Crime

Robbers kill 45-year-old trader

A 45-year-old trader is reported dead after he was allegedly robbed of unspecified amount of money and shot by robbers, in Kataa, in the...

GRA, COCOBOD sued over VAT

The Ghana Revenue Authority and its Commissioner-General, Ghana COCOBOD and its CEO have been sued by some Agricultural companies over the imposition of Valued...

Woman allegedly kills granddaughter over hatred for son-in-law

A 42-year-old woman, Temitope Akinola, has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State police command in Nigeria for allegedly killing her 2-day-old granddaughter. According to spokesman...

Soldier, 2 others nabbed for impersonating anti-galamsey team

A military man has been apprehended for posing as a member of the Operation Vanguard team fighting illegal mining across the country. Private Bawa Kobore,...

Trader remanded for biting off finger of policeman

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a trader for allegedly biting off the forefinger of General Sergeant Kwame Abu, a policeman when effecting his...

Police deployed to Pai Katanka after 3 killed at funeral grounds

Calm has returned to Pai Katanka in the Oti Region after clashes on Saturday over suspected chieftaincy dispute. Three people were reportedly shot dead, while...

Man confesses to attempting to sell daughter for GHC 50,000

A 27-year-old man has confessed to attempting to sell his daughter but says she did so as a result of hardship. Frank Abisah, the suspect,...

Soldier, accomplices grabbed for impersonating Operation Vanguard team

A soldier and two accomplices suspected to be posing as Operation Vanguard personnel, harassing and extorting money from civilians at Sekyere Atiwa West District,...

Chief killed by speeding bus [Audio]

A chief of Awutu Awin-Taso in the Awutu Senya West District of the Central Region, Nai Akufu, has been killed in a fatal road...

Ekumfi robbery: One suspect grabbed [Photos]

One suspect believed to be among the gang that attacked motorists on the Ekumfi Essakyir highway in the Central region has been arrested. It...

Chieftancy dispute leaves 3 dead, other in critical condition

Three natives of the Pai Katanka traditional area in the Oti Region have been reportedly shot dead over chieftaincy disputes. According to the Paramount...

C/R: Security beefed up at Ekumfi after highway robbery incident

The Central Regional Police Command has deployed a reinforcement team to Ekumfi Essakyir in the Central Region following a highway robbery that led to...

Mechanic in court for defiling two sisters

A 29-year-old Pumping Machine repairer, who defiled two sisters, aged four and eight, has been granted a GHC20,000.00 bail with three sureties by a...

Shoemaker commits suicide, wife also found dead in same room at Winneba

A 32-year-old  shoemaker, Kweku Baffoe and his wife, Rosina Arthur, have been found dead in their room on Thursday at Wuonsom, a suburb of Effutu Municipality...

Domestic abuse victim alerts police with fake pizza order

A woman in a domestic violence situation managed to call 911 without the perpetrator realising, by pretending to order a pizza. Officers in Oregon city, Ohio, praised...

Photos: Sawla SHS teacher remanded for raping student

A Bole Magistrate court has remanded into police custody a 34-year-old teacher in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the Savannah region for allegedly raping a second-year student of...

Driver shot dead in Ekumfi highway robbery [Audio]

A driver, only identified as Arhinful, has been shot dead in a highway robbery that occurred at Ekumfi in the Central Region around 4:00...

Students expelled for having s3x in lecture hall

Two students of the Edo State Polytechnic in Nigeria have been expelled for allegedly having s3x in one of the lecture halls. The expelled students,...

Arrested Council of State Member granted bail

The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) on Wednesday granted bail to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of defunct Ideal Finance Company, Nii Kotei...

Mom of 6 throws her day-old-baby boy into soakaway

The Ogun State Police Command in Nigeria has arrested a 30-years old woman, identified as Risikat Olabintan, for throwing her one-day-old baby boy into...

Sawla SHS teacher arrested over alleged rape of student

A teacher at Sawla Senior High School (SHS) in the Savannah Region has been arrested by the Sawla Police over rape accusation by one...

13-year-old held captive over father’s failure to pay bride price

A 13-year-old girl at a village in Chereponi in the North East Region has been detained and allegedly turned into a sex slave because her...

Another suspect in Budumburam cops killing freed

Another suspect standing trial for the killing of two police officers at Budumburam in the Central Region, has been discharged. Michael Osofo Ani was discharged...

‘Police beaters’ convicted

The commercial bus driver and his conductor who assaulted a police officer on the Weija road have been convicted of fine and slapped with...

Court dismisses application to release ACP Agordzo

The push by lawyers for top police Officer ACP Benjamin Agordzo to have him released has failed as the Kaneshie District court dismissed their...

Police arrest 11 ‘Western Togoland’ separatists

Police have arrested eleven members of a group that purported to declare independence for the Volta Region and other parts of the country. A manhunt...

Family of slain NPP Treasurer demands justice after fake informant drama

The family of the slain Treasurer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Takoradi Constituency of the Western Region says they are appalled...

How children are taught math by ISIS

The staggering brutality of ISIS, what the terrorists called the "management of savagery," was meticulously recorded and posted on the internet to morbidly fascinate the world...

Pathologist gives horrifying account on state of Maj. Mahama’s body at crime scene

There was dead silence at an Accra High Court on Tuesday as Specialist Pathologist, Dr Lawrence Edusei gave a horrifying account of the state...

National Security uncovers 74 locally manufactured guns at Kagara

A joint operation by security agencies under operation 'Kundanlgou', headed by National Security has led to the seizure of 73 locally manufactured long barrel...

Court remands two over robbery at Winneba

A District Magistrate Court in Winneba presided over by Mr. Charles Oheneba-Kufour has remanded into prison custody two men allegedly accused of their involvement...

40 unregistered, uninsured motorbikes seized in swoop

Police in South Tongu District of the Volta Region have swooped on owners of 40 unregistered and uninsured motorbikes in the area. The exercise which...

Coup Plot Allegations: ACP Agordzo denied bail again

Coup suspect, ACP Benjamin Agordzo, has, once again, been denied bail by an Accra High Court. This follows opposition by state prosecutors to an application...

Mpraeso District Police arrest two armed robbers

The Mpraeso District Police have arrested two armed robbers believed to be part of a gang that rob passengers on the Adawso and Kotoso...

Spiritual gold deal goes sour as herbalist defrauds couple of GH¢94,000

A 31-year-old herbalist, Hassan Talha, popularly known as Alhassan, has been jailed for defrauding a couple to the tune of GH¢94,000 on the pretext...

Police on manhunt for uncle who defiled niece since she was 6 years

A 10-year-old girl has come out to accuse her uncle of defiling her since she was six-years-old. According to Abi , her uncle, whose name was...

Informant in murdered NPP Treasurer’s case remanded for deceit

Investigations into the murder of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Takoradi constituency treasurer has taken an interesting turn following the arrest of the informant,...

Listen: Why family of man killed by police wants body buried at police headquarters

The family of a man, allegedly brutalised and killed by two police personnel at Adomfe in the Ashanti region, wants their late son buried...

Man arrested for allegedly murdering brother

Mr Christopher Kucham, a resident of Dambai-Lakeside in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his younger...

Man electrocuted while attempting to steal transformer

A middle-aged man suspected to be a thief has been electrocuted while trying to steal a transformer in Abuja, Nigeria. His lifeless body...