The Kingson brothers – Laryea and Richard – have both completed their CAF Licence B coaching course at the Winneba Sports College in the Central Region, the finder newspaper reports. The brothers, who are both ex-players of the senior national male soccer team, the Black Stars, were part of last Friday’s graduating class. The course, ...

Two Dutch journalists have been abducted in Colombia in an area near the Venezuelan border. Derk Bolt and Eugenio Follender went missing at the weekend in Catatumbo, a region where several armed groups operate, including the left-wing ELN. They were searching for the mother of a Colombian child adopted in the Netherlands a few years ...

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.1 terabytes of data includes birth-dates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population. The data was available on a publicly accessible Amazon ...

The US student held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died a week after returning home. Otto Warmbier, 22, was serving 15 years hard labour, accused of attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel. He was returned to the US last Tuesday, with North Korea saying it was ...

Soaring temperatures threaten efforts to bring a raging forest fire in Portugal under control, officials say. The week’s highest temperatures of around 38C (100F) are expected on Tuesday and together with windy conditions could reignite fires already quelled. Civil protection officials say although 70% of the fire is under control, what remains is a source ...

The Attorney General’s office has initiated steps to orally examine businessman, Alfred Woyome, in the controversial GHc 51 million judgment debt saga. Documents sighted by Citi News indicate that, on June 2, 2017, an ex-parte motion to examine Mr. Woyome was filed. The document noted that, Mr. Woyome will be examined on issues pertaining to ...

Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, has commended government’s plans to facilitate Christian pilgrimages to Israel and other places of interest. His comments follow the announcement by Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Minister, Kofi Dzamesi, that two committees had been set up namely, Planning and Screening Committees, to oversee the operations of Christian pilgrimage in the country, ...

An Accra High Court has given Achimota Senior High School the authority to reclaim its lands from encroachers. The final judgment in the case is to be given on the 17th of July. Old students of the school headed to court, seeking to stop the work of developers who had encroached on the school’s lands. For ...

The Ghana National Gas Company has dismissed reports suggesting that it is unable to account for some $47.4 million accrued from the sale of raw gas to the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC). Ghana Gas, in a statement signed by the Corporate Communications Manager of Ghana Gas, Ernest Owusu Bempah, described such reports as “untrue ...

A Local Governance Analyst, George Kyei Baffour, believes national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should intervene in the political impasse in Savelugu. Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Kyei Baffour suggested that “the party will have to step in to call those party members to order because “we cannot live in such an anarchic ...

A Local Governance Analyst, George Kyei Baffour, believes national executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should intervene in the political impasse in Savelugu. Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Kyei Baffour suggested that “the party will have to step in to call those party members to order because “we cannot live in such an anarchic ...

Wesley Girls’ High School progressed to the quarter final stage of the National Science & Maths Quiz after they overcame Accra High Sch and ST. Charles Min. Seminary. Also progressing were Kumasi High School and T.I. AMASS, Fomena. These three victors will face each other in the next round. The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz, is ...

The brutal, deadly attacks in London and Manchester on innocent civilians are the latest in a series of senseless violent acts carried out by the so-called Islamic State, a group that deserves no designation other than the world’s most inhuman criminal network. In response to this threat, the world’s Muslims can and should help intelligence ...

The Sagnarigu District Chief Executive (DCE), Mariam Iddrisu, has initiated pragmatic steps to prevent perennial floods which continue to cause havoc in some parts of the district. She led a team of engineers to some identified flood prone communities including Ward ‘K’, Gumani and Nyanshegu. The DCE admonished the people to stop building on waterways ...

Banks have begun easing out their stance on credit to the private sector following declining interest rates. The Bank of Ghana’s latest Banking sector report reveals that the credit allocation by banks increased from April 2016 to April 2017. Net loans and advances to the private sector by the commercial banks (which is total loans to customers, ...

One of the highlight events of the Citi Business Festival—The Innovation Summit will come off at Labadi Beach Hotel on Saturday June 24, at 6:30pm. The Innovation Summit is a conversation on how to create value for the business community through innovation. It will feature a panel of industry practices, discussing how to generate business ...