The Chief Executive Officer of Engineers & Planners Limited, Mr Ibrahim Mahama, has demanded an immediate retraction and unqualified apology from investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni. This comes after Mr Awuni in his latest book, “The President Ghana Never Got,” stated that the Universal Merchant Bank (UMB), formerly State-owned Merchant Bank, generated uproar in 2013 […]
Two students have been arrested by the police for mobilising their colleagues to lynch a spiritualist who had accused one of them of stealing a mobile phone. The incident happened at Twifo Praso in the Central Region. The two students are from the Twifo Praso Senior High School. They are in police custody for allegedly
The Adabraka District Court has remanded the 25-year-old police officer who allegedly shot a man at Koans Estate in Kuntunse Satellite over an over ride-hailing fare disagreement into police custody. Constable Smith Gyekyi has been slapped with the provisional charge of murder. The prosecutor, Chief Inspector (C/Insp.) Achana Apewah, prayed the court presided over by
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A chilling incident has unfolded in Denkyira Kyekyewere in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region, where Assemblyman Kwabena Boateng allegedly shot and killed two teenagers, Razak, 16, and Agyaku, 20, suspected of stealing cocoa from his shed. The tragic events of August 21, 2024 have sent shockwaves through the community, raising
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One of the suspects arrested in connection with the case in which a 52-year-old legal practitioner is standing trial for allegedly forging a will has been charged at the Achimota Circuit Court. Saeed Salia, who appeared before the court last Thursday, has been admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢ 120,000 with three sureties
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The Circuit Court at Tarkwa has fined Nangmin Kaal, a 25-year-old small scale miner, GH¢ 1,200 or in default one year imprisonment for assaulting his colleague and a police officer at Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. Also, the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu ordered Kaal to sign a bond to be
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Ghanaian blogger Jeffrey Epprim Nyame has been sentenced to a 30-day jail term for the publication of false news. However, the court acquitted and discharged Jeremiah Kobina Egyabeng, an IT professional, who also faced a charge of abutment. John Baptist Ayitse, a lawyer acting as a friend of the court, attempted to seek clemency for
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Maradona Adjei Yeboah, one of the aspirants who was disqualified by the University of Ghana’s Students’ Representative Council (SRC) to contest the student body’s election, has issued an official response. In a social media post, Maradona known in music circles as Guru indicates that he has petitioned the electoral commission of the University of Ghana’s
The West Ada District Court, Sege, has handed Atteh Asamanguah, a farmer, a three-month jail term for verbally threatening harm to another farmer, Clement Ackwerh, at Hwakpo. The action is contrary to Section 74 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). The court, presided over by Her Worship Victoria Akua Ghanasah, as magistrate, jailed
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A District of Columbia Court in the United States has granted a Motion for Default Judgment in favour of the Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), ordering the Ghana government to pay $111,493,828.92, plus mandatory post-judgment interest. This ruling follows Ghana’s failure to fully comply with an earlier tribunal decision from the United Kingdom. On January
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