Crime

Suspect tells court how policeman aided his escape from Manet cells

Pius Anundoabil Ayoma, 23, a private security man who escaped from the Manet Police Custody shortly after appearing in court on March 1, this...

Fake soldier who also poses as National Security operative arrested

The police have arrested a man who has been posing as a military officer with a fake service name WOII Samuel Owusu Dartey in...

Karaga youth on rampage over arrest of suspected ‘chief killers’

Some youth in the Karaga District in the Northern Region on Monday went on rampage and destroyed structures belonging to the New Patriotic Party...

Galamsey: Sub-chief, two foreign nationals arrested at Akyem Oda

The Akim Oda Divisional Police Command has arrested two foreign nationals and a sub-chief for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Akyem Oda in...

NSS teacher, 24, arrested for defiling three pupils

The Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old National Service Person at Sehwi Asawinso Methodist Primary B to three weeks into police custody for...

GIS intercepts 900 slabs of Indian hemp

Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at the Nyive border in the Volta Region have intercepted 896 slabs of suspected Indian hemp at...

Two lynched over witchcraft accusations in Northern Region [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Two Lynched Over Witchcraft Accusations In Northern Region Two persons have been lynched at Zakpalsi, a farming community in the Mion District of...

Ofosu-Ampofo, Kwaku Boahen’s trial adjourned pending stay of proceedings

The Accra High Court trying Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen has adjourned the trial to June 1, 2023. This followed the attention drawn by...

Five arrested for attacking ECG staff in Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested five persons for allegedly attacking some officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) when they were...

I only touched Major Mahama’s trousers- Alleged killer tells court 

One of the 14 persons accused of killing Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has testified that he only touched the trousers of the military officer...

Two arrested in connection with attack on Dagbon FM journalist

Police on Monday, May 8, 2023, arrested the two people who allegedly attacked Abubakari Sadiq, a presenter with Tamale-based Dagbon FM. The duo attacked Mr...

 Police probe death of toddler in Ashanti region

The Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the butchering of a toddler, allegedly, by the son of a landlord.  Reports indicate that...

SHS student in critical condition over ¢5 debt

A final year Senior High School (SHS) Student of Twifu Hemang Technical Institute, Davis Nkrumah, is battling for his life after he was inflicted...

Pastor arrested over death of 42-year-old woman

In a shocking incident, a man of God known as pastor Isaac Okyeam, popularly called “Pastor Owusu,” has been arrested for allegedly causing the...

Small-scale mining task force arrests 3 Yemenis at Oda

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hUhGbGluwwA The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Minerals Commission, Martin Ayisi, has disclosed that on Monday, May 1, the small-scale mining task force at...

Two thieves escape lynching at Millennium City

Two thieves were apprehended and nearly killed by angry residents at Millennium City in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The incident occurred...

Landlord’s son attacks family with machete; leaves toddler dead

A man has inflicted machete wounds on his father's tenant alongside his two children, including a toddler, Samuel Amo, who died from the attack. The...

Police give fresh details into murder of constable by senior colleague

ASP Frank Nsiah, head of Western North Regional Police intelligence unit, has shot dead a colleague police officer, Constable David Gbati, while on their...

Man, 60, jailed 7 years for defiling 12-year-old girl

A 60-year-old man has been jailed for defiling a 12-year-old girl at Kasoa Ofaakor UN City in the Central Region. The suspect, Isaac Kyeku, popularly...

Family of NDC man shot dead in robbery attack breaks silence [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Family Of NDC Man Shot Dead In Robbery Attack Breaks Silence A brother of Emmanuel Acquah, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) Branch Chairman...

NDC communicator breaks silence on Dagbon FM journalist attack

A former Northern Regional Deputy Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Iddrisu Hardi Pagazaa, has denied beating a presenter of Tamale-based...

Suspected robbers shoot NDC executive dead

Suspected armed robbers have shot dead a National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch Chairman at Dunkwa-On-Offin in the Western Region. The deceased has been identified...

NPP Communicator condemns attack on Dagbon FM journalist

A New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications team member, Alfred Thompson, has condemned the alleged actions of former Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic...

Couple battling for their lives after being attacked while bathing

A husband and wife are in critical condition after being attacked with machete by a family member while taking their bath. The incident happened in...

Trader sentenced over threat of death

A 29-year-old trader, who threatened another trader with a sword, has been sentenced to 150 days imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Osman Boustani, charged...

He was like an angel – Mother of lady murdered at Nungua speaks [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Mother of lady murdered in Nungua speaks Mother of the 25-year-old lady allegedly murdered by her husband at Nungua in the Greater Accra...

Lover allegedly kills girlfriend over another man’s photo on her phone

A jealous lover, Dominic, has allegedly killed his girlfriend at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region after seeing the photo of another man on a...

Adams Mahama murder: Asabke appeals death sentence

Convicted Asabke Alangde, who has been sentenced to death after a seven-member jury panel found him guilty, has filed a notice of appeal urging...

Galamsey: Aisha Huang convicted

Galamsey queen, Aisha Huang, has been convicted after she changed her plea in the immigration offence she is facing at the High Court to...

Nungua ‘wife killer’ remanded into police custody

A man, identified as Isaac Newton Kumah, accused of killing his 25-year-old wife, Eunice Ameh Narh, with a machete at Nungua has been remanded...

Two persons arrested over alleged stolen rail tracks in viral video

Police have arrested two suspects in connection with some alleged stolen rail tracks and steel sleepers believed to belong to the Ghana Railway Development...

727 on trial for galamsey – AG

A total of 727 individuals are currently standing trial across the country over their alleged involvement in illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, the...

Farmer, 29, jailed for stealing water pumping machines

The Hohoe Circuit Court has sentenced Bright Abri, 29, a farmer, to one-year imprisonment for stealing two old water pumping machines worth GH¢1,600. Abri pleaded...

Man arrested for allegedly abducting 12-year-old girl

Police in the Upper West Region have launched investigations into the abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Wa, the regional capital. One person has so...

Bar operator allegedly sets man ablaze over alcohol debt

A 35-year-old painter, named Dandu l, has allegedly set fire to Kofi Kumi, 39, in the Bibiani Ahwianso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North...

Murder of Adams Mahama: Asabke to appeal verdict

Lawyers for convict Asabke Alangde, the former Station Master of Bolga-Kumasi-Ayamfuri Lorry Station, who has been sentenced to death by hanging, are expected to...

Husband sets man ablaze for insulting wife’s private part

A 35-year-old Dandu Painter has allegedly set a man ablaze at Sehwi Bekwai in the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai municipality of the Western North Region...

Adum murder: Probe beyond demand for GH¢5k refund – Criminologist to police

A criminologist who is also a lecturer at KNUST, Dr Jones Opoku-Ware, is urging police investigators to look beyond the demand for a refund...

Chiefs invoke deities to find killers of pregnant girl at Assin Nsene

The chiefs and residents of Assin Nsene, a farming community in the Assin South District of the Central Region, have performed rituals over the...

I’m appalled by your conduct – Head of Police prosecutions fires policeman who murdered girlfriend

A police inspector accused of murdering his girlfriend at Adum in Kumasi has been chastised for bringing the image of the police service into...