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Bechem: Central Mosque closed over land dispute

Crime July 6, 2019 6:19 pm

The Tano South Municipal Security Council has ordered the temporary closure of the Bechem Central Mosque in the Tano South District of the Ahafo...

Photos+Audio: Man ‘commits’ suicide in cemetery

Crime July 6, 2019 5:29 pm

One Kwabena Poku has been found dead in a cemetery at Berekum-Amankokwaa in the Brong Ahafo region. Information gathered by Adom News suggested that the deceased...

Man, 40, abducts girl, 17

Crime July 6, 2019 3:19 pm

A 17-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and locked up in a room by her supposed husband who is about 40 years old last week...

Citi FM reporter, cameraman assaulted by NIA staff

Crime July 6, 2019 10:59 am

Citi FM’s Tema correspondent, Elvis Washington and his cameraman, Edward Twum were on Friday subjected to physical abuse by some officials of the National...

Drobonso chief escapes gun attack

Crime July 6, 2019 10:30 am

The chief of Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains in the Ashanti Region escaped unhurt after some gunmen who blocked a section of the...

Audio+Photos: Man, 52, killed for ‘having an affair’ with someone’s wife

Crime July 5, 2019 5:34 pm

A 47-year-old man, Kwame Elijah, has allegedly killed Kwame Takyi, a 52-year-old man suspected to be his wife’s lover at Awutu Kwao-Boni in the...

Chief worried about linking his community to kidnapped Canadian women

Crime July 5, 2019 2:38 pm

Chiefs and people of Amoam-Achiase in the Ashanti Region where two kidnapped Canadian nationals were rescued say they feel devastated about the incident. Chief of...

Photos: Ayomso Police chase two brothers for breaking cell [Audio]

Crime July 5, 2019 12:58 pm

The Ayomso Police command in the Asunafo North Municipality of the Ahafo region is on a manhunt for two suspects who escaped from police...

‘l re-constructed a crime scene sketch’ – witness

Crime July 5, 2019 6:32 am

Mr Baffour Appenteng Nyamekye, Assistant Commissioner of Police has told an Accra High Court hearing the trial of the alleged murderers of the late...

Two on remand over diesel theft

Crime July 5, 2019 6:26 am

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded two persons into police custody for allegedly stealing 54,000 litres of diesel valued at GH¢280,260.00, belonging to their...

Couple jailed for selling ‘wee’ toffees

Crime July 5, 2019 6:16 am

Two lovers, Dodzi Addo Kumani, 39 years, and Doris Anoma, 28 years, have been jailed 12 months and One hundred penalty units each, by...

Man jailed 3 years for publishing nude video, photos of ex-girlfriend on social media

Crime July 4, 2019 5:25 pm

The Odumase Krobo Circuit Court in the Eastern region, presided over by His Honour F.Y. Gbeddy, has jailed a 29-year-old man, Prince Teye,...

Photos: Angry customers bare teeth at car dealership company over failure to deliver cars

Business July 4, 2019 3:40 pm

A car dealing company, Eddu Motors Company Limited, based in Kasoa in the Central region has failed in delivering on a contract between them...

Food vendors deny customers soup, stew if they don’t buy meat

Crime July 4, 2019 12:09 pm

Some residents of Apaapa at La in Accra have complained about how some food vendors refuse to give them soup, stew or pepper if they don’t...

Manager granted bail for defaulting in SSNIT payments

Crime July 4, 2019 6:17 am

The Hohoe Magistrate Court has granted bail to Madam Dagba Faustine, Manager of Cash Oil, formerly, Allied Oil Company Limited, to the tune of...

Man, 46, nearly lynched for murdering wife and son

Crime July 4, 2019 6:04 am

The quick intervention of the Police on Sunday morning saved a palm wine tapper from being lynched by residents of Kokofu, near Goaso in...

8 die in cemetery fight

Crime July 4, 2019 5:55 am

Eight people are reported dead, following a deadly fight on Saturday, at the Achiase-Antoa Cemetery in the Ejisu Municipality of the Ashanti region, between...

Audio: Akosua Agyapong and family evacuated over death threats

Crime July 3, 2019 9:48 am

Veteran musician, Akosua Agyapong and her family were forced to flee their home Tuesday evening over death threats. According to her, around 2:30 pm, her...

Pastor arrested for power theft

Crime July 3, 2019 9:03 am

The Power Distribution Service (PDS), in collaboration with police in Ashanti Region, has arrested a 48-year-old pastor at Donaso in the Ejisu Municipality for...

Court Orders Publication Of Pictures Of Wanted Kidnappers

Crime July 3, 2019 7:30 am

The Accra High Court hearing the case involving eight persons accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls has granted leave to prosecution to publish...

