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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The Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Interior which was tasked to probe the mayhem unleashed on residents of Ashaiman has submitted its report and, among other things, recommended that the military personnel responsible for the May 7, 2023, dawn raid be sanctioned. The committee, in its report, indicated that the actions of the military contravene
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The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has officially referred the investigation into the financial affairs and assets of former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, and her associates, to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). In a statement released on Thursday, the OSP clarified that, despite nearly seven months of
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All 51 prison inmates who sat the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have gained admission to various pre-tertiary institutions in the country. They obtained between aggregates 16 and 31 in the examination, guaranteeing them passage to the next level of the academic ladder. They comprise 26 juveniles from the Senior Correctional Centre in Accra,
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The High Court has convicted six of the alleged coup plotters for counts of conspiracy to commit high treason and committing high treason. The Court has, however, acquitted Assistant Commissioner of Police Benjamin Agordzo, Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli and one other junior military officer, Corporal Seidu Abubakar. The six convicted for plotting a coup have
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