A journalist who works with Kumasi-based Zuria FM, Yussif Abdul Ganiu, popularly known as “Nshola”, has been found guilty by the Asokwa District Court in Kumasi over some inciteful comments he made which were likely to breach public peace. The District Magistrate Judge, Afia Densi Asare-Kyire, delivering the judgment against the accused person on a […]
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The High Court in Kumasi has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining a former solicitor of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Kwame Adofo the Holy Trinity Chambers at Adum–Kumasi, from revealing any confidential information about the hospital. The order, signed by Chief Registrar Ustarz Hamza, bars the lawyer from disclosing any information he obtained while
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The Nkawie Circuit Court has remanded 13 alleged illegal miners for unlawful entry and mining in the Jimmirah Forest Reserve at Amangoase in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. The miners have been accused of mining in the forest reserve, which is currently undergoing afforestation. Compartment 18 of the Jimmirah Forest Reserve, according
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The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Law School will on Thursday honour one of the most outstanding and consequential statesmen to have ever served the country, Nana Dr SKB Asante. Known as the UPSA Lifetime Achievement in Law Award, the honour event has for the short period of its existence, become a prestigious recognition
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Lawyers of former Director General (DG) of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, and four others who are standing trial over the SSNIT Operational Business Suite (OBS) case want their clients discharged. According to them, upon the conclusion of the Prosecution’s evidence through their 10 Witnesses in support of the charges
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A Sunyani-based radio presenter who claimed to have had countless sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old primary six girl was on Monday granted bail by a Fiapre Circuit Court in the Sunyani West Municipality. For his bail condition, Bismarck Nana Poku Piesie, a radio presenter at Sompa FM was to provide four sureties, with two of
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Eight persons, who allegedly removed a joint billboard of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia and Mrs Hannah Asamoah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Agona East, have been granted bail by the Agona Swedru Magistrate’s Court. The court, presided over by Mr Victor Kusi, granted six of them bail in the sum of GHC10,000.
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Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has reinforced calls for the British to return looted artefacts to its original owners. According to him, it is also concerning that the British government will still keep laws protecting illegality in its statute books. This comes after the United Kingdom recently loaned Manhyia Palace some 32 looted artefacts by
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sefwi-Wiawso Dr Kwaku Afriyie has told the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin that it did not rest with him to remind lawmakers about the Standing Orders, especially regarding the nominations made to the Supreme Court. This comment infuriated the speaker, causing him to walk the MP out of the
The High Court in Accra has dismissed a preliminary legal objection raised by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) against the request by Patience Botwe to provide her with information obtained from former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband. This was after the Court presided over by Justice Marie-Louise Simmons, held that
