SSNIT Frees Ibrahim Mahama
An Accra district court has struck out the suit brought against construction firm, Engineers & Planners and its chief executive, Ibrahim Mahama, over non-payment of Social Security contributions of...
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E&P, Ibrahim Mahama Settle Indebtedness To SSNIT
The criminal case against the construction firm, Engineers and Planners (E&P), and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Ibrahim Mahama, over the non-payment of the social security contributions of...
Attorney General Must Stop Using Police As Prosecutors
The Government has been asked to stop using police officers as prosecutors in court because it is asking them to do too much. Public Interest lawyer Martin Kpebu has argued, police prosecutors cannot...
Appointment of Sophia Akuffo Not Based On Sentiments
Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short has observed that the appointment of Justice Sophia Akuffo as Chief Justice is an...
Taxi Driver Assaulted Police Officer
Preliminary Investigations by the police have revealed that the taxi driver who was alleged to have been beaten and stripped naked by a police officer at Anyaa in Accra, verbally assaulted the...
Philippine Lawmakers Reject Duterte’s Impeachment
Philippine lawmakers on Monday rejected an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte that accused him of a crime against humanity over the deaths of thousands of people killed in his...
Seventeen Killed In Mass Prison Break In Papua New Guinea
The prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has seen repeated similar escapades over the years Prison guards have shot dead 17 inmates after a mass breakout at Buimo prison in Papua New Guinea. Three...
India In Appeal To UN Court To Halt Execution of ‘spy’
India was to appeal to the UN's top court on Monday to order Pakistan to suspend its planned execution of an Indian national convicted of spying. In an emergency hearing due to open at 0800 GMT,...
Akufo-Addo Swerves Justice Dotse
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, May 12, 2017 surprised many people when at the eleventh hour he chose Justice Sophia Akuffo over Justice Jones Dotse as the new Chief Justice. Sources...
Fulani Herdsman Kills His Own Brother
Information reaching Agoo news indicate that, a 26 year old Fulani herdsman has been arrested for allegedly killing his own brother at Simpoa in the Afram Plains District. The incident occurred on...
17 Shot Dead In PNG Prison Breakout
Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, reports said on Monday, with 57 still on the run. Inmates from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation's...
23-Year-Old Arrested For Blackmailing Women With Their Nude Photos
A 23-year-old man suspected to be member of a syndicate circulating nude pictures of women for blackmail is in police grips. Desmond Attipoe was arrested by some youth at a hotel at Kronum, near...
11-Year-Old Girl Killed By Speeding Vehicle
The girl was crossing the road when the car knocked her down An 11-year-old girl met her untimely death after she was knocked down by a speeding vehicle. The deceased, whose name was given as Yaa...
Ecuador ‘concerned’ Over Lack of Progress
Ecuador has voiced concern over the "serious lack of progress" by the Swedish government in dealing with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It said there had been a "serious failure" by Sweden's...
Video of Man Lynched In Taifa-Burkina ‘woman Fight’ Pops Up
Being loyal to a friend obviously did not end well for him. Maxwell who decided to support his friend Gideon, the Rastaman alleged to have shot another (Abass) over a woman met his untimely death...
Move Police Prosecutors To Rural Areas – Criminal Defence Lawyer
A criminal defense lawyer, Martin Kpebu, is advocating the fading out of police prosecutors in the cities to rural communities. He explained that there cannot be development in the judicial system...
Nude Picture Scammer Busted
A 23-year-old man suspected to be member of a syndicate circulating nude pictures of people for blackmail is in police grips. Desmond Attipoe was arrested by some youth at a hotel at Kronum, near...
Why Rush To Appoint A CJ Without Judicial Council
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu had questioned the rationale behind the hasty appointment of successor to Justice Georgina Theodora Wood when a Judicial Council is yet to be constituted. Even...
NPP’s Sanctions Apt; It Cannot Assume Police Duties – Pratt
Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr says Police must not sit aloof for criminal matters to be swept under the carpet, urging the security to launch a quick investigations into...
Jilted Indian Lover Rapes, Kills Ex-Girlfriend
A jilted man who kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend before smashing her head with bricks and running her over with a car has been arrested, Indian police said on Sunday. Police in the northern...