West Africa is in the grip of the world’s deadliest outbreak of Ebola, and many in the region are using social media to educate each other on the symptoms and prevention methods. #FactsOnEbola has been trending in Nigeria, with many sharing ways to prevent contracting the virus. “Symptoms of Ebola typically include: weakness, fever, aches, diarrhoea, ...
Ghana’s Janet Amponsah was the only bright spot for Ghana during the  women’s 200m event began at Hampden Park in the Commonwealth Games. She finished 2nd in her heat in a time of 24.05 seconds  as the race was won by England’s Jodie Williams in a time of 23.42 seconds. Amponsah thus qualifies for Thursday’s ...
Vivo Energy Ghana, a Shell Licensee as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility has donated 100 pieces of dual classroom desks, 3 playground equipment to Accra Sempe Primary school and 30 hand sewing machines, oven and its accessories to Bishop Mixed JHS. “Vivo Energy Ghana will always work with and for local people and communities to share the ...
Reports coming in from state that Chippa United have completed the signing of Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda from Orlando Pirates on a permanent basis. Initial reports hinted at an initial 6-month deal but Chippa United have managed to sign the Black Stars goalie on two-year deal. Dauda will go into training with his new team ...
The Director of Public Health at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Dr. Simpson Boateng has asked major stakeholders in the health sector to put in place measures to control cholera cases in the country. “We are heading towards an epidemic and that is why there is a need for us to rather focus on curbing the ...
Government has set up an inter-ministerial team to investigate the spread of the Ebola virus within the sub-region and Ghana and to intensify the fight against the deadly disease. In line with this the inter-ministerial team will on Thursday hold a press briefing to ‘’update the public on not only the measures taken so far ...
Lawyer for the embattled Director of Kessben Group of Companies, Ohene Gyan, has identified Stanbic Bank as their bankers in the transactions that led to the transfer of in excess of 120 million dollars out of the country. This comes after the arrest of Kwabena Kesse popularly called Kessben on Monday, July 28 at around ...
At least 17 people are confirmed dead after a landslide buried some 40 houses and trapped about 150 people in a village in west India, officials say. Teams of emergency workers have so far rescued six people in Malin village, near the city of Pune in Maharashtra state, where the disaster happened. Rescuers trying to ...
Pressure on the Kpone landfill site is set to reduce as the newly commissioned Nsumia Waste Disposal facility begins operations. The new site, which has been engineered to contain refuse for the next two years, is to replace the closed Pantang landfill site. Located within the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality, off the Accra-Nsawam highway in the ...
The Premier League has announced that vanishing spray will be introduced in all Premier League games this season. The use of vanishing spray was one of the big talking points to emerge from the World Cup in Brazil this summer when it was used by referees to mark out a distance of 10 yards for ...
The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) has ordered its member institutions throughout the country to restore its services to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cardholders with immediate effect. CHAG instructed all of its 183 member institutions to withhold its services from NHIS card holders since the Authority was indebted to CHAG to the ...
The Ghana Armed Forces is to screen all personnel returning from peace-keeping missions abroad to ensure none of them is infected with the Ebola virus. According to the leadership of the Ghana Armed Forces, it has put in place measures including a standby medical team to monitor the returnee peace keepers when they arrive in ...
The Media Attache of the Ghana Olympic Committee, Erasmus Kwaw, has told Citi Sports that the news stories making the rounds concerning Team Ghana at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland are blown out of proportion. He was reacting to reports of an alleged near-physical confrontation between GOC boss, Prof. Francis Dodoo and Nestor Ghalley, President ...
Four rooms on the 6th Floor of Unity Hall, Block B at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi have been gutted by fire. A student, Hammond Kwabena Jamal told Citi News that the fire started around 3pm. “As about 3:00pm I got information that the block was ...
A Circuit Court in Accra on Tuesday handed a 12-year jail term to a 40-year-old labourer for defiling a 15-year-old girl in a kiosk at Kawokodi in Accra. James Sampa, charged with defilement, was found guilty at the end of the trial before the court presided over by Ms Sedina Agbemava. According to the court ...
The family of the 22-year-old Central University student, who was allegedly raped by a medical doctor,  Nicholas Mensah Wood, is calling for justice for the alleged victim. The case is currently under investigation at the Tema Division of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU). A family member of the alleged victim told Citi News ...
Chelsea’s Belgium international striker Romelu Lukaku is set for a £24million move to Everton. Everton manager Roberto Martinez looks to have won the race to sign the sought-after frontman, who would become the club’s record signing should the move proceed, exceeding the £15m fee Everton paid for Lukaku’s compatriot Marouane Fellaini in 2008. Reports of ...
The Divisional Police Command of Agona Swedru in the Central Region says that the crime rate in the locality has dropped significantly in recent times. According to the Agona Swedru District Police Commander, DSP Paul Wilson Baah, who spoke to Citi News,  the police service has “done a lot†and has put measures in place to ...
The Northern Regional Pharmaceutical Service says it has put measures in place to cater for the shortage of snake serum in some parts of the region. Doctors in the Walewale and Kpandai Hospitals had earlier complained to the Service about the shortage of the serum, which, according to them, has resulted in many deaths from ...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is calling for the arrest of former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould Iddrisu for her involvement in the payment of GHC 51 million judgement debt to Alfred Woyome. His call follows a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday which asked Mr. Woyome to ...
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