Africa
Nigeria's kidnapping crisis: Should ransom payments be banned?
Since 2011, kidnappers have collected at least $18m, with more than half of it between 2016 and 2020, says SBM Intelligence, a think-tank based in Lagos.
BBC
Results for "2020 Presidential election"
1767 results.
Business
Capture your rights of enforcement in collateral agreements – BoG to Lenders
Lenders' right to enforcement under the Borrowers and Lenders Act, 2020 (ACT 1052) offers three remedies in the event a borrower defaults on payment.
DL News
General
Ghana Armed Forces declares support for death penalty abolishment
Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency, Hon. Francis Xavier Sosu in June 2021 introduced a private member’s bill for the removal of the death penalty from the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
DL News
Crime
Child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana : Cadbury faces fresh accusations
A new TV documentary alleges that children as young as 10 are using machetes to harvest pods
the guardian
General
Regulation governing domestic work inconclusive – Employment Minister
The Labour (Domestic Workers) Regulations 2020 (L.I.2408) was passed to formalize domestic work.
DL News
Africa
Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala jailed for blaspheming Islam
Mubarak Bala, a 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria was arrested in 2020 after a group of Muslims filed a petition to authorities accusing him of posting uncomplimentary messages about Islam on social media.
BBC
General
PURC receives 10,987 complaints against utility companies in 2021
Alhaji Jabaru said under the PURC (Consumer Service) Regulation 2020, LI 2413, utility companies were allowed to lodge complaints against consumers.
graphiconline
General
1 out of 4 marriages registered at AMA last year dissolved
A total of 79 customary marriages were dissolved at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in 2021.
General
Samson’s Take: International Anti-Corruption Day – integrity
We could each start with road traffic offences, and play active citizen-watch for a vigorous use of the 2020 amended law (section 252 of the Criminal Offences Act) that punishes bribery with 12 – 25 years in jail.
SAMSON LARDY ANYENINI
General
The Law and Politics of Natural Black Hair: Marghuy on my mind.
Until my hair grew back and I found a permanent natural hair stylist (thank God they are now a dozen a dime), I answered such or similar questions daily from both males and females. Apparently, many admire natural black hair more than we ar...
DL News
General
Ghana Navy foils pirate attempt at Aflao
In September 2020, the Ghana Navy and Air Force also foiled an attempted pirate attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Takoradi.
DL News
Crime
Businessman fails to meet GH¢6.340 million bail condition
On July 17, 2021, Yahaya told the investors he had been arrested by INTERPOL and officials of some security agencies and the gold bars had been confiscated.
DL News
Courts
NCA accorded Alpha Lotto Ltd fair hearing in code non-renewal decision – Electronic Communications Tribunal
Alpha Lotto Limited was issued a license by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) on July 1, 2020, to sell lotto products or games through Point of Sale Terminals (POST) and on the Internet on the World Wide Web via Unstructured Supplementar...
DL News
General
New office of SP to have a holding cell, forensic lab-Kissi Agyebeng
Agyebeng on Tuesday 31 August 2021 paid a working visit to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame.
DL News
Business
On GNPC-Aker, Bob Hinson Didn’t Look Before He Leaped: Bright Simons
We only ask that they take a bit of time to understand the issues, do the research and then engage so that they can be fair to those of us with perspectives opposed to the stance of their friends at the GNPC. Not too much to ask for,
DL News
General
SSNIT recovers $4.15m out of $11,794,109 loss
SSNIT had a 13.60 per cent equity stake in the company which was divested to Plantations Socfinaf Ghana.
DL News
Courts
Lawyer sues Generation Investments Company over legal fees
According to the plaintiff, following BOST’s failure to pay the judgement debt, he commenced execution processes and secured a garnishee order against six banks in which BOST maintained various accounts.
DL News
Courts
Full Judgment of the Cape Coast High Court in Michael Ankomah-Nimfah vs James Gyakye Quayson & The Electoral Commission of Ghana [PDF]
Mr. Quayson had argued that COVID-19 had led to the temporary closure of administrative functions, hence delaying the time his application ought to have been finalized.
DL News
Business
Your 2023 deadline to banks to phase out substandard bullion vans is unacceptable-Dery to BoG
It has emerged that the central bank December 2020 issued several directives to financial intuitions to phase out and replace all soft-skinned CIT vehicles.
DL News
US
Mall owner Washington Prime files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
The company said it has secured $100 million of so-called debtor-in-possession financing to aid operations during bankruptcy proceedings
DL News