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Nigeria: Blogger arrested for 'defaming' Governor, spends 100 days in detention
Mr Adewale has been in police custody since 13 May.
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Mr Adewale has been in police custody since 13 May.
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The police suspect that the building where the corpses were discovered may have been used as a shrine for ritual killings.
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Courts
Hillary Kwasi Senanu, 47, who oversaw the Institutional Payment at SIC was absent when his accomplices were arraigned on Monday, August 1, 2022.
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Non-Custodial Sentence or Alternative Sentence refers to a punishment given by a court of law that does not involve a prison term.
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Courts
Dr. Opuni and Agongo, the CEO of Agricult Ghana Limited, are on trial for allegedly engaging in illegalities in a series of fertilizer transactions which the Attorney-General (A-G) says caused a financial loss of GH¢271.3 million to the sta...
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Supreme Court News
The March 3, 2022 suit filed by the Child Right International against the state, is primarily seeking to enforce and give meaning to Children’s Right to Education.
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Courts
At the last sitting, the court presided over by Justice Clemence Honyenuga JSC openly complained about the seeming sickness of all witnesses called for the first accused.
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Africa
The cleric has alleged that he could be abducted and killed by the state once he is free
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Africa
President Bazoum, who has made the fight against corruption one of his main priorities, recently indicated that "some 30 senior state officials, guilty of embezzlement or misappropriation, are currently in prison and will remain there for a...
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According to Lagos state laws, it is illegal for minors to engage in sex. Any image showing sexually explicit conduct involving a child - including "producing, distributing, receiving or possessing" one - was an offence liable to a sentence...
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Courts
While being cross-examined by Chief State Attorney, Evelyn Keelson, on Thursday, March 31, he stated that the documents were fake and that he did not draft them.
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Courts
According to the AG represented by Chief State Attorney, Dorothy Afriyie Ansah, the case before the court does not in any way reveal corrupt dealings or tendencies in the deal.
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US
The plaintiff Birim Group, LLC filed this suit raising claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., and a series of common-law theories including breach of contract, fraud, and...
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US
In a Twitter message to the LGBT community – “especially the kids who will be impacted by this hateful bill” – Mr Biden vowed to “continue to fight for the protections and safety you deserve”.
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The beneficiary state agencies are the Legal Aid Commission, Council for Law Reporting, Registrar General’s Department, Economic and Organized Crime Office, Law Reform Commission, Copyright Office and the Ghana Law School.
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Africa
The court was asked on Tuesday to find him guilty in absentia of an “attack on state security”, “concealment of a corpse” and “complicity in a murder”.
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“History has shown that extrajudicial compensation most often serves as indemnification for the state perpetrators of injustice. Any effort to obtain justice by punishment of the offenders by the families of the murdered youth will now be c...
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On December 23, 2021, the Attorney general filed charges against a former Deputy Finance Minister and MP for Ajumako Enyam Essiam, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others for causing financial loss to the state.
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“The mode of exercising legislative power enshrined in article 106 of the Constitution does not admit of the resolution,”
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The African Court shall not receive any petition under article 5(3) involving a State which has not made such a declaration.”
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