Crime

1,089  Residents of Wassa Nkyirifi, a farming community in the Western Region woke up on Friday morning to the horror of a suspected murder of a seven-year-old girl by her uncle for money ritual purposes. After allegedly killing and burying the body in a nearby bush, the suspect, identified only as Augustine, a 37-year-old farmer […]

1,070  The daughter of the Bekwai Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hon Kwaku Kyei Baffour has been shot dead by unknown assailants. The deceased believed to be 30 years of age, was reportedly shot dead by some unknown gunmen over what is not known This sad incident happened at Bebu near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region […]

1,012  The Yendi Circuit court presided over by his honour Anthony Aduku-Aidoo has remanded into police custody a suspect who allegedly stabbed his friend with scissors in the chest in Yendi in the Northern region. The victim and suspect are both residents of Yendi. The suspect Sumaila Yakubu 20 years and unemployed on July 26, […]

1,093  Three military officers and three civilians are currently facing trial in Kumasi for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to rob a bullion van belonging to a mining company. The six accused individuals have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted robbery. According to the charge sheet, the driver of the mining […]

1,196  The bodies of five sub-Saharan Africans have been discovered by Libyan authorities in a militarised buffer zone between the country’s border with Tunisia. The discovery comes after weeks of mass expulsions of black Africans by the Tunisian government. The policy followed violent clashes between migrants and residents in Tunisia’s second city of Sfax – […]

1,023  Abraham Amaliba, the Director of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has expressed dissatisfaction over the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold James Gyakye Quayson’s name from the records of Parliament. A nine-member panel of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 25, unanimously dismissed a review application filed by James Gyakye Quayson, Member […]

1,349  Around 7:40pm yesterday, Saturday, July 22, 2023, armed men numbered about four attacked a phone shop at Kwame Danso in the Sene West District, Bono East Region killing two persons, three others sustaining various injuries. The suspected robbers made away with phones and other accessories worth thousands of Ghana Cedis. Information gathered suggests that […]

1,279  Military troops in the last one week have neutralized 23 terrorists, bandits and IPOB militants, rescued 17 kidnapped civilians and arrested 32 criminal elements including terrorist’s collaborators, logistics supplies, oil vandals and IPOB militants. According to the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba said a total of N3.525million cash, 125,000 CFA […]

1,130  The police at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region on Friday arrested a man for allegedly beheading his wife at Atachem, a suburb of Dunkwa-on-Offin. The man whose name is not yet known, allegedly murdered his wife, known as Gifty following a short misunderstanding that ensued between them. Some […]

851  The High Court in Accra has dismissed a case against First Atlantic Bank by former National Service Person, Deborah Sayram Adablah, who filed sexual harassment case against the bank and its former Chief Finance Officer, Ernest Kwasi Nimako. The Court presided over by Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu, also slapped Adablah, (Plaintiff) with a cost […]