The Technical University’s Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), has called on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Minister for Education to as a matter of urgency ask the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), to stop giving illegal directives to the various technical universities. According to TUTAG, the NCTE is usurping the powers ...

A Saddick Adams goal in extra time gave Kotoko a 1-0 victory over Medeama in the semi-finals of the MTN FA Cup played on Monday. The match was supposed to have been played on Sunday but heavy rains forced a postponement. For large periods, the match did not open up but Medeama started to create ...

Ghana’s Black Starlets held their first training session in New Delhi on Monday after arriving in the country for the start of the U-17 World Cup on October 6. The team will open the tournament with a match against fellow Group side, Colombia, in the Indian capital and the 21 players were put through several ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned a $55.50 million water project for the people of Jambusie at Wa in the Upper West Region. The Water Project, which was constructed with a facility from the Korean Exim Bank, will supply 3.3 million gallons of water per day to the 100,705 residents of Wa. Commissioning the Project, President ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has asked Ghanaians to be considerate in their demands on his government as he strives to put the economy on a sound footing. The President, who is on a two-day working visit to the Upper West Region as part of 7-day tour of northern Ghana, was responding to demands made on him by ...

US musician Tom Petty has died in California aged 66, says a statement issued on behalf of his family. Petty was found unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home early on Monday. He was taken to hospital, but could not be revived and died later that evening. Petty was best ...

Who doesn’t love free stuff? Erin Finan and wife Leah Finan were certainly partial to a freebie or two, the only problem being they were obtaining them via fraudulent means. The Indianapolis couple this week formally admitted to stealing $1.2 million worth of items from online retail giant Amazon in a crime that could land them with ...

The Executive Committee of the Jaman North District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region have recommended to the district’s General Assembly to ban all forms of entertainment events organized for Junior High School (JHS) leavers after completion of their Basic Education Certificate Examinations. It believes the move is to check indiscipline and prevent the JHS ...

Local Governance Think Tank, Centre for Local Governance Advocacy, has called for sanctions against the Northern Regional Coordinating Council for demanding five thousand Ghana cedis each from the 26 assemblies in the region, to support the President’s tour of the area  this week. Speaking to Citi News, the Deputy Executive Director of the Centre, Gladys ...

Internet services have been shut down in Cameroon’s English-speaking areas after clashes involving separatists. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators who were calling for independence at rallies on Sunday, killing at least eight people A BBC reporter in Bamenda says the city is now in lockdown with no cars or people on the streets. The ...

The State Enterprises Commission (SEC) is set to roll out measures that will streamline conditions under which state agencies can spend their resources on corporate social projects. According to the enterprise, the term has been used to misappropriate state funds, ending up the pockets of individuals. Speaking to Citi Business News on the matter, the Executive Chair ...

Parliament will resume sitting today, October 3, 2017, after a 2-month-long recess. This is the third meeting of the first session of the Seventh Parliament. Among bills to be considered during the sitting are the Zongo and Inner Cities and the Special Prosecutor bills. President Akufo-Addo’s proposal to have August 4 declared as Founders Day and September ...

The Korle Bu Senior Staff Association (KOSSA), has dismissed suggestions that staff are ‘sabotaging’ operations at the hospital. There have been claims that staff at the hospital deliberately deny patients services that the facility is supposed to offer, and instead directing them to private institutions which they own. The President of the Association, Charles Offei Palm, ...

Residents of Lascala at Teshie in Accra, are up in arms over the failure of the government to fix their pothole-riddled roads. According to them, an earlier report by Citi News had pushed the government to begin work on the road, which was abandoned weeks later. Caleb Kudah, who filed the first report three months ...

Host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle, has spoken of the need for young leaders to retain the positive qualities they display in public in their personal lives as well. Speaking in an interview as part of a series focusing on Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) Under 40 on the African continent, Mr. Avle emphasized the importance of ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the two largest producers of cocoa in the world, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, have now decided to co-operate in ensuring that they do not continue to be victims or pawns of a global cocoa industry that is dependent on the work of their farmers. According to President Akufo-Addo, since ...

Member of Parliament for the Bongo Constituency in the Upper East Region, Edward Bawa, has described as outrageous, fees charged by Nursing Training Colleges in the country, and wants government to urgently intervene. He says the situation has prevented many people from becoming nurses, and has put pressure on female nursing trainees to depend on men ...

Bags for life pose a food poisoning risk if they are used to carry raw foods such as meat and fish, a consumer watchdog is warning. The Food Standards Agency says even if there is no leakage, packaging can harbour traces of harmful bacteria that can cause stomach bugs. Shoppers should have separate bags for ...

Nissan has shown off a prototype sweat-sensing car seat which it says could help prevent road accidents. The technology, called Soak, changes colour if perspiration is high in salt, suggesting dehydration. Previous research by the European Hydration Institute and Loughborough University found that dehydrated drivers were as error-prone as those who had drunk alcohol. There ...