Crime

Takoradi kidnapping: Accused persons’ Facebook chats reveal coded language on kidnapping

The Chief State Attorney in the case of the three Takoradi missing girls, Patience Klinogo, has told the Sekondi High Court that the two...

Kidnapped girls: Angry mother slaps suspect in court

There was drama at the Sekondi High Court 2 in the Western Region Wednesday, when a mother of one of the kidnapped girls slapped...

Photo: Masked gunmen shoot police woman dead; seize weapons in Tamale

Four masked gunmen, clad in military uniform, have allegedly shot dead a female cop, identified as Agartha Nana Nabin, after a gun battle at...

Y’asem Nie: Taxi driver loses eye in attack by city guard [Audio]

The right eye of a 35-year-old taxi driver popped out when a city guard hit him with a pavement block at Kaneshie in Accra. His only crime,...

Audio: Man shoots nephew dead during bush hunting

Kwadwo Duku, believed to be in his late forties, has allegedly shot dead his nephew identified as Kennedy Asi during a bush hunting. Information gathered...

N/R: Robbers attack police at checkpoint, kill one and steal their weapons

A female police officer has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at a checkpoint in the Sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region. She was...

Photo: Fake Barclays Bank staff jailed for fraud

A 47-year-old man Mohammed Ali also known as Eric has been jailed by two Courts for defrauding by false pretence. The convict parading as a...

Pastor arrested for allegedly raping three women

The Asunafo South District police command in the Ahafo Region has arrested a 29-years-old self-styled man of God for allegedly raping ...

Canadian girls kidnappers: Four granted GHC 800,000 bail

The Accra High Court has granted bail to four of the eight accused persons standing trial for the kidnap of two Canadians in Kumasi. Each...

Acting IGP cracks whip; interdicts police commander for unlawful detention

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has interdicted the District Commander for Lakeside, DSP Eric Partey Opata, for unlawful detention of a...

Driver, Houseboy remanded over robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GH¢ 20,000.00 bail with a surety each to two persons, including a teenager who is a...

Couple busted for shoplifting at Legon Shell Shop

A man and a woman, both in their 50s, were arrested on Friday, 26 July 2019 by the Legon police command for attempting to...

NAM1 granted GH¢ 1 billion bail (Audio)

Embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court, Friday. Mr...

Video+Photos: Menzgold customers storm court over NAM1

Desperate customers of Menzgold Friday morning besieged the premises of the court to demand the release of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

3 grave looters remanded

Three alleged grave looters, caught in possession of human skeletons, are standing trial at the Goaso Circuit Court in the Ahafo Region. Their possession, it...

Fake pastor jailed 10 years for fraud

Thirty-year-old self-acclaimed pastor, Isaac Kofi, has been jailed 10 years by the Ashaiman circuit court for defrauding by false pretence.Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police...

Police rescue abducted children

Police at Tepa-Abotoase in the Oti Region are investigating circumstances that led to the kidnapping of two girls who were later found tied in...

Court pegs two of Woyome’s property at GH¢11m minimum

The Supreme Court has, in a unanimous decision, pegged the minimum value of two belongings of businessman, Alfred Woyome, at GH¢11.7 million. A third property...

Grant my wife divorce, she wants me dead- Man tells court

A businessman, Wahab Lukmon, on Thursday, prayed an Egbe-Idumu Customary Court to grant his wife, Olabisi’s request for divorce because she wants him dead. Olabisi sought...

Police arrest suspected railway metal thief (Photos)

A 33-year-old man, identified as Abdul Dramani, suspected to be part of a gang that stole railway metals from the Ohene Nkwanta Railway near...

Court to auction ‘akpeteshie’ to settle man’s debt

The Breman Asikuma District Magistrate Court in the Central region is set to auction one Kofi Badu’s akpeteshie (local gin) to settle his debts...

Mother attacks son with cutlass

A 10-year-old boy, Awal Mohammed, who had his body slashed multiple times by his mother at their home in the Obuasi suburb of Boete...

Police closes in on armed robbers who killed businessman

The Police said they are close on the heels of two suspected armed robbers who shot a businessman leading to his death on Tuesday,...

Takoradi kidnapping case adjourned again

The Sekondi High Court, presided over by Justice Hanna Taylor has once again adjourned the case against Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, both...

Boy jailed 20 years for robbing two sisters

One of the two youngsters who robbed two sisters has been jailed for 20 years by the Bekwai Circuit Court. Godwin Nyarko, 18, was convicted...

Police caution drivers against car snatching by criminals

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has cautioned the public, particularly commercial drivers on new methods of car snatching by criminals. This caution was...

How robbers are snatching taxis – Ghana Police

The Ghana Police Service has thrown light on new method criminals are using to snatch cars from unwitting taxi drivers.According to the Public Affairs...

Police arrest 3 with human parts

Three persons caught with human parts at Abuom near Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region have been arrested by...

2 traders in critical conditions after gunmen lay siege on highway

Two traders are battling for their lives at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region, after they were shot Monday night, by armed...

Suspected fake doctor arrested for abortion gone wrong

The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she had allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid...

Two granted GHC 30,000.00 bail each over robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GHC 30,000.00 bail each with two sureties each to Louis Okyere alias “SM” and Abubakari Nii...

J.B. Danquah-Adu trial: Murder suspect’s lawyers challenge medical report

Lawyers for murder suspect in the late legislator, J.B. Danquah-Adu’s trial, Daniel Asiedu are challenging a medical report that declared him sane to stand trial. They...

Photo+Audio: Trotro driver allegedly molested by policemen at Kasoa

A 33-year-old trotro driver, identified as Augustine Arhinful, is accusing some police personnel at the Amanfrom District Police Station in the Central region of...

Two jailed 40 years for robbery

Two persons have been handed a total of 40 years in jail by the Kasoa Circuit Court presided over by His Lordship Ebenezer Osei...

Photos: Suspected thief lynched in Tamale

A suspected thief believed to be in his 20's has been lynched by unidentified persons at Nahada in Tamale in the Northern region. According to reports, the...

Man shot dead at Adoagyiri

Jacob Quashie Okai, a 40-year-old man was on Thursday shot dead by an unknown assailant at Ntoaso near Adoagyiri in the...

Residents chase out police for bringing back alleged witches

Residents of Zarantinga, a community near Nalerigu, in the North East Region have rejected the reintegration of two alleged witches back into the community. Madugu...

Akpeteshie distiller kills 6-year-old son in Takoradi (Photo)

A 47-year-old man has under a strange circumstance, stabbed his six-year-old son to death at Diabene, a farming community within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of...

I raped my daughter to test her virginity – Suspect tells court

Wasiu Orilonise, a 37-year-old security guard confessed to raping his 15-year-old daughter after being put before Oyo State Magistrates Court sitting in Ibadan.   The suspect arraigned on...

Mum beats daughter, 1, to death after failed night of prostitution

A mother has been charged with murdering her one-year-old daughter after beating her to death in a fit of rage. Kahoy Garcia-Velazquez killed her daughter...