The Amasaman Circuit Court has remanded two persons into Police custody for allegedly taking part in a riot at Papaase, near Amasaman. Nelson Ahiamedzi and Prince Asa alias Asafo were arraigned on a bench warrant. Ahiamedzi pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to commit assault, cause harm, use of offensive weapon. Prince and […]
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The Volta Regional Police Command Tuesday found an inmate hanged in the Akatsi Police cells. Simon Doeve, accused of murder, was going through committal at the Akatsi District Court and was remanded to go back to the Court on March 13, 2024, but hanged himself ahead of the court date. The Police suspect no foul
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A 20-year-old Nigerian Abdul Abubakari Sadiq has been convicted by a Weija Circuit Court. Sadiq, charged with intentionally and unlawfully causing damage to a meter belonging to Ghana Water Limited, pleaded guilty. Sadiq, however, denied the charge of stealing. The Court, presided by Mr James Kojo Botah, convicted the accused person on his plea on
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A 33-year-old businessman who allegedly collected $57,000 under the pretext of securing a Toyota Land Cruiser sport utility vehicle for a church but failed has appeared before the Achimota Circuit Court. Andrews Amoah Ampaw pleaded not guilty to the charge of defrauding by false pretences. Police say the Ampaw was arrested by Ghana Immigrations Service
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The Mankessim Circuit Court has sentenced a 24-year-old herbalist to 30 years imprisonment for robbery at Asuokor, near Breman-Asikuma in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region. The convict, John Awila also known as “Nana Kojo Agbeko”, also claimed to be a reporter with Onua TV and Passion TV. He pleaded guilty to three counts
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Audrey Gadzekpo, the Board Chair of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has expressed her disappointment regarding the parliamentary approval of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 popularly known as the anti-gay bill. The legislation imposes a ban on LGBT activities and makes their promotion, advocacy, and funding
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Togbe Afede XIV has assumed his role as the Executive Chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak after the previous board was dissolved on Monday, February 27, 2024. This appointment of the majority stakeholders of Hearts of Oak PLC, is in accordance with Section 17 (1) of the Companies Act, 2019 which states that, ” A
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Child Rights International’s (CRI) suit seeking to enforce the rights of street children has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The CRI had gone to court to seek among others that the government should ensure the rights of street children by taking them off the streets and given better education in fulfilment of the 1992
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Parliament has passed the bill on Human Sexual Rights and Family Values also known as the anti-LGBTQ bill. The bill proscribes LGBT activities and criminalizes its promotion, advocacy and funding. Persons caught in the act would be subjected to a 6 months to 3 year jail term with promoters and sponsors of the act bearing
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The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has stated that the January 2024 Standing Orders of Parliament make the various Committee meetings of the legislature open and accessible to the public. That, he explained, formed part of Parliament’s effort to deepen transparency and accountability in its activities. It would be recalled that Ghana’s
