By Nii Martey M. Botchway Accra, Aug. 19, GNA ā The Police have urged transport operators, vehicle owners, drivers, industry stakeholders and the general…
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Police to prosecute commercial drivers for overcharging passengers
By Nii Martey M. Botchway Accra, Aug. 19, GNA ā Commercial vehicle operators who charge above approved fares will be prosecuted, the Police have…
Police arrest 14 suspected narcoticĀ plantĀ farmers atĀ Daliga
By Anthony Adongo Apubeo, GNA Bolgatanga, Aug. 17, GNA ā The Upper East Regional Police Command has arrested 14 persons for their alleged involvement in the…
High Court dismisses Bediako injunction bid over English judgment
Accra, Aug. 15, GNA – An Accra High Court has dismissed Nana Kwame Bediako ās application to restrain Cola Holdings Limited from enforcing an…
22-year-old armed robber receives 10-year imprisonment with hard labourĀ
By Muyid Deen Suleman, GNA Kumasi, Aug. 14, GNA – Christian Owusu, a 22-year-old armed robber, has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment with…
Foiled attempted robbery: Suspects had targeted three banksĀ Ā
Accra, Aug. 13, GNA – Police have foiled an attempted robbery targeting three banks at Labone in Accra, resulting in the arrest of one…
Driver jailed 15 years for attempted robberyĀ
Accra, Aug. 13, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old driver to 15 yearsā imprisonment for unlawful entry and attempting to…
Retired Fire Officer granted GHĀ¢350,000 bail over alleged enlistment scamĀ
Accra, Aug. 13, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has granted a retired Fire Officer GHĀ¢350,000 bail over an alleged GHĀ¢303,200 enlistment scam involving…
Farmer allegedly kills wife, dies by suicide in Bono RegionĀ
By Nana Anfreh DamanataĀ Brodi, (Bono), Aug 13, GNA- Residents of Brodi, a farming community in the Tain District of the Bono Region, have…
Police arrest two persons over alleged inciting comments
By Muyid Deen Suleman Kumasi, Aug. 13, GNA ā The Ghana Police Service, in collaboration with the National Signals Bureau (NSB), has arrested two persons over…
Former MASLOC CEO released from prisonĀ Ā Ā Ā
By MorkporkporĀ Ā Anku Accra, Aug. 13, GNA – Ms Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, the former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has been released…
Police arrest man assaulting handcuffed suspect in viral video
Accra, Aug 13, GNA – The Ghana Police Service has arrested Sibamay Zakaria the man captured in a viral video assaulting a suspect in…
AG withdraws motionĀ seekingĀ to halt former MASLOC CEOās acquittalāÆ
Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – The Attorney-General has withdrawn a motion seeking to halt the release of Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, former Chief Executive Officer of…
Legal researcher challenges judicial vacation at Supreme Court
By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – Mr Elorm Kwami Gorni, a legal researcher, has asked the Supreme Court to declare Ghanaās two-month judicial vacation unconstitutional. Mr Gorni…
Mother remanded for allegedly inflicting cutlass wounds on daughter
By Isaac Arkoh Cape Coast, Aug. 12, GNA ā The Assin Fosu District Court has remanded 28-year-old trader, Monica Ampomah, into police custody for three weeks…
Attorney GeneralĀ opposes Wontumiās bail pending appeal
Accra, Aug. 12, GNA – The Attorney General (AG) has opposed Bernard Antwi Boasiakoās notice for an order for bail pending an appeal. The AG denied…
CourtĀ maintainsĀ Adu-BoaheneĀ trial will continue during legal vacationĀ Ā
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra High Court has maintained that the trial of former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene will continue…
Court to continue Hamid trial during legal vacationĀ
ByĀ MorkporkporĀ AnkuĀ Ā Ā Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra High Court has ruled that the criminal trial involving Dr Mustapha Hamid, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), will continue during the…
Mason jailed eight years for robbing pharmacistĀ
By Charles TawiahĀ Kwadaso (Ash), Aug. 11, GNA – The Kwadaso Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 35-year-old mason to eight…
OSPĀ assistanceĀ contributes to conviction ofĀ Ghanaian-AmericanĀ in US bribery caseĀ
By Morkporkpor Anku Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says its investigative and evidentiary assistanceĀ contributed to the US conviction of…
Court turns down bail for alleged romance scam pastorĀ
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has for the second time remanded an online pastor into police custody over alleged romance scams involving…
Three remanded over alleged concealment of 869 cocaine slabs in gari
Accra, Aug. 11, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has remanded three persons over the alleged concealment of 869 slabs of suspected cocaine in…
NkawieĀ Police arrest 25-year-old for attempted robbery
By Muyid Deen Suleman, GNA Kumasi, Aug. 10 GNA – The Nkawie Divisional Police Command has arrested Francis Nsiah in connection with an attempted armed robbery incident on the Hiakose-Nweneso road, near Manso Nkwanta, in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti region. Nsiah,…