A soldier has been detained over an accusation of raping an 18-year-old hotel attendant. The incident reportedly happened on Monday [September 2, 2024] at about 3pm at a guest house at Soe, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. The 18-year-old victim is said to have run to a nearby house to raise […]
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The police has said a total 487 individuals linked to a ponzi scheme in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have been arrested, following an intelligence-led operation on September 2, 2024. The suspects, comprising 257 females and 230 males, were apprehended at a residence in Adwuman, near Kenyasi, a suburb of Kumasi. The police in a
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A 20-year-old mechanic, who attacked and raped a pregnant candidate in the ongoing West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Asante Bekwai circuit court. Akwasi Agyeman was said to have broken into the room of the 20-year-old victim, who was eight-month-old pregnant and student of the
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A final-year student of the Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) has been stabbed to death over an alleged theft in Bantama – a suburb of the Ashanti Region. Eyewitnesses say the student, believed to be in his late twenties, was killed after an elderly woman claimed he had stolen
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The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and OccupyGhana have expressed disappointment over Cabinet’s reluctance to approve the 2022 Conduct of Public Officers Bill (CoPO) for enactment. In a joint statement, the coalition said its reaction followed repeated assurances by the President and the Attorney-General that the Bill would be passed into law. It, therefore,
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A 44-year-old self-proclaimed Imam who allegedly threatened to kill his estranged wife has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Mohammed Abubakar Imam Lanson alias Andre was granted bail in the sum of GHC100,000 with two sureties to be justified. The court, presided over by Mr. Isaac Addo, ordered Lanson to deposit his passport
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According to her, this should be done on websites and social media pages of churches as well as those of the Registrar General’s Department and Assemblies to reach as many people as possible for any caveator to exercise his right on the same. Private legal practitioner and partner at Bentsi Enchill Letsa and Ankomah, Miss
The debt of a woman married under the Customary Law Marriage is the responsibility of her husband, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana School of Law, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, has said. He said contrary to the popular perception that Customary Law Marriage did not protect women, it offered better protection to women compared
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The Tamale High Court has annuled the New Patriotic Patriotic (NPP) Walewale Constituency parliamentary primary results. The court presided over Justice Richard Kogjawah in a ruling on Monday morning ordered a re-run of the primary. The court held that the election was flawed with irregularities, impersonation and over voting. In January, Dr Kabiru Mahama, a
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The High Court in Wenchi has directed the state to pay GHc45,000 each as damages to six persons who suffered varying degrees of injuries during the shooting incident at the Techiman South collation centre in the 2020 polls. In the aftermath of the 2020 parliamentary election, disturbances erupted at the collation centre ahead of the
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