A 38-year-old Malian national, Zebila Haruna, is in the grips of the West Mamprusi Divisional Police Command for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old girl in Walewale in the North East Region. Information gathered by DGN Online indicates that the victim (name withheld) is three months pregnant and a primary …

The Asokwa District Court has issued another warrant to arrest Belinda Awuku, wife of the man accused of murdering a 46-year-old woman in a Kumasi hotel. This was after the suspect, Belinda Awuku, failed to appear before the court today, [Thursday, May 28, 2020]. She was remanded on two occasions …

A galamseyer, 43 at Ntotroso in Ahafo Region has been stabbed to death at a galamsey site as a result of confrontation. An eyewitness to the incident, Kwadwo Bright, explained, on Tuesday, 27th May 2020, that he had a call from a friend to assist him convey loads or samples …

Police in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital, have picked up three persons for their roles in a failed attempt to buy a baby from a prostitute at a slum community. The slum community where the incident occurred, Asafo BB, is notorious for prostitution and other crimes. A news report published …

The Western Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has apprehended a 53-year-old man for an alleged recruitment fraud. The suspect, Kojo Sakyi, was arrested on May 25 for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting and desperate Ghanaians of various sums of money under the pretext of getting them recruited into the …

Sale of babies, as rare as it may sound, has found its way into a slum in the Kumasi Metropolis in the Ashanti Region. A notorious spot for this emerging illegality is the Asafo BB, where prostitution and other forms of crime are gaining grounds. For prostitutes, business-gone-wrong means getting …

Police in Suntreso, Kumasi have arrested a 25-year-old kenkey seller for stabbing a pregnant woman to death at Aburaso in the Atwima-Kwanwoma District. Adwoa Bawumia, alias Adwoa Dokono, is said to have stabbed Akosua Ataa, the 22-year-old, who is seven months pregnant during a scuffle on Sunday evening. An eyewitness …

Ghana has 186 new COVID-19 cases to put the current confirmed case count to 7,303, the Ghana Health Service has announced. On the official website of Ghana Health Service, 2,412 persons who tested positive for COVID-19earlier have also recovered. This implies that as of the last update, 95 more persons …

A Nigerian National Vivian Sadija Imran is in police custody for allegedly impersonating about 20 ministers of state to defraud more than 500 Ghanaians of over GHC100,000, so far. Together with her 24-year-old husband Prince Joel (her accomplice), who is currently at large, the duo used names and photographs of …

Police in Suntreso, Kumasi have arrested a 25-year-old kenkey seller for stabbing a pregnant woman to death at Aburaso in the Atwima-Kwanwoma District. Adwoa Bawumia, alias Adwoa Dokono, is said to have stabbed Akosua Ataa, the 22-year-old, who is seven months pregnant during a scuffle on Sunday evening. An eyewitness …

An Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old unemployed to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for impregnating a 15-year-old daughter of a co-tenant at Bubuashie in Accra. Frederick Laryea, charged with defilement pleaded guilty. The court presided over by Mrs. Christina Cann therefore convicted Laryea on his own …

A Kumasi Circuit Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a young man identified as Baba Amadu, aka ‘MP’, for allegedly murdering Dina Adomako, a 15-year-old girl in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The suspect allegedly attacked and shot the girl in the neck with a locally made …

The Abeka District Court on Tuesday remanded into police custody Victor Stephen Nana Kamkam, a 38-year-old businessman and landlord, for allegedly shooting and killing his tenant at Ofankor over rent. Kamkam, also known as Nii Kojo Konim Obio-Cyhoera, will undergo a test for COVID-19 before going into lawful custody. Provisionally …

A Circuit Court in Accra has sentenced a 24-year-old student, Francis Aggrey, to three years imprisonment for extortion in his bid to circulate nude videos of his girlfriend, a policewoman. Aggrey, who was charged with two counts of conspiracy to crime and extortion, pleaded guilty. The court, presided over by …

