Fraud & Scams
The National Identification Authority, working with the Ghana Immigration Service, has picked up a woman who said in a viral video that she is Togolese but holds a Ghana Card and voter ID, according to Ghanaian news reports.
Violent Crime
The Dambai Magistrate Court has remanded two men into prison custody over the alleged murder of 39-year-old Rejoice Sena Akpaku, whose body police say was found in bush near Adumadum in the Oti Region after she travelled from Somanya to recover a debt.
Court Cases & Judgments
The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a 25-year-old trader, Aliu Tahiru, to 15 years' imprisonment with hard labour after he pleaded guilty to defiling a three-year-old girl in a suburb of Somanya in the Eastern Region.
Court Cases & Judgments
The High Court in Accra has acquitted former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene on two of the eleven charges he faces and ordered him to open his defence on the remaining nine, after rejecting submissions of no case to answer. His wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng, must also open her defence.
Investigations & Cold Cases
The Ghana Education Service has interdicted two teachers at Aduman Senior High School in the Ashanti Region over alleged sexual misconduct involving a male student and referred the matter to the police. Media outlets report the teachers have been arrested; police have not confirmed this.
Fraud & Scams
The Ministry of Health says a television fundraising campaign soliciting Mobile Money donations for patients seeking surgery through Mercy Ships is fraudulent and has no link to the charity, whose services are free.
Court Cases & Judgments
The High Court in Accra has granted an application by Manhyia South MP Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah for the release of his passport, which was held by the court as part of his bail conditions in his ongoing criminal trial.
Organised Crime
Four people, including a driver, have been arrested at the Yakasi forest border in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region on suspicion of smuggling cocoa beans into Ghana from Côte d'Ivoire, the Municipal Chief Executive has confirmed.
Court Cases & Judgments
An Ashaiman Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 10 years' imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to robbery for snatching an iPhone 14 from an Australian national at Tsinagbe.
Fraud & Scams
The IGP's Special Operations Team says it arrested two men and seized wax print fabrics suspected to be counterfeit GTP products, believed to have been smuggled from Nigeria, at a warehouse in Adabraka, Accra.
Drug Offences
Spanish authorities seized 2,600kg of cocaine concealed under false bottoms in crates of coconuts in two containers loaded at Tema Port and arrested two men in Almería. Ghana's Narcotics Control Commission says it has since arrested a 43-year-old Tema freight forwarder in connection with the shipment.
Violent Crime
Local reports now put the death toll from Wednesday's confrontation between residents and NAIMOS personnel at Manso Keniago in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region at five or six, up from the three NAIMOS confirmed, with two NAIMOS personnel shot. The figures have not been officially confirmed.
White Collar Crime
Speaker Alban Bagbin has directed that Parliament's internal review of an alleged US$46,000 bribe linked to the 2015 approval of the AKSA emergency power agreement be sent to the Office of the Special Prosecutor, saying the review found no evidence an MP received the money but was not the final word.
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Tema Regional Police say they recovered 3,752 slabs of suspected Indian hemp from a canoe abandoned by fleeing suspects on the Volta Lake at Ada on 4 November. No arrests had been made by the time of the police statement on 11 November.
Violent Crime
A 17-year-old has been charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon over the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Ghanaian student Javits Frimpong in the Bronx on 29 October, New York police said. He has not been named because of his age.
Court Cases & Judgments
A BNI investigator has told the High Court in Accra that forensic analysis of the National Service Authority's payroll system found 63,673 names without verifiable identities that received allowances in 2023 and 2024. Former deputy executive director Gifty Oware-Mensah denies the charges.
Drug Offences
Bono Regional Police have arrested a bus driver and his mate after 41 compressed slabs of a substance suspected to be cannabis were allegedly found in their vehicle at the Twumasikrom checkpoint on the Sunyani–Berekum highway.
Property Crime
The Nsuta Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has sentenced a 22-year-old commercial tricycle rider to five years' imprisonment for stealing a Pragya valued at GH¢42,000 that he had been given to operate for one day.
Investigations & Cold Cases
Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu has told Parliament that the ministry's inquiry into alleged sexual abuse at Obuasi Senior High Technical School is 85 per cent complete and that the evidence points to a prima facie case for prosecution.
White Collar Crime
The Economic and Organised Crime Office has issued a public notice declaring Godfred Maamah wanted in connection with an alleged offence of causing financial loss to the state.
Court Cases & Judgments
The Chief Justice has found no prima facie case in a petition seeking the removal of Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, and the matter is closed, the Presidency says.
Violent Crime
A 19-year-old final-year student of Peki Senior High School in the Volta Region has died after an alleged dormitory confrontation over a schoolbag, and a fellow student is in police custody.
White Collar Crime
The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it has opened investigations into suspected corruption involving some National Sports Authority officials over 2026 World Cup visa, sponsorship and contract arrangements.
Property Crime
Ghana Water Limited says about 4,395 households and commercial establishments have been caught in its crackdown on alleged water theft since August 2025, with cases referred to court.
Violent Crime
A warrior of the Buipewura, known as Commando, has been killed by unknown attackers at Iddrisu-Kura near Old Buipe in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region, police say.
White Collar Crime
The Economic and Organised Crime Office has issued a public notice declaring Bankan Yigma Saaka wanted in connection with an alleged offence of causing financial loss to the state.
Court Cases & Judgments
Judicial Service staff unions have suspended their indefinite strike after talks with the Judicial Service and government, and the Service says courts across Ghana resume normal sittings on Tuesday 10 November.
White Collar Crime
EOCO says its officers and Lands Commission staff visited a frozen Tema property belonging to Bernard Antwi Boasiako, known as Chairman Wontumi, for a valuation exercise, after his spokesperson accused the officers of searching the house.
Violent Crime
The Interior Minister has lifted the curfew on Hamile Township and surrounding communities in the Upper West Region, while keeping a total ban on arms, ammunition and offensive weapons in the area.
White Collar Crime
The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it is investigating alleged corruption in the issuance of Ghanaian Diplomatic and Service Passports, after the Foreign Affairs Ministry flagged 10 Service Passports as irregularly issued.
Organised Crime
Excavators are again operating along the Tano River and near the airstrip at Samreboi in the Western Region, drone footage shows, four months after floods submerged parts of the town.
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