Crime

Policeman shoots driver’s mate for allegedly refusing to pay bribe

A policeman has shot a driver’s mate in the leg over an alleged refusal to pay bribe at a police barrier at Inchaban in...

Former MP’s alleged killers trial adjourned

A High Court in Accra has adjourned the case of Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bossu, the two suspects who are being held...

Bail application for Volta separatists dismissed

A Ho High Court has dismissed a bail application brought before it by lawyers of persons arrested in connection with an alleged...

Police nab five for manufacturing firearms in Central Region

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested five suspects for allegedly engaging in the manufacturing of firearms. The five are Pele Aziaku,...

Three others arrested over Mankessim shooting

The Central Regional Police Command says three other suspects have been arrested for their involvement in the Mankessim shooting last Saturday. This brings to nine,...

Principal of Afia Kobi Nursing School granted bail over ‘exams’ fraud

Police in Kumasi have granted bail to principal of Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem Nursing Training College after she was detained over alleged examination fraud. Samuel Owusu...

Indecent dressing not invitation to rape – DOVVSU

Chief Superintendent Mercy Wilson Brown, Volta Regional Coordinator, Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has said a girl’s...

Video: Over 100 passengers robbed by armed men at Potsin Junction

Over 100 commuters including market women have been robbed by armed men on the Accra-Cape-Coast highway. The unfortunate incident occurred around 6:30 pm on Wednesday...

Mentally challenged boy kills 7 relatives, 2 others

A mentally challenged boy, identified as Chigozie Orusa, has been subjected to jungle justice after killing nine people in Nempi, Imo state in...

Police arrest 2 motorbike snatchers at Salaga

Two persons have been arrested by the Police in Salaga for allegedly robbing a motorbike on the Salaga-Kalande road. The suspects Ahmed Karim, 24, and...

Takoradi kidnappings: Attorney General yet to receive docket on new findings

The Ghana Police Service is yet to furnish the Attorney General with a docket on new findings on the case involving the four girls...

Homosexual jailed for defiling boy

A 21-year-old man, Yeni Kutu, who defiled a 13-year-old boy at Adagya in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region, has been slapped...

Six remanded over Mankessim shooting [Audio]

The Cape Coast District Court  2, presided by her honour, Gloria Mensah Bonsu, has remanded into police custody six suspects in connection with the...

Teenage student jailed for making sexual advances at stepmother

A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Tuesday, sentenced a teenage student, Anas, to one year imprisonment over sexual encroachment on,...

Police arrest 9 including spiritualist and imposter ahead of yuletide

The Accra Region Police says it has made giant strides in clamping down on crime after the arrest of seven hardened criminals, a spiritualist...

Man arrested for stabbing his uncle to death

Police in Nsawam have arrested Kwame Alibo, a 32-year-old unemployed of Oparekrom, a suburb of Nsawam for allegedly stabbing his uncle, Sampson Kumi, to...

Fake Police officer in trouble

The Enchi District Magistrate court on Tuesday imposed a fine of 1,200 Ghana cedis on a 41-year-old pastor who posed as a police officer...

New Twist: Family of teacher reportedly killed by robbers wants her husband arrested

The confusion surrounding the death of a female teacher in Walewale in the North East Region has taken a new twist as family and friends...

Why did you watch Major Mahama’s viral video – Defence lawyers grill Pathologist

Two Defence lawyers in the trial of persons accused of murdering Army Major Maxwell Adam Mahama on Tuesday spent hours questioning the Specialist Pathologist who carried...

Boy kidnaps sister to raise money for girlfriend

A 22-year-old boy, Ibrahim Kazeem, has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the kidnap of his six-year-old stepsister in Makera, Katsina State, Nigeria...

19-year-old boy sets lover ablaze over infidelity

A 19-year-old boy, Orji Ifeanyichukwu, has set his 24-year-old lover, Alabi Tolani ablaze over alleged infidelity According to reports, Ifeanyichukwu met the...

Coup plot: Court adjourns treason trial to December 19

The Kaneshie District Court on Wednesday adjourned the treason trial involving ten persons to December 19. This was to enable the prosecution to continue with...

25-year-old man arrested for allegedly killing sex worker at Dansoman

The Dansoman Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old man, Prosper Nii Aku, who is suspected to have killed a 40-year-old woman. According to the police...

Death sentence too final, mistakes can be made – Justice Lovelace-Johnson

Supreme Court judge nominee, Avril Lovelace-Johnson, has kicked against the death penalty sentence. The death penalty, a form of capital punishment instituted by...

Audio: MCE calls for emergency meeting over Mankessim shooting

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Mfantseman, Kenneth Kelly Essuman, has called for a Municipal Security Council Meeting over the shooting at Mankessim during a...

Audio: Tilapia seller butchered at Yeji

James Naah, a tilapia seller at Yeji in Pru East District in the Bono East region, has been reportedly butchered by some armed robbers. Information...

Man catches ‘cheating’ wife; batters her into coma

Police have arrested a 35-year-old man, Kofi Bandoli, for beating his wife to oblivion after allegedly catching her having sexual intercourse with another man....

SHS students attack teacher after getting ‘high’

Students of Zappa Secondary School in Asaba, Delta State allegedly attacked their teacher after getting ‘high’ on hard drugs. The students were reported to have...

IGP interdicts 2 Policemen over Kasoa killing

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has directed the immediate interdiction of two policemen in connection with the shooting and killing of...

Listen: Police pick up 5 persons in connection with Mankessim shooting

The police have picked up five people in connection with disturbances during the ‘outdooring’ of a Paramount Queenmother, Nana Araba Otua II, at Mankessim...

I was held in America over Ahmed Suale’s murder – Kennedy Agyapong reveals

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has revealed that he was recently held at Houston Airport by security officials for six...

Just in: Teacher killed in Walewale armed robbery attack

A teacher with the Ghana Education Service (GES) has been killed in an armed robbery attack at Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North...

Two police officers detained for shooting civilian to death

Two police officers, Corporal Samuel Boamah and Lance Corporal Isifu Tahiru at the Kasoa Division, have been arrested and detained for allegedly shooting a civilian...

Shooting at Mankessim, police officer shot, 2 dead

Seven people, including a police officer, have been shot at Mankessim. READ THIS: Shatta Michy ‘runs away’ from Shatta Wale Two of the seven shot have...

Farmer granted bail for possessing gun

A 45-year-old farmer, who was arrested by the police for possessing an unlicensed gun, has been granted a GH¢50,000 bail with two sureties by...

Shoemaker remanded for causing harm

A shoemaker, 26, who used broken bottles to inflict severe wounds on a patron at a popular drinking bar at Bokankye, in the...

‘He said he was checking for breast cancer’: Cop allegedly fondles woman

The Kwabenya District Police Command has vowed to investigate alleged sexual harassment of a woman by a police officer on patrol duty in Accra following official...

DCE blames poor roads on recent armed robbery cases [Audio]

District Chief Executive for Bia West in the Western North Region, John Kwao, has said that bad roads in the town delayed police response...

Photos: Man Faints as he is caned for having pre-marital sex

An Indonesian man who fainted as he was being whipped for pre-marital sex today was revived to receive the rest of his punishment before...

Customs Service intercepts gallons of petrol hidden inside coffins

A joint anti-bunkering team of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 23 jerry cans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) concealed in two caskets....