In the wake of the deadly Ebola disease, 45 five foreign illegal miners have been arrested in Bole in the Northern Region. Records available to Citi News indicate that 42 of the illegal miners are ECOWAS nationals. They have been identified as 17 Guineans, 23 Burkinabes and two Malians. They were rounded up by authorities ...

Presidential hopeful, Nana Akuffo Addo has appealed to New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates to do him the honour of making him the party’s flagbearer for a third time. According to the former Member of Parliament for the Abuakwa South constituency in the Eastern region of Ghana, leading the NPP will be his life’s greatest honour. ...

A 42-year-old mother of five, Philomena Baidoo, has stabbed her son to death at Tarkwa Breman in the Western Region.The deceased, Theophilus Baidoo, 24, is alleged to have been stabbed 61 times on the chest and lower abdomen after an unsuccessful knife attack on his mother.The incident happened around 4.30 a.m. on Saturday. The body ...

Pressure is been mounted on President John Dramani Mahama to appoint a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Tamale Teaching Hospital. The former CEO, Dr. Ken Sagoe went on retirement about a year ago leaving the Tamale Teaching Hospital without a substantive CEO. As a major referral health facility serving the three regions of ...

A hit song performed by Colombian pop star Shakira was indirectly copied from another songwriter’s work, a federal judge in New York has found. Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Shakira’s Spanish-language version of Loca in 2010 had infringed on a song by Dominican singer Ramon Arias Vazquez. Her English language version of Loca – which featured ...

Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD , which it manufactured itself. The US book chain is marketing the device as the “first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading”, based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts. However, its screen ...

Security forces in Liberia’s capital Monrovia have deployed to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in order to contain the spread of Ebola. The move set off protests from angry residents in West Point and people gathered at roadblocks to complain. The president has also ordered a countrywide night-time curfew as part of ...

Some political parties in Ghana have condemned the Tuesday’s clashes at the headquarters of the New Patriotic Party on Tuesday, describing it as disgraceful. Angry machete-wielding youth stormed a press conference being  addressed by the Chairman, Paul Afoko and the General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong at the party’s headquarters. The youth were unhappy with the decisions ...

__ CLICK HERE FOR ARCHIVE OF DAILY SUMMARIES DAY ONE | DAY TWO  |  DAY THREE  |  DAY FOUR |  DAY FIVE __ The effort to maximize Ghana’s participation at the 2014 Fifa World Cup yielded only 26,373 cedis. This deduction came from the testimony provided the eagerly anticipated appearance of former Youth and Sports minister Elvis Afriyie Ankrah on Wednesday at the ...

The second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Crabbe has defended the party’s General Secretary, stating that he does not need the approval of any committee to carry out his duties. He said persons who are accusing Kwabena Agyapong for allegedly taking unilateral decisions without recourse to the laid down procedures are ...

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has named his squad for next month’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header against Uganda and Togo. The Black Stars coach has selected 24 players for the two Group E matches in the qualifying campaign. Jeffery Schlupp and David Accam, who both missed out of the 2014 World Cup have ...

The Tuesday, 20th August 2014 edition of the Traffic Avenue on Citi 97.3FM had Jessica Opare Saforo interview a lady who was abused from the age of twelve. Listen to the full interview below…

The Tuesday, 20th August 2014 edition of the Traffic Avenue on Citi 97.3FM had Jessica Opare Saforo interview a lady who was abused from the age of twelve. Listen to the full interview below…

A deputy national youth organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), James Kofi Fonu Kpatapkpa is advocating for a nationwide mass education for grassroot supporters on the fundamental principles and core values of the party. He said as a social democratic political party, the NDC revolves around its core values which are freedom, solidarity, equity ...

Scores of people have been killed in fresh clashes between two Arab tribes in Sudan’s troubled western region of Darfur, witnesses from the rival camps have said. One person said at least 30 members of his Rezeigat tribe were killed in the fighting, in which heavy weapons were used, with Maaliya tribesmen over territorial claims in ...

An eight-year-old boy has left doctors baffled after his hands swelled to giant proportions and now weigh more than two stone. Young Kaleem, from India, is unable to carry out simple tasks, including tying his own shoe laces, after he was born with hands twice the size of an average baby. His mother Haleema, 27, ...

Domestic Airlines operating in the country says banning of flights to and from Ebola infected countries would not have any significant impact on the aviation industry in Ghana. The Deputy Minister of Transport Joyce Bawa Mogtari earlier told Citi Business News that government is likely to ban flights from affected countries as part of drastic ...

Athleticism meets wits, team work, strategy and determination at this year’s edition of the Citi FM Business Olympics on Saturday 20th September 2014. The Citi Business Olympics, the biggest gathering of businesses and professionals, brings together thousands of people yearly to compete in various sporting disciplines and network as well. Companies would compete for trophies ...

Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Nashiru Issahaku has admitted that the Central Bank’s foreign exchange reserve is overstretched. He regretted that the nation’s imports supersedes its export potential, hence the pressure on the Central Bank’s foreign exchange reserves. According to him, the Central Bank’s major challenge is to arrest inflation to ...