Hundreds of women leaders, professionals and entrepreneurs have begun securing seats for the maiden Executive Women Network Annual Conference. The conference slated for October 20th, 2017 at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra is under the theme: Rebranding Ghana to drive business growth – the perspective of women leaders. The theme is a call to action ...

Dozens of staff of the La branch of Marwako Restaurant, have been evacuated following a reported gas leakage at the facility. Workers at a Total and a Goil fuel station nearby have also been evacuated. Citi News has gathered that personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) are currently at the scene helping to avert ...

Ridesharing app for fast and reliable rides, Uber, has announced Lola Kassim as its new General Manager for West Africa. Her appointment comes after her predecessor, Ebi Atawodi, was made Product Manager, Global Payments Growth for Uber worldwide. She worked at McKinsey and Company for three and a half years, before joining Uber. She also ...

Citi FM has released the list of the top 50 JHS students, who have made it to the next stage of The Literacy Challenge. This will set the stage for the final level (Level III) of the competition, where the eventual winner wins Ghc10,000. The fifty students are mostly from schools in the Greater Accra ...

Ghanaian actress Lydia Forson has revealed that during the early stages of her career, a movie producer once demanded to see her breast during an audition. “Earlier in my career just once, small-time producer who asked to see my breast for a role I was auditioning for and I said no, and walked out,” Lydia ...

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has challenged the legality of the valuation of his assets by the state. Mr. Woyome challenged the state by filing a motion at the Supreme Court praying the court to declare the actions illegal and further halt it. According to lawyers for Mr. Woyome, the order on which the state is ...

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has challenged the legality of the valuation of his assets by the state. Mr. Woyome challenged the state by filing a motion at the Supreme Court praying the court to declare the actions illegal and further halt it. According to lawyers for Mr. Woyome, the order on which the state is ...

There was total chaos at the Asafo, a suburb of Kumasi when operators of VIP bus and Inter-City STC clashed over a loading terminal Monday morning. It took police men from the SWAT team from the Ashanti police Headquarters led by Commander of Operations, Supt. Caesar Abanga, hours to bring sanity to the densely populated ...

The opening of State Transport Corporation’s (STC) new branch at Asafo Market in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, has been suspended after some officials of the private VIP bus transport service, denied officials of STC access to the area. Some officials of STC had visited the Asafo Market terminal to launch the Corporation’s new terminal, but the unexpected happened ...

The University for Development Studies (UDS), will from next academic year (2018/2019), introduce a new faculty and programmes as part of efforts to produce critical human resource for the development of the country. The new programmes include Bachelor of Dental Surgery, BSc. Health Education and Promotion, BSc. Medical Records and Health Information Systems, BSc. Medical ...

Six police officers have been summoned by the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) Bureau of the Ghana Police Service to answer charges of misconduct. The six, who are all stationed at the Sekondi Police Regional headquarters, were caught on video collecting money from drivers at the Inchaban Barrier. The Director-General of Public Affairs of ...

Fishermen at the James Town beach in Accra are lamenting over the declining fish stock in Ghana’s territorial waters due to illegal fishing methods as well as the changing weather pattern. The assertion follows a recent report of a sharp drop in the fish stock along Ghana’s coast line, threatening the growth of the fisheries ...

Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Reverend Professor Martey, has expressed his dissatisfaction with Ghana’s current laws on corruption, saying they are not stringent enough in punishing corrupt persons. Speaking at a public lecture organized by the Christian Service University in Kumasi, Mr. Martey intimated that, these laws have failed to ensure “severe punishment for ...

UK police are investigating a number of sexual assault allegations involving Harvey Weinstein, the BBC understands. The Metropolitan Police says he is accused of assaulting three women in separate incidents in London in the late 1980s, 1992, 2010, 2011 and 2015. Officers are looking into claims they were attacked in Westminster, Camden and west London. ...

A prompt response from the Ghana National Fire Service averted another likely gas explosion in Achimota over the weekend. The Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Fire Service, Prince Billy Anaglatey, told Citi News firemen immediately rushed to the scene when they received information there was fire in the engine compartment of a gas tanker. ...

Jack Dorsey got the message. Probably. All day Friday, many women refused to tweet in protest of Twitter’s decision to suspend actress Rose McGowan’s account as she spoke out against Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. Late Friday night, Dorsey — Twitter’s co-founder and CEO — responded to the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement. Protesters compared the company’s enforcement ...

The data-storing abilities of hard drives could soon swell to 40 terabytes (TB) and beyond, says Western Digital. Currently the largest hard disk drive (HDD) that stores data on spinning disks can hold about 14TB of information. Western Digital said the bigger drives were made possible by finding a way to use microwaves to write ...

Freight forward heavyweights, Mc Dan Group, has launched the 2017 edition of the annual Mc Dan Ga-Adangbe Unity Football tournament scheduled for October 23. A rich cultural display characterized the event at the La Traditional Council premises with elders calling on the youth to esteem peace, harmony and unity in their respective endeavours. The eight ...

The Chairman of the 7-member Board of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Torgbui Nyonyo, has told staff of the National Lottery Authority that the Board is committed to ensuring the achievement of sustainable growth in the lotto business through the practice of good corporate governance. He emphasized that, attaining departmental and individual set targets, prudent ...