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Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, has been sentenced to seven days imprisonment by the Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Crime Division 2), for contempt of court. On June 12, 2019, the court in a judge­ment, granted a perpetual injunction restrain­ing the former minister, then the …

Ghanaian footballer Joseph Amoako, who currently resides in Sweden, has been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl and has been sentenced to two years in prison.The Asante Kotoko former footballer will also be banned from the Scandinavian country after serving his sentence. Amoako won’t be allowed to enter Sweden …

A 39-year-old farmer has been sentenced for fourteen years imprisonment in hard labour, for sodomising a 13-year-old Class six pupil at Gomoa Mankessim in the Central Region. The suspect, Asiedu Eric popularly known as Agya Yaw according to information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan, sodomised the boy on his coconut farm. The …

The Giyani Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo sentenced two former South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials on Tuesday to an effective five years in prison for disability grant fraud. Solani Agnes Baloyi, 56, and Jacob Manamela, 64, committed the fraud in January 2015 while working at the Sassa …

Elizabeth Arthur, the 58-year-old woman who was arrested by the police for preparing pepper sauce, shito, with rotten vegetables in Koforidua, in the Eastern Region, has been jailed for one month. According to a news report by UTV, in addition to the one-month sentence, Elizabeth was fined GHC4,800. The report …

A 24-year-old unemployed man had the shock of his life when an Adentan Circuit Court sentenced him to 25 years imprisonment for causing harm and attempted robbery. This was after the Court had found Lamin Sissy guilty of the charges. The Court presided over by Mrs Sedinam Awo Balokah sentenced …

An 80-year-old man and three others have been found guilty and jailed for inserting a stick into the anus of a teenager. The convicts had accused the 16-year-old boy of breaking into a store in Agogo Market belonging to an octogenarian. For his punishment, the convicts tied his hands to …

Maxwell Bernieh, a teacher who was wrongfully convicted of defilement has been sharing the story of how his troubles began. Maxwell Bernieh says he was teaching in a school in Takoradi in the Western Region when the unfortunate incident occurred. He was just one month into his new school and …

A teacher who was wrongfully handed a 20-year jail term has been acquitted and discharged of any wrongdoing after spending 6 years in custody. Maxwell Bernieh in an interview with Connect FM, narrated the ordeal of how he was wrongfully accused of rape just one month after starting his job. …

The male lawmakers attacked Amy Ndiaye after she criticised an opposition religious figure. The judge also ordered Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb to pay Ms Ndiaye five million CFA francs ($8,100; £6,750) in compensation. In a video widely shared online, Mr Samb is seen walking towards Ms Ndiaye and slapping …