Egypt and Liverpool star Mohammed Salah has been named African Footballer of the Year 2017 at the AITEO CAF Awards Ceremony held in Accra on Thursday night. The 25-year old fended off competition from Liverpool teammate and Senegal international Sadio Mane who finished 2nd and Gabon and Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who finished 3rd. He ... The post Mohammed Salah named

Host of Good Evening Ghana on Accra-based Metro Television, Paul Adom-Otchere, is courting support for the payment of TV license fees  that will largely benefit the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). This, he believes will help GBC effectively discharge its role as a public broadcaster. The setting up of a special court by the Chief Justice ... The post Rebellion against

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The African Leadership Initiative West Africa (ALIWA) Dialogue series was held in Accra on Thursday, January 4, 2018. The event had the Chief Brand Officer at Uber, Bozoma Saint John as the guest speaker. Dignitaries including Austrian-German-Ghanaian actor, Boris Kodjoe, Board Chairman of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, CEO of Ghana Chamber of ... The post ALIWA

The Ghana Music Rights Association (GHAMRO), has sued the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) over royalties owed its members since 2012. GHAMRO is an organisation registered under the laws of Ghana and further authorized by law to basically license, collect and distribute royalties for and on behalf of musicians/authors, composers and producers/publishers of musical works. The ... The post GHAMRO

The Chief Brand Officer at Uber, Bozoma Saint John has stated that the future belongs to companies that can connect technology to service to make it easier for people to do their work. According to the Ghanaian-American Global Marketing icon, Uber has defined that purpose by using technology and service delivery to move people from ... The post Uber is a future company – Bozoma

A former Chief of Defense Staff, Brig. Gen. Nunoo Mensah, has endorsed Ekwow Spio-Garbrah as the best person to lead the National Democratic Congress [NDC] in the 2020 elections, describing him as the liberator and motivator of Ghanaian youth. He said the youth of the country are in dire need of someone to keep their ... The post Nunoo-Mensah backs Spio-Garbrah’s 2020

US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have written to his former strategist Steve Bannon, saying he has violated a non-disclosure agreement. The cease-and-desist notice accuses Mr Bannon of defaming the president in speaking to author Michael Wolff. Wolff’s forthcoming tell-all book describes the president as being unprepared for the job. Mr Trump responded by saying Mr ... The post Trump

Existing pensioners with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will from January 2018 enjoy ten percent increase in the benefits paid by the Trust. It follows the upward review of the minimum pension paid to contributors which takes effect this year. Per the move, pensioners on the payroll of SSNIT will now get ... The post SSNIT increases minimum pension benefit

Kwasi Aborle, a 43-year-old farmer in the Prestea-Huni Valley District of the Western Region, has been hauled before the traditional authorities in the area for allegedly having sexual intercourse with his three biological daughters. The three daughters (names withheld) aged between 13 and 19 years, according to information, had allegedly been subjected to numerous sexual ... The post Man sleeps

Patients undergoing surgery in Africa are more than twice as likely to die following an operation than the global average, researchers say. But they say the most worrying revelation was just how few Africans have access to elective surgery – surgery that is scheduled in advance. The number of these operations is 20 times lower ... The post ‘Twice as many die’ in Africa after surgery

Only 500 out of the 84,000 applicants interested in joining the Ghana Immigration Service will be recruited. This represents less than ten (10%) percent  intake from the vast number of applicants. The Immigration Service in a statement copied to citifmonline.com said it shortlisted 47,477 qualified candidates from the first phase of the selection process, and ... The post Immigration

The Ministry of Transport has instructed management of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority [DVLA], to immediately halt mandatory charges for First Aid kits. Deputy Transport Minister, Titus Glover, told Citi News that the DVLA has been communicated to in that regard. The DVLA failed to duly inform both the board and the Ministry before ... The post Transport Ministry

Legal and management consultant, Kofi Otutu Adu Labi talks about living effectively and having a life of meaning and purpose. He reminds us that it takes just one person to make a difference.   – By: citifmonline.com/Ghana The post Effective Living Series 2018: Day 3 with Kofi Otutu Adu Labi [Audio] appeared first on Ghana

A total of 3,928 job seekers are undergoing the Ghana Immigration Service’s recruitment process in the Volta Regional capital, Ho. The applicants are part of a nationwide exercise by the Service to shortlist both graduates and undergraduates for recruitment. Out of the total number from the Volta Region, 521 applied as graduates, 372 as Higher ... The post V/R:

The Office of the Special Prosecutor will struggle without the Right to Information (RTI) bill, General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said. According to him, without the bill, the Special Prosecutor will find it difficult retrieving information especially from government offices. “The most important bill, even more important ... The post Special

A Lecturer at the GIMPA Law Faculty, Justice Srem Sai, has questioned the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) exoneration of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta in the controversial 2.25 billion dollar bond saga. CHRAJ, in its 140-page report concluded that although Mr. Ofori-Atta was not guilty of conflict of interest, he breached some ... The post CHRAJ

A Lecturer at the GIMPA Law Faculty, Justice Srem Sai, has questioned the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) exoneration of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta in the controversial 2.25 billion dollar bond saga. CHRAJ, in its 140-page report concluded that although Mr. Ofori-Atta was not guilty of conflict of interest, he breached some ... The post Bond

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour, has asked the government to accelerate work on the proposed National Cattle Ranching document. This document will among others come up with the best ways to end incessant clashes between peasant farmers and herdsmen. Speaking to Citi News, the Minister said if the document is generated and passed into ... The post Cattle

The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) has called on government to implement stringent measures that will further lower inflation in the country. According to the ICU, this will ensure that employers are able to sustain jobs and also absorb some of the teeming unemployed youth in the country. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta during ... The post ICU pushes for low inflation