Crime

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...

Woman, 52, arrested for baking bread with pig feed (Audio)

A 52-year-old woman, identified as Akosua Dwamena, has been arrested for using pig feed to bake wheat bread for sale at Obomeng in the...

Mobile phone ‘arrests’ highway robbers

A mobile phone that was retrieved from two suspected highway robbers has given them out. The suspects, Mustapha Mumuni, 22, and Ali Bukari, 20, were...

Photo: Man kills his three in-laws

The Edo state police command has arrested a 44-year old man identified as Edoghogho Omorogbe,  for killing his mother in law, sister- in- law...

Two fetish priests sentenced to 30yrs imprisonment

Two robbers and two fetish priests at Ejura in the Ashanti region have been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment each for robbery and...

Man wanted by cops after divorcing wife without telling her

Paul Nixon, 51, of Harris County, Texas, is wanted by cops for forging his wife’s name and the name of a notary on legal...

Watch: How a lady escaped after robbing a bank

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2n5GaWgKYU/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again A lady has been spotted in a viral video jumping from the window of a bank in Kumasi after robbing the bank.  READ: Photos+audio: NPP...

Photos+audio: NPP MP, party executives beaten at Breman Asikuma

A constituency Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is fighting for his life after he, together with the Member of Parliament (MP)...

16 arrested in military and police exercise at Yeji

A joint police and military team has busted 16 suspects at Yeji in the Bono East region during a special exercise conducted to clamp...

Third suspect in Takoradi kidnapping case to face court soon

The Ghana Police Service says it will swiftly put before the court the third suspect in the Takoradi kidnapping case. According to information available to...

PIAC to refer 5 ‘ghost and substandard projects’ to EOCO

Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has finished findings on five ‘ghost and substandard projects’ and has referred them to the Economic and Organised...

I can help families of kidnapped girls retrieve their bones – Maurice Ampaw

Dr Maurice Ampaw, a private legal Practitioner, has said that he is capable of helping the families of the kidnapped Takoradi girls recover the...

Takoradi kidnappings: Third suspect repatriated from Nigeria

The third suspect in the Takoradi Kidnapping case, Chika Innoidim John, has been repatriated to Ghana from Nigeria. According to Citi News sources, the suspect...