The West Ada District Court, Sege, has handed Atteh Asamanguah, a farmer, a three-month jail term for verbally threatening harm to another farmer, Clement Ackwerh, at Hwakpo. The action is contrary to Section 74 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). The court, presided over by Her Worship Victoria Akua Ghanasah, as magistrate, jailed […]
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A District of Columbia Court in the United States has granted a Motion for Default Judgment in favour of the Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC), ordering the Ghana government to pay $111,493,828.92, plus mandatory post-judgment interest. This ruling follows Ghana’s failure to fully comply with an earlier tribunal decision from the United Kingdom. On January
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The Accra Circuit Court Nine has granted a travel consultant GHC100,000.00 bail with two sureties for allegedly defrauding a tour operator of $15,000.00. Margius Adjei, 47, is accused of taking the money, equivalent to GHC225,000.00, from a travel and tour owner under the guise of obtaining Nicaraguan visas for his clients. Adjei pleaded guilty with
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An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a self-proclaimed religious leader to police custody for allegedly threatening to kill his wife. Imam Mohammed Lanson Abubakar, 44, also known as Andre, pleaded not guilty to the offence, but was detained by the Court after the prosecution said he jumped an earlier police inquiry bail. Chief Inspector Jonas
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Sixteen drivers who allegedly undertook sand winning operations at Agbazu, near Amasaman without license, have been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. They are Gariba Ali, Ekow Quansah aka Big Joe, Christopher Semebia, Ahmed Abdul Asit, Ahmed Abdul Basit, Sampson Asum, Kwame Appiah, Samuel Gaisie, Stephen Owusu Sekyere, Adam Issah. Kwaku Afful, Eric Fiagbedzi, Mohammed
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A shipping agent is before the Accra Circuit Court Nine for allegedly forging Food and Drugs Authority’s Bill of payment receipt to defraud a trader of GHC80,000.00. He did so under the pretext of clearing his three forty-footer containers from the Tema Harbour. Richard Nana Amoako, 43, the shipping agent or freight forwarder, pleaded not
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Two friends were shot and killed by armed robbers who attacked and robbed a mobile money vendor at Welembelle in the Sissala East Municipality. Mr Jonas Dimah, the Assembly member of the Welembelle Electoral area, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that at about 1900 hours on Saturday, four armed men stormed a mobile money
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The Accra Circuit Court Nine has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a mechanical engineer who allegedly took GHC99,810.00 from a farmer under the pretext of securing her two auctioneer tractors. Justice Kwame Amenya was warned by the Police to attend Court but he failed to turn up when the case was presented
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A Detroit judge has been temporarily taken off the bench after he forced a 15-year-old girl to wear handcuffs and a jail uniform because she appeared to fall asleep during a field trip to his court. District Court Judge Kenneth King said he did not like Eva Goodman’s “attitude” and said he wanted to show
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The Ghana Police Service has interdicted two police officers, Lance Corporal Philimon Agbevem and Lance Corporal Peter Gbadagbo, following allegations of extortion from a motor pillion rider in Accra. The incident, which reportedly took place on 22 July 2024, came to light after a video detailing the alleged misconduct circulated widely on social media. In
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