Crime

Mr Bede Tukuu, counsel for Lance Corporal Ali Solomon, accused of planning to overthrow the government, has told the High Court that his client was invited for a party not to plan a coup.“You said there was a meeting on June 22, 2018, at the Next Door Beach Resort where …

An Accra High Court hearing the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, the former CEO of COCOBOD, and two others, has again dismissed a motion seeking the Trial Judge, Justice Clemence Honyenuga, to recuse himself from continuing with the matter.The Trial Judge, after hearing the parties, said it was his candid …

File photo: Armed robber A daylight robbery at Pigfarm in Accra on Wednesday afternoon has left many residents worried after an unidentified man was shot in the stomach. Checks by JoyNews’ Maxwell Agbagba revealed that two robbers on a motorbike were in pursuit of the 34-year-old victim who had in his possession …

Zambians are demanding justice for a 2-year-old girl living with albinism whose hand was chopped off by unknown men for the spiritual power people with albino are believed to possess.In certain Zfrican countries, people living with albinism are forced to tread carefully as they are regularly hunted and killed while their …

A woman has been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of killing her husband before cutting his penis off and cooking.Dayane Cristina Rodrigues Machado, 33, was arrested by police in the Brazilian city of Sao Goncalo – across the Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro – on of June 7.Officers were called to …

A teenager repeatedly stabbed two sisters to death after making a ‘deal with the Devil’ to “sacrifice” their lives to win the lottery, a court has heard.Danyal Hussein, 19 (pictured below in a court sketch), allegedly slaughtered Bibaa Henry, 46, and her 27-year-old half-sister Nicole Smallman in a “frenzied” and …

Mother Cries For Help To Locate Missing Boy In Offinso https://youtube.com/watch?v=k7_VrtdBU_k%3Fenablejsapi%3D1%26feature%3Doembed%26wmode%3Dopaque%26vq%3Dhd720 A young woman is pleading for assistance in locating her four-year-old son. The boy has been missing for nearly two weeks at Offinso in the Ashanti Region. Little Dauda Abdullah is the fourth child to have gone missing in …

A Kumasi High Court has convicted four Chinese nationals for their involvement in illegal mining activities on a 40-acre land of Obuasi-based Seidu Fanzia School. The plaintiffs sought compensation and other reliefs from court. However, Shi Li Wen, Huang Shen Jun, Li DeHao and Lan Hai Song are to be deported for …

It strikes me as really strange that in this entire ‘galamsey’ fight, we have not had one galamsey overlord, one real architect or an actual financier arrested and prosecuted.Isn’t that where the fight should have started from? We all know from the kind of sophisticated equipment at play that only …

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is on a manhunt for credentialled service providers who are demanding extra money (out of pocket payments) for medical services covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In collaboration with the law enforcement agencies, the Authority has hastened its investigations into widespread cases …