Crime

Maj. Mahama Trial: Video evidence to be shown in open court

An Accra High Court has admitted a video recording of how Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was allegedly murdered by the 14 persons now on...

Video: Two suspected Fulani kidnappers nabbed

Two suspected Fulani kidnappers have been arrested at Digma by a joint security team in the Central Gonja district of the Savannah region. ALSO READ: MP’s...

Photos+audio : Ex-convict arrested for stealing 15 fowls in one week

An ex-convict is in the custody of the Awutu Ofaakor Police in the Central region for allegedly stealing 15 local fowls within a week. The...

MP’s step-son allegedly rapes SHS student [audio]

The step-son of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North and Deputy Works and Housing Minister, Barbara Ayisi, has been arrested at Ghana...

Blow-by-blow account of how ‘slay thief’ stole from two hair shops in one day [Audio]

Beatrice Allotey, owner of Shika Hair Shop at Dome Pillar 2 in Accra has given a blow-by-blow account of how one Portia Asare stole...

Police arrest parents for injuring 6-year-old daughter [photo]

A husband and wife, Mawuli Adzani and Doris Adzikah have been arrested by the police at Akatsi in the Akatsi South District of the...

Suspects in Ruth Eshun murder case denied bail

Two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a nurse at Sewua Health Center in the Ashanti Region, have been denied bail by...

51-year old nabbed over possession of cocaine

Fifty-one year old Oppong Kwaku Owusu, is facing prosecution after he allegedly expelled 100 pellets of some powdery substance suspected to be cocaine. This follows...

Court orders arrest of NPP’s Hajia Fati

A Bench Warrant has been issued against New Patriotic Party (NPP) loyalist, Hajia Fati. The court order issued today, Wednesday, February 26, 2020, by...

Kumasi Abattoir: Violent clash over ‘Chief Butcher’ position injures dozens

Twelve persons sustained various degrees of injuries at Alabar in Kumasi when two factions at Kumasi Abattoir clashed over the election of a Chief Abattoir. It took...

Martin Amidu declines to investigate ‘thievery and corruption’ allegations in galamsey fight

The Office of the Special Prosecutor has declined a petition by the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) to investigate alleged acts of thievery...

3 arrested for allegedly robbing foreign diplomats [photos]

Three men who allegedly undertook a series of robberies against some diplomats and high profile individuals in the country have been arrested by the...

Man murders brother and commits suicide

A 53-year-old man, Batori Gbari who stabbed his 56-year-old elder brother to death has also committed suicide. Police sources from the Upper West Regional...

Woman, 85, murdered at Kasoa over land dispute

Unknown assailants have murdered a woman, 85, identified as Edoe Torgbui, over land dispute in a village called Patron near Odupong Ofaakor in the...

Niger National jailed for attempting to register for Ghana card

The Ofaakor Circuit Court, presided over by his Lordship Ebenezer Osei Darko, has jailed a man from Niger who allegedly attempted to register for...

Land guards lock classrooms at Gomoa Sinbrofo

Classrooms of the various basic schools at Gomoa Sinbrofo in the Central region are reported to have been locked by land guards in the...

Mahama appointee threatened at gunpoint

A former government appointee in the erstwhile John Mahama administration, Mr Ben Dotsei Malor has disclosed an unfortunate incident that befell him on Sunday...

Gomoa Sinbrofo residents flee from land guards

Gomoa Sinbrofo, a farming community with a population estimated to be a little over 1,000 in Gomoa West in the Central region, is reported...

Man jailed 20 years for impregnating daughter

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced 42-year-old man to 20 years’ imprisonment in hard labour for impregnating his own daughter. The convict, Daniel Kwame Baah,...

Man’s lip chewed over GHC 1 worth of ‘Akpeteshie’

A 42-year-old man only identified as Paul has had his lips chopped off by his friend Francis Darkoh over one cedi tot of...

‘Sex for Grades’ reporter gets journalism honours

The BBC's Kiki Mordi has been awarded the inaugural People Journalism Prize for Africa for her ‘Sex for Grades’ documentary. Taking to Twitter after receiving...

Man kills brother and hangs himself

A man has allegedly killed his elder brother at Kanyini in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West region after which he has committed suicide. The...

Meet the prisoner who lost his teeth from his wife’s slaps [Video]

A prisoner at the Sekondi Central Prison, identified as Enoch Baidoo, has narrated how he lost three of his front teeth from a slap...

UCC’s Oguaa Hall week celebration turns into another blood bath (VIDEO)

A hall week celebration at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Saturday dawn turned bloody and led to the destruction of some property. According to...

Armed robbers kill quarry engineer, injures another [photos+audio]

A Chinese engineer with Executive Stone Quarry at Gomoa Ojobi in the central region has been shot dead. One other person is said to be...

Papavi ‘rebels’ cagged

Some 21 persons arrested in the Volta Region at the military training ground of secessionist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation, were yesterday remanded by...

Police kill suspect in firefight

Personnel of the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) of the Police Headquarters yesterday shot and killed a suspected armed robber at Ntuaso in the Eastern...

Man in court for selling marijuana-laced toffees to children

A 26-year-old unemployed man who allegedly made toffees from cannabis and sold them to school children has been remanded into prison custody by the...

Customs intercepts smuggled cocoa beans

Customs officials from Ave-Havi Station of the Aflao Command of Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have intercepted 53 rice bags of...

NCA, GRA, KelniGVG bust SIM Box fraudsters at Tema

A SIM Box syndicate operating at Community 11 in Tema in the Greater-Accra Region has been busted in a combined operation by officials of...

Man beats wife to pulp after DNA denies him paternity of 3 kids

A man has beaten his wife mercilessly after a DNA test proved that he’s not the biological father of three kids he thought were...

Court frees suspect in treason trial

The Kaneshie District Court on Thursday discharged Mr Gershon Akpa, a weapon mechanic who is one of the ten persons accused of treason on...

Man gets 10 years for sodomy [Video]

A 49-year-old man, who forcible had sex with a 19-year-old junior high school one pupil, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. ALSO READ: Man allegedly...

Lady arrested while attempting to kidnap her bestie’s mum

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a woman, Paulina Santos, of Azuba community in Lafia, who was allegedly scouting for criminals to kidnap...

Coup Plot Trial: State prosecutors detail roles of each coup plotter

State Prosecutors have filed documents, detailing the specific roles ten (10) persons played in an alleged plot to overthrow state. This is the Bill...

Drama in court over Mahama’s video

There was controversy over the tendering of the video detailing the gruesome murder of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama by a mob in May 2017. In...

Unemployed jailed for attempted arson

An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Victor Nii Baah Banor 33-year-old unemployed who nearly burned down a room belonging to a family member...

Father impregnates teenage daughter

A 42-year-old scrap dealer has been arrested by the police for allegedly impregnating his 14-year-old daughter. According to the police, the suspect identified as...

EOCO freezes accounts of Council of State member

The assets of Council of State member, Nii Kotei Dzani, who founded the now-defunct First Trust Savings and Loans and Ideal Finance,...

Coup plot trial: Kpando chiefs call on gods to intercede for Dr Mac-Palm [watch]

A Sub-Divisional Chief of Kpando Dzoanti in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta region, Fia Adjei III, has appealed to the government to grant...