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An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Mr Aboagye Tandoh has remanded in prison custody three accused persons namely Akwesi Francis (First...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Her Honour, Mrs. Malike Woanyah-Dey has sentenced a lawyer, Dominic Owusu Sekyere and one Albert Kwadwo Coleman...

The Complainant, Ato Hamilton is a businessman residing at East Legon, Accra. Accused persons, Albert Kwadwo Coleman and Dominic Owusu Sekyere are a marketing officer...

An Accra High Court order, signed by Her Ladyship Georgina Mensah-Datsa has instructed the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO)...

The second prosecution witness in the Kwabenya jailbreak incident, Lance Corporal Samira Mohammed, has told an Accra Circuit Court that the 4th Accused person,...

An Accra District Court presided over by His Worship, Mr. Ebenezer Ansah has committed two Accused persons in the possession of grenades to stand...

The Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame has said that the State is willing to provide Dr. Stephen Opuni, with all the relevant...

Lawyer for Dr. Stephen Opuni, former Chief Executive Officer of the COCOBOD, Mr.  Samuel Cudjoe is yet to move a motion, praying the court...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, has sentenced two out of the twelve Accused persons who were involved...

Dr. Stephen Opuni and Mr. Seidu Agongo who also represented Agricult Ghana Limited as its Managing Director, have pleaded ‘not guilty’ to 27 charges...

Dr. Stephen Opuni, the former Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD has been granted a self-recognizance bail of GH₵300, 000. The court also ordered that...

Persons who arrived at the High Court in Accra to observe the case against Dr. Stephen Opuni (former CEO of COCOBOD) and two others...

Justices presiding over the  hearing of a suit by three lawyers seeking to have the Supreme Court annul the decision of former President, H.E...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by Her Honour, Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin- Doku, has remanded a 47- year old taxi driver for defiling...

Kofi Darko, a trader and Emmanuel Kotey, a motor rider, who are the 2nd and 12th Accused persons respectively , in the Kwabenya Jailbreak...

The Supreme Court has ordered Eugene Baffour Bonney, William Tetteh Tevie,  former board members of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and three others, to...

Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Seidu Adongo and Agricult Limited are to be arraigned before an...

Some family members of Accused persons in the Kwabenya Jailbreak case which led to the death of a police officer, had a heated argument...

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 19 year old trader, Mubarak Adamu, to 3 years at a correctional centre for robbery. The Court presided...

Ransford Tetteh, aged 37 and unemployed has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for Bigamy. In reading the brief facts, the Prosecutor narrated that...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of business man Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, in an application seeking the Court to set aside...

An Accra High Court presided over by Her Ladyship, Mrs. Mariama Owusu has said that the challenge of not being able to secure legal...

Five Accused persons namely: Nancy Dentah, Prince Kofi Acheampong, Edward Lartey, Elvis Owusu and Theophilus Bandah, who are suspects in the jailbreak of detainees...

Mr. Collins Maxwell, alias George Ali Alhassan, an alleged business man, has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for defrauding a Malaysian by...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour, Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, has sentenced Prince Appiah, a private security guard to 25 years imprisonment...

A driver's mate, Edmund Kojovi, has been sentenced to one day imprisonment on the counts of unlawful entry and robbery. This was after the...

An Accra High Court presided over by Her Ladyship, Mrs. Afia Serwaa Asare-Botwe has sentenced former National Co-ordinating Director of the Ghana Youth Employment...

An Accra Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship Gloria Laryea is yet to decide whether Dr. Lawrence Edusei, the pathologist who conducted an...

Alberta Kweku, a soldier who lives at Arakan Barracks, Burma Camp in Accra has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for physically abusing...

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced, Jerome Anlovi, a 21-year old labourer to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a 12- year old. This was after...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour, Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, has remanded four men for possessing and using narcotics. According to the Prosecutor,...

Naa Lamiley Odartey, a 60-year old trader has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly supplying narcotics. According to the Prosecutor, Chief Inspector...

The 14 Accused persons who are alleged to have murdered Major Maxwell Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi are to be tried by jury. The presiding judge...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour, Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, has sentenced two men, Prince Osei and Atta Kwadwo to 30 months...

