All ten (10) constituency chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper West Region, have stated their intent to hold a massive demonstration in protest of the decision by the Wa Magistrate Court to remand the seven NPP supporters charged with rioting, after they attacked the DCE for Sissala West and locked up his office. The seven remanded included ...

The National Labour Commission (NLC), has asked striking members  of the College of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), to reconsider their decision and return to the lecture halls. CETAG began a nationwide strike on Thursday over the non-payment of year-long salary arrears owed them. In an interview with Citi News however, the Executive Secretary ...

Messenging app WhatsApp is operating again after a brief global outage. Users across the world were unable to send messages due to a server that went down. Social media users saw the lighter side of things and took to Twitter share memes. The ‘WhatsApp down’ hashtag is now trending. WhatsApp is yet to release an ...

WhatsApp is down. People can’t send or receive messages using the Facebook-owned app, apparently because of a server problem. The app doesn’t initially look broken, with chats and contacts able to load. But once a user is into a chat, the app just shows a “connecting” message that never resolves itself, and so new messages ...

Stonebwoy is not the only artiste who also wants to visit the President at the Flagstaff House. Samini wants to be there too. Samini is the second dance hall artiste who has come out to ask Nana Akufo-Addo to invite him for his gift after Shatta Wale’s recent visit to the President. This is after ...

Patrice Evra was sent off after kicking one of his own team’s fans in the head before Marseille’s Europa League defeat at Vitoria Guimaraes. Footage shows the 36-year-old ex-Manchester United defender aiming an acrobatic kick at a supporter at the side of the pitch during the warm-up. Substitute Evra was dismissed before kick-off in Portugal, and ...

US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday, but has since been restored, the social media company has said. It said that the @realdonaldtrump account was “deactivated” by an employee, later clarifying that it was their last day in the job. The account was down for 11 minutes, and Twitter is now investigating. Mr Trump ...

Thousands of Catalans have protested against the detention of eight regional ministers sacked over Catalonia’s push for independence from Spain. The officials – who appeared in Spain’s high court – are accused of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds. Prosecutors are also seeking a European Arrest Warrant for ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who ...

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has lamented the huge sums of money the state had lost over the years with regards to unearned salaries paid staff of the various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs). Payments of unearned salaries according to the Auditor General’s report for the 2015 financial year, ...

Nyaho Medical Center, has opened its new branch at Cantonments in Accra. The health facility is located within The Octagon on the Barnes road at Accra Central. The state-of-the-art medical center offers advanced features for faster diagnostic telemedicine support for remote specialist input, and real-time access to patient records. The hospital, which is focused on ...

Government has set up a highly powered Task-Force to investigate and deal with weird circumstances leading to political hooliganism by some aggrieved members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) especially in the northern region. The Task-Force is led by a Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam Anta, and some of its members include ...

Ghana’s strict adherence to anti-money laundering laws has partly contributed to the rise in the country’s housing deficit. This is the indication from the Ghana Real Estate Developers’ Association (GREDA). The Association has therefore advocated pragmatic mechanisms to allow prospective home owners do so. A Council Member of GREDA, Samuel Tenkorang who made the revelation ...

It appears the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana COCOBOD, may have goofed when he suggested that a guest house in Bole funded by COCOBOD for the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana Research Station Guest at Bole, former President Mahama’s hometown, was constructed through the influence of the latter, for his personal comfort while in office. Citi ...

Government is expected to conclude the auctioning of the energy bond Friday, November 3, 2017; barring any last minute changes. Managers of the bond had to extend the auction for the bond after they failed to raise the 6 billion cedis expected. The 7 year bond made the 2.4 billion cedi mark after auctioning closed ...

21 students of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have been graduated at a short ceremony. The white coat ceremony symbolizes a graduation from the pre-clinical phase of learning veterinary medicine into the clinical phase. Students who are ushered into the clinical phase will be posted ...

The Manhyia Palace has set Friday 1st, to Monday 11th of December 2017, as dates for the performance of the final funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa Afia Kobi Ampem II. Burial rites have already been held for the Queen mother who passed away in 2016 at age 109. Briefing the press on the final ...