A young man believed to be in his late thirties has allegedly beheaded his mother at Opeinimso a farming community near Asamankese in the Lower West Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region. The incident occurred Monday dawn around 2:00am ,according to a family source. The suspect identified as Quarcoo has, …

Two suspected armed robbers have been killed by their victims after they robbed them of a total amount of GH¢10, 200 on the Sawla-Wa Highway near Tuna in the Savannah Region on Monday, December 21. Three locally manufactured single barrel guns were also retrieved at the scene. According to a …

The Ghana Police Service have arrested an alleged individual suspected to be the arsonist behind the recent Kantamanto market fire outbreak. A Daily Guide reportage suggests that the suspect whose name was given as Daniel Dah Kormlah, aged 41, was identified through police investigations into the Kantamanto fire incident. The …

Police have picked up an alleged arsonist in connection with the Kantamanto market fire outbreak. Sources within the Ghana Police Service say the suspect is one Daniel Dah Kormlah aged 41. According to sources, he was identified through police investigations into the Kantamanto fire incident. Sources say police and other …

An alleged armed robber has been burnt to death after luck eluded him at Karaga in the Northern Region following a failed expedition. Reports say the deceased was part of a gang of five robbers whose attack was foiled when the Karaga community was alerted of their activity. The armed …

Emmanuel Nana Appiah Sam was denied a certificate at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) after 14 attempts at graduation. He revealed on his LinkedIn page that he had pursued BSc. Agriculture and was given a maximum of four semesters (two years) to rewrite all the referred …

A Police escort team has shot to death an armed robber in between Sawaba and Mpaha junction on the Buipe-Tamale road in the Central Gonja district of the Savannah region. According to the Savannah Regional Police Commander DCOP Enoch Bediako, a bus with registration number GS 5578-17 was transporting passengers …

A 19-year-old boy, Sterling Gyekye, has been arrested by the Mamponteng Police in the Ashanti Region for allegedly stabbing his 42-year-old father, Bismark Osei to death for failing to give him money to buy a phone for his girlfriend. The incident happened after the suspect attacked the father with a …

Two police officers and a civilian have been arrested by the Accra Region Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for possessing firearms and ammunition without lawful authority. Thirty-eight-year-old L/Cpl Emmanuel Abusah Yao, L/Cpl Sulayman Yusuf aged 37 and the civilian, Abdul Samed Yussif, 40, alias Matata were arrested on Friday, December …

A woman identified as Mrs Mary Omifunto has reportedly poured hot water on her 14-year-old daughter, Kaosarat, inflicting burns on many parts of her body. According to reports, the teenager’s offence was that she refused to assist her mother, who sells rice, to hawk the food last Sunday. Omifunto reportedly had a …

The Ghana Police Service is pursuing all suspects identified to be involved in violent activities, including the discharge of firearms during the December 7, 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. The move formed part of the resolve of the police to bring finality to all election-related violence cases. This was made …

Police in the Ashanti Region has arrested four persons who were allegedly behind the attack on some members of the Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly. The four persons, who were detained on Friday morning, were granted bail after their statements were taken. They have also been asked to report to the …

Some residents of Karaga lynched a suspected armed robber to death on Thursday evening after a mobile money vendor was robbed at gunpoint. According to police, five men motorbikes attacked the vendor and robbed him of an unspecified amount of money. One of the robbers was unable to escape and …

The trigger-happy man, whose gunshots at the Ablekuma Central Constituency Collation Centre in the just-ended elections, leading to the death of one Ibrahim Abass, a polling agent of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been thrown into police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The accused, Collins Kwaku, alias Kola, per his …

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 …