The Ashaiman District Court has remanded into Police custody, Abraham Ayah, a 21-year-old unemployed man, for allegedly murdering Ms. Jennifer Tetteh, contrary to Section 46 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960 (ACT 29). The court presided over by Mr Derick Parden Eshun, remanded Ayah, whose plea was not taken, to reappear on March 13, 2024. […]
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Richard Dela Sky, a private legal practitioner, has clarified the motivations for his legal challenge against the recent enactment of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill by parliament. On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Sky’s legal team submitted an application to the Supreme Court, seeking a declaration that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly known as
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The Accra Circuit Court Three has sentenced an unemployed man to six months imprisonment each on three counts of stealing and a count on unlawful entry. Cudjoe Ofori admitted to unlawfully entering the rooms of Hamida Khalid, Veritas Fiatuse and Ruby Hiovor, and making away with their mobile phones. He was convicted on his own
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Broadcaster, Richard Sky, has asked the Supreme Court to stop President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo from assenting into law the Human and Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill commonly known in Ghana as the Anti-Gay bill. In a writ filed at the Supreme Courton Tuesday, March 5, 2024, invoking the jurisdiction of the apex court
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The Judicial Service has mediated 77,264 cases through its court-connected Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programme since it began in 2005. Out of the figure, 36,191 cases, representing 47 per cent, were successfully settled. In line with this development, trial judges and other paralegals have been urged to advocate ADR as an option for litigants whose
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Mrs Georgina Theodora Woode, a former Chief Justice, has encouraged the youth to have an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset to create jobs for themselves and improve their livelihoods. She said the youth would be doing themselves and the nation a disservice if they idled around in the name of searching for non-existent jobs and urged
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A judge has called for the amendment of Section 101 of the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1969, Act 29 to provide for compensation for defiled victims. The gender-based violence Circuit Court Judge in Kumasi, Gloria Mensah-Bonsu, said such an amendment would encourage more parents to report cases of defilement to the police rather than
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Michael Nyinaku, former Chief Executive (CEO) of the defunct Beige Bank, accused of stealing, fraudulent breach of trust and money laundering, is billed to call 61 witnesses. His counsel, Mr Thaddeus Sory, made the announcement at the Economic and Financial Court Two Division of the High Court trying his client. He told the Court presided over
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A 59-year-old car dealer accused of swindling a businessman of GHC620,000 in a gold transaction has been remanded into Police custody by the Achimota Circuit Court. Gbegoueu Evrard, a French national, is said to have collected the money under the pretext of selling to the complainant, Hayford Boadi, gold but failed. Evrard is facing a
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The Bank of Ghana has suspended the foreign exchange trading licences of Guaranty Trust Bank Ghana Limited (GTB) and FBNBank Ghana Limited (FBN). The one-month suspension by the Central Bank takes effect from March 18, 2024, and is in accordance with Section 11 (2) of the Foreign Exchange Act 2006, (Act 723). A statement from
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