The Campaign Trail with Duke Mensah Opoku

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has described an announcement by the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) of Ghana that fuel prices have gone up by 11 percent as false and misleading. In a statement it issued Monday, October 17, the COPEC said that price of diesel effective October 16, 2016 was reviewed upward between 8 ...

Relatives of Magdalene Esenam Akpakli are appealing to the public to help them find their 17-year old daughter who has gone missing for the past two weeks. Esenam Akpakli, a second year student studying General Arts at the Adonten Senior High School in the Akwapem South District of the Eastern Region reportedly left home and ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Bortianor Ngleshi Amanfrom Constituency, Bright Demodzi, is fighting a losing battle ahead of the 2016 polls, a constituency executive has said. Citi News’ Constituency Watch team revealed the rift between the MP, his executives and the NDC supporters on the ground and now the NDC’s constituency ...

US President Barack Obama has told Donald Trump to “stop whining” as he refuted his claim that next month’s White House election will be rigged. He said Mr Trump’s attempt to discredit a poll before it has even taken place was “unprecedented” for a US presidential candidate. Also “unprecedented”, said Mr Obama, was the Republican ...

Disqualified presidential nominee for the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Henry Herbert Lartey described as ‘petty’, claims by former President Jerry Rawlings that the GCPP’s petition for investigations for fraud is being sponsored by detractors of the Rawlingses. Mr. Lartey petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Economic and Organized ...

Some residents in Kpasa in the Nkwanta North Constituency in the Volta region are threatening to vote against President John Mahama if the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) fails to construct some roads in the region. The residents in the region say several attempts to get government to fix their roads have proved futile. Speaking ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,  Mahama Ayariga, has said Ghana needs $22.6 billion in investments from domestic and international public and private sources to finance its 31 Programme of Action on climate mitigation and adaptation. He said $6.3 billion of the amount was expected to be mobilised from domestic sources, while the ...

The Forestry Commission of Ghana has begun an investigation into an alleged involvement of some of its employees in illegal timber logging in the Asenanyo forest reserve, in the Nkawie forest district of the Ashanti Region. This is in response to complaints by members of a committee, recently inaugurated to check the rising degradation of the ...

As the Finance Minister prepares to present a first quarter 2017 budget to parliament on Thursday, Economist Dr. Ebo Turkson has urged the government to clearly demonstrate how it intends to finance unbudgeted expenditure that have been rolled out few months to the general elections. Government recently announced that it has scrapped allowances for trainee ...

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo will tomorrow [Wednesday] resume his campaign ahead of the elections with a four-day tour in the Ashanti region. Speaking to Citi News, the party’s Regional General Secretary, indicated that the necessary security arrangements have already been put in place for the tour of the NPP ...

President John Dramani Mahama has accused the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of running away from an opportunity to debate him on issues surrounding his term of office. “I have challenged him (Akufo-Addo) to a debate, I have said bring all these points you are raising one by one and let’s ...

African governments have been urged to focus more of its efforts and resources on research and technology to drive the continent’s development. Dr. Samuel Boateng, Head of Oil and Gas Department at the All Nations University College (ANUC), said that was the way forward to lift the people out of poverty. He was speaking at ...

Reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that more than 3.5 million children die from acute respiratory infections in developing countries every year. According to the report, diarrhoea is the second highest leading cause of infant deaths contributing to more than 1.5 million deaths of the global figures. Mr Thomas Benarkuu, the Project Coordinator ...

The Minority New Patriotic Party in Parliament has entreated cocoa farmers to dismiss vile propaganda being perpetuated by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the NPP’s presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo over the recently announced producer price of cocoa. According to the Minority, activists of the governing NDC are spreading wicked lies in cocoa growing ...

One of the Policemen involved in the robbery of a bullion van, belonging to the GCB Bank Limited, at Mame Krobo in the Eastern Region has told a district court that he has been “fasting in cells always,” since his arrest. General Lance Corporal Daniel Kissi Abrokwa said he has no money to buy food ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has begun series of capacity building workshops for journalists in the Northern Region. This forms part of a well structured system meant to rebuild public confidence on the EC’s preparedness to conduct free, fair and transparent elections on December 7. The Northern Regional EC Director, Bruce Ayisi explained that the workshop ...

The Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwamena Duncan, has urged the electorate not to fall for ‘juicy’ gifts being distributed by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said the government, under the guise of helping Ghanaians, has been distributing items such as saucepans, outboard motors, gas cylinders and stoves, money ...

The Northern Patriots in Research and Advocacy (NORPRA) and the Association of Bolga, Bongo, Tongo,Nangodi and Nabdam (BONABOTO) have threatened to picket at the Ministry of Finance next week over the delays of disbursement of feeding grants arrears to second cycle schools in the Upper East Region. According to them, government’s delay in releasing feeding ...