Lawyers of the Abelenkpe Branch Supervisor of Marwako Fast Food Limited say they have reached an out-of-court settlement with the victim of their client’s maltreatment. Jihad Chabaan is standing trial for dipping the face of Evelyn Boakye in blended pepper. Judgement was set for Wednesday but magistrate Victoria Ghansah asked for time to study the … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has condemned the dawn raid on the residence of Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor. It alleged that the move is carefully engineered by the government to silence opposition critics such as Dr Kwabena Donkor. The Minority in a statement also contended that the raid had nothing to do with the … Read more
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has sued the lawyer of the so-called staff of the Electoral Commission who are seeking her removal from office by the President. In a suit intercepted by Starr News, the EC boss, among others, is asking the court to restrain Maxwell Opoku Agyemang from making comments which will further … Read more
Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell, a top advisor to Pope Francis, denied all charges of historical sexual abuse Wednesday at his first appearance in an Australian court over the allegations. The 76-year-old, the number-three figure in the Vatican, returned from Rome earlier this month to face the charges in Melbourne Magistrates Court. Details of … Read more
The minority in parliament has condemned the invasion of the residence of former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, by the Police Criminal Investigations Department over the AMERI power deal. Personnel of the Police CID acting on a warrant, stormed the residence of Dr Donkor in Accra to search and retrieve evidence that could result in … Read more
One of the accused persons in the ongoing Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, (GYEEDA) trial, Philip Assibit, has told the court he never received any payment before the regularization of a contract to provide for consultancy services to the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP). According to Mr. Assibit, who was testifying in the case … Read more
This week, some workers of the Electoral Commission of Ghana has petitioned the President to remove the Chairperson of the commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei. According to their lawyer, it is alleged that: Mrs. Osei breached the Procurement Law in securing goods and services. She is a one-woman show because she solely contracted the services of … Read more
A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for “anti-state activity”, her lawyer said, the second such heavy sentence handed down by the authoritarian state in less than a month. Dissidents, rights lawyers and bloggers are routinely jailed in the communist country but rights groups and activists accuse the new government in place … Read more
A child rights activist group has sued the West African Examination Council and two others for denying 201 students the opportunity to write some papers of the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The 201 students from Kambatiag, Gbingbamoni and Guanbiang junior high schools in the Northern Region could not write their English Language and … Read more
Businessman, Alfred Woyome, was given a break in court on Monday, July 24, so he could take some medication during his oral examination on how he intends to repay the GHc 51 million wrongfully paid to him as judgment debt. During the oral examination conducted by a Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, Mr. Woyome’s lawyer, Ken … Read more
Businessman, Alfred Woyome has described as erroneous the decision of the Attorney General to drag him before the Supreme Court to examine him on the GHc 51 million paid to him as judgment debt. He further told the court he felt persecuted by the state through these actions given he a payment plan for the … Read more
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission , Charlotte Osei has responded to allegations leveled against her by employees of the Commission. Mrs Osei in her response, pointed out among others that allegations against her were unfounded, saying “There is clearly, no established case of fraud or abuse of office made against the Chairperson. The public purse, … Read more
National Democratic Congress (NDC) has bemoaned the recent broad daylight shooting and killing of innocent people in the country. At a well attended press conference yesterday, the National Chairman of the party, Mr. Kofi Portuphy, lambasted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, for ‘woefully’ failing to ensure the security … Read more
Prosecutors have told the court that the supposed Ghanaian of the Chinese ‘galamsey queen’ Aisha Huan is nowhere to be found. She is being tried with four other Chinese nationals for illegally mining in Ghana. The prosecution led by Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Atakora Oboubisa informed the court that their efforts to reach the … Read more
It seems embattled playwright and poet, Chief Moomen will not receive any pesewa from the Ghana@60 Committee after he received GH100, 000 prior organizing his Wogbe Jeke concert during Ghana’s diamond celebration in March 2017. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Thursday, Chairman of the Committee, Ken Amankwah said Mr. Moomen was even lucky to have … Read more
An Accra High Court General Jurisdiction 5 has dismissed an application brought to it by Nana Obiri Boahen, Abronye and David Asante to dismiss a defamation suit brought before it by the National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams. The presiding judge dismissed their application and slapped them with a cost … Read more
South Korean pop star T. O.P received Thursday a 10-month suspended jail sentence for smoking marijuana multiple times last year, weeks after being hospitalised for a drugs overdose. The 29-year-old rapper of K-pop boy band Big Bang had admitted in court to smoking marijuana on four occasions in his home in Seoul last October. “As … Read more
A judge on Wednesday halted an auction of intimate items of Madonna including a breakup letter from Tupac Shakur after the pop superstar said her privacy was violated. New York Justice Gerald Lebovitz ordered a hearing on the dispute for September 6 and barred the auction house, Gotta Have Rock and Roll, from holding the … Read more
Appeal judges Wednesday struck down a decision denying former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo interim release during his trial for crimes against humanity, and ordered the court to review his situation. Gbagbo, the first ex-head of state to be tried by the International Criminal Court, has appealed a March decision that he must stay behind bars … Read more
A man admitted killing 19 people, including his parents and three children, when he went on trial in southwest China on Wednesday, the court said. After returning to his home village in Yunnan province on September 28 last year, Yang Qingpei murdered his parents when they refused to give him money, the Qujing City Intermediate … Read more