Ghanaians going to South Africa no longer require a visa to travel after the South African government added Ghana to its visa-free countries list. Aside Ghana, countries including Qatar, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sao Tome and Principe have also been added on South Africa’s visa-free countries list. The announcement was made via a post on ...

Citi News can confirm that embattled Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has arrived in Ghana and is currently being interrogated by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1 spent the last six months in police custody in Dubai due to a criminal case brought against him by ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished the Ghanaian people to cherish their nationality and citizenship, and should not help non-Ghanaians to obtain the National ID card – the Ghana Card. “Let us cherish our nationality, let us cherish our citizenship. Don’t let any of you be party to trying to get the Ghana card for people who are not ...

Ghanaian president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government has, over the last two and a half years, acted to correct the fundamentals of the Ghanaian economy, which, prior to his assumption of office, were in considerable disarray. According to President Akufo-Addo, “The fiscal deficit, which stood at 9.3% in 2016, has been brought down to 3.9% at the end ...

It appears most media practitioners have failed to make the best out of the growing freedom of the press in Ghana, and are rather practicing with reckless abandon, a former Editor of the Daily Graphic, Ms Elizabeth Ohene has assessed. This could explain why support for unfettered media has declined in Ghana and other parts of the continent, she suggested, ...

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has issued a defamation writ for $20 million against Africawatch Magazine and its editor, Steve Mallory, over a publication accusing her of inflating the cost of the Oslo Chancery being bought by the Government by $16 million. Joined to the suit is Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament (MP) ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has sued the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, publishers of the Africawatch Magazine, General Media Strategies Inc. over the publication of some alleged defamatory piece against her with regards to the newly opened Ghana’s Embassy in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Joined to the lawsuit is the editor ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is happy over Parliament’s decision to suspend the building of a new parliamentary chamber complex. This comes after the massive pressure from Ghanaians for Parliament to boycott the decision. Some groups had even planned to stage a demonstration to express their displeasure over the decision. Speaking on the issue for the first time when he addressed the ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed a case filed by a former board member of Ghana National Gas Company, Dr. Valerie Sawyerr, seeking to set aside adverse findings made against her by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). Dr. Sawyer in October 2018, dragged the Attorney-General (AG) and the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) to court, after a ...

One of the two Modern Ghana reporters, Emmanuel Britwum, who denied an allegation of torture, has exposed the sessions of ‘coaching’ and encouragement to ‘lie’ about their brief period of detention to embarrass the National Security Council Secretariat and its operatives. Soon after the ill-fated ‘torture story’ pushed by his colleague Emmanuel Ajarfor Abubakar Abugri was downloaded onto the media ...