The Tarkwa circuit court has convicted a 22- year-old okada rider, Kofi Sumaila alias blackman, to 10 years imprisonment for robbing a commercial tricycle rider at Bompieso in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality. He pleaded guilty and prayed the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu for forgiveness. The judge before passing her judgement, said: […]
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Popular Ghanaian comedian Funny Face has been remanded into police custody for two weeks following his involvement in a car accident on Sunday, March 24, 2023. The incident occurred at Kasoa, Kakraba Junction, around 8 PM, where Funny Face allegedly hit approximately five pedestrians while driving his Hyundai Atos car. Following the accident, Funny Face
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The Supreme Court will later today Wednesday, March 27, 2024, hear a writ filed by Member of Parliament for South Dayi Rockson-Nelson Etse K. Dafeamekpor is asking the Apex Court to restrain the Speaker of Parliament and the Chamber from vetting and approving some ministers of State referred to the House for consideration and
The Board Chair of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Keli Gadzekpo has resigned. The resignation takes immediate effect. He is reported to have stepped down over personal reasons. Sources at the ECG confirmed the development on Tuesday (March 26, 2024) evening. Keli Gadzekpo was appointed to the Board in 2017 by then Energy Minister,
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The High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe has said the trial of former Deputy Minister for Finance Dr Cassiel Ato Forson will not travel beyond May 31. Earlier, the Court had fixed May 3, 2024, for judgment but that will no longer hold following recent developments. Dr Forson, the current
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State Prosecutors have closed their case in the case in which Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah is standing trial for defrauding customers in the sum of over GHc340 million. This was after the lawyers of Nana Appiah Mensah also known as NAM1 concluded their cross-examination of ASP Charles Nyarko,
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The former spokesperson for the New Force Movement, Shalimar Abbiusi is demanding one million dollars as compensation from Ghana for what she described as violations of her human rights against Ghana. Shalimar Abbiusi in an action filed by her lawyers led by Francis Xavier Sosu at the international ECOWAS court on January 23, 2024, is
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A Businessman, who assumed the role as family head and collected his late brother’s GHC206, 212.65 entitlement from the Ghana Police Service, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Kwame Tengey is said to have told his late brother’s three children that he was going to assist them to collect
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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assented to law an Act of Parliament that prohibits the payment of compound interest by the state in transactions entered into by public officers on behalf of the state. The Contracts (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1114), sponsored by the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in
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Kofi Sakyi, a taxi driver, who absconded with his employer’s taxi valued GHC75,000 has been sentenced to 60 months imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Sakyi, aka, Mosquito, was sentenced after the court found him guilty on the charge of stealing at the end of the trial. The court, presided over by Mr Isaac Addo,
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