Crime

‘Susu’ operator remanded for defrauding customers

A 29-year-old ‘Susu’ operator who defrauded a number of traders and mechanics at Adoato and South Suntreso, both suburbs of Kumasi, and went into...

Ex-convict back to jail for stealing

A 45-year-old ex-convict who stole three perfumes from a shop at a filling station in Kumasi, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by...

Court remands driver, mate in alleged fuel tanker arson case

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a tanker driver and his mate who are alleged to have set a diesel tanker ablaze in a...

Farmer in trouble for threatening ex-lover

The Enchi District Magistrate court has convicted to a fine a thirty-four-year-old farmer, Kwaw Kwadu, GHs 1,200 for threatening to kill his ex-lover on...

Canadian Kidnappers trial adjourned to July 29

An Accra High Court hearing the case involving eight persons accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls has adjourned the matter to July 29, 2019. The court adjourned...

Rawlings’ dispatch rider shot, suffers broken arm

Sgt. Atsu Sekey, the regular police dispatch rider of former President Jerry John Rawlings narrowly escaped death at the hands of suspected robbers last...

Domestic violence on the increase in Central Region

The Central Region has over the past two years recorded an increase in domestic violence. Mrs Thywill Eyra Kpe, Central Regional Director of the Department of Gender,...

Daylight robbery at Tema filling station

Two armed robbers stormed a filling station at Tema Motorway and made away with their sales and other valuables in what could be described...

Plumber remanded for illegally possessing cannabis

A 22-year-old plumber has been remanded into police custody by a Kumasi Circuit Court for illegally possessing dried leaves suspected to be cannabis. Danlad Duke...

3 nabbed over ¢950,000 scam

Three alleged fraudsters who duped 50 people in the erstwhile Brong Ahafo Region a total amount of ¢950,000 under the pretext of recruiting them...

Afoko’s bail rescinded by another judge

An Accra High Court has rescinded the bail granted alleged murderer of NPP Upper East Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama. This follows an application made...

Teenager killed in motor crash

A 19-year-old teenager, Charles Jacob, has met his untimely death after a Hyundai Accent saloon car run over him at Kwamenakrom in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem...

Robbers attack commercial bus on Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway

A fifty-two seater Daewoo commercial bus with registration number GM-1755-16 was allegedly attacked by armed robbers on the Tarkwa-Takoradi Highway. The bus with the inscription...

Photos: 23 in critical conditions in Gomoa Mpota accident

Twenty three passengers are in critical conditions at the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital after a ghastly accident at Gomoa Mpota junction on the...

Photo: 3 men jailed 19 years each for possessing narcotic drugs

The Tamale high court presided over by His Worship Justice Richard Kogyapwah has sentenced three persons to 19 years in prison custody for...

Audio: Rabies outbreak kills 2 at Kasoa

A rabies infected dog has reportedly killed two people at Kasoa as 70 others battle for their lives in various hospitals in the Awutu Senya East...

120 Suspects remanded over Dagomba Line land dispute

The Asokore Mampong Magistrate Court has remanded 120 people in connection with clashes over a disputed land at Dagomba Line in Kumasi. This was after...

Manager granted bail for defaulting in SSNIT payments

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has granted bail to Mr Folley Frank, General Manager of Heritage FM Limited, a local radio station in Hohoe, in...

Woman, 24, murdered in Koforidua

A 24-year-old businesswoman has been murdered by an unknown assailant in a bush behind the SDA Education Unit Office along the Kasadjan road in...

2 dead as land dispute turns ugly in Kumasi

Two persons have been confirmed dead following clashes between scrap dealers and some people claiming to be indigenes of Aboabo in Kumasi, over the ownership of...

NAM1 allegedly defrauded 16,000 customers of ¢1.68bn

Chief Executive of defunct gold dealership firm Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah has been dragged to court for allegedly defrauding 16,000 customers of more than...

Drop charges against NAM 1, we want our money – Lawyer to police (Audio)

Even before embattled Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah was processed for court on Friday, legal practitioner and political...

Just in: Court remands NAM 1

Embattled Menzgold Chief Executive Officer, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, has been remanded by a Circuit Court in Accra. NAM1,...

Takoradi girls kidnappers trial starts

For the first time, the two suspected Nigerian kidnappers of the three Takoradi girls have appeared in court for their long-awaited trial to commence. The...

Woman who poured acid on business rival at Akyem Oda granted bail

The 33-year-old woman who allegedly poured acid on her business rival at Akyem Oda has been granted a GH¢20,000 bail with two sureties to...

EOCO recovers close to ¢100m from criminal activities

The Economic and organised Crime Office (EOCO) has recovered ¢99,165,369.29 being proceeds of crime between 2014 and March 2019. Commissioner of Police (COP) Frank Adu-Poku (Rtd.),...

Major Mahama trial: Witness involved in an accident

Mr Baffour Appenteng Nyamekye, the 12th prosecution witness in the trial of the alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, has been involved...

J.B Trial: Court recalls Psychiatric Consultant to be cross-examined

An Accra High Court hearing the trial of the alleged murder of Mr J.B Danquah-Adu has ordered the recall of Dr Sammy Ohene, the Consultant Psychiatric...

Breaking: NAM 1 denied bail by Ghanaian police; due for court tomorrow (Audio)

Embattled Menzgold Chief Executive, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1 has been denied bail by the Ghanaian police shortly after they had...

Mobile money vendor fakes her kidnap; arrested in boyfriend’s house

21-year-old Beatrice Naa Lamley Titson Mills has been arrested by the James Town Police in Accra for allegedly faking her kidnap. Beatrice Naa Lamley, a...

‘Y’asem Nie’: Brave Taxi Driver fights off robber; delivers him to police but case suffers police inaction

A taxi driver has given a horrifying account of how he fought off a suspected robber who sought his services in the night from...

Family struggling to get justice for defiled daughter

The family of a six-year-old girl who was allegedly defiled by a 30-year-old man, is struggling to get justice for their daughter. The incident occurred...

Man killed as romantic triangle turns bloody

A romantic triangle involving a 30-year-old woman supposedly dating two men ended bitterly when one of the men shot the other in cold blood...

Audio: How 7 people sustained severe injuries during clashes in Kumasi

A tussle over a parcel of land led to bloody clashes between two factions at Dagomba Line, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti...

Photo: Man arrested for killing 80-yr-old ‘wizard’

A 30-year-old man, Iddrisu Ziblim, has been arrested for shooting an 80-year-old man, Mumuni Neendoo over witchcraft allegation at Kunyavula in Tamale. Information gathered by...

Two lovers arrested for murder

The Mile 7 District Police Command in Accra have arrested two lovers for allegedly killing a man at Alhaji, near Tabora in Accra. Derrick Nana...

Fight with policeman was for self defence -Trotro driver tells court

The trotro driver who is standing trial, along with his mate, for allegedly assaulting a policeman in a video that went viral early this...

Family petitions Ghana’s IGP over phone repairer’s death

The family of the late Kofi Poku, also known as 'Asco Pee', the 35-year old phone repairer who died on Sunday, July 07, 2019,...

Suspected armed robber killed

Luck eluded a 23-year-old suspected highway armed robber when he was gunned down by a civilian on the Atebubu-Kwame Danso Highway in the Atebubu-Amantin...

GCB Bank staff commits suicide in her room

A staff of the Nsawam Branch of the GCB Bank Limited identified as Agnes Asempana has committed suicide by hanging. The partially...