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

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

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

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

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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Kadjebi: Tailor arrested for forcibly shaving private parts of apprentice.

A tailor at Kadjebi in the Oti Region has been arrested by the Kadjebi Police for forcefully shaving the private parts of Bright Abusah, a 19-year-old electrical apprentice. Narrating his ordeal to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Abusah, said the accused at around 8 pm on Sunday, January 21, invited him to his workshop at Kadjebi

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Russia: Critics of Ukraine war could have property seized under new law

A bill to confiscate property and valuables from Ukraine war critics convicted of, among other crimes, “discrediting the Russian army” or calling for foreign sanctions has been drawn up by the Kremlin. The draft legislation to the criminal code was registered in Russia’s State Duma on Monday, where it has been backed by the main

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Lawyer Fugar sues former UG VC for ‘defamatory’ content of book

  According to the plaintiff, some words published by the defendant in certain portions of the book are defamatory of him. A private legal practitioner and founder of Fugar & Company, William Edem Fugar, has sued a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ivan Addae-Mensah, for defamation owing to the content of

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Nigeria: Security Forces Secure release of kidnapped Sisters

Nigerian police say they have successfully rescued five sisters who were held hostage after being kidnapped in the country’s capital. The girls were freed in a joint police-army operation in a forest in northern Nigeria on Saturday night. They were taken from their home in Abuja earlier this month, along with another sister who was

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