Google has won its challenge against a €1.49bn (£1.26bn) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers. The bloc accused Google of abusing its market dominance by restricting third-party rivals from displaying search ads between 2006 and 2016. Europe’s second-top court ruled the European Commission – which levied the fine – “committed errors […]
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A second-year student at the University of Ghana (UG) has filed a lawsuit at the Circuit Court in Adentan, Accra, against the University, its senior officials, and the Electoral Commissioner of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). Joseph Mawuli Asioh’s lawsuit challenges the inclusion of two disqualified candidates in the 2024 SRC elections, citing procedural violations
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Four Ghanaian international students have been arrested in the United States for allegedly forging high school transcripts to gain admission to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The students; Otis Opoku, Evans Oppong, Cyrilstan Nomobon Sowah-Nai, and Henry Dabuo are facing charges of forgery and theft of services and are currently being held in Northampton County
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been denied bail after pleading not guilty in a sex-trafficking case. A New York federal judge remanded the musician in custody after prosecutors argued he was a “serious flight risk”. Mr Combs, 54, was arrested on Monday evening, accused of running a criminal enterprise from at least 2008 that
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The District Court at Achimota has discharged Yahaya Alhassan, President of the Ghana Social Justice Forum and a journalist, after striking out charges against him related to his protest over the alleged $3 million scandal at Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST). Alhassan was arrested, along with two others, by the police and
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The Deputy Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has disclosed that government is actively pursuing the extradition of Sedinam Tamakloe Attionu, former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), who is currently residing in the United States. Ms Attionu, sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Accra High Court in
A 39-year-old driver who allegedly defrauded a businessman of GH¢120,000 has been remanded into police by an Adentan Circuit Court. Paul Kwabena Duku allegedly collected the money from the businessman under the pretext of selling a Kia Rhino truck to him but failed. Charged with defrauding by false pretences, Duku in the company of his
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Sean “Diddy” Combs faces federal charges in New York, his lawyer said late Monday. Details of the charges weren’t immediately announced by prosecutors, but Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement saying: “We are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
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The Winneba District Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 30-year-old student of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to 13 months’ imprisonment for defrauding by false pretences, contrary to section 131 of the criminal and other offences 29/60. Frank Anderson Junior pleaded guilty and appealed to the court to give him time to refund the money,
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The man who was arrested for attacking the Comoros president with a knife on Friday has been found dead in prison, the authorities there say. The attack took place during a funeral for a well-known religious leader and injured President Azali Assoumani’s hand. National prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid said that after being arrested the attacker
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