Crime

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...

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...