Crime

One injured after clashes between SHS students

A teenager is battling for his life after students of Asanteman Senior High School (SHS) and Bantama Adventist Senior High School clashed over the...

Major Mahama trial: Assemblyman closes case after calling 2 witnesses

The Assemblyman for Denkyira Obuasi, William Baah, who is standing trial for abetment in the killing of military officer Major Mahama has closed his...

Four arrested in connection with torture of boy, 16, granted bail

The Assin Fosu District Court, presided over by His Worship Abdul Majid Iliasu, has granted bail to four persons in connection with the torture...

Unemployed convicted over fraud

A 21-year-old unemployed young man, who allegedly stole GHS 38,400.00 by logging into Richmond Gyawu’s Ecobank Mobile application account, has been sentenced by an Accra...

Bukom Banku and son remanded over stabbing

Briamah Isaac Kamoko, aka “Bukom Banku”, a Ghanaian Professional Boxer, has been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for one week...

Buried body exhumed at Awutu Kwa- Larbie

The buried body of a 30-year-old man, Kojo Edem, has been exhumed by unknown people at Awutu Kwa- Larbie in the Awutu Senya West...

Innocent boy, 16, hospitalised after being tortured over missing GH₵4K

A 16-year-old boy from Assin Adiembra in the Central Region has gone through the worse over a missing Ghc4,000. The victim was wrongfully accused of...

20 suspected drug dealers including 2 women arrested [Photos]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested 20 drug dealer suspects including women and seized tons of narcotics in Ondo, Kebbi, Akala and...

Police allegedly shoot taxi driver dead at Gbi Wegbe

Bismark Charles Opare, a 29-year-old taxi driver, died on Saturday from a suspected stray bullet discharged during a Police operation at Gbi Wegbe in...

Caprice robbery: Two robbers shot dead as police officer sustains injuries

Police have shot dead two armed robbers and arrested one in connection with the robbery attack at Caprice in Accra on Friday 9th December,...

Judge hangs himself in church after killing wife and raping her corpse

A Zimbabwean judge, who was declared wanted by the police over the brutal murder of his wife, has reportedly killed himself in a church. The...

Chinese nationals release dogs on GRA tax officers at quarry site  

Some Chinese nationals working at quarry sites at Kasoa in the Central region on Thursday, December 8, 2022, released dogs on officials of the...

57-year-old ‘hungry’ man jailed for stealing 2 bunches of plantain

A 57-year-old cocoa farmer, Emmanuel Addae, from Twifu Heman Nsuaem in the Central Region, has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for stealing two...

8 arrested in connection with Enchi chieftaincy clash

At least eight people have been arrested in connection with the Enchi chieftaincy clash that led to the demise of four persons. Four suspects were...

Man kills wife after allegedly hitting head against wall multiple times

A 40-year-old man, Stephen Appiah, has been arrested by Police for allegedly killing his wife, Afua Abrefi. The suspect reportedly hit the head of the...

Police hunt for Caprice robbers

The Police are pursuing a gang of armed robbers who attacked and shot a woman at Caprice in Accra on Friday 9th December 2022....

Woman shot in daylight robbery at Caprice [Audio+Video]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Daylight Robbery At Caprice A yet-to-be-identified woman has reportedly been shot in a daylight robbery at Caprice on the Circle-Nsawam Highway. The incident, according...

Galamsey: 2 miners arrested, 15 equipment destroyed

Two persons have been arrested and 15 Chanfang machines destroyed in a task force exercise against illegal mining on River Pra in the Eastern...

3-day-old baby found dead, body dumped in manhole

A decomposing body of a three-day-old baby has been found in a manhole at Oklu Nkwanta, a suburb of Kasoa Ofaakor in the Awutu...

Election violence: Police place GH¢100,000 bounty on Techiman South killers

The Ghana Police Service has announced a reward of GH¢100,000 for anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators...

Marketing Officer granted bail over alleged stealing

A 27-year-old Marketing Officer, who allegedly stole an amount of GHS107,798.31, belonging to Duraplast Company has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Samuel...

Man, 27, arrested for shooting motor rider he hired

A 27-year-old young man, identified as Prince Yoma, has been arrested by the police at Sehwi for shooting a motorbike rider he boarded in...

Community Protection Assistants allegedly attack YEA Operations Manager

The Eastern Regional Operations Manager of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Samuel Kwame Kodua, narrowly escaped death after he was brutally attacked and had...

‘Ghetto’ set on fire as Police arrest suspected Indian hemp smokers

The Wenchi police in the Bono Region have arrested eight suspected Indian Hemp smokers and peddlers, in a swoop conducted in the Municipality on...

Three farmers arrested for eating suspected human meat

Three farmers from Nasoyiri in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region have been arrested by the Sawla police for eating suspected human meat....

Security man killed in fuel station robbery

Unidentified assailants, suspected to be armed robbers, have gunned down a security guard at the Mobik Energy Fuel Filling Station along the Tarkwa-Banso road...

Fake soldier arrested at Burma Camp

Military Police personnel have arrested one Rufai Abubakar for posing as a senior officer and trying to access a military installation inside Burma Camp. The...

Armed robbers shoot mobile money vendor; bolt with GHS 30,000

A mobile money vendor, Ebenezer Amoquandoh, is receiving medical treatment after sustaining gunshot wounds during a robbery attack. Ebenezer was shot when two armed men...

Man jailed for inconsiderate, reckless driving

Many commercial drivers have normalised, if not justified bribing police officers to get away with committing road traffic offences. A taxi driver, David Ayensu, who...

3 remanded over gold scam and robbery

Three accused persons standing trial for gold scam and robbery were on December 5, 2022 remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The...

Tracker exposes motorbike thief granted bail by court

A motorbike sprayer who was arrested through a tracker installed in a motorbike which he allegedly stole, is before court. Sulemana Haruna, 37, the accused person, was...

Ejura traditional council reaffirms intention to bar Fulani herdsmen

The Ejura Traditional Council has reaffirmed its decision to bar nomadic Fulani herders from entering communities in the traditional area with their cattle. Barima Osei Hwedie...

How man killed 2 persons after taking ‘wee’-laced ‘sobolo’ [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Family of man who killed 2 persons after taking 'wee'-laced 'sobolo' speaks Joseph Kumado, an uncle of a 22-year-old man who killed his...

Spiritualist, 2 others arrested in connection with robbery at Awutu Bereku

The Awutu Bereku District Police Command has arrested two suspected robbers and a spiritualist in connection with an attack on a 35-year-old woman at...

Two including Imam shot in mosque attack

Bandits have attacked a mosque in Maigamji village in Katsina State of Nigeria. An eyewitness, Alhaji Lawal Maigamji, said the bandits stormed the mosque during...

Woman shot as armed robbers attack Awutu Bereku residents

A 35-year-old woman is in critical condition after a robbery attack at Awutu Edahadaha, a suburb of Awutu Bereku in the Awutu Senya West...

Fugitive arrested after commenting on ‘most wanted’ post made by police

A Georgia man assisted law enforcement in his arrest after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page. The sheriff’s department, located east...

It was in self defence – Nigerian man who beheaded girlfriend at Spintex says

Daniel Dennis, a Nigerian man who beheaded his girlfriend at Spintex, has revealed he did it in self-defence. He disclosed this when he appeared...

Woman found hanging dead in uncompleted building

A 67-year-old woman, Antie Aba Yaa, has been found hanging in an uncompleted building at her own house at Nkusukum, a suburb of Mankessim...

Police arrest man in fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff

Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff. The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated musician was shot...