Crime

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...

Robbers strike on Tarkwa-Takoradi highway

A 52-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 ‘Immaculate...

‘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...