Crime
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Angry sex workers beat man to death for refusing to pay their colleague
A man believed to be in his early 30s has been beaten to death by persons suspected to be commercial sex workers at Sunyani-Newtown in the Bono Region. The man, who is yet to be identified, is allege…
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Olympic gymnast Biles, others cry for justice in botched FBI sex abuse probe
Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney on Wednesday told U.S. lawmakers she feels betrayed by FBI agents, after they failed to investigate former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, despite her telling them…
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[Abesim murder] Case adjourned as prosecutor awaits post-mortem results
The police prosecutor is awaiting the post-mortem examination reports on the two kids allegedly murdered by one Richard Appiah. Richard Appiah, 28, alleged to have murdered two children at Abesim in …
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Carpenter handed 7 years in jail for abducting and defiling girl multiple times
The Koforidua Circuit Court “B” presided by Her Honour Mercy Adei -Kotei has convicted the 30-year-old carpenter who abducted and defiled a 14-year-old girl, to seven (7) years imprisonment with hard…
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Ghana Immigration blocks nine Ghanaians from illegally entering Burkina Faso
Some nine Ghanaians have been prevented from entering Burkina Faso, through unapproved routes by officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS). According to Inspector Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumi…
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Tricycle owners fled after accident unmasked they were carrying marijuana
A group of young men who were transporting Marijuana to an unknown destination were exposed after a car rammed into their faulty tricycle at Wenchi in the Bono Region. The suspected men who obtained …
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‘Unknown’ gunmen storm Nigerian prison, free over 260 inmates
Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing 266 inmates – almost everyone in the prison, authorities said. A soldier and a p…
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Prince Andrew’s lawyer thrashes woman’s sexual abuse claims, says it is ‘potentially unlawful’
A U.S.-based lawyer for Britain’s Prince Andrew on Monday forcefully rejected claims in a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused the prince of sexually assaulting her when she was 17, and challenged wh…
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CID petitioned to arrest and prosecute NPP Secretary Takyi-Mensah over alleged school feeding fraud
A private citizen David Forthgill Bentil wants the Criminal Investigative Department(CID) to arrest and prosecute Richard Takyi-Mensah, Central Regional Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party…
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Husband pleads guilty to trying to murder wife who won £5.5m lottery
45-year-old Stephen Gibbs, husband of 49-year-old Emma Brown, a lottery winner who scooped £5.5 million has pleaded guilty to trying to murder her at their family home. Emma Brown who married Gibbs a…