Courts/Crime
Motoway Claims Two Lives This Year
Friday March 05, 2010
Two people lost their lives in nine accidents that occurred on the Accra – Tema motorway from January to date.
The accidents also left 72 others with various degrees of injuries.
Mr. Glifford T. Adams, Commander of the Tema Regional Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) who disclosed this here yesterday during a rescue rehearsal exercise...read more
Man Uses Ablakwa\'s Name To Defraud
Friday March 05, 2010
A man, Kwabena Adu, 35 who used the name of the Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to defraud an Accounts Clerk of the Mpraeso Senior High School in the Kwahu South District of the Eastern Region, has been remanded in police custody by a Koforidua Circuit Court. Resident in Accra, the suspect is alleged to have...read more
Five Personnel Of Judicial Service In Court For Allegedly Stealing
Monday February 22, 2010
Five officials of the Judicial Service accused of siphoning monies from the coffers of the service have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court charged with conspiracy to steal and stealing GH¢308,315.76. They are Eric Atsu Amegbe, Volta Regional Accountant, Samuel Kwasi Dzeble, Internal Auditor, Prosper Adeti, Director of Finance, Issah...read more
Chief Sues Military
Monday February 22, 2010
THE Kpone Traditional Council (KTC) has filed a Motion on Notice for an order for committal for contempt of court against the Ghana Armed Forces and the Attorney-General at Tema High Court. The motion, filed on February 3, 2010, has the KTC, Nii Joseph Kwaku Teye III, Gbetsile Mantse, and Nii Tetteh II, Kpone Mantse, as the applicants. The...read more
CCC Loses Case To Assemblies Of God
Monday February 22, 2010
The Supreme Court has ordered the Calvary Charismatic Centre (CCC) in Kumasi to surrender all its movable and immovable property acquired before November 1992 to the Assemblies of God Church Ghana. In its unanimous decision, the court restrained the CCC, which has ceased affiliation with the Assemblies of God Church, from dealing with or...read more
Bomb Scare At Tema
Thursday February 18, 2010
A team of heavily armed police and a military anti-bomb squad yesterday spent more than four hours at the premises of the Tema Industrial area branch of Cal Bank in search of a bomb allegedly planted there by an anonymous caller. The team searched every part of the area which also houses the Ecobank, Tema Central Mall and Tema Central Hotel...read more
4 Immigration Officers Rewarded For Rejecting GHC4000 Bribe
Monday February 15, 2010
FOUR officers at the operations unit of the Ghana Immigration Service headquarters were yesterday honoured by management of the Service for boldly resisting a bribery of GHC 4.000 allegedly offered by one Kenneth Kabutey, an alleged diamond dealer. The officers, Inspector Misbawu Yussif, Richard Dua and Richard Asare, both Assistant...read more
Reinstate Former Workers - Court Orders ECG
Thursday February 11, 2010
AN Accra High Court has ruled that the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) reinstate two former employees of the company who were dismissed in 2006 on allegation of extorting money from some customers in Tema and East Legon.
The High Court in its judgment stated that the dismissal of Emmanuel Sogah and Samuel Gadri, a Senior...read more
IGP Orders Decongestion Of Cells
Thursday February 11, 2010
THE Inspector General of Police (IGP) Paul Quaye, has ordered regional, divisional and district police commands to decongest all cells within their jurisdiction and ensure that they are well managed.
He further instructed that trivial cases that are brought to their notice are dealt with expeditiously and where necessary, grant bail to...read more
CJ Assures Speedy Disposal Of Achimota School Lands Case
Tuesday February 09, 2010
The Judicial Service has given the assurance that measures adequate measures have been instituted to ensure speedy disposal of a suit over the ownership of unused portions of Achimota School land in Accra.
A statement signed by the Service’s Director of Communications, Mrs. Grace Tagoe, said the Chief Justice, Mrs. Justice Georgina...read more
