Crime

Former NDA CEO, Deputies, and contractor face trial over alleged procurement manipulation

The Criminal High Court in Tamale has concluded the cross-examination of all four accused in the ongoing trial over alleged procurement irregularities at the...

Court remands 55 illegal immigrants arrested at Kuntunse 

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded 55 illegal immigrants into prison custody following their arrest at Kuntunse near Amasaman. The accused, part of a larger...

Husband who burnt wife, 6 children at Denkyira Akyempim suspected her of infidelity

An abusive marriage ended on a painful note last Saturday as the mother, her five children, and a grandchild were burnt to death in...

AMA arrests 12 traders in Agbogbloshie sanitation crackdown

A new round of arrests has been made at the Agbogbloshie Yam Market as members of the Clean Ghana Campaign Task Force intensified enforcement...

OSP seizes over GH¢100m in assets linked to NPA corruption case

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has confirmed the seizure and freezing of assets worth over GH¢100 million and US$100,000 in connection with...

Police investigations confirm Afenyo-Markin assaulted police officer during May 2025 protest

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has referred a case involving the Minority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Alexander Afenyo-Markin, to...

Court to hear Mustapha Hamid’s application for passport release on November 13

The Criminal High Court is set to hear an application on Wednesday, November 13, filed by the first accused, Dr. Mustapha Hamid, seeking the...

Court adjourns Charles Bissue corruption case to November 19

The Criminal High Court has adjourned the case of The Republic v. Charles Bissue & Others (CR/0559/2025) to November 19, 2025, following arguments on...

Man arrested for receiving suspected narcotics concealed in cassava sacks 

The Ashaiman District Police Command has arrested Francis Alidu for allegedly receiving 18 compressed slabs of suspected Indian hemp concealed in sacks of cassava.  Alidu is expected to...

Ronor Motors at center of GHS 8.9 million procurement scandal, CHRAJ rules

Ronor Motors Limited has been named at the heart of a major procurement scandal that cost the state nearly GHS 9 million, following findings...

CHRAJ suspends former GRA Commissioner-General from public service

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has barred former Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Commissioner-General, Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, from holding any public...

Ghana Airports Company urges travellers to report extortion at airports

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has launched a public awareness campaign encouraging travellers and airport users to help combat extortion by reporting any...

CHRAJ finds former GRA boss liable for procurement breaches costing Ghana nearly 9 million cedis

The former Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Reverend Dr. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, has been found culpable of procurement breaches and administrative lapses that...

11 suspects to face prosecution for 2020 and 2024 election violence

Eleven new criminal case dockets on incidents of violence and deaths recorded during the 2020 and 2024 elections have been prepared by the Ministry...

One arrested in connection with murder of timber guards at Nsuhia

The Bono Regional Police Command has arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of two ADRAS Timber Concession guards and the burning of...

OSP responds to Mustapha Hamid’s ‘useless case’ comment, details charges against him

Following a viral video in which the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, described his ongoing criminal...

“My case is useless” — Mustapha Hamid downplays OSP prosecution

Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has downplayed the seriousness of his ongoing criminal case at the...

Cases Against Wontumi adjourned to November 12 and December 4

The two ongoing cases involving Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, have been...

GRA boss, senior officials ordered to appear before OSP in SML probe

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has directed the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Anthony Sarpong, and two senior officials to...

Scrap dealer jailed 3 months for stealing metals at Bomso

A 30-year-old scrap dealer, Yakubu Zakari, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the Kwadaso Circuit Court for stealing metals at Bomso in...

OSP arrests GRA Legal Head Freeman Sarbah over SML scandal

In a major escalation of the investigation into the controversial revenue assurance contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited...

Galamsey: IGP directs CID to takeover probe into attack on NAIMOS at Hwidiem

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohuno, has directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters to take over investigations into the violent attack...

Asutifi North MP has no hand in attack on NAIMOS taskforce – Hwidiem Zongo Chief

The Zongo Chief of Hwidiem in the Ahafo Region, Alhaji Mohammed Bashiru, has come to the defence of the Member of Parliament for Asutifi...

Hwidiem Zongo Chief recounts dramatic rescue during attack on NAIMOS taskforce

The Zongo Chief of Hwidiem in the Ahafo Region, Mohammed Bashiru, has given a first-hand account of how his vehicle was vandalised during a...

NAIMOS taskforce escapes mob attack at Hwidiem

Hwidiem in the Ahafo Region was thrown into chaos on Saturday, November 1, 2025, when an angry mob attacked members of the National Anti-Illegal...

SML replies OSP, insists on facts and transparency in revenue debate

Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) has responded to recent public commentary following the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s (OSP) October 30 briefing, reaffirming its...

DVLA CEO appears before OSP over alleged GH¢4m bribe

The Chief Executive Officer of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Julius Neequaye Kotey, has appeared before the Office of the Special Prosecutor...

Two arrested for murder and robbery at Aduman

The Ashanti North Regional Police Command has arrested two individuals in connection with a violent robbery and murder that occurred at Aduman in the...

OSP disagrees with portions of KPMG audit on SML-GRA contracts

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has disclosed that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) does not fully agree with certain conclusions in the...

OSP says SML lacked capacity, payments to company were misuse of public funds

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has revealed that Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) lacked the tools and technical expertise to deliver the audit and...

OSP: SML contract unnecessary, unlawfully approved, and costly to the state

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has concluded that the contract awarded to Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML) was unnecessary, unlawfully approved, and...

SCHOLSEC, NIB arrest suspected fraudster behind fake scholarship scheme

The Scholarship Secretariat (SCHOLSEC), in collaboration with the National Investigations Bureau (NIB), has arrested a man, Emmanuel Ofori, for allegedly defrauding Ghanaians through a...

Three policemen, 4 civilians injured after armed youth attack Nsuaem station over suspect’s arrest

The Western Central Regional Police Command has confirmed that calm has returned to Nsuaem in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality following a violent attack on the...

CCTV footage captures man brutally assaulting pharmacist and customer [Watch]

A man has been caught on CCTV physically assaulting a pharmacist and a female customer at a pharmacy in Accra. The incident reportedly occurred around...

Police officers caught in alleged bribery video interdicted

The Bono Regional Police Command has interdicted several officers following the circulation of a video on social media allegedly showing them receiving money from...

Former Deputy NSA boss was simultaneously enrolled as National Service personnel

Auditor-General’s Forensic Audit Finds Deputy NSA Boss, Gifty Oware-Mensah, Improperly Enrolled as National Service Personnel A technical and forensic audit by the Auditor-General has revealed...

Supreme Court throws out Adu-Boahene’s motion to remove judge from $7 million cyber-defence software case

The Supreme Court has dismissed a motion seeking to bar Justice John Eugene Nyante Nyadu from presiding over the trial of former Director-General of...

OSP searches Nana Yaw Duodu’s properties in MIIF gold trade investigation, seizes vehicles, jewellery, and documents

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has carried out searches at the Trassaco residence of businessman Nana Yaw Duodu, popularly known as Dr....

Court adjourns Abronye’s offensive conduct case to November 26

The Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the case involving Kwame Baffoe, also known as Abronye, to November 26, 2025. The adjournment followed his appearance in...

NIB arrests six at Scholarship Secretariat amidst ongoing audit

Six officials of the Scholarship Secretariat have reportedly been arrested by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) as part of an ongoing audit into the...