A former Member of Parliament for the Wa Central Constituency, Rashid Pelpuo, has called on president Akufo-Addo to immediately order for the release of NDC activist and serial caller, Appiah Stadium from police custody. Appiah stadium was arrested after suggesting in a recent audio that went viral, that the President, Nana Akufo-Addo smokes marijuana [wee]. ...

President Akufo-Addo is not interested in pressing charges against National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicator, Appiah Stadium, after the latter claimed in a viral audio that he [Akufo-Addo] smokes marijuana [wee]. The Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid, in a release copied to citifmonline.com, indicated that Akufo-Addo has informed the Police Administration of his position on the matter. ...

Women in Saudi Arabia have been granted the right to drive overturning a cornerstone of Saudi conservatism that had been a cause celebre of activists demanding reforms in the fundamentalist kingdom. King Salman ordered the reform in a royal decree delivered on Tuesday night, requesting that drivers licences be issued to women who wanted them. The decision ...

The Nadowli/Kaleo Constituency MP, Alban Bagbin believes moves by some persons to link him to the shady $2.4 million purchase of the 30 ambulances are attempts to taint his presidential ambitions. Mr. Bagbin, a former Minister of Health insisted that he did no wrong by sanctioning the purchase of 200, of which the 30 were ...

The Ghana Police Service has said it is facing challenges in identifying the persons responsible for the circulation of the fake terror alert at the Accra Mall. According to the police, the medium on which the fake message emanated from, WhatsApp, has made it difficult for the Cyber Crime Unit to trace. There were reports ...

Ghanaian lawyer and former Executive Director of Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, has suggested that it was wrong for the police to handcuff  a serial caller of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Appiah Stadium, for allegedly accusing the President of smoking ‘wee’. According to him, the president will be “extremely unhappy” over the development. ...

Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region, are demanding the immediate release of one of their own, Appiah Stadium, an activist and a serial caller, who was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly defaming the President, Nana Akufo-Addo. “We demand the immediate release of Appiah Stadium from police custody now in the ...

North Korea is its own world in many ways. Now, it is getting its own time zone to match. State news agency, KCNA, has announced that North Korea will set its clocks back by 30 minutes to “Pyongyang time” on August 15–the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japan. That will reset the time to GMT+08:30, ...

The entire members of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), who were appointed during the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, have announced their resignation en bloc from the Commission. The Chairman of the Commission, Kwesi Botchwey, made the announcement at a meeting with President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday. The commission is made up of ...

President Akufo Addo showed his gratitude to the Black Stars B team for winning the WAFU 2017 competition by pledging an amount of 100,000 dollars to be shared among the squad and technical team. Officials and Players of the Black Stars B team were at the Flagstaff house to present the WAFU Cup trophy to ...

The Meteorological Agency has warned against a thunderstorm which it said is approaching the country from neighboring Togo. The service in an alert copied to citifmonline.com, said areas in the country expected to be affected include Accra, Tema, Adenta, Sege and Battor. “A moderate thunderstorm and rain-bearing cloud system observed over the southern half of Togo ...

The Meteorological Agency has warned against a thunderstorm which it said is approaching the country from neighboring Togo. The service in an alert copied to citifmonline.com, said areas in the country expected to be affected include Accra, Tema, Adenta, Sege and Battor. “A moderate thunderstorm and rain-bearing cloud system observed over the southern half of Togo ...

Turkey’s president has said Iraqi Kurds could go hungry as a result of the punitive measures it is considering after Monday’s independence referendum. Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government of “treachery” for pressing ahead with the vote despite international opposition. Massoud Barzani should now “give up on this adventure”, he ...

Vodafone’s flagship health initiative, Healthline TV, has been adjudged TV Programme of the Year at the  Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) awards held over the weekend. The Telecoms giant’s customer rewards programme, Yee Twi Kor, also won the best TV Advert of the Year and Press Advert of the Year, during the event held ...

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a known serial caller and activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Appiah Stadium. According to reports,  he was arrested for suggesting in a recent audio that went viral, that the President, Nana Akufo-Addo smokes marijuana [wee]. A source at the Ashanti Regional command confirmed the arrest to ...

The immediate past President of the Association of Road Contractors -Ghana, Joseph Ebo Hewton, has attributed the cause of inflated cost of road projects in Ghana on what he described as selective tendering. According to him, contractors take advantage of that to bloat contract sums when such processes are used for awarding contracts because it does not create ...

Equifax’s board announced Tuesday that Richard Smith will “retire” as Chairman of the Board and CEO effective September 26, 2017. Board member Mark Feidler has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman and Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., who most recently served as President of Asia Pacific, has been appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Smith. ...

A non-governmental organization with expertise in conflict resolution and peace building, has adopted a new strategy for ensuring lasting peace in Bimbilla, the capital of the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region. The initiative dubbed, Young Peace Builders Forum (YPF), is aimed at training children from a number of communities within the district to ...

Member of Parliament for Nadowli/Kaleo constituency, Alban Bagbin, has given the strongest indication yet that he may contest for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership in the 2020 elections. Speaking at an event to celebrate his 25th year in Ghanaian politics, Mr. Bagbin said his presidential ambitions were “as clear as daylight.” Mr. Bagbin said he considers ...

Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has urged the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) Board, to educate the public on biotechnology and biosafety issues. This he said will help the public understand and embrace biotechnology as a better alternative to socio-economic advancement. He said such public education on biotechnology, especially on Genetically ...