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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of a serial internet fraudster and ex-convict, Olayinka Ridwan Olatunji to two years imprisonment and a fine of N500, 000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) before Justice Demi Ajayi of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State for …

A group of police officers have been captured in a video showing a very tense standoff with some gang of alleged illegal miners (galamsey operators). In the video sighted by GhanaWeb, a supposed leader of the gang is seen accosting a police officer and accusing the officer of attempting to …

Legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has promised to press a new contempt charge against media personality, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa alias Afia Schwarzenegger. According to him, he has evidence to prove that Afia has among other things violated a bond of good behaviour despite being the subject of a charge of contempt by a court. …

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Kwasi Kwarteng has called on former President John Dramani Mahama to apologise to Ghanaian children for equating the food they eat in schools to that of food for dogs. Mr Mahama in his campaign tour in the Central Region expressed worry over the poor …

Both sides of parliament have rejected the Electoral Commission’s constitutional instrument that aimed to make the Ghana card the only document for the registration of voters. In its report, the Committee of the Whole, before which the EC, National Identification Authority and the Finance Ministry appeared to speak on the …

Ghana Premier League side, King Faisal are reportedly set to appoint Burkinabe coach Seydou Zerbo as the club’s new head coach. Zerbo will replace Jimmy Cobblah who was sacked last week following the club’s struggles in the ongoing campaign. The Burkinabe trainer was also dismissed by Asante Kotoko following his …

A Kenyan man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of defiling a minor. Lameck Ochieng was handed his sentence after the 11-year-old victim who happens to be his niece positively identified him in court. He reportedly committed the heinous act in Kameji area in Rongo sub-county …

South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has been denied parole after seeking early release from prison, a decade after shooting and killing his girlfriend, lawyers said. “We were … advised at this point in time that it has been denied and it will be considered again in one year’s time,” …

The sequence of events that led to a Member of Parliament being brought to the House in an ambulance is not entirely clear. The facts, however, are that a gory accident happened involving the lawmaker in question, Mohammed Hardi Tufeiru who also doubles as MP for Nanton. That he was brought to Parliament in …

The managers of Hillburi, a popular hotel in the Eastern Region, have reportedly been arrested for illegally connecting electricity to their facility. According to a news report by myjoyonline.com, the illegal connection was discovered during a search of the hotel by officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as …