According to the police a Ghanaian taxi driver, believed to be an accomplice, was also arrested.

They were nabbed at their hideout at Oyarifa in Accra.

The Police told Citi News that they are processing the suspects for court and will ensure that they are repatriated in coming days.

The police believed that the repatriation is in the right direction and will help reduce the level of crime in the country.

Cyber-crime to cost Ghana $100m in 2018

An information security expert had earlier told Citi News that Ghanaian businesses stand to lose 100 million dollars from cyber-crime in 2018, if pragmatic measures are not put in place to minimize it.

According to a Managing Partner at cybersecurity firm, Delta 3 International, Del Aden, the incidence of cyber-crime in Ghana will continue to rise unless businesses put effective counter measures in place.

“Businesses in Ghana stand to lose nearly 100 million dollars to cyber-crime. That’s why everyone needs to sit up and implement effective measures of counter cyber-crime,” he warned.

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The trio; Musah Ibrahim, aged 44, Munkaila Yakubu, aged 53 and Hassan Gibril, aged 52, admitted they owned the items but were unable to show Customs officials any documents covering the importation of the elements.

The three were onboard a Toyota Corolla S; an Aflao-Accra bound hiring car with registration number GY 2343 – 13.

 The Aflao Sector Commander, Mr Frank Ashong who confirmed the incident to Citi News believes the trio might have smuggled the items through unapproved routes into the country.

A detention receipt was issued and the suspects, together with the items, have since been transferred to the Ghana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Head Office for further investigation.

The country’s revenue collectors have expressed concerns over the influx of uncustomed goods into the country, denying the state of the needed revenue for development projects.

This latest bust is the third in the space of a week by the Aflao Sector Command as part of increased efforts to clamp down on illegal activities along the country’s eastern frontiers.

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According to a release by the Tema Regional Police Command, the two Nigerians, Ali Haruna, 48, and Ali Mubanoo, 50, were arrested at different locations upon a tip-off from an informant.

The two were arrested at Old Tulaku, a suburb of Ashaiman, whilst trading in the drugs.

A release signed by the Tema Regional Police PRO, ASP Joseph Darkwah, noted that the suspect, Ali Haruna, had in his possession one thousand (1,000) pieces of assorted dangerous drugs including Tramol, Diazem Tablets, Axzol tablets and nitrazepam, while the second suspect, Ali Mubanoo, had in his possession five hundred (500) pieces of assorted drugs including Tramol and Eskazepam among other assorted drugs, that requires a dealer to possess a license before retailing.

ASP Darkwah noted that, the suspects in their caution statement said they have been selling these drugs to their customers who are mostly the youth of Ashaiman.

The two are being processed for court to face prosecution.

The release advised persons dealing in such dangerous drugs, to desist since the police will clamp down on persons in such illegal trade.

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The suspects are aged between 19 and 36. They were arrested in a swoop carried out by the police at Ashaley Botwe on Friday.

According to the police, they seized 36 laptops, 26 mobile phones and a number pen drives in the exercise.

According to the Madina Divisional Crime Officer, SP Joseph Oppong, the exercise was carried out upon tip off.

He said the suspects will assist the police in further investigations.

He revealed that all the suspects were arrested in a single large room in the area.

Meanwhile, the computer and pen drives have been handed over to the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service for further investigation.

The suspects are being processed for court.

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They are Joy John, a beautician, and Sandra Sunday, a hair stylist. Joy has been charged with human trafficking, while Sandra is facing a charge of abetment of crime.

They have pleaded not guilty, and the Court, presided over by Mrs Ruby Aryeetey, has remanded them into custody.

According to the Court, the accused persons were foreigners, and their current place of abode per the facts of the police was a guest house.

Meanwhile, one the accused persons’ accomplice, known as Mercy, is at large.

DSP C.K. Abandamlora, the prosecutor, said the complainant was a fashion designer residing at Kasoa, while the accused persons resided in Classic Guest House at Nungua-Adegon, in Accra.

In August this year, the Prosecution said Joy went to Nigeria and recruited three of the victims who were about 17, 18 and 20 years old respectively, under the pretext that they were going to work in a restaurant in Ghana.

On arriving in Ghana, the prosecutor said, Joy, however, took the victims to the guesthouse at Nungua-Adegon and sent them out every night to go and engage in prostitution.

According to DSP Abadamlora, the victims were to render account between GHC 100 and GHC150 to the accused each day.

The Prosecution said Sandra abetted the crime when she was tasked by Joy to collect the daily earnings from the victims for nine days when she (Joy) travelled to Nigeria.

When Joy returned from Nigeria, Sandra gave her GHC 500 as proceeds from the victims.

The Prosecution said on November 30, this year, at about 0100 hours, the complainant and her friends who knew the victims in Nigeria saw them at a spot known as Kris berry at Nungua Adegon, and they asked the victim what they were doing there.

The complainant asked the victims to lead her with her friends to their place of abode and Sandra was arrested. She led the Police to arrest Joy but Mercy escaped.

The court differed its judgement and asked the accused to reappear on November 18.

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A local journalist reported at least 40 bodies in a hospital in Jos, with more being brought in.

Tension is rising in the area, with youths blocking some roads.

Jos has seen several deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim groups in recent years. Islamist group Boko Haram has also previously targeted the area.

A suicide attack in the northern city of Kano on Monday killed four people.

Abducted girls

A military spokesman told Agence France-Presse news agency that one bomb had been placed in a truck and another in a minibus, but this has not been independently confirmed.

Plateau state lies on the fault-line which divides Nigeria’s largely Muslim north from its mainly Christian south.

he state has been dogged by violence blamed on land disputes between semi-nomadic Muslim Fulani herdsmen and mainly Christian Berom farmers.

The Nigerian government is also currently trying to trace more than 200 girls captured by Boko Haram in April from a boarding school in the north-eastern town of Chibok.

The case has shocked the world and prompted foreign powers to send military advisers to assist Nigeria’s army tackle the insurgency.

On Tuesday, parliament approved a six-month extension of a state of emergency in three north-eastern states – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks this year but the government says it has pushed the militants back into their strongholds in Borno.

Boko Haram is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

Nigeria’s violence is not confined to the north.

Earlier this month a car bomb in the capital Abuja killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more.

The explosion happened close to a bus station where at least 70 people died in a bomb blast on 14 April.

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