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Steve Bruce has been confirmed as Aston Villa’s new manager. The 55-year-old replaces Roberto Di Matteo, who was axed last month after just 124 days in the job. Bruce, who spent a successful spell in charge of Villa’s Midlands rivals Birmingham, has signed a five-year contract with the Championship side. Villa, relegated from the Premier ...

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, has said the FBI is investigating whether Russia was behind a hack on his private email. Mr Podesta also suggested Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign was given advance notice of the breach. His remarks come after WikiLeaks published a trove of his hacked emails. The top adviser to Mrs ...

The Presidential Candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment to reduce the cost of doing business by reducing taxes in a move to grow industries. Nana Addo, who met members of the Association of Ghana Industries, (AGI) on Wednesday to spell out his vision for industrialization, ...

A clinic in Algeria treating internet addicts has started admitting patients, becoming the first clinic in Algeria and in Africa aiming to cure Internet fanatics reports Al Jazeera. The patients all suffering from back pains, red eyes and headaches are fidgety, anxious and at times aggressive if prevented to go online. At the Bachir Mentouri ...

A labourer, who defiled and impregnated a 15 year old girl at Sapeiman, near Amasaman, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Robert Nukpo, aka Edoe, charged with defilement pleaded guilty and asked for forgiveness. Nukpo told the court that, the act would never happen again adding he was going ...

The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC),  has chided the Ministry of Finance over its handling of funds from Ghana’s international development partners. According to the report of the committee, about 53% of donor inflows between 2010 and 2012, were not acknowledged per the framework memorandum signed between the government of Ghana and is development ...

Members of the Commercial Drivers and Residents of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region, are demanding the immediate removal of their Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Ibrahim Baidoo. According to them, the MCE has failed to bring the needed development to the area. Some of the drivers who spoke to Citi News have indicated that they are unhappy about ...

A former Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Michael Kenneth Nsowah says Ghana’s educational curriculum is overloaded and that is affecting the quality of education in the country. Speaking at the first national conference of the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (UTAG) at the University of Ghana on Wednesday, Mr Nsowah lamented that although ...

The Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Dr. Athony Akoto Osei, has described as petty, President Mahama’s request for the disclosure of the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise undertaken in 2007 by the then NPP administration. Speaking at a rally in the Ablekuma North Constituency on Tuesday, President Mahama asked Dr. Bawumia to reveal the cost ...

Yahoo has denied that it has made it deliberately difficult for customers to migrate to another email provider. It follows the disabling of an email-forwarding feature which allows people to migrate automatically. Yahoo said it was a “temporary” move while it worked on improvements. The firm is dealing with fallout from a massive breach of ...

A secret internment camp for former Islamic State militants and their families has been established in Syria. Some 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are being held at the camp operated by the rebel group Jaysh al-Tahrir. Its commander, Mohammad al-Ghabi, told the BBC: “We tried to rehabilitate them and alter their state ...

The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Linda Van Otoo has called on men in the country to support the fight against rape and other forms of sexual violence. Speaking at an event to commemorate International Day for the Girl Child in Accra yesterday [Tuesday], Dr Van Otoo bemoaned the increasing ...

The electoral battle for the Weija-Gbawe parliamentary seat reached its crescendo on Citi Fm’s Campaign Trail as two astute women wrestle for the votes of the electorate. The two main contenders for the seat are the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah and the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Obuobia Darko-Opoku. It all started with allegations that the ...

Citi Sports sources can confirm that former Japanese American trainer of Hearts of Oak Kenichi Yatsuhashi is ready to make a sensational return to the Ghana Premier League ahead of the upcoming season. A disagreement with the management of Hearts of Oak over a twenty five day leave of absence to attend a UEFA Pro ...

Singer Janet Jackson has officially confirmed she is expecting her first child, at the age of 50. She told People magazine: “We thank God for our blessing”, and posed for a picture with her growing baby bump. Speculation about her pregnancy surfaced in April when she postponed her ‘Unbreakable’ tour, saying she wanted to focus ...