Stop Pressuring Police To Drop Cases
The Ghana Police Service has urged the public, particularly influential individuals, to stop coercing the law enforcement body to drop certain cases. Accra Regional Police PRO, Afia Tenge, said...
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Herbert Mensah Breaks Bread With Families of Nima Flood Victims
Businessman, philanthropist and President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union Mr. Herbert Mensah Sunday empathised with some families in the Nima enclave of Accra who were affected by devastating...
Only Court Is Mandated To Punish Armed Robbers – Police Commander
Winneba Police Commander, Supt Godfrey Tetteh Adjirakor, has categorically stated that the court is the only institution mandated to mete out any form of punishment to suspects found guilty of armed...
Social Media Commentators Should ‘shut-Up’ On Sosu’s Suspension
Private legal practitioner, lawyer Maurice Ampaw has lambasted the general public and asked them to shut up and stop commenting on the suspension of lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu. The controversial...
Chief Fishermen Growl For Powers To Fight Illegal Fishing
Fishermen along the country’s coastal zones have called on government to restore their authority to enable them fight illegalities in the fishing industry. Fisher folks in Shama, Sekondi, Axim,...
China Angry With Zambia For Detaining Nationals Over Illegal Mining
China has condemned Zambia for detaining 31 of its nationals for alleged illegal mining without providing strong proof, Reuters news agency reports. Those detained include a pregnant woman and two...
Australian Police Kill Hostage-Taker, Possible Terror Link Probed
Australian police Monday shot dead a man who had taken a woman hostage in a Melbourne apartment and said they were investigating whether the incident was terror-related. Police responding to reports...
Police To Launch Website To Gather Crime Information
The Ghana Police Service has given indications it will soon launch a new website to enable it to gather detailed information about crime in the country. The website will also provide very useful...
Review Harsh Ban On Lawyer Sosu – Franklin Cudjoe
The Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has described as harsh the 3-year-ban imposed on renowned human rights lawyer, Francis Xavier-Sosu by the General Legal Council. According to...
Capt. Mahama’s ‘killers’ Charged With Murder, Remanded
Provisional charge of murder has been preferred against the seven persons accused of lynching and burning a Ghanaian military officer. They have been remanded to allow investigators delve into the...
Combating Crimes Through Police Visibility In Communities
Some Ghanaians relished lynching; a reason police visibility in communities is the surest way to prevent the upsurge of criminal and voilent acts. There is a general perception that Ghana is a...
Gyampo Doubts Competence of Police
A Political Science Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affiars, Prof. Emmanuel Gyampo has cast doubts about the competence of the state security agencies to carryout proper...
2 ‘freed’ Criminals Report Themselves To Police
Two suspects who were freed from Police custody when some youth in Somanya attacked and vandalized a Police station in the area, have reported themselves back to the Police. The two suspects are...
Ghanaians Should Not Rest Until Captain Mahama’s Killers Are Arrested & Prosecuted
Pressure group OccupyGhana is calling on Ghanaians not to rest until perpetrators involved in the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama are arrested and prosecuted describing the act ‘despicable’....
OccupyGhana Condemns ‘barbaric’ Lynching of Mahama
Pressure group OccupyGhana has condemned the gruesome murder of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the 5th Battalion of Infantry. Captain Mahama was lynched by irate youth of Denkyira-Obuasi in the...
OccupyGhana Condemns ‘barbaric’ Lynching of Capt. Mahama
Pressure group OccupyGhana is calling for urgent measures to completely root out the ‘barbaric’ act of mob justice from society. It said the practice, which has been seen many times in Ghana’s...
Ghanaians Must Stand Up Against Mod Justice
Pressure group, Occupyghana, has issued a statement condemning the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama by a mob in Denkyira Boase and has called on Ghanaians to stand against mod justice....
Assemblyman, 13 Others Caged Over Attack On Somanya Police
Fourteen persons, including an assemblyman accused of being behind events that lead to the attack on Somanya Police Station in the Eastern Region, have been refused bail by the Circuit Court in...
Nana Addo Are You Clean From Corruption?
Cross section of Ghanaians are urging President Akufo-Addo to purge himself and members of his government of corruptible acts if he is so desirous and committed to winning his widely proclaimed war...
Angry Residents Freed 4 ‘criminals’ – Police
The tensions in Somanya that escalated into a clash between angry residents and police, along with the setting on fire of a police car, also led to the escape of four suspected criminals in police...