Crime

Court remands two over attempted robbery

A Kumasi Circuit Court on Wednesday remanded two persons into police custody for attempting to rob a forex bureau operator at Alabar in Kumasi. Emmanuel...

21-year-old shot as angry youth attack Police station in Tumu

One person has been shot dead in Tumu in the Upper West Region following a confrontation between some angry youth in the town and...

Sand-winner in court for issuing false cheques

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a sand winner a GH¢567,000.00 bail with three sureties, one of whom should be a public official not...

Bukom Banku granted bail

An Accra circuit court has granted bail to Braimah Kamako popularly known as Bukom Banku in the sum of GH¢30,000 for causing harm and...

Electrician pours acid on a lady

An Accra Circuit Court has convicted an electrician for pouring acid on a food vendor which caused her to suffer severe acid burns all...

AUDIO: Police-Military clash: Ghana’s security still intact – Mpraeso MP assures

Member Parliament's Defence and Interior Committee, Seth Kwame Acheampong, says in spite of Wednesday’s clash between a group of soldiers and some police personnel...

Kwabenya cell break: Six suspects freed

Six out of the 10 suspects standing trial in the Kwabenya cell break have been discharged by an Accra Circuit court. Presiding Judge, Justice Aboagye...

AUDIO: Police-Military clash shameful – N/R Minister

Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, has described the violent clashes between military and police officers at Tamale on Wednesday as shameful. Mr. Saeed's comments come...

Man selling AK47 arrested in the N/R

Police in Kpandai in the Kpandai District of the Northern Region have arrested a 24-year-old man, Mensah Lare, for alleged illegal possession and attempted...

PHOTOS+AUDIO: Gun battle looms as soldiers clash with police officers in Tamale

Police officers in the Northern regional capital, Tamale, have abandoned their posts following alleged violent attacks on them by some soldiers in the area. The...

55-year-old woman jailed 10 years for fraud

Rakia Alhassan, a 55-years-old trader, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding another trader of five drums and 51 gallons of palm...

PHOTO: Police recruitment scammer arrested

A 33-year-old man, Joshua Asante, is in the grips of police in Tema for allegedly posing as an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) who...

35 prostitutes nabbed at Kasoa

The Kasoa District police have apprehended 35 women suspected to be engaging in prostitution at Kasoa and its environs in the Central Region. The suspects,...

Cane-wielding girlfriend of Gospel Musician granted bail after unlawful entry charge

Girlfriend of under fire musician, Ernest Opoku, Gladys Mensah Buako, also known as NAYAS 1 has been officially charged by the police for unlawful...

Teenager fined for stealing GHC74, provisions from shop

An eighteen-year-old motor rider, Issaka Adams, has been ordered by the Enchi District Magistrate court to sign a bond of good behaviour for six...

Pastor fined GHC3,000, 12 sheep over false prophecies

Prophet Osei Emmanuel, who was given 24 hours by the queen mother of the Bechem Traditional Area in the Brong-Ahafo Region to leave the...

Ayittey Powers in police grips for visa fraud

Boxer Michael Okine alias Ayittey Powers is currently in police custody at James Town police station after he was arrested last Friday for visa...

Farmer jailed 25yrs for robbing cab driver at gun point

A farmer, accused of snatching a taxi from its driver at gun point has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour by...

Three drivers in police grip for diverting cargo

Three drivers who allegedly diverted cargo meant for Burkina Faso to a warehouse in Accra have been handed over to the police for further...

Court fines mason GHC3000 for slashing wife’s wrist

A mason has been fined Gh?3000 by the Accra Circuit Court for slashing the wrist of his wife and threatening to kill her. The...

Robbery suspects petition Attorney General over unfair trial

Lawyers for three suspected armed robbers (Derrick Danso, Dickson Addal, Prince Owusu and Gbekpor Marvin) have petitioned the office of the Attorney General to...

VIDEO: Woman caught in the process of stealing schoolboy

A young woman, suspected to be in the mid-thirties is in hot waters for attempting to kidnap a schoolboy. She is reported to have lured...

Major Mahama’s soldier friend testifies in court

The State prosecution has called its first witness in the trial of Major Maxwell Mahama, WO 2 Kwesi Sebi of the 64 Infantry Regiment,...

Prisoner escapes from Koforidua prisons

A prisoner serving a 10-year jail term at the Koforidua prisons has allegedly escaped. The convict, Charles Agyei, alias Rasta escaped Wednesday when he and...

PHOTOS: Man murders pregnant lover, son and dumps them in mining pit

Police at Manso Nkwanta in Amansie West District have retrieved the bodies of a pregnant mother and her five-year-old son which were allegedly dumped...

UPDATE: 2 arrested over grisly murder of OKESS student

Two persons have been arrested by the Kumasi police in connection with the gruesome murder of a final year student of Osei Kyeretwie Senior High...

Osei Kyeretwie SHS student stabbed by unknown assailants

There is an uneasy calm at Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in the Tafo-Pankrono Municipality of the Ashanti Region following the stabbing of a...

“Bishop Obinim is sick, taken to hospital”

Administrator of God’s Way International Church, Mr Kojo Adu Boahene, on Wednesday informed an Accra Circuit Court that Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder of the...

Porter arraigned for robbery

A porter, Joseph Agbongba was on Wednesday arraigned for robbing one Michael Adjei Danso of his Samsung Galaxy S-7 worth 1,500 dollars. He pleaded not...

Police awaiting AG’s advice on murdered MP’s docket- Prosecution

Prosecution in the murdered Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, J. B. Danquah-Adu’s case says they are still waiting for the Attorney General’s advice...

Robbers attack mobile money vendor, bolt with GHS13,000

Eight armed men have attacked and robbed a mobile money merchant in Kumasi on Wednesday afternoon. Over 13, 000 Ghana cedis is said to have...

Fisherman jailed eight-years for defilement

A Circut Court in Cape Coast on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old Abdullah Ayuba, a fisherman to eight-years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling a...

SHS students attack teachers, vandalise school property for not allowing them to copy in WASSCE

Final-year students of Zabzugu Senior High School have attacked their teachers with stones and other offensive objects for not allowing them to copy in...

Fake Ghanaian lecturer exposed after rising to become Dean

The 2015 Auditor General’s Report has revealed that a fake lecturer at the Koforidua Technical University (KTU) (formerly the Koforidua Polytechnic) has succeeded in...

Mom admits letting men, including 78-year-old, rape daughters, 5 and 6, for money

A mother in Georgia pleaded guilty to allowing several men, including a 78-year-old, rape her two young daughters in exchange for cash, officials said...

PHOTOS: Robber who lodged in hotel with the name “Stranger” gunned down

Police in Tema in the Greater Accra Region have gunned down a member of a suspected robbery gang following a shootout at a guest...

Fraud alert: New trick by fraudsters in Accra

The menace of fraud is gaining grounds at specific places in Accra. In fact, some Ghanaians are very aware of the very places in Accra...

AUDIO: 2-yr-old boy found dead with body parts removed

A 2-year-old boy has been found dead in a river at Apisikooko, a suburb of Obuasi with missing body parts. Queen Mother of the area, Nana...

Landlady rips roof of her house to force tenant out

Reports abound of landlords and ladies deploying violent means to evict tenants who have fallen out of favour. With or without court order, some opt...

Boy, 28 stabs fellow with broken bottle over girlfriend

Listen to Chief Supt. Joseph Owusu confirming the story below: A 28-year-old boy, Nana Addo Ofori popularly known as Abodea in Suhum has been arrested by...