An Accra Circuit Court on Friday sentenced Martha Sherry Anthony to 18 months imprisonment for stealing GH¢80,000 from the accounts of two staff of the Ministry of Finance. Martha, 27, who is a Nigerian Artist, charged with abetment of crime to wit stealing, pleaded not guilty. However, the court presided …

A 34-year-old artisan, Carlos Kofi Apeti, who allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into a wooden structure at Mempeasem, near East Legon and sexually assaulted her has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with defilement. Apeti, pleaded guilty before the court presided over by Mr. Emmanuel Essandoh who subsequently convicted …

A 25-year-old herdsman has been murdered while his wife sustained a knife injury in Maame Krobo, a community in Kwahu Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region. The deceased, Mahamadu Rabor, was killed in cold blood while in a room with his wife. According to the local Police, the …

Police in Accra have arrested 26 supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress who protested at the headquarters of the Electoral on Thursday. The supporters were protesting the results of the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary polls which saw President Akufo-Addo retaining the presidency with some 51% of the valid votes. …

The Ghana Police Service has arrested the lawyer for the suspects standing trial for succession in some parts of the Volta Region Dennis Seyram Benson for being a fake lawyer. Dennis Seyram, 42, has been representing the suspects involved in the Western Togoland secession since September when they were arrested. …

A Security man who is said to be working with Aviance Ghana Limited has been nabbed for stealing ten pieces of iPhone 8 phones. In a video that has since gone viral, the Security man is seen removing the phones from different sides of his working gear to the shock …

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has announced that it has released the provisional results of students who sat for the 2020 Basic Certificate Examination (BECE). The Council indicated that the entire results of 44 candidates have been cancelled for bringing mobile phones into the examination hall. It added that subject …

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has in a statement today confirmed that provisional results of the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been released. According to the statement, the West African Examination Council wishes to inform its publics that it has released provisional results of candidates who sat …

A 50-year-old man, Hamidu Fuseini, who stabbed his 35-year-old cousin, Izideen Awal, to death over a family property at Suame Zongo in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti Region, has been arrested by the Suame District Police Command. An uncle to the deceased, Baba Kankani, has also been arrested in …

Parliament has passed the controversial Public Universities Bill (PUB). However, the respected Ghanaian educationist, Counsellor Daniel Fenyi has described the Bill as a “serious political attack” on tertiary education. Even though the Bill currently awaits Presidential assent and some ‘optional’ recommendations from the Parliamentary select committee on education, Counsellor has …

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ghana has increased to 1,011, the Ghana Health Service has announced. It follows the confirmation of 116 new cases. So far, a total of 53,386 cases have been confirmed in Ghana since mid-March 2020. Out of that, a total of 52,048 have recovered. …

One of the suspects arrested after last Saturday’s clash some residents of Doba and Kandiga in the Upper East Region has been sentenced to six-months imprisonment for unlawful possession of a firearm. “He was arrested with one of the weapons but he could not produce any document to cover it …

A timber operator has been shot dead following a scuffle between some irate youth and Forestry Commission officials at Frimponkrom, a suburb of Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region. The Bono Regional Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the news, saying the incident occurred on Friday 10 December. Superintendent Augustine Kingsley …

A 30-year-old man has been stabbed to death by his biological brother following a heated misunderstanding that occurred between them at Suame in the Ashanti Region. The suspect who has been identified as Amidu, reportedly stabbed the victim Ezudeen Awal on Monday, December 14, 2020, at about 11 pm, police …

The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Mr Emmanuel Marvin Essandoh has granted bail in a combined sum of GHc2.5 millions to 25 of the accused persons who have been charged in the western Togoland case. The 25 accused persons have each been granted bail in the sum of …

The national leadership of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) says it is disappointed in government continued moves to pass the Public University Bill. It says the developments with the Bill are being done on the blindside of the association, a week before Parliament’s recess. It says it will …

The Kumasi Circuit Court in December 2009, sentenced a 23-year-old blind man together with his accomplice to 60 months in prison for gang-raping a mentally challenged girl at Kwamang in the Sekyere Central District. According to a report by the Ghana News Agency, the blind man together with 5 other …

Defeated New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Kpone Katamanso Constituency Hopeson Adorye was on the noon of Monday December 14, 2020 arrested by the Tema Regional Police Command. The former Deputy National Security Coordinator in charge of Airports according to MyNewsGh.com’s confirmed sources at the Police Command was arrested …

Police personnel at Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region have killed a suspected robber on the Mampong-Ejura highway after engaging in a fierce gun battle. The suspect was part of a six-member gang terrorizing passengers between Woraso and Sataso stretch of the highway at about 8 pm on Saturday 12 December 2020. …

Asare Kofi Israel, a communicator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has received 40 strokes of canes for insulting a queen mother. The incident reportedly happened in Jaman South in the Bono East Region of Ghana where he was said to have used harsh and violent words on the queen mother of …

The District Chief Executive for Ajumako Enyan Essiam District, Emmanuel Ransford Kwesi Nyarko has been arrested by the Central Regional Police Command for leading thugs numbering about 15 to assault a police officer at Ajumako Ocheso. According to DSP Irene Oppong the Central Regional Police PRO said, on December 2, …

Masked armed robbers numbering five on Sunday dawn attacked the Ahantaman Rural Bank Limited in Abura, in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region. Police investigators confirm to MyNewsGh.com that two of the robbers armed with pump-action guns first attacked the colleague Security men at their security post. They tied …

The man who snatched a ballot box in the Sene West constituency in the Bono East Region on Election Day, 7 December 2020, has been convicted by a court. Thirty-nine-year-old Christian Nukpeta is to spend three months in jail. He has also been banned from registering and voting in any …

A 39-year-old fisherman has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for interfering in the just-ended elections at the Sene West constituency in the Bono East region. Christain Nukpeta who a resident of Tato Bator is reported to have snatched a Parliamentary ballot box at one of the polling stations in …

A mobile money operator was on Tuesday shot and killed by unidentified gunmen at Denase in the Afigya Kwabre North District of the Ashanti Region. Augustine Yaw Boadu, 40, was shot in his shop at about 19:43 hours, his younger brother, Atta Stephen had told the police. The victim sustained …

Mr James Oppong-Boanuh, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) says all recorded incidents of deaths and injuries in the just-ended elections are being investigated by the Police Service. He said the outcome of the investigations would be made known to the public. Mr Oppong-Boanuh said the elections resulted in five deaths …

Richard Ibrahim Adamu, a driver, who allegedly took two taxis from two of his colleagues to transport his clients but ended up selling them has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. With him in the dock are Alhassan Kamal, a Scrap dealer, who received the two taxis as scraps …

A team of Police and Military officers have retrieved an AK47 rifle loaded with 50 rounds of ammunition from the office of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament-elect for Savelugu in the Northern Region, Alhaji Iddris Yakubu Abdulai Wednesday evening. According to the Northern Regional Police Commander, COP Timothy Yoosa …

An NPP supporter has been busted for stealing at a pharmacy during yesternight’s nationwide celebration of the election victory. After the EC Chair declared Nana Akufo-Addo the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election, scores of NPP supporters flooded the streets of Accra, Kumasi, Tema and other places to celebrate. One …

Eleven (11) suspects have been arrested in connection with the burning of the Electoral Commission Offices at Fomena in the Ashanti Region. Police retrieved among other items two foreign made pistols, a number of machetes and gallons of petrol used in the operations by the hoodlums who were transported to …