575 The police have apprehended a 24-year-old illegal miner for allegedly defiling a little girl at Akrokere in the Adansi North District of the Ashanti Region. Ebenezer Adu’s victim is a 9-year-old currently in Primary 3. A source close to Adom News indicates that the suspect and the little girl’s mother reside in the same […]
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Immigration service intercepts over 5 tonnes of Indian hemp
674 Source: Ivy Setordjie (Joy news) Personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service’s Nyive Sector Command in the Volta Region have intercepted 80 slabs of substances suspected to be Indian hemp. The alleged Indian hemp was intercepted at Atikpui which borders Togo in the Ho Municipality. The Sector Commander for Nyive, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, Abdullah […]
Court sentences unemployed, grants bail to another over theft of electronic devices
533 An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced an unemployed man to a fine of 600 penalty units, equivalent to GH₵7,200.00, over the theft of electrical devices valued at GH₵10,500.00, belonging to one Mr Robert Mills. In default, Adolf Kosah, aged 25, would spend eight months in prison in hard labour. Kosah had pleaded guilty to […]
Rape, defilement top sexual health violations in Cape Coast, Elmina
1,010 Research conducted on access to sexual and reproductive health services in Cape Coast and Elmina has revealed that rape and defilement are the highest sexual health violations in that part of the country. Interviews with a total of 1,031 female respondents between 15–45 years revealed that “defilement and rape resulting in unwanted pregnancies tended […]
Volta Region: Godenu residents accuse police of destroying their properties
551 Residents of Godenu and Wegbee in the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region have accused the police of causing destruction to several properties in their community following a clash with the security officers. The residents claim that the police officers chased a man suspected of transporting Indian hemp, and got into an accident with […]
Police arrest 200 gay men at ‘gay event’ in Nigeria
722 Police in Nigeria say they have arrested about 200 gay men at an event in southern Delta state. Sixty-seven of them will now be charged after investigations. However, most of the men who were paraded in front of journalists on Tuesday said they were not homosexual but fashion designers, photographers and models who had […]
1 Dead, 2 In Critical Condition As Chinese ‘Galamsey’ Security Shoot 3 Teenagers At Sefwi ‘Abroad’
574 One teenager has been allegedly shot dead by Chinese illegal miners security at Sefwi Abrokofe popularly known as ‘Abroad’ near Sefwi Boinzan in the Sefwi Juaboso District of the Western North Region.The shooting by these illegal miners have also led to the injury of two persons who are also teenagers and are in critical […]
17-year-old car spraying apprentice remanded for rape
939 Source: GNA A 17-year-old car spraying apprentice, David Amenyedor, has been remanded into police custody by the Agbozume District Court in Ketu South, on a provisional charge of allegedly raping a girl of the same age. The accused, in his caution statement, however, said the victim consented to the sexual intercourse. Police Chief […]
Ahmed Suale will not get justice if Kennedy Agyapong becomes President – Family
639 The family of late investigative journalist, Ahmed Suale, says they have doubts Suale will get justice should Kennedy Agyapong be elected president. Kennedy Agyapong is one of the 10 candidates contesting the flag bearer slot of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) towards election 2024. In recent separate television interviews as part of Kennedy […]
Wicked Woman Sells Stolen Babies For Ghc50 In Kumasi
862 By I.F Joe Awuah Jnr A SUSPECTED baby thief has escaped death by a whisker after she was beaten by an angry mob at Aboabo Extension in Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region. The suspect, Auleta Mohammed, a resident of Abirem was, reportedly, caught in possession of a boy of about two years old, whom […]