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The National Identification Authority (NIA) has disclosed that another Nigerian called Usman Emmanuel has been prosecuted for posing as a Ghanaian to register for the GhanaCard. According to the NIA, Usman Emmanuel after presenting a valid Ghanaian Birth Certificate successfully went through the registration process and was left with the …

A Magistrate Court at Wamfie in the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region has sentenced two male students and a jobless young man to sign a bond of good behaviour for 12 months. In default, they would serve six months imprisonment for criminal conduct and unlawfully assaulting three male …

A man was handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of holding a six-week-old baby against the dry ice in his refrigerator. Two years of the sentence was suspended for five years by the Pretoria High Court. According to lobby group AfriForum, Judge Mokhine Mosopa handed down …

Nigerian kidnapping kingpin Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, widely known as “Evans”, has been sentenced to life in prison. A judge in Lagos also sentenced two co-defendants to life for abducting businessman Donatus Dunu in 2017. The CEO of a pharmaceuticals firm was held for nearly three months before managing to escape and …

The Ashaiman Circuit Court has sentenced Emmanuel Arthur, a 19-year-old, unemployed to three years imprisonment in hard labour for dishonestly appropriating six pieces of streetlight bulbs and other electrical accessories valued at GH₵79, 021.00. The Court presided over by Mr Richard Delali sentenced the accused after he pleaded guilty to …

A man has reportedly been sentenced to death in North Korea for smuggling copies of Netflix’s blockbuster series “Squid Game” into the country. According to Radio Free Asia (via Variety), authorities were led to the man after they caught high school students watching the series. The report states that “Squid Game” was smuggled …

A Phalaborwa Magistrate’s Court in South Africa has sentenced a 57-year-old man, Nicco Adolph Kallerman, pictured above, for calling his colleagues and other patrons uneducated baboons. Kallerman was convicted of crimen injuria and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment or twenty thousand rands (R20, 000) fine on Thursday, 26 August 2021. …

The Tamale High Court in the Northern Region in July 2018, sentenced two students to death by hanging for the murder of a 65-year-old Ebenezer Ocran, head pastor of End Time Bible Believers Fellowship in Tamale. The two accused persons, Kwame Dogyi and Obio Akwasi, on November 10, 2017, broke …

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo. Image: SANDILE NDLOVU Former president Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture commission, the apex court found on Tuesday. Handing down the court’s …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionDerek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd in April The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. The judge said Derek Chauvin’s sentence was based “on your …