Accra, Jan. 30, GNA – An Accra Circuit Court has convicted a 53-year-old fashion designer who defrauded a teacher of GHC20,000.00 under the pretext of enlisting him into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Angelina Koranteng admitted conspiring with Festus Dzakpasu Walas, 44, mason, to dupe Mr Mileba Godwin and was convicted on her own plea, […]
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Ghanaian Law students have been urged to help prevent drug policies, measures and legislations that work against the rehabilitation of substance abusers. The students were asked to not only play roles in the prevention of the use and circulation of drugs (cocaine, marijuana, tramadol etc.) but also be critical of incarceration of abusers and lack
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The Gender-Based Violence Court has sentenced a 23-year-old carpenter to 10 years imprisonment for having sex with a 13-year-old girl at Ashalaja in the Greater Accra Region. Christopher Kavi, charged with defilement, pleaded guilty. Kavi was convicted on his plea and sentenced accordingly by the court house at the Ghana Police Service headquarters. Prosecution led
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Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year. Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary last October with more than 90 percent of the votes, potentially putting her in a
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate-elect for Weija Gbawe, Jerry Ahmed Shaib, has among other things attributed his victory over Tina Mensah to the free legal services he rendered to some constituents. Ahmed Shaib, in an interview with Bernard Koku Avle on The Point of View on Citi TV, explained that he was not
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An Accra Circuit Court has ordered Prince Tagoe, a former Black Stars player, to pay GHC10 per dollar in the auto fraud case. Tagoe has so far refunded $21,000 (GHC210,0000) cedi equivalent, leaving a balance of $19,000. However, when the matter was called, Tagoe contended that he was going to refund the money based on
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An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH₵50,000 bail with two sureties to a businessman who allegedly defrauded a woman of $5,000 under the pretext of securing her a German visa. Faisal Moro Mohammed, 31, denied defrauding Madam Mercy Sarfo as well as breaching the trust between the two. Faisal will go back to the
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A 27-year-old driver who had sex with a 14-year-old girl in a church at Sowutuom has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Appearing before the Gender-Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters, Enoch Mensah pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement. The court convicted Mensah on his own plea and sentenced him accordingly. Apart from
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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Monday ordered Mr Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, the Controller and Accountant General to appear before it, to answer some questions. Mr Kwaning-Bosompem, who was scheduled to appear before the Committee, however, failed to show up as expected. He sent his three deputies as representatives, but they were rejected by some
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A Ghanaian lawyer and academic, Jamaldeen Tonzua, has been awarded the 2024 United Nations Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship. He is the first Ghanaian laureate of the fellowship, and he will benefit from extraordinary professional resources and hands-on training in global environment and sustainability law, at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme
