Families of the three missing Takoradi girls have said that the Human body parts, two skulls that were exhumed by the police investigating the kidnapping of three girls in Takoradi, from the backyard of the prime suspect, Samuel Udoetuk Wills at Kansaworodo are not that of their missing relatives. Speaking …
Read More »CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Tamale cop ‘killers’ arrested
Police in the Northern Region say they have arrested ‘persons of interest’ in connection with the murder of a female officer on the Tamale-Kumbungu road. The suspects were picked up in Tamale, according to a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer for the Northern Region Police Command, DSP Mohammed …
Read More »‘Soldier’, 4 others arrested over police woman’s murder; weapon retrieved
A self-styled military officer and four accomplices have been arrested in connection with the murder of Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin of the Northern Regional Police Headquarters. MyNewsGh.com gathered that the suspects were arrested upon a tip off after one of them said to have been shot during the attack tried …
Read More »Five Pastors Kidnapped on their way to RCCG Ministers Conference
Goldennews reports that Five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)has been abducted along Ijebu-Ode road yesterday, 1st of August According to report gathered the pastors were on their way to the church’s Ministers conference . The General Overseer disclosed this at the Redeem Camp located at Lagos …
Read More »‘Soldier’, 4 others arrested over police woman’s murder; weapon retrieved
A self-styled military officer and four accomplices have been arrested in connection with the murder of Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin of the Northern Regional Police Headquarters. MyNewsGh.com gathered that the suspects were arrested upon a tip off after one of them said to have been shot during the attack tried seeking …
Read More »Man butchers 2-month old baby and mother at Ntotroso
A two-month old baby has been butchered to death whiles its mother is said to be nursing severe machete wounds at St. Elizabeth Catholic Hospital in Hwidiem. According to police in the area who confirmed the incident to MyNewsGh.com, at about 1:30pm on Thursday, some residents said while they were …
Read More »Sagnarigu cop ‘killer’ arrested
Police in Tamale in the Northern region has arrested one person in connection with the murder of a female police officer. The suspect, whose name was given as Yakubu, is allegedly one out of the four masked gunmen clad in military uniform who shot Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin at a …
Read More »Wa UDS campus renamed after Dombo
The government has renamed the University of Development Studies (UDS) Wa campus, S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies following the passage of the University for Business and Integrated Development Studies Bill 2018.The Minority MPs who were against the name changed refused to vote allowing the Majority to …
Read More »Three women remanded for stealing a child
Three women who allegedly acted together to steal a five-year-old girl at Kwadaso in Kumasi, have been remanded into police custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court. The pleas of Yaa Kyerewaa 23, Adjoa Gloria 28, both traders and Akosua Agyeiwaa 29, hairdresser, were not taken and they would make their …
Read More »Pupils demonstrate over classroom defecation
Pupils of Pakro Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High School near Nsawam in the Akuapim South District of the Eastern Region before vacating on Friday embarked on a demonstration against incessant defecation in their classrooms by unscrupulous persons in the Community. The pupils backed by their teachers marched through the …
Read More »19-year-old jailed 12 months for faking her kidnapping
A 19-year-old, Beatrice Naa Lamley, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping. Beatrice, a mobile money vendor, on June 24 this year, conspired with three others to fake her kidnapping and demanded GH?10,000 as ransom from her family. A statement released Wednesday by the …
Read More »Armed robbers battle cops at lakeside
The exchange of fire between a gang of armed robbers and the police has led to the recovery of some items from the suspected criminals. The suspected armed robbers numbering about three allegedly attacked a house at Santeo near Lakeside and robbed occupants of their belongings including household appliances, a …
Read More »Suspect ‘admits’ kidnapping Takoradi girls
Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three girls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls who are …
Read More »Nana Appiah Mensah still in jail
The woes of the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM1, seem to be compounding as he is said to be struggling to execute the GH¢1 billion bail granted him last week. It has been one week since an Accra Circuit Court, where he was …
Read More »Suspect ‘admits’ kidnapping Takoradi girls
Details are emerging about how the missing three Takoradi girls were kidnapped by their Nigerian captors. The court in Takoradi heard how Samuel Udoetuk Wills, the 28-year-old Nigerian, suspected to have kidnapped the three girls, admitted that he conspired with John Oji, 29, to escape with the girls who are …
Read More »Audio: Boy, 13, narrates how he escaped from a kidnapper at Gomoa
