Crime

Court clears former presidential staffer, Rockson Bukari, 3 others of bribery charge

A Bolgatanga Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged persons alleged to have been involved in the Shaanxi bribery case. The accused persons were former Minister...

13-year-old girl rescued from rapist during jogging

A 13-year-old girl was rescued Saturday morning around 5:20 am from a man who attempted to defile her while jogging on the Akyem Osiem...

Boy, 16, allegedly commits suicide

A 16-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree at Asonomaso in the Kwabre East District of Ashanti. The deceased, Kwaku...

How Akua Denteh was tortured a day before her death [Video]

A new video online has revealed how 90-year-old Akua Denteh, who was lynched at Kafaba, was tortured to confess to being a witch the...

8 suspects remanded over Nkrankwanta violence

The Sunyani District Court has refused a bail application by eight persons over a clash at Nkrankwanta in the Bono region. They are persons suspected...

Police officer accidentally kills colleague in Bono region

A member of the Rapid Deployment Force2 (RDF) of the Bono Regional Police Command, Corporal Rexford Amoako, has allegedly been shot and killed by...

Okudzeto Ablakwa offers GH¢10k bounty on killers of Juapong businessman

Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has offered a GHC¢10,000 bounty on the killers of Samuel Nyamador, the businessman allegedly...

Man bathed with acid during confrontation with rival

A 27-year-old man, Joseph Kwame Safah, has been hospitalised at the Dunkwa Government Hospital after he was bathed with acid during a confrontation with...

Police begin probe over EC office fire

The Accra Regional Police Command has begun an investigation into the cause of the fire that destroyed the Electoral Commission (EC) office at Sapeiman...

Security expert makes shocking revelation about guns and robberies in Ghana [Audio]

Chief Executive Officer of the African Centre for Security Studies, Paul Boateng, has predicted that by October ending there would be a proliferation of...

AG’s Department takes over trial of pastor who flouted coronavirus protocols

An itinerary Pastor, Joyce Oyedele, who was caught preaching without a nose mask at the Central Business District in Accra, shed tears when an...

Two jailed for stealing TV, phones… [Photos+Video]

The Bole District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship Andrew Prince Cudjoe, has sentenced two friends, Malik Sule, 18, and 16-year-old...

Rapist begs police to kill him [Video]

A man, who was arrested and confessed to being an armed robber and a rapist, suggested that police officers should kill him, and a video...

MoMo vendor shot dead by robbers at Techiman for refusing to hand over sales [Video]

A 26-year-old MoMo vendor, identified only as Jacob Cudjoe, has been shot dead by some unknown armed men at Abuosu in the...

Teen who raped, inserted knife into 4-year-old girl’s private part sentenced! (Video)

An 18-year-old man, Kwaku Mensah, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl at Dabiasem in the Suaman...

Evangelist fined GH¢1,500 for defying Covid-19 protocols

The Judicial Committee of the Sunyani Traditional Council (STC) has imposed a GH¢1,500.00 fine on an evangelist for defying Covid-19 protocols. The evangelist, popularly known...

Check out number of people arrested for not using Madina-Adentan footbridges

The Motor Traffic and Trasport Directorate (MTTD) at Madina has disclosed that about 90 people have been arrested and fined for failing to use...

Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband Wife of 44-year-old pastor with the Jehovah Nissi Church at Ejisu has recounted how he...

Man in trouble for attempting to steal ‘okada’

A 29-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to rob an ‘okada’ rider at Ridge, in Accra, has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Awowin Akonvu,...

Tension at Juapong after killing of businessman by robbers [Audio]

The youth of Juapong in the Volta region are picketing against the police after a businessman in the area was shot dead by suspected...

Man shot dead at Nkwantakese

A 26-year-old man identified as Kofi Doyini has been shot dead at Nkwantakese, a farming Community in the Afigya Kwabre North district of the...

This account of 4-year-old girl defiled with knife inserted into private part will make you cry [listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · This account of 4-yr-old girl defiled with knife inserted in private part will make you cry The four-year-old girl, who has been defiled...

Ho police launch hunt for swindler

Michael Brako Danso, described by the police as a self-styled job recruitment agent in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region is on the...

T’di ‘Missing’ Girls Trial: Judge cautions jury against absenteeism

Court of Appeal judge Richard Adjei Frinpong, sitting in as an additional High Court judge, was not pleased with the absence of one of...

Businessman grabbed over fraud

A businessman has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding a public servant of GH¢25,000.00 under the pretext of securing two...

Drama in court over female pastor’s refusal to wear nose mask

There was drama in court when a prosecutor from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) arraigned a female pastor for failing to wear nose mask...

Kidnapped 83-year-old escapes

The 83-year-old man kidnapped in the Bunkprugu/Nakpanduri district has escaped from captivity, his family has confirmed to JoyNews. According to the family, the man fled...

Pastor murdered at Ejisu

A 44-year-old pastor with the Jehovah Nissi Church at Ejisu has been murdered in cold blood. The incident, which occurred Wednesday dawn at his residence...

Man killed, wife raped but police ignore call because they don’t have vehicle

Residents of Juapong, a town in the North Tongu District of the Volta region, have demonstrated against the district police after a snub when...

Barbaric: Girl, 4, battles for life after alleged defilement with knife inserted in private part

A four-year-old girl is battling for her life after a 16-year-old boy allegedly defiled her and inserted a knife into her private part in...

Yeji highway robbery leaves one dead, several injured [Video]

One person has been shot dead with six others in critical condition after a robbery attack at Yeji in the Bono East District. The robbery...

Suspected goat thief lynched in Tamale

A suspected goat thief has been lynched in the  outskirts of Tamale, in the Northern Region. The deceased was suspected to have stolen a goat...

Pastor sues pastor GH¢200K for defamation

The founder and Leader of In Him Is Life Church International, Rev Isaac Opoku popularly called Prophet Obotuo has dragged Michael Adu, alias Demon...

Farmer remanded for attempting to snatch police officer’s loaded AK 47 rifle

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody a 30-year-old farmer who attempted to snatch an AK47 rifle from a police woman. Seyram Tony...

Electrician remanded into custody for stealing

The Akuropong magistrate court has remanded a 22-year-old electrician into police custody for stealing at Abuakwa in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality. George Amissah Paintsil was...

Hohoe court sentences tenants for storing wastewater behind bath house

Vida Damani and Augusta Aboagye, tenants residing in Hohoe-Ahado have been sentenced to a fine of GH¢1,200 each by the Hohoe Magistrate Court for...

Ten arrested for attacking chief’s palace over cancellation of festival

The Kpeshie Divisional police have arrested 10 persons who who allegedly attacked the Palace of the Teshie Chief, Gbetsorlor Nii Ashitey Akomfra III. The arrested...

How the publication of a s3x video of SHS student led to the arrest of ‘porn site’ boss

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has revealed that the investigation that led to the arrest of the operator of the pornographic site,...

7 more arrested over NPP, NDC clash at Nkrankwanta

Police in the Bono Region have arrested seven more suspects over last Saturday's clash at Nkrankwanta during the voters' register mop-up exercise. The clash between...

Police arrest 65-year-old, two others for gang-raping 11-year-old girl

A Nigerian Police Command has arrested a 65-year-old man, Ahmadu Garba, and two others identified as Abubakar Bala, 37, and Suleiman Ahmadu, for allegedly...