Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi is a top target for Inter Milan coach Walter Mazzarri, according to Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. It is believed that Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has told Mikel he can leave at the end of the season and Mazzarri is on the look out for a defensive midfielder, with the ...

The Ashanti Regional Health Administration says, it is adopting measures to bring down the incidence of maternal deaths which continues to be a major headache to the health professionals. This involves strengthening the emergency obstetric  facilities, total team work, tackling poor referral practices, poor quality medicines and poor attitudes among some of the health professionals. ...

  Perhaps nothing is more heartbreaking than being betrayed by a lover, whether you’ve been with someone for a few months, years or decades.  Yes, it hurts. But the real question is how to move beyond it. Confessions of Cheating Husbands  “Any disappointment is likely to worsen feelings of low self-esteem that person may have ...

The exclusion of first choice Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda and midfield regular Mohammed Rabiu from the Black Stars squad to face Montenegro has led the FA to react. A friendly international will be played in Podgorica on March 5, but both players were not called by Kwesi Appiah for what is being called as a ...

Fire has gutted parts of the Kumasi Central market in the Ashanti region destroying properties worth thousands of cedis. The fire which started about 1am also destroyed about 300 wooden structures. According to Citi FM’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu, the fire service personnel had difficulties in putting out the fire. This , she said, ...

Exactly a day short of a year today (February 23, 2014), President Mahama refused to acknowledge the Election Petition challenge in his State of the Nation Address. His concerns on that day were “dumso dumso”, water matters, unemployment and security problems.  Now, with the election petition gunned down, the remainder situations are becoming culture.  No ...

Barely 24 hours after the soldiers manning the check point close to the main gate of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State were withdrawn, Boko Haram terrorists, numbering more than 50, yesterday, invaded the school at 1.30 am, killing more than 43 students and staff while abducting 16 female students. The insurgents who ...

President John Dramani Mahama in his second State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Thursday said the nation had no choice but to do what was deemed right. “Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves at a unique place in history. Our beloved Ghana is a nation in transition. We are on the cusp of many ...

 Right Honourable Speaker, Your Excellency, the Vice President, Your Ladyship, the Chief Justice, Honourable Members of Parliament, Since the start of the Fourth Republic, every President, in fulfillment of Article 67 of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, has stood before this august house each year to address the state of our nation. It ...

President Goodluck Jonathan says the recent suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido, is not politically motivated. Speaking during a Presidential Media Chat held at the Aso Villa, Abuja, on Monday, President Jonathan said Sanusi was suspended to enable the Financial Reporting Council carry out a thorough investigation in its ...

About 25 Ghanaians are being deported from the United Kingdom (UK) to Ghana this Wednesday. The 25 people are among 72 West Africans being deported from the UK for various offences. The deportees are coming in a char­tered flight which will be touching down at the Kotoka International Airport today. This is the first deportation ...

An educationist, Anis Haffar has called for a comprehensive policy to improve the standard of education in the country. He said education should be treated as a national priority in the manifestos of all political parties seeking power. “We have to make education a national priority and by national priority what I mean is that ...

  A fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central Market early Wednesday morning has destroyed property worth thousands of Ghana cedis. Graphic Online’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Donald Ato Dapatem reported that the cause of the fire which started at about 1:30am was not immediately known. According to our correspondent most of the shops affected, numbering over ...

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) has told Citi News, institutions and companies have begun complying with the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) directive on the ban on quotation of goods and services in dollars. A special taskforce comprising officials of EOCO and some security agencies on Monday inspected some companies and institutions to enforce ...

The Human Rights Advocacy Center is calling for an investigation and subsequent prosecution of the security personnel who ordered the three girls who alleged stole from a shop in the Accra mall to crawl out of the premises. The Executive Director of the Center, Robert Akoto Amoafo on Eyewitness News explained that “once there is ...

The Minority leader in Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has criticized President John Dramani Mahama’s 2014 State of Nation Address, saying the issues raised were not in conformity to what was captured in the 2014 budget. “There were so many things that the president mentioned in his address that were not in the budget ...