Tag: Punishment
Ghana commemorates 18th World Day Against Death Penalty
...With a call on government to help prioritize access to legal counsel
Government of Ghana has been urged to do everything humanly possible...
Waste Collector jailed three years over sexual abuse
A 51 year old Waste Collector who inserted his fingers into the private part of a six-year old girl has been sentenced to three...
Ensure strict compliance to teachers’ code of conduct- GNECC
The Ghana National Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has asked the Ghana Education Service (GES) to ensure that all teachers adhered strictly to their professional code...
GBA calls for review of sanctions on failure to wear nose masks
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has called for the review of punishment to be meted out to those who flout the mandatory wearing of...
Government explains motive behind severity of punishment for non-wearing of facemasks
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the philosophy behind the severity of punishment meted out to offenders for non-wearing of facemasks is to ensure...
Community enacts by-laws to fight teenage pregnancy and elopement
Naa Baloree-Zumoh Baligi III, Chief of the Kpare Traditional Area, has enacted by-laws to outlaw elopement and teenage pregnancy in the community to...
Minister Encourage Stiffer Punishment for Men Who Impregnate Teenagers
Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has expressed concern over the increasing rate of teenage pregnancy in the...
Lesson planning is a vital tool in teaching
Mr. Anthony Kwaku Amoah, a Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has told teachers not to see lesson planning as...
Trader to serve 24 months time for motorbike theft
A trader arrested for stealing a motorbike has been sentenced to 24 months imprisonment by the Juaso Circuit Court.
Emmanuel Atta was given the punishment...
Retired Military Officer Supports Against Illegal Mining
A retired military officer has called for strong support for the government’s push to end the destruction of the environment through the activities of...
Ablakwa Describes Delta Force Escapees Punishment Too Lenient
The punishment issued to the 13 Delta Force members for escaping from court custody is not harsh enough, according to the Member of Parliament...
Court Ask Prisoner To Convert More Souls
The Supreme Court Tuesday threw out an appeal filed by a 42 year old man currently serving a 30 year jail term saying “the...
Apology Is The Cheapest Punishment Mahama Could Have
It is quite interesting that a glaring case of presidential payola scam that allegedly occurred in July 2012, or thereabouts, is now coming to...
Trump Explains His Stance On Illegal Abortions
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday clarified remarks he made to MSNBC earlier in the day, when he seemed to imply that women...
APEC members wants punishment for bribery instituted
The members voiced this view at the 22nd meeting of APEC's Anti-Corruption and Transparency Working Group.
"Corruption can discourage foreign and domestic investment, distort competition,...
Jackson Owusu to be punished over his holiday injury
Kotoko will punish midfielder Jackson Owusu for picking up a serious injury in an unsanctioned game.
The combative midfielder has come under massive...
West Africa’s strong stance on 2016 UNGASS
Mr. Hukportie, who also heads the Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Police Service, said the effort was like “trying to kill a...
Stoke City goalkeeper lucky not to attract card for Ayew tackle
Stoke City keeper Jack Butland has admitted that he was fortunate to escape punishment for his tackle on Andre Ayew in his side?s win...
Butland Accepts He Was Lucky to Escape Being Punished for Andre Ayew Challenge
Stoke City keeper Jack Butland has admitted that he was fortunate to escape punishment for his tackle on Andre Ayew in his side?s win...
Botswana likely to face CAF punishment over pitch raid
Botswana could face sanctions from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a mass pitch invasion by fans in Francistown, the country's second largest...
Punish Blakk Rasta
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
I have not been paying sedulous attention to the Ghanaian reggae artist called Blakk Rasta, who first came to my...
Naby Yattara was sent off for his outrageous lunge on Asamoah Gyan
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is bitterly disappointed in CAF for not handing out a sterner punishment to Guinea goalkeeper Naby Yattara for his savage...
IGP enforces punishment on police personnel whose conducts fall short of standards
As part of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan?s pledge to reverse the negative image of the police service with his...
Ahmed Toure and Jackson Owusu to face sanctions
Jackson Owusu and Ahmed Toure
Asante Kotoko duo Ahmed Toure and Jackson Owusu will face sanctions if they fail to provide plausible reasons for absenting...
Corporal Punishment must give way positive discipline
Madam Vera She, rpt She, Volta and
Greater-Accra Regional Coordinator of Actionaid- Ghana, on
Wednesday challenged teachers and parents to replace corporal
punishment with...
Certain crimes do not make you dangerous to society ? Socrates
Filmmaker Socrates Sarfo has called on the Attorney General?s office and lawmakers in the country to review punishments given to celebrities or public figures...
Ghana’s NSD participation must be made compulsory – Kofi Boakye
The Ashanti regional Police commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye has asked for sanctions for persons who do not take part in the national sanitation exercise...
Eradicating social canker of Corruption
Mr Solomon S A Kotei, General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers? Union (ICU), has observed that one of the effective and surest...
Ghana National Service: A punishment?
No I don?t think so! National Service Scheme is one of the major tools for promoting nationalism among the youth for national development. But...
Ligue 1 Game: Andre Ayew escapes punishment for nasty challenge
The Ghanaian winger has escaped punishment after a nasty challenge on Dario Cvitanich during a Ligue 1 game against Nice
Ghanaian winger Andre Ayew heaved...