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Four Police officers charged over Bullion van robberies

Four Police constables who were arraigned for their role in the Bullion Van attacks have been charged with counts. The charges are an attempt to commit a crime to wit; robbery and Abetment, with a civilian, said to be a scrap dealer. The plea of the four – Constable Yaro …

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Bullion van robberies: Four more policemen arrested, five civilians on the run

The Ghana Police Service have announced the arrest of five suspects believed to be connected with bullion van robberies that happened between 2021 and 2022. Police had earlier announced the arrest of two officers suspected to be complicit in the robberies. Those two officers have been killed in the recent …

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Taxi driver stabbed to death

A Taxi driver in his early 40s has been stabbed in the neck area in what appeared to be a failed car snatching bid. The deceased, whose driver’s licence bore the name ‘Atta Yeboah Christopher’, was found lying in a pool of blood around 10pm on Saturday by two people. …

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Ketu South: Headmaster allegedly commits suicide at Hatsukorpe

The headmaster of the Hatsukorpe No.1 Basic school in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region, Mr. Israel Mawuli Afetorgbor has been found dead. The body of the almost 60-year-old headmaster was found hanging on a rope tied to a mango tree on the compound of his residence at …

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Youth found dead by hanging at Bantama

The lifeless body of a young man who looks to be in his late twenties has been found at Bantama hanging on a rope in what appears to be suicide. The body was discovered hanging in the makeshift kiosk on the Bekwai Roundabout – Komfo Anokye stretch close to the …

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Newmont Ghana employee commits suicide

The death of an employee with mining giant, Newmont Ghana has been reported after he was discovered hanged at his Ahenboboano home, at Yamfo in the Tano North District of the Ahafo Region. The police have confirmed that investigations have started into the circumstances surrounding Emmanuel Gyamfi’s death, when some …

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Bogoso: Man arrested for allegedly inflicting machete wounds on father

A 38-year-old man Kwesi Nimako alias Kwesi Biiko, is in the grips of Bogoso Police, after allegedly inflicting some life-threatening machete wounds on his father at Pemeso, a farming community in the Prestea Huni – Valley Municipality of the Western Region. Egya Amoaning, in his eighties, who suffered several cuts …

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Man arrested with 656 ATM cards gets GH¢200,000 bail

A man charged with two counts of electronic trafficking and stealing, has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢200,000 with two sureties by the High Court in Accra. Bachir Musa Aminou has been in custody since September last year after he was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in …

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