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Major Mahama Trial: Former Assemblyman and 11 others get life imprisonment, 2 acquitted

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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Forgery: Accountant granted GHC2 million bail

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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Court jails dispatch rider for motorbike theft

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

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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Soldiers who brutalised Ashaiman residents must be punished – Parliamentary committee

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

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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Cecilia Dapaah’s Case Handed Over To EOCO

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

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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Prison inmates to attend Senior High School

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

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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Six coup plotters sentenced to death; ACP Agordzo, two others acquitted

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

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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Ghanaian Lawyer based in New York Arrested for Defrauding Immigrants and U.S. Government

Leave a Comment / Foreign News, Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

Kofi Amankwaa endangered his clients by filing fraudulent documents claiming they were being abused by their children, according to the SDNY and NY Attorney General. Federal authorities charged a Bronx attorney this week with carrying out a “large scale” immigration scheme to defraud the U.S. government through a law that can provide domestic violence victims

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Canadian Murder case: Court orders Registrar to furnish defense counsel with jurors list

Leave a Comment / Local News, News / Yaw Nkansah Abankroh

An Accra High Court has ordered the court registrar to provide defence counsel for Safina Mohammed Adizatu, who is on trial for allegedly murdering her Canadian boyfriend, with the jury list in the case. According to the court, the provision of the list should be done before the next adjourned date, February 27, 2024, and

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Two Quarry employees who rob Manager of GHC200,000 grabbed and remanded

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Two persons accused of robbing Potsin Haoxim Quarry Manager of GHC200,000 at Kweikrom near Potsin have been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The accused persons are Richard Kwame Tuffour, a 31-year-old driver and Emmanuel Dabanka, an Electric Welder. The two had hatched a plan to rob their manager who returned money

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