Crime

1,606  Akolgo Yakubu Ayamga, an Assistant Superintendent of the Ghana Police Service and a practising lawyer was arrested and detained by the Supreme Court for contempt during court proceedings according to a report filed by thelawplatform.online.com The incident is said to have occurred on the 14th of November 2023 when Ayamga, visibly angered by the […]

1,607  Police in Kitgum District are hunting for a one Siliman Ochira for allegedly killing a 54-year-old man whom he accused of having an affair with his mother, police said Friday. Police spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga said Ben Ocakacon was killed after the suspect allegedly caught him having an affair with his mother in a […]

1,790    A Ugandan woman has been hospitalized with serious burns after her Muslim husband set her on fire upon discovering she had converted to Christianity. Hajara Namwase, a 32-year-old mother of three in Kenkebu village, Budaka town, Eastern Uganda, is currently receiving treatment for third-degree burns after her husband, 42-year-old Musa Kalele, poured gasoline […]

1,466  Three men with alleged ties to Ghana have been arrested in New York City with over 100 illegal guns. Ahmed “Taju” Mutalib, Abdul Haruna, and Murtala Haruna, all cousins, have been charged with 575 counts of criminal sale of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon, conspiracy, and money laundering. Prosecutors allege that Mutalib, […]

1,366  Four Chinese nationals have been robbed at gunpoint, with an unspecified amount stolen from after an armed policeman who was supposed to provide them escort abandoned them to buy a tyre. According to a police situational report the police Constable identified as Mawuli Rashid with Regional SWAT unit at Sekondi in the Western Region, […]

1,565  A gang of armed robbers have attacked Gaso filling station in Adankrono, near Kade, within the Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region on the evening of Tuesday, November 7, 2023. At approximately 6:30 PM, the armed robbers who were four in number invaded the premises and unleashed a hail of sporadic gunshots which injured […]

1,409    The Chief Executive Officer of the Airwired Nigeria Limited, Oladapo Ogundipe, has narrated how his daughter, Alanis, committed suicide in the United Kingdom on May 29 after being allegedly blackmailed by her boyfriend, Ryan Legget.   Mr Ogundipe narrated the incidents that led to the death of her daughter in an interview with […]

1,809    A young man in his late 30s from the Sherigu community in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region was shot dead by unknown assailants. What might have triggered the barbaric act is yet to be established, but eyewitnesses have it that the young man by the name, Atambila Rockson was returning […]

1,479    Two individuals have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, accused of defrauding an American of $1,205,000 by falsely promising to supply the victim with seven 20-footer containers of money. Dzam Abotsi, a car dealer, and Nana Kwame Yanka, a businessman, face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and defrauding under false pretenses. Abotsi […]

1,480  A joint team of soldiers and national security officers have arrested a number of suspects after The Ghana Report broke the news about an attack on counter-terrorism intelligence officers leading to a near bloodbath at Garu in the Upper East Region. The Ministry of National Security corroborated reports by The Ghana Report about a […]