Lawyers Beg Chief Justice For Wigs
The Ashanti Regional branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has appealed to Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood to immediately restore the wearing of wigs by judges and lawyers during court...
Tag: High Court
GHS7.5bn Lost Through Public Sector Graft In 11yrs
Pressure group OccupyGhana has said at least GHS7.5 billion of the taxpayers’ money was lost through public sector corruption between 2003 and 2014. “In our conservative estimates based on the...
Kenya Jails Union Reps Over Doctors Strike
A Kenyan court has jailed seven union officials for a month over a doctors strike that has crippled public hospitals for 10 weeks. High Court Judge Hellen Wasilwat had handed down suspended sentences...
New Law To Force Auditor-General Recover Misappropriated State Funds
The Auditor-General will now be forced to use its constitutional powers of Dis-allowance and Surcharge in the recovery of misappropriated public funds. This comes after anti-corruption group,...
Law Forcing Auditor-General To Recover Misappropriated Funds Passed
A three-year-long campaign by anti-corruption crusaders, OccupyGhana, to get the Auditor-General to enforce its powers to recover misappropriated public funds has yielded success. OccupyGhana’s...
It’s National Service, Not An Illegal National Suffering!
By: Samson Lardy Anyenini What is national service about shipping a fresh graduate from Accra to Wa and not assisting her with accommodation there, and starving her of her meagre allowance for six...
Refugee Camp In Kenya A ‘terrorist Haven’
Set up in 1991, Dadaab refugee camp is the size of a city The main refugee camp in Kenya has become a "haven for terrorism" and a "launch pad" for attacks by militant Islamist group al-Shabab,...
Kenyan Closure of Dadaab Refugee Camp Blocked By High Court
The High Court in Kenya has blocked the government's bid to close the largest refugee camp in the world. A directive to shut the Dadaab camp and forcibly repatriate about 260,000 Somali refugees...
Afoko’s Case Adjourned To Feb 17
An Accra High Court hearing the case involving Gregory Afoko on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 adjourned to February 17, 2017 on the basis of ill-health of the accused Ghana News Agency (GNA) observed...
Cape Coast Court Complex Shuts Down Over Structural Defects
Cape Coast Court complex in the Central region will be closed down from today, February 8 The Cape Coast Court complex in the Central region will be closed down from today, February 8. The facility...
Gregory Afoko’s Case Adjourned To February 17
An Accra High Court hearing the case involving Gregory Afoko, on Tuesday, adjourned to February 17 on the basis of the ill health of the accused. Ghana News Agency observed that although the accused...
New Juaben Municipal Assembly Swears In New Appointees
The New Juaben Assembly has sworn in new government appointees at the 7th Assembly today . The 22 new government appointees, made up of 8 women and 14 men, will complement the work of the 54...
Madonna Granted Permission To Adopt Two Children From Malawi
Madonna has been granted permission to adopt two more children from Malawi after the High Court in the impoverished southern African country gave its approval. The U. S. singer's previous adoptions...
Court Sets Mar.16 For Judgment On Tehoda’s Case
A Human Rights court presided over by Justice Gifty Adjei has set March 16 to deliver its judgment in the case involving a former senior police officer DSP Gifty Tehoda. The case involving DSP Tehoda...
Afeku To Show Video Exonerating Her From Fraud Tag
The minister-designate for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku, who was probed by the presidency for an alleged fraud case, has maintained that she, together with her husband, has never been a...
Cocaine Turned Baking Soda; Judgement On DSP Tehoda Set For March 16
A Human Rights Division of the High Court has set the 16th of March to deliver its judgment in the case involving a former senior police officer DSP Gifty Tehoda. The court presided over by Justice...
I’m Not A Fraudster – Catherine Afeku
The minister-designate for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku has strongly dismissed claims that she has been involved in some fraudulent activities in the past. Appearing before...
Cocaine Turned Baking Soda; Ruling On DSP Tehoda Set For March 16
A Human Rights Division of the High Court has set the 16th of March to deliver its judgment in the case involving a former senior police officer DSP Gifty Tehoda. The court presided over by Justice...
Confusion Deepens As Ga Kingmakers Install Another Ga Mantse
Confusion is deepening within the Ga State following this weekend’s installation of Nii Tackie Obli the II as Ga Mantse. The king makers of Abola Piam We of the Ga State in Accra over the weekend...
We’re Not Guilty – 29 Foreign Illegal Miners Tell Court
The 29 foreigners arrested for illegal mining in the Atiwa Rain Forest Reserve have pleaded not guilty to three charges levelled against them by a Koforidua Circuit Court B on Friday, February 3....