Crime

Ghanaian lady in Lebanon found dead hours after final distress message about her abuse

A Ghanaian lady in Lebanon has been found dead hours after sharing a desperate message about the abuse she was suffering at the hands...

COVID-19: 21 persons arrested for illegally entering Ghana Tuesday morning

Deputy Comptroller-General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Laud Affrifah, has revealed that some 21 people, including five Ghanaians, were arrested early Tuesday morning for...

Coronavirus: persons illegally entering country despite border closure warned

Caution has been sent to persons illegally attempting to enter the country despite the closure of the country’s land and sea borders.   The c...

Pastor fined GH¢ 1, 200 for holding church services despite ban

The Nkawkaw District Court, presided over by Mr Albert Kwasi Owusu, has convicted leader of the Kingdom of God Church at Amanfrom near Nkawkaw...

Court orders arrest of former husband of Afia Schwarzenegger

An Accra Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Lawrence Abrokwa, the former husband of Afia Schwarzenegger for failing to...

SHS student arrested for putting her finger in genital of 3-year-old girl

A female Senior High School (SHS) student is in the grips of the police for allegedly 'fingering' a three-year-old girl at Fetteh Kakraba in...

Kumasi pastor who defied church ban granted GH¢ 10,000 bail [photos]

The Asokwa District Court has granted bail to eight ministers of the gospel and church elders who congregated in contravention to presidential ban on...

Coronavirus: Cassava starch, Akpeteshie sold as hand sanitizers

Criminals are taking undue advantage of the mad rush for hand sanitizers and defrauding unsuspecting Ghanaians through various schemes. In view of the novel coronavirus...

Court stops NIA’s registration exercise in E/R

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Daniel Mensah has granted the application for an interlocutory injunction stopping the National Identification Authority (NIA)...

Yogurt seller killed by suspected armed robbers at Gomoa Dabenyi

A man, suspected to be in his thirties, has been murdered by unknown assailants at Gomoa Dabenyin in the Central region. The man, believed to...

Court dismisses 3 applications brought before it by Hajia Fati

Three applications brought before the Adjabeng Magistrate Court by New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Hajia Fati have been dismissed. Applications filed before the court by the...

Police nab Reverend Obofour’s imposters

The Nungua Divisional Police Command has nabbed two persons for allegedly posing as Francis Antwi, aka Reverend Obofour, Head Pastor of Anointed...

Man fires warning shots at NIA registration centre

A 35-year-old man has been arrested for storming a registration centre of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and firing warning shots in attempt to...

NIA’s Prof Attafuah, others cited for contempt

Two individuals have dragged Professor Ken Attafuah, Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and three of his colleagues to court over contempt...

Two arrested for drinking disinfectant to avoid coronavirus

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor on Thursday ordered the arrest of two people who appeared in a video drinking disinfectant in a bid to stave...

20 Nigeriens arrested in Ghana amid COVID-19 fears

Ghana is finalizing processes to repatriate 20 Nigeriens who were arrested by the country’s immigration officers at Juaso in the Asante Akim South District...

4 military men, 5 civilians arrested for robbery

Four Military men and five civilians have been arrested by the Kasoa Millennium City Divisional Police Command for allegedly robbing five stone quarries in...

Sister of Ghanaian footballer murdered!

Sister of Ghanaian footballer, Emmanuel Agyemang Badu, has allegedly been murdered. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Two more cases confirmed, total now 11Former WHO Director to lead Ghana’s...

‘Trotro driver who run over and killed police officer putting himself in more trouble’ [listen]

The Ghana Police Service has cautioned relatives and friends against providing safe refuge for Osei Bonsu, the trotro driver who run over and killed Sergeant Moses...

Listen: ‘Innocent’ man lynched over GH₵250

A 25-year-old man has been gruesomely murdered by some irate youth at Awutua Akrampa in the Central region. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: 381 contacts traced test negativeNDC...

Coronavirus Church Ban: Prophetess arrested! [Photos]

The Akuapim South District Chief Executive and some security personnel have arrested the leader of The Break of Mountains prayer camp and an elder...

Aide to Tourism Minister arrested in Parliament over phone theft

A special aide to the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture has been arrested in Parliament over the lose of a Huawei 230 phone...

SHS students allegedly beat colleague to death

A group of unidentified students of Kings College of Commerce, in River State, Nigeria have allegedly beaten to death one of their mates. Though it...

Man accepts 10 cows as compensation for his daughter’s murder

A 41-year-old herdsman, known only as Diago, has reportedly accepted ten cows as settlement for the murder of his five-year-old daughter, Memuna Diago. Ziblima Larla,...

Coronavirus: Lawyer wants prisoners freed

A human rights lawyer has called on government to decongest prisons across the country in a bid to curtail the spread of the novel...

Horror! Man murders wife, buries her in uncompleted building [photos]

A 55-year-old man, identified as Kwesi Jonathan, is in the grips of the Greater Accra Regional Police command for allegedly killing his wife and...

Some antibiotics made with corn powder – Former Health Minister reveals [video]

Former Minister for Health under the erstwhile John Mahama administration has revealed that some antibiotics imported into the country have corn powder as the...

Ghanaian alleged to be meddling in upcoming USA elections charged [Photos]

A Ghanaian architect, alleged to be involved in a plot masterminded by some Russians to meddle in upcoming elections in the United States of...

I killed a female neighbour for accusing me of phone theft – Suspect

"It was anger that made me stab her to death,” was the confessional statement of a 27-year-old murder suspect, Ejike Eze. An Ebonyi State indigene,...

Police re-arrest teacher who allegedly raped his student

The Sawla Tuna Kalba Divisional Police Command in the Savannah Region on Thursday, March 12, 2020, rearrested a 34-year-old former mathematics teacher to appear...

Man arrested for stabbing woman, 24 to death at Nkawkaw

A man identified as Yaw Johnson is in the grips of the police for stabbing a 24-year bread seller to death at Nkawkaw in...

Woman, 32 arrested for trading with fake currency

Police at Akuapem-Adawso in the Eastern Region have apprehended a 32-year-old woman for dealing in fake currency in the Adawso market in the Eastern...

Nurse investigated for smuggling placentas

A hospital in South Africa is investigating if a male nurse smuggled placentas out of the facility with a plan to sell them to...

Police officer jailed 40 years for robbery [photos]

A Circuit Court in Koforidua in the Eastern region has sentenced a 39-year-old police officer to a total of 40 years in prison for...

74-year-old man jailed 20 years for defilement

The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 74 –year -old man to 20 years in prison for defiling a ten-year-old...

Nine remanded over Kasoa Ofaakor shooting

The Ofaakor Circuit Court presided over by Justice Ebenezer Osei Darko has remanded into police custody, nine suspects, over their alleged involvement in a...

Late J.B. Danquah’s ghost terrorising me – Alleged killer cries in court

The alleged killer of J.B. Danquah Adu broke down in tears at the Accra High court Tuesday, saying he has not been able to...

Drummer in trouble over sexual abuse

A 34-year-old drummer who allegedly subjected a Seven year old girl to sexual abuse at Chorkor in Accra, has appeared before an Accra Circuit...

2 men tie girl up with own veil, gagged her with her pants before defiling her

The Wa Circuit has passed judgement on a chilling case in which two men violently assaulted and defiled a 15-year-old girl in the Upper...

Police arrest female teacher who steals and eat pupils’ food

A female teacher in Lagos Nigeria has been picked up by police for continuously stealing and eating food meant for pupils of the school...