Europe
Mastercard set to face UK’s largest class action over fees
Mastercard is confident that over the coming months a review of key facts will further significantly reduce the size and viability of the claim.”
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Results for "Financial Action Task Force"
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General
Child Labour: One out of every ten children in Ghana are victims
Any work that deprives children of their childhood, their dignity, inhibits their potential and that is essentially harmful to their physical and mental development can be rightly classified as child labour.
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Courts
A-G accuses Hanan Abdul-Wahab of using property order to access frozen bank accounts
The allegation is contained in an affidavit filed in support of an application asking the Accra High Court to revoke an earlier order that allowed Mr Abdul-Wahab to travel outside the country.
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Crime
Man imprisoned 10 years for robbing High Commission Secretary
The sentence was imposed by the Circuit Court at Dansoman, where Daniel Asiuebi had earlier pleaded guilty to robbery and causing unlawful damage.
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Courts
UN Judge accused of enslaving woman in UK, Court hears
Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan High Court judge, allegedly exploited her influence over the woman, preventing her from securing stable employment and coercing her into working as a housemaid and caregiver without pay.
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Business
'Concise Law of Banking' book launched
Titled Concise Law of Banking, the book is authored by Reverend Mrs. Nana Kegya Appiah-Adu, a seasoned lawyer and minister of the gospel.
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Africa
Germany asks forgiveness for Tanzania colonial crimes
German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the early 1900s, one of the bloodiest anti-colonial uprisings.
BBC
General
Full Speech by The Attorney-General of Ghana at the 2023 Ghana Bar Conference
When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, we have in this country a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all...
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Tech
Amazon accused of tricking Prime customers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's consumer rights watchdog, made the claims in a lawsuit.
BBC
Europe
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents – known as the Uber files – lays bare the ethically questionable practices that fuelled the company’s transformation into one of Silicon Valley’s most famous exports.
The Guardian
General
AG to train RTI Commission staff on prosecution of offenders
The Commission has secured a fiat from the Office of the Attorney General relative to the prosecution of offenders under Act 989.
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General
247 RTI requests were received in 2021- Oppong-Nkrumah
Overall 247 requests were received and processed in 65 public institutions.
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Tech
What’s Happening in Insurance in 2022?
Below, we take a look at some of the hottest topics in insurance and reinsurance and how they are expected to impact the sector in the remainder of 2022 and beyond.
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Europe
A Conservative MP is facing bankruptcy proceedings over unpaid taxes that could result in him having to step down.
In the more distant past, members of the Tory party were in the 1990s accused of clubbing together to bail out an MP threatened with bankruptcy to avoid the prospect of losing a seat.
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Business
Regulations threaten survival of 75 solar companies: Five relocate to other countries
The survival of 75 solar companies is under threat due to what they describe as unfair policies and regulations in the industry.
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Crime
Ghanaian man escapes jail time for role in $4.7m email scam in Australia
Maxwell Kyere was sentenced to a 19-month intensive corrections order and 200 hours of community service at the Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday, after last year pleading guilty to knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime.
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Others
President of Haiti Jovenal Moise ‘is assassinated by gunmen in night time raid on his home’
The 53-year-old was shot dead and the First Lady Martine, 47, was also injured in the attack, Mr Joseph wrote as he condemned the ‘hateful, inhumane and barbaric act.’
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US
US poised to impose sanctions on Russia for cyber-attacks
The US government is set to issue a wide range of sanctions against Russia, according to reports.
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Supreme Court News
Kotoka Airport renaming has no legal effect yet – A-G tells Supreme Court
According to the Attorney-General, the proposed name change has not taken legal effect because the necessary legislative processes have not been completed.
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Courts
Court orders striking university unions to suspend action
The order, granted by the High Court on Friday, 13 February 2026, directs the unions’ executives, members and representatives to call off the strike immediately.
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