Crime

 Police on manhunt for robbers who attacked money collection point at Anyinase

The Police are on a manhunt for a robbery gang who attacked a cash collection point at Anyinase near Essiama in the Western Region. The...

My Lord I want more food – Slain soldier ‘killer’ begs court

One of the six suspects standing trial in connection with the murder of Trooper Sherrif Imoro at Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman in the...

Trader, 41, remanded for duping top policeman

A 41-year-old trader, Jeffrey Owusu, has been remanded by the Circuit Court in Accra for allegedly duping a Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCOP), of...

Ashaiman soldier murder suspect granted GH¢150K bail on health grounds

The Ashaiman Circuit Court has granted a GH¢150,000.00 bail with three sureties, two of which must be justified to Ibrahim Abdul Rakib, one of...

Five robbers gang-rape woman, 25, at Gomoa Ojobi

A 25-year-old woman is battling for her life after five armed robbers attacked and raped her in her house at Gomoa Ojobi in the...

Prison officer allegedly inflicts cutlass wounds on herdsman at Ejura

A 45-year-old herdsman, Abdullai Yaro is battling for his life at the St. Luke Hospital in Kasei in the Ejura-Sekyeredumasi Municipality of the Ashanti...

Police probe death of Assembly man after car crash

Police in Somanya in the Eastern region are investigating the death of Eric Narh Aglazo, Assembly member for Sra electoral area, who was killed...

 Parents witness lynching of 35-year-old son after crushing 4 to death

A mob has lynched a 35-year-old man, OlorunFemi Tope, after he reportedly crushed four persons to death in an accident at ljoka area of...

Boy, 12, escapes lynching for breaking into shop to steal

A 12-year-old boy narrowly escaped lynching after he was caught red-handed stealing in a shop at Agona Swedru in the Central region.The boy who...

‘Facebook rapist’ who faked death arrested in Tanzania

A rapist and murderer who escaped a South African prison by faking his own death has been arrested in Tanzania.Thabo Bester was at large...

6 arrested, 2 officers interdicted over Kumawu police attack

Police have arrested six persons for attacking a police officer at the Wono Akotsosu snap checkpoint in the Kumawu District of the Ashanti region.Preliminary...

Groom killed after bride’s ex gifted them sound system rigged with explosives

Police in India have arrested a man after he allegedly gifted a music system rigged with explosives, which killed the new husband of his ex-lover, according...

Two Nkwanta South jailbreakers re-arrested

Two more suspects who escaped from cells at the Nkwanta Police station in Oti region have been re-arrested.The two are robbery suspect, Mohammed Kadir...

Man, 43, stabbed to death at Sehwi Anhwiam

A 43-year-old man, Kwadwo Affum, has been stabbed to death at Sehwi Anhwiam in the Sehwi Wiawso Municipality of the Western North Region.The incident...

Oforikrom MP hands over police station and quarters to police administration

The Member of Parliament for Oforikrom Constituency in Ashanti Region, Dr Emmanuel Marfo, has constructed and handed over a police station with a six-bedroom...

Man stabs elder brother to death over shirt and trouser

A 20-year-old man, Halifa Hamza, has stabbed his elder brother, Usman Hamza, to death with a pair of scissors in Kurna of Kano State,...

Nkwanta South jailbreaker attempts suicide

One of the suspects who escaped from police cells at Nkwanta South in Oti region has attempted suicide after he was re-arrested.The suspect, 20-year-old...

Punish Afoko, Asabke for Adams Mahama’s death – Prosecution urges jury

State Prosecutors have urged the seven-member jury trying Gregory Afoko and Asabke Alangde for the murder of the late New Patriotic Party (NPP) Upper East...

Police probe assault on game rangers in Kyebi

Police in the Eastern region have launched an investigation into the assault on two Kyebi Forestry Division game rangers.The two managers, Yaw Sakyi and...

Former NDA officials slapped with 11 fresh charges

The Special Prosecutor has filed 11 new charges against three former officials of the Northern Development Authority (NDA) and a private man standing trial...

Kikpande chief suspended over death of Mujipe chief

The Paramount Chief of Kikpande in the Kpembe Traditional Area in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region, Kikpandewura Kanyiti I, has been...

Immigration Service reacts to shooting of its officers at Bawku

The Ghana Immigration Service(GIS) has confirmed a shooting incident at Bawku which claimed the life of one of its personnel and left two injured....

Fetish priest injures 3 men in attack at Baniekrom

A 36-year-old fetish priest has allegedly injured three men at Baniekrom in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti region.The fetish priest only identified...

Eight suspects escape from Nkwanta police cells

Police officers at the Nkwanta South Divisional Police station of the Oti Region are under pressure after eight suspects escaped from cells.Information gathered...

Land guards attack, burn office at Ashalaja

Tension is brewing at Ashalaja in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region after suspected land guards stormed Nii Akwanor Royal Family...

Farmer jailed 20 years for sexually abusing 6-year-old girl

A 26-year-old farmer who sexually abused a six-year-old girl at Agbogbloshie in Accra has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit...

Manager remanded over power theft

A 35-year-old manager has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly stealing electricity worth GH¢8,390 at Shiashie in Accra.Philip Emmanuel Yankey was...

NPP communicator arrested for power theft

The Odumase-Krobo police detained an aspiring assembly member for Mampong Electoral Area in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern region for allegedly...

Trial of alleged child sex predator truncated over lack of vehicle

A 25-year-old football coach accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy at Adenta-Ritz has had his trial truncated because there is no vehicle to transport...

 Immigration officer shot dead; two others critically injured

An immigration officer has been shot dead at Bawku in the Upper East Region.Two other officers are fighting for their lives at the...

Axim attack and extortion: ‘I’m an informant’ – Prime suspect replies Police

The prime suspect in the alleged case of police attack and extortion in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region, Kwame Ato Asare...

7 injured in ‘fight over woman’ during wake keeping

Seven persons have sustained injuries in a machete fight at Twifo Abodom in the Central Region after an alleged attempt by a gentleman to...

NLA staff busted over fraud

Three persons including staff of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) are in the grips of the National Security for unlawful liquidation of lottery wins....

Woman wrongly accused of baby theft narrowly escapes lynching

36-year-old Monica Nandara narrowly survived being lynched by an angry mob after she was accused of stealing a baby at Kakraba junction in the...

Mahama murder: Police ignored leads to arrest killers, free my client – Lawyer to jury

Lawyers of the Second Accused person, Asabke Alangde, who is standing trial together with Gregory Afoko, has accused the police of ignoring leads that...

4 arrested for attacking police in Western region

The police say they have arrested four persons who arrested for attacking police in Western Region in a viral video.According to them, the allegation...

Woman, 43, jailed for possessing ‘wee’ in Oti Region

A 43-year-old woman, Amina Musa has bagged a 10-year imprisonment with hard labour for unlawful possession and sale of narcotic drugs known in local...

Thief on the run lands in police barracks

A 26-year-old man, Murtala Mohammed, who scaled the wall into the house of his neighbour, stole a water pump and started running away from...

64 vehicles impounded in Ashanti Region

A total of 64 vehicles have been impounded in the Ashanti Region following a crackdown by the National Vehicle Taskforce of the Customs Division...

Beige Bank collapse: Witness accuses Nyinaku of taking bank’s US$200,000 illegally

The first prosecution witness in the criminal trial of the former CEO and owner of defunct Beige Bank, Mike Nyinaku, has alleged that the...