GENERAL NEWS

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has denied claims that it plans to cancel the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for junior high school students. GES explained that it is moving from the old objectives-based curriculum to the standards-based curriculum, which is likely to change the nature and form of the …

The police have arrested three persons and are currently pursuing others in connection with violent attacks on Mempeasem and Lukula communities in the Savannah Region by opposing factions in land and chieftaincy disputes. On 30th May 2023, a gang numbering about fifty (50) invaded the Mempeasem community and kidnapped a …

A New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is confident of emerging victorious in the party’s flagbearer election. His team made this known after picking up his nomination forms at the NPP headquarters in Accra on Thursday. The flagbearer hopeful who is also the Assin Central Member of …

The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul and the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, Lu Kun on Tuesday 30 May 2023 cut sod for construction of nine building projects across four different locations for the Ghana Armed Forces. The projects which will be built by the China Railway No.5 Engineering Group Company …

Former Attorney-General, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Railways and Development Minister, Joe Ghartey has once again joined the race to contest the presidential race of the governing New Patriotic Party. A delegation comprising his campaign team members picked the forms on his behalf on Thursday, June 1, at the …

Supporters of various political parties in the Akyem Oda constituency of the Eastern region have officially announced to  embark on a massive clean-up exercise tomorrow, Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 within the Akyem Oda Township.   The exercise  dubbed, “Let’s Clean Oda; Rep Your Party cleanup exercise” is aim at making …

The Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei Asare, has made a passionate plea to Pensioner Bondholders, urging them to exercise patience as the government scrambles to secure the necessary resources to settle their unpaid matured coupons.   Despite rainy weather conditions, members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum resumed their picketing at …

In a timely turn of events, some roads within Assin Bereku, the district capital of Assin North constituency, are currently being repaired, just a day after the Electoral Commission scheduled a by-election for June 27 in that constituency. Several residents, speaking anonymously to Citi News, believe that the upcoming by-election …

The Former Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency in the Central Region, James Gyakye Quayson, has officially declared his intention to contest the upcoming Assin North by-election under the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). This decision follows the Supreme Court’s ruling ordering Parliament to remove his name …

Zimbabwe will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on 23 August, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday (31 August), as the Southern African country continues to battle a raging economic crisis.   Mnangagwa, elected president in 2018, will be seeking a second term in office. His election followed a military …