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Landlord allegedly kills tenant at Ofankor

A landlord has allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he has rented to him. Victor Stephen Nana Kankam according to police extract, shot budding musician Spark Benjamine who was rushed to the police station with multiple injuries. The police subsequently rushed the victim to the Police …

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Two jailed 20 years for stealing assorted items

Two unemployed men who broke into a businessman’s room and stole assorted items at Mempeasem near Cape Coast have been jailed 10 years each by a Cape Coast Circuit Court. They stole a 50-inch Panasonic television worth GH¢ 4,000.00, Hpelitebook laptop computer valued at GH¢10,044.00, six blenders, four pressing irons, …

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Farmer Arrested For Murdering Wife At Kankyekura

Simon Kwabena, a 42-year-old farmer who allegedly butchered his eight months old pregnant wife to death at Kankyekura, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti region has been arrested by the police. He was arrested after he was found lying in a pool of blood under …

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Farmer who butchers pregnant wife arrested after failed suicide attempt

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 …

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Sawla police prevail over armed robbers in gun battle

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 …

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Five more Burkinabes deported

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 …

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20-year-old highway robber arrested at Sawla [Photos]

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. …

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Man arrested for inflicting cutlass wounds on mother

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. …

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4 nabbed with 138 slabs of weed

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 …

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Security man who plotted assault on Akufo-Addo remanded

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 …

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