Crime

Tailor, 56, defiles 11-year-old girl

The Hohoe Circuit Court has remanded Francis Tettevi, a 56-year-old tailor into police custody for the defilement of an eleven-year-old girl. Francis pleaded not guilty...

Video: Armed robbers take over Liberia Camp; chief calls for demolishing of the Camp

The Liberia Refugee Camp at Buduburam, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central region is now a den for armed robbers, Chief of Gomoa...

Killing of policemen: Interior Minister directs IGP to arm police officers [Video]

Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery and the Acting Inspector General of the Ghana Police Service, James Oppong Boanu on Thursday afternoon paid a visit to the bereaved...

Photos: Police impounds vehicle of police killers

The Kasoa District Police Command has confiscated the vehicle believed to have been used by the killers of the two policemen, Awal Mohammed and...

Six arrested for allegedly kidnapping traditional priest

Six persons are in the grip of the Wenchi Police Command in the Bono Region for allegedly kidnapping a traditional priest from Badu in...

Serial police killings: Mahama demands protection for officers

The 2020 Presidential candidate of the opposition NDC has demanded more protection for police officers following an increased rate of fatal attacks on the law...

Audio: Girl, 13, gives emotional account of how Kasoa policemen were shot dead

A 13-year-old girl, who witnessed the shooting of the two policemen at Kasoa Budumburam on Wednesday, in an interview with Joy News has narrated...

Audio: Stop the deceit – Bawumia’s spokesperson tells Nduom

Dr Gideon Boako, spokesperson for the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says claims by Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom that the...

Farmer, 40, commits suicide in his farm

A 40-year-old farmer believed to have committed suicide has been found hanging on a tree in his farm at ‘Water Works’, a farming community...

Audio: I’m tired of burying dead bodies – Buduburam chief cries

Chief of Gomoa Budumburam, Nana Kojo Essel II, has said his people are under self-imposed curfew due to persisted robbery attacks in the area. According...

My brother didn’t have even pepper spray – Brother of slain police officer cries

Brother of late Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal is certain the slain police officers would still be alive if they were armed. Sawaba Musa blamed the...

Police call for help as two colleagues are gunned down

The Ghana Police Service is calling for public support following the killing of two police officers at Kasoa. Director General of Police Public Affairs, ACP David...

Family of slain policeman wants body for burial

Family of slain police officer, Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal, wants his body released for speedy burial in accordance with Islamic customs. They believe his death...

IGP places GH¢10,000 bounty on cops’ killer

The acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has placed a GH¢10,000 bounty on the head of Eric Kojo Duah,...

21-year-old man in police grips for sodomy

Police Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit at Manhyia Division in Kumasi has arrested a man for allegedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy at Asem. The...

13 arrested over attack on police officers in Northern Region

The police in Tamale have rounded up 13 persons who allegedly attacked some police officers and damaged their vehicle while on duty at Libga,...

Unveiled: Faces of suspected Kasoa cop killers [Video]

A video has emerged of the faces of some three men suspected to be the killers of two police officers who were gunned down...

Video: Kasoa police killers arrested as 2nd officer dies

https://youtu.be/0d89JbrF8Jo The police officer was said to be battling for his life after he and a colleague were shot by suspected robbers at Kasoa Budumburam...

Video: Police officer killed at Akim Oda laid to rest

There was solemn mood at Asante Mampong as family members and sympathizers gathered to send Lance Corporal Asare, the police officer who was allegedly...

Photos+Audio: 3rd police officer gunned down in 2 weeks as another battles for his life

Some unidentified robbers have shot dead a policeman of the Kasoa Divisional Command leaving another in a critical condition at Kasoa Budumburam in the...

Audio: Woman, 27, found dead in lover’s room

A 27-year-old woman, who was in search of accommodation, has reportedly been found dead in her boyfriend’s room in Accra. According to her brother,...

Footballer remanded for allegedly possessing Indian hemp

The Nkawie Circuit Court has remanded an 18-year-old footballer into prison custody for possessing substances suspected to be Indian hemp. Abdul Majeed Hansen was arrested at Apatrapa...

Scam police recruiters remanded

The two men nabbed by police operatives for allegedly engaging in a recruitment scam into the police service have pleaded not guilty to three...

Father, 33, allegedly kills baby hours after birth

A 33-year-old man has been arrested by the Police in Akatsi at a village called Bekpo located in the Akatsi South District of the...

PPA boss to be hauled before GIPS Ethics and Professional Standards Committee

The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) says they will cause the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) boss to appear before the Institute’s Ethics and...

Woman jailed 2 years for pouring acid on business rival

The 33-year-old woman who poured acid on her business rival has been jailed two years with hard labour by the Akyem Swedru Circuit Court. Ms ...

Man jailed 10 years for possessing 55 wraps of ‘weed’

A 24-year-old apprentice has been sentenced to a prison term of 10 years in hard labour for possessing 50 wraps of Indian hemp. Emmanuel Adjei,...

3 illegal miners arrested in Anhwiaso-East Forest Reserve

 A timely intervention by the Rapid Response Team of the Forestry  Commission has led to the arrest of three persons at the Anhwiaso-East Forest Reserve in...

Operation Vanguard arrests 20 suspected illegal miners in Eastern Region

Operation Vanguard personnel in the Eastern Region on Sunday morning at about 02:00 hours arrested 20 suspected illegal miners during a search operation in the general...

Photos+Audio: Woman, 22, found dead in lover’s room

A 22-year-old woman, identified as Vera Adu, has been found dead in her boyfriend’s room at Adu Gyemfi near Sowutwom in the Greater Accra...

Policeman was killed with heavy object, not gun – Report

Preliminary police reports in the killing of Corporal Bernard Antwi, 37, at Manso Abodom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti region are indicating that...

Chief Justice dismisses Hajia Fati’s petition

The Chief Justice (CJ), Sophia Akuffo, has dismissed a petition filed by beleaguered New Patriotic Party (NPP) sympathizer, Hajia Fati. Hajia Fati has, through her lawyers, petitioned...

Ghana seeks extradition of Nigerian kidnap suspect

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has begun a process for the extradition of Chika Nnodim from Nigeria to Ghana...

Two chiefs arrested in Savannah Region

Police have arrested eight suspects including two sub-chiefs believed to be behind attacks on  Birifos' chief's Palace at Tatulma, a suburb of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba...

Court jails 6 men who flogged boy in viral video, fined GHC1,200 each

A Magistrate court in Enchi in the Western North Region on Thursday, August 22, 2019 has sentenced six men who mercilessly flogged a young...

22-yr-old habitual thief returns to jail

A 22-year-old habitual thief at Toase in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality, who have been convicted and jailed several times by the Nkawie Circuit Court,...

Photos: Slain police officer laid to rest in Tamale

Sergeant Agatha Nana Nabin has been laid to rest in Tamale after her murder while on duty on July 30. The burial service for the...

Video: NDC Primaries: Two delegates arrested in Sunyani West

Police in Bono Regional Capital of Sunyani have arrested two National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates at the Sunyani West polling station. The delegates, whose...

Clash between Operation Vanguard and youth leads to death of 2

A clash between the youth at Denkyira Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West Municipality in the Central region and members of the Operation Vanguard...

It was 419, I did not mean to rob her – Suspect

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 44-year-old trader into police custody for allegedly robbing a businesswoman. Ebenezer Larbi pleaded not guilty to conspiracy...