Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey is 53 years old. She is a product of the University of Ghana Business School, University of Westminster, London, Ghana Institute of Journalism, GIMPA and Pitman Central College. She holds an Executive MBA (Project Management option), an MA in Public communication, Certificate in Marketing Management, and a Diploma in […]

Franklin Cudjoe Mr Fraklin Cudjoe, the founder of think-tank, IMANI Ghana has descended on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for creating new ministries and appointing some persons to fill them. According to him, the creation of such ministries is needless and a drain to state resources describing them as “festival of ministries.” The President on […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo -Addo, I have observed keenly the two batches of your ministerial appointments. You are yet to communicate your final batch. You created Railway Development Ministry from Roads and Highways, you also created Sanitation and Water Resources from, Ministry of Water Resources works and Housing. A critical observation tells me that, […]

file image A 37-year old man, Kojo Kumah has met his untimely death at Yaborae in the Krachi East District of the Volta region in his effort to chase away a goat that was grazing plants in his backyard  garden. The deceased according to neighbours spotted the goat earlier this morning in the garden despite […]

A single supreme court judge Justice Yaw Appau has ordered the Attorney General’s Department to file their statement of case in a writ challenging the release of the Montie three by the former President John Dramani Mahama in 7 days. In a case filed by the current executive secretary to the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, Nana […]

Ray J has been fired from “Celebrity Big Brother” because the show was super concerned over his dental problems, sources connected with Ray tell TMZ … but it just doesn’t add up. Our sources say producers contacted Ray’s manager, David Weintraub, Wednesday and told him Ray couldn’t continue because they felt he needed extensive dental […]

The creation of a ministry for railways development by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is superfluous, the former deputy minister of transport, Joyce Bawa-Mogtari has said. President Nana Akufo-Addo argued the creation of the portfolio will transform the sector. He thus nominated the Member of Parliament for Essikado-Ketan, Joe Ghartey as its Minister-designate. But […]

The acting Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Freddie Blay has defended the lawless and violent seizures and takeover of state facilities by some members of the party. According to Mr. Blay, not all the takeover of state facilities by NPP members must be condemned since in some cases the supporters are only protecting government […]

The margin between President Nana Akufo-Addo and former president John Mahama in the 2016 elections now stands at 984,570 votes. The difference stood at 1.5 million when the Electoral Commission declared the presidential results based on results from 271 out of 275 constituencies. According to latest statistics obtained by the Daily Dispatch newspaper, the margin […]

A Kotoko contingent of players, technical team and Management members are expected to leave Accra January 22 to honor a friendly match against Al Ahli-Tripoli of Libya on the occasion of the Libyan side’s triumph in their League and Cup competitions on January 24. The Porcupines will be away for three days. A letter from […]

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has vowed not to repeat mistakes committed by the former Mahama-led administration which mismanaged social intervention programmes such as the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA). Akufo-Addo made the remark when he was naming his ministerial appointees at the Flagstaff House on Thursday. SADA, a five-year social intervention porgramme failed to produce the […]

After weeks of speculation, President Nana Akuffo-Addo, has finally nominated Member of Parliament for Atwima Mponua Nwabiegya, Isaac Asiamah, for the position of Minister for Youth and Sports. Asiamah was widely tipped for the position because of his work on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Youth and Sports in the last few years. Addressing the […]

Two former Microsoft employees are suing the company for not protecting them from the psychological effects of viewing disturbing material. The two men were left with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after working at the firm, the lawsuit alleged. Their jobs involved viewing and reporting material, communicated via Microsoft services, that had been flagged by automated […]

President Nana Akufo-Addo named his third and final batch of ministerial appointments at the Flagstaff House today [Thursday]. He named 11 personalities bringing his total list of ministerial positions to 36. Akufo-Addo has named his former spokesperson, Mustapha Hamid, as the nominee for the Minister Information, and former Member of Parliament for Madina, Abubakar Boniface […]

Currently, around six million people die annually as a result of tobacco use, with most living in developing countries, a joint report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute of the United States of America has said. The report made available to the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday by Tarik Jašarevic, […]

Second-cycle schools in the Upper West Region have re-opened after government released funds  for the payment of feeding grants. A visit to some schools in the region by Citi News’ Latif Mahama, including Wa Senior High School, T. I. Ahmadiyya and Wa Secondary Technical institute, revealed that “teaching and non-teaching staff had all reported to […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Elizabeth Afoley Quaye as the Minister nominated for Fisheries and Aquaculture . Madam Quaye who is the Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater Accra region has worked at the Ministry of Agriculture as a civil servant for about two decades. Announcing the third batch of ministerial […]

The Ghana Railway Workers Union has expressed its readiness to work with the Nana Akufo-Addo administration to implement the vision of the government for the Railway industry. President Akufo-Addo yesterday announced plans to create a new ministry solely responsible for railway development and named Mr. Joe Ghartey as the Minister nominated to oversee the activities […]

A political Science lecturer, Dr. Evans Aggrey Darko has said President Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s decision to establish some new ministries will ensure an effective delivery on the job by the ministers appointed. According to him, the move is a laudable one since it would help in solving some critical developmental issues in the country. […]

Citi FM will from 24th to 28th January, 2017 roll out its first business tour to Rwanda, dubbed ‘Hello Kigali’. The Hello Kigali tour, will expose business leaders in the private and public sectors, managers, entrepreneurs and individuals to a first-hand experience on how Rwanda with its recent genocide  history, turned around its story, to […]