Crime

PHOTOS: Driver knocks down policeman dead

A driver of Toyota Land Cruiser with registration number GG 1382-17, Benjamin Abasah is in police custody for knocking down and dragging a policeman...

Man kills friend over phone charger (Audio)

A 28-year-old man, Joe Francis has been stabbed to death by his friend at Domeabra in the Ga-South municipality of the Greater Accra region...

PHOTO: Wee peddler busted

Police have arrested a farmer, Sampson Appiah, who was in possession of supposed narcotic drugs with street value of GH¢100 in a house at...

Police avert chieftaincy clashes in Somanya

Police in the Eastern Region has moved in to calm tensions in Somanya following chieftaincy clashes there.The clashes erupted during the launch of the...

Legalising wee will increase drug related madness to 70 percent – Psychiatrist predicts

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has strongly opposed the legalization of marijuana popularly known as ‘wee’.He...

Afoko trial exhibits ‘choke’ jurors

The jurors hearing the case of Gregory Afoko, the key suspect in the murder of the Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic...

IGP found guilty of contempt of court

An Accra high court has found the Inspector General of Police David Asante Apeatu guilty of contempt of court.This was after two citizens Samuel...

Farmer in court for threatening ex-lover

A District Magistrate Court in Enchi has remanded into police custody, a 34 year-old farmer for allegedly threatening to kill his ex-lover on four...

Photos: Sowutuom landlord rips roof to force tenant out

39-year-old Philomena Agyarko and her family had the shock of their lives when they returned home from work to the spectacle of their landlord...

Teachers cautioned against defilement

Vice Chairperson of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Gender and MP for Assin North constituency, Abena Duruwa Mensah, has cautioned teachers in the district...

Video: Family of slain High court judge call for justice; believe actors of murder are walking free

The family of late Justice Cecilia Koranteng Addo, one of the murdered judges from Assin Nsuta is pleading with President Akufo-Addo to set up...

Audio: Father peeved as 4-yr-old daughter sustains severe wounds from teacher’s canes

A four-year-old girl of New Page School in Kokomemle in Accra is nursing severe wounds after her teacher hit her many times with a...

Must-Read: Chilling account of mother, daughters languishing in jail for stealing corn

A woman in her mid-thirties has narrated a chilling story of how four of them from the same family, including a breastfeeding baby, are...

Just in: Ken Agyapong loses round one in Anas defamation case

An Accra High Court has declined an application by Kennedy Agyapong seeking to dismiss the 25 million defamation suit against him by Anas Aremeyaw...

Businessman jailed nine months for defrauding Church elder

An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Benjamin Quaye Commey, a businessman, to nine months imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding an elder of...

Police hunt for two more suspects in EFFISCO final year student murder

Police at Effiduase in Ashanti Region are on a hunt for two suspects linked to the murder of a final-year student of Effiduase Senior...

Three senior lecturers sacked over sexual misconduct

The Lagos State University has laid off three of its senior lecturers over a case of sexual misconduct.According to a public statement...

Sex scandal and HIV/Aids scare hit Obuasi school

A sex scandal has rocked Obuasi Senior High Technical School in the Ashanti Region involving a housemaster and a student.The teenager whose name has...

Man who stoned wife to death remanded

The man who stoned his wife Madam Gloria Akorley to death at Amuzukope, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region, has been remanded...

Photos+Audio: 32-year-old seamstress apprentice found dead at Okorase

Residents of Okorase, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region were terrified on waking up on Tuesday morning to discover the lifeless body...

Hit-and-run driver arrested by okada riders for knocking down groundnut seller

A taxi driver, Atsu Adatsi, has been reportedly arrested by the police after he knocked down a groundnut seller in Accra.Information available to media...

Welder jailed for unlawfully harming driver’s mate

A 29 year-old welder, Edmond Duncan, has been sentenced to 36 months imprisonment and a fine of GH¢1,200.00 for unlawfully harming a driver's mate.The...

Kumasi: Teachers interdicted for ‘raping students’

The Ashanti Regional Education Directorate has interdicted two teachers for allegedly raping some students.Douglas Adade of Saint Louis Senior High School, an English teacher,...

Agongo’s fertilizer boosted crop growth – Opuni lawyers tells court

Lawyers for former COCOBOD CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, have told an Accra High Court that cocoa farmers who used Lithovit Foliar fertilizer approved for use by...

Photos: 8-year-old girl’s anus ruptured after assault

An 8-year-old girl assaulted by her aunty at Amasaman in Accra now wears pampers due to a rupture on her bladder.This was after her...

Tension mounts at Moshie Zongo after man dies in police cells

Tension is mounting at Moshie Zongo in Kumasi following the death of a 55-year-old suspect who died in police custody.Police sources say the deceased,...

Farmer to spend ten months for stealing a motor bike

The Enchi District Magistrate court has sentenced a farmer to ten months imprisonment for stealing Haojin motor bike valued GH¢3,200.Emmanuel Amoako was sentenced to...

Court sentences man and woman for insulting another woman

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Patrick Ablor Laryea to six months imprisonment and gave Esther Odonkor two weeks for insulting Rabiatu Abeka...

Grandmum, 60, poisons granddaughter, 7; commits suicide

A 60-year-old woman has allegedly poisoned herself and her 7-year-old granddaughter at Kumawu in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti Region.Maame Ama Amoamah...

Community policeman caged for stabbing colleague

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday remanded Philip Sackey, a 30-year-old Community Police Assistant, for stabbing Frank Agbevor, an upholsterer.He has, however, denied the...

‘Okada’ riders apprehend hit-and-run driver in Accra

But for the timely intervention of some commercial motorbike (okada) riders, a taxi driver who hit a woman after making an unauthorised U-turn on...

Court sentences two for insulting woman

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced Patrick Ablor Laryea to six months imprisonment and gave Esther Odonkor two weeks for insulting Rabiatu Abeka...

Brong-Ahafo Police arrest suspected car snatchers

The Brong-Ahafo Regional Police Command on Thursday arrested two suspected car snatchers and robbers in the Region.Abdul Razak Muhammed, 22 and Bashiru Rufai, 28...

Video: The Paris park where African women are forced into prostitution

The Bois de Vincennes, a sprawling park on the outskirts of eastern Paris, is home to horse riding schools and a zoo. It has...

Abokope residents seek justice for 8-yr-old wounded girl

The entire community of Abokope near Amasaman Stadium Road has been thrown into a state of shock by the story of how a pregnant...

Tema: 21-year-old man shot twice by man suspected to be police

A 21-year-old man is currently in critical condition at the Tema General Hospital after he was shot twice in the back by a man...

Passengers aboard South African Airways ‘robbed in the sky’

Getting sleep on a plane is not automatic for everyone. But for some passengers on a South Airways (SAA) flight headed to Hong Kong...

PHOTOS: Man stones wife to death

A 32-year-old woman, Gloria Akorley has been allegedly stoned to death by her husband at Amuzukope, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region.A...

Four boys rape 14-year-old girl

A group of four young boys at Choggu-Mma Naayili, a suburb of the Sagnarigu Municipality in the Northern Region stand accused of gang-raping a...

Cobbler in court over defilement

Circuit Court in Accra on Tuesday remanded into Police custody, Alex Boateng a cobbler, for allegedly defiling an eleven-year-old girl at Achimota a suburb...