CRIME & PUNISHMENT

The largest cannabis farm ever has been discovered in Afram Plains in the Eastern Region. The 80-hectare cannabis farm was discovered in the Obuo Akroma Forest Reserve in the Afram Plains North District by the Forestry Commission on Saturday. Five people including an agric science teacher have been arrested by …

The Afram Plains North District office of the Forestry Commission of Ghana has arrested five suspects including a Senior High School teacher for farming cannabis in a forest reserve. Michael Anakpo, a teacher at Donkorkrom Agric Senior High School said to be the gang leader and his accomplices were arrested …

A 29-year-old nursing mother from Oforikurom, a town near Samreboi in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality, has been arrested for burning her four-year-old daughter’s lower area for misplacing her sandals worth GH₵8. According to the assembly member, Azure Suleman, the woman was allegedly punishing her child for misplacing her sandals …

A 47-year-old Kofi Atta, popularly known as Wofa Atta is currently battling for his life at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital in Assin Fosu after he strangely cut off his genitals with knives while asleep. The victim who hails from Assin Akomfode in the Assin North District of the Central …

35-year-old Felix Yawson has been arrested at Gomoa- Dominase in the Central Region for mixing a poisonous substance believed to be weedicide with his mother’s corn dough which she sells on the market. According to reports, Yawson was arrested following a complaint by his mother to the police. Speaking to …

15-year-old Kwadwo Emma, a first-year student of Agogo State SHS, has committed suicide at Abuakwa DKC in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. According to sources, the incident was uncovered around 4 pm today (Friday, August 12, 2022”. The grandmother of the deceased, Madam Okyere Darkoah Rebecca, …

A 53-year-old man has been arrested by the police for physically abusing his seven-year-old daughter. The father, who the girl stays with, reportedly cut parts of her fingers with a blade for begging for money and afterwards smeared pepper on the wounds. The police on August 11, 2022 received a …

One armed robber, believed to be in his 20s has been shot dead while in a gun battle with the police in the Ashanti Region. The incident happened at Yabi in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region today, August 11, 2022 at dawn around 2am. The assembly member …

An electrical technician, Henry Teye Adjirackor, was yesterday sentenced to a fine of GH¢5,400 by the Circuit Court in Accra, for illegally installing Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) meters on premises. He will go to jail for 18 months in default. Adjirackor was convicted on his own plea of guilty …

The Head of the National Ambulance Service at Adansi South District in the Ashanti Region has reportedly committed suicide. The deceased, named Mr Famous, allegedly hanged him because of a woman he was reportedly dating. According to a report by Kessen TV in Kumasi, the emergency service staff left a …