A driver’s mate is critically wounded after being shot by a Police officer at Danchira in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. The victim was shot without provocation by Corporal Franklin Forson at a police snap checkpoint opposite the Danchira police station. Isaac Okyere, the driver of a Kia truck registered GE […]
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The Founder and Director of the POS Foundation, Jonathan Osei Owusu, has narrated the ordeal of a man who spent six years in Koforidua Prisons despite his case being dismissed by the Mampong Court. According to him, although the accused had been acquitted he spent time behind bars due to a police officer’s misconduct. Recounting
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The Accra Circuit Court Two on Friday refused bail to two persons who allegedly stole money, electrical gadgets, others from Mr John Kumah’s widow. Adams Sanogo, trader, and Kwame Dunga, at large, allegedly conspired to steal USD50,000, GHC50,000.00, iPhone 15 Pro Max cellular phone valued at GHC15,000.00 from Reverend Lillian Kumah, widow of Mr Kumah,
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A Sierra Leone court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offences following what authorities have called an attempted coup, with their leader sentenced to almost 200 years in prison, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. In November, dozens of gunmen broke into the country’s armoury and into a prison where the majority of the
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The Supreme Court has declared as constitutional the law which prohibits unnatural carnal knowledge such as anal sex. In a unanimous decision on Wednesday [July 24, 2024], a seven-member panel of the court dismissed a writ challenging the constitutionality of Section 104 (1) (b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). The court, presided
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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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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
The Kasoa Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested three suspects for allegedly stealing a less-than-a-week-old baby. The suspects, Magdalene Nana Adwoa Boafo, 28, Faustina Binney, 32, and Eunice Koomson, 36, a teacher, allegedly took the baby from its mother, Ms Abigail Addison, 29, under the pretext that
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A Wa High Court, presided over by Justice Abdul-Yussif Assibey, has ruled against a bail application for suspects involved in the murder of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Royal Cozy Hills Hotel in Jurapa (Jirapa Dubai). Mr. Luanga Bagonluri, Counsel for the second and third accused persons in the case, Belinda Milla and Kweku
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