The Gender-Based Violence Court has sentenced a 23-year-old carpenter to 10 years imprisonment for having sex with a 13-year-old girl at Ashalaja in the Greater Accra Region. Christopher Kavi, charged with defilement, pleaded guilty. Kavi was convicted on his plea and sentenced accordingly by the court house at the Ghana Police Service headquarters. Prosecution led […]
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate-elect for Weija Gbawe, Jerry Ahmed Shaib, has among other things attributed his victory over Tina Mensah to the free legal services he rendered to some constituents. Ahmed Shaib, in an interview with Bernard Koku Avle on The Point of View on Citi TV, explained that he was not
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An Accra Circuit Court has ordered Prince Tagoe, a former Black Stars player, to pay GHC10 per dollar in the auto fraud case. Tagoe has so far refunded $21,000 (GHC210,0000) cedi equivalent, leaving a balance of $19,000. However, when the matter was called, Tagoe contended that he was going to refund the money based on
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An Accra Circuit Court has granted a GH₵50,000 bail with two sureties to a businessman who allegedly defrauded a woman of $5,000 under the pretext of securing her a German visa. Faisal Moro Mohammed, 31, denied defrauding Madam Mercy Sarfo as well as breaching the trust between the two. Faisal will go back to the
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A 27-year-old driver who had sex with a 14-year-old girl in a church at Sowutuom has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Appearing before the Gender-Based Violence Court at the Police Headquarters, Enoch Mensah pleaded guilty to the charge of defilement. The court convicted Mensah on his own plea and sentenced him accordingly. Apart from
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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Monday ordered Mr Kwasi Kwaning-Bosompem, the Controller and Accountant General to appear before it, to answer some questions. Mr Kwaning-Bosompem, who was scheduled to appear before the Committee, however, failed to show up as expected. He sent his three deputies as representatives, but they were rejected by some
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A Ghanaian lawyer and academic, Jamaldeen Tonzua, has been awarded the 2024 United Nations Global Environment and Sustainability Law Fellowship. He is the first Ghanaian laureate of the fellowship, and he will benefit from extraordinary professional resources and hands-on training in global environment and sustainability law, at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme
A court has sentenced 12 suspects to life imprisonment for their involvement in the killing of Major Maxwell Mahama. They have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and murder. The twelve include the former assemblyman for Denkyira Obuasi, William Baah. Two others, Bismark Donkor and Bismark Abanga, have been acquitted and discharged. That
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Michael Sumnaya Adedina, an accountant with Medeena Consult Limited accused of forging Ghana Revenue Authority receipts to evade tax of GHC2,495,778 has been granted bail. Adedina was granted GHC2 million cedis bail with three sureties to be justified by an Accra Circuit Court when he made his third appearance. “I have read through the motion
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A dispatch rider who absconded with a Singa motorbike belonging to his boss has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by the Kaneshie District Court. The Court presided over by Nana Abena Aso Owusu-Omenya considered the fact that Abdul Rasid Iddrisu, an ex-convict, had also been in custody for seven months. Iddrisu, who was employed
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