A law lecturer at the Central University has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to exercise his powers under 1992 Constitution to ban the Homeland Study Group Foundation which has been accused of treason attempts. Lawyer Yaw Oppong said the Criminal Code in the Constitution specifically, Section 182A of Act 29, gives him such executive powers … Read more
Police have forwarded the case involving persons arrested for campaigning for the secession of the Volta Region from Ghana to a High Court, charging them with conspiracy to commit treason. A Magistrate Court in Ho on Thursday, March 9, 2017, declined jurisdiction in the case saying it was above its jurisdiction. Lawyer for the accused persons, … Read more
A Magistrate Court in Ho today [Thursday] March 9, 2017, declined jurisdiction in the case involving some persons campaigning for the secession of a part of the Volta Region. The Magistrate said it could not hear the case against the group of persons advocating for the secession because it is outside its jurisdiction. The Homeland Study … Read more
A Ho Magistrate Court today [Thursday], struck out the case involving some persons campaigning for the secession of the Volta Region as an independent State, explaining that the case is beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. At the court Thursday morning, the Judge declined to hear the case, explaining that the case was beyond the … Read more
The Marwako case hearing has been adjourned till 16th March, 2017. The Lebanese supervisor at the Abelemkpe Branch of Marwako Fast Food Limited, Jihad Chaaban, who allegedly assaulted a female Ghanaian worker under his supervision, has been remanded into police custody following the first hearing of the case in an Accra Magistrate Court. Jihad Chaaban … Read more
The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has tasked the Labour Department to conduct investigations into the assault case at Marwako Fast Foods. The Minister has given the Labour Department a week to conclude the investigations. The Minister visited the Abelemkpe branch of Marwako Fast Foods in Accra, today [Tuesday], after the alleged assault on … Read more
The Lebanese Supervisor at the centre of the Marwako Restaurant assault case has formally been charged with assault by the Police. Jihad Chaaban, who is currently on bail, was processed for court earlier on Tuesday [March 7, 2017], for the police to present the facts of the case, but the process was deferred because the … Read more
The Lebanese Supervisor at the centre of the Marwako Restaurant assault case has formally been charged with assault by the Police. Jihad Chaaban, who is currently on bail, was processed for court earlier on Tuesday [March 7, 2017], for the police to present the facts of the case, but the process was deferred because the … Read more
The Nkawie District Forest office and the police have arrested five young men, who are suspected to be terrorising forest guards and preventing them from doing their work. The suspects are believed to be terrorising the guards of the Tano-Offin Forest Reserve within the Atwima Nwabiagya and Atwima Mponua districts in the Ashanti Region. The … Read more
The Half-Assini District Magistrate Court in the Western Region, has remanded Four Fishermen in police custody for allegedly murdering a colleague during a fishing expedition. They are Emmanuel Aidoo aka Kojo Aidoo, the Boat owner, Kwabena Sekou, Paul Eshun aka Nana Yaw and Francis Binney aka Kweku Mensah, all of Axim in the Nzema East … Read more
The driver of the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow killing six people has admitted culpable and reckless driving nine months later. Harry Clarke, 60, pleaded guilty to driving a car on 20 September 2015 to the danger of the public, despite losing his licence for medical reasons. His licence was withdrawn following a fatal … Read more
Yaa Adoma had closed for the day and was locking the kiosk when the taxi ran into the kiosk A seventy-three-year-old woman, Yaa Adoma, lost her life last Sunday night when a taxi ran into a kiosk at Apaa near Jamasi in the Sekyere South District in the Ashanti Region. Her remains have since been … Read more
Four members of a family who allegedly poured hot water on a tenant after brutally assaulting her at Akyem Wenchi in the Eastern Region are in trouble. The four, who have been granted bail by the Kade District Magistrate Court, are Adwoa Kumaniwaa, 60, Gifty Mensah, 35, Hagar Mensah, 31 and Irene Appiah, 16, a … Read more
Mr. Kingsley Amoakwah father of two teenage boys has petitioned the Chief Justice Mrs Theodora Georgina Wood to investigate a case he filed at the Winneba Magistrate Court in September 2008 which has been struck out without his notice. The case was to have custody of his two boys, Master Emmanuel Kingsley Enyan, 19 and … Read more
Mr. Kingsley Amoakwah father of two teenage boys has petitioned the Chief Justice Mrs Theodora Georgina Wood to investigate a case he filed at the Winneba Magistrate Court in September 2008 which has been struck out without his notice. The case was to have custody of his two boys, Master Emmanuel Kingsley Enyan, 19 and … Read more
A Half-Assini District Magistrate Court in the Western Region has remanded a man into two weeks prison custody for allegedly stealing a dog and murdering the owner at Takinta. The Court presided over by Mr Abdul Majid Illiasu, reserved his plea and ordered John Cudjoe aka Emile Kwasi Kojo who allegedly killed Stephen Yeboah to … Read more
The Auditor-General, in accordance with Article 286 of the 1992 Constitution, has tasked eligible public office holders who have not yet submitted their completed Assets Declaration Forms to his office to do so. “Eligible public officers, who reside outside Accra, may submit their completed forms to the nearest regional office of the Audit Service,” a … Read more
The Auditor-General, in accordance with Article 286 of the 1992 Constitution on Tuesday tasked eligible public office holders who have not yet submitted their completed Assets Declaration Forms to his office to do so. “Eligible public officers, who reside outside Accra, may submit their completed forms to the nearest regional office of the Audit Service,” … Read more
The Half-Assini Magistrate Court in the Western Region, has fined four motor riders in Half-Assini a total sum of GHs1,600.00 for various traffic offences. The four, George Kwame, Emmanuel Assabieh, Lord Apetsi Kwasi and Evans Quaicoo, pleaded guilty to failing to renew road worthy certificates, failing to wear protective helmet, using uninsured motorbikes, using unregistered … Read more
A Driver, Bright Arma who robbed one Sandrich Mensah of her Galaxy S5 mobile phone worth GHc 1,000.00, one Nokia Lumia mobile phone worth Ghc80.00 and an amount of GHc 300.00 has been sentenced to 17 years imprisonment. Bright who was put before an Accra Circuit Court pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery, and … Read more