Crime

Read suicide note left by banker on Facebook before he died

A 46-year-old banker has committed suicide hours after he left a note on Facebook. The man, identified as Ibeakanma Onyechere, was found dead at his Victoria Island...

Photos: 2 caught illegally mining inside pit

A combined team of Police and Forestry Commission has arrested two illegal miners who have been operating in the Desiri Forest in the Mankraso...

Footballer gets nine years for sodomy

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced a footballer to nine years imprisonment for having anal sex with a six-year-old boy.Solomon Brown, 19,...

Ordeal of 4th missing Takoradi girl’s family

The family of 19-year-old Ruth Abakah, who has been missing in Takoradi since July 29, 2018, has been torn apart as her...

Man punished to weed for defecating in classroom

A 30-year-old man has been forced to weed for allegedly defecating in Sewfi Nyetina D/A Primary School in Bibiani Ahwiaso Bekwai in the Western...

Audio: Reagent for T’di girls’ DNA test to be imported – Forensic expert reveals

Head of Forensics Department at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Richmond Afoakwa is shocked at the four weeks deadline given to conclude the...

2 arrested with AK47 in Bunkpurugu

Police in the Bunkpurugu District of the North East Region have arrested two persons with an AK 47 rifle and a magazine with...

Photos: Thieves snatch car in front of IGP

Four suspected car snatchers were on Wednesday arrested at Gomoa Okyereko in the Central region. The four were apprehended when they threw out the driver...

Kumasi: REGSEC clamps down on prostitutes, patrons

The Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) is embarking on an exercise to clamp down on prostitutes and their patrons because it is illegal...

Convict remanded for escaping from prison

A 20-year-old convict who escaped from prison has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey. Thomas Frimpong,...

Menzgold CEO to address expectant customers after ‘needed rest’

Customers of defunct gold dealership Menzgold have been assured that they will soon hear from the embattled Chief Executive Officer of the company following...

Just in: Police discover 4th set of human remains in T’di

Police investigators have discovered a fourth set of human remains in a well at Nkroful new site at Takoradi in the Western Region, online...

Man in court for groping Ghanaian air hostess

A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted a Ghanaian air hostess and behaved ...

Nam 1’s bail conditions reviewed

An Accra Circuit Court has ruled that persons who have pledged to take responsibility if Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known...

Police brief families of missing girls on latest findings

The police have formally informed the families of the three missing girls from Takoradi about their latest finding with regard to the investigations they...

More people convicted for human trafficking offences

Ten people were sentenced to prison for human trafficking offences in 2018, statistics from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social...

T’di kidnappings: Families want DNA test done abroad

Families of the three girls missing in Takoradi are demanding an independent forensic analysis of human remains retrieved by the police from a cesspit...

17 inmates freed from Koforidua prisons under ‘Justice for All programme’

Seventeen remand prison inmates at the Koforidua Central Prison, in the Eastern region have been discharged through the 'Justice for All programme.'...

REGSEC commends Securities for the discovery of the human remains

The Western Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has commended the Regional Police Commander and all the securities for not relenting on their efforts...

Attorney General bounces Woyome

Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least ...

T’di kidnappings: Third suspect arrested in Nigeria

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the three Takoradi girls, online news portal mynewsgh.com has reported. The suspect, identified...

Police urges public to be calm pending lab exams in Taadi girls’ kidnapping

ACP David Eklu, Director General for Public Relations of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has urged the public to remain calm as laboratory investigation...

Pastor allegedly sleeps with three women for spiritual cleansing

When a 29-year-old pastor of the Adom Power Ministry, Daniel Abisah, alias Ogya Bofuor, arrived at Akrodie in the Asunafo South District of the...

Takoradi: Police meet families of missing girls, serve notice for DNA samples

Representatives from the Western Regional Police Command have met with the families of the three girls kidnapped in Takoradi. This meeting comes a day after...

Tadi missing girls: We know God will expose suspects – Family (Video)

Family members of the three Takoradi missing girls, following police reports of retrieval of human remains from the house of one of the suspects,...

Audio: Man’s lover bites off ex-girlfriend’s lip over money

A woman, believed to be in her 30's and lover of a man identified as Aliwaye Rabiu, has allegedly bitten the man's ex-girlfriend's lower...

My wife’s death, a shock – Husband of slain policewoman

The husband of the policewoman who was killed by suspected armed robbers in Tamale is yet to come to terms with the reality of...

Court remands 16-year-old girl for robbery

A sixteen-year-old girl, Selorm Gbordjor, has been remanded into police custody by the Ashaiman circuit court presided over by Mr Gabriel Mate-Teye, for robbery.  Gbordjor...

Lawyers for NAM1 apply for variation of bail conditions

Lawyers for the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1 has filed an application in the...

It’s official: Police confirm discovery of human remains in home of suspect in Taadi kidnapped girls

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has confirmed in a statement that a special operation it carried out with the...

Man butchers baby, injures mother

Police in Kenyasi have intensified a manhunt for a-35-year-old unemployed who allegedly butchered a-two-month-old baby girl at Wamahinso, a mining community in the Ahafo...

Photo: Fake money ‘doubler’ jailed 10 years

A 30-year-old unemployed man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Ashaiman Circuit Court for swindling church members of Global Reformation...

Exclusive details of how untraceable $12.2m was paid by PDS for ECG takeover

Exclusive documents secured by Joy News reveal that Power Distribution Services (PDS) paid the required $12.2 million premium to secure guarantee to finalise the...

Photos: Five suspects arrested for murder of female cop

At least five suspects have been arrested by the Police in connection with the murder of the Police woman, Agartha Nabin in Tamale. Information gathered...

Sagnarigu cop ‘killer’ arrested

The Police command in Tamale in the Northern region has arrested one person in connection with the murder of a female police officer. The suspect,...

19-year-old jailed for faking her kidnapping

A 19-year-old, Beatrice Naa Lamley, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping.Beatrice, a mobile money vendor, on June...

NAM1 still in police custody; unable to meet GHc1bn bail requirement

The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah is still being held in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra Circuit...

Police announce GH¢ 10k bounty on female cop’s killers

The Ghana Police Service has announced a reward of GH¢10, 000.00 for anyone who can give credible information that would lead to the arrest...

Photos+Audio: Boy, 13, narrates how he escaped from a kidnapper at Gomoa

A 13-year-old boy, in an interview with Adom News, has narrated how he mistakenly helped a kidnapper at Gomoa in the Central region and...

Police arrest rice farmer for assault

A rice farmer, Kwame Appiah has been arrested by the Police for inflicting deep cutlass wounds on the head of a fisherman at Sankore...