CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Photos: University of Energy bus catches fire mid-way to Kumasi

A bus conveying students from the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has caught fire. Photos circulating on multiple online platforms show huge flames breaking out through the windows of the white bus. The cause of the fire is yet …

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Administrators in Technical Universities declare indefinite strike

Administrators of Technical Universities have declared an indefinite strike. The administrators, who are members of the Technical Universities Administrators Association of Ghana (TUAAG) say their decision is premised on the failure of the government to address their concerns. Key among these is their base pay in line with their new …

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Otumfuo’s chief ‘killer’ remanded

For the third consecutive time, Anwar Sadat Mohammed aka Alhaji, the prime suspect in the murder of the Otumfuo’s Asamponhene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduo, has been remanded in prison custody. During its sitting on Thursday, a District Court in the Asokore Mampong Municipality granted the wish of the prosecution team by …

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Momo fraud: How scammers steal your money

Stephen Nyuur is a businessman who operates his provision shop at Achimota Mile 7, a suburb of Accra. He deals in general merchandise and has several customers that buy the products for retail purposes. Stephen receives payments of his merchandise in cash, and through the electronic system of payment i.e. …

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Father gets 15 years for defiling daughter

A trader, who had sex at knife-point with his 12-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. The convict, King Arthur, was said to have sexually abused his own daughter on multiple occasions in the absence of her mother. According to …

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Cyber fraud: Ghanaians lose $200m in 3 years

Despite the consistent caution and education on cyber fraud, many people are still falling prey to the activities of criminals through the Internet, resulting in the loss of millions of US dollars to businesses and individuals in Ghana. Last year alone, Ghanaian businesses and individuals lost $97 million to fraudsters. …

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[VIDEO]: Nsawam prisoners enrolled on NHIS – Bawumia

The Ghana News Agency has reported that 80) per cent of inmates at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison have been registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This is to enable them get access to quality healthcare. That is not all, an additional 40 medical practitioners have been seconded …

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Group protests renaming of Navrongo UDS after C.K. Tedam

A group calling itself the Concerned Navrongo Citizens for Development in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal is demanding the suspension of plans to rename the now autonomous University for Development Studies, Navrongo campus after C.K. Tedam. The group on Friday marched on the streets of Navrongo in protest to the change. President Nana Akufo-Addo …

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Coconut seller butchers friend to death over coconut husks

A man believed to be in his twenties has been butchered to death by his friend at Breman Kokoso in the Asikuma Odobeng Brakwa district of the Central Region. The Victim Kojo Mensah popularly Known as Mandela had an argument with his friend Kweku Boadu popularly known as Cantona over …

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Canadian kidnapping: Seidu Mba, 3 others discharged

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice George Boadi has discharged four out of the eight accused persons who have been held in connection with the kidnapping of two Canadian nationals in Kumasi. The four are Seidu Abubarkar also known as Mba, Abdul Rahman Sulemana, …

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3 ‘killer’ cops who butchered Adonfe driver interdicted

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has interdicted three police officers for manhandling and butchering a civilian driver at Adonfe on Tuesday, 15 October 2019. They have been handed over to the Police Intelligence and Professional Standard Bureau for investigation. A statement from the police Command said it has recommended, as …

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Ghana’s food in danger as chemicals pose health threat

Some traders have called on the Government to stop farmers from applying chemicals to the food they grow because the chemicals pose health threat and shorten the life span of most of the perishable food items like vegetables and fruits. In an interview on the World Food Day today, the …

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Schools in Sunyani to be closed today

The Bono Regional Coordinating Council in collaboration with the Sunyani Municipal Education Directorate have declared Friday, October 18, 2019, a holiday for schools in the Sunyani township. This was due to the one-week funeral observation rite of the late Nana Yaa Nyamaa Puduo II, the Paramount Queen of the Sunyani …

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VIDEOLegon students mock ‘chalewote’ girlfriend

A video has emerged of some University of Ghana students making a mockery of a colleague lady who was recently in the news for slapping her boyfriend with slippers commonly known in Ghana as ‘chalewote’. The young lady identified as Karen became an internet sensation last week for slapping her …

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Nigerian allegedly butchers employee over GHC20

A thirty-one (31) year old Nigerian known as Mayor Harvard, has been arrested by the Suntreso Divisional Police Command in the Ashanti Region for allegedly butchering his Nigerian employee, Paul Tombowa, 26, over a credit voucher worth GHC20 at Agric-Kokode in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Mypurefmonline.com reports. …

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Send wee smokers to the hospital not prison – former NACOB Boss

Former Executive Secretary of  the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Akrasi Sarpong, has argued that  law enforcement with regards to marijuana must needs to be reviewed so that users of the drug are sent to hospital instead of prosecuting them and throwing them into prison. “If it is about harm, alcohol …

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Police clash with residents over WEE; one dead

One person has been confirmed dead while two others including a policeman identified as Corporal Seth Agbango have been injured after police clashed with locals in an attempt to arrest drug peddlers. The incident MyNewsGh.com, gathered occurred at Adomfe a town near Juaso in Asante Akim South District of the Ashanti …

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Arrest Mahama and Bagbin now – Minister directs police

Deputy Minister for Defense, Major (retired) Derrick Oduro has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of former President John Mahama and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin over unsubstantiated claims government is training thugs at the military installation at Asutuare. “They should get them arrested for …

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Gari fotor introduced onto school feeding menu

A two-day nutrition training programme has been organised for caterers at Agona Bobikuma and Agona Kwaman in the Agona West Municipality in the Central Region. The event was aimed at engaging the caterers in the preparation of gari fotor and introducing it onto the school feeding menu in the two …

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Robber killed in gun battle

A suspected armed robber has been killed in a gun battle with officers of a police patrol team on the Obuasi-Dunkwa-on-Offin road. Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Kwasi Mensah-Duku said the officers from the Obuasi Divisional Police Command had responded to a distress call to foil an armed robbery operation …

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2 nabbed over cabbie’s murder

Police in Kumasi have arrested two persons in connection with the alleged murder of a cabbie after snatching his taxi at Atwima Dida near Brofoyedru in the Ashanti Region on September 27, 2019. The suspects, who were identified as Benjamin Arthur alias Kofi Nkrumah and Ebenezer Arthur, were said to …

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