Crime

Agradaa’s lawyer granted bail

An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to Agradaa’s lawyer, Theophilus Donkor, who had been charged for verbally assaulting police officers who were in...

Major Mahama case: I was drunk when I stoned soldier – Accused tells court

The third accused person in the case in which some 14 persons are standing trial for the murder of the late Major Maxwell Mahama,...

NDA Case: Suspects to face court today

The Criminal Division of the Tamale High Court will today, January 31, 2023, hear the corruption-related case involving four officials charged by the Office...

Tears in court as 4 get 20 years for stealing

Four persons involved in the syphoning of GHC1,262,496.66 from Best Point Savings and Loans Limited have been sentenced to a total jail term of...

Soldiers allegedly shoot man dead, injure 2 at Hobor

A group of soldiers have allegedly shot dead a 25-year-old man, Alfred Awuku, assaulted two others including the Wulomei of Kweku Pamfo. One of...

Opuni’s trial: Court to hear another motion stay of proceedings

The High Court in Accra will on Tuesday hear a motion for stay of proceedings pending the determination of an interlocutory appeal filed by...

GRA taskforce arrest five shopping mall managers

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) taskforce has arrested five managers of shopping malls at Spintex Road in Accra for allegedly evading tax on the...

Policeman who left rifle in ‘trotro’ needs mental examination – Ex IGP’s Secretary

JoyNews/AdomNews · Policeman Who Left Rifle In 'trotro' Needs Mental Examination - Ex IGP's Secretary Retired police officer and Member of Parliament for Wa West,...

‘Okada’ riders besiege Police station over missing colleague

A number of Okada Riders at Assin Manso in the Assin South District of the Central Region have staged a wild protest demanding the...

Man charged for selling broken tiles as phones

The self-styled phone trader who allegedly sold packed broken tiles as phones has been admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 with two...

Policeman who left rifle in ‘trotro’ after allegedly taking GH¢100 bribe interdicted

The Ghana Police Service has interdicted an Inspector who left his rifle in a commercial vehicle. In a press statement dated January 28, the Service...

Alleged drunk G-Wagon driver breaks into fence wall [Photos]

On Saturday dawn, a driver of a Benz G-Wagon vehicle with registration, ODUMA 1 – 21, drove into a fence wall of a house...

Police arrest 4 suspects for robbery and murder at Wassa Agona

The police have arrested four persons who attacked a fuel filling station and murdered a security guard in the early hours of Saturday, 28th...

Nigerian man sentenced to death for killing 4 and using their intestines to prepare food

The Rivers State High Court has sentenced one Bestman Lekia to death by hanging for killing four people and using one of his victims’...

16-year-old boy arrested for stealing

A 16-year-old boy is in the grips of the Bole Police for stealing his grandmother's GHS60.000 at Jama, a farming and fishing community in...

Don’t jail me if I fail to pay GH₵20m in April – Ato Essien appeals

Founder of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, says he should not be jailed if he fails to pay GH₵20 million to the state...

Court remands accountant over ¢69k fraud

An Accra High Court has remanded a 45-year-old accountant, Fredrick Wundowah, for defrauding a trader to the tune of GH₵69,000.00. Mr Wundowah allegedly collected...

Krofrom gang violence: One suspect arrested

One suspect has been arrested in connection with the Krofrom reprisal gang attack. The attack resulted in the death of one person and a six-bedroom...

Gang burn down six-bedroom house in reprisal attack at Krofrom

A six-bedroom house has been burnt in the Krofrom suburb of Kumasi, Friday afternoon, in an alleged reprisal attack by a gang. The armed young men,...

Let’s castrate men who impregnate school girls – Queen mother

The paramount queen mother of Abura Asiebu Kwamankese in the Central Region has cautioned men who impregnate teenagers and end up stalling their education...

Leaked tape: Ofosu-Ampofo, Kwaku Boahen to open defence

An Accra High Court has ordered the immediate former National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and a Communications Officer...

36-year-old woman convicted for stealing

The Accra Circuit Court has deferred the sentence of a 36-year-old woman who admitted to stealing GH¢50,000.00 belonging to her employer. The Court presided over...

Rat hunters set ablaze market [Photos]

Shop owners at Nyankomase Ahenkuro in the Assin South District of the Central Region are counting their loss after their shops were engulfed by...

Unknown assailants butcher man at Krofrom

A young man in his early 30s has been butchered by unknown assailants at Krofrom in the Ashanti Region. Eyewitnesses say the incident occurred...

EOCO hunts for Lebanese national jailed for fraud

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched a manhunt for a Lebanese national who was sentenced to jail for five years over...

Hit-and-run driver crashes man to death

A hit-and-run driver has crashed a man to death in Koforidua in the Eastern Regional Capital. The body of the deceased was found in a...

Court threatens to strike out Agradaa’s case

An Accra Circuit Court has threatened to strike out the criminal charges against founder of Heaven Way Champion International Ministry, Patricia Asiedua Koranteng, aka...

Boy, 19, fined for stealing yam

A 19-year-old unemployed boy, Peter Bilada from Kabiti, a farming community in the Nkwanta South of the Oti Region, has been fined by the...

Robbery ‘victims’ granted GH¢2 million bail

Two persons who allegedly orchestrated the robbery of GH¢900,000 cash at Maamobi, a suburb of Accra, have been granted bail. George Ayitey Mensah, a 32-year-old...

Farmer jailed for stealing from Police Commander’s bungalow

The Bole Magistrate Court in the Savannah region on Friday sentenced a farmer, Kwabena John, to four years of im­prisonment with hard labour for...

Court orders arrest of 2 in $100k gold scam case

An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of two persons allegedly involved in a $100,000 gold scam case. The Court presided over by Samuel Bright Acquah...

Nigerian jailed for attempting to obtain a Ghanaian Passport twice

A Madina District Court has sentenced Peter Michael Ifaenyi, also known as Peter Yaw Asare, a Nigerian Computer Engineer, to 450 days imprisonment for...

Three NDA officers, A&QS Consortium boss before court 

Three officers of the Northern Development Authority (NDA) and Mr Andrew Kuundaari, the Chief Executive Officer of A&QS Consortium, have been arraigned before court...

Man, 80, remanded over alleged murder of 43-year-old

The Nkwanta South Magistrate Court has remanded into police custody an 80-year-old man, Tibrum Wakam, for the murder of a 43-year-old over a parcel...

NDC Congress Violence: My Court erred, retake plea of convict – Judge

The trial judge hearing the case of three vigilantes who were arrested in connection with the violence that characterised the December 18 Congress of...

Check out members of Committee to probe Krobea Asante riots

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has inaugurated a five-member committee nominated to investigate the disturbances at Krobea Asante Technical and Vocational Institute. David Prah,...

Farmer jailed for defiling class 4 pupil

Francis Dzata, a 40-year-old farmer, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old class 4 pupil. The convict,vwho appeared before the Hohoe...

Seven arrested in connection with death of Fulani herdsman

The Bole District Police Command has arrested seven persons in connection with the death of a Fulani herdsman on the Kiape- Sonyo Road in...

Woman inflicts cutlass wounds on man over land dispute at Awutu Bokotu

A 47-year-old farmer, Charles Oko, is battling for his life after a colleague farmer identified simply as Yaa Yaa inflicted cutlass wounds on him...

MASLOC trial: Alex Mould, Gavivina Tamakloe to pay GH¢ 5m as failed bail bond

The Accra High Court has ordered the two securities who secured a GH¢5 million bail for former boss of the Microfinance and Small Loans...