Crime

Celta Vigo striker Santi Mina jailed for sexual assault

Celta Vigo striker Santi Mina has been sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of sexual abuse. Mina, 26, will appeal against...

Boy, 4, found dead with body parts missing at Gomoa Nyanyano [Video]

https://youtu.be/ojrdyJ794p0 A four-year-old boy has allegedly been killed and dumped into a river at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central region. According to eyewitnesses, the body of...

SHS student allegedly sets herself on fire over father’s identity

A 19-year-old female Senior High School (SHS) student has been pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in Anum Boso in the Eastern region...

Gunmen kill couple on their way to their wedding

Unknown gunmen have reportedly killed soldiers on their way to their wedding in Imo state, Nigeria. In a phone conversation obtained by LIB, a man...

Two jailed 20 years each for robbery, causing harm

Two persons, Korshie Ahtso, 23, and Wisdom Dzeke, 25 have been jailed 20 years each by an Aflao Circuit Court for robbery, causing harm...

Masked men kill businessman at Wassa Akropong

A 34-year-old businessman has been shot and killed in front of his house at Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality of the...

Man allegedly hacks 65-year-old father to death

A man believed to be in his 30s is in the grips of the police for allegedly killing his father Dadieso-Suiboo in the Western...

Man jailed 8 years for sodomising 7-year-old

A 21-year-old trader who sodomised a seven-year-old girl at North Kaneshie in Accra has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit...

2 men who impersonated police at NPP elections remanded

The Police have remanded two persons who showed up at the ongoing NPP Constituency Executive Elections in the Okaikoi South Constituency wearing clothing that...

Newborn baby dumped in public toilet rescued [Photos]

A newborn baby dumped in a public toilet at Tuna in the Sawla District of the Savannah Region has been rescued. The baby according...

Two notorious poachers arrested in Mole National Park sentenced

The Bole Magistrate Court presided over by His Worship Edward Essel has sentenced two poachers to 72 days imprison each with hard labour. The...

Alleged prostitute sentenced to 30 years 4 men’s overdose deaths

A New York City sex worker has been sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the fatal overdose of four men, including Cipriani Dolci...

EOCO chases two suspects over SIM swap fraud

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is on a manhunt for two suspects in connection with SIM swap fraud. EOCO has identified the suspects...

Man sentenced to 15-years imprisonment for stealing mobile phone

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for robbery by the Asamankese Circuit Court. Emmanuel Afanu, will serve his sentence in hard...

Police grab 2 over premix fuel diversion

The Keta Police Command in the Volta region is holding a worker of the Keta Municipal Assembly, Geoffrey James Ocloo, and a tanker driver...

Beauty pageant organiser arrested for sexually abusing contestants

The organiser of Miss Rwanda beauty pageant has been arrested on allegations of sexually abusing contestants, the authorities have said. The arrest of Dieudonné...

One remanded over murder of 8 Fulanis in Yendi

The Yendi Circuit Court has remanded into police custody Danko Delabra who was arrested in connection with the murder of 8 Fulanis at Zakoli,...

PAC refers 100 institutions to police for Procurement Law breaches

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has referred more than 100 public institutions in six regions to the Ghana Police Service for investigations...

Labourer remanded for allegedly stealing pastor’s gold rings

The Ofaakor Circuit Court has remanded a 31-year-old labourer in prison custody for allegedly stealing his pastor's 12 gold rings valued at GH¢120,000. The accused,...

Ayikai Doblo chief acquitted and discharged

An Accra High Court has acquitted and discharged the chief of Ayikai Doblo in the Ga West municipality, Nii Amoo Doodu, after successfully appealing...

Fuel station manager imprisoned 120 months for stealing ¢398k

The Mpraeso Circuit Court has jailed a fuel station manager of the Kwahu-Tafo branch of Infin Ghana Limited for 120 months. Ernest Boakye was sentenced...

Former teaching assistant contradicts KNUST lecturer’s claim on wife’s disappearance

A former teaching assistant at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)who worked with Dr Wilberforce Aggrey, has contradicted the lecturer’s claims...

Taxi driver found dead in his car

Police in Kumasi in the Ashanti region have commenced investigations into circumstances that led to the death of a taxi driver at Breman in...

40-year-old nabbed for impersonating ECG staff

A 40-year-old man has been arrested for posing as a staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to defraud and extort money from...

NPP Chairman, 2 others arrested for stealing metals for bridge maintenance granted bail

The Akyem Swedru Circuit Court presided by His Honour William Twumasi Appiah has granted bail to the Oda NPP Constituency Chairman and two other...

Man, 22, stabbed to death with scissors

A 22-year-old man, Kofi Tawia, has allegedly been stabbed to death at Bodomasi in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti region. The incident...

I have lost a treasure – Mother of Immigration officer killed on duty [Video]

https://youtu.be/q-VoZnZauhU It was an emotional sight as parents and other relatives of the late Immigration officer, Michael Ekow Otu who was killed while on duty,...

Fisherman, 56, found hanging at Saltpond

A 56-year-old fisherman, Uncle Bobola has been found dead in what appears to be suicide at Saltpond - Ankadul in the Mfantseman Municipality of...

Man who killed KNUST student over GH¢300 debt to appear in court

A 25-year-old tailor’s apprentice who allegedly killed a friend at Sewua in the Ashanti region is set to appear in court today Monday, April...

One killed as NDC Secretary escapes robbery attack

The Savannah Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Salisu Be-Awurbe has escaped a robbery attack on the Damongo-Sawla-Fulfulso road. The Secretary in a...

Okada rider jailed 15 years for robbing student of iPhone 7

The Asamankese Circuit Court in the Eastern region presided by His Honour Abass Abubakari Adam has jailed a 20-year-old Okada rider to 15 years...

Police officers accused of bullion van robberies return to court today

The four Police officers accused of masterminding bullion van robberies in Accra are expected to reappear in court today. The four have already been denied...

KNUST level 200 student reportedly murdered

A level 200 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been found dead. The body of 22-year-old Nana Gyamfi was...

Court sentences 2 robbers to 10 years each

Two robbers have been sentenced to a combined 20 years imprisonment by the Goaso Circuit Court on Friday, April 22, 2020. This was after they...

Court sentences 6 to death in killing of Sri Lankan

A Pakistan court has sentenced six people to death and nine others to life in prison after convicting them for their roles in last...

Tears as hundreds bid farewell to Immigration officer killed while on duty near Nandom [Video]

https://youtu.be/nCLELALRIeY Scores of people have trooped to Kaneshie, Accra to mourn an officer with the Ghana Immigration Service(GIS), Michael Ekow Otu, who was killed while on duty....

‘Morale session’ at funeral of immigration officer killed on duty [Video]

https://youtu.be/t2LHXrCI4d8 Personnel from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) lightened up the spirits of mourners at the funeral of their colleague, Michael Ekow Otu. They trooped to...

FBI arrests Ghanaian mother, daughter in US for assisting ‘fraud boys’ launder cash to Ghana

Two Ghanaians in the US have been arrested for their roles in the alleged illegal transfer of money through online scam syndicates to perpetrators...

Court sentences 2 robbers to 10 years each

Two robbers were sentenced to a combined 20 years imprisonment by the Goaso Circuit Court on Friday, April 22, 2020. This was after they attacked...

Fetish priest busted in attempt to bury boy and cow alive at Abura Tuakwa

An attempt by a 25-year-old self-acclaimed fetish Priest to bury a young boy and a cow alive at Abura Tuakwa in the Abura Asebu...