Crime

Mankessim murder: No show for suspects over lack of fuel for Police vehicle

Relatives of 22-year-old Asor Botchwey who was gruesomely murdered at Mankessim were left disappointed as the court adjourned the case for the fourth time....

Mentally challenged man stoned to death after attacking couple

A mentally challenged man has been stoned to death at Abakrampa in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region. This was after...

Man arrested with drugs concealed in car tyre [Video]

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigeria have arrested a man with illicit drugs concealed inside his tyre. The spokesperson of...

Aisha Huang’s trial begins today

The High Court in Accra is expected to begin the trial of galamsey 'kingpin' Aisha Huang today, November 9, 2022. This comes after prosecution complied...

2 grabbed for allegedly robbing UG foreign student

Two drivers’ mates who allegedly robbed a student at the University of Ghana, Legon of her mobile phone valued at GH₵3,000 have been remanded...

Four-day-old baby dumped in public toilet rescued

A four-day-old baby boy has escaped death after his mother dumped him into a public toilet at Gomoa Potsin in the Central Region. The...

One shot dead, 7 injured in violent clashes between 2 communities

A 31-year-old man, Quashie Edem, has been shot dead with six others injured in a cutlass and gun battle in land litigation between the...

Police Inspector arrested for reckless driving

An Inspector with the Ghana Police Service, Entwie Bio, has been arrested for reckless driving.  The officer was reportedly arrested on Monday after he...

Teacher trainee jailed for impersonation

The Wa Circuit Court has sentenced Uthman Anuwar Sadat, a first-year student of the Nusrat Jahan Training College to 14 months imprisonment for impersonation...

Former Beige Bank CEO pleads not guilty to stealing ¢1.2bn, granted bail

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of defunct Beige Bank, Michael Nyinaku, has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of stealing and money laundering filed against...

Fake mentally challenged man nabbed with sack filled with dead babies

A mob descended heavily on a man after he was caught with a sack filled with dead babies in Nigeria. According to reports, the suspect,...

Former Beige Bank CEO charged with money laundering, theft

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Beige Bank Limited, Michael Henaku, has been charged with  44 counts of money laundering, fraudulent breach of trust...

Four remanded over medical doctor’s stolen laptop, documents

Two persons who allegedly broke into a Land Cruiser vehicle and made away with an Apple Mac Book pro Laptop valued at GHS14,000 have...

Police probes violent chieftaincy dispute at Enchi

The Ghana Police Service say they have restored calm at Enchi in the Western North Region. This was after a violent chieftaincy dispute resulted in...

Miner jailed for posing as Police Intelligence Officer

A 37-year-old miner who posed as a Police intelligence officer and attempted to dupe some people at Sekyere, in the Sekyere-Kumawu district, has been...

Hushpuppi sentenced to 11 years in prison

Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has been sentenced to 11 years for internet fraud and money laundering. Considered by some as a socialite,...

Native doctor attempts to bury lover alive after slitting her throat [Photos]

A Chief Magistrates Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria has remanded a native doctor in prison custody on an offence of attempted murder.  The...

Police on manhunt for robbers who attacked family and killed 2

The police are on a manhunt for a robbery gang who attacked and robbed a family of three along the Ejura-Nkwanta-Nyinase road in the...

3 Chinese ‘galamseyers’ denied bail

The Bekwai Circuit Court, presided over by His Honour, Mark Diboro Tairima, has refused a bail application for three Chinese illegal miners. The suspects identified...

Man allegedly stabs 64-year-old mother to death

A 28-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his Nigerian mother to death in east London. On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, Detectives charged Nicholas...

Court sets date for Aisha Huang’s trial

The trial of Chinese illegal mining kingpin, En Huang, also known as Aisha Huang, is set to begin on November 9, 2022 following case...

Abesim murder suspect to undergo psychiatric evaluation

The Attorney-General has asked the Police to charge Richard Appiah, accused of killing two minors and storing some of their body parts in a...

Alhaji Sani lashes out at group that attacked party headquarters

A founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Mohammed Sani, has lashed out at a group of persons who attacked its headquarters. The...

Lawyer and orphanage proprietress jailed over adoption

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a lawyer and an orphanage proprietress to three years each in prison for deceiving a married couple to...

Taxi driver stabbed with car stolen after being hired by female passenger

A 29-year-old taxi driver, Andy Donkor, has escaped death after being stabbed multiple times when a female passenger hired his services. The incident occurred at...

Man shot dead in robbery operation on Ejura-Nkwanta road

A 50-year-old man, Kipo Sumaila, was shot dead by unidentified armed robbers on the Ejura-Nkwanta – Nyinase feeder road in the Ashanti Region on...

Six-year-old boy found dead at Fetteh Kakraba

A boy, believed to be six years old, has been killed and dumped behind Fetteh Kakraba Sapoto in the Gomoa East District of the...

Taxi driver found dead with head and vehicle missing [Video]

A 28-year-old taxi driver, Bernard Botwey, has been found dead with his head and vehicle missing at Ajumako Mando in the Central Region. Residents...

Man involved in Police recruitment scam granted bail

The Accra Circuit Court has granted GH¢150,000 bail with three sureties to Samuel Yeboah, 38-year-old unemployed, for alleged abetment of crime. The court said one of the sureties...

Convict gets additional 5-year jail term after appeal

A convict, who had his five years’ term of imprisonment increased by the Court of Appeal to a further five years after he had...

NIA impostor who issued fake Ghana cards jailed

A 26-year-old man, Oheneba Emmanuel Kwaku, has been sentenced into prison custody for 12 months for impersonating staff of the National Identification Authority (NIA)...

Man allegedly kills second wife over land

A man in his fifties, Kwaku Seidu alias Kukrudu, has been arrested for allegedly killing his wife over land dispute at Tepa-Danyame in the...

Ban ritualists from TV to reduce ritual killings – Fetteh Kakraba chief to Akufo-Addo

The Chief of Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region, Nana Essel Amoaquandoh III, says ritualists plying their trade on television are a major cause...

Armed robbers inflict cutlass wounds on man and wife at Kintampo

A man and his wife narrowly escaped death when armed robbers suspected to be of Fulani descent attacked them at Atta Akuraa in the...

Suspected Boko Haram fighter arrested at Bolga

Security and defense forces have arrested in Ghana a suspected fighter of the Nigerian dreaded jihadist group Boko Haram. The suspect, Hassan Hussein, was arrested...

Man shot dead over alleged witch-hunting at Kpassa

A man in his 60's has been shot dead by unknown assailants over alleged witch-hunting at Kpassa in NKwanta North district of the Oti...

Man who arranged his own kidnap reports his accomplice to police for cheating him

A man, identified as Israel Emmanuel, who planned his own abduction in order to get his father to pay a ransom, has been arrested...

Woman found dead with private parts missing at Fetteh Kakraba

Residents of Fetteh Kakraba in the Central Region are living in fear and panic after the body of a 58-year-old physically challenged woman was...

Man allegedly slits ex-wife’s husband’s throat to death

A man, popularly known as Kapo, has allegedly slit the throat of his ex-wife’s husband Kweku Ofori, to death at Musunkwa in the Komenda...

Man lynched at Kasoa

A man, believed to be in his late 30s, has been lynched by unknown assailants at Kasoa Free Town in the Awutu Senya East...