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.
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
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.
White Collar Crime
The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it is examining alleged corruption linked to the GH¢49.72 million the government spent evacuating 1,964 Ghanaians from South Africa, including duplicate entries and disputed payments.
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.
Violent Crime
Police in the Ahafo Region are holding a man after his five-year-old daughter died following an alleged assault during a quarrel between her parents at Mim. He has not been charged.
White Collar Crime
The Korle Klottey Municipal Chief Executive has ordered the arrest of a task force officer accused of demanding GH₵100 from a trader during an Accra decongestion exercise. Two others have been interdicted.
Investigations & Cold Cases
A 28-year-old undertaker and mother of three has been found dead in a man's room at Essikadu in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. Her mother says police have arrested the man; the cause of death has not been made public.
Crime Prevention
Crime Check Foundation Executive Director Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng says the GH¢15 transport allowance given to some prisoners on release is too small to get them home, and has urged government to review it.
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The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection says recording or sharing intimate images without consent, or using them to threaten or extort, can be prosecuted under the Criminal Offences Act and the Cybersecurity Act.
Court Cases & Judgments
The High Court dismissed an ex parte injunction by 72 students seeking to stop the African University of Communications and Business from holding its 23rd Congregation, which went ahead on 31 October 2026.
Investigations & Cold Cases
Nearly seven years after investigative journalist Ahmed Suale was shot dead in Madina, no one has been arrested. Minister of State Felix Kwakye Ofosu says the government remains committed to solving the killing.
Violent Crime
A crowd at the PTC bus stop in Circle, Accra, beat a young man suspected of snatching a trotro passenger's phone on 7 November 2026 and forced him to carry heavy stones.
Violent Crime
Five men allegedly pulled a female senior high school student through a broken school wall and sexually assaulted her in the Eastern Region on 26 September 2026. The case was reported to police the next day.
Court Cases & Judgments
Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin used the 30th GJA Media Awards in Accra on 7 November 2026 to ask President Mahama to pardon TikToker Camilla Alhassan, jailed in July for offensive conduct, and to call for the repeal of two speech-related criminal provisions.
Court Cases & Judgments
Former GIIF chief executive Solomon Asamoah wants the High Court to subpoena 15 people, including Joe Ghartey and the Auditor-General, to testify in his defence in the US$2 million Sky Train case.
Crime Prevention
President Mahama says GH¢100 million has been set aside in the 2027 Budget to finish the abandoned remand block at Nsawam Medium Security Prison, separating remand prisoners from convicts.
Crime Prevention
Speaking for President Mahama at the GJA Media Awards, Felix Kwakye Ofosu said death threats against the President and his children are criminal, and renewed the pledge to solve Ahmed Suale's 2019 murder.
Property Crime
Somanya District Police and Borteyman Police arrested a 57-year-old man at Akode near Somanya on 5 November 2026 after social-media videos accused him of shoplifting across southern Ghana; he remains in custody assisting investigations.
Police Reports
Trede District Police arrested two tricycle operators after a clash with students of Atwima Kwanwoma Senior High School at Trede during the school's entertainment week left one person injured, Otec FM reported, citing the headmaster and police.
Violent Crime
An unidentified man believed to be in his 50s was found dead with multiple knife wounds near the Buduburam Police Barrier in Gomoa East; police have taken the body to the morgue as investigations continue.
Police Reports
A 28-year-old drug store operator identified only as Foster was arrested at Foase cemetery in Atwima Kwanwoma after a hunter reported finding him in an unburied coffin in a suspected money-ritual case.
Organised Crime
NAIMOS arrested suspects and impounded trucks in a Greater Accra illegal sand-winning crackdown; its spokesperson later said revised measures would be developed with the sector ministry to curb the practice.
Drug Offences
Three suspects were handed to police after youths attacked traditional leaders and an assembly member during a four-day community anti-drug operation at Assin Asaman and Owusukrom.
Organised Crime
EU-backed Conginta research presented in Accra warns that illegal mining in the Savannah Region is being financed and carried out largely by foreign nationals, with wider security implications.
Police Reports
Two tricycle operators were arrested after a clash with students of Atwima Kwanwoma Senior High School at Trede in the Ashanti Region left one person injured during entertainment week.
Drug Offences
The Ghana Navy intercepted two wooden boats with 117 sacks of suspected cannabis weighing about 4.8 tonnes and valued at more than US$1 million at the Ada Estuary on 5 November 2026.
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