The NPP Deputy General Secretary, Nana Ofori Boahene, who has been watching brief in the murder case of the late J.B. Danquah has expressed...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour, Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, has remanded Prince Adu- Gyamfi, an unemployed man, on the counts of...

Counsel for Eugene Ashie a.k.a Wisa, has told an Accra Circuit Court that he has secured a second witness to testify in the case....

An Accra High Court presided over by His Lordship, Justice  Eric Kyei Baffour has stayed proceedings in the case against former bosses of NCA...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Justice Aboagye Tandoh has sentenced one Joseph Allotey, to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour...

An Accra Circuit Court presided over by His Honour Aboagye Tandoh has sentenced one Michael Mensah alias Munkor to 26 years imprisonment with hard...

Moses Sarpong, a 56-year old security man has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court, for indecently assaulting a 3 year old girl. According to...

Twelve Accused persons have been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court in relation to the recent shooting of a Police Officer, Inspector Emmanuel Ashilevi...

The Citizens Forum, a civil society organisation, has petitioned CHRAJ and invoked the jurisdiction of the Commission under Article 218(a), (b) and (c) of...

A three-member review panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice William Atuguba has dismissed an application by Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome who...

Dr. Lawrence Edusei, the pathologist who lost the autopsy report of the late J. B. Danquah, after a robbery at his residence in September,...

Lawrence Lamisi Acquah, a business man, has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court on charges of stealing and unlawful entry. The Accused person has...

An Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Her Honour Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, has denied an application on submission of no case made by popular...

Enoch Otoo Lamprey, a 19- year old disc jockey (DJ), has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court for defiling a 13-year old JHS...

David Awattey a.k.a. Rambo, a 31-year old trader has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court on charges of abduction and rape. The Accused person...

An Accra High Court has granted bail to Rabih Haddad, the 39-yearold Lebanese alleged to have raped his 19-year old house help. The court, presided...

An Accra District Court presided over by His Worship Ebenezer Kwaku Ansah, has committed 14 persons alleged to have murdered the late Major Maxwell...

An Accra High Court presided over by Her Lady, Justice Laurenda Owusu has struck out an application filed by the Ghana Mine Workers Union,...

Rabbi Haddad, the Lebanese national who has been charged with rape of his 19-year old house help, has applied for bail at the Criminal...

The alleged 11-year old Togolese minor who was arrested as part of the Togolese nationals who were protesting, without Police permit, at the Kaukudi...

The Ghana Police Service has cautioned Ghanaians to beware of fake, duplicated social media accounts of high profile personalities, public officials and politicians created...

Counsel for the Accused Lebanese, Rabih Haddad (who has been arraigned before an Accra District Court for allegedly raping his 19-year old house help),...

Dr. Lawrence Edusei, the pathologist who conducted a post mortem on the late Member of Parliament, J.B Danquah, has said that he lost the...

Prosecution of persons who fail to pay their mandatory television licence fees will begin from January 4, 2018. The Chief Justice Gloria Akuffo has accordingly...

The Minority in Parliament says the findings of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on a complaint filed over the $2.25...

The Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament has appealed to the government to address the funding challenges facing the Legal Aid Scheme. The...

Accra, Dec. 28, GNA - An Accra District Court has convicted Mustapha Yakubu a security man accused of damaging four air-conditioners belonging to the...

The Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has cleared the Minister of Finance (MOF), Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, of allegations of conflict of...

The joint taskforce combatting illegal mining in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western regions has called for a review of the not very deterrent fines...

Ghana’s Parliament has passed the Tax Amnesty Bill, 2017 to forgive taxpayers who have not registered with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). The purpose of...

Four teenage suspects accused of raping a girl at Bantama in the Ashanti region have been remanded in custody again. They are expected to re-appear...

The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has formally constituted a committee to investigate the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, and her two deputies,...

The Minister for Defence, Mr. Dominic Nitiwul says the proposed Military Training Jungle and Mountain Warfare Training School on the disputed land between Alavanyo...

