CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Residents of Assin Anwiasu in the Assin North District of the Central Region have been thrown into a state of shock and disbelief after an unknown assailant inflicted cutlass wounds on a 39-year-old man. The victim, Kwabena Ebo, is currently battling for his life at St. Francis Xavier Hospital in …

Five persons, including a pregnant woman have been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for their involvement in the robbery of a Chinese national at Caprice in Accra on December 9, this year. They have been accused of robbing the Chinese woman of GHC410,000, $8,000 and two …

  play video Thieves are typically punished harshly in many Ghanaian communities, with some even lynched if caught in the act. Fortunately, for one thief who appears to have been caught in the Ga community, he was neither lynched nor did he receive any serious beatings or punishment. He was …

A 37-year-old man, Rogbor Francis has hanged himself near the Kasoa tollbooth close to the Densu River. The deceased entered a nearby forest, climbed one of the trees, and hanged himself with a rope. His hanging body was first spotted by some horticulturists in the area. After police from the …

A 39-year-old taxi driver, Kojo Amonoo was nearly shot dead at Ajumako after armed robbers snatched his taxi cab from him. According to the victim, a young girl about 14 years old hired him to drive her to a building construction site surrounded by a bush. He narrated to Kasapa …

  The South African police officer, accused of killing his two girlfriends has been found dead in his cell at Westville prison.   Correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo, who confirmed on Monday, December 19, 2022, said that Const Mlungisi Blessing Sikhakane had taken his life.   “He committed suicide by …

    Earlier on, in her divorce petition signed by her lawyer, Ojonimi Akpe and Okutepa J.S, Anita had claimed that she contributed N10 million as an agreement with Paul that she would be granted space at the mall he had just completed in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.   However, she …

Five suspected kidnappers have been paraded by Edo police command.   The suspects identified as Christopher Aiyegbeni, 29; Matthew Osayande, 32; Uyi Destiny, 27; Bankole Faz, 35; and Ayemen Okojie, 32, were arrested on December 16 following an intelligence report about some suspected kidnappers who invaded Ogoja Camp, known as Ford Camp in …

DGN has gathered that a 21-year-old mother who allegedly abandoned her three-month-old baby at Beahu in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region has been apprehended by the police. Ama Tawiah allegedly abandoned the three months old baby boy on a footpath near a bush in the farming community …

  A Cameroonian lady, Aisha Bessem, based in Cyprus is reportedly in very critical condition in the hospital after a fellow Cameroonian lady and colleague allegedly poured hot oil on her face after a fight. A Cameroonian news portal,THJ, in a Facebook post on Thursday, December 15, said the suspect, Ebot Marion, …