Major Mahama’s ‘killers’ Remanded
An Accra Magistrate Court has ordered for the nineteen people facing trial for the lynching of Major Mahama to be remanded in prison custody. The order followed a request by the prosecutor DSP George...
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Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo Intervention Stalls Judicial Staff Strike
There seems to be tension and anger creeping within judges and magistrates with some of them threatening to go on strike over long-standing salary arrears not yet paid them. In an exclusive interview...
Six ‘galamseyers’ Arrested At Ayiem
Six persons who were involved in illegal small scale mining at Ayiem, a farming community in the Mpohor District of the western region, have been arrested by police in the district. The six were...
Court Orders Five Illegal Miners To Sign Bond
The Agogo Magistrate, presided over by Mr. Stephen Tabi, has ordered five illegal miners to sign a bond be of good behavior for a period of six months. Akuinor Dotse, Savior Dejetomeh, Maxwell...
Alarm Blows Over Plans To Release ‘killers’ of Ardeyman Chief
There is a turf-war between some top police officers at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), headquartered at the Ghana Police Service in Accra, and the family members of the late...
GBA Laments Poor Working Conditions of Judges
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has expressed worry over the poor working and service conditions of judges in the country. According to the Association, judges within the country deserve more than...
Vatican Treasurer Denies Australia Sex Offences
The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing after being charged with sex offences in his native Australia. He complained that he had been subjected to...
Ardeyman Chief ‘killers’ Caged
The Adjabeng District court in Accra yesterday, June 28, 2017 remanded into police custody the 20 persons charged with murder of chief of Ardeyman, Nii Tetteh Sarbah. The 20 suspects who have been...
Cardinal Pell: Vatican Treasurer Denies Australia Sex Offences
The Vatican treasurer, Cardinal George Pell, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing after being charged with sex offences in his native Australia. He complained that he had been subjected to...
Chase Petroleum To Build Court, Library For Kpone Traditional Area
Chase Logistics, as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives, has cut sod for the construction of a magistrate court facility; and a modern library for the Kpone area in the Greater...
Angolan VP To Be Tried For Corruption In Portugal
Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente will face trial in Portugal over allegations he bribed a magistrate to drop two investigations against him, according to a Wednesday ruling cited in Portuguese...
Sri Lanka’s Fugitive Monk Surrenders
A radical Buddhist monk wanted in connection with a string of hate attacks in Sri Lanka surrendered Wednesday after four weeks on the run, police said. Galagodaatte Gnanasara gave himself up before a...
Accused Ex-Barclays Chief Quits Rio Tinto Board
Former Barclays chief executive John Varley quit as a director of mining giant Rio Tinto on Wednesday after being charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in Britain. He was among four senior...
Judiciary Will Use Technology For Quality Justice
Justice Sophia Abena Abroma Akuffo, the Chief Justice Nominee on Friday gave the assurance that upon her approval, she would use technology for dispensation of justice to reduce the duration of cases...
GJA Demands Apology Over Sacking of Journalists From Court
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), is demanding an apology from the Judicial Service following the dismissal of some journalists from an Accra Magistrate court last week. The journalists...
Why Journalists Were Sacked From Courtroom
On Thursday, June 15, 2017, a magistrate barred journalists from covering the trial of suspected murderers of the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu. The Magistrate...
Judge Sacks Journalists From Covering JB Danquah’s Murder Case
A magistrate on Thursday morning barred journalists from covering the case in which two persons are standing trial for the murder of the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, Joseph Boakye...
“No Journalist Is Allowed In My Court” – Magistrate of J.B Danquah’s Trial
The magistrate sitting at the Accra Central District Court seven on Thursday prevented journalists covering the trial of the two suspects in the murder of the former Member of Parliament for...
Police Officer Dead In DR Congo Court Attack
A police officer was killed in an attack on a court compound in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a judicial source said Saturday, weeks after a mass jailbreak from Kinshasa's main prison. A...
Eschew Acts of Mob Justice — Former Chief Justice Tells Ghanaians
Mrs Justice Georgina Wood, has bowed out of office as Chief Justice after 47 years in public office, with a call on Ghanaians to eschew acts of mob justice. Mrs Justice Wood, whose term in office...