Crime

Five robbers arrested at herbalist’s house

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested five suspected robbers who hid in their herbalist’s house after an operation. The suspected robbers were...

Leaked tape trial: Court throws out Ofosu-Ampofo’s application

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application filed by lawyers for National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, that sought to put...

Fire kills former assembly man, 12 year-old son at Domeabra [Photos+Audio]

A father and his 12-year-old son have been confirmed dead after fire engulfed their home at Domeabra, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Eastern...

Okada rider murdered at Abokobi [listen]

A 35-year-old man, identified only as Godsway, has been killed by some unknown assailants at Ashongman-Abokobi in the Ga East District of the Greater...

GES warns students involved in sex scandals

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has described as distasteful recent sex scandals involving some Ghanaian female second-cycle students, which had gone viral on social...

Police warns ‘land guards’

The Accra Regional Police Command has issued a warning to so-called land guards to look for something gainful to do or else, they would...

Father impregnates 14-year-old daughter at Anyah

The Anyah District Police in Greater Accra is investigating a case of incest against a 42-year-old father who is said to have sexually abused...

Man allegedly sodomises 19-year-old five times, pays him GH¢15 for each [listen]

The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVSSU) of the Kasoa Divisional Police Command, have arrested a 49-year-old Adamu Tawiah, for allegedly sodomising a 19-year-old...

Men who kidnapped and sexually abused two missing girls at Gbawe arrested [video]

Two girls both aged 15, reported missing by the Ghana Police Service a week ago, have been found at Gomoa Nyanyanor in the company...

Revealed: How military officer tried to foil secessionists’ raid [audio]

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Hopeson Adorye, has revealed that a military officer whom he did not name leaked information to...

Prof. Gyampo, Butakor accept suspension

Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Butakor have accepted a respective six and four months suspension handed them by management of the University of Ghana. Legal...

Police arrest suspected robber, accomplice at Abokobi

A man described by the police as a notorious robber and land guard who terrorises land owners, potential land owners and residents of Abokobi...

Oil cement fraudster granted bail

A man who posed as a staff of the West African Pipeline Company to allegedly dupe a National Security Operative of GH?5,000.00 has been...

Self-acclaimed legal consultant on bail for defrauding family

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢150,000.00 bail to a self-acclaimed legal consultant for allegedly appropriated GH¢335,000.00 vested in him as a trustee...

Two young men go to jail for theft

Two young men from Yiwabra in the Aowin Municipality who stole a motorbike and sold it for GHc2,800.00 have been sentenced to a total...

Security agencies on manhunt for anyone connected with ‘secessionists’

Security agencies are on a manhunt for anyone connected with the Homeland Study Group Foundation demanding an independent Western Togoland from Ghana. A special operation...

Western Togoland ‘military recruits’ evacuated from Fievue to Accra

The 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho has evacuated some 21 persons including a lady believed to be receiving military training from a secessionists group...

Listen: Woman whose ‘boyfriend’ inflicted cutlass wounds on husband breaks silence

Esther Tawiah, wife of the middle-aged man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him at Gomoa Nkwantanan in the Central region, is pleading innocence. RELATED...

Police to quiz managers of Silicon Hotel after student’s drowning

The police at the Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi are set to quiz managers of Silicon Hotel over the death of...

19-year-old arrested for kidnapping 9-year-old

A 19-year-old boy has been arrested for kidnapping a nine-year-old boy at Akim Asuboa in the Oda District in the Eastern Region. The victim,...

Community health nurses to boycott national immunization exercise over murder of colleague

Community health nurses have given government one week to find killers of a nurse at Sawua in the Ashanti Region or they boycott an...

Military invades Western Togoland ‘secessionist’ training camp; arrests 20 trainees

A special operation by the military has swooped 20 persons at an illegal training camp located at Kpevedue and Fievue, an isolated twin community...

Lady, 25, dies after Vals Day sex

The Half Assini District Police Command in the Western Region has commenced investigations to unravel circumstances under which a 25-year-old lady in the area...

U/W Regional Police cautions against mob action on suspected criminals

The Upper West Regional (UWR) Police Command is entreating the general public to exercise restraint in jungle justice and have confidence in the police in matters...

Murder of Ruth Eshun: Two more suspects arrested!

The Police Command in the Ashanti region has arrested two more suspect in the alleged murder of Ruth Eshun, a community nurse with...

Kasoa ‘cop killer’s’ accomplice faces fresh charges

State prosecutors have pressed fresh charges against a man believed to have assisted one Eric Kojo Duah in the murder of two policemen. Michael Osafo Ani...

Mother of man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him speaks [Audio]

Gifty Abbey, mother of a middle-aged man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him has lamented about how the son's condition may cost her...

Pupil subjected to severe beatings for criticising teacher’s ‘sobolo’ [video]

A nine-year–old-pupil in the Nkwanta South M/A Redeem Basic School in the Oti Region, Beauty Adzadi Selase, has been physically assaulted by her class...

Man whose rival inflicted cutlass wounds on him in his own house breaks silence [Audio]

William Appiah, husband of Esther Tawiah, whose lover inflicted cutlass wounds on him after he had chanced on their alleged illicit affair, has broken...

Man arrested for causing harm to his girlfriend’s husband [Photo]

A middle aged man has been arrested by Awutu Breku police for inflicting cutlass wounds on the husband of his girlfriend at Gomoa Nkwantanan in the...

Police investigates accident involving Muntaka, Ibrahim

Police have opened an official probe into the near-fatal road accident involving two Members of Parliament, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak and Ahmed Ibrahim. The two parliamentarians were...

Ruth Eshun’s Murder: Nurses threaten to withdraw services in Ashanti region

Nurses in the Ashanti region have given the police a two-week ultimatum to find the killers of Ruth Eshun Arhin, a community health nurse who was...

Cobbler jailed 15 years for having sex with minor

A Circuit Court in Accra on Friday handed down a 15 year jail term to a Cobbler, Ebenezer Otoo, for having sex...

DCE accused of physically assaulting mother, daughter [photos+audio]

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Isaac Odoom, has been accused of assaulting one Abena Gyimah and her daughter. The mother and daughter had...

63-year-old woman burnt to death

A 63-year-old trader, Madam Elizabeth Yawa Afenyo has been burnt to death at Dzoanti, a farming community in the Kpando Municipality. Her body was found...

Police await autopsy report on student who died on campus

Parents of Dwamena Akenten SHS student who allegedly died in a dormitory are stranded over his burial as police investigators await autopsy report. Eighteen-year-old John...

‘I have sinned against the state’ – musician tells court

A 27-year-old musician has been sentenced to six years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing items and cash belonging to a soldier and his...

Akua Donkor in court over fraud

A former presidential aspirant of the Ghana Freedom Party, Madam Akua Donkor, accused of fraudulently selling a family property, was on Thursday granted bail...

Driver fined for crashing into minister’s vehicle

A Sunyani District Court ‘A’, presided over by Jojo Hagan Amoah, has fined the driver of a lumber truck that crashed into...

Chinese man on wanted list for allegedly killing his compatriot arrested

A Chinese man, who was declared wanted by the Police for allegedly killing his compatriot at Asankragwa in the Western region, has been arrested...