Crime

Video+Photos: Menzgold customers storm court over NAM1

Desperate customers of Menzgold Friday morning besieged the premises of the court to demand the release of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the...

3 grave looters remanded

Three alleged grave looters, caught in possession of human skeletons, are standing trial at the Goaso Circuit Court in the Ahafo Region. Their possession, it...

Fake pastor jailed 10 years for fraud

Thirty-year-old self-acclaimed pastor, Isaac Kofi, has been jailed 10 years by the Ashaiman circuit court for defrauding by false pretence.Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police...

Police rescue abducted children

Police at Tepa-Abotoase in the Oti Region are investigating circumstances that led to the kidnapping of two girls who were later found tied in...

Court pegs two of Woyome’s property at GH¢11m minimum

The Supreme Court has, in a unanimous decision, pegged the minimum value of two belongings of businessman, Alfred Woyome, at GH¢11.7 million. A third property...

Grant my wife divorce, she wants me dead- Man tells court

A businessman, Wahab Lukmon, on Thursday, prayed an Egbe-Idumu Customary Court to grant his wife, Olabisi’s request for divorce because she wants him dead. Olabisi sought...

Police arrest suspected railway metal thief (Photos)

A 33-year-old man, identified as Abdul Dramani, suspected to be part of a gang that stole railway metals from the Ohene Nkwanta Railway near...

Court to auction ‘akpeteshie’ to settle man’s debt

The Breman Asikuma District Magistrate Court in the Central region is set to auction one Kofi Badu’s akpeteshie (local gin) to settle his debts...

Mother attacks son with cutlass

A 10-year-old boy, Awal Mohammed, who had his body slashed multiple times by his mother at their home in the Obuasi suburb of Boete...

Police closes in on armed robbers who killed businessman

The Police said they are close on the heels of two suspected armed robbers who shot a businessman leading to his death on Tuesday,...

Takoradi kidnapping case adjourned again

The Sekondi High Court, presided over by Justice Hanna Taylor has once again adjourned the case against Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, both...

Boy jailed 20 years for robbing two sisters

One of the two youngsters who robbed two sisters has been jailed for 20 years by the Bekwai Circuit Court. Godwin Nyarko, 18, was convicted...

Police caution drivers against car snatching by criminals

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has cautioned the public, particularly commercial drivers on new methods of car snatching by criminals. This caution was...

How robbers are snatching taxis – Ghana Police

The Ghana Police Service has thrown light on new method criminals are using to snatch cars from unwitting taxi drivers.According to the Public Affairs...

Police arrest 3 with human parts

Three persons caught with human parts at Abuom near Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region have been arrested by...

2 traders in critical conditions after gunmen lay siege on highway

Two traders are battling for their lives at the Tamale Teaching Hospital in the Northern Region, after they were shot Monday night, by armed...

Suspected fake doctor arrested for abortion gone wrong

The confession of a 19-year-old girl who died shortly after she had allegedly patronised the services of a suspected fake doctor to get rid...

Two granted GHC 30,000.00 bail each over robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday granted a GHC 30,000.00 bail each with two sureties each to Louis Okyere alias “SM” and Abubakari Nii...

J.B. Danquah-Adu trial: Murder suspect’s lawyers challenge medical report

Lawyers for murder suspect in the late legislator, J.B. Danquah-Adu’s trial, Daniel Asiedu are challenging a medical report that declared him sane to stand trial. They...

Photo+Audio: Trotro driver allegedly molested by policemen at Kasoa

A 33-year-old trotro driver, identified as Augustine Arhinful, is accusing some police personnel at the Amanfrom District Police Station in the Central region of...

Two jailed 40 years for robbery

Two persons have been handed a total of 40 years in jail by the Kasoa Circuit Court presided over by His Lordship Ebenezer Osei...

Photos: Suspected thief lynched in Tamale

A suspected thief believed to be in his 20's has been lynched by unidentified persons at Nahada in Tamale in the Northern region. According to reports, the...

Man shot dead at Adoagyiri

Jacob Quashie Okai, a 40-year-old man was on Thursday shot dead by an unknown assailant at Ntoaso near Adoagyiri in the...

Residents chase out police for bringing back alleged witches

Residents of Zarantinga, a community near Nalerigu, in the North East Region have rejected the reintegration of two alleged witches back into the community. Madugu...

Akpeteshie distiller kills 6-year-old son in Takoradi (Photo)

A 47-year-old man has under a strange circumstance, stabbed his six-year-old son to death at Diabene, a farming community within the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of...

I raped my daughter to test her virginity – Suspect tells court

Wasiu Orilonise, a 37-year-old security guard confessed to raping his 15-year-old daughter after being put before Oyo State Magistrates Court sitting in Ibadan.   The suspect arraigned on...

Mum beats daughter, 1, to death after failed night of prostitution

A mother has been charged with murdering her one-year-old daughter after beating her to death in a fit of rage. Kahoy Garcia-Velazquez killed her daughter...

Awudome cemetery robber busted

The Kaneshie Police have arrested a 25-year-old man alleged to be part of a syndicate that has been terrorizing passengers who ply the Awudome...

Robbers who bathed mobile money vendor with acid jailed 20 years each

Two young men, Daniel Amoah and Yaw Danso, who robbed and bathed Kate Aidoo, a 23- year-old mobile money vendor with acid at Gomoa...

Woman, 34, murdered in Agona Swedru

A 34-year-old woman was last Wednesday evening murdered in a bush at Agona Swedru in the Central region. The deceased, a Sobolo seller, who has...

43-year-old mechanic jailed 5 years for beating up police officers

Forty-three-year-old Noah Abe will spend five years in jail for beating up police officers on duty. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Yahaya Salifu, Ashaiman Divisional Police Command, told the Ashaiman Circuit...

Fake nurse jailed 22 months

A 33-year-old dismissed nurse trainee of the Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Sekondi, in the Western region has been slapped with a 22-month jail...

Man kills brother, runs to police for fear of being lynched

A 48-year-old man, Tetteh Akagbo has sought refuge at the Aflao District Command of the Ghana Police Service following attempts to lynch him after...

Three granted bail for stealing

An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail in sum of ¢320,000.00 each to three persons; James Sackey, Larrou Ali and Richard Asiedu Larbi for...

Afoko’s detention an injury to rule of law- Xavier Sosu

Human Rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu has described the appeal to quash Gregory Afoko’s bail granted by an Accra High Court as disappointing and...

Afoko pleads not guilty to murder charges

Gregory Afoko has pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder.  Asabke Alangdi, a butcher has also been handed same...

Photos+Audio: Suspected thief lynched after stabbing food seller at Kasoa

A young man, believed to be in his thirties, has been lynched by angry residents at Kasoa Akweley in the Central region after he...

Mother buries newly born baby alive

The Eastern Regional Police has arrested Jenifer Badu, 18 for allegedly burying her newly born baby boy alive in a bush at Owodokum near...

56-year-old farmer granted bail for fraudulent transaction

A 56-year-old farmer has been granted a GH?30,000.00 bail by the Kumasi Metropolitan Court for fraudulent transaction. Opanin Kwaku Agyei pleaded not guilty to the...

Police appeal for public assistance to catch Tema fuel station robbers

Police have launched a manhunt for three robbers who attacked a Shell fuel station at the Tema Motorway Roundabout on Sunday. According to a statement...