Crime

Details of how suspects killed 12-year-old boy for rituals

Seven persons have been arrested in connection with the disappearance and murder of a 12-year-old boy in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region.  The...

Teacher remanded over assault on pregnant colleague

A Takoradi Circuit Court has remanded a female teacher into prison custody for two weeks over charges of assault and threat against her colleague. The...

Nine ‘street beggars’ arrested

Nine persons have been arrested by the Airport police for persistent harassment of motorists along some traffic intersection within the Airport Division. The Divisional Police...

Suspected murderer arrested after five months of intensive search [Video]

The Weija Police have arrested 26-year-old Joshua Quashie, suspected to have murdered one Nii Armah Tagoe, 29 at Obakrowa in the Ga West Municipality....

Car snatchers arrested after being involved in an accident

Some robbers, who were escaping with a stolen car, have been arrested after being involved in a road crash at Ode Remo, Ogun State.The...

SHS student allegedly commits suicide at Akrokeri Bobrase

A second-year student of Amankyim Senior High School (SHS) has allegedly committed suicide at Akrokeri Bobrase in the Adansi North District of the...

Siblings arrested for brandishing guns charged

A Kumasi Circuit Court has granted bail to two siblings seen brandishing a Pump Action gun and pistols in a viral social media video. The court,...

Police gun down notorious robber who tried to escape from custody

A suspected high-profile armed robber who attempted to flee police custody has died from bullet wounds. Iddrisu Adams, also known as Koomi has been on...

35 foreigners grabbed for online fraud

The police have arrested 35 foreign nationals suspected to be illegal immigrants who engage in fraudulent online transactions. The suspects, made up of 27 Burkinabes,...

Man nabbed for attempting to smuggle guns from Turkey to Ghana

Police in Istanbul have announced the arrest of a Ghanaian national for attempting to smuggle 17 handguns into Ghana from Turkey. Istanbul Police in a...

Former Mauritania President jailed!

Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration. The ex-leader says...

7-year-old boy escapes after suspected ritualist chops off his hand

A seven-year-old boy has been amputated by suspected ritualist who kidnapped him along with two other colleagues. The little boy was attacked in Pategi town, Pategi...

Woman found dead in hotel room

An unidentified woman, who lodged a hotel in Kwara, Nigeria, has been found dead. According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the state...

Six arrested during anti-human trafficking operations

The Oti Regional Anti Human Trafficking Unit has arrested six suspects in two sets of operations for their alleged involvement in the recruitment and...

Police intercept weapons, ammunition at Adeiso

Police at Adeiso in the Eastern Region have intercepted four pump action guns and 75 live cartridges from a vehicle allegedly belonging to a...

Medical doctor arrested for selling ‘wee cookies’ online

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has detained a medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, for peddling drugged cookies and biscuits in Auchi, Edo. She allegedly sold...

Police have no armed robbery evidence against siblings brandishing guns in viral social media video

The Ashanti Regional Police Command says it has no evidence of armed robbery against three siblings arrested for brandishing guns in a viral social media...

Three burnt to death in botched cattle theft

An irate youth have burnt to death three persons after a botched cattle theft at Biu near Navrongo in the Upper East Region. The...

Nigerian held over death of teacher remanded

A 42-year-old Nigerian trader, who knocked down a 27-year teacher on the Adentan- Dodowa intersection and abandoned her body in a nearby bush at...

Two suspected armed robbers arrested at Fumbisi

Two men suspected to be highway armed robbers have been arrested at Fumbisi in the Builsa South District by the Upper East Regional Police...

Students of Islamic Girls’ SHS storm Wa police station over tutors’ arrest [Video]

Some students of Wa Jamiat Islamic Girls’ Senior High School, on Monday, stormed the Wa police station to protest the arrest of some teachers...

They are my people but … – Bernard Monarh on gun-wielding men

Former National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Monarh, has expressed his disappointment in the young men who brandished guns on social...

CCTV captures scary moment armed robbers stormed barbering shop [Watch]

The identities of a group of armed robbers have been revealed as CCTV captures the moment they raided a barbering shop In the videos uploaded...

Man arrested for hacking cameras and obtaining 1,000 images of n*de kids

A British man has been arrested in Benidorm on suspicion of hacking the home security cameras of more than 70 families around the world...

Robbers shoot MoMo vendor at Okorase

A mobile money (MoMo) vendor has been shot dead by armed robbers at Okorase near Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The 36-year-old Solomon Arhin Prost...

Teshie Wulomo, 2 others injured after gunshots during pre-Homowo rituals [Photos+Video]

Three people have been injured while they were performing rituals ahead of the start of the Homowo festival at Teshie. The victims include the Chief...

Man arrested with imported sniper rifles into Ghana: Inside story [Audio]

A Ghanaian based in the United States of America (USA) has been arrested for possessing ammunition without lawful authority. Ernest Tawiah, based in Chicago, is...

Man stabs friend to death at funeral for calling him stupid

A 32-year-old man has been stabbed to death by his friend following a quarrel between the two at a funeral in Akyem-Nkwanta, a suburb...

Bullion van robbery: 215 suspected criminals arrested

The Accra Regional Police Command has embarked on an enhanced operational exercise in Accra and arrested 215 suspected criminals in its recent targeted operation....

7-year-old exposes grandma who sells her out as s3x slave

A grandmother, who has been selling her granddaughter out as a sex slave, has been apprehended, alongside men who sexually abuse the minor. A group...

Missing 16-year-old schoolgirl busted for staging her kidnap

A schoolgirl, who masterminded her own kidnap after conspiring with her boyfriend, has been busted.  The suspect, Suluka Abimbola and her boyfriend Oluwaseun Daniel Olajide,...

You can run, but you can’t hide – Kofi Boakye to bullion van attackers

The Director-General in charge of Legal and Prosecution at the Ghana Police Service, COP Nathan Kofi Boakye, says arresting perpetrators behind the James Town...

Man who shot friend dead over GH¢5 reports himself to police

Police at Akropong in the Eastern Region has arrested a man, who allegedly shot and killed his friend over GHS 5.00 debt. According to the...

Bullion van attacks in the first half of 2021

The first half of 2021 has recorded four bullion van attacks. JoyNews' checks reveal that in three of the incidents, the robbers bolted with the cash...

3 arrested for brandishing guns in viral social media video

Three men, who were seen flaunting guns in a viral social media video, have been arrested by police in Kumasi. Police say the three, all...

Military men storm Bekwai forest, arrest illegal miners

The Bekwai Forestry Commission and the military, police and Adansi Akrofuom District Assembly Taskforce, have embarked on an operation on the Supuma forest reserve. According...

65-year-old man arrested for allegedly raping step-mother

A 65-year-old man, identified as Durodola Kayode Ogundele, of Ayetoro-Ekiti, has reportedly been arrested by the police at Ekiti for forcing himself on his...

Man burns daughter’s hand for allegedly stealing ¢10

An eight-year-old girl is receiving treatment at the Walewale Government Hospital after her father allegedly assaulted her with fire for allegedly stealing GH¢10.00. The victim,...

How police saved GHc550,000 in bullion van ‘robbery’ on Kasoa-Winneba road [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · More details of botched bullion van robbery on Kasoa-Winneba road The armed men who attacked a bullion van at Gomoa Okyereko on the...

Man shot dead by friend over GH¢5 debt

A middle-aged man has been shot dead by his friend at Akuapem-Apiredi in the Eastern Region following a confrontation over a Ghc5 debt he...