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An Accra High Court has dismissed an application by MTN seeking to quash the directive of the National Communication Authority to classify it as a significant market player in the telecommunications industry. The court in a 33 page ruling dismissed the case while awarding a cost f ghc10,000 against MTN. …

Joseph Kwabena Manu Ohyere, father of the late Benjamin Agyare who was shot by his landlord at Ofankor has told the Abeka District Court that the family is livid after their investigations revealed that the suspect Stephen Nana Kamkam, was not in custody per the court’s order. The court had …

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 30-year-old Ghanaian musician to a fine of GH¢2,400 for stealing various items at the West Hills Mall branch of Shoprite. The young man identified as David Ike is also to serve a three months jail term. The items stolen were Cling Cracker biscuit, …

The gender-based Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs Christina Cann has sentenced a 51-year-old waste collector who inserted his fingers into the private part of a six-year-old girl to three years imprisonment in hard labour. The convict, Daniel Martey Commodore Okine who was charged with indecent …

The Circuit Court in Bolgatanga has expressed shock at a media report saying that it has exonerated former Minister of State at the Presidency, Rockson Bukari, in a bribery-related case involving some officials of the Shaanxi Mining Company Limited. Rockson Bukari resigned his position in April, 2019, as a Minister …

A District Court in Sunyani on Thursday, August 13, 2020, denied a bail application for eight persons arrested following a bloody clash between supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Nkrankwanta in the Bono Region. The clashes between the supporters of the opposition …

Member of Parliament for Subin Constituency, Eugene Boakye Antwi and Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Boasiako and other party executives have been summoned by a Kumasi High Court to respond to contempt charges relating to the recently held Constituency primary on Monday, August 17, 2020. Eugene Boakye and the rest …

An Islamic court in the Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced an elderly man to death for raping a 12-year-old girl. In recent weeks, there has been increasing public outcry and street protests by activists against rape cases across Nigeria. A spokesperson for the judiciary in Kano state told the …

The Mamponteng District Court has, for the second time, remanded into prison custody the 23-year-old man, accused of killing a taxi driver over a GH¢1,200, which the deceased owned him. The suspect, Emmanuel Awuah, has been preliminary charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder and murder, but, his …

Hajia Sirina, 40, the Sorcerer who accused a 90-year-old woman of being and witch and masterminded her lynching at Kafaba in the Savannah Region will be arraigned before court today. The soothsayer popularly known as ‘Alhajia’ was arrested by the police at her hideout at Yeji in the Bono East Region …