The National Council of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), will hold a crucial meeting tomorrow [Wednesday], over the row between two of the party’s party bigwigs, Otiko Afisa Djaba and Bugri Naabu. The two have been bickering in the past few days, exchanging abusive words on various media platforms in what many have described ...
More than one hundred people have been rushed to the Takoradi Port Hospital in the Western Region after sustaining injuries from a gas explosion on the Sekondi-Takoradi road. The injured include fire men who were fighting the blaze. Citi News’ Western Regional Correspondent Oberempong Yaw Ampofo, reported that firemen were having a hectic time, putting ...
A driver and his mate endured some painful strokes of a cane on Friday morning from a man in military uniform at 37 for allegedly violating road traffic regulations. An amateur video footage available to citifmonline.com showing the man in uniform subjecting the driver’s mate to some lashes having instructed him to bend. Reports say ...
A group of sympathizers of the embattled brother of former NPP chairman, Gregory Afoko have called for the immediate arrest of the party’s Northern Regional chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu. The call comes after Mr. Naabu said in a radio interview that the Upper East Regional minister, Rockson Bukari and Minister for Gender, Children and Social ...
South Korean voters have overwhelmingly chosen the liberal candidate Moon Jae-in as their next president, an exit poll suggests. It put Mr Moon on 41.4%, with his nearest challenger, conservative Hong Joon-Pyo, on 23.3%. Mr Moon favours greater dialogue with North Korea, in a change to current South Korean policy. The early election was called ...
Statistics released by the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) indicates that 708 persons died from 4,049 road accidents as of April this year. Out of the figure, 3,983 persons sustained various degrees of injury with 1,199 pedestrian knockdowns involving 6,468 vehicles and 1,289 motorbikes. Mr David Osafo Adonteng, the Director of Planning and Programming at ...
Her: Hello Lor, oh I heard you delivered, awww congratulations. Me: Thank you. Her: How did you deliver? Me: [thinking of telling her that the baby hatched from a pineapple] Oh, via cesarean. Her: Oh really? Why couldn’t you have pushed? Did you even try pushing? You know, in my family, we all pushed o ...
Ghana Post Company Limited has indicated that it is in the process of overhauling its systems and operations to improve service delivery throughout the country. This follows several complaints of poor service of the company by some Ghanaians on the Citi Breakfast Show this week. The company in a statement copied to citifmonline.com said the ...
The newly confirmed District Chief Executive for Nanumba North District of the Northern Region, Abdulai Yaqoub, has officially started work following his endorsement. He was endorsed by all the assembly members on May 4, and subsequently sworn into office by the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed. Speaking to Citi News on his first day in office, ...
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment giant owned by ecommerce giant Alibaba, is expanding in the US. Customers will be able to use Alipay at about 4 million businesses after a deal was signed with credit card processing service First Data. The deal is chiefly aimed at Chinese tourists visiting North America. It follows a small ...
25 persons including 5 fire officers have been rushed to the hospital after sustaining various degrees of injury from a gas explosion in Takoradi this morning. Some residents said they heard a loud explosive sound from an area close to a Total filling station located few meters away from the Takoradi Regional Hospital at about ...
The Mayor of the Sekondi-Tkoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam, and some other members of the assembly, over the weekend joined members of the public in a massive clean-up exercise throughout the Twin City. The exercise, the first since the MCE took over as the metropolitan chief executive, saw corporate Ghana donating items such ...
The Group Chief Executive of CDH Financial Holdings Limited, Emmanuel Adu-Sarkodee, has won the prestigious and coveted Group Chief Executive Officer of the Year Award for 2016, at the 7th Ghana Entrepreneurs and Corporate Executives Awards (GECEA) held in Accra. The Awards was organised by the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG), with the endorsement of ...
A court in Austria has ordered that Facebook must remove postings seen as hate speech, in a ruling that is set to have international implications. The case was brought by the country’s Green Party after its leader was targeted by a false account. The court said postings not just in Austria but worldwide must be ...
Some stakeholders of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) are hopeful the bourse will record good performance in this year’s activities due to growing enthusiasm in the capital market. The GSE recorded negative performance in two consecutive years,— in 2015 and the 2016 periods. But speaking to Citi Business News on the 2017 outlook of the ...
Mr. Alexander Adjei, the auctioneer who auctioned some state vehicles for as low as GHs 1,000, risks losing his license for his action. The Ghana Auctioneers Association (GAA) has referred him to its Disciplinary Committee for investigation and sanction. The deeds of the licensed auctioneer of Alex Mart, came to light when he appeared before ...
The Northern Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu will be hurled before court if he fails to render an unqualified apology to the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari for the defaming him. Mr. Naabu and two media houses have also been given 48-hours to retract comments they made suggesting ...
The outgoing governor of Jakarta has been sentenced to two years in prison for blasphemy and inciting violence. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, was the first ethnic Chinese Christian to run Indonesia’s capital, and the case was seen as a test of the country’s religious tolerance. He was accused of insulting Islam by referring ...
South Koreans are voting in a presidential election, called early after a huge corruption scandal brought down their former leader. Liberal Moon Jae-in is the clear front-runner with centrist Ahn Cheol-soo his nearest challenger. The election is being closely watched at a time of economic uncertainty and heightened tensions with North Korea. Mr Moon wants ...
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