Crime

Family of man tortured in police custody heads to court

The family of Dodzie Aglebe, the man who was tortured by two police officers in a viral video, has vowed to take legal action...

Arrest drivers who use minors as mates – MTTD

The Divisional Commander of the Kaneshie Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Elvis Sadongo, has...

Ghanaian fraudster with details of 35,000 bank cards jailed

A fraudster from London who went on luxury holidays abroad after harvesting details from thousands of bank customers has been sentenced to two years...

Ritualist’s death sparks rumours of mass human sacrifice

Mass hysteria is sweeping through the East Ada community of Dzetrokorpe after the unannounced death of a known ritual killer circulated in town sparking...

Two robberies claim one life and casualties at Kasseh

A forty-five-year-old man, Amartey Otipeseku, was on Thursday early morning clubbed to death at Kasseh by armed robbers. Mr Jonas Otipeseku, brother of the...

Photos: Iron door chokes thief to death

A 23-year-old suspected thief met his untimely death when he was trapped by an iron door while attempting to steal from a shop. READ: Teachers...

30 arraigned over exam malpractices

About 50 people have been apprehended for engaging in examination malpractices in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates which...

22-year-old man jailed for defiling 14-year-old girl

A Koforidua Circuit Court presided by Justice Mrs. Marian Afoh, has convicted a 22 year old man, Isaac Kwaku Asiamah to seven years imprisonment...

Murder: Ghanaian stabs Ghanaian to death in Europe

A Ghanaian resident in Spain has allegedly killed another Ghanaian in a meat factory where they both work. The happening was made known to the Ghanaian...

Audio: Police react to K’dua brutality

The Eastern Regional Police Command has condemned in no uncertain terms the assault of a suspect by personnel at the Koforidua Railway Police Station. Eastern...

Soldier arrested over alleged assault of policewoman

Lance Corporal Annan Agoe, a military officer with service number 194663, has been arrested by the Nungua Divisional Police Command for allegedly assaulting a...

K’dua police brutality: Father of suspect begs for interdicted officers [audio]

Father of the 28-year-old young man assaulted by two policemen at Koforidua Railway Police Station in the Eastern region is begging for clemency for...

Video: Suspected robbers arrested in Salaga; one on the run

Police in Salaga in the East Gonja District of the Savannah Region have arrested two suspected armed robbers with AK47 assault rifle while they...

Washing Bay attendant jailed for sex with minor

A washing bay attendant has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl at Glefe,...

Watch: This video of Koforidua police brutalizing suspect will break your heart

A disturbing video of some Koforidua Railway Police Station personnel brutalizing a suspect in their custody has emerged and is causing extreme anger on social media. The...

Father of two stabbed to death in front of his children

A father of two has been stabbed to death in front of his children, police have said. Christopher Nicol, 27, was stabbed in his flat...

Man flees after allegedly murdering wife

The Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Police Command are searching for Kwaku Afurumu for allegedly murdering his wife, Afua Florence, 36, on Thursday...

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...