South Africans are paying tribute to a former actor on popular local TV series Generations who was killed during a mugging on Sunday night. Mandla Hlatshwayo and his friend were shot after confronting a group of men who had robbed women of their mobile phones in a pub in Soweto. Those who knew the 40-year-old ...

The Tamale Metropolitan Security Task Force led by the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Iddrisu Musah Superior today [Monday] kick-started the first phase of a major decongestion exercise within the Tamale Business City. This followed three months of non-stop notifications in the media especially on the airwaves of Tamale based radio stations. The Task Force destroyed ...

A private legal practitioner has written to the government requesting for more information on the controversial $2.25 billion domestic bond which was issued in April 2017. According to the lawyer, Victor Kojogah Adawudu, he exercised his right to information due to the scanty details provided by the Ministry of Finance on the issue. In a ...

Government has revealed plans to anchor industrialization in the country on the establishment of ten new industrial parks. According to Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, each of the ten regions would have one park with the requisite facilities and flexible land schemes to facilitate the setting up of industries. This initiative which draws ...

Scores of caterers for the National School Feeding program earlier this morning besieged the premises of the Ministry for Gender, Children and Social Protection demanding the payment of their arrears. Some of the caterers said they have not been paid for more than 8 months. According to the Public Relations Officer of the School Feeding ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested Patrick Ndebu, a self-acclaimed building contractor, for allegedly robbing a driver of his Toyota Corolla Taxi cab valued at GHC30, 000.00. Ndebu, together with two other accomplices now at large, had hired Samuel Nsiah who was driving the vehicle with registration number AS 680 17 from Ahodwo in ...

Zen Petroleum, dealers in fuel and lubricants for mining and other sectors in partnership with Paragon 99.9 FM in Takoradi have donated medical supplies and other items worth GHc 16,000 to the four hospitals in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis treating victims of the May 9 explosion in Takoradi. A cash sum of GHc 5,000 was ...

Everton Football club is making a last minute push for Chelsea and Ghana defender Baba Rahman who is on his way out to Schalke on loan again. Rahman joined Chelsea for £14million from Augsburg in 2015 but didn’t impress Antonio Conte, who promptly brought in Marcos Alonso. The Ghanaian, however, showed glimpses of returning to ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it will not be moved by the demands of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in the Central Region to pay arrears owed some teachers who have been promoted. This, the GES explains, is because there has been a prior agreement with all teacher unions to scrap such ...

Deputy Western Regional Minister, Gifty Eugenia Kusi on the commemoration of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 14, 2017 donated items worth Gh 3,000 to the Maternity Ward of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital. The gesture, according to her is in recognition of the love and care mothers in the region and across the country have ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government will prioritize technical education and skills development of students in the country’s senior high schools and tertiary institutions, as it holds the key to the country’s industrial development. President Akufo-Addo said, “if the ambitions we have for this country are going to come to fruition, a great deal of it ...

The Chairman of the Minority Communications Committee in Parliament, A.B.A. Fuseini, has dismissed allegations of conflict of interest and nepotism against the President for nominating Justice Sophia Akuffo as the next Chief Justice. In a Citi News interview, A.B.A. Fuseini, the Sagnarigu MP, said Ghanaians must rise above the suspicions of nepotism if the idea ...

The Chairman of the Minority Communications Committee in Parliament, A.B.A. Fuseini, has dismissed allegations of conflict of interest and nepotism against the President for nominating Justice Sophia Akuffo as the next Chief Justice. In a Citi News interview, A.B.A. Fuseini, the Sagnarigu MP, said Ghanaians must rise above the suspicions of nepotism as long as ...

Heavy gunfire has erupted in Ivory Coast’s two biggest cities, as a mutiny in the army enters its fourth day. The mutineers blocked roads outside a barracks in an affluent neighbourhood of Abidjan, the commercial capital, a BBC reporter in the city says. Troops loyal to the government are heading for the second city, Bouaké, ...

A week after just missing out on the world record Nigerian musician Femi Kuti can now claim the title of the person who has played a single note on a saxophone for the longest time. According to his Twitter feed he played the note for more than 51 minutes. #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/e6aMxR6Csg — Femi Anikulapo -Kuti ...

The celebrated legend of African neighbourliness has been reinforced by Sahara Group after the leading African energy conglomerate extended a hand of support to victims of fire disasters in Ghana. The gesture, which is in line with Sahara’s Corporate Responsibility policies follows similar support from Sahara to the nation’s disaster victims in the past. In ...

Colleges of Education can admit as many qualified applicants as their available facilities can allow but without compromising quality and standards, Professor Kwesi Yankah, the Minister of State in Charge of Tertiary Education, has said. He said the Ministry of Education will not introduce a quota system for admission which could prevent many prospective applicants ...

Ghanaian musician and President of the Ghana Music Council, Ekow Micah is not pleased with the lyrical content of Shatta Wale’s hit song ‘Kpuu Kpaa,’ Citi Showbiz has learnt. The ‘Aba’ singer told Christian Agyei Frimpong on Onua FM’s entertainment show last Saturday that the ‘kpuu kpaa’ in the song is onomatopoeic of farts. “A ...

Frances Essiam has been appointed as the CEO of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company. The appointment was made by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo. The appointment was also contained in a letter dated 8th May, 2017 and signed by the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko. It also stated that Madam Essiam was nominated for ...