Crime

Major Mahama’s murder: 3 to challenge life imprisonment verdict

Lead counsel for three of the 12 individuals convicted and sentenced to life in imprisonment for the killing of Major Maxwell Mahama, says his...

Two jailed 45 years for robbing banker at gunpoint

Benjamin Aboagye, aka Rapture, has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by an Adentan Circuit Court for robbing a banker at gunpoint at Pantang,...

Nigerian Ex-Beauty queen wanted for alleged drug trafficking

Nigerian authorities have declared an ex-beauty queen wanted over her alleged involvement in drug trafficking.The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said that Aderinoye...

NPP primaries: One arrested as police hunt for others over violence in Yendi

One person has been arrested with the police on a manhunt for others in connection with electoral-related violence in Yendi during the New Patriotic...

Walewale: Six including 6-year-old injured as gunmen attack bus

A passenger vehicle traveling from Missiga in the Upper East Region to Kumasi has been attacked by gunmen.This has resulted in the hospitalisation of...

Full judgment on coup plotters’ case

The Accra High Court has released the official document in which it found six persons who were standing trial for an alleged coup plot...

2 jailed for stealing electrical cables

Two men who broke into an empty house at Sokode-Etoe, near Ho in the Volta Region, and made away with the fitted electrical cables...

Robbers attack passengers on Yeji road; bolt with ambulance [Video]

https://youtu.be/hTQgw7WdhtEAbout seven passengers are in critical condition following a robbery attack around Jamasi near Mampong in the Ashanti region.The incident reportedly...

Salugu attack: Youth drop names of suspects

Residents of Salugu in the North Gonja District of the Savannah Region have expressed dismay over what they perceive as the police's failure to...

Gospel singer accused of ordering lover’s murder

South African Gospel singer Kelly Khumalo ordered the murder of her then-boyfriend, football star Senzo Meyiwa, a court has been told.Mr Meyiwa was...

Man arrested over fake meters at Kasoa

The police in Kasoa have arrested Shadrach Agoya, 35, for allegedly transporting fake electrical meters.Chairman of the GPRTU Kpando Station in Kasoa, Issah...

Father who allegedly beheaded 3-month-old baby, two accomplices remanded

A father who allegedly murdered his 3-months-old baby, his lover and a 17-year-old friend have been remanded by the Awutu Bereku District Court in...

Deputy Attorney General chides Martin Kpebu

A Deputy Attorney General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah has criticised private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu’s commentary in reaction to the acquittal of the Assistant Commissioner of...

Death penalty is retrogressive – Xavier Sosu

Human Rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu, has expressed his displeasure with the death sentence handed six coup plotters.The six individuals accused of being part...

You’ll be hanged by the neck till you die – Judge tells convicted coup plotters

Justice Afia Serwaa Asare-Botwe, the presiding judge, who sentenced three individuals to death for their involvement in a conspiracy to overthrow the government, made...

Man remanded for allegedly robbing 2 victims at gun point

The Accra Circuit Court has remanded in police custody a 27-year-old mason, for allegedly robbing two people of their mobile phones and money, at...

Man arrested for stealing company car to fund his travel to Ghana

The Lagos State Command has arrested a Nigerian man who attempted to sell his company’s car in order to raise money to relocate his...

Teacher who impersonated Akan MP fined

A 27-year-old teacher, Bless Agbenyenu, who posed as the Member of Parliament (MP) of Akan Constituency, and defrauded Joseph Ahianse, a resident of Kadjebi...

Tailor arrested for forcefully shaving private parts of apprentice at Kadjebi

A tailor at Kadjebi in the Oti Region has been arrested by the Kadjebi Police for forcefully shaving the private parts of Bright Abusah,...

Latest update on man who allegedly killed his 3-week-old baby will shock you

A 17-year-old best friend of a man who allegedly killed his three-weeks-old baby for money rituals at Fetteh Kakraba in the Gomoa East District...

Bolgatanga Technical University reacts to tragic killing of Deputy Registrar

The management of Bolgatanga Technical University in the Upper East region has expressed their deepest grief and sorrow over the loss of the university’s...

21-year-old allegedly kills 3-weeks old baby for rituals

A 21-year-old father only identified as Bright is in the grips of the Awutu Bereku District Police Command over the death of his three-weeks...

Four persons accused of stealing cigarettes remanded

Four persons have been remanded by the Accra Circuit Court Three over an alleged theft of bundles of cigarettes and others valued GHC67,000.00.Prince Adjei, student,...

Fake son of former EC boss jailed

A driver who misrepresented himself as the son of Ghana’s former Electoral Commissioner (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan has been jailed 5 years for...

Man, 40, kills stepfather in his sleep at New Edubiase

A 40-year-old man has allegedly killed his 72-year-old stepfather, Kennedy Atokble, at New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region.According to...

Driver jailed 8 years for attempted kidnapping 

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a driver to eight years imprisonment in hard labour for attempting to kidnap a father and daughter for...

2 employees of Metro Mass Transit on bail over alleged GH₵250k cable theft

The Kaneshie District Court has granted a GH₵50,000.00 bail with two sureties, each, to two employees of Metro Mass Transit Limited for allegedly stealing...

Police go on rampage at Ntoaso

Some personnel from the Ghana Police Service went on rampage on Thursday morning at Ntoaso near Nsawam in the Eastern region.The team were...

Co-tenant jailed for sexually molesting five-year-old girl

A 35-year-old labourer who sexually molested a five-year-old girl at Weija in Accra has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Gender Based Violence Court.Moro Yusif is...

Lawyer in court over alleged perjury

 A 36-year-old lawyer, who allegedly swore a fraudulent affidavit at the Accra High Court to deceive the Court to win a case has been...

Two gunmen attack bus carrying trainee nurses at Binduri

A bus carrying about 45 students of the Presbyterian Nurses Training College, Bawku, has been attacked by two gunmen on motorbikes near Binduri in...

Latest on housekeeper who allegedly murdered 83-year-old employer

A 22-year-old housekeeper is standing trial for the alleged murder of her mistress after stealing over $5,600 from her Ayeduase residence in the Oforikrom...

Women protest against military intervention in Bawku

A group of women in the Bawku township on Friday, staged a protest, alleging brutality by military personnel against residents.The women numbering about hundred...

Student convicted for stealing an iPhone

A Circuit Court at Dormaa Ahenkro in the Bono Region, has convicted a 19-year-old student to pay a fine of GH₵1,800 for stealing an...

Afoko pleads not guilty to murder of NPP chair for 3rd time in 9 years

Gregory Afoko who is facing retrial for murder of the late New Patriotic Party’s Upper East Regional Chairman Adams Mahama following a hung jury...

Sunyani: Two perish in fire outbreak at Fiapre

Two people, a male and a female, have been confirmed dead at Fiapre in the Sunyani West Municipality in the Bono Region after a...

Tamale: Nurse pours boiling water on husband over refusal to drive his car

A nurse at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Emergency Burns Unit Red Zone, Zeinab Muhammad Ali, has allegedly pour boiling water on her husband over...

Deputy Registrar of Bolga Technical University shot dead by gunmen

A Deputy Registrar of the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU), Alhassan Azumah has been shot dead by gunmen who are yet to be identified.The deceased...

One dead, five injured in shooting incident at Bawku

One person has been confirmed dead with five others injured in a sporadic shooting incident at Bawku in the Upper East region.The unfortunate...

Kente weaver, 27, remanded over murder

A 27-year-old kente weaver, Prosper Ayirebi has been remanded into prison custody by a Kpando District Court for his alleged involvement in the murder...