Hawkers at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange area have vandalized a structure belonging to the UCS facility management in protest of the alleged assault of a fellow hawker. The accompanying structures belonging to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, the Fire service and Ambulance service were also affected by the acts of vandalism. By the time Citi News got to the scene, ...
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Turkey tourist bus falls from cliff, killing 23
At least 23 people have died after a tourist bus fell from a cliff near the southern Turkey seaside resort of Marmaris. Another 11 were injured when the driver lost control of the minibus and ploughed through a crash barrier. Local media said no foreign tourists were among the passengers. Turkish media said the vehicle was heading towards Marmaris for ...
Read More »Fight judicial corruption – Minority Leader to incoming CJ
The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has challenged the incoming Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Sophia Akuffo to wage a relentless war on judicial corruption to redeem the image of the bench. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in accordance with Article 144 (1) of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution named the Supreme Court Judge as a successor to Justice Georgina Theodora Wood ...
Read More »Ransomware Cyber Attack: Hackers Leverage Stolen NSA Tool to Wreak Havoc Worldwide
A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the US National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and ...
Read More »Gunfire as I Coast troops resume protest despite ‘apology’
Abidjan – Disgruntled Ivorian soldiers took to the streets of Abidjan and two other cities on Friday, firing angrily into the air a day after publicly apologising for a string of recent uprisings. Rebellious troops surrounded the military’s headquarters in Abidjan after a spokesperson for the protesters publicly apologised to the president for a January mutiny which triggered months of ...
Read More »Confirmation of Afoko vindicates president – Bukarson
Members of the Builsa North District Assembly have been lauded for endorsing the President’s nomination of Mr. David Afoko as Chief Executive Officer for the area. Mr Afoko who is the younger brother of suspended National Chairman of the party, Paul Awentami Afoko, on Friday, May 12, 2017, polled 30 votes representing 69.7% out of a total of 43 with ...
Read More »Cyber-attack: Europol says it was unprecedented in scale
A cyber-attack that hit organisations worldwide including the UK’s National Health Service was “unprecedented”, Europe’s police agency says. Europol also warned a “complex international investigation” was required “to identify the culprits”. Ransomware encrypted data on at least 75,000 computers in 99 countries on Friday. Payments were demanded for access to be restored. European countries, including Russia, were among the worst ...
Read More »Huge let-off for Man City as bizarre Riyad Mahrez penalty for Leicester is disallowed
Manchester City grabbed all three points in their penultimate home game after a frantic, dramatic encounter saw them defeat Leicester City 2-1. City took the lead in controversial circumstances as Raheem Sterling may have touched David Silva’s goalbound effort in an offside position, and they went two up after Gabriel Jesus scored from the spot. Shinji Okazaki pulled one back ...
Read More »Ghana has no strategy dealing with China – Lloyd Amoah
A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any strategy towards China to enable it to win the war on galamsey. A lecturer with the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana says Ghana does not have any foreign policy towards China to enable it to win the war on ...
Read More »Teens who shot 14-year-old over snapchat to be tried as adults
Two teenage boys who shot a 14-year-old girl because her Snapchats were annoying them will be charged as adults, a judge ruled Wednesday. Sixteen-year-old Colter Danny Peterson and 16-year-old Jayzen Decker were accused of shooting 14-year-old Deserae Turner in the back of the head February 16 in Smithfield, Utah. First District Juvenile Court judge Angela Fonnesbeck ruled that Peterson would ...
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