The Court of Appeal has adjourned the hearing of an application for a stay of execution by suspended human rights lawyer, Francis Xavi Sosu, over his suspension from legal practice by the General Legal Council. The adjournment followed a request by lawyers for the Counsel to consult their clients following what they call new allegations ...

Economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Dr. Said Boakye, has blamed the high cost of living in Ghana on the country’s voracious appetite for imported products. Dr. Boakye made the remark on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, on the back of a report that Ghana has been ranked as one ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application for stay of proceedings by Businessman Alfred Woyome, seeking to halt an oral examination by the Attorney General. According to the court, presided over by a single judge, Justice Alfred Benin, the application had no basis. Mr. Woyome prayed the Supreme Court last week to stay proceedings on ...

Olivier Giroud has insisted that he wants to remain at Arsenal despite rumours linking him with a move away from the Emirates this summer. With Arsenal set to land coveted Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette in the next few days, talk has intensified of a transfer for Giroud, with Everton noted as a possible destination for the Frenchman. ...

A clear case of governmental wastage is depicted at the Institute of Local Government Studies in Accra, where Citi News’ Duke Mensah Opoku, reports that 86 unused state vehicles have been abandoned for nearly twenty years. Mensah Opoku went to the Institute to see the 86 vehicles purchased by the Rawlings administration that have become a ...

A $12 million Chinese-built Sigiri bridge in Western Kenya collapsed before it was completed. President Uhuru Kenyatta inspected the project two weeks before the collapse. It was an embarrassing collapse for Kenya’s ruling party. On June 26, just two weeks after an “inspection” by President Uhuru Kenyatta, a $12 million Chinese-built Sigiri bridge in Western ...

Uganda’s Ministry for Public Service has told public servants to dress “decently”, and has warned women not to show their cleavage. In a circular, it says women are not allowed to wear dresses or skirts that are above the knees, sleeveless blouses or any clothing made out of see-through material. The privately owned Observer newspaper ...

Local pharmaceutical giants have expressed their fear of serious health implications following the decision of the United Kingdom (UK)-based pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Export Ltd, UK, to terminate its distributorship contracts with them in favour of Worldwide Health Ltd (WHL),a wholly Indian-owned company operating in Ghana. Implications The local companies fear that the distribution of ...

Prices on goods have gone up by about 20.5%, following the implementation of the 3% VAT Flat Rate which commenced on July 1; the General Secretary of the Food and Beverages Association of Ghana, Samuel Aggrey has disclosed. Mr. Aggrey’s assertion follows an earlier meeting of businesses with the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, calling ...

Rapper Kodak Black is being criticised for saying he prefers lighter-skinned women because it’s easier to “break them down”. The 20-year-old said he doesn’t date women with his skin complexion because they’re “too tough”. He said the comments in an interview after a charity basketball game. This comes after an Instagram Live Video, in which ...

It is two years and a day since Rafael Nadal last played a grass-court tennis match, but the two-time former Wimbledon champion showed few signs of rust against John Millman. Nadal slapped 33 winners past the Australian on No.1 Court as he dropped just six games to wrap up victory in 105 minutes. Now for ...

The Government is poised to sanitise the local government system by ensuring that there is effective institutional coordination and harmonisation, Hajia Alima Mahama, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has said. She said there would be effective coordination of funding and development partner support as well as deepening of the platform for policy ...

The International Perspective for Policy and Governance (IPPG), an independent and non-profit think tank has released a report on the challenges faced by women and girls in the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in Ghana. The report is the final documentation of the deliberations from a roundtable discussion themed “Gender, Science ...

We’ve repeated this many times here before, but there are a few truisms that can be said for any future iPhone: it will have the fastest processor, the best camera and at least one unique feature you can’t get on any other iPhone. That’s as true now as it will be in 2020. But it’s ...

Powerful Igbo leaders in Nigeria have rejected calls for the breakaway state of Biafra to be created for their ethnic group in the south-east. Their intervention is seen as an attempt to defuse escalating tensions between rival communities in Nigeria. However, a pro-secessionist group says it will press ahead with its campaign. Security forces have ...

Police in the Western Region have declared owners of a Galamsey pit believed to have killed about 14 people in Prestea Nsuta wanted. 17 people are believed to be trapped in the pit which collapsed on them while they sought to mine there, contrary to government’s directive. Rescue efforts are currently underway to retrieve the ...

The Supreme Court will today, [Tuesday], rule on an application filed by businessman, Alfred Agbeshie Woyome, seeking to halt the oral examination by the Attorney General on how he intends paying off the GHc51 million judgment debt wrongfully awarded him. Mr. Woyome prayed the Supreme Court last week to stay proceedings on the oral examination ...

Agric industry players are optimistic of a rebound in the growth of the sector for the rest of 2017. Their optimism is premised on the massive growth in agric subsector between the first quarter of 2016 and the same period in 2017. For the one year period, the agric sector growth almost tripled, from 2.8 ...