A Kenyan court ruled on Friday that Facebook’s parent company Meta could be sued in the East African nation over the dismissal of dozens of content moderators by a contractor. Last year the content moderators sued Meta and two contractors, saying they lost their jobs with Sama, a Kenya-based firm contracted to moderate Facebook content, […]
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Renowned media lawyer and host of Newsfile, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has challenged the Judiciary to make Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo’s “LEADing Justice” vision a reality by yielding the “expectations of leadership in quality justice delivery.” He says “LEADing Justice”, a vision coined out of the acronym LEAD—representing Law, Ethics, Assets, Due Process,
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Police prosecutors have confirmed to the District Court at La that the final year student of Oreilly Senior High School, Godwin Mawuli, accused of killing Edward Borketey Sackey, is over 19 years old, as he was born on July 10, 2005. The confirmation of the age of the accused now gives the District Court the
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The Circuit Court at Tarkwa has sentenced Isaac Andoh, a 35-year-old driver, to two days imprisonment for careless and inconsiderate driving. In addition, the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu, fined Andoh GH¢ 2,400 or in default two months imprisonment. He pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. Prosecuting, Superintendent of
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Bolt Holdings Ou, the data processor for ride hailing platform Bolt has been ordered by the Adentan Circuit Court to pay a Lecturer and Chief Executive Officer of a software solutions company, Justice Noah Adade an amount of GHS 1.9million. This was after the court had found that the company had failed to detect the
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The High Court in Accra has sentenced a taxi driver, Paul Evename, to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend, Jennifer Attieku, on November 12, 2015, at Madina in Accra. The deceased was a third-year Banking and Finance student at the University of Professional Studies, UPSA, before her murder. The jury unanimously found Paul
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An Accra High Court has placed an injunction on the planned 3-day demonstration by pressure group democracy hub. The action by the court follows concerns raised by the Police over the venue selected by the group for their demonstration, the frontage of the Jubilee House. The court order which was issued today Wednesday 18th September
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A second-year student at the University of Ghana (UG) has filed a lawsuit at the Circuit Court in Adentan, Accra, against the University, its senior officials, and the Electoral Commissioner of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). Joseph Mawuli Asioh’s lawsuit challenges the inclusion of two disqualified candidates in the 2024 SRC elections, citing procedural violations
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Four Ghanaian international students have been arrested in the United States for allegedly forging high school transcripts to gain admission to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The students; Otis Opoku, Evans Oppong, Cyrilstan Nomobon Sowah-Nai, and Henry Dabuo are facing charges of forgery and theft of services and are currently being held in Northampton County
The District Court at Achimota has discharged Yahaya Alhassan, President of the Ghana Social Justice Forum and a journalist, after striking out charges against him related to his protest over the alleged $3 million scandal at Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST). Alhassan was arrested, along with two others, by the police and
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