An Accra District Court presided over by His Worship Worlanyo Kotoku, has discharged eight accused persons in connection with the death of Captain Maxwell...

Rabbi Adhad, a Lebanese national accused of raping his 19-year old house help, has prayed the court for bail. According to the Counsel for the...

A private legal practitioner, Ace Anan Ankomah, said he expects the suspects in the alleged gang rape video to be jailed for a very...

Parliament has approved the sum of GH₵110,357,163.00 for the activities of the Attorney-General and the Ministry of Justice for the 2018 fiscal year. Presenting the...

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has written to the editor of The Herald newspaper to “do the needful” or force...

A total number of 31 ‘illegal miners’ who were dredging the Offin River, near Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region have been arrested by a...

Renowned Ghanaian human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu, has filed a writ seeking to enforce his fundamental rights to fair trial as guaranteed under the...

Police in the Ashanti Region have picked up three young men believed to have taken part in an alleged gang rape of a teenage...

An Accra High Court presided over by Mr. Justice Anthony K. Yeboah has ruled in favour of the five applicants, Kofi A. Boateng, Nellie...

The Trade and Industry Ministry says the Ghana Standards Authority will expand its operations to include quality evaluation of imported petroleum products. The Chairman of...

Four suspected armed robbers, including a policeman, have been busted after they attacked and robbed a supermarket at Nungua in Accra last Tuesday night. While...

The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), and the Finance Officer (FO), have been found guilty of procurement and other...

Gideon Laryea, a property agent, aged 45 years, has been arraigned before and Accra Circuit Court for defiling his 10-year old niece. According to the...

The Awormefia of Anlo Traditional Area, Togbui Sri III, has sued the Attorney General and the Minister for Chieftaincy over alleged attempts to create two...

Parliament has eulogised a renowned Ghanaian Mathematician and Scientist, the late Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey. Delivering a statement on the floor of the House,...

62 organisations have been surcharged by the Auditor for receiving payments from the state without any documentation as proof. The surcharge certificates totaling GHȻ8,886,791.9101742 cover...

A 78-year-old hunter is in the grips of the Awutu Bawjiase police for allegedly possessing human parts. The man, Kojo Asare, who claims he hunts...

Accra, Dec. 12, GNA - The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo on Tuesday schooled a Member of Parliament over the use of titles such as...

Madam Evelyn Keelson, Chief State Attorney, said that Attorney General's Department would like to withdraw the charges against six out of the twenty two...

The prime suspect in the killing of an old Vandal at the Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana, has been remanded in police...

The embattled chairperson of the electoral commission Charlotte Osei has called on the Chief Justice committee probing her and her two deputies to furnish...

Accra, Dec. 11, GNA – The trial of Akosua Agyapong, a highlife musician, who is accused of conspiring with her brother to defraud a...

Alex Owusu Appiah, an excavator operator aged 36 years and Kofi Mensah, a driver, aged 48 years have each been sentenced to 10 years...

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Ms. Gloria Akuffo has informed Parliament that the Ministry is not the implementing agency for the judgment from...

It has emerged that a group of young people have filed a case in court against the infamous insurance scheme adopted by the National...

Hearing into the alleged abuse of power and corruption scandals that have rocked the Electoral Commission (EC) will begin today, sources close to the...

The prime suspect in the criminal case involving the murder of an Old Vandal at Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana will soon...

At least four persons are feared dead as gunmen wielding AK47 rifles Sunday night opened fire on traders at a market in Najong in...

The University of Cape Coast has been directed by the Cape Coast High Court to reinstate the 22 executives of the Atlantic Hall who...

Parliament has summoned the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Ms. Gloria Akuffo to respond to a question on the ruling of the International Tribunal...

Ghana’s Professor Mrs Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu put up a good fight but she was not elected by the Assembly of States Parties to the International...

Attempts by the lawyer for the 39-year-old Lebanese who is alleged to have raped his 19-year-old house help to get bail for his client...

Accra, Dec. 07, GNA - The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) Ghana, has cautioned all medical facilities, both public and private, against the use...