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Dispatch rider jailed 10 years for abetting robbery

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a dispatch rider to ten years in prison for aiding and abetting robbery in La, Accra.Lord Mensah was...

17 persons granted GHC50,000 bail each over illegal sand winning

An Accra Circuit Court has granted GHC50,000 bail each to seventeen drivers who allegedly undertook sand-winning operations without a license at Agbazu, near Amasaman.They...

Bekwai Circuit Court: Two ex-convicts jailed 34 years for robbery, rape and causing harm

A 20-year-old ex-convict Akwasi Agyemang has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with hard labour by the Circuit Court in Bekwai, Ashanti region...

Policemen who allegedly robbed ‘okada’ rider remanded

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded two off-duty police constables in custody after they attacked an okada rider and stole GH₵3,700.General Lance Corporals Philmon...

Man admits poisoning wife’s Coca-Cola ‘so he could have sex with stepdaughter’

An Indiana man who admitted he spiked his wife's Coca-Cola with cocaine and other drugs in hope of killing her and running off with...

Two ex-convicts jailed 34 years for robbery, rape and causing harm

The Circuit Court in Bekwai in the Ashanti region has sentenced a 20-year-old ex-convict to 25 years in prison with hard labour for robbery.The...

Dangerous criminal wanted for 20 years found working as police officer 

Antonio “El Diablo” Riano, a fugitive wanted by US authorities for almost two decades in connection to a fatal shooting in Cincinnati, was recently...

DRIP tipper truck battery stolen

Unknown persons have reportedly stolen the battery of a tipper truck which is part of the District Road Improvement Project (DRIP) equipment in Konongo,...

Police secure conviction of five armed robbers in Ashanti Region

The Ghana Police Service has secured the conviction of five armed robbers involved in a series of robbery and carjacking incidents in the Ashanti...

Two Police Constables remanded for robbery

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded two off-duty Police constables in custody after they attacked an Okada rider and stole GH¢3,700.General Lance Corporals Philmon...

Chainsaw operator jailed 15 years for defiling 12-year-old stepdaughter

The Gender Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters in Accra has sentenced a chainsaw operator to 15 years in prison for having sex...

Police arrest 10 suspected landguards in East Legon

Ten suspected landguards at Adjirigano have been apprehended by the East Legon Police in Accra.The suspects, named Harry Otu Hesse, Khalid Adnam, Tahiru Yakubu,...

Self-proclaimed healer found with 24 human skulls

A Ugandan man allegedly found with 24 human skulls may have been using them for human sacrifice and could face life in prison, the...

Salesman in court for allegedly embezzling employer’s GH₵1,491,282

A 25-year-old salesman has appeared before an Adentan Circuit Court charged with funnelling GH₵1,491,282 from his employer’s mobile money accounts.Richard Okai, aka Kobby, pleaded...

Policewoman found dead in her room at Mampongteng 

A female Police officer has reportedly committed suicide at Mamponteng in Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.The deceased has only been...

Visa vultures: 14 busted for preying on desperate job seekers

Fourteen individuals, including two women, who masterminded a plan to prey on the dreams of 31 unsuspecting victims from Togo have been busted by...

Security man jailed 4 years for aiding theft

A 45-year-old security guard who conspired with two others to steal from his employer's warehouse on Graphic Road in Accra has been sentenced to...

‘Wizard’ beaten to pulp at Nyambong [Video]

A man accused of being a wizard escaped death at Nyambong in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region.He was accused of using...

Three remanded for stealing onions, electrical appliances and others at Wenchi

The Wenchi Magistrate Court presided over by His Wardship Issah Abdul Wahab has remanded three persons into police custody for stealing.The accused persons are...

Man goes on crime spree to prove he is alive after gov’t declares him dead

An Indian man who had wrongfully been pronounced dead by the government turned to crime as a desperate way of proving that he was...

Ghana Water Company meter thief jailed for six months

The Ashaiman District Court has sentenced a 25-year-old labourer to six months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing water meters belonging to the Ghana...

Kuntunse murder: Police officer remanded into lawful custody

A Kaneshie District Court has remanded into lawful custody the police officer accused of shooting a driver to death over transportation fare at Kuntunse...

Launderer granted GH¢800K bail in visas and jobs fraud case

A 35-year-old launderer, Mosley Anderson Klopa, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for defrauding 18 people of GH¢227,500 and $23,250.Mr Klopa is reported...

Man in possession of EC’s BVD arrested at Nsawam [Video+Photos]

https://youtu.be/4DN2MOurXAgA man in possession of the Electoral Commission's (EC) Biometric Verification Device (BVD) has been arrested at Nsawam in the Eastern region.The suspect has...

One more suspect granted bail in forged will case

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the case in which a 52-year-old legal practitioner is standing trial for allegedly forging a will...

Man, 30, nearly lynched for siphoning diesel in Shama District [Video]

A young man believed to be in his 30s was nearly lynched for siphoning fuel at Old Daboase Junction in the Shama District of...

Goat thief paraded through community

A 55-year-old man alleged to have stolen a goat at KpareKpare, a farming community near Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti...

Police Constable who shot man over fare remanded

A Police Constable Smith Gyekyi, who shot 25-year-old Stanley Ahadzi after a disagreement over transport fare has been remanded two weeks into police custody.This...

Two foreigners jailed for acquiring Ghana Card, birth certificate

The Police Headquarters District Court has sentenced a Cameroonian and Togolese to 36 months imprisonment each in hard labour for illegally acquiring Ghana Cards...

Two granted GH¢200,000 bail each in Kumah’s widow burglary case

An Accra Circuit Court has granted GH¢200,000 bail each to two people who burgled Lilian Kumah, the widow of John Kumah, a former Deputy...

Student found dead after lodging in hotel with man who hired her to act as his girlfriend

A Nigerian police command says it has begun an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the demise of a 21-year-old student of the Kwara State...

Hunter arrested for friend’s murder 7 months after mistaking him for animal

A 26-year-old hunter, Emmanuel Donkor is in the grips of Police for shooting his friend to death after mistaking him for an animal.Accra-based UTV...

Court remands Imam for allegedly threatening to kill wife

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a self-proclaimed religious leader to police custody for allegedly threatening to kill his wife.Imam Mohammed Lanson Abubakar, 44,...

UK stabbing: Ghanaians in Manchester react to death of 43-year-old woman

Apart from the woman who died following a stabbing in Manchester and has been named as 43-year-old Alberta Obinim, two other people also sustained...

IGP leads delegation to visit family of man shot dead by Policeman [Video]

A delegation of the Ghana Police Service has commiserated with the family of 25-year-old Stanley Ahadzi, who was shot after a disagreement over transport...

Police arrest 85 suspected drug dealers, prostitutes in Tamale

At least 85 suspected drug peddlers and prostitutes have been arrested in the Tamale central business district.This was in a night raid conducted by...

Court issues bench warrant for mechanical engineer accused of fraud

The Accra Circuit Court Nine has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a mechanical engineer who allegedly took GH¢99,810.00 from a farmer...

20 Nigerian students abducted by gunmen in an ambush

At least 20 Nigerian university students were abducted by gunmen who ambushed their vehicles in the country’s north-central region, police said Friday.The students were...

Prison escapee fined GH¢1,200

A 29-year-old illegal miner, Ebenezer Asante, who escaped from the Tarkwa Local Prison, has been fined GH¢1,200 by the Tarkwa Circuit Court.In default, he...

Court remands man who killed 18-year-old lover

The Mpraeso Circuit Court has remanded a washing bay attendant, Kwaku Siaw who allegedly killed his lover at Nkawkaw Krofoforom in the Eastern region.The...