Businessman urges Attorney General for swift trial in kidnapping case
A businessman, Dr. Kwadwo Agyapong Berry, has petitioned the Attorney General (AG) to intervene in his kidnapping and torture case, which is currently before...
Sales manager hot over GH¢681,000 for online betting
The Sales and Marketing Manager of DPS Industries Limited, Depak Sonar, has been arraigned before the Dansoman Circuit Court for allegedly investing the company’s...
3 ladies with concealed narcotics in suitcases remanded
An Accra High Court has remanded into lawful custody two South Africans and a Nigerian accused of possessing over 16 kg of methamphetamine, a...
3 injured in gun battle between two youth groups in Tamale
Three people have sustained injuries in a shooting incident between two youth groups over a parcel of land in the business district of the...
Three suspected poachers arrested in Mole Game Reserve
Rangers of the Forestry Commission have arrested three individuals suspected of poaching in the Mole Game Reserve in the Savannah Region.The suspects, identified as...
East Legon Accident: Court adjourns Salifu Amoako, wife, and Sales Assistant’s case
The case involving Elijah Salifu Amoako and his wife, Mouha, who were accused of allowing their unlicensed minor son to drive, has been adjourned...
Two soldiers jailed 10 years each for robbery and kidnapping
The Asante Bekwai Circuit Court has sentenced two soldiers to ten years of hard labor each for kidnapping and robbing a small-scale miner of...
Canadian murder case adjourned, awaiting jury directive
An Accra High Court has adjourned the case of Safina Mohammed Adizatu, accused of murdering her Canadian boyfriend, to February 27, 2025.The delay is...
13-year-old boy murdered in Bawku
The town of Bawku has been plunged into mourning once again following the tragic killing of a 13-year-old boy in the Singnatinga-Possum enclave of...
Akropong Circuit Court jails driver for 5 years for stealing truck
The Asante Akropong Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District has sentenced a 44-year-old driver to five years in prison for stealing a...
Barber granted bail for stealing GH¢6,000
A 21-year-old barber, accused of stealing GH¢6,000 from someone at Apatrapa in the Kwadaso Municipality, has been granted GH¢6,000 bail with one surety to...
Court jails two ‘Aluta Boys’ 13 years for stealing
The Tamale Circuit Court presided over by His Honor Francis Asobayire (ESQ), has convicted and sentenced two individuals: Nyankpani Hadi, 39, and Yussif Abdul...
Man allegedly caught carrying wife’s body parts in backpack
Police in Kenya have arrested a man carrying a mutilated corpse in his backpack, which he reportedly said belonged to his 19-year-old wife.Officers came...
‘I feel bad we hurt the man’ – Woman says after being jailed for 10 years
An American woman sentenced to 10 years with hard labor by an Accra Circuit Court for car snatching says she feels remorseful for the...
Kasoa ritual murder: Court to decide fate of 15-year-old today
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Juvenile Court in Accra will today, January 21, 2025, sentence the 15-year-old juvenile found guilty of conspiring with another...
3 in court over alleged kidnap, assault of businessman
Three of five individuals have been brought before an Accra Circuit Court for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and assault of a businessman.The...
Kasoa ritual murder: Court sets date to sentence 15-year-old
The Juvenile Court in Accra will on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, sentence the 15-year-old juvenile found guilty of conspiring with another teenager to murder...
One shot dead, others injured in violent clash at Kraboa Coaltar
One person has reportedly been shot dead in a violent clash at Kraboa Coaltar in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region.The incident, which...
Over 100 bags of fertilisers intercepted at Gbi Akplamafu
Some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Hohoe Constituency of the Volta Region, led by some executives and the police, have...
Two Chinese granted bail over illegal gold deals
Two Chinese nationals accused of dealing in gold without a license at Obuasi have been admitted to bail by an Accra High Court (Human...
Unemployed woman jailed for stealing mobile phone, cash
The Tarkwa District Court One has sentenced Gifty Awuah, an unemployed woman to two months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing an amount of...
