CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Driver’s mate remanded for stealing

A 19-year-old driver’s mate who stole quantities of mobile phones from his brother’s shop has been remanded into police custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court. Kelvin Biney is said to have broken into the shop at Apatrapa, a suburb of Kumasi, and stole about 10 pieces of the phones valued …

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Female driver arrested for knocking down cop

A female motorist has been arrested by the East Legon Police for refusing to stop at a COVID-19 snap checkpoint, knocking down a police officer yesterday in Accra. Trudy Boatemaa, the suspect was said to be driving a Hyundai Santa Fe with registration number GE 2309-18 from the direction of American House …

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Sixty-year-old man fined for not wearing seat belt

A Tarkwa District Court has imposed a fine of 240.00 Ghana cedis on a sixty-year-old man for failing to wear a seat belt while driving. The convict Oster Amissah, pleaded guilty with explanation, but Mr Charles Owusu Nsiah, the presiding judge convicted him to the fine or in default serve …

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Dr. Okoe-Boye approved as Deputy Health Minister

Parliament has approved the nomination of Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye for the position of a Deputy Minister of Health. The approval comes follows recommendations by Parliament’s Appointments Committee by consensus after he appeared before it on Wednesday, 15th April 2020. Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Joe Osei Owusu, read the committee’s …

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We will investigate attacks on Africans – Chinese Ambassador

Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang has said that the government of China will intiate investigations into the alleged attacks on Africans in China. Many videos flooded social media to confirm the reports. Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chinese Ambassador on the situation and the Chinese ambassador …

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Nigerian coronavirus patient who escaped from quarantine arrested

The 46-year-old Nigerian Coronavirus patient who disappeared from self-isolation in his Wapaani residence in the Upper West Regional capital, Wa, after he was diagnosed with the deadly virus has been arrested. It is not immediately known where Simon Okafor Chukudi was picked up as the media is yet to be briefed on the issue. …

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3 remanded for gang-raping 16-year-old girl

The Koforidua District Magistrate Court “B” has remanded three young men for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old student. The incident occurred at Akyem Bososu in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern Region. The three accused persons; Collins Narttey,20, Eric Ansah alias Ramos,22 and Mohammed Ganiu,23, are on remand at the …

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Robbers shoot community police assistant to death

A 25-year-old community police assistant has been shot and killed by suspected robbers on Sunday at Oyoko, in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti. The deceased identified, as Evans Boateng, was said to be stationed at the Kumasi Central Police Station. According to police source at Kuntanase, there was report of a …

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Police arrest 30yr old nursing mother over fake new currency

The Nkawkaw Divisional Police command has arrested a 30yr old pepper seller Amoako Christiana, a nursing mother for carrying an undisclosed amount of fake new Hundred and Two hundred notes. Amoako, according to the police was arrested when buying goods from the Nkawkaw Central and Agogroshie markets upon a tip-off. …

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Six coronavirus bodies left in morgues over lack of PPEs

Environment Health Officials at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly have raised concerns over six Covid-19 bodies that have been left unattended to at various morgue dues to the lack of training and PPEs to handle the bodies. According to them, bodies of infectious diseases are meant to be buried within 72-hours …

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Falsified Chloroquine products circulating in Africa – FDA

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has received a notification through the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Surveillance and Monitoring System for substandard and falsified chloroquine in the WHO region of Africa. These chloroquine products with different presentations are confirmed as falsified on the basis that they deliberately or fraudulently …

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Seven Nigerians arrested in Aflao for cyberfraud

Some seven Nigerian nationals have been arrested at Avoeme in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region by the Aflao Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service for allegedly engaging in cyberfraud. The seven persons, who were arrested upon a tip-off on Wednesday, 8 April, 2020 at about 19:30hrs …

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24-Year-Old Man Jailed For Assault And Jail Break

A Twenty-four-year-old, Abdulai Karim has been jailed six years for escaping from lawful custody and assault on a public officer. Abdulai Karim also known as JJ was arrested in February 2020 for raping and robbing in Sunyani and its environs. He was put before the Sunyani Circuit Court B and …

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Man, 22, arrested for attacking Policewoman at Kaneshie

A 22-year-old man Osman Amadu is in the grips of the Kaneshie Police for spraying a substance in the eyes of a policewoman at Abossey Okai Zongo junction during enforcement of restriction on movement duties. On Friday, April 10, 2020, around 9:00 am, the police officer was on a COVID-19 …

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Scrap dealer sprays substance into policewoman’s eye [photo]

A 22-year-old scrap dealer is in the grips of the police for allegedly spraying some liquid substance into the eyes of a policewoman during enforcement of restriction duties at Kaneshie Zongo junction. The Accra Regional Police public relations officer, DSP Effia Tenge, told DGN Online that Suspect Osman Amadu was …

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GES Begins Disinfection Exercise In All SHS

The Ghana Education Service in partnership with Waste management expert, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, will begin a nationwide fumigation and disinfection exercise of all Senior High Schools as the government of Ghana intensifies efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country. Speaking at the launch of the event last …

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Covid-19: Ashanti Region Cases Hit 53

Four more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Ashanti region bringing the region’s total number to 53. The Ashanti Region Health Directorate has indicated it is yet to add the four new cases to the five hundred and sixty-six which is registered on government’s official portals. Disclosing the …

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Suspected Thief Lynched At Ashaiman Newtown

A suspected thief believed to be in his late 20’s has been lynched by unidentified persons at Newtown, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region. The yet-to-be-identified suspect was found dead near the Newtown taxi rank on the Afariwaa- Newtown junction stretch with screw driver and other implements …

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Police Inspector Butchered By Angry Residents In Oti Region

Information Reaching Mynewsghana.net indicates that two Police officers are currently nursing various degrees of injuries after they were violently attacked by residents of Likpe Nkwanta near Hohoe in the Oti Region while on a COVID-19 operation. One is said to have allegedly suffered a machete wound while the other has …

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Armed gang kills 25-year-old Community Police Assistant

A 25-year-old Community Police Assistant was on Sunday, April 12, 2020 shot and killed by suspected armed robbers at Oyoko, a semi-urban community in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. He has been named as Evans Boateng and was until his death, stationed at the Kumasi Central Police Station, …

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Drinking spot operator stabs customer to death at Wasipe

A drinking spot operator, Isaac Ofosu, 29, has allegedly stabbed his customer to death in Wasipe, a community in Bole district of the Savannah region. The victim, 25-year-old Kofi Gachewa, met his death over a misunderstanding that ensued between himself and the bartender. According to police in Bole, the suspect …

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