The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in the Bolgatanga Municipality, has elected a ten-member executive board to run its affairs for a three-year period. The elected executives are: Mr Charles Atakibire Ateem, Bolgatanga Senior High School, Chairman; Mr Emmanuel Gambil Ditamina, Kongo Junior High School, Vice Chairman; Madam Theodora Ako, Adabase Junior High School, ...

Ghana’s finance minister has vowed to crack down on corruption and wasteful public spending as the government attempts to plug a financing gap and keep its International Monetary Fund programme on track. Ken Ofori-Atta, who was appointed after President Nana Akufo-Addo took office in January, said the measures being taken by the government included rooting ...

Staff of Citi FM and their cherished listeners will this morning [Monday] head to some selected orphanages in the country to make some donations to them as part of the Easter celebration. The initiative dubbed “Easter Orphan Project” seeks to support the selected orphanages in the country with enough supplies to last them for a ...

In it’s ongoing battle with false news, Facebook is taking an old-fashioned approach: putting ads in newspapers. The ads are appearing in French publications the Le Monde, Libération, and Le Parisien, among others. Each ad has ten tips, advising readers to check story sources, dates, and facts wherever possible — common sense, you’d think. The ...

Defending league champions, Wa All Stars, got a 1-0 win over troubled Asante Kotoko at the Wa Park to move them up to 6th place on the log with 17 points. The match was Godwin Ablordey’s first since he was given the team to handle on an interim basis after the sacking of Zdravko Logarusic. ...

Turkey’s main opposition party has said it will challenge the country’s referendum result after the president won a vote to expand his powers. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has questioned the legitimacy of the close result, citing irregularities in the electoral process. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s push for an executive presidency succeeded with just over ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has described his tenure so far as successful given the promising policies he has lined up for the country, as he marks his first 100 days in office today [Monday], April 17, 2017. President Akufo-Addo spent the weekend preceding the 100-day milestone of his administration, asking his critics to take a seat and ...

Citi FM will once again extend a helping hand to some three selected orphanages in Ghana. The move forms part of activities to mark the station’s annual Easter Orphan Project. The orphanages; Mama Lardi in the Upper East Region, Handivangelism in the Greater Accra Accra, and the Baptist School Complex, in the Eastern Region, will ...

A 71-year-old driver who allegedly poured acid on his son and an eight-year-old granddaughter, has been remanded into police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The two victims are said to have suffered severe burns on the neck and the right eye and cheek. The court, inspecting the burns of the two victims, remanded Michael ...

Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers. More than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said. But at least seven people drowned as aid workers struggled ...

Government has announced plans to expand passport application centers across the country to make the acquisition of passports much easier. Currently, there are only six centres across the country, a situation that causes delays, also because the regional offices are not empowered to print the passports for prospective applicants. The situation has caused many applicants ...

An alarming sound was heard. The women looked towards the sea, wondering the tide that might have exuded such a trembling sound. Their men on sea wondered what went amiss at home. Not sooner than they looked out for the noise, their children sprang out on the streets in tears; wailing and gnashing their teeth. ...

Actor Clifton James, who appeared as Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films, has died at the age of 96. He died close to his childhood home in Gladstone, Oregon, on Saturday due to complications from diabetes. James was best known for appearing alongside Sir Roger Moore in the Bond films Live and Let ...

The Volta Region is one of the exciting places in Ghana to enjoy holidays, and this year’s Easter festivity presented a perfect moment for Holiday revelers to explore attractive sceneries in the region. Apart from being an important time of the year for the renewal of Christian faith, the Easter period is used for family ...