Victor Stephen Nana Kankam, a landlord, who allegedly murdered his tenant at Ofankor Spot M in Accra, has been arrested and charged. Reports indicate that the landlord had written to the tenant to demand that he moves out of his two-bedroom apartment on Monday, May 24, 2020, just a day before the …

Victor Stephen Nana Kankam, the 38-year-old landlord who shot tenant and budding musician, Spark Benjamine, according to the police had disagreements and an unhealthy relationship with the deceased over a woman. DSP George Asare, the Mile 7 District Commander in an interview with Kwame Sefa Kayi on Peace FM, disclosed …

The Circuit court in Accra presided over by His Honour Mr Emmanuel Marvin Essandoh, has sentenced a 24-year-old Francis Aggrey, to three years in jail for circulating nude videos of his girlfriend. Aggrey, a student of the Assin Fosu College of Education, was charged with two counts charges of conspiracy …

Victor Stephen Kankam, 38, the landlord who shot his tenant to death for refusing to vacate a two-bedroom house at Ofankor in Accra has justified his action insisting it was in self-defence. The suspect who is currently in Police custody has been provisionally charged with murder as police continue with …

A landlord has allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he has rented to him. Victor Stephen Nana Kankam according to police extract, shot budding musician Spark Benjamin who was rushed to the police station with multiple injuries. According to Peace FM’s Agya Kwabena, the tenant who …

A landlord has allegedly murdered his tenant for refusing to vacate a room he has rented to him. Victor Stephen Nana Kankam according to police extract, shot budding musician Spark Benjamine who was rushed to the police station with multiple injuries. The police subsequently rushed the victim to the Police …

The outspoken communication team member of the ruling party, NPP, in the central region, Dr Nana Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, is begging the government to consider reopening schools for only final year students in junior,senior high schools and universities. Dr Agyenim-Boateng believes these students should be government’s immediate focus when the ban …

The Gauteng Department of Health on Sunday confirmed that 53 employees at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine in the Merafong district have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the latest update on the company’s website, the number of positive cases has now been confirmed as 164, of which the vast majority are …

Two unemployed men who broke into a businessman’s room and stole assorted items at Mempeasem near Cape Coast have been jailed 10 years each by a Cape Coast Circuit Court. They stole a 50-inch Panasonic television worth GH¢ 4,000.00, Hpelitebook laptop computer valued at GH¢10,044.00, six blenders, four pressing irons, …

The National Council for Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) has appealed to government to further delay the reopening of schools in the country in the wake of COVID-19. According to the Council, there is no scientific and fact-based basis to believe that coronavirus spread in Ghana is reducing hence the need to …

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He is among the 34-member executive board who will serve a three-year term for the organisation. The Ministry of Health shared the good on its Facebook page. It said the main …

Simon Kwabena, a 42-year-old farmer who allegedly butchered his eight months old pregnant wife to death at Kankyekura, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti region has been arrested by the police. He was arrested after he was found lying in a pool of blood under …

Founder of the Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministry, Prophet Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin has reportedly healed a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient. On 22nd May, 2020, in one of such interactive online services tagged “Dreams, Interpretations and Solutions, DIS”, which has since gone viral, Prophet Jeremiah received a video call from a middle-aged Californian woman, …

Simon Kwabena, a 42-year-old farmer who allegedly butchered his eight-month-old pregnant wife to death has been arrested by the police. The incident happened at Kankyekura, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti region. The suspect, who tried to commit suicide after the act was also found …

A gun battle between the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Police and Armed Robbers took place in the early hours of today at a Community on the Sawla to Tuna called Gbongboduori resulting in the shooting of one of the Armed Robbers. Speaking to Bole based Nkilgi Fm today 23rd May, 2020 on …

The Savannah region is the latest to record a new case of COVID-19 in the latest update provided by the Ghana Health Service through its website. This brings the number of regions with recorded cases to 14 out of sixteen with the Bono East and Ahafo Regions yet to join …