A 13-year-old boy, in an interview with Adom News, has narrated how he mistakenly helped a kidnapper at Gomoa in the Central region and got kidnapped. According to him, the incident happened when he decided to assist a man who was carrying multiple loads in the Kasoa market, but was forcibly …
Read More »GHS10K bounty put on cop killers’ head
The Ghana Police Service has placed a GHS10,000 bounty on the heads of the killers of a policewoman at a checkpoint on the Kumbungu road in Tamale on 30 July 2019.According to the police, the victim was shot when she tried to stop a saloon car believed to be occupied …
Read More »Don’t scrap social studies from curricula – NaSSA
Members of the National Social Studies Association (NaSSA) have called on the government to reconsider its decision to scrap social studies from the school curriculum.The group have threatened to demonstrate and picket the Jubilee House, if the subject is tampered with.Addressing a press conference in Kumasi on Wednesday, 31 July …
Read More »15-year-old boy faces two years sentence
Adom is a boy under 18 years who has been sentenced to a two-year jail term at the Kumasi Central Prison for allegedly stealing Two thousand Ghana cedis. According to the juvenile, he will turn 15 years in three months’ time. However “the policeman who handled my case falsified my …
Read More »Takoradi kidnapping suspects used coded language in Facebook chats – State Attorney
The Chief State Attorney in the Takoradi kidnapping case, Patience Klinogo says the two Nigerian suspects, Sam Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, used coded language in their conversations on Facebook. During court proceedings on Wednesday, she revealed that the suspects used a language that is related to kidnapping and …
Read More »Forty-eight remand prisoners benefit from legal aid
A project that seeks to protect and improve the welfare of prisoners and ex-convicts has, within the period of 12-months, extended free legal services to 48 remand prisoners in and around Tamale. The project dubbed: “Harnessing Opportunities for Prison Ex-convicts” (HOPE), is an initiative of the Centre for Social Development …
Read More »NAGRAT threatens to withdraw services over unsolicited insurance policy deductions
Members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) have threatened to lay down their tools effective September 1, 2019, should the Ghana Education Service fail to halt monthly deductions of GHc10 from their salaries. The Ghana Education Service introduced an insurance policy which has become unpopular with many teachers. …
Read More »Military dressed armed robbers kill police woman in Tamale; bolt with weapon
Lance Corporal Agartha Nana Nabin at the Northern Regional Police Headquarters in Tamale was on Tuesday evening shot to death by military dressed armed robbers at a police check point on the Kumbungu road. According to MyNewsGh.com sources, the incident occurred at about 10:45pm near Star Oil Filing Station when …
Read More »Asunafo South: Pastor rapes 3 Church members
29-year-old pastor has been arrested by the Asunafo south district police command for raping three of his Church members. Pastor Daniel Abisah aka OGYABOFO of the Adom Power Ministry according to the District Police Commander, ASP Lawrence Adombire reportedly arrived at Akrodie on July 22, 2019, and started a crusade …
Read More »Tamale: Gunmen shoot dead cop; seize weapons
A female cop identified only as Corporal Agartha has been shot dead by unknown gunmen adorned in military camouflage. The incident occurred Tuesday around 10.30pm at a checkpoint at a Star Oil Filling Station near Tamale, the Northern regional crime officer Superintendent Otuo Acheampong confirmed the news to Starr News. …
Read More »PHOTO: Police gun down two suspected armed robbers
Police on Monday night shot dead two suspected robbers in Kilimani area after they robbed a Nigerian national. The victim, Taiwo Gbenga, reported to Kileleshwa Police Station that he had been robbed by four armed men who sped off in a white saloon car registration number KCE 567 B. He …
Read More »Court cautions Former Masloc CEO’s alleged accomplice after failure to appear for trial
The Accra High Court has cautioned Daniel Axim, an official of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), who is standing trial together with a former CEO of MASLOC, Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, on allegations of causing financial loss to the state. The court, presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, …
Read More »GHC2m NHIS debt cripples Kwesimintsim hospital
The Kwesimintsim hospital in the Western Region is in dire need of financial support as government is unable to pay its nine months national health insurance payments amounting in excess of 2 million Ghana Cedis. The Administrator of the facility, Felix Kesse told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan that the last …
Read More »Fake Barclays Bank Staff jailed for fraud
A 47-year-old man Mohammed Ali also known as Eric has been jailed by two Courts for defrauding by false pretence. The convict parading as a staff of Barclays Bank succeeded in defrauding multiple unsuspecting victims in Koforidua and Suhum. Having been slapped with nine-years and 10 months jail sentence by …
Read More »GHS begins mass drug administration
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) through the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programme will from today begin the mass administration of anti-lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis) drugs across 126 endemic districts in the country. In all, 15 districts have been targeted for elephantiasis, 120 districts for river blindness and …
Read More »