Chinese ‘Rosewood Queen’ deported

Crime July 3, 2019 6:56 am

The Chinese woman who is standing trial for allegedly transporting a large quantity of Rosewood to Tema for export to China illegally has been...

Major Mahama: Prosecution tenders items used in lynching Mahama

Crime July 3, 2019 6:25 am

Prosecution in the trial of the alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama on Tuesday tendered items allegedly used by the accused persons...

Carpenter, 22, jailed six years for stealing

Crime July 3, 2019 6:15 am

A Kumasi circuit court presided over by Madam Mary Nsenkyire, has sentenced a 22-year-old carpenter to six years imprisonment after he was...

Court remands unemployed over stealing

Crime July 3, 2019 6:14 am

A 22-year-old unemployed has been remanded into prison custody by a Kumasi circuit court for allegedly stealing from a house at Atonsu S- line...

Dubai court upholds ruling in favour of NAM1, orders Royal Horison to pay $39m

Crime July 3, 2019 5:55 am

The Dubai high court hearing the case involving Menzgold CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah and his Arabian debtors, Royal Horison, has upheld its earlier ruling...

Audio: How a ‘gossip’ caused the death of Kade taxi driver

Crime July 2, 2019 4:54 pm

A seeming harmless conduct by a ‘whistle blower’ is believed to be the cause of death of a 21-year-old taxi driver, Fredrick Gadlasu at...

Fetish priest gets pastor arrested for sexually assaulting married woman

Crime July 2, 2019 4:09 pm

It was all drama at Agona Nkwanta, the capital of Ahanta West Municipality in the Western Region, on Sunday when a fetish priest bumped...

National Security denies Modern Ghana editor’s ‘I cried like a baby’ torture claim

Crime July 2, 2019 10:24 am

The National Security Council has denied claims of torture of an editor of Modern Ghana online news portal, Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri when in their...

Kade lynching: Two suspects arrested

Crime July 2, 2019 9:56 am

Two people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a mentally deranged man at Kade in the Kwaebibirim district of the Eastern...

Nigerian kidnapper apologises to Ghana and Nigeria

Crime July 2, 2019 6:33 am

Sampson Agarlor, one of the alleged kidnappers of the two Canadian nationals in Kumasi has apologized to the Canadian ladies and their families, the Republic of...

Nigerian Kidnapper apologises to Ghana and Nigeria

Crime July 2, 2019 6:12 am

Sampson Agarlor, one of the alleged kidnappers of the two Canadian nationals in Kumasi has apologized to the Canadian ladies and their families, the...

Police saves ‘Juju’ man

Crime July 1, 2019 3:07 pm

A last minute intervention by armed policemen helped to save a soothsayer from being lynched by an angry mob. The mob, reportedly, besieged the...

Suspects in Canadian girls kidnap allege BNI torture

Crime July 1, 2019 11:36 am

Three persons charged over the kidnapping of two Canadian women have accused officials of the Bureau National Investigations and Police CID of torturing them...

Spanish woman files a complaint against hitman who failed to carry out crime

Crime July 1, 2019 6:56 am

Spanish police reported that a woman who hired her son-in-law to kill her partner recently turned up to file a complaint against him after...

Two teenage girls arrested over murder of boyfriend

Crime July 1, 2019 6:29 am

Police at Kade in the Eastern Region have apprehended two teenagers for their involvement in the killing of a 21-year-old man.The deceased, Fredrick Gadlasu,...

Palm wine tapper allegedly murders wife, son over infidelity

Crime July 1, 2019 6:15 am

Kokofu, a farming community near Nkaseim in the Asutifi South District of the Ahafo Region was thrown into a state of shock and disbelief...

Operation Vanguard arrests 85 suspected illegal miners in the Eastern Region

Crime July 1, 2019 6:00 am

Operation Vanguard Personnel in the Eastern Region in an operation conducted between 3:00 am and 6:00 am on Saturday has resulted in the arrest...

Photos+Audio: Man, 38, found dead at Kasoa Budumburam

Crime June 30, 2019 4:22 pm

A 38-year-old man, identified as Bright, has been found dead at Estate Junction near Gomoa Budumburam in the Gomoa East District of the Central...

Man, 32, shot dead by unknown gunmen near Obuasi

Crime June 30, 2019 12:26 pm

A 32-year-old illegal miner, identified as Paul Owusu, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen at Tweapease on the Nyamebekyere-Kokotenten road near Obuasi in...

Mother, son missing en route to Afram Plains

Crime June 29, 2019 4:11 pm

Family of missing mother and baby travelling from Accra to Eastern region are appealing for information on whereabouts of their loved ones six days...