Crime

Ato Essien’s trial begins

The prosecution yesterday called its first witness in the trial of the founder and Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, Ato Essien, and...

Oppong-Nkrumah wades into Counsellor Lutterodt’s rape comment saga

Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has condemned Counsellor George Lutterodt for promoting “rape culture”. He said rape and violence against women are something Ghanaians...

Aspiring MP arrested for holding rally at Assin South

An independent aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin South Constituency, Joseph Kofi Damte, has been arrested by Police for holding political campaign rally...

Nigerian with new voter ID arrested at Aflao border [Photo]

The Aflao Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has arrested one Emmanuel Phillip, suspected to be a Nigerian by nationality, with the...

Man grabbed after allegedly bolting with rented vehicle

A 40-year-old unemployed man, accused of stealing a rented Toyota Corolla vehicle valued at GH¢55,000 at Dansoman, Thursday, appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Akoto...

Graphic designer in court for allegedly defiling 13-year-old in a urinal

A graphic designer, accused of repeatedly having sex with a 13-year-old girl at a Bubuashie urinal, in Accra, Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit...

Chief ambushed and attacked by gunmen [Photos]

The Chief of Kpatcheremidor/Agortor/Hwapa in the Ningo-Prampram district, Nene Naryertey Agborkey (III) and three relatives ambushed by over five gunmen, have called for the...

Students of Breman Asikuma SHS planned to cause chaos a long time ago – DCE

District Chief Executive (DCE) for Breman Asikuma, Isaac Odoom, has said the melee caused by students of Breman Asikuma Senior High School (SHS) over...

Breman Asikuma SHS students to be surcharged for rioting [audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Breman Asikuma SHS students to be surcharged for rioting Students of the Breman Asikuma Senior High School (SHS), who were involved in last...

‘Busted fraudster took part in police operations for 3 years’

It has emerged that, Francis Ayambilla, the arrested serial fraudster, who infiltrated the ranks of the Ghana Police Service, has been with the service...

Former GPHA boss duped of GH¢1.4m

A 37-year-old man has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly collecting over GH¢1.4 million cedis from a retired civil engineer. He duped the...

Man in court for defiling eight-year-old pupil

A 21-year-old aluminum fabricator Maxwell Appiah, accused of defiling his eight-year-old niece at Teshie has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement. Appiah...

Suspected fraudster who allegedly infiltrated police in Kumasi arrested

Police in Kumasi have arrested a suspected serial fraudster believed to have infiltrated the ranks of the Ghana Police Service. Francis Ayambilla has...

NY Police release video of how US-based Ghanaian rapper was shot and killed [Watch]

A rapper’s life was shattered by flying bullets when a pair of killers opened fire on him and two other friends. Joel Baba, known as...

Residents chase physically challenged man after bolting with their phones

Residents of Assin Akropong in the Assin Fosu Municipality are on a manhunt for a physically challenged mobile phone repairer. According to them, the man,...

AG receives ‘killer’ landlord docket

The case docket on Victor Stephen Nana Kankam, the landlord who shot and killed his tenant, Benjamin Okyere, a budding musician at Ofankor in...

CEPS intercepts 24 Nigerians at Dabala

The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS), Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has arrested 24 Nigerians for allegedly entering the country through unapproved...

Father jailed for chopping off two-year-old daughter’s leg

The Agona Swedru Circuit Court has sentenced a 37-year-old man residing at Kojo Armah, near Agona Swedru in the Central Region, to seven years’...

Nigeria: Pastor rapes daughter for 5 years, commits 3 abortions

An Ogun State-based pastor, Oluwafemi Oyebola has been arrested by the state Police Command for raping his biological daughter. 44-year-old  Oyebola, who was in charge...

Dead bodies, skeletons uncovered in ‘juju’ man’s house after raid

A shocking video online has captured moments security personnel uncovered dead bodies and skeletons during a raid in a 'Juju' man's house. Though the location...

Couple remanded for drilling nail into 10-year-old maid’s head [Photos]

A Magistrate court in Nigeria yesterday remanded a couple, Jude Ozougwu, and his wife, Ifeoma Ozougwu in prison for allegedly brutalising their 10-year-old maid,...

Rawlings confesses to killing people who committed heinous crimes during his administration

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says he did not hesitate in executing people for committing atrocious crimes when he was the leader of Ghana. It...

Docket on Ofankor landlord murder case forwarded to AG for advice

A duplicate docket and the autopsy report on Benjamin Okyere, the tenant allegedly murdered by his landlord over rent at Ofankor, has now been...

Self-styled military man arrested for impersonation

A 27-year old self-styled military man has been arrested at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West District in the Bono Region. The suspect, Isaac Owusu, was...

Kasoa: 1 injured, NPP vehicle vandalised in clash with NDC [Photos]

A vehicle belonging to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality has been vandalised by a group of...

Painter jailed 9 years over attempted defilement

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced a 56-year-old painter to nine years imprisonment in hard labour for attempting to defile a 10-year-old girl. John...

Police on manhunt for fertiliser smuggler at Saboba

Police at Saboba District are on a manhunt for a man who smuggled about 1,000 bags of government subsidised fertiliser for the Planting for...

‘They induce us at 8 months’ – Church where babies are delivered, sold for millions exposed

One Mr and Mrs Chidi and Maureen Martins, who run a baby factory at a church, Grate Mercy Deliverance Ministry, in the Rumuolumili area...

Checkout full charge sheet of Hushpuppi’s crimes as he goes to court in the US

The United States (US) authorities on Friday, July 3, charged Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, to court in Chicago. The...

Hushpuppi’s best friend, Woodberry, allegedly chatted with an FBI agent without knowing

An alleged screenshot of how Hushpuppi’s best friend and partner Woodberry chatted with a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent without knowing has popped...

FBI releases the number of years Hushpuppi will spend in jail if convicted

Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, now faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in a United States (US) federal prison after being...

NDC polling agent recounts how he was beaten at registration centre

“Hawa Koomson is a man, not a woman, because she has no compassion,” that was the statement made by a polling agent of the...

Dubai Police, FBI agree to extradite Hushpuppi, partners to the US

Dubai Police has released a statement after it reached a consensus with Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to hand over "notorious hacker"...

5-year-old girl sodomized at Sakumono [Video]

A 5-year-old girl has allegedly been sexually assaulted by a shop attendant at Sakumono in Accra. The girls family say the 16-year-old perpetrator sodomized their...

Nigeria: Law School audit uncovers unauthorised payments to ‘cleaner’

Several oddities have been uncovered in the financial records of the Nigerian Law School by the Office of Auditor-General of the Federation. The 2015 Audit...

MP Appiah-Kubi’s ‘boys’ deny being behind Wednesday’s gun battle

Supporters of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North, Andy Appiah-Kubi, have denied media reports that they were responsible for the...

Artist jailed for sexually abusing maternal granddaughter

A 32-year-old artist, who sexually abused his 13-year-old maternal granddaughter at La in Accra has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Accra Circuit...

2 remanded over attempt to sell 20-year-old Beninois

Two persons who allegedly lured a 20-year-old Beninois to Ghana to be sold at a cost of $160,000 to a Police Officer have appeared...

Santasi robbery: Stabbed three-year-old girl dies (Photo)

Belonia Adusei, the three-year-old girl, who was knifed during a robbery incident at Hemang/Ampatia in Kumasi, has also died. Her death comes barely two weeks after her...

Covid-19: Akufo-Addo grants amnesty to 794 prisoners

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has granted amnesty to 794 deserving prisoners in a bid to mitigate the dangers posed by congestion in Ghana's...