Crime

Immigration Service stops 44 foreign nationals attempting to flee Ghana

Officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have arrested 44 foreign nationals who attempted using unapproved routes from Tatale in the Northern Region to...

Techiman fake lawyer jailed

A 34-year-old man, Iddrisu Yahya, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to deceit of court by impersonation. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Bishop Titi-Ofei...

Lockdown Diaries: Military man begs passengers in trotro to stay home [watch]

Fact-checking viral video from the lockdown exercise pic.twitter.com/nVP0vZZGn9— Ministry of Information (@moigovgh) April 2, 2020 There has been news of some security operatives beating...

Kennedy Agyapong escapes assassination attempt as gunmen storm his house?

Some unidentified gunmen are reported to have stormed the house of Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong. They were said to...

DCE accuses police of assault in locked-down Kumasi [watch]

A video of an altercation between a District Chief Executive (DCE) for Afigya Kwabre South and a police officer in Kumasi, has caused an...

Listen: Police hunt for fake video circulators

Copyright © 20 The Ghana Police service is on a manhunt for people sharing videos unrelated to the coronavirus lockdown. Director of Police Public Affairs, Superintendent...

Ghana Police releases videos of security brutality unrelated to lockdown [watch]

The Ghana Police Service has released video footages of some security officers brutalising civilians in the country. The Service on their Twitter page said such...

Lockdown: Defiant residents to face court today [audio]

The Ghana Police Service has revealed it will from today, April 1, 2020 put some defiant people before court for flouting the government's lockdown...

Covid-19 Lockdown: Interior Minister’s strong caution to security officers abusing citizens [listen]

Interior Minister, Ambrose Derry, is assuring security officials who abuse citizens as part of efforts to enforce the restrictions imposed by the president will...

Ashanti Regional Police threaten to deal ruthlessly with lockdown offenders

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has threatened to deal ruthlessly with residents who fail to comply with the lockdown directives for the next 13 days. Public Relations...

Coronavirus: 2 cargo trucks carrying passengers intercepted [photos]

The Ashanti Regional Police has impounded two cargo trucks carrying over 40 passengers each including children, bound for Walewale in the North...

Coronavirus: 28 courts to sit on lockdown breaches

Some 28 courts have been designated to deal with breaches that may arise from disregard for the President’s restrictions during the two-week lockdown in...

Coronavirus: This is how long you could be in jail for breaching lockdown laws

Members of the public have been urged to respect the restrictions imposed by President Akufo-Addo as a breach of the directive may result...

Coronavirus: Six arrested for being in church on Sunday

The Cape Coast District Police in the early hours of Sunday picked up 6 persons at a church. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Tamale records 10 cases; confirmed...

Shatta Wale praises Akufo-Addo

Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, has showered praises on President Nana Akufo-Addo for granting presidential pardon to 808...

COVID-19: Muslims arrested for defying public gathering ban

Some Muslims in the Northern region have been arrested for defying President Nana Akufo-Addo’s public gathering ban. The culprits were picked-up from two mosques in...

Coronavirus: Couple arrested for ‘calling virus a hoax’

Police in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam are holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information about coronavirus. ALSO READ: Coronavirus: Ghana records 4 new...

Man shoots landlord for allegedly having sex with wife

A tenant has allegedly shot his landlord, John Monyo, 52, for allegedly having sexual relations with his Wife. The wife of the suspect was...

COVID-19: ‘Ghana’s lack of a Central Medical Store worrying’

Five years down the lane and Ghana is yet to rehabilitate its only Central Medical Store (CMS) razed to ashes on January 13, 2015....

Six arrested for violating ban on mass gatherings

Six persons, including three pastors, have been arrested by the police in Accra for violating the President’s ban on mass gatherings in...

Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo grants amnesty to 808 prisoners

Some 808 prisoners have been freed in the wake of the increased coronavirus cases recorded in the country. ALSO READ: COVID-19: Akufo-Addo finally speaks about...

Kennedy Agyapong vows to get Obinim jailed [video]

Outspoken Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong, has vowed to get jailed founder and leader of International God’s Way Church,...

Man jailed 20 years for incest and defilement

A 41-year old Gardener Martin Dogbe who subjected his 16-year-old daughter to consistent sexual abuse has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard...

Police seek public support to find missing young man

The Police are seeking information to help them trace the whereabouts of Johnson Kwablah Sallah, a 23-year-old man, who has not been found since...

Coronavirus is collapsing our business- Commercial sex workers cry out

Commercial sex workers in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi, have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that has hit the world, forcing...

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...