Mrs. Sedinam Awo Kwadam, a Circuit Court Judge, has urged the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), and other stakeholders to ensure that all highways are lighted. “Put on all streetlights on our highways, those that are defective should be repaired… The situation is scarier when we drive in the night […]
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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Godfred Dame says the government has worked to avert payments of crippling judgment debts to the tune of fifteen trillion Ghana Cedis since he took office in 2017. Attorney-General Dame noted that the litigations were both in the local and international spaces where the state has increasingly become exposed to
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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General (AG), Godfred Yeboah Dame has disclosed that seventy-six individuals including eighteen foreign nationals have been jailed for engaging in illegal mining activities since August 2021. Speaking at this year’s Bar Conference in Kumasi, Mr. Dame averred that the convictions included long-term prison sentences coupled with huge fines. “From August 2021
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The Faculty of Law team of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) emerged winners of the Gertrude Torkonoo Moot Court Competition by a slim margin of one point, edging out KNUST in classic “host and win style” in the final yesterday, September 8, 2023. GIMPA’s stellar team presented legal arguments in a
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The Police have arrested a law clerk for allegedly forging High Court orders with suit numbers, marriage and divorce certificates and other documents in Accra. Henry Odartey Lamptey, 39, is said to have forged the signatures of the deputy Judicial Secretary and other judges in Adenta and Cape Coast High Courts among others dissolving marriages.
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A barber, who allegedly stole 44,208 kilowatts of electricity power valued at GH₵28, 218.18, the property of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has been arraigned at an Accra Circuit Court. Mr Kamal Adam, 20 years old, who was charged with stealing and interference with the supplier’s distribution system, meters or equipment, pleaded not guilty.
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A 36-year-old businessman, who allegedly took $13, 500 from two persons under the pretext of securing them Nicaragua and Mexican visas but failed has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Mr Nganyu Billy Nfor, a businessman, pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretence. The Court presided over by Mr Isaac Addo admitted Nfor
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Sixty-year-old Edward Worwornyo and his son Senyo Augustus Worwornyo, 30 years old, both herbalists, have been sentenced by the Hohoe Circuit Court for conspiracy to commit crime, trespass and stealing of teak trees. The convicts, who appeared before the court, pleaded not guilty to the charges. They were fully tried, found guilty, convicted and sentenced
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The La District Court has remanded for two weeks, a final-year student at O’Reilly Senior High School, who fatally stabbed a classmate. The student, whose name has been withheld, had been provisionally charged with murder. The court did not accept his plea and ordered him to return on September 19, 2024. The adjournment was to
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Uwombornyi Bado, a 37-year-old man has been stabbed to death with a stick by a colleague, Alhassan Merasa. The incident occurred at Zongo-Machire, a farming community near Chinderi, the District capital of Krachi Nchumuru of the Oti Region. Mr Bafo was initially taken to a clinic in Chinderi and later referred to Kete-Krachi District Hospital,
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