CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The Central Regional Police Command has handed the docket on the case involving lawmaker Mavis Hawa Koomson to the national headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The Minister of Special Development Initiatives was invited to the Central Regional Command in Cape Coast on Friday …

Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School has been arrested and detained by police for detaining two students in his office. The students were locked up overnight for allegedly stealing an electric stabilizer belonging to the school. One of them, who attempted suicide whilst in the office, has been …

A baker who took turns with his sibling to sexually abuse a four-year-old girl at Gbegbeyisie, near Dansoman in Accra has been sentenced to 15-years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Jacob Lamptey aged 23 was found guilty on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime and …

Son of the Chief of New Sasabi, near Oyibi on the Dodowa road, Benjamin Mensah Larteh has allegedly inflicted machete wounds on a staff of the University of Ghana Business School, Atsu Kudohor, leaving his left arm almost falling off. Atsu, aged 39, is currently on admission at the Legon …

A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 32 year old security man to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for sexually abusing his 12-year old daughter twice at a warehouse security post at Agbogba a suburb of Accra. Joseph Koduah had told the court that he could not tell …

A young man who has been identified only as Freman is in the grip of the Kpeshie Divisional Police Headquarters at Nungua for allegedly collecting the latest voters’ ID cards from people without any reason. The suspect, who is believed to be a sympathiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) …

If you were born somewhere in the late and early 90s then you probably must have heard of the infamous Atta Ayi. He was a Household name due to how notorious and relentless he was in his profession. Raymond Ayee Ayeetey was born in Adabraka, Accra. He was a school-going …

Immigration officials in Ghana have confirmed the arrest of 28 Burkinabe nationals in the Upper West Region for attempting to sneak into the country illegally. The ECOWAS nationals were arrested on Wednesday at about 9 am at the Hamile District Assembly Barrier in the Upper West Region. The irregular migrants comprising 19 …

Suspected armed robbers have attacked Gbantongo community market in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region. The incident which occurred on Sunday, July 19 at around 5:00pm caused fear and panic among community members in the area. Many of the market women, mobile money vendors, drug stores and …

The National Democratic Congress’ Effutu parliamentary candidate was arrested by the police on Tuesday, 21 July 2020, for allegedly interfering in the eligibility challenge of the voter registration exercise when he took on the Chairman of the committee responsible for that purpose in Winneba, Central Region, Mr Samuel Asiedu Okanta, who …