CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Simon Kwabena, a 42-year-old farmer who allegedly butchered his eight-month-old pregnant wife to death has been arrested by the police. The incident happened at Kankyekura, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti region. The suspect, who tried to commit suicide after the act was also found …

A gun battle between the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Police and Armed Robbers took place in the early hours of today at a Community on the Sawla to Tuna called Gbongboduori resulting in the shooting of one of the Armed Robbers. Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm today 23rd May, 2020 on …

Five Burkinabes who entered Ghana illegally through unapproved route have been arrested and deported. The five were arrested by a group of Immigration Officials on duty at Beat 2 unapproved route bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso near Hamile on Friday. The men between the ages of 15 and 27 were seized …

A 20-year-old robber, Yakubu Musah, has been shot by the Sawla police patrol team at Gbangbandori on the Sawla-Wa highway in the Savannah region. Checks by Adom News indicated that he was part of a three-man gang that opened fire on a cargo truck with goods traveling to Wa on Saturday morning. …

A 45-year-old farmer at Twifu Mampong in the Twifo Atimokwa District of the Central Region on Tuesday inflicted deep cutlass wounds on his biological mother. Kennedy Kwaku Adu blamed his mother for his inability to get his wife pregnant after years of marriage and had earlier threatened to behead her. …

Police at Baatsona have arrested four persons, including a lady they suspected were trading in dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, popularly known as ‘wee.’ According to the Head of Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Efia Tenge, the suspects were arrested upon a tip-off. She said 138 …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by His Honour Emmanuel Essandoh has adjourned the case in which a private security man Bless Amedegbe, alias Don Dada Bless, 24, has been charged with assault on the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to May 28, 2020. The accused person was earlier …

Some relatives of embattled pastor Daniel Obinim, founder of the International God’s Way Church (IGWC), are complaining bitterly that the Police Administration is making it difficult for them to get bail for the pastor. Obinim was granted bail by a Magistrate Court in Accra on Tuesday in the sum of GH¢100,000 …

A 60-year old man is in the grips of the Sawla police for allegedly killing his wife, Bora Bonbiatey, 57, at Gando a suburb of Tuna in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the newly created Savannah Region. PAD FM sources say Yikatey Somatey, the suspect who had accused his wife of …

A fight between two friends over a disputed land at Elobonkata in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region turned bloody last Sunday. Solomon Arku and Kwaku Prosper, both in their late 30s, are currently in critical condition and on admission at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi and …