The Supreme Court is expected to deliver rulings on two applications filed by broadcast journalist Richard Dela Sky and researcher Dr. Amanda Odoi, seeking to enjoin Parliament from transmitting the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill to the President for assent. The panel of five, presided over by Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, heard arguments from all parties on […]
The Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, has reversed her earlier directive to transfer the murder case of the CEO of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel from the Wa High Court to Kumasi. The decision comes after family members of the late CEO, Eric Johnson, protested the transfer, citing public interest and logistical concerns. The Wa
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The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has called on the government to provide free sanitary pads to all basic and senior high school girls and subsidise the cost for tertiary institution students. This call comes after the Eastern Regional chapter of the GBA discovered that some individuals are exploiting the high cost of sanitary pads to
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Two persons have appeared before the Dansoman Circuit Court for unlawfully accessing electronic records of the Drivers, Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA) on its online portal. Delali Yevu, a 42-year-old software developer, and Sabastian Donne, a 32-year-old heavy duty machine operator, were arrested after charging some drivers GHC200 each to authenticate their driver’s licenses instead
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Self-exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui has been convicted by a US court of defrauding his online followers in a billion-dollar scam. He was found guilty on nine of the 12 criminal counts he faced, including racketeering, fraud and money laundering. Guo’s sentencing has been scheduled for 19 November, when he could face decades behind bars.
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The Judicial Council has approved the learned Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Sciences, Professor of Law and legal academic Prof. Richard Frimpong Oppong and his co-nominee, the learned Justice of the Court of Appeal, Her Ladyship Justice Sophia Rosetta Bernasko Essah for the Supreme Court Bench. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, announced the
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Marwako Fast Food has been ordered to pay over one million Ghana cedis in damages to plaintiffs who were victims of a food poisoning incident in 2022. The plaintiffs; Winifred Tse, Rodger Bismark Tse and Walter Tse have each been awarded an amount of GH₵345,000 as general damages and will jointly receive special damages of
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The controversial Legislative Instrument (LI) seeking to amend portions of the Road Traffic Regulations 2012 has been withdrawn in Parliament. The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Martin Adjei Mensah Korsah, withdrew the LI on behalf of the Transport Minister, citing public and stakeholder concerns. He added that “the withdrawal became necessary based on
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The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered Ghana to release information on the death of one Peter Mensah, who was killed in The Gambia, to his son within four months. This ruling followed a decision by a three-member panel of the ECOWAS Court, presided over by
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Asante Kwaku Berko, a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana, will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today before Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom on an indictment charging him with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering for bribing Ghanaian government officials to secure a power plant deal and
