The Minority in Parliament is asking the government to pull the plug on the three billion dollar Chinese Development Bank(CDB) loan or re-negotiate terms which will favour the nation. They made the call at a press conference on the state of the economy after the Senchi forum on Thursday. Addressing the press, the Minority Spokesperson on Finance,  ...

The 9th edition of the Citi FM Write-Away Contest has been launched. The Write-Away Contest seeks to help improve children’s affinity for writing and by extension reading through engaging, thought provoking contest topics. The launch, which came off at the Alsyd Academy – Dzorwulu, saw hundreds of school children, parents and stakeholders in attendance. Speaking ...

A former constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), David Hoezame has sued the party for violating the party’s constitution. A writ filed at the Accra High Court by Mr. Hoezame is seeking to compel the NPP to follow the procedure outlined in its constitution to reconstitute its National Council. He also wants the ...

Amazon has unveiled its first handset, offering 3D visuals – thanks to four face-tracking cameras on its front – and gesture controls. The Fire Phone allows its user to change an image’s perspective by moving their head, rather than creating “pop-out” effects. The owner can also scroll through a webpage or bring up menus by ...

King Felipe VI has called for “a new Spain that we will build together” after being proclaimed head of state in a ceremony in parliament. Earlier, King Felipe received the royal sash from his father, Juan Carlos, at the Zarzuela Palace near Madrid. He acceded to the throne at the stroke of midnight after King ...

Facebook’s website was inaccessible for many of its 1.3 billion users for around 15 minutes this morning. People trying to log on to the site were faced with a message saying: “Something went wrong. We’re working to get it fixed as soon as we can.” The short shutdown drew attention across the web with many ...

Being single for a female often comes with a bit of fear and also a stigma. We are often treated as if there is something fundamentally wrong with us if we are single and not taken. Relationships come and go, and single-dom is usually never a permanent state of existence for us ladies, so take ...

The Sekondi Takoradi Metro Chief Executive, Captain Anthony Cudjoe(Retired) is cautioning the Ghana Air Force base in Takoradi not to let their interest impede the development of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis. His threat comes months after the Air Force is reported to have warned that a proposed shopping mall is on a flight path and ...

Unlike most female celebrities who make a big deal about taking time off to make babies, popular TV presenter, Kokui Selormey, does not allow pregnancy to hinder her daily routine and keeps going till the day she goes into labour. The co-host of Viasat 1’s This Morning show was on air in the morning on ...

Eight more bodies have been retrieved from the Volta Lake, in the boat accident that occurred near Tokroanu in the Krachi-East District last Saturday. This brings to 18 the number of bodies retrieved from the lake so far. Ten bodies were retrieved on June 14, while eight others were retrieved on June 16. Twenty-three of ...

The United States government has donated education and sporting materials worth 4,000 US Dollars to the Gnani primary school in the Yendi district of the Northern Region. The donation comprised school uniforms, exercise books, school bags, foot wears, laptops, several cartons of bottle water and footballs. US Ambassador to Ghana,  Gene Cretz said education remained ...

The President of the Republic of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS, John Dramani Mahama, has admonished the newly sworn-in judges of the ECOWAS Community Court to discharge their duties with fairness and integrity. According to the President, by maintaining such high standards, the work of the court will help in enhancing regional integration whilst promoting ...

A member of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Council of Elders, Dr. Kwame Amoako Tuffour has told Citi News there is a grand scheme to remove him from the party’s Council of Elders. Dr. Amoako Tuffour says some executives of the Ashanti regional branch of the NPP have petitioned the national leadership to ensure he is no ...

The United States government has tasked Ghana’s Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture to conduct research into human right abuses which culminate into the labeling of aged women as alleged witches and expelling them from their original communities. With one million cedis grant from the US government, the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture is expected to ...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has rolled out new modules to equip service personnel with entrepreneurial skills aimed at making them more employable. These module which will run concurrently with the regular national service is aimed at equipping the youth with skill acquisition in agriculture. The Executive Director of the scheme, Alhaji Imoro Alhassan intimated the ...

Government has warned it will no longer accept any excuse from both the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Takoradi International Company (TICo) over the conflicting dates of completion of the T2 thermal Plant at Aboadze. The Energy and Petroleum Minister, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah made this known on his tour of the thermal plant. ...

Heavy traffic has been mounting on the Dome-Kwabenya road in Accra due to the collapse of a bridge linking the Atomic round-about to Dome. The bridge was weakened after the heavy downpour in Accra three weeks ago. Some residents in the area told Citi News, they have been inconvenienced as a result of the collapse ...

On Thursday, June 5, 2014, the Chairman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, took a potentially dangerous and indefensibly stubborn position by insisting that the electoral management body would not bow to pressure from political parties and civil society groups to commission an independent audit of the biometric voters’ register. To him, there was no ...

The 25 lucky subscribers of Glo Mobile Ghana who won in the ‘Let’s Go To Brazil’ promotion have been unveiled. The telecoms company on Wednesday presented the final batch of winners in the‎ promo to the press at a colourful ceremony held at its Gloworld experiential shop at Ringroad Central in Accra. The company announced that ...