An Ecuadorian television reporter and his camera crew got the scare of their lives when they were held at gunpoint by a masked robber, while doing a live piece. On February 12, Diego Ordinola, a journalist for Ecuador’s DirecTV Sports, was reporting from outside the Isidro Romero Carbo Monumental Stadium, …

The Ho Police have arrested a notorious armed robber, who has been on the Police wanted list for several years, in an operation. Prince Adu, 30, aka ‘Dracula’, unemployed, was arrested on Thursday at his hideout while asleep after he robbed an Immigration Officer at gun-point at about 0230 hours. …

Ghana will have to make a case to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to secure Ebola vaccines as a buffer to protect its citizenry, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said. According to him, that had become necessary after three people had been reported …

Police in Assin Aworoso in the Central Region have arrested a man named Kofi Borkor for setting ablaze his girlfriend’s 3-bedroom house after she quit the relationship. Information gathered by Kasapa FM News Yaw Boagyan indicates that the two lovers, Akua Sakina and Kofi Borkor who are family-related have a …

A Police Corporal stationed with the Wa Upper West Regional Command has had his police service rifle bearing rifle number 156677 allegedly seized by armed robbers on the Sawla road while travelling in the company of friends who were civilians. According to incident report in possession of MyNewsGh.com, on Friday …

COVID-19 records in Ghana show a plateau of the active cases since February 1, 2021. “We are still at a very high point” albeit declining case numbers, Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, told a Press conference on Friday, February, 19, 2021, “There has been a decline compared to …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 401 candidates suspected to have been involved in various examination malpractices during the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. This follows the release of the examination results for private candidates who sat the WASSCE …

A 50-year-old woman identified only as Ataah has been stabbed to death near the Seventh Day Adventist Church at Ampabame in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred on Thursday, 18 February 2021. The deceased, who was a fishmonger, was on her way to work around 6 am when …

A mother suffering from postpartum depression has killed her seven months old baby in the Akyem Ofoase District – where residents have expressed shock over the development. The shocked residents of the community upon the strange behaviour of the woman realized she has slit the throat of her seven months …

Notorious gang of highway robbers terrorising motorists in Akyem Kade and its environs in Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern region struck again Thursday night. The robbers mounted roadblocks on Asuom to Kade road and shot at two vehicles including driven by a Priest of Catholic Church. Information gathered indicate that …

Authorities of the Ankaful Maximum Security Prisons in the Central Region have arrested a 26 year- old man, Kwabena Freeman for allegedly smuggling “Wee” into the prison yard meant for an inmate, Kojo Appoh serving an 11-year jail term. Confirming the arrest to the media, the Public Relations Officer of Ankaful Maximum Security …

A night at a pub in Mpumalanga with friends almost two years ago turned to horror for 38-year-old Lucky Bongani Kutumela. Kutumela had been with Zakhele Sihlangu, 32, and Sibusiso Frans Mzangwa, 34, at the pub until late one night in May 2019. They all went home in Kutumela’s car …

Armed robbers who stole a sum of fifty-one thousand nine hundred Ghana Cedis have reportedly returned the money to the victims over the last weekend in the Upper West Regional capital, Wa after it was alleged that eight deities were invoked by owners of the robbed money. Sources say the …

A 10-year-old armed robber, identified as Monday Omoruye, has been arrested by security operatives for his involvement in crime activities. In a video that has now gone viral, Omoruye confessed that he was introduced to robbery by his brother and that he had carried out four robbery operations so far. …

About eight suspected armed robbers stormed a credit union, shot and injured one person at Jeninso Akataniase in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region. The suspects are said to have made away with an undisclosed amount of money during the incidence which happened on Wednesday evening. The robbers, …

Samuel Crabbe,18, a Mechanic who raped a 13-year-old girl, with five others, in turns, at Korle Gonno in Accra, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Crabbe, who was charged with conspiracy to commit crime and defilement, pleaded guilty. The Court presided over by Mrs …

The students at the Seikwa Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the Tain District of the Bono Region are living in extreme fear because of rampant armed-robbery attacks and other criminal activities at the College’s female hostel. The students told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on Wednesday …

Shocking as SHS Student arrives in school with a “gun”, allegedly planned to shoot her teacher for asking to cut her coloured hair A female student whose name hasn’t been published yet of the Government Secondary School in Ikot Ewa was caught with a local gun in school. According to …

128 lives have been claimed so far by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the first two weeks of February 2021 in Ghana. The daily update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) shows that Ghana recorded 22.8% deaths from Coronavirus between February 1, 2021 to February 13, 2021. Ghana’s coronavirus related …

Collins Dorman, a 30-year-old farmer has been stabbed to death with a knife at Atechem, a suburb of Dunkwa-on-offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region. The sordid act was allegedly committed by one Isaac Owusu Boateng, a Community Police Personnel (CPP) in the early hours of …

The state is to pull down the four-decade-old uncompleted maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) officials have announced. This, according to government officials is to allow for the reconstruction of an entirely new ultramodern edifice at the nation’s second referral centre. Speaking on the Happy …

A traditional leader and chief of Suisi-Hiono in the Manya Krobo Traditional Area of the Eastern Region was on Monday, February 15 arrested by the Akuse Police after he allegedly tried to hire someone to kill Nene Olepeme Sakinor Nanor I, chief of Okuenya Adadlikuorsi, police sources say. Asafoatse Kwabla …

The police in Osun State have arrested a 40-year-old suspected ritualist, Adeboye Moshood, with human parts. The suspect was arrested by a Joint Task Force (JTF) on Tuesday, February 16, in his house at Gbayarin, in Gbongan community, Ayedaade Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that one of …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has urged the Ghanaian public on the resurgence of the Ebola virus after confirmed cases were reported in Guinea and Nigeria. The GMA in a letter dated February 15, 2021, cautioned the public of their lifestyle as 7 cases of the virus confirmed by sister …

Some residents of Bolgatanga say armed robbers have worked out a new way of stealing from motorists on the roads of the Upper East regional capital. The gangsters, according to them, stand well-dressed by the roadside and, with pistols concealed under their clothes, draw closer in a friendly manner to …

A Community Protection Assistant (Community Police) is in the grips of Police in Dunkwa Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region for stabbing a co-tenant over a disagreement relating to the sharing of electricity bills and the failure of the deceased to his part of the …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has received confirmation of seven cases with three fatalities of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea. The Service has, therefore, informed all Regional Directors, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Teaching Hospitals and all stakeholders in the health sector to be on high alert. The Director-General …

A 3-unit Junior High School block together with a storeroom and teachers’ office has been razed down by fire at Tarsor/Kulfuo Basic School in the Sissala East Constituency. It was one of the newly commissioned facilities in the last adminstration. The incident, according to sources, happened in the early hours …

A 44-year-old abandoned maternity block at the Komfo Anokye Hospital is set to be demolished to pave way for construction of a new building. This follows a test report from Contracta, a construction firm responsible for the completion of the project saying the structure must be pulled down. According to …

Traders at the Ashaiman market claim that the police do not take fraudsters through the necessary procedure when phone theft cases are reported. On February, 15 a customer visited the Ashaiman station with a group of guys for revenge after he was duped by a phone seller days ago. According …