• Coalition of Muslim Organisations, Ghana is calling for the reconstitution of the Wesley Girls’ High School board • The advocacy comes after the school prevented a Muslim student from partaking in the Ramadan fast • Authorities of the school say the ‘no fasting’ policy is strictly for health reasons …

One person has been confirmed dead after a group of suspected armed robbers engaged in a shoot-out with police at Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. According to the police, the Jacobu patrol team, in their routine duties on the Anwiankwanta-Obuasi stretch at dawn on Tuesday, saw a group of four …

Eunice Adomako, a 29-year-old resident of Oduman near Ablekuma in Accra, has been arrested for allegedly stealing a six-month-old baby. According to reports, Eunice failed to inform her two boyfriends after she lost her baby at birth at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital last December 2020. Her two boyfriends, one …

  The on-the-run Fetish priest in Kasoa Murder, whose name was given as Wazinga, has been arrested in another case of attempted ritual killing. Wazinga was arrested after attempting to perform money rituals for another person. It will be recalled that two teenagers, aged 16 and 17 respectively, on Saturday, …

  Three illegal miners have been jailed five years each by a Circuit Court in Koforidua for engaging in illegal mining at Tentenku No.8 near Kofi Pare in the Kraboa Coaltar district of the Eastern Region. The convicts, Alhassan Abass, 28, Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, and Munkaila Djebo, 38, were apprehended …

A suspected armed robber has been gunned down by police officers of the Jacobu District Police Command on Tuesday May 11. date rush The Police also arrested three other suspects on the Obuasi-Anwiankwanta stretch of road in the Ashanti Region. Jacobu District Police commander, Superintendent Abdulai Iddrisu speaking on Akoma …

  Wonder Ahiadzro, a driver of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Customs Division, who stole and sold a Toyota LandCruiser at the cost of GHC20,000, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The original price of the vehicle, property of GRA, Customs Division, is stated at …

  Some students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) have rejected the Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering certificates issued to them by the university upon completion of the programme in 2020. They argued that before they enrolled for the course in August 2018, the authorities of TTU told them …

  Gunmen shot and killed a man in his 30s in a robbery attack on the Atebubu-Kwame-Danso highway, police in the Bono East Region has said. Police named the deceased as Elijah Asante, a headteacher with the Bantama S.D.A Basic School located in the Sene West District, about 143km from …

  A 37-year suspected goat thief, Godwin Amuzu who claims to be a resident of Mankessim Adumadze was nearly lynched for stealing goats at Ekumfi Dunkwa in Ekumfi District of the Central Region Friday. The angry community members failed to hand him over to the police after arresting him but …

  A young lady, Ofeibea Florence Aryee is in critical condition at the Accra Regional hospital, Ridge after her jealous husband, Papa Nii poured a substance believed to be acid on her face. The incident, she said happened at Kokrobite in Accra where they lived. In an interview with crimecheckghana, …

Four persons accused of evading tax to the tune of GH¢1.6 billion cedis, have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. Frank Kwadwo Ofori, Chief Executive Officer of K. Ofori Enterprise and three other officials of United Steel Company, namely Hani Mikati, Marwam Hamwi and Sallam Mohammed Gharib are said to …

A teacher at St. Stephens Senior High and Technical School (STEPSS) in Akyem Asiakwa near Kyebi in the Eastern Region has given a male student 25 strokes of cane for assaulting another student. A leaked video captured the teacher identified only as Sir Amable whipping the student who was only …

A driver wearing a face mask is reflected in a mirror as he is stuck in a traffic jam near a checkpoint, on the first day of a national travel ban as Indonesia halts sea, land, air, and rail travel for the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in an effort to prevent …

  One Agatha Tiwaa, a fifty-five-year-old woman is reported to have murdered her blood sister in what is suspected to be a land dispute at Muntukwa in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region. According to Joynews, the deceased identified as Yaa Aworo is a younger sister of Madam …

The Parent Teacher Association of the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School has expressed shock at what it says is the misinterpretation of the issues surrounding the school’s refusal to allow a Muslim student to fast during the Ramadan. According to a statement, the school PTA stated that it is quite …

Some 19 persons claiming to be national security operatives have been arrested in the Atewa forest in the Eastern Region mining gold. The camouflaged suspects invaded the reserve in Akyem-Akateng with a Toyota Land Cruiser under the guise of embarking on an operation to clamp down on illegal small-scale miners …

  A 38-year-old woman has met her untimely death at Adumasa, a suburb in the Ashanti region for allegedly starving her husband of sex. Her husband, named Kwesi Owusu after committing the crime killed himself few meters from the scene. According to some family members who spoke to Joy News, …

A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Michael Nsowah has expressed disappointment over the Methodist Church’s response to the ongoing impasse over fasting by Muslim students at Wesley Girls’ SHS. The Methodist Church of Ghana has rejected a directive by the GES to allow Muslim students at the …

  A mother and her son are in critical condition after a neighbor allegedly hired thugs to inflict cutlass wounds on them at Kasoa-Semanhyia in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central region. Information gathered by EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent Yaw Boagyan suggested that the victim, identified as …

The alleged National Security Operatives arrested by residents of Akyem Akanteng in the West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region have been moved from the Asamankese District Police Command to the Eastern Regional Police Headquarters. The youth of Akyem Akanteng on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 invaded the Atewa Forest reserve …

  A man has hacked his 38-year-old wife to death on their cocoa farm and later killed himself at Adumasa in the Ashanti Region. The decomposing body of the deceased, Ama Afriyie was found a day after they both did not return from the farm. Though it is not clear …

The Methodist Church of Ghana has rejected a directive by the Ghana Education Service to allow Muslim students at the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School to fast during Ramadan. The GES directive followed a decision by the Headmistress of Wesley Girls’ High School not to allow Muslim students at the …

Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kiki have allegedly been accused of killing eleven year old Ishmael Abdallah Mensah for ritual purposes in Kasoa. The ages of the two accused persons had been an issue for contention as it will essentially determine the extent of punishment meted out if they are indeed …

  A suspected tricycle thief has been lynched to death at Nyametease near Berekum of the Bono Region. Narrating the incident on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, our reporter Sir Joe said the victim confessed to stealing the tricycle and promised to lead the mob to where he …

A security man at the Petro Land fuel station located at Seklekorpe, a suburb of Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta region has been killed Monday dawn by suspected armed robbers who raided the fuel station and another hardware shop at the same premises. The deceased, known …

  Government is working towards the establishment of a mental health fund to be financed from the mental health levy, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health, has said. According to him, the fund when established, would help in the successful implementation of the new mental health policy. Mr Agyemang …

  The National Security has busted a 13-member gang suspected to be involved in the printing and distribution of fake currency notes to unsuspecting victims, mostly foreign nationals. A statement issued by the National Security Secretariat, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the gang, led by one Yassei Alia, …

What started as a usual brotherly quarrel turned bloody when a 25-year old Benya Akromah stabbed his younger brother, Emmanuel Akromah, aged 18, to death at Essaman near Nkotompo, a suburb of Sekondi in the Western Region. The Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, Head of Public Affairs …

Saint Mary Immaculate Junior High School at Duotang in the Nandom Municipality of the Upper West Region is in a dire need of infrastructure to enhance teaching and learning. The school currently has no staff common room and an office to keep the certificate of past students as well as …