Eyewitness News with Shamima Muslim

The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it had nabbed a 38-year-old man, Adelani Ayomide, with a bag containing 18 human skulls. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement, said the suspected ritualist was arrested at 6:48am, yesterday, on Ado-Odo, Owode Road by policemen attached to a division in Ado-Odo-Ota Local ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has arrested and handed over to the Police, three building inspectors at the Okaikoi North Sub metro and the owner of the six-storey building that collapsed at Nii Boi town in Accra. The building inspectors were found liable for acts of negligence. According to the AMA, the inspector instead of ...

The Minister of Energy has indicated that the nation will undergo a load management program from next week. According to the Ministry, the current power crises being experienced in the country is as a result of the shortfall in supply of gas from Nigeria. CitiFM’s Anim Boadu in a series of tweets at the press ...

Outgoing Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Avea Nsoh says the decision to tag Fulanis in the Jirapa District will pass as one of his achievements. The tagging system of the Fulani nomads has drawn criticism from human rights activists since the Jirapa District announced it. Critics say tagging the Fulanis is inhumane and amounts to ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced that the balloting for positions on the ballot paper for the four National Chairman aspirants of the party has been scheduled for March 16, 2014. The process was suspended following investigations into alleged drug related offences against one of the aspirant, Paul Afoko. The Vetting Committee on Wednesday ...

Commercial activities in the Tamale metropolis have resumed days after attacks in the region. According to Citi FM’s Northern regional correspondent, Mashoud Kombat, the traders and other residents in the metropolis feel safe following the increased patrols by the police and military. “Most people are going on with their activities knowing very well that their ...

The Roads and Highways Minister, Alhaji Amin Sulemana says the Ministry is working on reducing current fares charged on pontoon that ply the Volta River. The pontoons are being used as alternatives following the closure of the Adome Bridge for extensive rehabilitation works. But commercial drivers and commuters who use the pontoon have said that ...

Eyewitness News with Shamima Muslim

Fire has gutted some portions of the Takoradi Harbour. According to the Director of the harbour, Capt. James Owusu-Koranteng, the fire was noticed by the Port security patrol team at around 4:25am Friday morning. The fire is believed to have been caused by some heat from chemicals in containers at shed 4 of the port. ...

The Citi Breakfast Show discussed the hotel structure that collapsed at Nii Boi Town on Thursday. Egbert Faibille said the AMA should be held liable for the collapse.

Hundreds of militants have staged a multi-pronged attack on the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses say. On entering the city, the attackers split into smaller groups – heading for the barracks, the university and an area where civil servants live. “They set many houses on fire and killed innocent people,” one resident told a ...

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. The writer’s work tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education. In 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK’s Orange Prize and Purple Hibiscus ...

German football legend Uli Hoeness said Friday he will not appeal a tax fraud jail sentence and resigned from his posts as president and board chairman of powerhouse club Bayern Munich. “Tax evasion was the mistake of my life,” the fallen football idol said in a personal statement. “I will face the consequences of this ...

The managers of  Braimah Kamoko, alias Bukom Banku, has on behalf of their ward rendered an unqualified apology  to the renowned Nigerian evangelist, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua aka T.B. Joshua, over an unsavoury comments made  against   the evangelist in the heat of the verbal exchanges between Banku and Ayittey Powers. In the said comment, Banku ...

The Human Security Department (HSD) of the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) is constructing two mechanised boreholes for the Mount Sinai Senior High School at Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region. The project, which will provide clean water for the students and the entire school, is expected to be completed in two weeks. Upon completion, the ...

The Chief Psychiatrist of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi has cautioned the country against endorsing any proposal for marijuana, otherwise referred to as ‘wee’ in Ghana to be legalized. His caution comes in the wake of calls by the Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board for a national debate on the legalization ...

ORIGIN8, the leader in Ghana’s advertising industry has been awarded the Century International Quality ERA Award (CQE) in the Diamond category for 2013 for commitment to Quality and Excellence. The current recognition brings the company’s total BID Awards count to four (4), with the first one coming in 2003 in the Gold category, second in ...

Hurting after a breakup? To heal and grow from the experience, you must first be honest about your role in the relationship’s demise. Try these tips from my book, Real Love, Right Now. We must learn from each of our failed relationships so that we can be healthier and happier in the next one. Some of ...

Eyewitness News with Shamima Muslim