A 21-year-old man of Ghanaian descent, Kwasi Anim-Boadu has been stabbed to death in London. The deceased was knifed near Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s home in Finsbury Park. According to the UK’s Standard, the incident which occurred on Saturday is the 39th fatal knife attack in London this year. His attacker, Brayane Tchenda, has been charged with possession of…
An Uber driver charged with raping a passenger earlier this month was able to walk free because officials failed to notify immigration agents about his arrest, authorities said. Frederick Amfo, 30, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, was arrested after a female passenger said that on April 8 he forced her into the backseat of his car and raped her,…
The Executive Director of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng has appealed to government to review Ghana’s drug policy in order to decriminalize certain offences relating to narcotic use in the country. This petition comes at the back of the imprisonment of a feeble aged man and many others over the sale of Indian hemp popularly known in…
Three persons suspected to be Ghanaians have been arrested in Britain for being part of a 13-member drug syndicate that smuggled £32 million (GH¢203,001,958.59) worth of cocaine and cannabis into the country. The three, Felicia Kufour, Mark Agoro, 52 and Wilfred Owusu, 30 were arrested in separate raids across the southern part of England with other members of the…
The United Kingdom has taken the blame for introducing anti-gay laws in former colonies such as Ghana. The UK government says it is thus ready to help such countries rewrite their laws to accommodate gays. The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, while addressing the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in London on Tuesday said she “deeply regrets” the UK’s…
A Ghanaian Harvard University student who was reportedly high on drugs was repeatedly punched by a police officer after running naked into the street, in an incident that was captured on video on Friday night. The violent altercation between Selorm Ohene, 21, and a half-dozen officers with the Cambridge Police Department has sparked an internal investigation into the use…
The La District Police Command has uncovered an area within the district where some landlords convert their rooms into brothels for commercial sex workers. Incidentally, the area which is popularly known as La Apese, is opposite the La Police Station. Consequently, the police has raided some of the areas, leading to the arrest of 18 suspected commercial sex workers…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has issued a directive instructing its regional, metropolitan and general managers of education units across the country to ensure that staff who have attained retirement age and still at post vacate immediately. A statement issued by Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Director-General of GES, said an earlier directive was issued on 5 June 2017, however, the…
Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide has been suspended by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He was suspended alongside the Director General of the National Sports Authority, Robert Sarfo Mensah. A statement signed by Director of Communications at the Jubilee House, Eugene Arhin states that the decision was taken after “preliminary investigations conducted into the circumstances…
A nine-week-old baby boy has died at the St Gregory Hospital at Kasoa in the Central Region because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine. Little Prosper’s parents tell Joy News a medical doctor on duty pulled the plug from the oxygen machine because they could not pay GHS533 to keep…
