Courts
Eight alleged coup plotters pray for variation of bail conditions
Eight persons who are being held over their alleged roles in the destabilisation of the country have filed for bail variation before an Accra High Court.
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Africa
Nigerian citizen charged with defrauding Washington State Employment Security Department of over $350,000
A Nigerian citizen was arrested Friday evening at JFK Airport in New York on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud for his scheme to steal over $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Depa...
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Courts
Agradaa: Prosecution ordered to file disclosures in two weeks
An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the Prosecution in the trial of Patience Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa, to file disclosures in two weeks.
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Courts
MP Murder Case: Defence wants court and jury to move to the crime scene
Defence counsel for the two accused persons being held over the murder of former Abuakwa North Member of Parliament has prayed the Accra High Court trying them move the jury to the crime scene being the house of the slain legislator.
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Courts
Policeman grabbed over GH¢100,000.00 Police recruitment scam
General Sergeant Kennedy Asomani, accused of collecting GH¢100,000.00 from forty-four persons under the pretext of enlisting them into the Ghana Police Service but failed, has appeared before An Accra Circuit Court.
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Courts
Unemployed man jailed 11 years for stealing
A 21-year-old unemployed, Isaac Mensah, has been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a Cape Coast Circuit Court II on two counts of unlawful entry and stealing.
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Crime
Court issues bench warrant for road contractor’s arrest
An Accra Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a road contractor who defrauded the Managing Director of Cadmus Mining Limited of GH¢297,500 under the pretext of securing him a gold mining concession at Anyinabirim near...
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Courts
Mahama Ayariga acquitted and discharged over ambulance trial
The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, who was standing trial over alleged procurement breaches in an ambulance purchase has been acquitted and discharged by the Accra High Court.
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Crime
13-member gang arrested with over $5million in fake currency at Airport
The National Security has busted a 13-member gang involved in the printing and distribution of fake currency notes to unsuspecting victims, mostly foreign nationals.
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Courts
Witness on why Bulldog’s comment could incite public against President Akufo-Addo
The possible reaction triggered by comments made by Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson a.k.a. Bulldog on the United Showbiz programme, aired on Accra based United Television (UTV) on Saturdays became the focus of the trial at the Accra Circuit Co...
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Courts
Alleged coup plotters charged with high treason, granted Ghc18m bail
The 10 persons alleged to have plotted to destabilise the country have been granted bail in the total sum of Ghc18 million after being charged with high treason.
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General
The dried cocoa pod I threw didn’t hit Maj. Mahama’ – One accused person confesses
One of the fourteen accused persons has explained his role in how the late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was lynched.
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Courts
Rosemond Brown’s (Akuapem Poloo) lawyer to appeal 90-days jail sentence
Lawyer of convicted actress Rosemond Alade Brown, Mr Andrew Vortia, has vowed to appeal her 90-days jail sentence slapped on her by the court.
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Africa
Ex President Blaise Compaoré:To be tried for the Assassination of Thomas Sankara
Burkina Faso’s exiled ex-president, Blaise Compaoré, is to be tried for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a pan-African icon, during the 1987 coup in which he took power.
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Courts
Lawyers, accused persons shocked at video of Major Mahama’s brutal murder
“Jesus!” That was the reaction of a female lawyer at the Bar when the videos that detail the alleged murder of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama was played in open court yesterday.
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US
T.I. sued for defamation amid sexual assault allegations
Sabrina Peterson says she was defamed by the rapper-actor and his wife, Xscape singer Tiny, after she said on social media that he’d pulled a gun on her.
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Others
Brazil fines Apple $2 million for not including charger with iPhone 12 series
Brazilian consumer watchdog has fined Apple $2 million for not including a charger in the newly-launched iPhone 12 series, accusing the tech giant of allegedly engaging in misleading advertising, selling a device without the charger and unf...
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General
Don’t approve new fuel levies – COPEC to MPs
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has asked that Members of Parliament throw out the new levies on petroleum products.
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Courts
Ebony’s driver remanded into prison custody
The driver in-charge of the vehicle that caused the death of the hiplife artiste, Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng, alias ‘Ebony’, has been remanded into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court.
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Europe
Brazilian footballer Robinho sentenced to 9 years for ‘brutally humiliating gang-rape victim’
Former Real Madrid and AC Milan forward Robinho’s nine-year prison sentence for his role in a gang-rape has been upheld after judges of Milan’s Court of Appeal determined that the Brazilian forward “belittled” and “brutally humiliated” an A...
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