Akufo-Addo Clocks 73yrs Today
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is 73 years today, March 29, 2017. A lawyer and a human rights advocate, Akufo-Addo became the president of the young oil-producing West African nation...
Tag: Law
Anger As US Internet Privacy Law Scrapped
US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties. On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to repeal an...
Trump Moves On Climate, No Word Yet On Paris Accord
President Donald Trump took action on Tuesday to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets, making it clear climate change was not a priority, but said nothing about the 2015 Paris accord....
South Sudan and Comoros Advance In Africa Cup of Nations Qualifying
Comoros will now play in the group stage of the qualifying campaign for the 2019 AFCON South Sudan and Comoros booked their places in the group stage of qualifying for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations...
Supreme Court Weighs Bad Legal Advice To Korean Immigrant
Trying to avoid costly prosecutions and long prison sentences for the accused, plea bargains are commonplace in the United States. But what if the defendant is given bad legal advice to plead guilty,...
I’m Not A US Citizen – Deputy Finance Minister Fights Back
A nominee for Deputy Minister for Finance, Charles Kofi Asare Adu Boahen has fended off claims that he still holds allegiance to the United States of America. But 46-year-old investment banker was...
FoN Urges Gov’t To Stop Use of Mercury In Gold Mining
A socio-environmental advocacy NGO based in the Western Region, the Friends of the Nation (FoN), has urged government to rope in relevant stakeholders in its bid to reduce and eliminate the use of...
US Praises China Over Fentanyl Fight
A senior US official praised China on Tuesday for its commitment to fighting the spread of synthetic drugs, particularly the powerful opioid fentanyl which is ravaging swathes of the United States....
Two Seek Supreme Court Injunction On ‘MPs Common Fund’
Two citizens recorded as students of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Coast have filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking interpretation on the creation of the District Assemblies...
Sefwi Wiawso High Court A Deathtrap; Chief Wants CJ, Government To Intervene
The 40-year old building has no washroom for the presiding judge, lawyers The paramount chief of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area, Katakyei Kwasi Bumankamah II, has appealed to the Chief Justice...
Judge Recuses Himself From $2m Fraud Case
An Accra high court judge handling a case involving an Accra-based lawyer, Charles Opoku Yeboah and another over an alleged $2 million estate fraud, on Thursday recused himself from the case. When...
Blame NPP For Delta Force Attack On Security Coordinator
Member of the Ashanti Regional Communication Team of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Boadi Soadwa has stated the party should accept responsibility for the attack on the regional...
‘Appropriate Sanctions Will Be Applied’ – Government
Deputy Interior Minister-designate, Henry Quartey, has promised severe sanctions against members of the NPP-affiliated vigilante groups, Delta Force and Invincible Forces, following last Friday’s...
Sefwi Wiawso High Court A Deathtrap; Chief Wants CJ, Gov’t To Intervene
The paramount chief of Sefwi Wiawso Traditional Area, Katakyei Kwasi Bumankamah II, has appealed to the Chief Justice Georgina T. Wood and the government to construct a new High Court building for...
Address Policy Inconsistencies In Petroleum Downstream Sector
The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) has called on the government to take pragmatic measures to deal with the inconsistencies in the policy regarding the petroleum downstream sector....
Nuclear Ban ‘not Realistic’
A worldwide nuclear ban is simply not "realistic", the US ambassador to the UN has said, as nearly 40 countries stayed away from talks on the subject. The US, Britain and France were among the...
Court Remands 5 Chinese, 5 Ghanaian ‘illegal’ Miners
The Sekondi High Court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante on Monday remanded five Chinese and their five Ghanaian accomplices for allegedly engaging in illegal mining. They were arrested...
Proposed BoG-Sibton Switch Contract Cancellation
There are indications that the Interoperability for mobile money contract awarded Sibton Switch Systems by the Bank of Ghana is being tempered with and a total cancellation being considered. And...
Police Has Seized Working After NPP Won Elections
A Deputy National Organizer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mahdi Gibril has suggested that, the police has seized working after the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was sworn...
NPP Has No Hand In Delta Force Assault
The Deputy General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has indicated that the party neither approves nor supports mayhem caused by its vigilante groups. According...