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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.

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.

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.

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.

Spanish customs and the Civil Guard say they 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. No Ghanaian suspects have been named.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Crime Check Foundation has launched an Employ One Returning Citizen campaign urging employers to hire people who have served prison sentences and calling for a national reintegration framework.

NPA chief executive Godwin Edudzi Tameklo has warned that people who collect spilled fuel from tanker accident scenes risk prosecution as thieves facing up to 20 years in prison.

NACOC has destroyed more than US$10 million worth of seized narcotics at Bundase in Greater Accra, including about 4.73 million synthetic opioid tablets and 338,000 bottles of codeine cough mixture.

Alexander Kwaku Asafo-Agyei, Director-General of the Ghana Scholarships Authority, is the subject of an unverified social media claim of sexual misconduct linked to scholarship awards. He remains presumed innocent. The claim renews scrutiny of an institution with a GH¢250 million 2026 budget allocation.

Russell Brand, 51, was convicted at Southwark Crown Court in London on 5 November 2026 of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was remanded in custody for sentencing on Monday.

NACOC's Western Regional Command says national data show some children first use drugs from age seven, citing alcohol, cannabis, shisha and cigarettes among commonly abused substances.

Deputy Foreign Minister James Gyakye Quayson has assured the family of Akpene Diamond Tetteh, a 37-year-old Ghanaian shot dead in Georgia in February 2026, of government help as a murder trial continues.

The Northern Regional Police Command will deploy 400 officers to secure the NDC regional executive elections at the Aliu Mahama Sports Stadium in Tamale on 13 and 14 November 2026.

The Ghana Police Service has warned motorists against fraudulent messages asking them to pay TraffiTech-GH traffic fines through unofficial channels, saying genuine notices come only from the sender ID GPS-MTTD.

The NPP has demanded the immediate removal of the heads of NACOC, Ghana Airports Company, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and National Security over at least 14 drug seizures linked to Ghana since March 2025.

The Attorney-General's Office has found no evidence of stealing or forgery against the late CLOGSAG Executive Secretary, Dr Isaac Akuetteh Bampoe Addo, and former president Benjamin Otoo over a GH¢500,000 withdrawal.

The Commercial Division of the High Court in Accra has dismissed Adamus Australia's bid to stop the transfer of a 90 per cent stake in Adamus Ghana held through Nguvu Mining.

Kofi Sackey, a 56-year-old cocoa farmer, was found dead in a room at Assin Ketukrom in the Central Region on 3 November 2026 with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and a shotgun on his chest.

NAIMOS, backed by the Ghana Navy Special Boat Squadron, crossed the River Offin at Nipanekro in the Central Region and immobilised equipment allegedly used for illegal mining.

CID Director-General COP Lydia Donkor has warned that counterfeit medicines, electrical products and cosmetics pose serious public safety risks, and described intellectual property crime as part of transnational organised crime.

Lawyers for former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta used videos of protests outside the US Embassy in Accra to argue he would be unsafe in Ghana, Ghana's Ambassador to the US, Victor Smith, has said.

Police in Kumasi have arrested three suspected members of a motorcycle gang accused of illegal midnight races, blocking roads and robbing people in the Breman, Kronum and Suame area.

The body of Joseph Owusu, a 24-year-old Ghanaian church organist, has been found at a dumpsite in the Bronx, New York, nearly two weeks after he was reported missing.

EOCO has ordered Sarkodie Baffour Awuah and Partners, where Manhyia North MP Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah is a senior partner, to submit financial, tax and bank records for 2017 to 2025 by 6 November 2026.

Ghana's TraffiTech-GH automated speed camera system, run under an 11-year PPP with NTMEL, went live on 1 November 2026 with fines from GH¢120, owner liability and DVLA service blocks for unpaid penalties.

Six plaintiffs, including three NPP MPs and broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere, have filed a writ at the Supreme Court asking it to declare parts of the Tribunals Act, 2026 (Act 1181) unconstitutional.

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested 3 Nigerian nationals suspected of belonging to a syndicate allegedly behind a series of robberies targeting bank customers in Kumasi, while a fourth suspect is on the run.

Asante Akyem North MP Ohene Kwame Frimpong remains in custody in the Netherlands after two bail applications failed, with a hearing on a US extradition request set for 18 November 2026, the Majority Chief Whip says.

Two tipper truck drivers are being treated at Tema General Hospital after allegedly being flogged and shot by a group of about 10 uniformed men at Afienya in the Greater Accra Region.

NAIMOS says it arrested suspected illegal miners at Subin Akwaaboso in the Central Region after personnel faced resistance from people armed with cutlasses and firearms during an operation on 1 November 2026.

Police at Agogo in the Ashanti Region have arrested a 20-year-old man over the alleged defilement of a 13-year-old girl in a farming community near the town.

Three people died in a dynamite blast during a chase at Hamile; the government has cut the local curfew to 10:00pm–4:00am from 5 November 2026 while keeping a weapons ban.

The Adentan Circuit Court has rejected a submission of no case to answer by pastor William Gyimah, who is on trial for allegedly publishing false news about a plot to kill Vice-President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang.

The Bank of Ghana says 20 mobile loan apps are operating without a licence and has told banks and payment providers not to process their transactions, warning the public against using them.

Communication Minister Samuel Nartey George says people who attack journalists will be prosecuted regardless of their political affiliation, position or uniform, as a model journalist safety policy was launched in Accra.

NAIMOS has arrested 28 suspected foremen and machine owners and destroyed 29 chanfang machines during an operation against an illegal mining site at Akango in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region.

A middle-aged man has been shot dead near his home in Bunkpurugu, North East Region, by unidentified masked gunmen on motorbikes, despite a heavy security presence in the town.