Crime

1,888  The Ghana Police have launched an investigation into the perplexing death of a woman, identified as Akua Serwaa Kyei, in Atwima Bebu, Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on the evening of August 3, 2023. The Police in a statement said according to the victim’s husband, he returned home around 5:30 pm on that fateful […]

1,381  Three staff members of Bolgatanga Regional Hospital in the Upper East Region have been arrested by the Ghana Police Service for allegedly stealing boxes of assorted medicines from the hospital. The suspects are Raymond Asoke, a 33-year-old driver, Bridget Noeyelle, a 33-year-old assistant dispensary officer, and Raheem Fasilat, a 48-year-old storekeeper at the hospital. […]

1,345  A 24-year-old student has been stabbed to death by his friend at Kronum-Kwapra in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti Region. This follows a brawl over a missing T-shirt. The deceased, Lambert Frimpong, a second-year student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, was accused of stealing the shirt, which he denied. […]

1,366  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 […]

1,376  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 […]

1,266  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, […]

1,423  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 […]

1,483  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 – […]

1,324  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 […]

1,663  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 […]