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A welder, Kweku Sefa, popularly known as Pusher, is to spend a year jail term after an Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday found him guilty on the charges of defrauding by false pretenses. Sefa is said to have defrauded Edward Ofori, a businessman of GHc60,000.00, under the pretext of providing …

A police investigator has been accused of discouraging the prosecution of a case in which an 11-year-old girl was defiled twice at Kaneshie, a suburb of the capital, Accra. The police officer (name withheld) was said to have met with the families of the suspect and the victim to resolve …

Lawyers for Judgement debtor and embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome, today told the Supreme Court that he is still ill and is unable to attend court. Boaben, presented yet another excuse duty document to the single Supreme Court Justice handling the case in his chambers to support the request of his …

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has arrested two Ghanaians for allegedly engaging in trade-based money laundering and romance fraud. The suspects, Moro Musah and Sabina Adzre are said to have worked with a UK-based accomplice, Opoku Agyeman to scam over 16 British nationals of about £5 million. They …

The Ashaiman District Police Command has arrested two Nigerians for dealing in what they believe to be harmful drugs without a licence. According to a release by the Tema Regional Police Command, the two Nigerians, Ali Haruna, 48, and Ali Mubanoo, 50, were arrested at different locations upon a tip-off …

Police in the Ashanti region have arrested over 300 suspected criminals and commercial sex workers. The arrests were carried out across the region in a day’s swoop. Monitoring the development for Starr News, Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice reported that the suspects are currently being screened at the Regional Police …

A Duayaw Nkwanta Circuit Court in the Bechem District of the Brong Ahafo Region presided over by His Lordship Alexander Graham, has sentenced 33-year Kofi Asante to ten years in prison for stealing two turkeys valued at GH¢400 The accused, who admitted to the offence, pleaded guilty in open court …

The Chinese man who shot and killed a Ghanaian in Wassa Akropong in the Western Region has been remanded into police custody by a Takoradi District Court. 30-year-old Nana Boah was killed by Jiang Gen Hai amidst a misunderstanding between locals and some Chinese in the area. In court on …

Armed robbers Tuesday night shot and killed Anthony K. Fouliber, a nurse at Sawla Polyclinic when the minibus he was traveling in was attacked. He was among passengers who were traveling in a Sangyong mini bus with registration number AS 689-17 at Grupei in the Damango District of the Northern …

Police in Wassa Amenfi in the Western Region, have transferred the case of the Chinese national and his accomplices, over the alleged shooting to death of a Ghanaian, Nana Boafo, the Regional Police Command in Sekondi. The District Police Commander for Wassa Amenfi East District, Superintendent Bright Boafo, who spoke …