Crime

A 15-year-old student of Accra Academy Senior High School (SHS) at Bubuashie, Accra, has been arrested for allegedly being behind recent fire outbreaks in the school. He is said to have confessed to setting fire to dormitory blocks, including a new dormitory block, which was razed down completely, because he was forced …

The death of a two-year-old at Obuasi Zongo in the Ashanti Region has thrown the community into a state of mourning. The deceased, identified as MMa Ayisha, according to reports, went missing on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, after she went to the mosque with her mother to pray. Her father, …

The police have arrested 788 motorcycle riders in a special operation in the Accra metropolis, to crack down on criminal activities. The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police Effia Tenge, who disclosed this to the Ghanaian Times, in Accra, yesterday, said the motorcycles …

Upper East Regional Police Command on Sunday, July 11, arrested three suspected armed robbers alleged to be involved in several armed robbery cases in the Nabdam and Zebilla Districts in the Upper East Region. This was revealed in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP …

Residents of Sefwi Amoakrom in the Bia West District of the Western North Region, have been thrown into a state of shock after a 22-year-old man beheaded his boss. Information gathered suggested that the incident occurred in the late hours of Thursday, July 8, 2021, in the deceased’s rice farm. …

A man, believed to be in his 40s, has been lynched at Sehwi Nsawora after allegedly shooting his wife at Sehwi Sika ne Asem in the Akontombra District of the Western North Region. The man, identified as Kwame Dominic, is reported to have shot his wife during a misunderstanding on …

A man, believed to be in his late 50’s, has been found dead in the Twafo River at Asiakwa in the Eastern Region. Residents say they woke up early in the morning to find the lifeless body of the farmer in the River. It is, however, unclear whether the deceased …

The family of late activist, Ibrahim ‘Kaaka’ Mohammed, will not participate in the ongoing public inquiry into circumstances that led to the death of two persons at Ejura on Tuesday, June 29. In a letter addressed to the Minister for Interior, the Committee of Inquiry and the Ejurahene, the family …

Stephen Apraku, a security man stationed at the house of J.B. Danquah Adu, the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, on the night of his murder, has denied any involvement in the killing. The witness told the court that he never knew one Sarkodie, a driver in the late …

The New Abirim Magistrate Court has granted bail to three persons for conspiring and tying a six-year-old boy to a mango tree for allegedly stealing ¢50 belonging to his grandfather. The accused persons include his grandfather who he lived with at Akyem Ntronang The victim was captured in a video …