Prison Officer Jailed 12 Years For Defiling Girl, 15
A Prison Officer, Lance Corporal Randy Obeng Wiafe Akenteng Francis, popularly known as Abaa, arrested in 2015 for defiling and ...
Tag: Criminology
Gov’t Clears Prisons Service To Recruit 1,000 Officers
Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance so as ...
Majority Demands Full Audit of BOST ‘rot’ Under Awuah-Darko
The Majority in Parliament has called for a full-scale forensic audit into the activities of the Bulk Oil Storage and ...
Groups Advocate For Hard Sentence For Offenders
THREE organisations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and children, who suffer sexual ...
US Olympic Doctor Charged Over Sex Abuse of Athletes
A former doctor to gymnasts from successive US Olympic teams is to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted ...
Organizations Calls For Effective Measures To Protect Women and Children In Ghana
Three organizations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and children, who suffer ...
Three US University Football Players Charged With Sex Assault
Three Michigan State University football players have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a campus apartment, prompting the ...
Female Rapists Attacking Men In Zimbabwe, Police Issues Caution
Zimbabwean police have cautioned unsuspecting men and the general public to be wary of a group of women accused of ...
Dead Filipino Seamen Victims of ‘foul Play’
Two Filipino seamen who mysteriously disappeared or died in separate incidents on a Japanese coal ship in Australian waters were ...
Give Us Our Own Ministry
The Ghana Prisons Service is pushing for the creation of a separate ministry to take care of the Service and ...
Gospel Musician Mary Agyepong Made Ambassador For JRF
Gospel musician, Mary Agyemang, has been named brand ambassador for Juvenile Reform Foundation (JRF)-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation focused on stemming ...
Kpandai Leads In Sexual and Gender Violence
The Kpandai District in the Northern Region recorded thirty-two assault cases in 2016, topping the list of sexual and gender ...
Japan Immigration Centre Detainees Go On Hunger Strike
Some 20 foreigners held at an immigration detention centre in Tokyo are on a rare hunger strike in an apparent ...
Gay Doctor Ali Gabass Lectures In Jail
Incarcerated gay man Dr. Ali Gabass appears to have found himself a new job while he serves his time in ...
Court Jails ‘businessman’ 15 Years For Robbery
An Accra Circuit Court on Monday handed a 15-year jail term to a businessman, Kenneth Dzubey, who sexually assaulted his ...
Nobody Can Stop Vigilantism
The Minister for Information, Mr Mustapha Hamid has averred that vigilantism is a human problem that no institution can manage ...
Rape Has Nothing To Do With Girls’ Dressing
Rape has nothing to do with the way girls dress, celebrated Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo has said in direct ...
Cease Charging Rape Victims – DOVVSU To Doctors
The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has spoken openly for the first time against demands made by doctors ...
Stories, Standards and Sex
120 million Africans are on social media. 1.5 million of them are in Ghana. That is power. It connects us, ...
Man Killed During Knife Fight At ‘galamsey’ Site
What started as a control of turf and show of supremacy by two rival gangs in the small scale mining ...