The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has elected new executive members to run the affairs of the Association for the next three years. The elected executive members’ tenure which begins from June 2017, will expire in June 2020. At its Annual General Meeting held in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi on Thursday, 8th June, 2017, ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has backed the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, for the party to be guided by the principles of integrity and accountability. He said the party’s current predicaments demand that its members introspect and work to restore its earlier values of probity and ...

Citi News can report that the air-conditioning system at the new court complex in Accra has broken down. This has created a difficult working environment, and could possibly affect the work of the court. The $50 million, Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT)-funded edifice, comprises 42 courtrooms, 10 land courts, 10 commercial courts, 6 ...

The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, has indicated that government plans to acquire the disputed Nkonya-Alavanyo land. He said the plan is to develop the land into a military training camp. Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, the Minister said he believes the move will help resolve the over a century old conflict ...

A conservationist who played a key role in reintroducing the eastern black rhino to Rwanda has been killed by one of the animals, a wildlife group says. Krisztián Gyöngyi was tracking animals in the Akagera National Park when he was killed, African Parks added. It did not give more details, but rhinos usually charge and ...

Thirty-two (32) out of the 2,290 candidates, who registered to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at eight centers in the Kwahu West Municipality, failed to show up. The examination supervisors could not tell why they chose to absent themselves. A candidate at the Fodoa Centre, also missed one of the papers after ...

The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has cautioned prospective national service personnel to desist from engaging middlemen or agents in the course of registering to undertake the mandatory one year service. According to the NSS, it will not bear responsibility for persons who are lured by these agents who extort monies from gullible service personnel with ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has appointed former Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood unto the Council of State. This follows her retirement by close of Thursday, June 8, 2017. Her appointment was announced in Parliament on Thursday by the Speaker, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye. President Akufo-Addo had earlier sworn-in 24 members of the Council ...

As Ghanaians grieve over the horrendous murder of the late officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, Major Maxwell Mahama, tributes have been pouring in from sympathizers to pay their last respect to the young promising soldier. Tributes were received from the President of the Nation, Nana Addo, former Presidents, Security Services, Religious and Civil Society ...

Ghana’s retired Chief Justice; Georgina Theodora Wood, has revealed how she endured heated calls on her to resign during the late President John Evans Atta Mills’ administration. Georgina Wood, who is retiring today [June 8, 2017] after ten years of service as Chief Justice of Ghana, said members in the late John Evans Atta Mills ...

The Minister of Aviation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has ordered the demolition of illegal structures on the government’s acquired 3,000 acres of land in the Central Region to pave way for the construction of an ultra-modern airstrip. The land, located at Ataabadze, a community in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA), has been long proposed for the construction of ...

The Member of Parliament for Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Mark Nawarni, has called on the Police to thoroughly investigate and bring to book persons who lynched and killed an alleged witch at Pelungu. He said there is enough evidence for the police to identify, arrest and prosecute the wrongdoers. “Some people took ...

Black Stars forward Raphael Dwamena is calling on fans to come to the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday to support the Black Stars against Ethiopia in the AFCON 2019 qualifiers. The Black Stars have been training in Kumasi since Monday ahead of the match. On Wednesday, they beat Asokwa Deportivo 6-1 in a warm up ...

The Ghana Exports Promotion Authority (GEPA), has launched what it calls the One-District, One-Export-Product at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. At a day’s conference on implementation of the National Export Strategy in relation to the One-District, One Export Product, all the 24 MMDCEs  and their coordinating Directors in the Eastern Region were present to share their ...

The Head of Local Government Service, Dr. Nana Ato Arthur, has challenged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), to use Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve revenue mobilization. According to him, MMDAs could reduce the over-reliance on the central government if they adopt ICT strategies to explore revenue potential in their assemblies. Dr. Arthur disclosed ...

But for the intervention of the Member of Parliament for Adaklu Constituency in the Volta Region, Kwame Agbodza, with the support of some Non-Governmental Organizations, over 200 children in one of the remotest parts of Adaklu, would have continued to have non-formal education in a thatch tent. The children, mostly of Fulani descent, are from ...

The Ghana Chamber of Mines used the commemoration of World Environmental Day to reiterate the need for effective policy implementation from government to sustain the conservation of Ghana’s natural resources. The Chamber noted “weak regulatory oversight and parochial political considerations” as contributors to the proliferation and escalation of illegal mining, which has been acknowledged as one of ...

A few years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of an international conference in Accra. At one of the group sessions, the issue of lawyer advertising came up. I argued forcefully against the current rules that prohibit advertising and described them as colonial relics that have become shorn of their relevance. The ...

Ghanaian rap giant, Kwame Ametepe Tsikata known in showbiz as M.anifest, put up a sparkling performance at the 2017 Cannes International Music Festival in France, Citi Showbiz has gathered. Being the only African representative in the festival which spans June 6-9, 2017, he made it to the Midem Artist Accelerator. The Midem Artist Accelerator is ...

Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has carried out a major assault on a military base in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Its fighters killed 61 government troops and seized 16 vehicles in the dawn raid, the group said. A Puntland government minister has denied the high death toll, but did not give separate ...