Crime
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Police seize over £1m in cash as former Chelsea star Diego Costa gets caught amid betting scandal
Former Chelsea striker, Diego Costa has landed himself in trouble after being named in the Brazilian media as the footballer at the centre of an alleged betting scandal being probed by police. The 32…
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[Galamsey] Seven illegal miners arrested at Oseikrom, 19 changfan machines decommissioned
Seven illegal miners were arrested yesterday at Oseikrom in the Birim North District of the Eastern Region, for engaging in improper mining activities, popularly referred to as ‘galamsey’. A joint se…
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Stowaway man arrested at Tema Port after boarding ship from Guinea to UK
A Guinea-Bissau national, Sulemane Balde has been disembarked from a vessel by officials at the Tema Port, in Ghana. The 28-year-old reportedly joined MV Aurora, via a mooring rope in the Port of Bis…
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UK police officer who abducted and murdered woman handed a life sentence
A British police officer was on Thursday given a whole life prison sentence for the murder of Sarah Everard after abducting her as she was walking home, in a case which shocked the country and sparke…
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JHS teacher admits to sodomizing at least 9 students
A teacher at Kulpi M/A Junior High School in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region who is in the grips of police in Salaga for allegedly sodomizing nine pupils of the school has confesse…
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Five-time Olympic medalist Klete Keller pleads guilty in U.S. Capitol riot case
Klete Keller, a former Olympic swimmer who won two gold medals for the United States, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a felony charge related to his participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capito…
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One dies as angry mod torture cooking cooking pot thieves following failed attempt
Two suspected thieves have been tortured by a mob in Betom a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality in the Eastern Region. One of the suspects is reported dead after he was rushed to the Eastern Reg…
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Cold Store owner, trader fined just GHC1,680 each for selling rotten chicken to consumers
A trader, Hajarah Abiba and a cold store owner, Kwaku Asare have been fined 140 penalty units each by a Kumasi Magistrate Court for sanitation offences. The two at their first appearance in court las…
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Policeman charged with rape for exchanging sex with suspect
A Cape Coast Magistrate Court has remanded a policeman who allegedly had sex with a female convict being held at the Nkanfoa Police Station in Cape Coast. Earlier reports stated that Lance Corporal I…
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[Takoradi Pregnancy] Court grants ¢50k bail to fake pregnant woman
Josephine Panyin Mensah, the woman at the center of the fake kidnapping and pregnancy scandal, has been granted bail by the Takoradi Habour Circuit Court. Appearing in court for the first time, follo…