Raheem Sterling’s volley salvaged a point for 10-man Manchester City as Everton were denied victory on the night Wayne Rooney scored his 200th Premier League goal. City were left with an uphill battle after Rooney’s strike was followed by Kyle Walker’s dismissal after two quick bookings just 44 minutes into his home debut. But Pep ...
A former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, believes traditional leaders could lead family planning education campaign to reduce Ghana’s rising population. Speaking on Eyewitness News, he noted the efforts in family planning education was not yielding results and perhaps roping in queenmothers, especially, would be more impactful. This is especially so given ...
There is not going to be any job losses with the rolling of a paperless system at the country’s ports. That is the assurance from port authorities ahead of the implementation of the paperless system at the ports. This is expected to ease the apprehension among some stakeholders with the reduction of human interface in ...
Exton Cubic Group Limited has refuted claims that, the company in collaboration with Ibrahim Mahama, are engaging in illegal mining activities at the Nyinahin bauxite concession and were thus run out of the concession. The claims stem from the seizure of vehicles belonging to Ibrahim Mahama’s Engineers and Planners (E&P), which the mining company said was ...
The provisional results for the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) have been released by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). 1,298 candidates will, however, have to wait longer for their results amidst suspicious of examination malpractices, according to a statement from WAEC. These candidates were found to have cheated in the objective test section ...
Citi FM’s Supporting Sierra Leone Initiative has been bolstered by donations from corporate Ghana, welfare organisations and individual citizens. From Thursday, August 17 and Monday, August 21, Citi FM welcomed donations in the form of clothes, blankets, mattresses etc to send as relief items to Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is contending with a humanitarian crisis after Regent, a ...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) on Friday appealed to government to withdraw the “over time tax” they claim has been a burden on the finances of workers in the country. According to the General Secretary of ICU, Solomon Kotei, it was time the “over time tax” which workers consider as a nuisance tax, ...
The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region has threatened to discharge over one hundred patients, due to the lack of funds to run the facility. The Acting Clinical Coordinator of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Emefa Dzide spoke about the distressing situation when members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day ...
The Government of Ghana has plans to put in place regulations to guide and control indecent social media content. This action the government believes would instill some level of sanity and decency in the way information on social media is disseminated by users. Looking back at various incidents in the recent past, that have engulfed ...
A former Minister of Health, Alex Segbefia, has rejected claims by the current Minister that some eight new medical outreach vans were left to rot under his watch. Just two years after former President Mahama launched the project, Citi News discovered that the vans which had been parked for months, were left under the mercy of ...
Zimbabwe has declared President Robert Mugabe’s birthday on February 21 a national holiday, a state daily reported on Saturday, honouring the veteran politician in power since 1980 who opponents accuse of brutal repression and devastating the economy. The declaration of the Robert Mugabe National Youth Day came after lobbying by the ruling ZANU-PF party’s youth ...
The Ghana Immigration Service has accused embattled Indian businessman, Ashok Kumar Sivaram of attempting to enter Ghana illegally after he was deported from the country. “On the 3rd of August, 2017, Mr. Ashok Sivaram attempted to enter the country illegally without an entry visa and this is in breach of section 4 of the Immigration ...
An Irish woman and her Egyptian husband committed suicide, by drowning themselves in a swimming pool in a villa in Hurghada on the Red Sea coast in Egypt, Al Arabiya English reports. According to the report, the couple wanted to discover the other world and know what happens after death. Major General Hossam Kamal, director of the ...
The chief suspect in last Thursday’s Barcelona attack made his escape on foot to the outskirts of the city where he hijacked a car, Spanish police say. At a news briefing, they confirmed that Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, was suspected of driving the van which ploughed into dozens of people, killing 13. CCTV footage in Spanish ...
The Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Asuah Takyi joined the heads of Immigration in West Africa for an annual meeting to deliberate on issues bothering on immigration in the sub-region as well as brainstorm plans to improve upon their operations. The meeting saw the security heads resolving to set up a sub-regional ...
The Executive Director of the National Population Council, Leticia Adelaide Appiah is advocating for the government to use incentives to encourage Ghanaians to use family planning methods as a way of controlling the country’s fast-growing population. According to her, the population growth rate if not checked would reduce the quality of human resource in the country and ...
The Ghana Health Service has announced that it will adopt a quota system in employing medical doctors and dentists in the country. According to the Director General of the Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, the quota system will help check the practice where young doctors posted to rural areas reject such appointments. Ghana’s doctor to ...
The embattled Indian businessman, Ashok Kumar Sivaram, who was deported illegally, has filed a lawsuit at an Accra High Court seeking an order to be given a temporary working visa. According to the lawsuit filed by his lawyer, Gary Nimako, the temporary working visa will enable him live and work legally in the country while ...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Social Marketing Foundation, Alex Banful has urged government to aim at limiting the birth rate of Ghanaian families to two instead of three. Ghana has aimed at a one family to three children target for the year 2020 but according to Mr. Bamfo, the average rate currently stands at ...
A revelation by a diver, Samuel Odartey Lamptey, may stop people from asking the question, “is Castro dead or alive?” The disappearance of hip life musician Theophilus Tagoe aka Castro and his friend Janet Bandu has raised concerns about whether they are alive or not, because all attempts to find their bodies has proven futile. The ...
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