Crime

Rescue mission gone bad as Tadi kidnapped girl look-alike spotted

A 35-year-old Takoradi based taxi driver was nearly lynched after he was hired by four persons to go and rescue one of the kidnapped...

18-year-old to spend 15 years in prison for robbery

An 18-year old, Abubakar Sidick, would for the next 15 years spend his life at the Nsawam prisons for robbing a man of his...

Two more suspects charged over Kasoa cops murder

The Kaneshie District Court has charged two people suspected to have aided one Eric Kojo Duah in the killing of two police officers at...

Girl, 13, allegedly defiled by two men at Ajumako

A 13-year-old class five female pupil in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District in the Central region, has allegedly been defiled by two young men aged...

Photos: Six more soldiers charged over alleged coup plot

Six soldiers, said to be part of a plot to take down the Presidency, have been slapped with charges of possession of explosives and...

Customs, NACOB seize cocaine concealed in bag

The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) have seized 12.1394kg of cocaine at the Kpoglo Border...

Defence Intelligence busts ring of suspected fraudsters at McCarthy Hill

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has arrested eight persons said to be part of an active ring of fraudsters at McCarthy Hill in Accra. The operation,...

U.S-based Ghanaian physician gets 15 months for passport fraud

A Ghanaian physician residing in Fulton, Maryland in the U.S. has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of...

Listen: Man kills lover over bride price

A 40-year-old man, Kwaku Afunumu, has allegedly shot his 36-year-old lover, Afia Florence dead at Nkrakrom, a village near Nkrakwanta in the Dormaa West...

Photo+Audio: Suspected bank robber arrested at Kasoa

A suspected bank robber, who stormed the Kasoa branch of the GCB bank, has been arrested by the Kasoa Divisional Police command. Reports indicated that...

Suame: Thief’s head stuck to death in shop gate after failed break-in

Luck eluded a suspected thief Thursday dawn when his head got trapped on top of a store gate for five hours and died later...

U.S.-based Ghanaian physician gets 15 months for passport fraud

A Ghanaian physician residing in Fulton, Maryland in the U.S. has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for...

Torture House: Hundreds freed in police raid

Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...

Kintampo: One dead, others injured over burial place of Abusuapanin (Audio)

One person has been confirmed dead with several others injured following a disagreement over the burial place of a family head at Kintampo in...

3 suspected robbers arrested at Dormaa Ahenkro

Three suspected robbers have been arrested at Dormaa Ahenkro in the Dormaa Municipality of the Bono region. According to the Dormaa Ahenkro District Police Commander,...

Senior military officer, one other charged over alleged coup plot

A senior military officer, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli and Gershun Akpa, a civilian employee of the Armed Forces have been charged for their role...

Waiting to die: 180 on death row, no executions since 1993

Some 180 condemned prisoners are languishing on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison because successive Presidents had, since 1993, refused to sign...

3 alleged Indian hemp peddlers arrested

Three young men who were transporting cannabis from Badum a farming community in the Tain District of the Bono Region, to Cape Coast have...

Murder suspect dies in custody

Kwaku Tesor, a farmer standing trial at the Brerkum District Magistrate Court for allegedly murdering his wife at Tiadene, a farming community near Seikwa...

Video: Two arrested for possessing human skull in Sekondi

Two people are currently in the grips of the Sekondi Police Command for possessing broken skulls suspected to be human head in the Western region. Speaking in...

Video: Kasoa cops killing: 6 suspects freed

State Prosecutors have dropped charges leveled against six persons accused of assisting one Eric Kojo Duah to murder two policemen at Buduburam. ASP Sylvester Asare on...

Photos: Unknown assailants shoot man in his sleep at Zomlampe

A man, identified as Samadu Seidu, has reportedly been shot dead by unknown assailants at Zomlampe of the Central Gonja District in the Savannah...

Court warns serving convict not to step in court over any crime

A 30-year-old unemployed man has been warned by a judge not step in any of the courts for any offence. Gideon Ayiku was warned by...

Fashion designer arrested for defiling 15-year-old

A fashion designer has been put before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old girl in a shop at La, in Accra. Joseph...

Coup allegation: ‘It’s all a plot’ – Dr Mac-Palm screams in court

“It is all a plot,” Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, the medical practitioner who has been charged with two others for illegal possession of arms,...

Two face prosecution over electricity fraud

The Makola Division of the Ghana Police Service has arrested two men - Amos Debi and Emmanuel Nartey - for allegedly engaging in electricity...

Suspects in alleged coup plot were set-up – Lawyer

Victor Adawudu, the lawyer for the three persons standing trial for allegedly manufacturing weapons and plotting to destabilise the country believes that the...

Coup plot: I’m not perturbed because I’m innocent – Dr Mac-Palm

"I’m innocent, I’m not bothered, you can take pictures and videos of me and I won’t shy away because I know I’m innocent,” these...

It doesn’t take a battalion to stage a coup – Security expert

A security expert is worried about the lack of seriousness being attached to the alleged coup plot in the country. Paul Boateng described as worrying...

Audio: Stop ridiculing weapons of coup plotters – Lawyer

Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a United States-based legal practitioner and accounting professor, popularly known on Facebook as Kwaku Azar, has urged Ghanaians, especially security...

Alajo ‘coup plotters’ charged with conspiracy to manufacture arms

Three suspects picked up by state security agencies on suspicion of engaging in “an elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency,” have been slapped with...

Just in: State fails to charge ‘coup plotters’ with high treason [Video]

The state of Ghana has failed to charge three persons picked up by security agencies for allegedly engaging in a plot to subvert the...

Audio: Alajo residents give blow-by-blow account of Citadel Hospital raid

Some residents of Alajo, a suburb of Accra, where arms and weapons were reportedly retrieved from Citadel Hospital say they are still shocked by...

Foiled coup plot: Military officers arrested (Audio)

It has emerged that some military personnel involved in the recent bust of alleged coup plotters have been arrested. Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, disclosed...

Govt’s claim on foiled coup plot laughable – Security expert

Nana Yaw Akwada, a security expert, is finding it difficult to believe the government’s claim that it has neutralised an elaborate plot targeted at...

Woman dies 3 days after pastor husband allegedly beats her

A 28-year-old woman, Peace Goka, has died three days after was allegedly beaten to a pulp by her husband, a pastor named Thomas Awadzi. The...

Chain-saw operator gets 15 years for defiling step daughter

Daniel Owusu, a 26 -old -year chain-saw operator who defiled his 12-year-old stepdaughter has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Cape...

Official: Plot to overthrow President Akufo-Addo uncovered and foiled

The attempt by a group of civilians and some serving military officers to overthrow the government of Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has been foiled,...

Audio: Arrest of suspect in killing of Asantehene’s sub-chief commendable – Zongo youth

Members of a Concerned Zongo Youth in Kumasi have applauded the police for the swift action in arresting prime suspect in the killing of...

Audio: Police-Military team uncovers guns, bombs in hospital at Alajo

The Managing Director of Citadel Hospital at Alajo in the Greater Accra Region has been arrested after a joint police and military team uncovered guns and...