Crime

23 arrested in Agona Swedru riot

The Agona Swedru Police Command has arrested about 23 people who protested against the poor state of their roads on Monday. Angry demonstrators chanted “no...

Court fines farmer for stealing cocoa beans

The Enchi District Magistrate court on Monday fined Kwame Abass, a twenty-one-year-old farmer for stealing dried cocoa beans at Aquai-Allah near Enchi in the...

Angry grandma to send her deceased son’s children to police

An angry mother, Adzo Ahorlu, whose only child was allegedly shot dead by Senchi police in the Asuogyaman District has threatened to send her...

One spot: Two separate robberies, two different times, two drivers killed

Two robbery attacks that occurred at two different times, all at the same spot, have left in their wake, two separate bodies of drivers...

Family fines teacher GHC5k for impregnating pupil

A teacher at Gyekiti Presbyterian Junior High School in the Asuogyman District of the Eastern Region Eugene Akolongo has impregnated a 16-year-old form three...

Fake doctor operating illegally in hotel room nabbed

The Ghana Police Service has apprehended a foreign national and his accomplices for allegedly practising medicine in Ghana without a license. The culprit, Citi News...

Hairstylist in court over sex with minor

A hairstylist who was alleged to have sexually abused a 15-year-old girl during school hours at Osu has been put before an Accra Circuit...

Family of slain Takoradi NPP treasurer places 50K bounty on killer

The family of Mark Yaw Ofori, slain treasurer of the Takoradi constituency office of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Western Region, has...

Video: Two police officers brutalise commercial bus driver at Kasoa

Two police officers, yet to be identified, on Thursday afternoon brutalised a commercial bus driver, identified as Akwesi Osei, at Kasoa in the Central...

Listen: Police hunt for ‘wee smoker’ in Obofour deliverance saga

Police have declared a manhunt for an ex-convict whose video went viral after he was asked to smoke marijuana during a church service attended...

Fake UK Doctor arrested for defrauding 3 people

The Koforidua Circuit Court ‘B’ has remanded a 32-year-old unemployed for disguising himself as a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian doctor to defraud three persons to...

Ghanaian victims of Jammeh killings want to testify before Reconciliation Commission

Ghanaians who survived the unlawful killing of 56 West African migrants in the Gambia and the victims’ families have requested to testify at the...

Man hacks wife for threatening divorce

A middle-aged woman is battling for her life after her estranged husband inflicted cutlass wounds on her for threatening to end their marriage. According to...

2 suspects arrested for leading mob to lynch alleged thief

Two suspects in a mob attack that led to the death of an alleged motorbike thief have been arrested at Sawaba in the Northen region. The...

Man smashes one year old daughter to death

A ferocious father, Isiaka Ayobami has allegedly smashed his one year old daughter on the ground to death at Isheri Area of Lagos. The sad...

Church usher kills wife

Residents of Shiabu Night Market, a community within Ablekuma West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, have been thrown into a state of shock...

Ex-convict jailed four years for stealing cocoa beans

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has handed a four years prison sentence to Gbele Ebenezer, a 27-year chainsaw operator and an ex-convict, for stealing cocoa...

Lawyer for Kasoa cop killer demands psychiatric evaluation for client

A defence lawyer in the trial of persons accused of murdering two policemen is demanding a psychiatric evaluation of his client, Eric Kojo Duah. George...

Four arrested for human trafficking

The Eastern Regional Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHT) of the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Social Welfare Department, have arrested four persons suspected...

Two arrested for allegedly stealing pampers

The police on Monday arraigned two sales representatives, Uche Ezeigbo, 24 and Chika Onwuka, 29, in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing...

80 teachers flee Nkoranza North after ‘horrific’ murders – GNAT

The association of teachers in Nkoranza North District of the Bono East Region has claimed that, at least 80 of school teachers have fled...

Thief abandons mission to watch couple having sex

The Lagos State Police has arrested a 25-year-old thief who abandoned his mission to watch a couple having sex in their apartment at Innocent...

Afoko trial adjourned to Nov. 8

The Accra High Court, hearing the case involving Gregory Afoko and Asabke Alangde accused of the alleged murder of the former Upper East NPP...

Police arrest, detain 5 suspected lotto scammers

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested and detained five persons suspected to be behind a nationwide lotto scam. Karim Mohammed, Nana Kwadwo, Yaw Baffour,...

Man stabbed to death for refusal to pay ‘sex worker’

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be...

4,310 employers dragged to court for defaulting SSNIT contributions

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has dragged 4,310 employers to court for defaulting on SSNIT payments of employees and other offences...

Businesswoman in court for defrauding 22 people

A businesswoman has been arraigned for allegedly defrauding about 22 people under the pretext of aiding their enlistment into the various security services. Anita Odoi...

Angry youth attack prostitutes after colleague’s demise at brothel

A brothel at Sokoban Wood village in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti region, has been set ablaze by some aggrieved youth after their colleague was...

Ashanti: Police arrest fake ‘money doublers’, ‘lotto number experts’

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested five suspected fraudsters during an operation undertaken by officers at the Tafo-Pankrono Divisional Police Command. The suspects; were...

Man who specialises in stealing instruments in churches slapped with 3-year jail term

Kwame Owusu, a 23-year-old driver in Kumasi has been jailed for three years for stealing musical instruments from different churches. The GNA describes him as...

74-year-old landlady fined GHC480 for failing to provide toilet facility

The La District Magistrate court has handed a fine of ¢480 to a 74-year-old landlord for owning a house without a toilet facility. Madam Rachael...

Interpol to chase Safari Bet for client’s GHS 57 million

An Accra High Court has given a default judgement that will make it possible for Interpol to chase Safari Bet, wherever they may be...

Photo: Woman, 71, grabbed with wee

A 71-year-old woman, Abena Abuyaa, and her accomplice, Kwadwo Kinto, alias Ghana Boy, have been arrested by the police for allegedly dealing in Indian...

Audio: Chief assaulted for seizing timber from illegal chainsaw operators

The Krontihene of Nwomoasi, a suburb of Atebubu, Nana Kwame Tutu, has accused some police officers at the Atebubu District Police Command of assaulting...

Five arrested and ordered to desilt gutters for engaging in open defecation

A sanitation monitoring  taskforce in the Gomoa  East District  sub-metro  at Gomoa  Buduburam in the Central region  has arrested five people for allegedly indulging...

Suspected T’di girls kidnapper charged with human trafficking

Samuel Udeotuk-Wills, the prime suspect in the kidnap and murder of the three girls in Takoradi, has been charged with human trafficking...

Court adjourns NAM1 case, prosecutor out of jurisdiction

An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the case involving the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1,...

Teenager gets 8 years for defilement

The Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced Ernest Condobrey alias Badman, a 19 year-old unemployed to eight years imprisonment for defiling an eleven year-old girl. Condobrey...

Man fined for stealing sheep

The Enchi District Magistrate Court has fined a 28-year-old farm labourer, Zack Awini, GHC600.00 for stealing two ewes (female sheep) valued at GHC500.00. The convict...

Two commit suicide after misunderstanding with lovers

Two persons, a man and a lady, have committed suicide by hanging to end matters following misunderstandings with their respective lovers on Thursday and...