Cop Shot Dead By Two Assailants
A police officer with the Rapid Response Unit at Tema was on Monday night gunned down by two unidentified armed men on a motorbike while he was on his way to work. The incident happened at the Michel...
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Police Donate To Widow of Officer Mistakenly Shot
Police in the Northern region have donated GHC5,000 to the wife of the Policeman who was reportedly shot by his colleagues who mistook him for an armed robber. Lance Corporal Robert Ackah was...
Family of Murderd Cop Demand Same Treatment Given To Maj. Mahama’s Family
Family of late Lance Corporal Robert Ackah, the policeman who was accidentally killed on the Tamale - Kintampo expressway recently, is demanding from government the same treatment and financial...
Pastor, Two Others Nabbed For Dealing In Fake Currency
Information available to Today shows that some Chinese and Ghanaian illegal miners operating in some mining communities in the country were not only involved in illegal mining, but also into money...
11 Dead, 900 Escape After DR Congo Jail Attack
Eleven people were killed and more than 900 inmates escaped Sunday after unidentified assailants attacked a jail in DR Congo's restive east, an official said. "The Kangwayi prison in Beni was...
Tarkwa Bishop Bemoans Systemic Failure of State Institutions
The Right Reverend Thomas Amponsah-Donkor, Bishop of the Tarkwa Diocese of the Methodist Church, has attributed the increasing social evils to systemic failings of key national institutions....
Lessons In Policing In Ex-Murder Capital of America
Camden was once the murder capital of America, crime was on a par with Honduras and the police force was peppered with corrupt officers in league with drug dealers. Then police reform and falling...
Military Camaraderie; What the Civilian Fears Most
“…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his...
Police Officer Dead In DR Congo Court Attack
A police officer was killed in an attack on a court compound in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a judicial source said Saturday, weeks after a mass jailbreak from Kinshasa's main prison. A...
Men ‘planned To Use 7.5 Tonne Lorry’
But the three men failed to provide payment details and the vehicle was not picked up, prompting them to use a smaller van from a DIY store instead. The men drove into pedestrians on the bridge...
52 Suspects Now In Police Grip Over Major Mahama Murder
The suspect list of persons who allegedly played a role in the horrid murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has risen to 52. There are currently 44 males and eight females in the grip of the police...
Suicide Bomber Kills 20 In Market South of Baghdad
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, on Friday killing at least 20 people, medical and security sources said. "A suicide bomber blew himself up in...
Chief Justice Bows Out Today
Georgina Theodora Wood, Ghana’s first female Chief Justice, finally bows out of office today after 10 years in the saddle. Her retirement was preceded by a valedictory church service at the Holy...
Myanmar Child Servants Abused As Legal Protections Prove Elusive
Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat Noe crying as she lies in a Yangon hospital, flesh peeling from where she says her employers burned her with irons and boiling...
India Unnerved By Student Anger In Kashmir
Another student death in clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir has heightened tensions in the disputed territory and worsened India's worries about a foe that it cannot control -- youths who do not...
Kumasi Police, Military Clash Exaggerated
The clash between a police officer and some military personnel from Uaddara Barracks in Kumasi in the Ashanti Regional capital has been blown out of proportion in the media, according to police....
Japan Radical Nabbed In Cop Killing After Four-Decade Hunt
A Japanese leftist radical has been arrested and charged in the killing of a police officer after more than four decades on the run, authorities said Wednesday. Masaaki Osaka, 67, once a high-ranking...
Military, Police Clash Not So Worrying – David Agbee
David Agbee, a security expert, has observed that the clash between a police officer and some military men at Kumasi on Monday was a minor disagreement and not because of a clash of roles. Some...
Soldiers Brutally Assault Police Officer In Kumasi
Victim is currently receiving medical treatment at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital A Police officer has been brutally assaulted by some soldiers at Uadarra Barracks in Adum, Kumasi in the Ashanti...
Six Killed In London Terror Attack
Six people have been killed and at least 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were shot dead by police. A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00...