest since January 2010. May’s inflation rate was up from the rate of 14.7 percent recorded in April. ...

The 150 Ghanaian medical students stranded in the on-going unrest in Ukraine are expected to be transported to Kiev today. The Ghana mission in Moscow has attributed the delay in transporting Ghanaian students studying in that country to some difficulties in securing transport for the students There have been waves of demonstrations and civil unrest ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of planning to rig the 2016 general elections. According to the NPP it is aware of the NDC’s strategy to rig  the 2016 presidential elections. Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, NPP, Samuel Payne said “whatever plans ...

The Kasoa Police are looking  for owners of about forty motorbikes they impounded at the beginning of the year. The police say the owners have not yet been identified since the bikes were impounded. Speaking to Citi News, the Commander of the District Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Police Service, ASP Bawa said majority ...

Prices of food commodities especially cereals and grains have gone up in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale. This has compelled restaurant and chop bar operators to increase the prices of meals they sell. A bag of maize which was sold at GHC75 a fortnight ago is now GHC90. A bag of groundnut sold the previous ...

Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has rejected the recent assessment of Ghana’s economy by some top international rating agencies. According to the Vice President, ‘in this industry sometimes they have to hit hard for your message to go across so they are making very dramatic statements. The reality may not be as they put out.” He said of the rating ...

Scientists have created mosquitoes that produce 95% male offspring, with the aim of helping control malaria. Flooding cages of normal mosquitoes with the new strain caused a shortage of females and a population crash. The system works by shredding the X chromosome during sperm production, leaving very few X-carrying sperm to produce female embryos. In ...

Citi Breakfast Show with Bernard Avle

Not many people translate healthy relationship tips in the literal sense. Rather, they assume that healthy relationship tips merely tell you how to keep you and your partner on solid terms, better able to weather through whatever storm comes your way. But, there are actually healthy relationship tips that better your relationship, as well as your physical ...

A court in Egypt has sentenced one of the country’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdul Fattah, to 15 years in jail for illegal protest and attacking a police officer. Mr Abdul Fattah’s family said the verdict was issued in absentia as he was refused entry into the court. Mr Abdul Fattah played a key ...