A 27-year-old driver who had sex with a 14-year-old girl in the office of a church in Sowutuom has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. In addition to defiling the victim at the church office, Enoch Mensah had sex with her on four occasions in the complainant’s home. Mensah was charged with defilement and […]
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The family of Lois Abena Koranteng is seeking justice and demanding answers to the circumstances leading to her death on June 8, 2024. Lois, A 24-year-old Petroleum Engineering graduate of KNUST, is said to have checked into a hotel at Anaji at Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western region accompanied by her boss and company driver. However,
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The Supreme Court concluded only 344 out of the 939 pending cases in the 2022/2023 legal year, leading to a backlog of 595 cases carried over into the 2023/2024 legal year. This was an increase of 181 cases from the 2021/2022 legal year, which saw 799 cases pending, out of which 385 cases were concluded
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Nine individuals have been arrested over examination malpractices in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The arrests, which include seven teachers occurred in various locations, including Bekwai in the Ashanti Region and Tema in the Greater Accra Region. The examination, which began on Monday, July 8, proceeded peacefully despite prior concerns about the rising
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The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have vehemently debunked police prosecutors’ claims to the court that the GAF refused to produce Captain Abel Nartey, an officer stationed at the Training and Doctrine Command in Teshie, accused of involvement in a recruitment scam amounting to over GHc130k, to assist police investigations. According to the GAF, these “misrepresentations”
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Parliament has passed the National Service Authority Bill, 2024. The object of the bill is to establish the National Service Authority to mobilise and post persons qualified to undertake national service in areas of national priority for national development. If assented to by the President, the bill will also inculcate the values of civic responsibility,
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Our Justice system cannot catch a break. Right in the middle of the case in which our Attorney General has coached a witness in the absence of the defendant’s lawyer and then refused to resign, the Chief Justice has rubbed salt into our collective national wound. In a letter dated 30th June 2024, addressed to
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Martin Kpebu, a private legal practitioner, has described as “bad” the timing and processes for the proposal to appoint new justices to the Supreme Court. Mrs Gertrude Araba Esaba Torkonoo, the Chief Justice, had in a letter dated May 30, 2024, addressed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, recommended the appointment of five justices
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Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will not scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Instead, he says he intends to strengthen the office if he is elected as president in the upcoming elections. Mr Mahama said this when he addressed journalists in Accra on Sunday. The OSP was
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John Dramani Mahama, the flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says if he is elected as president again, his administration will resurrect the constitutional review process on the capping the number of justices on the Supreme Court bench. The 1992 Constitution only talks about a minimum of nine justices on the Supreme
