Crime

The police at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region have killed an armed robber and arrested another in an operation on the Obuasi-Hia road in the Amansie Central District. While the dead could not be identified, the one arrested is named Tony Nana Yaw Mensah, a 35-year-old. Speaking to Adom News‘ correspondent, …

A man, who robbed a taxi driver of his Toyota Vitz vehicle after slashing his arm with a broken bottle, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Brian Ibrahim Adam, aka Red, aged, 32, and Solomon Azure, a 24-year-old were said to …

Gunmen, suspected to be assassins, have killed the Chief Executive Officer of AutoEase Services in Enugu State, Ifeanyi Okeke. He was said to have been killed in the presence of his seven-year-old son who he had gone to pick from a barbering salon. According to reports, the assailants hit his …

Police have arrested one Iwejuo Anthony alias Chibona, who together with others attacked and robbed Pacific Filling Station at Krokowhe near Ashalaja in the Greater Accra region. Police sources indicate the incident occurred at the dawn of 5th June 2021. The suspects assaulted and tied fuel attendants; broke into the …

The main suspect in the murder of a 33-year-old headteacher of Atonsu-based Rogel Montesorri Basic School says he was motivated by the quest to get rich to commit that heinous crime. Thirty-two-year-old Rashid Ibrahim was arrested on Sunday after the decapitated body of the late Israel Agyei Manu was discovered at …

The Mampongteng Police in the Ashanti Region has discovered another lifeless body on Saturday dawn. This brings to three, the number of persons found dead, with severe injuries suggesting they were killed over the past three days in the region. The murder of a 33-year-old headteacher of Atonsu-based Rogel Montesorri …

Born again Christian, Joshua Koku Makafui, has shared his life’s journey and what caused him to resort to black magic (juju). To begin, Mr Koku advised the youth to work hard and not believe in the flashy lifestyles of others. According to him, he has had to do hard drugs …

A Nigerian trader, Augustine Angwe, is in police grips for allegedly impregnating his fiancée’s twin daughters. Suspect Angwe was arrested per his own confession, but he gave an unusual reason for committing the crime. He claimed the girls seduced and weakened his self-control. He said it started as a joke, …

Gunmen have abducted babies, nurses and security guards from a hospital in north-west Nigeria, the police say. The exact number of those taken in the city of Zaria isn’t clear. Local bandits carried out simultaneous attacks on a police station and the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre, before escaping into …

A Nigerian man, Nnanna Emeka, is on the run after he allegedly killed his four-month-old pregnant wife in Ugbele Mgbidi area of Imo State.It was gathered that the unfortunate incident occurred on Saturday, July 3, 2021, just three months after the couple tied the knot.According to a source who spoke …