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Ghanaian lawyer wins 2022 IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
Currently a lecturer at the UPSA Law School, Yorm becomes the first female Ghanaian and second African lawyer to have won this award.
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Africa
Two Nigerian TikTokers remanded in prison for calling Kano Governor corrupt
According to the First Information Report, the duo, in a video posted on Facebook, said the governor sells people’s land and oversleeps.
The Nigeria Lawyer
US
Elon Musk completes $44bn Twitter takeover - and immediately sacks top executives
It ends months of bad blood between the two parties regarding the takeover, with Elon Musk complaining about fake accounts on the platform and claims by a whistleblower that Twitter misled regulators about security risks.
Sky News
Africa
South African jailed 43 years by US Court for multiple child pornography convictions
Andrian Page, who pleaded guilty on June 19, 2019, would be serving 43 years in prison, followed by 10 years on supervised release after the completion of his prison term.
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Supreme Court News
Requirement of Part 3 of CAP 127: Many women remain unmarried – Ampomah tells SC
According to him, if such a person renounces his Christian faith in favor of Islam and becomes eligible to marry more than one wife, any subsequent marriage is deemed illegal, null and void
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Africa
Zimbabwe: Lawyers challenge Judges wearing $3,000 wigs, say trend is wasteful, outdated and scary
In its analysis of seven pieces of legislation, ZLHR argued that money used to purchase the wigs, a vestige of colonial Rhodesia, could be used to finance better deserving requirements.
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Others
Singapore jails OnlyFans creator in first such conviction
A court on Wednesday fined Titus Low S$3,000 (£2,700; $2,087) for sharing obscene photos and videos on the site. He was also sentenced to three weeks prison for accessing his account in breach of a police order.
BBC
US
Coachella files copyright infringement lawsuit against Afrochella
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at a California district court and obtained by Rolling Stone, comes three years after AEG (which owns Goldenvoice) issued a warning to the Afrochella festival about infringing on the festival’s trademark.
Rolling Stone
Europe
Fake heiress Anna 'Delvey' Sorokin reportedly being released from jail - but is banned from social media
Her infamous "summer of scam" that saw her defraud banks and New York City elites to the tune of around $67m (£51.5m) to fund her jet-setting lifestyle was turned into a Netflix series.
Sky News
Courts
Chinese man who assaulted Ghanaian employee remanded
Prosecutors confirmed reports indicating that the incident happened during the course of an argument over unpaid salaries.
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Courts
GIS boss sues Media General, Johnnie Hughes, another for defamation, seeks GHC 20m in damages
According to the particulars of the case filed at the High Court, Accra, Johnnie Hughes is said to have claimed the plaintiff is corrupt, vindictive, and unfit to fulfill his duties as Comptroller General of the Immigration Service.
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Europe
Spain passes ‘only yes means yes’ sexual consent law
Under the new law, consent must be affirmative and cannot be assumed to have been given by default or silence.
The Guardian
Africa
Nigerian woman sentenced to prison for serving as 'money mule' in financial fraud schemes
30-year-old Deborah Anderson pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in June 2022, a US Department of Justice statement said.
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Others
India: Court issues notice to state government on plea to limit weight of school bags carried by students
The plea has been filed with a concern about children's all round physical and mental health development.
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Supreme Court News
Group sues NCA over punitive actions against unregistered SIM holders
Per a letter dated September 4, 2022, the NCA announced some punitive measures to be meted out to SIM holders who have yet not gone through the re-registration exercise.
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Courts
20-year-old remanded for allegedly murdering mother, two others and harming baby
“The suspect allegedly attacked his 60-year-old mother, his landlord’s wife, his sister and her eight-month-old son."
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Africa
Nigerian bank defrauded by loan officer
The police alleged that the defendant unlawfully forged and manipulated the said customers’ transaction on the system and replaced them with another information to cover up the crime.
The Guardian Nigeria
General
President reinstates suspended Sekondi-Takoradi MCE
The MCE’S suspension followed an incident of dangerous driving and verbal assault of a police officer, Superintendent Andrew Sarfo near a checkpoint on February 3, 2022.
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Crime
Ghanaian sentenced in US over role in romance fraud scheme
According to a statement from the US Justice Department in Southern-West Virginia, Banabas was also ordered to pay $156,073 in restitution.
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Africa
South Africa: Minimum age for capacity of criminal intent in children increased
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development explained that this has brought South Africa in line with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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