Crime
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Police bites off, chew and swallows bar manager’s ear at Western Region
A police officer has allegedly bitten off and chewed the ear of a drinking bar manager at Sefwi Amoaya in the Bodi District, Western Region. The incident is said to have occurred after a short confro…
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Ghana Police nab 12 Nigerians for trafficking and cyber crime
Twelve Nigerians are currently in the custody of the Prampram Divisional Police Command, on charges of trafficking and cybercrime-related offences. The suspects who also entered the country illegally…
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Malaysia: Teenager sent to jail for killing 23 people in school fire
A Malaysian court on Monday jailed a teenager for killing 23 people in a fire that he started at a religious boarding school in 2017, national news agency Bernama reported, in what was one of the wor…
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Angola: Former President’s son handed a 5-year jail term for fraud
The son of Angola’s former president has been jailed for five years for fraud from when he was head of the oil-rich country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. José Filomeno dos Santos, 42, was accused of tryin…
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Pastor who failed to wear nose mask handed ¢10k bail
The Attorney General’s (AG) Department has requested for the docket on a female pastor, Joyce Oyedele, who was detained Wednesday by the Circuit in Accra after she was arraigned for refusing to wear …
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Nigeria: Islamic court hands man a death sentence for rape
An Islamic court in the Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced an elderly man to death for raping a 12-year-old girl. In recent weeks, there has been increasing public outcry and street protests by acti…
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Residents of Yeji attack hospital staffs, ‘steal’ body of COVID-19 suspect
The Management of St. Mathias Catholic Hospital at Yeji in the Bono East Region has suspended non-emergency and mortuary services at their facility. This comes after some residents of Kojo Boffour, a…
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Ghana Police nab killers of Sogakope Assemblyman
Commissioner of Police (COP) Isaac Ken Yeboah, Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has announced the arrest of all the suspected murderers of Marcus Mawutor Adzahli, the …
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13-year-old arrested for allegedly killing father over ¢70
A 13-year-old boy, who allegedly murdered his father at Adanse Pipiiso in the Adanse Asokwa District of the Ashanti region, has been arrested. The fugitive minor reported himself to the police togeth…
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Immigration hijacks 84 bags of NPK fertilizer at Burkina Faso border
Vigilant Immigration officials and a NABCO-Custom staff on duty at Beat Four (04), a known unapproved route bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso, have intercepted Eighty-Four bags of NPK Fertilizer su…