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Hello and welcome to our comprehensive text coverage of the Judgement Day! After weeks of legal arguments and cross-examination, the Supreme Court of Ghana delivers judgement in the Election 2020 Petition trial. The seven-member panel, presided over by Chief Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, had asked lawyers for the parties in the case …

Today, Thursday, March 4, 2021, will be momentous and historic en même temps as the Supreme Court gives its final judgment on the 2020 Election Petition brought to it by John Dramani Mahama and the NDC. Following the general polls of 2020, where the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa, declared Nana Addo Dankwa …

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has asked the petitioner and respondents in the ongoing election petition to accept the Supreme Court’s verdict tomorrow, Thursday, 4 March 2021, for the sake of the country’s peace. The apex court will give its judgment on whether or not President Akufo-Addo was legitimately elected …

The Judicial Service of Ghana, through its lawyers Sory@Law, has written to media houses that have published “hateful, spiteful, vengeful and incendiary” comments about the Justices of the Supreme Court hearing the election petition of former President John Mahama, to “pull or cause to be pulled down and cleared from …

The Zimbabwean Judicial Services Commission has announced that it is now investigating Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Thompson Mabhikwa, after his nudes,  bedroom photos, as well as raunchy WhatsApp messages were leaked on social media. The nude photos and WhatsApp messages are suspected to have been leaked by an irate lover when she …

The Petitioner in the 2020 Election Petition trial says a run-off is required since no candidate in the December 7 polls obtained 50 per cent valid votes cast. The case of the Petitioner is simply that, in addition to fundamental constitutional infractions committed by the Electoral Commission chairperson, who was the returning officer of …

Dorcas Dzam, an employee of the Volta Forest Products Limited in Hohoe who lost four fingers in an accident on the job half a decade ago is finally to receive GHS 100,000 in general compensation from the firm. This was after the Legal Aid Commission (LAC) took the case on …

The Organization of Social Democracy and Development Dialogue Forum – Africa (SDDDF-Africa) has petitioned the International Community about the ongoing 2021 Supreme Court (SC) petition. The International Organizations/Missions include the United Nations (UN), ECOWAS Commission, European Union, the office of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa …

The Supreme Court of Ghana has rejected a challenge to the validity of the 2020 polls that saw Nana Addo elected as president. The opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC] had sought to annul the election on grounds of the elected president Not getting the 50+1 votes. Although the NDC claimed …

Hundreds of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members have taken to social media to demand their party accounts for its own collated results in the just-ended election instead of deceiving them with the court case, MyNewsGh.com has filed. The footsoldiers of the party say it appears the NDC led by John Dramani …