Crime

The Ghana Police Service has announced a GHC10,000 bounty for anyone who will give valuable information leading to the arrest of the suspected armed robbers who shot and killed a police officer and injured two (2) others at Mankessim in the Central region. The incident, according to the police happened …

A Facebook imposter pretending to be Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has been given a 12-month prison sentence with hard labour. On Wednesday, 22 January 2020, Nuetey Latif Ahinguah, also known as Oliver and Emmanuel Asare, appeared before the Kaneshie Magistrate court in Accra for defrauding by false pretences. According …

A driver of the Ho West District Assembly in the Volta Region has killed a young man over 25 cedis, triggering a violent attack on the offices of the assembly Wednesday morning. The driver, identified only as John, is said to have demanded that the deceased, Darkeh Wisdom, who operates …

A 45-year-old man, Kweku Du has been arrested by Breman Asikuma Police for allegedly beheaded a woman in her farm at Breman Kontenase in the Asikuma Odabeng Brakwa District of the Central Region. The suspect reportedly pounced on the deceased, Esi Dompoh unprovoked when she was farming and callously cut …

A 48-year-old Eunice Adu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Travel Bureau Limited has been charged by the Medina District Court for allegedly ‘stealing and forging’ signatures of her former husband to secure a loan of $150, 000. Madam Adu, together with Patrick Koduah, a former Relationship Manager of Stanbic …

The Auditor-General Daniel Yao Domelevo has been cited for contempt of Court in an application filed by lawyer for the Senior Minister, Lawyer Yaw Oppong, for his refusal to file in court documents based on which he surcharged Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo and four other public officers. The Senior Minister and …

Few days after the Anas Coalition released artistic impression of alleged assailants of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, controversial journalist, Kevin Taylor, has published a photograph of a man some claim is the bodyguard of legislator Kennedy Agyapong, which appears to have a resemblance to the art piece. In commemoration of the 1st …

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Adansi Asokwa Constituency, Kobina Tahir Hammond has lashed out at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for mounting a resistance to the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) decision to compile a new voters’ register. He argues the opposition party knows it “cannot get more than 10 …

A female accountant with the UQ Hospital, a private facility undertaking Specialist Medical Services in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region of Ghana, has been arraigned for allegedly stealing a total of five hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-two Ghana Cedis, sixty-four pesewas (GHC 551,732.64) from …

A suspected armed robber has been killed in a gun battle with officers of a police patrol team on the Obuasi-Dunkwa-on-Offin road. Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Kwasi Mensah-Duku said the officers from the Obuasi Divisional Police Command had responded to a distress call to foil an armed robbery operation …