Three ‘separatists’ Granted Bail
A Ho high court has granted three members of the Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) bail of GH¢50,000 each with two sureties to reappear on March 14, 2017. The three had pleaded not guilty to...
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A US State Speeds Up Executions, Scheduling Eight In 10 Days
The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections. Death penalty opponents have...
Judges In Judicial Bribery Scandal Sue CJ Again
There appears to be no end in sight for the protracted legal battle between some judges found to have traded money, gifts for justice and the Chief Justice who dismissed them. Three of the High court...
Three ‘corrupt’ Judges Team Up Against CJ For Acting ‘unconstitutionally’
Three of the high court judges who were accused of taking bribes to influence cases before them have teamed up against the country’s Chief Justice for allegedly acting unconstitutionally in a case...
VW Pleads Guilty In ‘dieselgate’ Case, Ending US Case
German automaker Volkswagen AG on Friday pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the emissions-cheating scandal, closing an important chapter in the saga that has rocked the company sice 2015. The...
PSG Fan Kills Friend Over Mockery
A Paris Saint-Germain fan in Gabon killed his friend after getting fed up with being mocked about the French club's Champions League defeat over post-match drinks, a judicial source said Friday. The...
S Korea President Ousted Over Scandal
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has become the country’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. Judges unanimously upheld parliament’s decision to impeach Ms Park...
Criminal Offences Act To Be Amended To Deter Corrupt Acts
Government has reiterated its decision to amend sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 to make corruption and other related offences felonies instead of misdemeanours under the current statutes....
Police Arrest Man Involved In Lynching Kumasi Taxi Driver
Police in Kumasi has arrested a 27-year-old man believed to have played a major role in the assault of a taxi driver leading to his death at Nima, a suburb of Kumasi. Earlier, they had said four...
Swiss Man Suspected of Abusing 80 Boys In Thailand
A Swiss man will go on trial this month on allegations he sexually abused more than 80 boys -- some as young as nine -- in Thailand, Swiss authorities said Friday. The unnamed man is accused of...
Fearing the Worst, US Undocumented Migrants Brace For Deportation
Adriana is preparing for the worst: deportation. She's worked it out in her head, but she still doesn't know how to tell her kids, who are terrified of losing her. The Mexican-born mother of three...
50 Extra Judges To Help Tackle Backlog
The US Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention centres to clear a backlog of more than half a million cases. The judges will boost President Trump’s push to toughen...
UAE Couple Jailed For ‘unlawful Sex’ Released
A couple jailed for a month in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over “unlawful sex” have been released and the charges against them dropped. Ukrainian Iryna Nohai and her South African fiancee...
2 Houses Razed Down In Bimbilla
Two houses have been set ablaze in a renewed chieftaincy clash in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region. The situation has created fear and panic among residents living in the...
31 Workers Convicted Over Killing At Indian Car Plant
An Indian court convicted 31 workers Friday over an outburst of deadly violence at a car plant in 2012, including 13 for murder, during one of the country's worst episodes of labour unrest. The court...
Man, 34, Arrested For Killing Sex Worker
A 34-year-old man, Isaac Sackey, is being held by the police for allegedly murdering a commercial sex worker who allegedly stole his GH¢120 after he had had sex with her. Sackey is said to have...
Police Nab 2 Ex-Convicts For Robbery
Two ex-convicts, Cudjoe Boamah and Nicholas Tetteh who were imprisoned in Nsawam Prison for breaking entry, and stealing, and had served time at the Nsawam Prison have been arrested by the Tema...
Court Ousts South Korea’s Scandal-Hit President
Latest: We Blend Our Vision With Truth & Enlightenment South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has become the country’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office. Judges...
SIC, Ivory Finance Saga Reaches Supreme Court
LONG-drawn legal tussle between SIC Insurance and Ivory Finance over a loan, the former guaranteed for Italconstruct, which went bad, has reached the corridors of the Supreme Court, after SIC filed a...
Fireworks @ Volta ‘Separatist’ Group Case
THERE were fireworks at Magistrate Court in Ho yesterday when the case in which three ring leaders of the Volta ‘separatist’ group, Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF) was called. Matters...