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Passage of anti-gay bill: It’s a sad day for Ghana’s democracy – Audrey Gadzekpo

Audrey Gadzekpo, the Board Chair of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has expressed her disappointment regarding the parliamentary approval of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 popularly known as the anti-gay bill. The legislation imposes a ban on LGBT activities and makes their promotion, advocacy, and funding […]

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Hearts of Oak Board Dissolved

Togbe Afede XIV has assumed his role as the Executive Chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak after the previous board was dissolved on Monday, February 27, 2024. This appointment of the majority stakeholders of Hearts of Oak PLC, is in accordance with Section 17 (1) of the Companies Act, 2019 which states that, ” A

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Child Rights International case on streetism dismissed by Supreme Court

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Child Rights International’s (CRI) suit seeking to enforce the rights of street children has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The CRI had gone to court to seek among others that the government should ensure the rights of street children by taking them off the streets and given better education in fulfilment of the 1992

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Parliament passes anti-LGBTQ Bill

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Parliament has passed the bill on Human Sexual Rights and Family Values also known as the anti-LGBTQ bill. The bill proscribes LGBT activities and criminalizes its promotion, advocacy and funding. Persons caught in the act would be subjected to a 6 months to 3 year jail term with promoters and sponsors of the act bearing

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Revised Standing Orders: Committee meetings of Parliament open to the public — Speaker Bagbin

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The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has stated that the January 2024 Standing Orders of Parliament make the various Committee meetings of the legislature open and accessible to the public. That, he explained, formed part of Parliament’s effort to deepen transparency and accountability in its activities. It would be recalled that Ghana’s

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Serial taxi thief sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour

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The Tema Court ‘A’ has sentenced Eric Gyimah, a serial taxicab thief to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing Mr Daniel Azure of his Toyota Vitz taxicab. Gyimah, who had received a 15-year imprisonment sentence for a similar offence a few days ago, pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery but was

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Court orders arrest of 42-year-old retired Military Officer over enlistment fraud

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An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of a 42-year-old retired Military Officer accused of defrauding some people of GH₵194,500.00. Mr Daniel Asiedu is accused of collecting GH₵194,500.00 under the pretext of enlisting the youth in security services but failed. Mr Asiedu, charged with defrauding by false pretence, failed to appear before the Court.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sued by music producer for sexual assault, sex trafficking

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A music producer who says he worked on Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ 2023 album The Love Album: Off the Grid is accusing the hip-hop mogul of sexual assault and harassment, sex trafficking and various other forms of misconduct in a sprawling lawsuit filed Monday, February 26. In the complaint, filed by plaintiff Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. in New York federal court,

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Dismissed HR manager prime suspect in Jirapa Dubai CEO’s murder

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The sacked Human Resource (HR) Officer of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel, Elyasah Mahama is in the grips of the police in connection with the gruesome murder of the Chief Executive Officer of the facility. Mr. Mahama was allegedly picked up at a hideout in Takoradi and airlifted to Wa on a commercial flight for

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Canadian murder: Seven-member jury constituted to quick start trial

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A seven-member jury has been constituted to quick start trial of Safina Mohammed Adizatu accused of murdering her Canadian boyfriend, Frank Kofi Osei, at Ashaley Botwe in July 2022. The court at its last sitting slated February 27, 2024 for the empaneling of jurors. The accused person who was given the option to select the

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