Two officials banned for life by the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) will not accept the sanction. The duo are among 19 officials banned on Thursday for violating SLFA and Fifa statutes concerning taking football related cases to civil courts. The group went to court last month to seek an injunction to stop the current executive running ...

Uber will not be issued a new private hire licence, Transport for London (TfL) has said. TfL concluded the ride-hailing app firm was not fit and proper to hold a private hire operator licence. Uber’s approach and conduct demonstrated a lack of corporate responsibility which could have potential public safety and security implications, it said. ...

Uber has lost its operating licence in London after a shock ruling by the capital’s transport body. The ride hailing app will no longer be able to offer services in their current form within the M25, despite the firm claiming 3.5 million Londoners regularly use its app. Transport for London (TfL) announced its decision on Friday. The authority wrote: ...

The National Council for Tertiary Education will reassess the Wa and Bolgatanga polytechnics to determine their readiness for conversion into technical universities in December 2017, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education, has said. Dr Prempeh said government remained fully committed to promoting tertiary education as a means of equipping its citizens with the requisite ...

Bankers are anticipating a reduction in the policy rate as the Bank of Ghana’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets to review the strength of Ghana’s economy, Friday September 22, 2017. The meeting will be concluded on Monday September 25, 2017 with a decision on the policy rate for commercial banks to comply with. The MPC ...

The Citi Breakfast Show team on Friday launched a radio advocacy programme dubbed: #FixTemaMotorwayNow aimed at putting pressure on government to fix the defects on the Accra-Tema Motorway which is said to be endangering the lives motorists who ply the corridor. There are reports that the Accra-Tema Motorway has not seen major repair works in ...

After starring in Game of Thrones and a string of indie films, Ellie Kendrick is one of British acting’s rising stars. She’s also doing her bit to give underrepresented young talent a leg up. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know – and that’s particularly true in the film and TV industries, according ...

Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku says he wants the club’s fans to “move on” from their controversial chant about him. Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out have described the lyrics, about the size of the 24-year-old’s penis, as “offensive and discriminatory”. “Great backing since I joined #MUFC,” Lukaku was quoted as saying on United’s official Twitter account. “Fans have meant ...

Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus – making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration between the US National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. ...

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana has cautioned against the proliferation and abuse of Tramadol, an opioid analgesic. “The most recent form, as being speculated in the media and as our findings have shown, is the high doses of Tramadol (200mg/250mg) popularly called Tramol among the youth. “Even though Tramadol is an approved drug for the ...

Ghana continues to rank among the countries with the highest United States Visa application denial rates, according to the U.S. State Department. When it comes to B Visas, which deal with tourism or business, Ghana ranked 7th with 65.7% of such visa applications denied in the 2016 fiscal year, according to figures from the US Department ...

The founders of iWatch Africa Project have highlighted the critical need for the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill to make information more accessible to the public to ensure accountability and transparency. They said one of the lessons learnt during their one-month project was the challenge in accessing critical information for their reviews. ...

Award-winning Ghanaian rapper, Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, popularly known in music industry as M.anifest, has urged Ghanaians to use music to tell the country’s history and not for propaganda. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, M.anifest said music should be used to tell only the truth and not lies. “…not to use it as ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed a pending bail application, filed by Jihad Chaaban, the Abelemkpe Branch Manager of Marwako Restaurant. Chaaban was on August 2, 2017 sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Abeka District Court, after he was found guilty on the charge of causing harm and assaulting Ms Evelyn Boakye, a worker ...

Following the intervention of the Ghana Police, workers of New Times Corporation have resolved to allow management of the corporation to enter the office premises from today [Monday], September 22, 2017. This decision was taken after the Police CID met with the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the management of the state-owned media house. Workers ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says his company will share 3,000 Russia-linked political adverts with US investigators. He also pledged to make political advertising more transparent on his network in future. “We will work with others to create a new standard for transparency for online political ads,” he said in a live address on his Facebook ...

Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea. In a rare personal statement, via state media, the North Korean leader said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his recent speech to the UN. The US president said on Tuesday that if America ...