The Circuit Court at Tarkwa has fined Nangmin Kaal, a 25-year-old small scale miner, GH¢ 1,200 or in default one year imprisonment for assaulting his colleague and a police officer at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. Also, the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu ordered Kaal to sign a bond to be […]
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The Ashaiman District Court has sentenced Samuel Kpomble, a 25-year-old labourer, to six months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing water meters belonging to the Ghana Water Company Limited. The court presided over by Mr. Derrick Parden Eshun convicted Kpomble on his own plea of guilty of stealing. The facts of the case stated that
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Divine Torku, a 40-year-old mentally challenged man has allegedly killed Mr. Hope Kudzo Dentey, 60, Farmer at Dodi-Papase in the Kadjebi District of the Oti Region with machete. The incident, which occurred on Monday, August 12, has thrown the entire community into mourning and disbelief. When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) contacted Superintendent of Police,
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Ghanaian blogger Jeffrey Epprim Nyame has been sentenced to a 30-day jail term for the publication of false news. However, the court acquitted and discharged Jeremiah Kobina Egyabeng, an IT professional, who also faced a charge of abutment. John Baptist Ayitse, a lawyer acting as a friend of the court, attempted to seek clemency for
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Maradona Adjei Yeboah, one of the aspirants who was disqualified by the University of Ghana’s Students’ Representative Council (SRC) to contest the student body’s election, has issued an official response. In a social media post, Maradona known in music circles as Guru indicates that he has petitioned the electoral commission of the University of Ghana’s
The West Ada District Court, Sege, has handed Atteh Asamanguah, a farmer, a three-month jail term for verbally threatening harm to another farmer, Clement Ackwerh, at Hwakpo. The action is contrary to Section 74 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). The court, presided over by Her Worship Victoria Akua Ghanasah, as magistrate, jailed
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An Accra Circuit Court has granted GH¢200,000 bail each to two people who burgled Lillian Kumah, the widow of John Kumah, a former Deputy Minister of Finance. Adams Sanogo, a trader was granted GH¢200,000 bail with various conditions. Rabiu Falilu, a Senior High School (SHS) leaver, who allegedly dishonestly received some of the stolen items
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A District of Columbia Court in the United States has granted a Motion for Default Judgment in favour of the Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), ordering the Ghana government to pay $111,493,828.92, plus mandatory post-judgment interest. This ruling follows Ghana’s failure to fully comply with an earlier tribunal decision from the United Kingdom. On January
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There was drama at an Accra Circuit Court when two out of three accused persons admitted stealing goats at Teshie Camp Two area in Accra. Emmanuel Agyei, aka Obama, a fisherman and David Agyei, a borehole driller, pleaded guilty to the charges of conspiracy and stealing. According to the accused persons, it was true that
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The Accra Circuit Court Nine has granted a travel consultant GHC100,000.00 bail with two sureties for allegedly defrauding a tour operator of $15,000.00. Margius Adjei, 47, is accused of taking the money, equivalent to GHC225,000.00, from a travel and tour owner under the guise of obtaining Nicaraguan visas for his clients. Adjei pleaded guilty with
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