Crime

Driver shot as robbers attack OA bus on Techiman-Kintampo highway

A driver of an OA bus is battling for his life after sustaining gunshot wounds during a robbery attack on the Techiman-Kintampo highway. The intercity...

PAC sitting: School Feeding boss accused of absconding with govt vehicle [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ashanti Regional School Feeding boss absconds with govt vehicle The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the National School Feeding Programme who allegedly absconded with...

I suspended business because of lapses at DVLA – Driving school owner

The owner of Joerees Drive Tech driving school has complained about how rots at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) have affected his...

Two remanded for destroying teacher’s farmland with sand winning activities

Two persons, who allegedly destroyed three acres of pineapple and maize farmland belonging to a teacher after embarking on sand winning, have been remanded...

Alleged Crossdresser killed in Upper East

A young man, Bugbil Roger Adaboo Toure, has allegedly been killed for wearing female clothes at Kongo in the Nandom District of the Upper...

Mother hangs 4-year-old son, commits suicide

A young mother has committed suicide, after hanging her four-year-old boy in an uncompleted building at Ajoa, a community in the Ahanta West Municipality...

Man who accused police of planting ‘wee’, cocaine in his car arrested

The Police have arrested a man suspected to be the person in an audio tape describing an alleged elaborate incident of criminal behaviour on...

Suspected burglar lynched at Ashaiman; another in critical condition [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ashaiman Katamanso Robbery A suspected burglar has been lynched at Ashaiman Katamanso Promise Land in the Greater Accra Region. Another, believed to be...

Court to decide ex-MASLOC boss’ fate

An Accra High Court will on January 24, 2023, decide whether or not to hold the trial of former Chief Executive Officer of Microfinance...

Wendy Shay Concert: One remanded for robbery

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into Police custody, Thomas Atiah, aka Tom Lee Sparta, for allegedly robbing some patrons of Wendy Shay concert. Three...

Man going through divorce rams truck into wife’s home [Video]

An estranged husband whose wife says they are going through a divorce was captured on camera repeatedly ramming a dump truck into his partner’s...

Eight arrested in connection with Buipe disturbances granted bail

The eight suspects who were arrested in connection with disturbances at Buipe in the Savannah Region have been granted bail. This was on the...

Court remands Nigerian over alleged human trafficking

A 26-year-old Nigerian man charged with human trafficking has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. Osahenvimwen Raymond was charged for receiving 18 trafficked people...

Self-acclaimed pastor arrested for defrauding SDA church members [Audio+Photo]

JoyNews/AdomNews · SDA Church members defrauded The Awutu Bawjiase District Police Command has arrested a self-style pastor for allegedly defrauding some members of the Seventh...

Pastor jailed 519 years for defrauding over 100 people

An Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Evelyn Asamoah, has sentenced a Reverend Minister, Edward Buabeng, to a total of 519 years imprisonment. Rev Buabeng was handed down the sentence yesterday, after having...

Suspect who stole Meek Mill’s phone granted 15k bail

The 33-year-old scrap dealer who allegedly stole US rapper, Meek Mill's phone has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢15,000 with two sureties...

Immigration Officer, okada rider shot at Aflao

An argument between a Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) officer and a motorcycle rider (Okada) at the Aflao Beat 9 Border Post over the nationality...

Man in court for selling broken tiles as phone

A self-professed phone trader, Mustapha Hamidu, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly selling packed broken tiles as phones. He has been charged...

Court refuses to halt coup plotters’ trial

An Accra High Court refused to stay proceedings in the trial of 10 persons arraigned before it for attempting to violently overthrow the Nana...

Three shot in land guard attack at Awutu Papaase

Three construction workers have been injured after suspected land guards shot them at Awutu Paapase Number 2 in the Central Region. The armed land guards,...

Man in court for selling broken tiles as phones

A self-professed phone trader, Mustapha Hamidu, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly selling packed broken tiles as phones. He has been...

Innocent teacher jailed 20 years over defilement regains freedom

The Accra High Court has acquitted Maxwell Bernieh, a teacher who was wrongly convicted of defilement in 2016. The judgment comes after Mr Bernieh had...

Woman’s head found in shower after decapitation by her husband

The Texas woman who was allegedly decapitated by her husband was found in a pool of blood near the couple’s bed — and her head was...

Trader who allegedly defrauded driver granted bail

A 52-year-old trader, who allegedly took GHS28,000.00 from a driver under the pretext of obtaining a Mexican Visa for him but failed, has been...

Man grabbed over alleged contract killing attempt at Ekwamasi

A man at Ekwamasi, a town in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region, Kofi Badu, has been arrested for contracting someone...

Man arrested over COCOBOD recruitment scam

Bernard Frimpong Boateng, unemployed, who allegedly collected GHC21, 800 under the pretext of facilitating the recruitment of three persons into COCOBOD but failed has...

Jamestown chieftaincy clashes: 10 suspects arrested

Some 10 persons have been arrested by the Police at Jamestown, Accra, after a violent clash that took place in the area on Sunday. A...

Man chops off father’s hand and leg at Assin Tomfokor

A 32-year-old man, identified as Kwaku Nyankomago, is in police grips for physically assaulting his biological father with a cutlass at Assin Tomfokor in...

2 Chinese, 4 Ghanaians arrested over galamsey at Enchi

Two Chinese and four Ghanaians have been arrested at Asemkrom in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region for their involvement in illegal...

Robbery suspect shot dead; another bites Policeman in swoop at Buduburam

A robbery suspect has been shot dead with another arrested by the Central East Regional Police Command in the Central Region. One of the...

One injured in violent youth clash at Obuasi [Video]

A 21-year-old galamseyer, Samed Ibrahim, has sustained injuries in a violent clash between youth groups at Obuasi Estate and Gausu in the Ashanti...

Estate developer in court over alleged GH¢385k fraud

An estate developer has been charged with defrauding by false pretence for allegedly taking GH¢385,000 from his colleague after promising to secure him a...

Man allegedly kills wife near Koforidua

A commercial vehicle driver has allegedly killed his wife at Oyoko a suburb of Koforidua, Eastern Regional capital. The suspect, identified as Abeiku, allegedly...

Ghanaian-American soldier allegedly killed by colleague during altercation

A soldier assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama, was arrested Tuesday after brutally attacking a fellow soldier, officials told Army Times in a Wednesday afternoon...

Court sentences 40-year-old over death threat  

A Jasikan Circuit Court has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Sampson Kwame Asong, to five years imprisonment for threatening to kill a drinking spot owner...

Three remanded for robbing “Afrochella” fan of her iPhone X

Three persons including an ex-convict who robbed a tourist of her mobile phone valued at GHS3,000 at El-Wak Sports Stadium in Accra have appeared...

Two remanded over GH¢900K robbery

Two suspected robbers have been put before an Accra Circuit Court for conspiring with two others to rob a businessman of his GH¢ 900,000...

One injured, property vandalised as Gausu youth clash

Fear has gripped the entire Gausu community in the Obuasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region following violent attacks on some youth by a group...

Fake cop, 3 others allegedly hijack, steal tanker transporting petrol

A man dressed in Police uniform, accompanied by two plain clothes men, have allegedly hijacked and stolen a tanker vehicle fully loaded with fuel...

Police investigate murder of mother and son

The Millennium City Police Command has commenced investigations into the circumstances that led to the death of a mother and son at Green Estate,...