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Soldier caged for defiling daughter

A military officer with the Ghana Armed Forces who has been allegedly having sexual intercourse with his own daughter has been dragged before an Accra Circuit Court. Sergeant Eric Asare-Mante is accused of sexually abusing his daughter since she was nine years old – between 2013 and November 2018 when …

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Fetish priest remanded for defrauding businessman of GHC8,000

A 38-year-old self-styled fetish priest has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for allegedly duping a businessman of GHC8,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge and would reappear before the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey on August 23, this year. Police Inspector Jonas …

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Audio: Boy, 14, arrested for allegedly sodomising five-year-old at Breman Brakwa

A 14-year-old boy is currently in the grip of the Breman Asikuma District Police Command in the Central region for allegedly sodomising a five-year-old boy at Breman Brakwa. Information gathered by Adom News suggested that the victim and the suspect were playmates, who lived at Mantemankabi, a suburb of Breman Brakwa. The …

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Lady abducted in Shama, dumped at Weija

A 22-year-old apprentice, who was abducted by some unknown assailants at Inchaban in the Western Region and later dumped in Accra, has been reunited with her family. The victim, Edem Amevor, tells CONNECT FM’s OMANBAPA morning show host Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, she had closed from work on Thursday, August …

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Fetish priest remanded for defrauding businessman of GHC8,000

A 38-year-old self-styled fetish priest has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court for allegedly duping a businessman of GH?8,000. He pleaded guilty to the charge and would reappear before the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey on August 23, this year. Police Inspector Jonas …

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Somanya: 6 busted for smuggling 4,000 bags of PFJ fertiliser

The Yilo Krobo Police Command has arrested six people for allegedly smuggling 4,000 bags of fertiliser meant for the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme at Ogorme, a suburb of Somanya, Eastern Region.The fertilisers are believed to be meant for cocoa farmers in Samreboi in the Western Region.This comes …

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Two suspects arrested over ‘contract killing’ of Otumfuor’s Asamponhene

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has picked up two suspects in connection with what the Police suspect to be contract killing of the Asamponhene of Kumasi Oheneba Kwadwo Fodour. The Police for security reasons has declined to reveal the identity of the suspects. The chief, Oheneba Kwadwo Fodour, 46, was …

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7 busted over bus load of Niger-bound Indian hemp

Seven suspects, including a driver of a Nigerien-bound bus and a physically-challenged man have been arrested in Kumasi for attempting to transport 37 parcels of dried leaves suspected to be Indian Hemp. The suspects include Ibrahim Mumuni, 35, the Ghanaian driver and two Nigerien accomplices Adamu Isaku-48, Abubakari Janilo, 32 …

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Fake PDS staff arrested for extorting bills from customers

Two electricians impersonating as workers of Power Distribution Service (PDS) have been remanded into Police custody by the Kibi District Magistrate Court today Friday 16 August 2019. The suspects were arrested at Teacher Mante in the Ayensuano District of the Eastern Region for extorting monies from postpaid customers with bill …

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Man, 35, arrested for power theft in Kumasi

A 35-year-old unemployed man, Mr Ebo Larry, has been arrested by officials of Power Distribution Services (PDS) at Tafo Mile 3, a suburb of Kumasi, for stealing power over the last two years. He allegedly reconnected his electricity mete after he was initially disconnected for owing electricity bills. Despite persistent …

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