A 31-year-old farmer has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment by the Asante Abuakwa Circuit Court, for stealing foodstuff at Sepaase in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality. Isaac Atimbisa was said to have stolen six bunches of plantain and two sacks of cassava worth GHc 350.00, from a farm in the community and was about […]
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Government is to present a new Legislative Instrument (LI) to Parliament aimed at revoking previous regulations that permitted mining activities in these sensitive areas. The Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Revocation Instrument, 2024 seeks to overturn LI 2462, which had previously allowed mining in certain forest reserves, signalling government’s intensified commitment to conserving the
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The Volta Regional House of Chiefs under the auspices of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has inaugurated six new traditional councils in its jurisdiction. The inauguration of the Agotime, Ave-Dakpa, Sokpoe, Agave, Anfoeta, and Klefe traditional councils is aimed at deepening decentralisation and streamlining the administrative powers of traditional authorities. It marks a
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A 40-year-old air condition installer, Joshua Arhin, has been handed 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court, for defiling a 13-year-old girl at Booboobo in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality. He pleaded guilty and begged the court for forgiveness, promised not to repeat such a shameful act. Superintendent Juliana Essel-Dadzie, who led
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Thirty-two protesters from the Democracy Hub have filed a lawsuit against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, alleging violations of their human rights. They are seeking a declaration that the conduct of the Ghana Police Service in disrupting the peaceful protest violated Article 21(d) of the 1992
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1) JUSTIN KOFI DORGU 2) SEDINA AGBEMAVA 3) PATRICK BAAYEH 4) RITA AGYEMAN BUDU (MRS.) 5) DANIEL MENSAH 6) ELLEN VIVIAN AMOAH 7) GEORGE BUADI 8) CECILIA NAA SHORMEH DAVIS (MRS.) 9) OLIVIA OBENG OWUSU (MRS.) 10) KWASI ANOKYE GYIMAH 11) ANANDA JULIANA AIKINS (MRS) 12) RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE 13) GEORGE KROFA ADDAE 14) FRANCIS APONGABUNO
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Twenty-one(21) new Justices of the High Court have been appointed and sworn in by the President. The new Justices are made up of sixteen(16) Circuit Court Judges and five(5) Private legal practitioners. They are; Justices Abigail Animah Asare, Dorinda Smith-Arthur, Veronique Praba Tetteh, Charles Kwasi Acheampong, Arit Nsemoh, Abdul-Razak Musah, Samuel Djanie Kotey, and Stephen
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A police officer has been killed by armed robbers in Kwame Peprakrom in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality. The incident occurred on September 28, 2024, when his patrol team was ambushed in the Central Regional town. According to Adom News, the deceased officer, identified as Evans, was attached to the Dunkwa Divisional Police Headquarters Armory.
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A Kumasi magistrate court has invalidated more than 1,000 voter transfers to the Manhyia South constituency, ordering the Electoral Commission (EC) to take immediate steps to return all the affected voters to their original constituencies. The court, Presided by the Magistrate, Gyaawa Donkor, arrived at the verdict after complaint brought before the court by Lawyer
The Ghana Police Service has arrested three persons in connection with the disruption of the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP) at Apam, Central Region, injuring one person in the process. Alhaji Kassim Mohammed, Stephen Cobbinah alias “Bonjour” and Kofi Kokor are alleged to have taken part in the September 16, 2024 mayhem. A press release
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