Crime

Nam 1’s bail conditions reviewed

An Accra Circuit Court has ruled that persons who have pledged to take responsibility if Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known...

Police brief families of missing girls on latest findings

The police have formally informed the families of the three missing girls from Takoradi about their latest finding with regard to the investigations they...

More people convicted for human trafficking offences

Ten people were sentenced to prison for human trafficking offences in 2018, statistics from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social...

T’di kidnappings: Families want DNA test done abroad

Families of the three girls missing in Takoradi are demanding an independent forensic analysis of human remains retrieved by the police from a cesspit...

17 inmates freed from Koforidua prisons under ‘Justice for All programme’

Seventeen remand prison inmates at the Koforidua Central Prison, in the Eastern region have been discharged through the 'Justice for All programme.'...

REGSEC commends Securities for the discovery of the human remains

The Western Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has commended the Regional Police Commander and all the securities for not relenting on their efforts...

Attorney General bounces Woyome

Embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears to have finally accepted defeat in his unsuccessful legal battles to avoid or at least ...

T’di kidnappings: Third suspect arrested in Nigeria

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the three Takoradi girls, online news portal mynewsgh.com has reported. The suspect, identified...

Police urges public to be calm pending lab exams in Taadi girls’ kidnapping

ACP David Eklu, Director General for Public Relations of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) has urged the public to remain calm as laboratory investigation...

Pastor allegedly sleeps with three women for spiritual cleansing

When a 29-year-old pastor of the Adom Power Ministry, Daniel Abisah, alias Ogya Bofuor, arrived at Akrodie in the Asunafo South District of the...

Takoradi: Police meet families of missing girls, serve notice for DNA samples

Representatives from the Western Regional Police Command have met with the families of the three girls kidnapped in Takoradi. This meeting comes a day after...

Tadi missing girls: We know God will expose suspects – Family (Video)

Family members of the three Takoradi missing girls, following police reports of retrieval of human remains from the house of one of the suspects,...

Audio: Man’s lover bites off ex-girlfriend’s lip over money

A woman, believed to be in her 30's and lover of a man identified as Aliwaye Rabiu, has allegedly bitten the man's ex-girlfriend's lower...

My wife’s death, a shock – Husband of slain policewoman

The husband of the policewoman who was killed by suspected armed robbers in Tamale is yet to come to terms with the reality of...

Court remands 16-year-old girl for robbery

A sixteen-year-old girl, Selorm Gbordjor, has been remanded into police custody by the Ashaiman circuit court presided over by Mr Gabriel Mate-Teye, for robbery.  Gbordjor...

Lawyers for NAM1 apply for variation of bail conditions

Lawyers for the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1 has filed an application in the...

It’s official: Police confirm discovery of human remains in home of suspect in Taadi kidnapped girls

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has confirmed in a statement that a special operation it carried out with the...

Man butchers baby, injures mother

Police in Kenyasi have intensified a manhunt for a-35-year-old unemployed who allegedly butchered a-two-month-old baby girl at Wamahinso, a mining community in the Ahafo...

Photo: Fake money ‘doubler’ jailed 10 years

A 30-year-old unemployed man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Ashaiman Circuit Court for swindling church members of Global Reformation...

Exclusive details of how untraceable $12.2m was paid by PDS for ECG takeover

Exclusive documents secured by Joy News reveal that Power Distribution Services (PDS) paid the required $12.2 million premium to secure guarantee to finalise the...

Photos: Five suspects arrested for murder of female cop

At least five suspects have been arrested by the Police in connection with the murder of the Police woman, Agartha Nabin in Tamale. Information gathered...

Sagnarigu cop ‘killer’ arrested

The Police command in Tamale in the Northern region has arrested one person in connection with the murder of a female police officer. The suspect,...

19-year-old jailed for faking her kidnapping

A 19-year-old, Beatrice Naa Lamley, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping.Beatrice, a mobile money vendor, on June...

NAM1 still in police custody; unable to meet GHc1bn bail requirement

The Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah is still being held in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra Circuit...

Police announce GH¢ 10k bounty on female cop’s killers

The Ghana Police Service has announced a reward of GH¢10, 000.00 for anyone who can give credible information that would lead to the arrest...

Photos+Audio: Boy, 13, narrates how he escaped from a kidnapper at Gomoa

A 13-year-old boy, in an interview with Adom News, has narrated how he mistakenly helped a kidnapper at Gomoa in the Central region and...

Police arrest rice farmer for assault

A rice farmer, Kwame Appiah has been arrested by the Police for inflicting deep cutlass wounds on the head of a fisherman at Sankore...

Takoradi kidnapping: Accused persons’ Facebook chats reveal coded language on kidnapping

The Chief State Attorney in the case of the three Takoradi missing girls, Patience Klinogo, has told the Sekondi High Court that the two...

Kidnapped girls: Angry mother slaps suspect in court

There was drama at the Sekondi High Court 2 in the Western Region Wednesday, when a mother of one of the kidnapped girls slapped...

Photo: Masked gunmen shoot police woman dead; seize weapons in Tamale

Four masked gunmen, clad in military uniform, have allegedly shot dead a female cop, identified as Agartha Nana Nabin, after a gun battle at...

Y’asem Nie: Taxi driver loses eye in attack by city guard [Audio]

The right eye of a 35-year-old taxi driver popped out when a city guard hit him with a pavement block at Kaneshie in Accra. His only crime,...

Audio: Man shoots nephew dead during bush hunting

Kwadwo Duku, believed to be in his late forties, has allegedly shot dead his nephew identified as Kennedy Asi during a bush hunting. Information gathered...

N/R: Robbers attack police at checkpoint, kill one and steal their weapons

A female police officer has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at a checkpoint in the Sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region. She was...

Photo: Fake Barclays Bank staff jailed for fraud

A 47-year-old man Mohammed Ali also known as Eric has been jailed by two Courts for defrauding by false pretence. The convict parading as a...

Pastor arrested for allegedly raping three women

The Asunafo South District police command in the Ahafo Region has arrested a 29-years-old self-styled man of God for allegedly raping ...

Canadian girls kidnappers: Four granted GHC 800,000 bail

The Accra High Court has granted bail to four of the eight accused persons standing trial for the kidnap of two Canadians in Kumasi. Each...

Acting IGP cracks whip; interdicts police commander for unlawful detention

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has interdicted the District Commander for Lakeside, DSP Eric Partey Opata, for unlawful detention of a...

Driver, Houseboy remanded over robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GH¢ 20,000.00 bail with a surety each to two persons, including a teenager who is a...

Couple busted for shoplifting at Legon Shell Shop

A man and a woman, both in their 50s, were arrested on Friday, 26 July 2019 by the Legon police command for attempting to...

NAM1 granted GH¢ 1 billion bail (Audio)

Embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court, Friday. Mr...