Tag: prosecutor
FIFA chief Infantino probed over secret meetings with top prosecutor
Criminal proceedings have been opened against FIFA president Gianni Infantino over his secret meetings with Switzerland's attorney general, the country's judicial oversight authority announced...
Alleged Togolese who attempted. to acquire voter ID walks free
A Tema Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs. Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong has discharged an alleged Togolese charged for attempting to register in the ongoing...
‘I cannot tell whether or not I had sex with my daughter’
An alleged incestuous father has told an Accra Circuit Court that after drinking four sachets of ‘alomo’ bitters, an alcoholic beverage, he could not...
IT expert in court for operating without license
Kwame Adade, an information technology expert, on Wednesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for providing electronic communication service without license.
Adade, aged 51,...
Taxi driver remanded for allegedly robbing his passenger
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into Police custody a 30-year old driver, Collins Afoakwa aka Kwabena Mintah who attempted to rob his passenger...
Trump fires prosecutor who refused to resign – William Barr
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Saturday that President Donald Trump has fired Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey...
Two alleged Awudome robbers remanded
Two persons who allegedly pulled a knife on a seamstress at Awudome at dawn in their bid to rob her have been remanded into...
20 year-old mason gets bail for theft
A twenty-year-old mason has been granted GHC10,000.00 bail with a surety to be justified by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for allegedly stealing...
Emile Short speaks: “When you lose, you lose everything. When you win, you win...
Former Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Mr. Emile Short, was recently in the news for attributing the shameless looting of funds by...
Sudan’s Bashir appears before prosecutor
Sudan’s deposed President Omar Al-Bashir has appeared in public for the first time on Sunday, when he was taken to the prosecutor’s office in...
Can We Trust Our Judicial System In Ghana?
In a democratic system such as our here in Ghana, the only place one can turn to when one feel aggrieved or cheated is...
Bank closure: Was the Bank of Ghana a prosecutor and a judge in its...
In what would be described a Rambo-styled takeover, the Bank of Ghana revoked the license of five local banks (uniBank, Sovereign Bank, Construction Bank,...
S.P. Bill: CSOs Commends Ghana’s Parliament
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have expressed appreciation to Ghana’s legislature for the speedy passage of the Special Prosecutor Bill.
According to the...
Technician of Accra Technical University refused bail
An Accra District Court has turned down the bail application of Richard Adu Boakye, a Technician of the Accra Technical University who allegedly raped...
Sissala West District Remains Calm As Court Remand Suspects
The security atmosphere in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region has remained calm after the Magistrate Court in Wa remanded seven...
Mason, 60 In Court For Defiling 2 Girls
An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced Daniel Tettey Cudjoe, a 60 year old mason to eight years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling...
Fill Text Of Ghana’s President May Day Speech
Below is the full text of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s maiden May Day Address at the Independence Square in Accra as obtained by...
Unemployed Nurses To Be Absorbed Into Nations Health System
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday assured unemployed nurses and midwives that government would soon absorb them into the country’s health system, stating,...
3 Kids Allegedly Defiled By Their Uncle
Richard Isaac Dankyi, who allegedly took turns to have anal sex with three kids, two males aged six and eight years respectively at Teshie,...
Court Suspend Proceedings As Accuse Smear Himself With Faeces
Proceedings at the Ashaiman circuit court was Monday halted for two hours after a-19-year old accused person who was to appear before it eased...
Trader Gets 15 Years For Robbing A Driver Of His Taxi
An Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh on Tuesday sentenced one Awale Fuseini, a Trader to 15 years imprisonment in hard...
Security Man Gets 4 Years For Smashing Ex-Wife’s Eye
A security man who smashed his ex- wife’s left eye ball with a blow rendering her blind has been sentenced to four years imprisonment...
Police Nab 60 Year Old Driver For Defilement
A 60-year-old driver, who allegedly defiled a 14 year old girl at Ablekuma in Accra, but escaped a year ago, has been nabbed and...
Court Hands Over 15 Year Jail Term To Trader
An Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday handed a 15-year jail term to one Sadat Musah, a trader, who attempted to commit robbery.
The convict was...
Donkorkrom Robbery Case Still Without Prosecutor
The Attorney General’s Department is yet to assign a schedule officer to the case of three persons, allegedly involved in the robbery of a...
Akoto Ampaw Likely to be Named Ghana’s Special Prosecutor
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Lawyer Akoto Ampaw has been tipped by the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to occupy the position of Independent or Special Prosecutor.
He has been championing...
Court Fines Notorious Resident At Simpa
The Tarkwa Circuit has fined a 35 year-old illegal miner GHC360.00 for assaulting a colleague.
Romeo Awuah, a notorious resident at Simpa in the Tarkwa...
How Independent Will The Office Of The Special Prosecutor Be?
In the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Manifesto for Election 2016, Chapter 12, page 135, titled ‘Governance, Corruption and Public Accountability,’ the NPP proposed “to...
Independent Prosecutor’s Office Will Deal With Public Sector Corruption – Ms Akuffo
The proposed Independent Prosecutor‘s Office under the Akufo-Addo Administration is intended to be one of the ways that will deal specifically with corruption in...
Gloria Akuffo Says Independent Prosecutor Will Handle Corruption
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice-designate, Gloria Akuffo has stated that the Independent Prosecutor’s office to be set up by the President will...