Crime

Siblings remanded for incest in Elmina

Two siblings who engaged in bouts of sexual escapades for years, producing two children out of the relationship were on Friday remanded in police...

17 people flog woman on orders of fetish priest

A woman at Kasoa in the Central Region was last Monday night flogged by 17 people on the orders of a fetish priest after...

Go and sin no more: Drobo Chiefs pardon Police PRO

The Drobo Traditional Council in the Brong Ahafo region has cautioned the region’s Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Augustine Kingsley Oppong for allegedly...

Apprentice jailed eight years for having anal sex

A Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Mrs Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye has sentenced an apprentice working at a hair dye manufacturing firm...

German national stabs suspected thief to death at Akropong

A German national, who is on voluntary service to Ghana, has allegedly stabbed a suspected pick-pocket to death at a street carnival at Akropong...

9-year-old children involved in prostitution in Central Region – UCC lecturer

A Senior Lecturer of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr Georgina Oduro has revealed that a...

Tema Port security arrest suspected terrorist

A Senior Officer in the Security Department of the Tema Port, Nene Ofoe-Teye, has called for the recognition of the country’s heroes as an encouragement...

Girl 7, found dead in uncovered manhole at Ashaiman

A 7-year-old girl, Luwisa Saah, has been found dead in an uncovered Manhole at Ashaiman Lebano Zone 5 in the Greater Accra Region. Father of...

Man who couldn’t handle shame of stealing deaf man’s plantain commits suicide [Audio]

A 48-year-old farmer, Tawiah Barsare, has committed suicide by hanging himself in a cocoa farm at Asiakwa in the East Akim Municipality of the...

Student stabs teacher with scissors

A form two student of Akwatia Technical Institute in the Denkyembour District of the Eastern Region has stabbed a teacher with a pair of scissors,...

Unemployed jailed for sexually abusing minor

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday handed down a seven-year jail term to Benjamin Akuetteh aka Kwei Peh, unemployed, for sexually abusing a seven-year...

Photo: Bike rider strips naked and attempts to stab a man

A commercial bike rider created a cause for panic after stripping naked and attempted to stab a man. READ ALSO: NABCO: Half loaf is better...

Photo: Kidnapper caged by police

A man, who is believed to be in his early 30s, is in the grips of the Asokwa Police for allegedly kidnapping a three-year-old...

Afoko poured acid on Adams – Investigator

It has been confirmed that Gregory Afoko and another suspect, Asabke Alangdi, who is on the run, indeed poured acid on the late Upper...

Breast-enhancing creams: FDA arrests suspect [Audio]

The Food and Drugs Authority has arrested one person suspected to be selling supposed breast-enhancing substances in Kumasi. Earlier this week, Luv FM’s Nana Yaw...

Two suspected child traffickers escape from custody

Two suspected child traffickers who were arrested by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons have escaped from custody. The two suspects...

Couple sell off day-old baby for N 250, 000

The police in River State have arrested a couple in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, for selling their day-old baby for...

Two jailed 18 years for defilement

A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday sentenced Richard Addo, a 25-year-old barber, to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl at Ashaley...

One dead, 15 wounded as two Brong Ahafo towns clash

One person is confirmed dead while 15 others have sustained gunshots wounds in a clash between neighboring towns of Drobo and Japekrom in the...

Photos: Man caught inserting his penis into car exhaust pipe

A drunk man, Ryan Scott Malek has been arrested by the police for inserting his penis into a car’s exhaust pipe to derive sexual...

Jackpot thieves jailed

A Circuit Court in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region has sentenced Yaw Danso, 22, and Francis Obeng, 17, to a total of 28 years’...

Photos: Brothers’ war over family god leaves one dead, another battles for life

A 25-year-old-man who has only been identified as Agbomor has butchered his brother at Adansi Brekete in the Ashanti region. The deceased, whose name is...

Nigerian sentenced for assaulting teachers

David Simon Chukwu, 45, a Nigerian based in Dzodze in the Volta Region has been sentenced to a fine of GH¢1, 800.00 by an...

Photo: NDC thugs beat their own Organiser to pulp

Sanni Mohammed, Deputy Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Suame Constituency, is currently battling for his life after he was reportedly...

32-year-old man clobbers wife, 4 kids; 2 dead, 3 fight for life

A 32-year-old man, Kwame Obey, has clobbered his wife and four children, killing the spouse and the last of his children, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl,...

Father jailed 10 years for impregnating daughter

A 42-year-old farmer, Collins Boadi, who impregnated his own daughter and aborted the pregnancy, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour...

Photos: Suspects abscond after police discover 75 slabs of wee in their room

About five people are currently at large after the Mankesim Divisional police Command discovered 75 slabs of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp...

PHOTO: Robber rearrested five days after gaining freedom

The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have rearrested a robbery suspect five days after he was released...

DPP takes over JB killers’ case

The prosecution handling the murder of the late New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region, J.B....

Photos: Police hunt for man who chopped off lunatic’s hand

A manhunt is on to arrest a yet-to-be-identified man said to have severed the left hand of a known mental patient at Nkronful Junction...

Christian Atsu rescues mother, 2 daughters jailed for stealing corn worth GHC10

A mother and her two daughters were set to spend three months in prison for taking some leftover corn estimated at GH¢10 which did...

Defence Counsel for Obengfo takes a swipe at state

Defence Counsel for Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh aka Dr Obengfo, proprietor of Obengfo Hospital at Weija took a swipe at the police state, when the...

PHOTOS: Driver knocks down policeman dead

A driver of Toyota Land Cruiser with registration number GG 1382-17, Benjamin Abasah is in police custody for knocking down and dragging a policeman...

Man kills friend over phone charger (Audio)

A 28-year-old man, Joe Francis has been stabbed to death by his friend at Domeabra in the Ga-South municipality of the Greater Accra region...

PHOTO: Wee peddler busted

Police have arrested a farmer, Sampson Appiah, who was in possession of supposed narcotic drugs with street value of GH¢100 in a house at...

Police avert chieftaincy clashes in Somanya

Police in the Eastern Region has moved in to calm tensions in Somanya following chieftaincy clashes there. The clashes erupted during the launch of the...

Legalising wee will increase drug related madness to 70 percent – Psychiatrist predicts

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has strongly opposed the legalization of marijuana popularly known as ‘wee’. He...

Afoko trial exhibits ‘choke’ jurors

The jurors hearing the case of Gregory Afoko, the key suspect in the murder of the Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic...

IGP found guilty of contempt of court

An Accra high court has found the Inspector General of Police David Asante Apeatu guilty of contempt of court. This was after two citizens Samuel...

Farmer in court for threatening ex-lover

A District Magistrate Court in Enchi has remanded into police custody, a 34 year-old farmer for allegedly threatening to kill his ex-lover on four...