Crime

Kumasi hotel shooting: Wife of key suspect being investigated by police

Wife of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) driver who shot and killed his girlfriend at a hotel in Kumasi is being investigated for her role in...

Court adjourns treason case to January 23

The Kaneshie District Court on Wednesday adjourned the alleged treason case involving some military officers, a medical doctor, a senior Police Officer, among others...

Police conclude investigations into alleged destabilization plot case

The prosecution in the case involving an alleged plot to destabilize the country has told a district court in Accra that the police have...

My husband pushed me into having an affair – woman tells court

An Ibadan-based fashion designer, Opeyemi Bakare, on Wednesday told a Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan that her husband of 13 years, Olawale, pushed her...

5 arrested over Ghana Card registration malpractices

Four officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and one other person have been arrested by the police for engaging in various registration offences...

National Security operative in court for alleged fraud

A National Security operative who has been accused of defrauding someone of GH¢25,000 under the pretext of securing him an auction car has been...

Police officer’s gun, ammo allegedly stolen under bizarre circumstances

An AK-47 assault rifle loaded with 20 rounds of ammunition, in the possession of a police officer stationed at a checkpoint at Yendi in...

Family of man murdered at Adomfe rejects autopsy report that says he died of hypertension

The family of a 33-year-old driver, allegedly murdered by some police officers at Adomfe in the Asante-Akim South Municipality in October 2019, has rejected...

Woman shot dead by boyfriend in hotel

Police have begun investigations into an alleged murder of a woman at the Ceder Cresent Hotel at Danyame, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. Investigations indicate...

CID tasked to probe alleged theft of 400 tricycles at Northern Development Authority

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has been tasked to investigate circumstances under which some 400 tricycles were allegedly stolen from the Northern Development Authority’s...

Housewife flees after allegedly pushing co-wife, baby into well

The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old housewife, Hauwa, for allegedly pushing her co-wife Zuwaira, 35, and her 18-month-old son, Gambo, into...

Ex-convict arrested for snatching phone

An ex-convict, Tunde Ajeigbe, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly snatching a phone from a passenger in a commercial...

How citizens assisted police in arresting ‘habitual’ phone snatcher

A father of one, who police describe as an unrepentant robber, has been arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the...

Two hospitalized after attack by landguards

Two persons have sustained gunshot wounds and after a group of armed men believed to be landguards attacked them on their land at Gomoa...

Ghanaian footballers arrested for drug possession

Two Ghanaian footballers, Twum Frank Ntini and Richard Dzifa Appiae, have been arrested and detained in Bangladesh for possessing illegal drugs. Twum, 27, and...

Two shot over land dispute at Fetteh Kakraba

Two persons have reportedly sustained gunshot wounds in an alleged dispute over a piece of land at Fetteh Kakraba in the Central region. Others including a police...

Two jailed 20 years for having sex with minor in a bush

Two persons who sexually abused a 13-year-old girl in a nearby bush at Ayi Mensah have been sentenced to a total jail...

Fulani herdsmen to support police in crime combat

Nomadic herdsmen in the Bono East have pledged their support to assist the police in combating crime in the area. This follows incessant robbery and...

Police nabs suspect behind President’s fake wedding video

The Department of State Service (DSS), paraded one Kabiru Mohammed over the fabrication and dissemination of a fake wedding video between President...

Pickpocket reveals what sustains his stealing powers

The Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has arrested a 25-year-old boy, Francis Monday, who sacrifices a cock every three days for the rings...

Baby dumped in public toilet rescued at Atebubu

A newborn baby dumped in a public toilet at Atebubu in the Atebubu-Amantin District of the Bono East region has been rescued. The baby,...

Secretary of Gbintri chief murdered

The Secretary to the Chief of Gbintri in the Mamprugu traditional area of the North East region has been murdered. Aremeyaw Nasigri was shot...

Journalist in court for impersonating Director of Communication at Presidency

A Koforidua-based journalist has been slapped with three counts of defrauding by false pretence for impersonating Director of Communication at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin. Joseph...

Two killed in renewed clashes at North-East Gonja

Two persons have been confirmed dead at Naa-Kuraa, a suburb of the North East Gonja District of the Savannah Region following renewed clashes over...

Indomie seller bathed with acid at Kasoa on 31st night

Even before the residents of Kasoa in the Central region could finish celebrating God's goodness of making them see the year 2020, they have...

Winneba District Police MTTD Command records 77 Motor accidents in 2019

Nineteen (19) people made up of two women and 17 men were killed while 171 sustained various degrees of injuries through motor accidents in the Winneba...

Trader jailed for having sex with a minor

A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced Yakubu Moro, a 25-year-old trader to a 10-year jail term for defiling a 14-year-old girl at Agbogboloshie...

Court adjourns case of 18 suspected separatists arrested in Bimbila

The Yendi Circuit court has remanded into prison custody all 18 suspected separatists who appeared before it, Monday.  They are to reappear on January 9, 2020. The court which...

Man found dead with head and arms cut off

A man has been found dead with his head and arms cut off on the grounds of an derelict house, it is reported. The gruesome...

MoMo vendor shot dead at Bole [Photo]

Unknown assailants have shot dead a Mobile Money (MoMo) vendor at Chorebang, a suburb of Bole in the Savannah region. According to relatives of the deceased,...

Two arrested over torture of 70-year-old woman

The Sawla District Police have arrested two men for torturing a woman believed to be in her 70's at Jintilpe, a village in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba...

Court remands five persons with 35 sacks of suspected cannabis

Five persons who were arrested by the Western Naval Command with 35 sacks of dried leaves suspected to be cannabis have appeared before a...

YouTuber jailed for insulting king

A Moroccan YouTuber was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for “insulting the king” in a video broadcast on social networks, his...

Talented young pianist, 27, ‘gassed to death’ in shower

A talented young pianist was “gassed to death” while taking a shower on a romantic Christmas holiday in Budapest. Musician Elina Valiyeva, 27, was found...

Student jailed and fined over drugs

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 22-year-old student, who was caught with five wrappers of cannabis to one-month imprisonment. The Court also ordered Charles...

Three die in Christmas Day morning accident

Three people died on the spot while several others sustained injuries in the morning of Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, 2019, when two minibuses...

Police declare leader, member of secessionist group wanted

The Ghana Police Service has declared wanted one Hope Mortey and Charles Kwami Kudzordzi, a member and leader respectively of the HomeLand Study Group...

Student jailed one month over drugs

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 22-year-old student, who was caught with five wrappers of cannabis to one-month imprisonment. ...

Mankessim shooting: Chief, queen mother remanded

The Paramount Chief of Mankessim, Osagyefo Amanfo Adu IV and the Queen mother of Mankessim, Nana Amba Amissah III, have been remanded into police...

Pastor defiles 10-yr-old girl, sick sister during deliverance

A pastor identified as Kenneth Onyeali has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl and her 16-year-old...