About 544 excavators have voluntarily moved out of their hideouts at separate illegal mining sites, following the expiration of an ultimatum given them by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. According to the Minerals Commission, the excavators have been packed in the homes of their owners, and on the streets in some areas of the ...

Police at Agbogbloshie at Old Fadama in Accra, have arrested two persons for possessing 500 rounds of ammunition. The police were acting on intelligence they had picked up, along with collaboration with a community member, leading to the arrest of the two persons on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 18. Addressing journalists in Accra today ...

Police at Agbogbloshie at Old Fadama in Accra, have arrested two persons for possessing 500 rounds of ammunition. The police were acting on intelligence they had picked up, along with a community member’s collaboration, leading to the arrest of the two on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 18. Addressing journalists in Accra today [Wednesday], the ...

A former agric extension officer, Joseph Bekoe, has disclosed that he makes more money working as a private person than working for government. According to him, he gave up his role as an extension officer because it was frustrating. He lamented on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday that, getting access to logistics from government ...

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has charged parents in the three regions of the north to invest more in the education of their children, in order to bridge the North-South development gap. She said interventions by successive governments and civil society in the area, could not yield the desired ...

The General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Edward Kareweh, has cast doubt on the ability of government’s proposed ‘Planting for Food and Job’ program to address the many challenges in the agricultural sector. According to him, the program is just a “stop-gap” measure which will have short-lived benefits. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast ...

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana has described as satisfactory President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s performance over the last 100 days since he ascended to the highest position in the country. President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe made the remark in a Citi News interview after screening a documentary produced by the think tank which highlights ...

Money transfer company, Western Union launched a Facebook Messenger bot today that allows people within the United States to transfer money to more than 200 countries around the world. The bot was announced onstage at F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference taking place April 18-19 in San Jose, California. In 2016, Western Union was used to move ...

The Police have arrested six persons in connection with different crimes committed during various Easter festivities in Kwahu in the Eastern Region. The suspects include persons who were nabbed for rape, theft, and impersonation. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service, Superitendent Cephas Arthur, security was intensified in the area this ...

The Police administration is set to reward a brave Lance Corporal who shot and killed two robbers in a fierce gun battle after they robbed a cocoa purchasing clerk of almost GHc580,000. The robbers attacked the Onuapa cocoa purchasing clerk after he had withdrawn the money from a bank and was about to distribute it ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will later today, launch the government’s flagship agricultural programme, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’. The launch will be held at Goaso in the Asunafo municipality in the Brong Ahafo Region. The project is expected to be rolled out in all 216 districts across the country and will involve the supply ...

The Ghana Prisons Service has called on the public to disregard rumours of an ongoing recruitment exercise by the Service. It said the public must be vigilant to avoid being lured into buying fake recruitment forms from fraudsters who claim to be agents of the recruitment exercise. A statement signed by Superintendent Vitals Aiyeh, the ...

The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS), has directed the National Sports Authority (NSA) to stop the organization of non-sporting activities on the Baba Yara Sports Stadium pitch. The measure is to stem further deterioration of the pitch, which had in recent times, been used in organizing entertainment and church-related activities. Mr. Isaac Kwame Asiamah, ...

Nigeria’s airport in the capital, Abuja, has reopened six weeks after it was closed for urgent repairs. Henrietta Yakubu, a spokesman for the aviation authority, said repair works were completed 24 hours ahead of schedule. An Ethiopian Airlines flight was the first to land on Tuesday morning. Flights had been diverted to Kaduna, 160 km ...

There has been a record-breaking achievement in distributing tablets to fight neglected tropical diseases, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says. The effort has ramped up since a key meeting in London five years ago. In 2015, one billion people worldwide were treated for at least one tropical disease. Companies have donated seven billion treatments ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick as holders Real Madrid controversially overcame Bayern Munich in extra time to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Bayern Munich midfielder Arturo Vidal’s harsh 84th-minute dismissal was the first pivotal moment of a thrilling game, and then Ronaldo was clearly standing in an offside position to score Madrid’s second in extra ...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick as holders Real Madrid controversially overcame Bayern Munich in extra time to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Bayern Munich midfielder Arturo Vidal’s harsh 84th-minute dismissal was the first pivotal moment of a thrilling game, and then Ronaldo was clearly standing in an offside position to score Madrid’s second in extra ...

Facebook’s chief has paid his respects to the family of a man whose killing was filmed and posted onto its site. “Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Robert Godwin Sr,” said Mark Zuckerberg near the start of Facebook’s annual F8 developers conference. His social network had been criticised over the amount ...

We hope Ed Sheeran’s campfire building skills are up to scratch, as he’s just been announced as the next Desert Island Discs castaway. The singer will guest on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme when it returns for its new series next month. Sheeran has already recorded his appearance, which will air on Sunday 7 ...