Chief Justice Bows Out Today
Georgina Theodora Wood, Ghana’s first female Chief Justice, finally bows out of office today after 10 years in the saddle. Her retirement was preceded by a valedictory church service at the Holy...
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Chief Justice Retires On 70th Birthday
The Chief Justice, Theodora Georgina Wood, has officially today, Thursday, June 8, 2017 retired as the fourth most powerful person in Ghana after the President, Vice President and the Speaker of...
Chief Justice ‘grateful For Support’ As She Spends Last Day In Office
A Praise and Thanksgiving Service has been held in honour of Chief Justice, Georgina Wood, on Tuesday evening as she leaves office Thursday. She retires from office after 47 years of public service,...
Georgina Wood Bows Out With Thanksgiving Service
Georgina Wood was the first the female Chief Justice of Ghana, and the longest-serving Chief Justice It was a solemn and colourful ceremony at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as a thanksgiving service was...
Georgina Wood Bows Out With Thanksgiving Service [Photos]
It was a solemn and colourful ceremony at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as a thanksgiving service was observed in honour of Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood, for a successful tenure as Ghana’s...
Clients of Embattled Francis Xavier Sosu Decry Suspension
Clients of Francis Xavier Sosu have pitched camp at his law chambers as they fear they will suffer the brunt of a decision to suspend the famed human rights lawyer. The lawyer was barred on Thursday,...
If We Are Not Harsh, Indiscipline Will Abound
A member of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council has justified the three-year ban on a popular Human Rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu for breaching professional rules. The legal...
Speaker Welcomes MPs
Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof Michael Aaron Ocquaye, has welcomed the 275 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the second meeting of the first session after rising for a month-long Easter...
Akufo-Addo In Cronyism
President Akufo-Addo’s promise not to operate a “family and friends” government when voted into power has turned out to be one of the many fake campaign promises the New Patriotic Party used to...
Parliament To Hold Media Encounters To Help Bring the House Closer To the People
Parliament’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, Kate Addo has hinted of a series of programmes to be instituted by parliament to bridge the gap between the House and its constituents. The move is...
Special Prosecutor ‘in A Comfortable Lead’ As Parliament Reconvenes
Public attention on Parliament is expected to hit the roof when 275 MPs meet to debate the planned law to establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor intended to fight corruption. Parliament is...
Did the President Pick Back
Any rational human being will accord with me that, it is animalistic and insane to pick back spat saliva. Spitting "is the act of forcibly ejecting words from the mouth" (in this context a critical...
Kofi Amoabeng Fraud Case Takes New Twist
A Nigerian–born Ghanaian lawyer, has been suspended from legal practice by the General Legal Council; the main regulatory body for the conduct and administration of legal education and profession...
‘Fire the Attorney General’ – Yamin Tells Nana Addo
Former General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress Joseph Yamin is calling on the president His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to fire the Attorney General Gloria Akuffo if she...
Another Akufo Family Member Gets Government Job
President Akufo-Addo, appears unmoved by accusations that he is not looking beyond family and friends in appointing people into his government. Last week as the President was introducing his cousin,...
NPP Creates; Akufo-Addo Shares With His Family
Supreme Court Judge and a blood relation of President Akufo-Addo, was last Friday confirmed as Ghana’s next Chief Justice. President Akufo-Addo, ignored several dissenting opinion and told the...
Advance Women’s Rights
The Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF Ghana) has urged Justice Sophia Akuffo to use her office to advance the rights of women and girls when approved by Parliament as the Chief Justice...
Don’t Disappoint – WiLDAF To New Chief Justice
The Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF Ghana) has congratulated Justice Sophia Akuffo on her elevation to the position of Chief Justice of Ghana. WiLDAF believes she will live above...
Nothing Wrong With Sophia Akuffo’s Nomination – A.B.A. Fuseini
The Chairman of the Minority Communications Committee in Parliament, A. B.A. Fuseini, has dismissed allegations of conflict of interest and nepotism against the President for nominating Justice...
Nothing Wrong Sophia Akuffo’s Nomination
The Chairman of the Minority Communications Committee in Parliament, A. B.A. Fuseini, has dismissed allegations of conflict of interest and nepotism against the President for nominating Justice...