CCTV nabs driver who stole mobile phones from journalist and others
A driver who stole mobile phones from a journalist and two others in Sakumono, Community 17, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.Kwabena Gyimah,...
Two arrested for suspected ritual murder in Akatsi North
Two persons have been arrested by the police in Korve in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region in connection with a suspected...
Policeman, 3 others beaten to pulp at Akrofuom
A police constable and three Community Policing Assistants (CPA) were attacked by thugs on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at Akrofuom, within the Obuasi Divisional...
Liberian jailed 10 years as court defers his girlfriend’s sentence pending pregnancy test
The Accra Circuit Court Three has sentenced 25-year-old Liberian Daniel Ireland to 10 years in prison with hard labour for robbing a Bolt driver...
Court sentences Okada rider to 15 years for robbing nurse
The Kasoa Ofaakor Circuit Court, presided over by His Lordship Isaac Ohenaba-Kuffour, has sentenced 32-year-old Okada rider Yussif Salifu to 15 years in prison...
Nungua residents demand intensified police patrol due to rise in robberies
Some residents of Nungua Addogono and Baatsona in the Greater Accra Region have raised concerns over a growing wave of robberies and phone-snatching incidents...
Joynews’ Ohemeng Tawiah sustains life-threatening injuries in police-illegal miners clash [Photos]
A police operation aimed at clamping down on the illegal mining activities in the Offin Shelter Belt Forest Reserve at Anwiafutu near Nyinahin, Ashanti...
Carpenter jailed for defiling ex-lover’s child
A 39-year-old carpenter, Peter Asamoah, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling his ex-lover's nine-year-old daughter at Yareyeya, a...
Taskforce arrests 5 suspected illegal miners at Wenchi-Atuna
The Wenchi Traditional Council in the Bono Region has arrested five suspected illegal miners, including a Chinese national, in the Wenchi Municipality.The task force,...
Mechanic jailed for 10 years for robbing student
A 25-year-old mechanic has been jailed for 10 years by the Asante Akropong Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District for attacking and...
Two in critical condition after exhuming body of 10-year-old at Adawukwa
Two people are in critical condition and receiving treatment at the Bawjiase Polyclinic after they were caught with the body of a 10-year-old boy.The...
Scores injured in Walewale after alleged military brutality
Dozens of residents in Walewale, North East Region, have reportedly sustained severe injuries after a violent crackdown by armed military personnel.Witnesses claim the soldiers...
Taxi driver kills colleague with wheel spanner at Agona Swedru
A heated argument between two taxi drivers at Agona Swedru in the Central Region has ended in tragedy, as 26-year-old Evans Owusu lost his...
Ex-convict jailed 8 years for threatening to harm mother
The Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced a 24-year-old ex-convict, Kofi Essien, also known as ‘Buffon,’ to eight years in prison with hard labor for...
Eastern Region: Abductors flee as warning shots save 13-year-old from ritual killing
A 13-year-old girl narrowly escaped from an alleged ritual killing after being abducted by four unidentified men in Aburi-Kitase, located in the Akuapem South...
Carpenter jailed 7 years for defiling teen in Walewale
The Nalerigu Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old carpenter to seven years in prison with hard labour for defiling a 15-year-old girl in Walewale...
Loading boy arraigned over alleged theft of driving mirror
The Kaneshie District Court has granted bail of GH¢2,000 with two sureties to Felix Yeboah, a loading boy, following his alleged theft of a...
Trial of second preacher arrested over damaged vehicles at Parliament adjourned
An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the case of Wisdom Ahli, the second preacher arrested for allegedly damaging vehicle windscreens at Parliament, to January...
Man fined GH₵18,000 for impersonating military officer on TikTok
An Accra Circuit Court has fined a 20-year-old washing bay attendant for impersonating a military officer by wearing camouflage trousers and a naval vest,...