Crime

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...

Mentally ill man allegedly kills Wa businessman

The police in the Upper West Region capital are on a manhunt for the alleged murderer of a 35-year-old businessman at Dobile, a suburb...

Duffuor, Asiama and 7 others granted GH¢60m bail

A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, and eight others standing trial over the collapse of uniBank have been granted a GH¢60...

Ofosu-Ampofo, Boahen’s trial adjourned to February 19

The Accra High Court has adjourned the trial of Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen, both Chairman and Deputy Communications Officer of the National...

Security man in trouble over verbal assault on MP [photo]

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH¢30,000.00 bail with three sureties to a security man who allegedly verbally abused Madam Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,...

Drinking Bar Operator jailed for noise making

The Nkawie Circuit Court has convicted a drinking bar operator who repeatedly played loud music from morning to dawn at her pub to disturb...

Herbalist jailed five years for possessing human parts

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced Isaac Mensah, a 24 year old traditional medicine practitioner (Herbalist) to five years imprisonment in hard labour...

Ghana Health Service reacts to nurse’s murder

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said it has received with shock the sad news of the murder of one of its dedicated...

Police guard accused of shooting resident in former Minister’s house

A policeman on guard duties at the home of former Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, is reported to have allegedly shot and injured...

Two girls missing at Mallam, Gbawe

Two schoolgirls have been reported missing at and Gbawe, in the Greater Accra Region. According to a report from the Accra Regional...

Man accused of defilement tests HIV negative but victim tests positive

A 40-year-old cleaner is in the grips of the law following an accusation that he has defiled a 12-year-old girl at...

Police on manhunt for two who gang-raped 16-year-old

Police at Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region are on a manhunt for two of three suspects who...

Menzgold customers granted bail

A Madina District Court presided over by His Worship Richard Delali Anku has granted bail to 92 aggrieved customers of gold dealership firm, Menzgold. The...

Farmer gets 20 years for impregnating physically challenged minor

A 35-year-old Farmer who defiled and impregnated a 15-year-old physically disabled girl has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Tepa Circuit Court...