So in the face of recorded fatalities on our roads and the consequences, the question often asked is; whose responsibility it is to ensure that our roads are free of unworthy vehicles. In an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), pointed an accusing finger at the Motor Traffic and ...
The Deputy General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has shed some light on his relationship with former President John Mahama, saying it was mostly borne out of a call to duty. Mr. Anyidoho was however known to have a very warm relationship with John Mahama’s predecessor, John Evans Atta Mills, which stretched ...
Citi News can confirm that the victim at the centre of the Mawarko saga, Evelyn Boakye, has been admitted at the psychiatric department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. According to a source close to her family, she has been experiencing suicidal tendencies. She is said to have been receiving treatment over the past few days. But ...
The cast and crew of Ghana’s very own epic, WogbeJeke, which has thrilled Ghanaians over the past couple of years, will perform at this year’s Music of Ghana Origin (#MOGO2017). Wogbejeke, a delightfully overwhelming experience, captures over two thousand years of history in two hours. Over the past couple of years, the production has been ...
The Environmental Service Providers Association says spending $700 million to construct new drains and dislodge choked ones is not an effective way to prevent the perennial floods in Accra. While touring affected parts of the city after a downpour, the Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea, announced that a total of seven million ...
The world’s most powerful man is about to meet one of its most influential women. A snowstorm forced the cancellation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s planned visit to Washington on Tuesday. The forecast for Friday’s meeting is much brighter – meteorologically, at least. But with the exception of their ability to effect profound change upon ...
The unprecedented problems confronting Ghana demand a large government, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said in response to the criticism fired at him over the size of his government, which has seen him appoint or nominate 110 ministers. “I don’t believe that my government in the Fourth Republic has big numbers in view of the swollen ...
A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Sylvester Mensah, has described as unethical, the number of ministers appointed by President Akufo-Addo. The president has appointed over a hundred ministers and deputies to serve in his government. But according to Mr. Sylvester Mensah, who’s also a strategic management expert, although the ...
The 2016 District League Table has revealed that not a single community in the entire 16 metropolitan, municipal and districts in the Greater Accra Region has been certified as open-defecation free. All the communities in the region scored zero in the assessment of household access to toilet facilities. Each household is by policy required to ...
All rivers were not polluted in a day. All of us including you, yes you my reader saw the rivers polluted bit by bit, but we gave no attention to it. Each of us felt it was the work of that man. Perhaps we said to ourselves that people are paid with our taxes to ...
It was one Saturday afternoon, as I was relaxing on my bed and decided to follow some discussions on a High School Group chat on my phone. I got so engrossed in the discussion on the recent suicide committed by some youth in this past few weeks being passionately discussed. As much as many members ...
The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has clarified that he worked to acquire the five vehicles that were seized, and later released by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Speaking on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News, Mr. Adams said : “I worked for the vehicles. I worked and acquired ...
Average interest rate on agricultural loans by banks has increased marginally to 33.2 percent as at the end of February this year, the Bank of Ghana’s Annual Percentage Rate and Average Interest report has shown. The report also shows that First Atlantic Bank offers the highest agric loans at 41.2 percent. But Standard Chartered Bank ...
Ed Sheeran is to headline the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, topping the bill alongside Radiohead and Foo Fighters. The chart-dominating pop star will close the event on Sunday, 25 June, in his only festival appearance this year. On a short Instagram film, he described the news as “awesome”, ending speculation about 2017’s ...
Manchester United “are not ready to be a dominant force” and fans should forget about a return to the days of Sir Alex Ferguson, manager Jose Mourinho has told BBC Sport. United won 13 Premier League titles under Ferguson, but Mourinho says it is now impossible to be so dominant. Asked if he could return ...
Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content” posted on the social network by Pakistanis. Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry. Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan. Critics say blasphemy ...
Britain’s communications intelligence agency GCHQ has issued a statement denying it wiretapped Donald Trump during the US presidential campaign. The unusual move by the agency came after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer cited claims first made on US TV channel Fox News earlier this week. GCHQ responded by saying the allegations were “nonsense, utterly ...
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