Crime

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...

26-year-old trader jailed for stealing television set

A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 26-year- old trader to five years imprisonment for stealing a television set at Kronum-Kwapra in the Suame...

I rape minors to ease tension – 18-year-old rape suspect

The Niger state police command has arrested and paraded a suspected rapist identified as Mizanbilu Yusuf, for defiling si minors in the state.  Yusuf, 18,...

14 arrested in joint police, military swoop in Tamale

Police in the Northern regional capital of Tamale in collaboration with the military have arrested 14 persons suspected to be drug peddlers in that...

Man kills himself in cocoa farm after fight with wife

A 48-year-old man, Yaw Bempong, has allegedly committed suicide after a misunderstanding with his wife. The incident happened at Alotoso, a farming community in the Atewa East District...

Robbery victim guns down robber

A suspected armed robber, who was part of a three-man gang, was shot dead when the gang tried to hold up a prisons officer...

Photos: Teenager, girlfriend in police grips over alleged stabbing of Uber driver

A 19-year-old John Kyei Baffour and his 22-year-old girlfriend, Beatrice Naa Korley, have been put in police custody at Dodowa for allegedly strangling and...

Photo: Lamborghini stolen in Switzerland found in Ghana with Nigerian number plate

Luxury Rental Benelux, a car rental company, claims a Lamborghini car belonging to a friend has been stolen. The car rental company posted on...

New twist in Kasoa police ‘killers’ case

Another person — suspected to have aided Eric Kojo Dua in the murder of two police officers at Buduburam near Kasoa in the Central...

Robbers burgle Tema DVLA office

The Deputy Director of the Public Relations unit of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr Kwaku Darko Afari, has confirmed to Class...

Murdered police woman trial: 3 suspects freed

Based on the advice of the Attorney General’s Department, the Tamale Magistrate Court has discharged three out of the six accused persons in the...

‘Evangelist’, four others nabbed for robbery at Peki

The Volta Regional Police Command has arrested five out of six suspects in connection with a robbery attack on Kings Oil Filling Station at...

Listen: Why govt will fail to prove treason charge against ‘coup plotters’

Government will find it very difficult to prove the treason charge against alleged coup plotters, lawyer for the suspects, Kojoga Adawudu has said. He explained...

Two arrested for allegedly causing bees to disrupt Ghana Card registration

Two people are in the custody of the Bimbilla police for allegedly causing a swarm of bees to disrupt the Ghana Card registration process...

Driver remanded for defiling and impregnating minor

A Circuit Court in Accra has remanded into lawful custody Abubakar Issifu Sadik, a driver, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old girl at...

Ocultist arrested for allegedly killing his aunt

The Sege police last Sunday arrested 24 year old Isaiah Tetteh Sebbie at Goi, a suburb of Sege, for allegedly butchering his aunt for...

‘Coup plotters’ charged with treason felony

State prosecutors have charged nine persons with treason felony for allegedly engaging in an “elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency”. They are Dr Frederick Yao...

Ato Essien, 3 others charged over Capital Bank collapse

Founder of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien and three others; Tetteh Nettey, Fitzgerald Odonkor and Kate Quartey Papafio, have been charged over the...

Thief expresses shock in court over his stealing prowess

A mobile phone thief, Richard Appiah, alias Paa Kwesi, who on Monday said he could not fathom how he stole about 24 mobile phones...

Court acquits Dr Obengfo

The Accra Circuit Court Four on Tuesday acquitted Dr Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, the Proprietor of the Obengfo Hospital, located at Weija in Accra. He was...

Farm labourer jailed for stealing two rams in Enchi

The Enchi District Magistrate court has sentenced a 29-year-old farm labourer to 18 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing two rams valued at...

‘Fetish Priest’ ‘kills’ aunt

A 24-year-old self-style fetish priest has been arrested by the Sege District Police Headquarters for allegedly butchering his aunt. The sad incident occurred at Goi,...

Photos+Audio: Man arrested over gruesome murder of friend at Budumburam

Charles Blankson, a 32-year-old man, has been arrested by the Kasoa Police command for allegedly kidnapping and killing his business partner and friend, Bright...

I paid back N1.1m loan “in kind”, woman tells court

A Lagos-based businesswoman, Ejioma Ahibafu, 49, on Monday told an Ojo Magistrates’ Court how she paid back “in kind” part of a N1.1 million...

13-year-old boy allegedly kills sister

A 13-year-old boy has allegedly shot his 8-year-old little sister dead at Mamponteng in the Kwabre East municipality of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred...

Police releases 13 persons for ‘demonstrating illegally’

The Accra Regional Police Command has released 13 persons who were arrested on Monday October 7, for embarking on an illegal demonstration. “At about 0830hours,...

38-year-old woman dies after giving birth to triplets

Grandmother of eight children, Mary Akosua Korankyewaa has given a chilling account of events leading to the death of her only daughter, Adwoa...