Imagine this: Lionel Messi is on the open market for any team to sign. No transfer fee involved. No deal to be negotiated with Barcelona. But plenty of clubs lining up to tempt Argentina’s football superstar. That is the scenario in the United States following LeBron James’s decision to opt out of his contract with ...

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is back in court on Monday in Pretoria for the resumption of his murder trial following a month of psychiatric tests. The South African sprinter’s defence has argued that a “generalised anxiety disorder” contributed to him shooting dead his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year. His case was put ...

A group of Ghanaians calling themselves ‘Concerned Ghanaians for Responsible Governance’ are expected to picket in front of the Flagstaff House on Tuesday, July 1 to protest against what they describe as harsh economic conditions in the country. The group says the current energy crisis; charges on financial services coupled with the shortage of petrol ...

Ghanaians will be spared of the imminent increase in fuel prices on July 1, 2014. This is because the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has maintained the prices in its latest price review despite earlier indications of a 20% increase. Officials of the NPA, the Chamber of the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies and other stakeholders met ...

Citi Business News has gathered that government has directed the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to suspend the implementation of the 17.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charges on non-core financial services. Industry, the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF) and unionized workers have been pressurizing government to withdraw the 17.5 per cent VAT. According to them, the ...

The United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland branch of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) is alleging that the murder of one of its key members, Hayford Akrofi was politically motivated. Akrofi, who was the vice chairman of the party’s UK and Ireland branch was shot in his home at Amasaman in Accra last week by armed ...

Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has criticized the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) for thanking the President for ordering the release of strategic fuel reserves. Senyo Horsi, on Citi FM’s The Big Issue thanked the President for his intervention and promised the supply of fuel to consumers by close of Saturday, ...

A television station in Uganda has been banned from covering presidential events after it broadcast images which it said showed president Yoweri Museveni snoozing in parliament. Dennis Katungi, the government’s media centre manager, told AFP: “The president has habits, he meditates and they know it, and still they go out and say he was sleeping. ...

Kevin Prince Boateng has ripped into the entire Black Stars World Cup campaign in Brazil. The Schalke man minces no words as he speaks to the big German media house, Bild. Of interest is his flat denial of insulting Kwesi Appiah, the coach. “I am very, very disappointed. It just wasn’t a good time. The nightmare lasted ...