The state has withdrawn a subpoena directed at the Head of the Town and Country Planning Department of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to testify in the case in which it is seeking to confiscate assets purportedly belonging to Ruby Adu-Gyamfi aka Nayele Ametefe. According to the prosecution, there was a problem with the earlier … Read more
An Accra Magistrate Court has granted bail to Jihad Chabaan, the Marwako supervisor who has been charged with assault. He was remanded last Wednesday, March 8. The magistrate court, Presided over by Victoria Ghansah, adjourned the case to March 20, 2017, to allow the defence counsel continue the cross-examination of the victim, Evelyn Aboagye. The … Read more
Hawkers and residents around the Old Achimota overhead in Accra, were stunned on Thursday morning at the sight of a lifeless body which hanged on a tree. This incident comes a day after a sixteen-year-old student in the Eastern Region, was to have committed suicide by hanging herself in a Kitchen. Some of the hawkers … Read more
Hawkers and residents around the Old Achimota overhead were stunned on Thursday morning at the sight of a lifeless body hanging a thin rope on a slender tree. This incident comes a day after a fifteen-year-old student in the Eastern region committed suicide. Some of the hawkers who saw the body this morning say they … Read more
Lawyer for Jihad Chaaban, the Lebanese supervisor at the centre of the Marwako assault case, has denied claims that his client and the management of Marwako Fast foods, are intimidating potential witnesses in the trial. Mr. Chaaban was remanded into police custody on Wednesday by an Accra Magistrate Court, and during proceedings, the prosecutor argued that the accused and Marwako … Read more
An Accra magistrate court has adjourned the case involving Jihad Chaaban who has been alleged to have subjected his employee to assault by supposedly dipping her face in blended hot pepper. The case involving the state represented by Chief Inspector Hanson Armah and Lawyer for the accused, Augustine Adjei has been adjourned to February 16, … Read more
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is to begin investigations into some alleged ‘dubious’ land deals, which the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) engaged in with contributors’ money. The investigation is expected to cover payments of over five million dollars to Premier Portfolio LTD, to purchase a land, which was allegedly fraudulently … Read more
Jihad Thaabn 26, the supervisor of Abelemkpe branch of Marwako Fast Foods who assaulted his female subordinate has been granted bail. According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command ASP Afia Tenge, the suspect will be provisionally charged for assault and will soon be arraigned before court. “For now we … Read more
Childhood cancer often strikes its youngest victims the hardest, and the death rate for infants may be up to four times higher than previously thought, US researchers said Monday. The study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology examined deaths within a month of diagnosis, those young lives which usually end before the patients can be … Read more
The Attorney-General’s Department (A-G) has taken over the case involving the two men accused of killing the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, J. B Danquah-Adu. Committal proceeding of the case is, therefore, expected to start in earnest at the Accra Central District Court to facilitate the start of the trial at the … Read more
An Accra Circuit Court presided over by her Her Honour Justice Priscila Dapaah has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of an ardent communicator of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dela Coffie. The suspect who is alleged to have defrauded a businessman of an GH¢ 20,000 according to the court is believed to … Read more
Afia Ansaa Ampene, the hostess of the defunct ‘Mmaa Nkommo’ talk show on Ghana Television, has been dragged before an Accra circuit court for fraud. The accused, a pensioner popularly known as Auntie Afia, is in the dock with her son, Stephen Kwabena Osei, a trader, for allegedly conspiring to defraud and defrauding by false … Read more
Afia Ansaa Ampene, the hostess of the ‘Mmaa Nkommo’ talk show on Ghana Television, has been dragged before an Accra circuit court for fraud. The accused, a pensioner popularly known as Auntie Afia, is in the dock with her son, Stephen Kwabena Osei, a trader, for allegedly conspiring to defraud and defrauding by false pretences … Read more
29-yerar-old electrician, who is accused of allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl at Amrahia near Adenta in Accra, has appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. His lawyer, Noah Asamany, pleaded for bail for his client, saying that at the right time they will prove their innocence. Prosecuting, Detective Inspector Kofi Atimbire said the investigator in the … Read more
If Gianni Infantino should be upset at scepticism enshrouding his first year as FIFA president then he need only delve back into the archives deep in his vast bunker across the road from Zurich zoo. In the June 2004 edition of the world football federation’s monthly magazine he would read: “We have recently reorganised FIFA … Read more
The magistrate handling the case in which two policemen have been accused of killing the driver of a bullion van at Maame Krobo in the Eastern Region has lashed out at the Attorney–General’s Department for delaying cases at the court. Mr Stephen Owusu was particularly not happy about the long period used by the A-G’s … Read more
The docket on the case involving the two serving police officers, who attempted to rob the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) bullion van at Donkorkrom in the Eastern Region, has finally been assigned to a State Attorney. Detective Chief Inspector Simon Apiorsornu told the court yesterday that officials of the Attorney General (A-G) Department had informed … Read more
The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has taken on the MP for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin for making what may be described as spurious allegations against the university. According to the university, claims by the MP that the university has been acting against some political parties are preposterous. “It is preposterous for the Hon. MP to … Read more
The Attorney General’s Department is yet to assign a schedule officer to the case of three persons, allegedly involved in the robbery of a GCB Bank bullion van at Mame Krobo in the Eastern Region. Detective Sergeant Devine Tornu, investigator of the case made this known when he followed up to the Attorney General’s office … Read more
It is emerging that the two storey buildings situated at East Legon and Dzorwulu in Accra that Akua Adubofour, mother of Ruby Adu-Gyamfi aka Nayele Ametefe, is claiming ownership of, are not the only properties belonging to her daughter. According to Peter Dadzie, lawyer for Madam Adubofour, the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) had also pasted … Read more