Crime

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...

Video: High Court acquits and discharges NPP National Chairman of contempt charge

New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Chairman, Freddy Blay, has been acquitted and discharged of the contempt charge leveled against him by the Commission on...

Fake lawyer busted

A 34-year-old man who posed as a lawyer has been busted, a disclaimer letter by the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) signed by J. L....

Lovers before court for allegedly attempting to snatch Uber car

Two love birds, Beatrice Naa Korley 22 years unemployed and John Kyei Baffour 19, a mechanic apprentice, have appeared before the Ashaiman District Circuit...

Sales executive gets GHC20,000.00 bail over theft

A 33-year-old sales executive of Forewin Ghana Limited has been granted a GHC20,000.00 bail for allegedly stealing GHC27,542.00 belonging to the institution. Two people are...

Accra Psychiatric Hospital demands request folder of Sexy Dondon for safekeeping

The Accra Psychiatric Hospital is demanding from An Accra High Court the return of the folder of Daniel Asiedu, aka Sexy Dondon, one of the suspects...

Photos+Audio: Two Coconut sellers fight over 50pesewas price reduction; one injured

A coconut seller, identified as Kwaku Boadu, has allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on one Kojo Mensah, another coconut seller over price reduction from GHc...

Police charge fetish priest who allegedly abused beauty pageant contestants

Police in the Eastern Region have charged a fetish priest and his accomplices for allegedly molesting some contestants of the 2019 Miss Commonwealth Beauty Pageant at...

Most wanted thief in Jukwa ‘Akokodompe’ grabbed

A 21-year-boy said to be the most wanted thief in Jukwa in the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District of the Central Region has been...

Adomfe ‘police’ killing: Publish images of interdicted officers – residents demand

Some residents of Adomfe in the Asante Akyem South Municipality in the Ashanti region are demanding for justice on behalf of Kofi Amponsah, a...

Kidnap of Canadian girls: Seidu Mba, 3 others freed

The Attorney General’s office has dropped charges against four people accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls. They are Seidu Abubakr alias Mba, who was...

DJ grabbed over defilement

A Disc Jockey (DJ), who is accused of having sex with a 10-year old girl at Flamingo, a suburb of Dansoman, has appeared before...

Man jailed 10 years for stealing motorbike

A 24-year-old man, Madji Solomon, has been jailed for 10 years for stealing a motorbike of a farmer in Dodowa of the Greater Accra Region. The...

Teacher commits suicide

Simon Tetteh, 44, a tutor of Nifa Senior High School in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region, has allegedly committed suicide.The incident...

Man chops off p*nis of wife’s rapist

A husband has chopped off the penis of his wife's rapist after seeing her being attacked yards from their home in Ukraine. The 27-year-old husband was...

Asante Akyem killing: 3 cops interdicted

Three police officers have been interdicted after they allegedly beat up a man to death in the Asante Akyem South District of the Ashanti...

Photos: 77-year-old ‘weed’ farmer arrested in Atebubu

Police in Atebubu in the Bono East region have arrested a 77-year-old man for cultivating marijuana known, popularly known in Ghana as 'weed'. The police,...

Listen: Family recounts how police officers slashed innocent relative with machete to death

The family of a 33-year-old driver, who was allegedly butchered by six men claiming to be police officers, say Kofi Ampoma was killed an...

Boxer in trouble over sex with minor

A 45-year-old Boxer accused of having sex with an 11-year-old girl at Otordzo, near Dansoman in Accra has been admitted to bail by an...

23-year-old vulcanizer grabbed for alleged defilement of six-year-old

A Vulcanizer apprentice, who allegedly defiled a six-year-old girl at Teshie, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement. Issac Duvor, 23, has...

Robber killed in gun battle

A suspected armed robber has been killed in a gun battle with officers of a police patrol team on the Obuasi-Dunkwa-on-Offin road. Ashanti Regional Police...

Four charged with stealing 40 tyres belonging to PDS

Four persons have been granted a GH¢50,000.00 bail with two sureties each for allegedly stealing 40 pieces of tyres valued at GH¢50,000.00 belonging to...

Unemployed man remanded over sexual abuse

An unemployed man who allegedly dragged a 12-year old girl into an uncompleted building at New Legon and sexually abused her has been put...

I stole to pay my fees – Student nurse confesses

A 25-year-old, Alice Bonye, a second-year student of the Tamale Nurses and Midwifery Training College, was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing...