To be perfectly honest, writing the piece to eulogize the works of Cecil Jones Attuquayefio over two years ago, gave me the appetite to look at some of Ghana’s finest ever coaches and it was actually in the course of doing some research into what Attuquayefio achieved that I ended up speaking with Herbert Addo. ...

Apart from highlife music, one genre of music that is peculiar to Ghanaians is hiplife. Let us not get into the argument of who the father of hiplife is; we haven’t recorded anything in any history book. No matter the kind of changes that it has gone through, the old kind of hiplife was great. ...

Search giant Google and security firm Symantec have clashed over the way websites are kept secure. Google claims Symantec has done a poor job of using standard tools, called certificates, that check the identity of thousands of websites. It will change its Chrome browser to stop recognising some Symantec certificates, causing problems for people who ...

Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian autocrat toppled during the 2011 Arab Spring, left a military hospital on Friday where he spent much of the last six years in detention. The release of the 88-year old who ruled Egypt for three decades would have been unthinkable several years ago, but revolutionary fervour gave way to exhaustion ...

The Gambia will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh’s rule, the justice minister has said. The finances of Mr Jammeh would also be investigated, Abubacarr Tambadou added. People would be encouraged to confess to crimes, and victims would be offered compensation, he said. The former regime ...

Several companies and individuals continue to make donations towards Citi FM’s Easter Orphan Project ahead of the 2017 edition of the annual event. Ashfoam Ghana Limited is the new company to contribute towards the project, which seeks to support some selected orphanages in the country. The company donated spreadsheets and scurfs towards the benevolent project. Citi FM has ...

The committee tasked to investigate the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) defeat in the 2016 general elections, has called on members to desist from expressing their concerns in the media. According to the Election Review Committee chaired by Kwesi Botchwey, members should instead direct their concerns to the committee. The Election Review Committee in a statement ...

Polling station executives and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality, have expressed fury and strong opposition to what they claim to be moves by the party’s national leadership to get Madam Serwaah Derchie appointed as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE). They insist the woman is unknown to them and made ...

Statistics from the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate show that tuberculosis (TB) infection is on the decline in the region. A total of 2,241 cases, were reported last year, compared with the year 2015 figure of 2,367. Dr. Kwesi Yeboah Awudzi, the Deputy Regional Health Director, said it represented a 2.7 per cent reduction. He asked ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has for the first time ordered a war criminal to pay reparations to victims of his atrocities. Germain Katanga, an ex-militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, should pay $1m (£800,000) to villagers targeted in 2003, judges ruled. But as he was insolvent, the ICC Trust Fund for Victims ...

A psychology lecturer, Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie, and others, plan to petition Parliament to decriminalize suicide. In an interview with Citi News, Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie said the petition was informed by eight years of research as he noted that Ghana instead needed suicide prevention policies. “We want government to repeal the law, take it out ...

Former Hearts of Oak, Asante Kotoko, Aduana Stars and Inter Allies head coach, Herbert Addo, has died after a period of illness. He was 66. Addo, who retired from active coaching in 2016, was one of the nation’s most decorated coaches with a career that lasted close to 40 years. He helped Aduana Stars to ...

It has emerged that urban men in the Western region of Ghana demand the highest minimum salary in Ghana. The latest Ghana Labour Force Survey Report by the Ghana Statistical Service said the men in the urban localities of the region demand as much as 1,604 cedis a month as pay. However, urban women in ...

Ghanaian musicians Okyeame Kwame and Kwabena, have called on Ghanaian DJs to play more local music on their platforms. The two joined Citi FM’s Bernard Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show for a conversation ahead of the Ghana@60 edition of the Music of Ghanaian Origin [#MOGO2017] Dinner Dance. In the conversation, Okyeame and Kwabena Kwabena spoke ...

An appeal has been made to the government to focus its attention on mental health care. Madam Ruth Okyere of the Mind Freedom Ghana, an NGO committed to mental health issues, said there should be adequate budgetary allocation for that. This, she noted, had become necessary in the wake of recent suicide cases in the ...

The Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has assured her colleagues Members of Parliament that the leadership of the House is committed to improving security within the precincts of the chamber. She made the comment on the floor of Parliament on Friday, following renewed calls for better security after the Westminster attacks in Britain Responding to ...

The Unemployed University Graduates Association has said the 11.98 percent unemployment rate announced by the Ghana Statistical Service is not accurate. According to the Association, information available to it projects that the rate is between 24% to 28%. The latest Ghana Labour Force Survey Report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) pegged the unemployment rate ...

A US firefighter has been praised for giving a dog 20 minutes of “mouth-to-snout” resuscitation after the animal was rescued from a house fire. The dog was overcome by the heat and smoke of the blaze in Santa Monica, California, and was unresponsive. But firefighter Andrew Klein managed to bring 10-year-old Nalu, a Bichon Frise/Shih ...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is celebrated on March 21 every year. This year’s theme is: “racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including in the context of migration”. In Sharpeville, Transvaal in Apartheid South Africa, on March 21, 1960 police killed sixty nine people after they opened fire on over five thousand ...