Tag Archives: YEARS

Ghana’s Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced plans by the government to transition from the use of fossil fuel to renewable energy by 2070. To that end, Dr Bawumia has called on stakeholders in the energy sector to accelerate the production and utilisation of oil and gas reserves in Ghana. …

Abidemi Rufai, the former Special Assistant to the Governor of Ogun State has been sentenced to five years in prison for pandemic fraud. This follows the May 2021 charges bordering on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft leveled against him by the U.S. District Court in Tacoma. Rufai is alleged …

An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos has convicted Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, a kidnap kingpin better known as Evans, on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping. This comes a few months after Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja sent him to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of conspiracy …

Five persons have been burnt to ashes with seven houses destroyed in a series of fire disasters at Aburaso in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti in the last three years. This was revealed by the Assembly member of the Aburaso Electoral area Hon Emmanuel Nyanteng. The fire outbreaks in …

Menzgold customers have said their welfare and health are continuing to deteriorate each day that passes without their locked up cash. They were victims of a decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to halt the activities of Menzgold for operating without license on September 12, 2018. The customers have …

After selling ‘kenkey’ throughout her adult life, Akua Anamoah cannot boast of a meaningful life in Accra. Narrating her story to crimecheckghana.org, the sexagenarian says she sleeps outside in the open with her six children, one of whom has given birth. Her husband she says only does menial jobs and …

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 …

Nigerian rapper, Ice Prince could face a three-year jail time for assaulting a police officer. The rapper was arrested in the early hours of Friday, September 2 for assaulting a police officer. Confirming his arrest, the spokesperson of Lagos state police command SP Benjamin Hundeyin said Ice Prince has been …

A 31-year-old Ghanaian has been found guilty of Fraud and Money Laundering in a Southern District of West Virginia of the United States of America. 31-year-old Abdul Inusah who is said to be the son of a former Minister of State in Ghana faces up to 50 years jail term …

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 …