CRIME & PUNISHMENT

A national security operative, identified as Abdul Mummin has been allegedly stabbed to death at Awoshie in Accra over his failure to honour a funeral donation. The incident happened Wednesday night, January 22, 2020. The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Gyabour, 32, accused the security operative [Mummin] of failing to donate …

A desperate search for vitality has over the years pushed some Ghanaian youth into consuming poisonous substances, including various kinds of glue, turpentine and petrol, but the latest discovery will shock the nation. In the Upper West Region where the new substance abuse is believed to have originated, the youth …

Residents of Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region, are said to be living in fear following the murder of Police officer, Lance Corporal Kingsley Boahen by men suspected to be armed robbers. A reporter with Mankessim-based FM station, Ato Brown has told Adom FMs morning show Dwaso Nsem that …

A 28-year old shop owner, Wisdom Darkey, has been “intentionally” knocked and killed at Dzolo Gbogame by a taskforce team of Ho West District Assembly in the Volta region, residents claimed. According to an eyewitness Prosper Korsi Ahiaku, the deceased’s uncle who was in shop before the incident occurred in …

A man who created a Facebook account to impersonate the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has been given a 12-month prison sentence with hard labour. Nuetey Latif Ahinguah, also known as Oliver or Emmanuel Asare pleaded guilty to the offence of defrauding by false pretences when he appeared before …

The Techiman Circuit court presided over by Alexander Graham, has sentenced two persons to 10 years imprisonment for kidnapping a 10-year old boy. The convicts received the sentence with hard labor. They are to spend the years behind bars at the Sunyani Prisons. It will be recalled that the Yendi …

Residents of Dzolo Gbogame ‘lost it’ after a resident was killed by one of its cars which allegedly run over him. They thronged the assembly to vent and ‘avenge’ the death of their colleague. Wisdom Dake was run over by a task force vehicle following his inability to produce an …

A driver of the Ho West District Assembly in the Volta Region has killed a young man over 25 cedis, triggering a violent attack on the offices of the assembly Wednesday morning. The driver, identified only as John, is said to have demanded that the deceased, Darkeh Wisdom, who operates …

The body of a 21-year-old girl has been found at Ahenema Kokoben near Kumasi, in what residents suspect to be a contract killing. The deceased, Augustina Tinador, reportedly, had some marks on her body, which perhaps suggested that she may had been gruesomely murdered. Augustina, who works as a salesgirl …

A police officer has been shot dead at Mankessim in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central region. The Lance Corporal was in mufti and on his way to the office when he was shot. The attack on him follows a shoot out between the police and some armed robbers who …