Crime

NAM 1 case adjourned to September 7

The team prosecuting Chief Executive Officer of defunct Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1, says it is still waiting for advice...

Furnish Bishop Obinim with documents – Court orders prosecution

The Kaneshie District Court on Monday adjourned the false publication of news and forgery case against Bishop Daniel Obinim to September 9, 2020 to...

Police gun down 25-year-old highway robber in a crossfire

A 25-year old suspected armed robber, only known as Musah, has been gunned down by police in a crossfire at Nakwaba, a suburb of...

EC officers run for their lives as gun-wielding men storm registration centre [Video]

Officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) who are registering people at the Step to Christ Registration Centre in the Awutu Senya East constituency have...

Sextortion: A new wave of crime in Kumasi

The Police Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) is warning of an emerging crime wave known as sextortion. DOVVSU says there is increasing incidence of...

Kidnapping of 39 at Gomoa: Court grants bail to 2 suspects

The Winneba District Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Mr Isaac Oheneba Kufuor, has granted bail in the sum of 5,000 Ghana Cedis with one...

Police break silence on 29-year-old man killed at Buduburam

The Ghana Police Service has cleared the air on the circumstances which led to the shooting of a 29-year-old man at Gomoa Buduburam in...

2 robbers get 46 years jail term

Residents of Ho, the Volta Regional capital and its environs may begin to heave a sigh of relief after two robbers known for terrorizing...

Gory murder at Manhean: Man, 35, kills tenant, inflicts wounds on deceased’s wife

A landlord who allegedly murdered his 38-year-old tenant on Thursday has been arrested by the police at Manhean in Accra. He is also alleged to...

Chaos at Buduburam as Nigerians attack police station, one goes naked in protest

A 27-year-old Nigerian has allegedly been shot dead at Gomoa Buduburam near Kasoa in the Gomoa East District of the Central region leading to...

Man kills colleague after seeing his account balance

An innocent man, Abuchi Wisdom Nwachukwu, has lost his life after he showed his account balance to his colleague. The money in the account...

Woman sustains severe burns after being pushed into fire [Video]

A 22-year-old young man, Emmanuel Inkoom, has allegedly caused severe burns on both legs of his wife, Matilda Badasu, 23, over a...

Voters registration: Two EC officers arrested [photos]

Two Electoral Commission Officers from the Savannah Region are currently in the grips of police in Tamale in the Northern Region. The culprits, Mumuni Abilla...

Sam George tears Amidu apart over Interpol arrest warrant on Samuel Mahama [audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Sam George tears Amidu apart over Interpol arrest warrant on Samuel Mahama Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Samuel George, says the Special Prosecutor...

5 Togolese arrested at Aflao after registering for new Ghanaian voter’s ID

Five Togo nationals have been arrested for attempting to exit the country through unapproved routes at Aflao. This was after they had registered for the...

KNUST clears air on student who allegedly murdered Uber driver

Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has dismissed reports of its student murdering an Uber driver in the Ashanti...

How I recorded Sawla NHIS boss – Nurse speaks on sexual assault [listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · How I recorded Sawla NHIS boss – Nurse speaks on sexual assault Doreen Smith, a nurse working with the Soma CHPS Compound in...

Voter registration: EC reacts to fake voter ID card issued to an Asian

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it did not issue a voter identity card to an Asian male and that the said card...

Bodies of police officers who drowned retrieved

The bodies of the two police officers, suspected to have drowned while chasing some armed robbers at Krobo, a suburb of Obuasi in the...

Sammy Gyamfi speaks on Interpol’s notice for arrest of Samuel Mahama

The Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says a warrant issued by the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) for the arrest...

‘Kidnapped’ 1-year-old boy found dead in abandoned manhole [Photos+Video]

An 18-month-old boy, who was feared kidnapped at Gbawe in the Weija municipality, has been found dead in abandoned manhole, 700 meters away from...

NDC polling agent arrested over missing TECNO phone[video]

A polling station agent of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the ongoing voter registration exercise has been arrested over a missing mobile...

S3x scandal: Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District NHIA Manager asked to step aside

The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Manager has been asked to step aside over allegations of sexual misconduct against him by a...

Airbus scandal: Interpol issues arrest warrant for Samuel Adam Mahama

The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has issued an arrest warrant for Samuel Adam Fosters aka Samuel Adam Mahama in connection with his role...

Twitter accounts of richest men in the world hacked for Bitcoin scam

The Twitter accounts of major public figures, including billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, have been hacked and used to post scam...

Major US Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The...

Students of Kpandai SHS attack police commander, flee from school premises

Students of Kpandai Senior High School (SHS) in the Northern region have fled from the school's campus after engaging in a scuffle with police...

18 months old baby feared kidnapped for rituals [Photos]

A baby, reported to be just 18 months old, has been allegedly kidnapped at Gbawe in the Greater Accra region. According to sources, the...

KNUST student allegedly kills Uber driver over ¢1,200 debt

The Police at Tafo Pankrono in the Ashanti Region is holding a final year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

Birth certificate not a form of identification – Supreme Court

Ghana’s Supreme Court has unanimously held that birth certificate is not a form of identification. The court explains that the document does not establish...

Three domestic workers in court for stealing

A 26 year old domestic worker who allegedly stole monies totaling GHC50,440.00 and hid some in her pants at Osu has appeared before an...

Coronavirus: Fake contact tracer arrested

A 23-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly posing as a COVID-19 contact tracer who took samples of sputum from unsuspecting...

12-year-old girl married to two men within a month

A 12-year-old girl has been rescued by authorities in Kenya after she was married off to two men in the span of one month. The...

Commercial driver in trouble for allegedly having s3x with his teenage daughter

A 47-year-old-commercial driver (name withheld) has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly having sex with his 14-year-old daughter at Pig Farm, a...

Parents give heartbreaking account of how 2-yr-old daughter was crushed to death by Tundra [Video+Photo]

Parents of a 2-year-old girl are still struggling to come to terms with the death of their daughter after she was crushed by a...

Latest demand by suspected Tardi girls kidnapper will shock you

One of the two Nigerians arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the Takoradi girls stunned the Sekondi High Court yesterday with a weird...

71-year-old Ghanaian nanny arrested for ill-treating baby [Video]

A video of a 71-year-old nanny in the United State mercilessly hitting and kicking a baby under her care at home has popped up....

Revealed: How cyber-criminals are using ‘ladies’ to blackmail men

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Gustav Yankson of the Cybercrime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Service, has shed light on...

Ridge Hospital breaks silence on ‘missing’ body of Rwandan official who died of Covid-19

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, has broken its silence on the body of a Rwandan official that was reported to have gone missing. The...

Two Nigerian kidnappers grabbed

The Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) in the Central Region has arrested two Nigerians at Gomoa Pomadze on suspicion...