Crime

30-year-old man arrested for allegedly killing taxi driver

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a murder suspect, Emmanuel Asare Bediako, aged 30, at Amanfrom CPC in Kumasi. Mr Bediako is suspected to...

One shot dead, 6 injured in robbery at Gomoa Manso [Photos]

One person has been shot dead in a robbery at a sand winning site at Gomoa Manso in the Gomoa Central District of the...

Woman stabs lover to death after being denied grasscutter soup

Police at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality have arrested Hilda Asumani, a 27- year-old hairdresser, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Prince Yaw Aboagye, to...

X-ray exposes traveler who swallowed multiple rings of cocaine

A video depicting the moment police arrested a Nigerian traveler who swallowed many wraps of drugs at an Istanbul airport has surfaced on the internet. In...

Residents burn fetish priest’s houses over murder of 12-year-old boy

Residents of Ndowukope in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region and their Assembly member have burnt a shrine and other houses belonging...

Alleged coup plot: Court told how accused persons were secretly filmed

An Accra High Court has been briefed on how the Defence Intelligence Department of the Ghana Armed Forces secretly filmed meetings of the alleged...

Two jailed 40 years for robbery, others remanded

Two persons, arrested by police in the Upper East Region for robbery, have been jailed a total of 40 years with hard labour. The suspects,...

Four landlords fined for failing to construct household toilets

The La Magistrate Court has convicted four landlords over their refusal to construct a household toilet.  The four, namely Mary Tagoe, Doris Lamptey, Asowah and...

Court orders deportation of 4 Chinese ‘galamseyers’ [Video]

A Kumasi High Court has convicted four Chinese nationals for their involvement in illegal mining activities on a 40-acre land of Obuasi-based Seidu Fanzia...

NHIA hastens investigations into cases of extortions

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is on a manhunt for credentialled service providers who are demanding extra money (out of pocket payments) for...

One shot dead as notorious highway robbers block road, attack traders

Police in Kibi have arrested two people who attacked tomato traders and shot one person dead on the Bunso-Osiem highway in the Eastern Region. Reports...

Names of suspected narcotic dealers arrested at Ashaiman pop up

Police at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region have arrested four suspected narcotics dealers. Police sources indicate they were arrested on 4th June 2021, conveying...

Man who allegedly killed, secretly buried mother arrested

Benjamin Kofi Yeboah, the 35-year-old man suspected to have killed his mother and secretly buried her at Ayigbe Town, Dome Kwabenya in Accra, has...

Kasoa: Woman arrested for alleged burglary

A woman, believed to be in her late forties, has been arrested by the Kasoa New Market Police for alleged burglary. According to information, the...

Woman fined ¢120k for possession Indian hemp

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 47-year-old woman to a fine of ¢120,000.00 for possessing Indian hemp. Rita Atsufui Koffie would spend three years...

Police arrest 339 suspected criminals in Accra

A special police swoop has led to the arrest of 339 suspected criminals including 12 women from various parts of the Accra metropolis. The exercise, which...

Man scalds wife with hot water for failing to serve him food

An angry husband has allegedly scalded his wife with hot water for failing to serve him his dinner at Odumasi, a farming community at...

Legon staircase death: Court orders Cyber Crime Unit to unlock mobile phones of Dedjoe, late wife

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has been ordered by the Madina District Court to unlock the phone of Prince Charles...

Abuga Pele hospitalised!

Former National Coordinator of the defunct Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA), Abuga Pele, has been hospitalised. Mr Pele, who is currently in jail...

You can show ‘The Returned Bribe’ documentary — Court tells Manasseh, JoyNews as it throws out dismissed FDA lawyer’s injunction

An Accra High Court has given Manasseh Azure Awuni and JoyNews the greenlight to show 'The Returned Bribe' investigative documentary. The ruling by Justice...

Phone snatchers stab university student to death

A level 300 student of University of Cross River State, UNICROSS, Calabar campus, identified as Ford Moses Nkasi, has been killed in a tussle...

Robbers attack filling station, order attendants to pick all coins that fell

A seven-member robbery gang has attacked the Pacific Filling Station at Lamptey in the Upper West Akim District of the Eastern Region. Information gathered from...

Bar attendant arrested for chopping off boss’ manh**d

Police in Spain have arrested a bar worker for allegedly slicing off her boss'manhood with a knife while she claimed he was attempting to rape...

Armed robbery rendering my constituency a ghost town – MP laments

Pru East Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Kwabena Donkor, says residents within his constituency are fleeing for their lives due to increasing armed robbery...

Read note killers left on lady’s body after raping and strangling her

A student of University of Ilorin, Nigeria, identified as Olajide Blessing Omowumi, was on Wednesday night, June 2, raped and brutally murdered. The unidentified persons...

Farmer jailed 10 years for defiling 6-year-old step-daughter

Juaso Circuit Court, presided over Nana Asantewaa Atakora, Wednesday sentenced a farmer to 10 years imprisonment for defilement. Akwasi Frimpong, 42, was sentenced on the...

V/R: 12-year-old boy murdered, head cut off for ritual-money

Three people have been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of a 12-year-old boy at a shrine at Ndogokope, near Tadzewu, in the...

National Security allegedly arrests official at Jubilee House in connection with ‘galamsey’

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has said an official at the Jubilee House was arrested by the National Security officials few days ago for...

Kasoa Killing: Family of deceased to take drastic action if…

The family of the 11-year-old Ishmael Abdullah, who was allegedly killed by two teens for rituals at Kasoa, says they may be forced to...

Hotel worker found dead in her room with private part missing

A 29-year-old lady, simply identified as Blessing, has been found dead in her home in Delta State, Nigeria. Blessing is said to have been discovered...

I can’t tell how an intruder entered the murdered MP’s house – J.B’s former security man

A former security man of the murdered Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Stephen Apraku, has told an Accra High Court that he...

Woman who went missing few days to her wedding found dead

A year and months after going missing, Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps officer has been found dead and buried. Josephine Onche went missing...

Court sets date for trial of alleged coup plotters

An Accra High Court will on Tuesday, June 8, commence trial of 10 persons held over various roles allegedly aimed at destabilising the country. The...

Six Chinese arrested for illegal mining granted bail

Six Chinese nationals, arrested for engaging in illegal mining (galamsey) at Asankragua in the Western Region, have been admitted to bail by an Accra...

Prophetess who assisted couple to bury son alive turned in by opinion leaders

Presiding Prophetess of the Christ First Word Church International at Gomoa Eshiem, Ama Nkansah, placed on the wanted list in the case of the...

One shot as robbers bolt with GH¢140,000 [Photos]

A shop offering financial Service, CSSL Enterprise, was robbed of over 140,000 in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 1 at Buokrom Estate Junction in...

Unidentified assailants murder 40-year-old man, bolt with his gun

A 40-year-old farmer, identified as Doogoli Yelpaala, has been killed by unidentified assailants at Jentige, a village in the Bole district of the Savannah...

Court adjourns case involving Assin North MP

The Cape Coast High Court has adjourned Assin North dual citizenship case to June 8, 2021. This is because the 1st respondent, Joe Gyekye Quayson,...

Teacher in court for allegedly having s3x with 15-year-old student

A 41-year-old teacher has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old pupil at Manhean in Accra. Mac-Elvis Hoeyi was...

Another Ghanaian fishing vessel attacked by pirates

Information received indicates that at about 311930 UTC, the Ghanaian registered purse seine Tuna-fishing vessel IRIS-S (IMO: 8210493) was attacked at position 04 33.8N,...