Crime

Five arrested over killing of 90-year-old

Five persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Akua Denteh, the 90-year-old woman who was beaten to death after she was...

Three arrested for using toy gun to gang-rape ladies while recording the act

The Police Command in Ogun State has arrested three of the five men who allegedly gang-raped a lady on Thursday. The Police Public Relations...

Supreme Court strikes out request to restrain Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu from acting as Auditor-General

The Supreme Court has struck out a request to restrain Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu from acting as Auditor General. This was after the court had granted...

Police break silence on video of man being assaulted for ‘chasing’ another’s wife

Police in the Upper West Region say they are investigating the video of a man who was allegedly assaulted on the suspension of having...

Suspected kidnappers arrested at Adaklu-Alavanyo

Two Fulani herdsmen at Adaklu-Alavanyo, who allegedly abducted two brothers, aged 12 and 13 have been arrested. The suspects, identified as Sambo Mohamed Sawuna, 22,...

2 bribe-paying men arrested for busing non-residents to registration centres

Two people, an agent and his driver, have been arrested by the Gomoa Dominase District Police Command for allegedly busing people to Ajumako to...

Self-styled ‘witch-doctor’ exorcises witches at Bawku (Watch)

A new video showing a self-styled 'witch-doctor' exorcising 'witches' at Widana, a town in the Bawku Municipality of the Upper East region, has emerged....

Kafaba now a ghost town, residents flee to avoid arrest [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Kafaba now a ghost town Kafaba, in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah region, has turned into a ‘ghost’ town as residents...

Photos drop as George Floyd is reburied in Nigeria

A Nigerian pastor, identified as Humble Okoro, has held a second funeral service for the late George Floyd in Imo State, Nigeria. The clergyman...

3 brothers remanded for assaulting custom officers and snatching rifle away

Three of the five brothers who allegedly crossed into Ghana on a vehicle in defiance of the closure of the border and assaulted two...

Court convicts three for stealing

The Enchi District Magistrate court on Tuesday, July 28, convicted three men for stealing a music player and two micro memory chips valued at...

9yr-old-boy commits suicide in Koforidua

Police in Effiduase in the Eastern Region are investigating a suicide incident involving a nine-year-old boy. The deceased, Frimpong Adjei, was found hanging on a...

Retired military officer in trouble over fraud

A 54-year-old retired military officer, who defrauded some people under the pretext of recruiting them into the Ghana Army, has been remanded into prison...

Robbers kill security man, steal GH¢15,000 at gas filling station

A security guard was on Sunday, July 26, found dead at the Wabco Gas filing station. Moses Buer is alleged to have been killed during...

Ejisu Sec Tech student who was locked up by Assistant Headmaster jailed

One of the two students locked up overnight in the office of the assistant headmaster of Ejisu Sec Tech has been jailed for a...

Security man murdered at duty point as GH¢15,000 goes missing in suspected robbery

A security man in his 60s, Moses Buer, was on Sunday July 26, 2020 found dead at the Wabco Gas filling station at Sege...

‘Togolese’ arrested for attempting to acquire voter ID freed by court

A Tema Magistrate Court, presided over by Mrs Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong, has discharged an alleged Togolese charged for attempting to register in the ongoing...

Excavator operator remanded over robbery

A Tema Circuit court presided over by Mrs. Agnes Opoku-Barnieh has remanded 36-year-old excavator operator, Nas Boadu, into police custody. Mr Boadu's remand is for...

Murdered 90-year-old woman was accused of not allowing rain to fall, Prez reacts to barbaric act

President Nana Akufo-Addo has described the lynching of a 90-year-old woman at Kafaba in the Savannah region as an act which has disfigured Ghana....

I only did it three times – Security man who defiled 3-year-old

A 24-year-old security man, identified only as Isaac, has been arrested by police at Asaba, Delta State for defiling his neighbour’s three-year-old daughter.According to...

Ejisu SHTS Assistant Head who locked up students cited in another damning video

Emerging videos available to Luv News show Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior High Technical School (SHTS), who detained two students overnight in...

Why 90-year-old alleged witch was lynched

Latest information emanating from Kafaba in the Gonja East District of the Savanna Region indicates that the suspected 90-year-old woman, who was accused of...

Father inflicts blade wounds on 4-year- old for stealing chicken wings

The Weija Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) has arrested one Anthony Adjei for physically abusing his four-year-old son at New Weija. The victim...

Man jumps into Odaw River to escape after stealing handbag at Circle [Watch]

A man, who was alleged to be a bag snatcher at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, a popular business hub in Accra, had no alternative...

Two arrested for repackaging orthodox medicine as herbal product

The vigilance of the Volta Regional Directorate of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has yielded dividend as two suspects peddling repackaged orthodox medicine...

Kafaba Lynching: GH₵ 2,000 bounty for ‘witch hunters’ insignificant – Minister

Deputy Minister for Transport, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, has said the GH₵ 2,000 bounty placed on the heads of murderers of a 90-year-old...

Amnesty Int’l sends message to Gender Ministry over lynching of 90-year-old woman

Amnesty International has said the government of Ghana has failed in demonstrating its willingness to nib in the bud, repeated attacks on old women...

Attempt to block Joy News’ documentary on pervasive stealing of cocoa beans fails again

The attempt by Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association (CBA) to block a scheduled Joy News documentary on the stealing of cocoa beans has once again...

Son of 90-year-old woman lynched at Kafaba speaks on mother’s death [Listen]

Salami Acquah, son of 90-year-old woman, Mariama Akua Denteh lynched for being a ‘witch,’ at Kafaba in East Gonja, has spoken about his mother’s...

I am dumbfounded by Akufo-Addo’s posture on Hawa Koomson’s shooting – Franklin Cudjoe

Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has expressed shock at President Nana Akufo-Addo's continuing silence on the misdemeanour of the Minister for Special...

17-year-old boy arrested for threatening to kidnap old man

A 17-year-old boy, identified as Jessy Enogwe, has been arrested by men of the Abia State Command of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS),...

3 grabbed, 2 others wanted for assaulting customs officers, seizing riffle

Five men on board a Toyota Land Cruiser, which crossed into Ghana from Togo on Thursday evening in defiance of the closure of border,...

Kafaba Lynching: ‘Witch-hunters’ missing

The police in Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region is yet to make any arrest days after the gruesome murder...

Goat, sheep thief busted in Tamale

The Northern Regional Police Command has arrested Abdallah Yakubu, suspected to have stolen 12 goats and three sheep at Kamina, a suburb of Tamale. According...

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang condemns lynching of 90-year-old woman at Kafaba

Former Education Minister, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has condemned the lynching of a 90-year-old woman at Kafaba near Salaga in the Savannah region. Describing the...

Woman, 35, kills two sons

A thirty-five-year-old woman has been arrested by the police at Ejura in the Ashanti Region for allegedly killing her two children, aged one month...

Man shot dead after challenging armed robbers

A rubber farmer, who has been identified as Antobam and believed to be in his late 40s, has been shot and killed by armed...

Sales person in trouble over defilement

John Quaison Eshun, a 44-year-old sales person accused of defiling a 15-year-old girl at Dansoman, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Eshun is said...

Family demands justice as bikers crush final year student

The family of Gladys Awuni, a 16-year-old final year student of the Nyinahin Catholic Senior High School in the Atwima Mponua District of the...

Kafaba: Family of lynched old woman demands arrest of chief, others

Family of the 90-year-old woman lynched at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region is calling for the arrest of the...