The Mankessim Circuit Court has sentenced a 24-year-old herbalist to 30 years imprisonment for robbery at Asuokor, near Breman-Asikuma in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region. The convict, John Awila also known as “Nana Kojo Agbeko”, also claimed to be a reporter with Onua TV and Passion TV. He pleaded guilty to three counts […]
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Audrey Gadzekpo, the Board Chair of the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has expressed her disappointment regarding the parliamentary approval of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 popularly known as the anti-gay bill. The legislation imposes a ban on LGBT activities and makes their promotion, advocacy, and funding
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Togbe Afede XIV has assumed his role as the Executive Chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak after the previous board was dissolved on Monday, February 27, 2024. This appointment of the majority stakeholders of Hearts of Oak PLC, is in accordance with Section 17 (1) of the Companies Act, 2019 which states that, ” A
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Child Rights International’s (CRI) suit seeking to enforce the rights of street children has been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The CRI had gone to court to seek among others that the government should ensure the rights of street children by taking them off the streets and given better education in fulfilment of the 1992
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Parliament has passed the bill on Human Sexual Rights and Family Values also known as the anti-LGBTQ bill. The bill proscribes LGBT activities and criminalizes its promotion, advocacy and funding. Persons caught in the act would be subjected to a 6 months to 3 year jail term with promoters and sponsors of the act bearing
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The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has stated that the January 2024 Standing Orders of Parliament make the various Committee meetings of the legislature open and accessible to the public. That, he explained, formed part of Parliament’s effort to deepen transparency and accountability in its activities. It would be recalled that Ghana’s
The Tema Court ‘A’ has sentenced Eric Gyimah, a serial taxicab thief to 25 years imprisonment in hard labour for robbing Mr Daniel Azure of his Toyota Vitz taxicab. Gyimah, who had received a 15-year imprisonment sentence for a similar offence a few days ago, pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery but was
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An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the arrest of a 42-year-old retired Military Officer accused of defrauding some people of GH₵194,500.00. Mr Daniel Asiedu is accused of collecting GH₵194,500.00 under the pretext of enlisting the youth in security services but failed. Mr Asiedu, charged with defrauding by false pretence, failed to appear before the Court.
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A music producer who says he worked on Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ 2023 album The Love Album: Off the Grid is accusing the hip-hop mogul of sexual assault and harassment, sex trafficking and various other forms of misconduct in a sprawling lawsuit filed Monday, February 26. In the complaint, filed by plaintiff Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. in New York federal court,
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The sacked Human Resource (HR) Officer of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel, Elyasah Mahama is in the grips of the police in connection with the gruesome murder of the Chief Executive Officer of the facility. Mr. Mahama was allegedly picked up at a hideout in Takoradi and airlifted to Wa on a commercial flight for
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