Crime

Family of slain policeman wants body for burial

Family of slain police officer, Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal, wants his body released for speedy burial in accordance with Islamic customs. They believe his death...

IGP places GH¢10,000 bounty on cops’ killer

The acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has placed a GH¢10,000 bounty on the head of Eric Kojo Duah,...

21-year-old man in police grips for sodomy

Police Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit at Manhyia Division in Kumasi has arrested a man for allegedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy at Asem. The...

13 arrested over attack on police officers in Northern Region

The police in Tamale have rounded up 13 persons who allegedly attacked some police officers and damaged their vehicle while on duty at Libga,...

Unveiled: Faces of suspected Kasoa cop killers [Video]

A video has emerged of the faces of some three men suspected to be the killers of two police officers who were gunned down...

Video: Kasoa police killers arrested as 2nd officer dies

https://youtu.be/0d89JbrF8Jo The police officer was said to be battling for his life after he and a colleague were shot by suspected robbers at Kasoa Budumburam...

Video: Police officer killed at Akim Oda laid to rest

There was solemn mood at Asante Mampong as family members and sympathizers gathered to send Lance Corporal Asare, the police officer who was allegedly...

Photos+Audio: 3rd police officer gunned down in 2 weeks as another battles for his life

Some unidentified robbers have shot dead a policeman of the Kasoa Divisional Command leaving another in a critical condition at Kasoa Budumburam in the...

Audio: Woman, 27, found dead in lover’s room

A 27-year-old woman, who was in search of accommodation, has reportedly been found dead in her boyfriend’s room in Accra. According to her brother,...

Footballer remanded for allegedly possessing Indian hemp

The Nkawie Circuit Court has remanded an 18-year-old footballer into prison custody for possessing substances suspected to be Indian hemp. Abdul Majeed Hansen was arrested at Apatrapa...

Scam police recruiters remanded

The two men nabbed by police operatives for allegedly engaging in a recruitment scam into the police service have pleaded not guilty to three...

Father, 33, allegedly kills baby hours after birth

A 33-year-old man has been arrested by the Police in Akatsi at a village called Bekpo located in the Akatsi South District of the...

PPA boss to be hauled before GIPS Ethics and Professional Standards Committee

The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) says they will cause the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) boss to appear before the Institute’s Ethics and...

Woman jailed 2 years for pouring acid on business rival

The 33-year-old woman who poured acid on her business rival has been jailed two years with hard labour by the Akyem Swedru Circuit Court. Ms ...

Man jailed 10 years for possessing 55 wraps of ‘weed’

A 24-year-old apprentice has been sentenced to a prison term of 10 years in hard labour for possessing 50 wraps of Indian hemp. Emmanuel Adjei,...

3 illegal miners arrested in Anhwiaso-East Forest Reserve

 A timely intervention by the Rapid Response Team of the Forestry  Commission has led to the arrest of three persons at the Anhwiaso-East Forest Reserve in...

Operation Vanguard arrests 20 suspected illegal miners in Eastern Region

Operation Vanguard personnel in the Eastern Region on Sunday morning at about 02:00 hours arrested 20 suspected illegal miners during a search operation in the general...

Photos+Audio: Woman, 22, found dead in lover’s room

A 22-year-old woman, identified as Vera Adu, has been found dead in her boyfriend’s room at Adu Gyemfi near Sowutwom in the Greater Accra...

Policeman was killed with heavy object, not gun – Report

Preliminary police reports in the killing of Corporal Bernard Antwi, 37, at Manso Abodom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti region are indicating that...

Chief Justice dismisses Hajia Fati’s petition

The Chief Justice (CJ), Sophia Akuffo, has dismissed a petition filed by beleaguered New Patriotic Party (NPP) sympathizer, Hajia Fati. Hajia Fati has, through her lawyers, petitioned...

Ghana seeks extradition of Nigerian kidnap suspect

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has begun a process for the extradition of Chika Nnodim from Nigeria to Ghana...

Two chiefs arrested in Savannah Region

Police have arrested eight suspects including two sub-chiefs believed to be behind attacks on  Birifos' chief's Palace at Tatulma, a suburb of the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba...

Court jails 6 men who flogged boy in viral video, fined GHC1,200 each

A Magistrate court in Enchi in the Western North Region on Thursday, August 22, 2019 has sentenced six men who mercilessly flogged a young...

22-yr-old habitual thief returns to jail

A 22-year-old habitual thief at Toase in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality, who have been convicted and jailed several times by the Nkawie Circuit Court,...

Photos: Slain police officer laid to rest in Tamale

Sergeant Agatha Nana Nabin has been laid to rest in Tamale after her murder while on duty on July 30. The burial service for the...

Video: NDC Primaries: Two delegates arrested in Sunyani West

Police in Bono Regional Capital of Sunyani have arrested two National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates at the Sunyani West polling station. The delegates, whose...

Clash between Operation Vanguard and youth leads to death of 2

A clash between the youth at Denkyira Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West Municipality in the Central region and members of the Operation Vanguard...

It was 419, I did not mean to rob her – Suspect

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 44-year-old trader into police custody for allegedly robbing a businesswoman. Ebenezer Larbi pleaded not guilty to conspiracy...

Dismissed police officer among arrested robbers

It has been established that one of the three suspected armed robbers paraded Friday at the Koforidua Central Police Station is a dismissed Police...

Murdered Policewoman promoted posthumously

The Inspector-General of Police (Ag), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, has promoted posthumously Corporal Agatha Nana Nabin to Sergeant in recognition of her act of bravery,...

Gun-toting men snatches NABCo Coordinator’s official vehicle

Three masked men, wielding AK-47 riffles, have attacked the Northern Region Coordinator of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCO), Yahaya Abdul Rahman. His official vehicle, a...

UEW impasse: We were naïve – Avoke apologises, begs for Napo’s intervention

The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Prof. Mawutor Avoke has apologised to the Education Minister for undermining the process of...

Police retrieve stolen AK-47 riffle, 3 persons arrested

The Police in Accra have retrieved one AK-47 riffle and 19 of the 20 rounds of ammunition stolen from the Akporman-Manna Police post at...

Donkomi: Popular lawyer asks 10 questions

The Popular United States of America-based Ghanaian lawyer, Professor Kwaku Asare, known in social media circles as Kwaku Azar, has asked ten questions he...

Boy, 16, remanded for sodomising five-year-old boy

The Ajumako Magistrate Court, presided over by his Lordship Alfred Rockson Kpodo, has remanded a 16-year-old boy into prison custody for two weeks for...

Goldsmith shoots colleague in disagreement over gold in Kumasi

A disagreement between two goldsmiths turned bloody when one shot the other at Ashanti New Town K.O., a suburb of Kumasi late afternoon on Wednesday. The...

40-year-old man commits suicide at Sefwi Waiwso

A Forty-year-old storekeeper, Daniel Nyame has committed suicide at Sefwi Dwenase, near Waiwso in the Western North Region. The deceased also known as Atta hanged...

Police secure warrant to arrest Asamponhene’s ‘killer’

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has secured a court warrant for the arrest of the prime suspect in the killing of the Asantehene's sub-chief,...

Court convicts woman, boyfriend for robbery

An Accra Circuit Court has convicted a woman and her boyfriend for robbing her ex-boyfriend but sentence was deferred till August 27. Jonathan K. Wiallens...

Asamponhene’s murder: Police mount search for ‘fugitive spiritualist’

Police in Kumasi have intensified their search for a spiritualist suspected to be linked to the killing of Asantehene’s sub-chief, Asamponhene Nana Afoduo. The suspect,...