Crime

Tema police bust alleged rape gang involved in raping Nigerian girls

The Tema Regional Police Command has busted two suspects who allegedly raped and robbed victims within the Ada Foah area of the Greater Accra...

Horror: Mad man murders and burns body parts of ‘landlord’ at Dansoman

A ‘mad man’ has gruesomely murdered a 59-year-old property owner at Tunga near Dansoman in the Ablekuma West constituency of the Greater Accra...

Video: Aayalolo door ‘arrests’ suspected robber

Drama unfolded in the Aayalolo metro bus when a suspected robber got ‘arrested’ by the vehicle’s automated door. The bus travelling from Adum to Aputuogya...

Defiled girl, 9, battles for life

A nine-year-old girl is battling for her life at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after she was allegedly defiled by her 53-year-old grandfather, Peter...

Video: Four Nigerians arrested in Accra for attempting to murder househelp

The East Legon Police Command has arrested four Nigerian nationals at Trassaco, a residential area at East Legon in the Greater Accra region over...

Video+Photos: Househelp vomits blood, sustains deep wounds following employers’ torture

Four Nigerians on Tuesday allegedly subjected their Ghanaian domestic help to severe pain, leading to disfiguring of the body of the victim. Joy News’ Latif...

Audio: Second victim in Gomoa Akraman violence missing, not dead – Police PRO clarifies

A middle-aged man, who sustained gunshot wounds during a cross-fire at Gomoa Akraman in the Gomoa East District of the Central region is reported...

Takoradi kidnapped girls: Families demand DNA results from Police

The families of the three kidnapped Takoradi girls are demanding updates on the DNA tests being undertaken on the human remains retrieved from the...

21 people facing trial in US$139 million corruption-related cases – Attorney General

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has said a total of 21 people and a limited liability company, are...

Court remands fake soldier

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a fake soldier for allegedly defrauding three nurses under the pretext of getting them enlisted into the Ghana...

Cock wins court case as judge directs it to crow as loud as it can

A court in Rochefort, western France has underscored the fact that nobody has an absolute right as its recent ruling in favour of a...

Photo: 9 Chinese nationals busted for galamsey operation

Nine new Chinese galamsey operators have been arrested at Akrofuom in the Adansi District of the Ashanti Region by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal...

Video: Fulani man beaten with spanner in renewed Karaga clashes

A 27-year-old nomadic herdsman, identified as Jibril, has been severely assaulted and left with head wounds following renewed clashes at Bagurugu in Karaga in...

Lover cuts girl’s hand …over ‘Chale Wate’

There was pandemonium at Komfuor Nkwanta near Obuasi in the Adansi Akrofrom District when a 16-year old girl, had her wrist chopped off following a misunderstanding...

Video: Kwame Nkrumah Circle traders find innovative way to punish thieves

As Ghana looks for innovative ways to deal with her many problems, some traders at Odo Rice, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle have also found a...

Taxi driver shot dead in Takoradi by suspected robbers

A taxi driver has allegedly been shot dead within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. He was allegedly shot three times in the chest...

Court remands 49-year-old ‘wee peddler’

A Bole Magistrate Court has remanded a 49-year-old Taaza Bongu into prison custody for alleged possession of a substance believed to be weed. The suspect who...

Video: Frustrated DCE gives “shoot-and-kill” order

The District Chief Executive Officer, for Gomoa East in the Central Region, Solomon Darko Quarm has charged police officers in the district to shoot...

Video: Woman, 18, raped by 2 self-styled pastors wants to kill herself

An 18-year-old woman, who was raped multiple times by two self-styled pastors, feels dirty and unworthy of living that she wants to end it...

Policewoman ‘shot in the neck’

Details are emerging about how a policewoman was gruesomely killed by six men who also stole her rifle in Tamale in the Northern Region...

3 Ghanaians injured, 5 arrested in SA xenophobia attacks – Govt

The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has reported that three Ghanaians have been injured while five others...

Let ‘cop killers’ face firing squad – Irbard Ibrahim

Executive Director of Irbard Security Consult, Irbard Ibrahim, has called for death penalty for Eric Kojo Dua, the suspected murderer of two police officers...

Ghanaian-born US citizen posed as soldier in dating site scam – prosecutors

A New Jersey man is accused of using dating websites to scam women out of $2.1m (£1.7m) while claiming to be a US soldier...

Gun-wielding policemen on traffic duty cannot guarantee safety- GPRTU

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), has added its voice to calls on the government to err on the side of caution before arming Police...

Photo: Final year UG medical student dies from suspected suicide

A student of the University of Ghana Medical School is reported to have taken his own life on Wednesday. Joseph Obeng Opuni’s lifeless body found...

Photo: Barber electrocuted while repairing hair clipper

A barber believed to be in his late 40s, Arise Asare has been electrocuted at Shiabu, a suburb of Dansoman in the Ablekuma West Municipality. Police...

Tanker driver jailed for setting vehicle ablaze

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced the tanker driver who, together with his mate and another accomplice, sold the contents of a diesel tanker...

Mobile money vendor killed at Dambai

Fuseini Inusah, 29, a mobile money vendor was on Monday night shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of...

Fabewoso: Man accuses East Legon police of selling his car [audio]

A businessman based in Germany is accusing police in East Legon of selling his Man Diesel tipper truck with registration number GR-370U. Mr Victor Owusu...

Video: Two arrested with 294 slabs of marijuana in Techiman

The Techiman Divisional Police Command in the Bono East Region has arrested two men with 294 slabs of wrapped weeds suspected to be marijuana. The two men...

Audio: Witnesses of Kasoa cops killing get psychological help

A team of police officers from the Kasoa Divisional Command and Clinical Psychologists from the Police Hospital, led by ASP Foster Nanewotor, have paid...

Alleged killer of policewoman embroiled in another case of attempted murder

A suspected murderer of a policewoman would be put before a Magistrate court on Wednesday, in relation to another case of attempted murder.  Yakubu Kanbo Naa,...

‘It is not just simply protecting the police’ – Peace Council Chair on arming MTTD officers

Chairman of the National Peace Council has admonished the police administration to train it's Motor Traffic and Transport Department  (MTTD) officers on the use of...

14-year-old faces 5 murder charges after confessing to killing his family

A 14-year-old has been charged with five counts of murder after confessing to shooting his family members in their Elkmont, Alabama, home, police said...

9 ‘land guards’ remanded for rioting

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded nine land guards for allegedly causing riots They are Stanley Tagoe, 42, alias Abuasupanin, Joshua Obosu, 20, land guard, ...

Kasoa cops killing: IGP orders investigation into conduct of police officers involved

The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong Boanuh, has ordered the Police Professional Standard Bureau (PPSB) to begin investigations into reports about...

Photos: Man, 49, arrested for transporting weed to Wa

A 49-year-old man, identified as Taaza Dong, has been arrested by the Sawla police in the Savannah region for possessing and transporting substances suspected...

Audio: Image of slain Kasoa cop keeps ‘coming to me’ – Shop owner

The owner of the shop in which one of the two police officers killed at Gomoa Buduburam sought cover is appealing for psychological help. The...

Video of how Kasoa cop killer was grabbed on Adomi Bridge

A video of how Eric Kojo Dua, the prime suspect in the killing of two policemen at Kasoa Buduburam, was arrested on the Adomi...

NAM 1 faces fresh charges

State Prosecutors have pressed new charges against CEO of gold dealership firm Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah. State Prosecutors have pressed new charges...