Jacob Osei Yeboah, the only Independent presidential candidate who will be contesting the 2016 elections in December, has advised supporters of all the three qualified political parties to prepare for defeat, as he is poised to surprise them by emerging victorious. Speaking to Citi News, Osei Yeboah, who’s making his second attempt after contesting in 2012 with ...

The Center for Democratic Development (CDD), in collaboration with the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), has provided capacity building training for parliamentary aspirants from 14 constituencies in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions in Bolgatanga. The two-day training workshop funded by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa(OSIWA), is aimed at preparing ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has reiterated its resolve to capture over 25 seats in the Greater Accra Region alone. Out of the 34 seats in the region, the NDC and the opposition New Patriotic Party control 20 and 14 respectively; but the NDC is hoping to increase its number to 25. Electoral history shows that, ...

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), has cautioned its personnel against posting pictures of themselves in uniform on social media platforms. According to the military, such actions are against the military’s code of conduct, and have the potential to create unnecessary and unsolicited attention on the military. This follows the investigation of a soldier who partook ...

The Electoral Commission has approved nominations of parliamentary candidates of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for this year’s general elections. The commission’s Ashanti Regional Director, Serebour Quarcoo, told Citi News that his outfit also accepted the nomination of candidates of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the ...

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has finally elected a presiding a member after 10 previous attempts. The Presiding Member elect is Nana Adu Mensah Asare, Amakomhene, who stood unopposed. He secured 100 yes votes to trump the 22 no votes according to Citi News’ Ashanti Regional correspondent, Lauretta Timah. Nana Adu Mensah Asare was sworn in ...

The Electoral Commission has told Citi News that it disqualified 24 parliamentary nominees in the Ashanti Region because they failed to pay the GHc10,000 filing fee. The Commission on Thursday announced that, only 216 of the total of 240 aspirants have been cleared to contest in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The EC pegged nomination forms for ...

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, Most Reverend Philip Naameh, has called for the creation of two more regions out of the Northern Region, considering the vast nature of the region. He argued that, splitting the Northern Region could help resolve the chieftaincy, land and other related conflicts recorded in the area. “Fundamentally, these conflicts are ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has complained about what he calls the poor attendance of Members of Parliament, few days after members resumed from recess. According to the speaker, MPs do not attend sittings early enough, a situation which he says is  affecting the work of the House. He added that, should the negative ...

There was a panic response among authorities of the Mawuli Senior High School in the Volta Region, following Citi News recent revelations  about an alleged renting of government mattresses meant for students’ use. The school authorities were said to be renting out the mattresses to event organizers that need them to accommodate their guests. Shortly ...

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has died after 70 years on the throne, the palace says. The king, 88, was widely revered in Thailand. He was seen as a stabilising figure in a country hit by cycles of political turmoil and multiple coups. He had been in poor health in recent years ...

Ghanaian farmers will soon benefit from the import of cheap fertilizer from the Dangote Group of companies in Nigeria, as the firm constructs the biggest fertilizer plant in the world located in Lagos State. The two-line Dangote Fertilizer Complex, consisting of Amonia and Urea plants, will have a total production capacity of three million tons ...

The Minister of Trades and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah has explained that prices of cement in the country have reduced appreciably due to moves by government to boost competition in the sector. Spio-Garbrah has come under pressure from the Association of Cement Manufacturers of Ghana (CMAG) for approving the license of some foreign companies to import ...

Three people have been arrested over the alleged destruction of property of the Living Power Ministry Church valued at GH?70,235.00. Thomas Osei-Wusu, Agyenim Boateng and Emmanuel Akwasi Wusu, reportedly used a bulldozer to level the church’s building at the Airport Roundabout in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. They were on Wednesday put before a Circuit ...

A man accused of sprinkling some liquid on President John Dramani Mahama at the Agbogbloshie Yam Market during the President’s campaign tour has made his second appearance before an Accra Circuit Court. Akwasi Emmanuel dressed in a blue and black flowered apparel with black trousers, charged with offensive conduct, had his plea reserved. When the ...

Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president’s spokesman has confirmed. Garba Shehu said the release was “the outcome of negotiations between the administration and Islamist militants”. The freed students are currently with the security forces. Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 students from a ...

The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) has begun facilitating the formation of a regional, district and community social protection structures to ensure effective targeting and delivery of the Government’s social interventions. The formation of the structures forms part of the piloting of SADA’s social protection project in 20 districts to strengthen the implementation and management ...

The Electoral Commission of Ghana has disqualified twenty-four parliamentary aspirants from contesting in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Ashanti region. This comes after the Commission on Monday disqualified 13 presidential aspirants from the December polls. Reports by Daily Graphic indicate that 240 aspirants who filled their nomination at the close of filling last Friday, only ...