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Some nine Ghanaians along with their Nigerian counterparts have been prosecuted and jailed for their involvement in the smuggling of 10,843kg worth of cannabis into Nigeria through the sea. According to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Nigeria, they are to serve a combined jail term of 72 years. …

A Tarkwa Circuit Court presided over by Hathia Ama Manu has sentenced two Nigerians to 20 years for engaging in illegal mining (Galamsey). The convicts, Ayodele Jackson and Benjamin Obin, were arrested at Bepoase, near Prestea in the Western Region. The two men, who were sentenced on October 7, pleaded …

A 61-year-old convict has shared a story of why he was jailed after a misunderstanding between his family head and himself. The old man who was serving a 16-month jail term for offensive conduct and causing harm said his only crime was insulting the head of his family usually called …

Two Nigerian have been jailed for 40 years by the Kasoa Ofaakor Circuit Court for robbing a mobile money vendor in broad daylight light at Kasoa New Market Junction in the Central Region. The robbery incident happened on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. The jailed armed robbers are said to have …

An Information Technology (IT) Specialist with the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Gabriel Gyamara Sarpong has been sentenced to15 months in jail for impersonating his Deputy Minister, George Mireku Duker. He was slapped with two charges to wit; falsely pretending to be a public officer and defrauding by false …

A Liberian woman by the name Wolo Maikplay Margaret, has been sentenced to a prison term of 10 years by an Accra High Court for smuggling cocaine through the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to Bangkok, Thailand. According to citinewsroom.com, the presiding judge, Ladyship Justice Mary Ekua Yanzuh, also fined Maikplay …

President John Dramani Mahama has taunted Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s 2017 claim that he as ordered the arrest of the United States dollar and given the keys to the then Inspector-General of Police, David Asante Appeatu. According to Mahama, there is no time in history that the dollar has …

A 34-year-old Saudi student at Leeds University, Salma al-Shebab, has been sentenced to 34 years imprisonment for using a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissident activists. The mother of two was arrested in January 2021 while on holiday in Saudi Arabia just as she planned to return to …

Four Nigerians were last week sentenced to jail terms ranging between five and seven years, for engaging in human trafficking. The convicts, a man, and three women were prosecuted by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service The Caretaker Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cecilia Dapaah, announced these …

A 27-year-old lady at Abessim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region, Madam Hilda Asumani Embro Tuesday July 27, 2022 broke down in tears when the Sunyani Circuit Court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Mavis Ekua Andoh sentenced her to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour. The sentence …