Three men suspected to be nationals of neighbouring Burkina Faso have been detained at the Navrongo Police station for the possession of Ghana Cards. The suspects, two of whose identities have been given as Iddrisu Zeydane and Muhadeen Ismail, were seized by a local on Saturday at the Doba Primary …
Read More »10 arrested over Kassena-Nankana deadly clashes
Police in Navrongo have arrested 10 people over renewed clashes in Kassena-Nankana in the Upper East Region. Six people have been killed and 12 houses torched after some residents from the Doba and Kantiga communities clashed over a parcel of land intended for a police station. Speaking to Starr News …
Read More »Voter’s register: Seven Asanteman SHS students arrested in queue at Asawase
Seven out of twenty-one final year students of Asanteman Senior High school allegedly bused by a tutor Bismark Okyere to register in the Asawase Constituency have been arrested. One student was first arrested when he was spotted in a queue attempting to register. The student upon sensing danger …
Read More »3 tied overnight for stealing a goat at Damongo
Three young men, Jelil, Abdalah and Alhaji Adam were on Wednesday night tied standing to a tree at Yagbon Residential Area, a suburb of Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality till morning for stealing a goat. The youth of the area said stealing at the community has reached …
Read More »Gunman kills one; injures another over sex
Police in the Northern region has launched a manhunt for an unknown gunman who shot two people in Tamale of which one of the victims died and the other in a stable condition at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. The incident happened Wednesday dawn at about 4am at Nyanshegu …
Read More »Mobile money vendor shot by armed robbers at Tarkwa Maakro
A mobile money vendor identified only as Akwasi believed to be in his 20s has been shot by four guys suspected to be armed robbers in his shop at Tarkwa Maakro in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti region. The vendor is believed to have been traced by …
Read More »Masked man stabs mobile money vendor at Fufulso
A 29-year-old mobile money vendor at Fulfulso in the Savanna region have been stabbed multiple times by an unknown man. The incident occurred at about 9 pm Wednesday night at Fufulso lorry station. Jakpa Brakinso Fuseini was stabbed multiple times while struggling to retrieve his money bag …
Read More »Togolese arrested for attempting to acquire Ghanaian voters card
Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service at the Pulimakom Border Post in the Upper East Region yesterday arrested a Togolese for attempting to acquire Ghanaian voters’ identification card. The Togolese who was identified as Mr. Bouguiligue Kouassi Kampe was picked up in a joint Immigration-Police operation at …
Read More »Santasi robbery: Stabbed three-year-old baby dies
Belonia Adusei, the three-year-old girl who was knifed during a robbery incident at Hemang/Ampatia in Kumasi has also died. Her death comes barely two weeks after her pregnant mother, Juliana Adusei, 31, was killed in the attack. The little girl was declared dead on Wednesday, at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) …
Read More »Police arrest 3 NDC men for possessing, distributing EC registration forms
Three branch executives of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in Asawase, Ashanti Region, were arrested by the police on Wednesday, 1 July 2020, for possessing registration forms of the Electoral Commission. They were allegedly distributing the forms to prospective registrants to fill. They are …
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