A Kia private car with registration number AS 7369-21, has killed a 48-year-old woman at Asante Akyem Juaso in the Ashanti Region The car is reported to have ran into a chop bar after the vehicle’s brakes failed. The woman, according to eyewitnesses, was selling her goods near the chop …
Read More »Fifteen shot dead in South Africa bar
At least 15 people have been shot dead in a bar in the South African township of Soweto, police say. Police said gunmen entered the Orlando East tavern in the early hours of Sunday morning and started firing randomly at a group of young people. They then fled the scene …
Read More »Man who was called to Bar at 76 buried
Julius Odupitan, a lawyer who was called to the Nigerian Bar at 76, was buried in Atan Cemetery in Lagos on Thursday. He passed away in 2021 at the age of 89. Popularly called ‘Baba Ayu’ (Baba and you) by his classmates, he started his journey to the legal field …
Read More »Lawyers form new company to compete Ghana Bar Association
Some lawyers in the country have reportedly registered a new company to compete with the Ghana Bar Association (GBA). Assaseradio.com reports that the new company goes by the name “Law Society of Ghana” (Limited by Guarantee, LBG). Before the establishment of “Law Society of Ghana”, Ghana Bar Association was the …
Read More »Bar operator slashes customer over change
A 65-year-old Akwasi Appau at Assin Ninkyiso, a suburb of Assin North District of the Central Region, is battling for his life after a drinking spot operator allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on him. He is said to have had a misunderstanding with the operator Wofa Yaw, popularly known as ‘Kofie …
Read More »230 suspected criminals, sex workers arrested at Soldier Bar
Personnel from the National Police Operations have arrested 230 suspected criminals and commercial sex workers at the environs of Soldier bar at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. They were made up of Ghanaians and other nationals from Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. Items found on them included 33 motorbikes, 38 …
Read More »Open Letter to Members of the Cameroon Bar Council
Outrageous, ‘142 application files for direct enrollment received since September 2019, yet, because of setting a date for their examination’ and not swearing-in. Sirs, incorporation, and or direct enrolment into the Cameroon Bar is of right and sanctioned by law, notedly, Section 8 (1), (b), of Law No: 90/059 of …
Read More »VIDEO: Afia Schwarzenegger robbed of jewellery worth $12,000 at Elite Bar
Ghanaian media personality and entrepreneur Afia Schwarzenegger has alleged that she has been robbed at a party. The controversial celebrity made the claims in a self-recorded video sighted by zionfelix.net. Afia made the video in the early hours of the day to warn others who were attending the same party to …
Read More »Zambia to reopen schools and bars
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has announced the reopening of schools and bars as Covid-19 cases begin to slow. Addressing parliament in Lusaka on Friday, Mr Lungu said schools, colleges and universities would now reopen between 14 and 23 September. Only students in examination classes had been attending classes. Mr Lungu …
Read More »Ghana Bar Association comes under fire over statement on nose mask sanctions
The Ghana Bar Association has come under heavy criticism for releasing a statement that addresses the harsh nature of punishment to be meted out to those who flout the mandatory wearing of nose masks directive. In an interview with Kwame Afrifa Mensah on the ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ show, the editor …
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