The High Court in Accra has sentenced a taxi driver, Paul Evename, to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend, Jennifer Attieku, on November 12, 2015, at Madina in Accra. The deceased was a third-year Banking and Finance student at the University of Professional Studies, UPSA, before her murder. The jury unanimously found Paul […]
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An Accra High Court has placed an injunction on the planned 3-day demonstration by pressure group democracy hub. The action by the court follows concerns raised by the Police over the venue selected by the group for their demonstration, the frontage of the Jubilee House. The court order which was issued today Wednesday 18th September
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A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 20 months in prison, Zammel’s lawyer said, the latest move that has heightened opposition fears of a rigged election aimed at keeping President Kais Saied in power. Zammel, head of the opposition Azimoun party, was arrested two weeks ago on charges of falsifying voter
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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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