An Accra Magistrate court has discharged thirteen suspects allegedly involved in the lynching of the military officer, Major Maxwell Mahama. The thirteen are part of an initial 32 charged with murder during the last hearing of the case a fortnight ago. Their discharge followed a decision by the state to have them released. According to ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has begun investigating some officials of the Electoral Commission over the loss of 480,000 cedis from the Commission’s Endowment Fund. Documents sighted by Citi News reveal that EOCO has started investigating some top officials of the Commission over the missing cash. The officials are the Commission’s Deputy Chairperson in-charge ...

Citi News has gathered the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has begun investigations into the loss of 480,000 cedis from the Electoral Commission (EC)’s Endowment Fund. Documents sighted by Citi News reveal that EOCO has started investigating some top officials of the Commission over the missing cash. The officials are the commission’s Deputy Chairperson ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has asked for more time to produce actual roadmap for the implementation of the Representation of the People’s Amendment Act, 2006 [Act 699], popularly known as ROPAL. This follows an order by a High Court in Accra a month ago directing them to provide details of the implementation of the law several ...

Playwright Chief Moomen, has described as untrue claims made by Chairman of the Ghana@60 Anniversary Planning Committee, Ken Amankwah over the delayed payment for the production of his Wogbejeke play for the anniversary celebrations. Days after Chief Moomen claimed that the committee had refused to re-reimburse him the remaining amount he charged for the Wogbejeke performance ...

Playwright Chief Moomen, has responded to the account made by Chairman of the Ghana60Years On Anniversary Planning Committee, Ken Amankwah with regards to the Wogbejeke performance at the anniversary celebrations. In a statement signed by the chairman of the committee, Ken Amankwah, he said the committee went into an agreement with Chief that the fee ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is on the heels of Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, the immediate-past Managing Director (MD) of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, over some alleged payments and withdrawals from the government’s account. The account in question is the Chief of Staff’s ‘Sundry Account’ which the BOST boss ...

Director of News Programming at Citi FM and host of the Citi Breakfast Show on Monday patrons of the Victory Business Summit and Fair 2017 organized by the Victory branch of the Presbyterian church of Ghana in Accra on dynamics of effective marketing for business growth at a programme dubbed Victory Business Summit and Fair ...

Manchester United have agreed a fee of around £75m with Everton for striker Romelu Lukaku. The 24-year-old Belgium international scored 25 Premier League goals last season. United, who have been chasing Lukaku for most of the summer, will not now be pursuing their interest in Real Madrid’s Alvaro Morata. The move for Lukaku is not ...

Chairman of the Ghana@60 Anniversary Planning Committee, Ken Amankwah, has responded to allegations by playwright Chief Moomen that the committee owes him part payment of his fee for their Wogbejeke performance at the anniversary celebrations. In two separate Facebook posts last week, Chief Moomen, the producer and writer of the Wogbejeke theatrical performance, had remonstrated ...

The Ghana Employers Association (GEA) has made fresh appeals for the government to review the course structure at the various educational levels to provide employable skills. In its latest research, the Employers Association concludes that its members are still faced with the challenge of recruiting critical skills in IT, literacy, team working among others. While ...

The Northern Electricity Distribution Company of the Volta River Authority (NEDco-VRA) has disconnected hydro-electricity supply to the entire Dohin Naayili community within the Tamale Metropolitan Area. Some parts of Kukuo connected to two transformers in the Dohin Naayili community where also affected. Assembly Member of the Dohin Naayili Electoral Area, Abdul Wahab Fuseini in a ...

A youth group affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party calling itself the Bunkprugu/Yunyoo Patriots Network has dispelled rumors that the Member of Parliament for Bunkprugu constituency, Solomon Boar is against the nomination of John Kweku Alhassan as the District Chief Executive nominee for the Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district in the Northern Region. John Kweku Alhassan was ...

Mo Farah stressed he has “never failed a blood test” following the release of hacked documents which appear to show his test results once caused suspicion. Hackers Fancy Bears published documents on Wednesday which state Farah returned a sample which needed further testing. The data goes on to show Farah was then cleared when his ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that government is preparing to meet the board of the International Monetary Fund later this month. A team from the IMF led by Joël Toujas-Bernaté, earlier visited Accra on the 10th of February this year to welcome the government’s intention to conduct a full audit of outstanding obligations under ...

Donor partners will soon withdraw their funding for immunisation exercise in the country, Ms Evelyn Bema Darkwah, the Vice President of the Brong-Ahafo Regional Chapter of the Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health has hinted. This, she said, was because successive governments had failed to demonstrate true political will and commitment to improve on national ...

Alibaba is the latest technology giant to unveil a smart speaker. The voice-controlled Tmall Genie can be used to play music, run third-party apps and buy goods from the Chinese retail giant’s online stores. Like many such devices, it lacks a display. At launch, it will understand only Mandarin and be sold in the company’s ...

The head of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has said his forces “liberated” the eastern Benghazi city after years of fighting with Islamists. Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar said the city now enters a new era of “security, peace and reconciliation”. If confirmed, victory would mark a major advance for the one-time commander in the ...

JAY-Z’s digital-only album 4:44 has gone platinum within five days – despite limits on who could access it. The music was only available on Tidal, the star’s own streaming service, and to customers of US mobile firm Sprint. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) platinum certification, which requires more than one million sales, is ...