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Three teenagers arrested for allegedly gang-defiling fellow student

The police have arrested three male juveniles, aged between 15 and 17 years, for allegedly gang-defiling a 15-year-old girl at Aboabo in the Akuapim North Municipality of the Eastern Region. Following the incident on January 27, 2024, the Police arrested the suspects, who have since made two appearances before the Mampong Magistrate Court to face […]

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Welder fined GH ¢6,000 for harming a businesswoman at Aboso

A metal welder residing at Sun City, a suburb of Aboso, in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality, has been fined GH¢6,000 for unlawfully causing harm to a businesswoman. Mohammed Awal, 29, pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. The convict in default of the fine would serve five years in prison. The court has

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Ghana is completely under-lawyered – Prof. Atuguba

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Professor Raymond Atuguba, Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, has challenged the notion that Ghana has adequate numbers of lawyers, asserting instead that the country is “completely under-lawyered.” Contrary to popular belief, Professor Atuguba pointed out that the acceptable lawyer-to-citizens ratio is one lawyer to 250 citizens. However, in Ghana, this ratio

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Ghanaian lawyers have strayed from Nkrumah’s vision for law in Ghana – Prof Atuguba

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The Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, Professor Raymond Atuguba, has criticised lawyers in the country, highlighting what he perceives to be a deviation from the principles set forth by Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. According to Professor Atuguba, Dr. Nkrumah advocated for Ghanaian lawyers to be multidisciplinary and to prioritise

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Former MASLOC CEO gets 10 years for causing financial loss to the State

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Sedinam Tamakloe-Attionu, a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), has been sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment in hard labour for willfully causing financial loss to the State. Her accomplice, Daniel Axim, also a former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the same Institution, was also incarcerated for five

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13 persons in court over possession of narcotic drugs

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An Accra Circuit Court has admitted 13 persons to a GH₵50,000.00 bail each with one surety each for allegedly possessing a plant substance suspected to be narcotic drugs without lawful authority. All the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charges. They are Ethel Anaab, a 28-year-old trader, Daniel Tetteh Botchway, a 52-year-old farmer, Kofi

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Man remanded over robbery of former Second Lady, others

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A self-styled businessman has been brought before the High Court in Accra for allegedly orchestrating and committing the robbery of high-profile personalities and elites in their respective homes. In addition to robbing a 76-year-old woman in Ridge, Yahuza Osumanu is accused of robbing the wife of a former Vice President, Matilda Yaaba Amissah Arthur by

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Dr. Christopher Adu Boahen’s murder: Case adjourned to May 9

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The case of Mark Forson, the houseboy accused of murdering Dr. Christopher Adu Boahen, the son of the late Professor Albert Adu Boahen, has been adjourned to May 9, 2024. A Kaneshie District hearing the matter did not sit, hence the adjournment. Forson, who has been provisionally charged with murder, had his plea preserved by

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MASLOC case: An educated thief is capable of causing more havoc than robber with AK47 gun – Judge

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A Justice of the Court Appeal, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe has expressed concerns about how the educated elites have rather become more “harmful” than a robber with an AK47 gun. According to her, throughout her years of practice, she has not heard of an armed robber who had broken into someone’s premises and bolted with

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Three EC staff, student remanded over stolen EC biometric devices, laptops

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Three staff of the Electoral Commission of Ghana and a student have been remanded for two weeks by the Circuit Court at Dansoman for allegedly stealing Laptops and biometric devices belonging to the commission. The three staff – Philip Tetteh, a labourer, Benjamin Fienyi, a security man and Joseph Blackson Adamadze, a database administrator have

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