Office Of Independent Prosecutor Works!
Scarcely a week ago, the owner and 2016 presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, came out swinging against then-President-Elect Addo Dankwa...
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The Promise To Create A Special Prosecutor And Its Constitutionality
The promise by President-elect Akufo-Addo to create a Special Prosecutor, as should be expected, has generated much controversy. Political interference with criminal prosecutions is not new to Ghana....
Judicial Service Honours Justice Akamba
One of Ghana’s legal luminaries, Mr Justice Joseph Bawa Akamba, was yesterday honoured by the Judicial Service at a ceremony at the Supreme Court in Accra. Mr Justice Akamba served as a justice of...
Appointment of A Special Prosecutor Is Important
The promise by the Legal Luminary, H. E. Nana Akufo-Addo to establish the Office of a Special Prosecutor as part of measures to deal with corruption in order to safeguard the economy against the...
74 Judges Have No Accommodation
The Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, says that 74 superior court judges currently do not have official accommodation. She stated that out of the total of 143 superior court judges, only 69 have...
10 Judges Receive Gh 8 Million Executive Flats
The flat is to provide accomodation to some of the judges of the Superior court The Judicial Service has handed over a 10 executive flats worth GHS 8 million to some 10 high court judges in Accra....
Mosquito, No For Appiah Boateng, But Yes For Woyome
When OccupyGhana broke the news that the government on the blind side of Ghanaians have entered into a financial agreement with Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the furore was palpable. And Ghanaians are right...
Deployed Police Officers Fear They May Be Disenfranchised
The Ghana Police Service is this morning dispatching hundreds of officers to different parts of the country to provide security at various polling stations in this year’s general elections....
Manchester City’s Yaya Toure On Drink Driving Charge
Yaya Toure has been bailed and is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on 13 December. Manchester City footballer Yaya Toure has been charged with drink driving, police have confirmed....
Police To Punish Officers Who ‘misconducted’ Themselves
The Police Administration says officers who are found to have behaved unprofessionally during the Special Voting exercise will be sanctioned. Director of Police Operations, Dr Benjamin Agordzo, said...
Chief Justice Turns Down Petition To Televise Woyome’s Cross-Examination
A petition praying the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood to allow a live broadcast of a scheduled cross-examination of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by former Attorney General Martin Amidu has...
Lagos Lawyer, Ugwuonye Moves To Destroy Evidence …pulls Down Facebook Account
Ruffled by the N10b defamation suit instituted against him by the ex-husband of missing Charity Aiyedogbon, David Aiyedogbon, Lagos Lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye may have been making desperate efforts to...
EC, Police Adding More Names To Existing Special Voters’ List
Citi News has intercepted a document suggesting that the Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC), have embarked on an exercise to add the names of more Police...
Supreme Court Setting Bad Precedent – Ayine
Sometimes one wonders where our public officials who claim to know everything, particularly the designated field in which they hold open positions, get the job. It is not surprising to hear a public...
We Shall Preserve Ghana’s Peace At All Cost – CDS
Chief of Defence Staff Air Marshal Michael Samson-Oje has warned that the Ghana Armed Forces will deal ruthlessly with persons who foment trouble in the December 7 presidential and parliamentary...
What Are They Up To? Gowns And Wigs Are Washed In Public
Attempt by Communication Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah possibly to get facts twisted or do some sort of damage control concerning lower court judges’ demand for salary increment failed over the...
Silence On DR Congo Army Sex Charges
The military ombudsman has no idea what has happened to the 20 allegations of sexual crimes committed by South African peacekeeping troops that it referred to the defence force for investigation. A...
Judges Receive Less Than GHC4,000; Threaten Strike Over Unpaid Reviewed Salaries
Lower Court judges in Ghana say they are frustrated by government’s failure to implement salary reviews granted them five years ago. They have threatened to go on strike by November 20 if their...
Judges, Magistrates To Withdraw Services On November 21
Judges and Magistrates have served notice to withdraw their services beginning November 21 if issues bordering on their 10 per cent adjustment of salaries are not addressed. In a letter notifying the...
Dery Sues Anas For ‘fraud’
Justice Paul Uuter Dery, one of the High Court judges involved in the judicial scandal, has dragged investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas to court over illegal operations. The writ dated...