Crime
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Two arrested for attempting to traffick 12 children in Northern Region
The Northern Regional Police Command, have apprehended two people for attempting to traffic 12 children out of the region. The Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent B Baba Ananga, who discl…
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Two lands in police custody after failed attempt to smuggle narcotics into Ankaful Prison
The Police in Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality have arrested two persons who attempted to convince a Prison officer to smuggle suspected narcotics substance into Ankaful M…
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Horny driver crushes girl to death while making out on wheels; family cry for justice
The family of a ten-year-old who was killed by a speeding driver making out with a lover while driving on the Aduman–Aduamoah road in the Afigya Kwabere District of the Ashanti region, is seeking jus…
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30-year-old boyfriend shoots girlfriend to death at Akyem Nkronso
A young man, believed to be in his early 30s, has shot his girlfriend to death at Akyem Nkronso, a suburb of the Abuakwa South Municipal District, in the Eastern Region. The suspect, identified as Sa…
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Ablekuma Central election shooting case adjourns till January 18
An Accra Circuit Court has adjourned the shooting case at Ablekuma Central during the election on December 7, to January 18. The court had earlier remanded Collins Quarcoo over the alleged shooting i…
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18 ‘galamsey’ operators nabbed by Tanchara Koro community
Community members of Tanchara Koro in the Lawra Municipality of the Upper West Region have arrested a total of 18 illegal small scale miners popularly known as ‘galamsey’ who thronged the community t…
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29-year-old man kills self after wife denied him ‘apio’
A man in the Talensi District has shot himself in the head with a locally manufactured gun apparently because he was refused an alcoholic drink. This has horrified and shocked his townsfolk. The dece…
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Court ‘gifts’ farmer a five-year jail term in hard labour over cocoa fraud
The Asante Bekwai Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer who stole his employer’s bags of cocoa beans and sold them back to her to five years imprisonment in hard labour. Prince Kwaku Dua admitted cons…
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Land guards gun down man at Amanfrom; two in police costudy
Angry Youth of Ngleshie Amanfrom near Kasoa in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have besieged the Amanfrom District Police Command demanding the release of two Land guards from c…
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Gambia seizes 3 tonnes of cocaine; one of West Africa’s largest busts
Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said on Friday, in one of the largest ever busts in West Africa. The 1…