President John Dramani Mahama has denied attacking the person of his main contender in the elections, Nana Akufo-Addo on the campaign trail adding that, Nana Addo and his team attacked him first. According to him, he has rather endured name-calling and insults from Nana Addo and the NPP over the years. Mahama had described flagbearer ...

President John Dramani Mahama has for the first time spoken about his use of Article 72, to remit the four-month sentence handed the Montie FM trio, saying he acted in the interest of Ghana; and in line with the Constitution. Speaking to Paul Adom Otchere, Host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, the ...

Ghana lost 1-0 to Russia in an international friendly played in Moscow on Tuesday. The match was played at the 28,800-seater Lokomotiv Stadium. The Russians took the lead in the 20th minute when forward Feder Smolov shot first time through the legs of Ghana goalie Adam Larsen Kwarasey after he was put through via a ...

The Director of the Computerized Schools Selection and Placement System, CSSPS, Kwasi Abankwa Anokye, has said the system has been enhanced to guarantee an incident-free placement this year. The system was introduced in 2005; to electronically post Junior High School graduates into the various Senior High Schools using their raw score. Parents and their wards ...

The first-ever person to have a face transplant, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, has died, French doctors say. In 2005, surgeons gave her a new nose and mouth after she was disfigured by her pet dog. But heavy use of immunosuppressant drugs weakened her and she succumbed to cancer in April at the age of 49, the ...

El Salvador’s national football team say they have refused a bribe to fix Tuesday’s World Cup 2018 qualifying game against Canada. At a news conference, the team members played an audio recording of the person allegedly making the bribe. Canada must beat El Salvador in Vancouver and hope Mexico defeat Honduras in the final round ...

The Progressive People’s Party’s (PPP) presidential campaign, dubbed ‘Don’t Waste Your Vote On Those Who Have Disappointed You’, returns to the Central Region, the home region of the flagbearer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom from September 10 to 15th. Dr. Nduom will be telling the people of the region to vote for him and PPP’s parliamentary ...

Two judges have been asked to leave a panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal surrounding a disgraced Italian transplant surgeon. The decision to drop Harriet Wallberg and Anders Hamsten came after the Swedish government sacked the entire board of the prestigious Karolinska Institute, where the scientist worked. Paolo Macchiarini was ...

The People’s National Congress (PNC), has resolved to invest in its polling agents to help monitor proceedings at the various voting centres on Election Day. “As we prepare for the 7th December polls, the People’s National Convention would put more efforts and attention on our polling agents; to ensure we get the right results deserving ...

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said it will investigate reports that its Hohoe officials in the Volta Region are deducting GHc20  from allowances of officials who supervised the just ended exhibition exercise. Citi News’ correspondent, Gratham Macintosh reported that some Hohoe EC officials were deducting 20 cedis from the over 400 people hired by the Electoral ...

One of the judges implicated in the judicial corruption scandal, Justice Paul Utter Dery, has said he will sue the President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Affail Money, and other GJA executives if they do not respond to his petition. Paul Dery petitioned the GJA last week to have the Journalist of the Year ...

Bill Cosby’s defense team will have a new look when the actor returns to court for a hearing on Tuesday in his sexual assault case. Cosby has streamlined his legal team as the felony case heads to trial and dropped his media handler, Washington lawyer Monique Pressley. A judge in suburban Philadelphia could set a ...

The National Peace Council has clarified that composition of its governing board has no political consideration contrary to claims made by outgoing Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey. Rev. Martey had accused the Deputy Minister of Interior, Jamel Agalga, of attempting to lobby him to take up the chairmanship position of the council ...

Aggrieved Volta regional executives of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), say they are back to work for the party’s victory in the December  7 polls, following a peaceful resolution of their grievances. Eleven executives of the governing party in the region; had threatened to boycott the inauguration of the Volta Region campaign task-force because ...

President John Dramani Mahama as part of his campaign tour of the Central Region, has promised to give each household in the Abura community one electricity meter, to eliminate the trend where several households are hooked onto one meter. The President said he had instructed that 1,500 meters be distributed to them in that regard. President ...

A former Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has told Citi Business News the recent labour agitations in the power sector will affect Foreign Direct Investments into the country. He argues that the growing labour unrest demonstrates the lack of discipline and respect for law in the country. “I ...

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has said it will need more time to investigate the circumstances under which President John Dramani Mahama, received a $100,000 Ford vehicle from a Burkinabe contractor, who had benefited from juicy government contracts. Head of Public Relations at CHRAJ, Akosua Edu, told Citi News that though their investigations ...

The Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT Accra will be the venue for Ghana’s Innovation Week (i-Week)which runs from 12th – 16th September 2016. The annual event is the country’s foremost event which brings together key stakeholders to deliberate on emerging ICT issues which impact development. The theme for i-Week 2016, Internet of Things ...

The court hearing of the case against the boxer, Braimah Kamoko, also known as Bukom Banku, has been rescheduled to next Monday, the September 12. The boxer was arraigned for allegedly assaulting a hairdresser and he appeared in court around 8am this morning to meet the absence of the trial Judge, Marian Afful who was not ...