The Media Foundation of West Africa has charged government to take immediate actions to prevent Ghana from losing its status as a nation that upholds freedom of speech and a free press. The Foundation says the country is rapidly slipping from being a “glorious free press country.” This call follows an assault on a Daily ...

- It’s another National Service season and the hashtag #NSSposting is making waves on Twitter after the NSS secretariat released this year’s postings. Well someone someone was posted to A mortuary in the Volta Region. -We will also talk about how some Ghanaians are using Social Media to help the fight against Cholera. We have Ghanaian celebrity ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is not against the construction of the Atuabo Freeport but it is against the lack of transparency in the deal. The TUC is therefore calling for a thorough review of the Atuabo Free Port Commercial Agreement between the government of Ghana and Lonrho. This was revealed by the Secretary General ...

The Upper West Regional House of Chiefs has expressed worry over the rising interest and the acquisition of mining concessions in the Upper West Region. According to the chiefs, most of these concessions were granted without the involvement and consultations of traditional authorities. A statement from the Regional House of Chiefs pointed out that the ...

Ghana is often praised for being among just a few countries in Africa that have a press freedom environment. Unfortunately, the country is fast losing this status. Below are a few of the many developments witnessed this year that inform the Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) position that Ghana is losing its status as ...

Vivian Boyack and Alice ‘Nonie’ Dubes, 91 and 90, met in hometown of Yale, Iowa, while growing upMore than seven decades after beginning their relationship, Vivian Boyack and Alice “Nonie” Dubes got married.Boyack, 91, and Dubes, 90, sat next to each other during Saturday’s ceremony, the Quad City Times reports.“This is a celebration of something ...

A team of psychologists and medical doctors associated with the Technische Universität of Berlin, have announced that they had proven by clinical experimentation, the existence of some form of life after death.This astonishing announcement is based on the conclusions of a study using a new type of medically supervised near-death experiences, that allow patients to ...

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Health is expected to hold a meeting with President Mahama to devise ways of effectively dealing with the Cholera disease. The disease has so far claimed over 80 lives with more than 10,000 cases recorded across the country. The outbreak has also created panic in the country as health workers battle to ...

Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by “objects” that “pierced the plane at high velocity” in July. The new report also said there was “no evidence of technical or human error”. Correspondents say this matches claims that MH17 was hit by missile shrapnel. Investigators relied on cockpit data, air ...

Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained unlawfully, a new report says. Earlier this year, African asylum seekers in Israel staged mass protests over their treatment. Israel says ...

Former F1 champion Michael Schumacher has left a Swiss hospital to continue his recovery at home, his manager says. Sabine Kehm said in a statement that he had made “progress”, but there was “a long and difficult road ahead”. Schumacher suffered a head injury in a skiing accident in France in December last year and ...

The Volta Regional Police administration has charged over 30 drivers of commercial vehicles for various traffic offences. The move on Monday forms part of a quarterly Special Motor Check, embarked on  by top officials of the police service in the region. Some drivers had their license seized for various traffic offenses in an unannounced road check ...

The heavily-built men, popularly called  “macho men” who were allegedly hired by the brother of Black Stars Captain Asamoah Gyan to assault a Daily Graphic reporter, Daniel Kenu have been arrested. Speaking to Citi News the President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Affail Money, who confirmed the news said the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye led ...

The President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, Magnus Lincoln Quarshie has revealed that the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange project will save Ghana about US$25million annually. When completed, the three tier interchange will transform the Kwame Nkrumah Circle into a pedestrian and motorist friendly zone with linkages to various suburbs in Accra. He made the ...

Despite the announcement by the presidential hopeful, Nana Akufo-Addo that he does not fear competition from any of the other candidates seeking to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP), some party members are still advocating for his contenders to bow out of the race. A former Finance Minister under the Kufour administration, Yaw Osafo Marfo, has ...

The Ghana gas plant is to cater for 70% of the country’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) needs when the plant comes on stream by the close of the year. According to the Minister of Energy and Petroleum Emmanuel Kofi Buah “The good news is that in the coming years we are going to have a ...

  Three Ghanaian athletes have qualified to represent Africa at the upcoming IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco on September 13 and 14. The athletes were selected following their stellar performances at the just ended 19th African Athletics Championships in Morocco, where Team Ghana won its biggest medal haul since 2006. The country’s young athletics contingent ...

Actress Lydia Forson is set to release her first self-produced movie, A Letter From Adam, at the Silverbird Cinemas in Accra. Movie lovers will see some of Africa’s finest actors and actresses come Friday September 19. A Letter from Adam is a romantic drama directed by Atlanta-based director, Sam Kessie and features the likes of  Lydia ...

The General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Bernard Mornah is set to go court to challenge the provisions of the Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 75 which makes biometric verification a prerequisite for voting. “I have personally instructed my counsel and lawyers to take up the matter and I am sure that after the judicial ...

The overcrowded nature of the Tamale Central Prisons is said to be making life unbearable for the inmates there. With a total population of about 158, the Tamale Central Prisons can only boast of three long ancient buildings with cracked walls and leaking roofs. Citi news Abdul Karim Naatogmah reported that “Cerebrospinal meningitis and other communicable ...