Crime

The Ashanti Regional office of the United Progressive Party (UPP) was on Monday afternoon attacked by some armed men who shot and smashed vehicles belonging to the founder, Akwasi Addai, popularly known as Odike.The incident was said to have occurred in the late afternoon at Patase, a suburb of Kumasi, …

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in …

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has launched an intense anti-robbery operation to arrest two robbers who attacked two families in a house at Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region wielding machetes and robbed them of some valuables and also escaped with one of the female residents of the house. According to …

The Police at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region have arrested a 57-year-old man for killing his wife for refusing to have sexual intercourse with him. According to reports, the suspect, identified as Gideon Tetteh is alleged to have murdered his wife following an unresolved …

At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said late on Thursday. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its …

Nigeria has arrested five suspects in an Islamist militant attack in a Catholic church that killed 40 people in early June, Chief of Defence Staff General Leo Irabor said on Tuesday. Nigerian authorities have said they suspect insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out the massacre of …

Police have arrested two persons including a minor for allegedly robbing and murdering Daniel Osei-Mensah, a final year student of Tweneboah Kodua Senior High School. According to a statement from the police, they arrested suspect Eric Anning and the minor with the support of some members of the Fiankoma community …

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested Paul Kwah, the driver in charge of an articulated truck which was involved in a fatal motor accident on 3rd August 2022, at Eduagyei Village on the Cape Coast-Takoradi highway. Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect driver, Paul Kwah, was driving a Dad …

The Police, through an intelligence-led operation on July 17, 2022, arrested six suspects who are a part of a gang of robbers terrorising people in the region. The suspects, Issa Mohammed alias Baba/ Container Money, Reagan Kwaku Boakye alias Baby Face, Kwaku Boateng alias Star Boy, Elija Osei and Gyimah …

The Chief Executive Officer of MTN’s Mobile Financial Services, Mr Eli Hini has revealed that a majority of the momo fraud brought to their desk emanate from Social Engineering. He defined social engineering as a situation where someone calls another person and tries to talk the person into believing a …