Crime

Man loses his car to robbers, finds police using it after 2 years

A thirty-two-year-old banker who was nearly killed by car snatchers found a police officer using the car he lost to the robbers two years later. Samuel...

130 suspected criminals arrested

The police in the Central Region has arrested 130 suspected criminals in a swoop at Gomoa Budumburam. The swoop was carried out at the crime-prone...

Man pours acid on wife

A man believed to be in his late forties has poured acid on his wife at Adukrom a suburb of Bibiani in the western...

PHOTOS: Teenage twins chopped up for 'stealing' GH¢ 200

The Wa Police in the Upper West region have arrested a 45-year-old mother and her son for inflicting deep cuts on her twin daughter,...

Fake Soldier jailed ten-years for possessing narcotic drugs

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced one Patrick Akoto, unemployed to ten years in prison for possessing a parcel of compressed narcotic drugs without...

Farmer commits suicide after butchering wife over sex

A 35-year old farmer has allegedly murdered his wife for refusing him sex for six months. Emmanuel Awudi is said to have carried out the...

Video: Mom beats 8-year-old daughter to death, hides body

A mother who beat her eight-year-old ailing daughter to death has been arrested by the police and currently being prepared for court. The Korle-Bu District...

Police grab student for housing a robber

A final year student of Asuansi Technical Institute and resident of Abakrampa in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region is in the grips...

Man jailed for threatening to kill father

A 24-year-old man has run into trouble with the law for threatening to kill his own father over a mobile phone. Yakubu Abukari was said...

AUDIO: Woman arrested for baby theft

A middle-aged woman has been arrested by the Wenchi Divisional Police Command for stealing a 40-days-old baby. Station Officer at the Domestic Violence and Victim...

Police reject GHC 2,000 bribe; arrests 2 robbers

Some New Weija-stationed Police Officers have arrested two Nigerien who are suspected to be armed robbers. The two, Malik Bashiru, 32, and Abdul Aziz Tahiru,...

PHOTO: Woman kills daughter

A 36-year-old woman, who allegedly assaulted her eight-year-old daughter to death and buried her at Lavenda Hill, near the Korle-Gonno beach, in Accra, has...

Major Mahama case: Ignore rumours; concentrate on evidence- Lawyer tells jury

An Accra High Court has successfully empanelled a seven-member jury to sit on a case in which an army officer Major Adam Mahama was...

AUDIO: Man suspected to be used-sanitary-pad thief beaten to pulp

A middle-aged man suffered severe beatings at the hands of traders at Kantamanto in Accra in the early hours of Wednesday for allegedly stealing...

Deadly church attack kills 19 including two priests

At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, police said. Two priests and 17 worshippers...

Police seize 15,790.81 grams of marijuana

The police at Juaso have seized 15,790.81 grams of marijuana at Asankare in the Asante-Akim South Municipality and arrested one man, Kwame Agyei. This large...

Lawyer jailed for fraud

Two persons including a lawyer, Dominic Owusu Sekyere, have been sentenced to total of 12 years imprison by the Accra Circuit Court for defrauding...

Operation Vanguard affects Afoko trial

The Accra High Court hearing the case involving Gregory Afoko, accused of murdering the former Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party...

Police officers who sold AK47 rifle to civilian at Weija interdicted

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has directed that three police officers who are alleged to have sold an AK47 rifle to a civilian...

OFFICIAL: DOVVSU records rape cases everyday

National Coordinating Director for Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), Chief Superintendent Owusuaa Kyeremeh has revealed that rape cases are recorded on daily...

Taxi driver remanded over Narcotics

A taxi driver, Nathan Otoo has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court into Police custody for possessing narcotic drug. The accused pleaded not guilty...

Woman jailed for throwing her baby on refuse dump

The Kade District Magistrate Court presided over by Madam Felicia Anane- Antwi has sentenced a 26-year-old woman to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour...

British-born Ghanaian stabbed to death in London

A 21-year-old man Kwasi Anim-Boadu, believed to be of Ghanaian descent, has been stabbed to death in the United Kingdom. Anim-Boadu was stabbed at Finsbury...

Three police officers arrested for renting out AK47 riffles to armed robbers

Listen to an eyewitness account below: Three police officers stationed at the Weija District Police Command have been arrested by the Greater Accra Regional Police...

British-born Ghanaian stabbed to death in London

A 21-year-old man Kwasi Anim-Boadu, believed to be of Ghanaian descent, has been stabbed to death in the United Kingdom. Anim-Boadu was stabbed at Finsbury...

Driver caught on CCTV stealing over GH¢28,000 jailed 5-yrs

The driver of a lawyer, who was caught on a Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Camera installed in a lawyer’s chambers, stealing an amount of...

Two remanded for spraying powdered pepper into victim's eye and stealing his motorbike

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded two persons into Police custody for conspiracy to commit crime and robbery. David Kofi Ahovi, a Mason and Michael...

PHOTOS: Farmer kills wife and commits suicide over food

A 35-year-old farmer, Emmanuel Awugye, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging after allegedly killing his 32-years-old wife, Ama Baduwaa, in the Ashanti region. The incident...

Robbers snatch Mercedes Benz at Adenta

Twenty-nine suspects including two ladies have been held in a targeted police swoop at a well-known drinking spot behind the Ashaiman District Police Headquarters...

Afghanistan: Kabul voter centre suicide attack kills dozens

A suicide attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 31 people, officials say. More than 50 others...

Two mobile money agents shot dead by suspected robbers

Two mobile money agents have been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at Pelungu market in the Upper East region. The incident occurred today ...

Deadly bank robbery leaves two dead at Nabdam

Two persons have been shot dead by armed men who allegedly robbed a branch of the First Allied Bank at Pelungu in the Nabdam...

Landlord stabs tenant over rent arrears

A landlord at Bibiani in the Western region has allegedly stabbed his tenant over rent arrears. Narrating the incident on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow...

Lawyer’s driver jailed five years for stealing

The driver of a lawyer, who was exposed by the closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Camera, installed in a lawyer’s chambers when stole an amount...

Boy, 4, shot by his 6-year-old brother at Somanya

A six-year-old child has died after his brother shot him in his head at Somanya in the Eastern Region on Thursday. The deceased, Alex Ologo...

Interpol Arrests Ghanaian Millionaire

Police have rounded up a young Ghanaian millionaire, Ibrahim Daouda popularly known as Ibra One, over allegations of money laundering and fraud. Ibrah One, who...

2018 WASSCE: Three more arrested at Tamale for impersonation

Three suspects including a minor were arrested in Tamale for impersonating candidates of this year’s ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. The suspects...

Two teenagers flogged by Obinim for fornication ‘missing’

The Police say they are having difficulties in locating the two teenagers who were flogged on live TV during a church service in 2016...

Video: Ghanaian, 30, flees US over rape accusation

An Uber driver charged with raping a passenger earlier this month was able to walk free because officials failed to notify immigration agents about...

Driver sentenced for knocking down and killing woman, 85

A commercial driver was on Tuesday fined GH¢1,920.00 by an Accra Circuit Court for knocking down and killing an 85-year-old woman on the spot He...