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Human rights advocacy civil society body, Amnesty International has questioned the death penalty sentence dished out to the two convicted persons in the matter of the kidnapping and murder of the Takoradi girls. The two, Samuel Udeotuk Wills and John Orji, were found guilty by a Sekondi High Court on …

The Accra Juvenile Court ‘C’ has remanded a Junior High School (JHS) final year pupil of the Nungua Kroma 2 for allegedly assaulting a teacher who punished him for failure to do his homework. He has denied conspiring with 15 other men to assault the teacher, but has been remanded into …

Former Kotoko captain Amos Frimpong has joined Techiman Eleven Wonders. The right back makes a return to the Ghana Premier League two years after leaving the Porcupine Warriors. Frimpong left Kotoko to Guinean Club AS Kaloum where he has been in the last two years. Techiman Eleven Wonders however decided …

Second-hand clothing sellers at the Kumasi Central Market in the Ashanti Region have said they will not relocate to the Abinkyi Market until the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) finds them a suitable place to move their business.The traders held a protest against the KMA on Thursday, 4 March 2021.The aggrieved …

Former Black Stars goalkeeper Daniel Agyei has joined Wolaita Dicha SC in Ethiopia on a short-term deal. The U-20 FIFA World Cup winner has signed a contract with the Ethiopian top-flight side until the end of the 2020/2021 season. The 31-year old left his former team Mekelle Kenema after they …

Dr. Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Programme Manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Ghana Health Service, has said 30,500 Ghanaians have been vaccinated against the Coronavirus as of March 3, 2021. “Out of this, about 16,990 of them are males while 13,450 are females,” he said. He said this in an interview with the …

Eighteen more Ghanaians have died from the coronavirus taking the country’s death toll to 629. Per the latest update from the Ghana Health Service, 489 new cases have also been recorded as at February  28 and March 1 2021, bringing the country’s active case count to 5, 145. The Greater Accra, …

The petitioner in the just-ended election petition case, former President John Dramani Mahama sees the Supreme Court’s trial process that prevented the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Jean Mensa from publicly accounting to Ghanaians as a dangerous precedence. He simply describes it as an “embarrassing stain” to the country’s judicial and …

Prince Adu, also known as Dracula, a notorious armed robber, who was jailed to a cumulative 63 years by a Ho Circuit Court for three robbery offences, has his jail term increased to 90 years, when the court sentenced him to an additional 27 years in hard labour for similar …

A yet to be identified man has reportedly died at the premises of the Supreme Court shortly after the apex court delivered its judgement on the election petition. The man who collapsed when the 2nd Respondent spokespersons were addressing the media was rushed to the Supreme Court first aid department …