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Damang deal: Suame MP alleges conflict of interest, vows probe if NPP wins power
John Darko, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Suame and legal counsel for the minority caucus in parliament, has warned that a future NPP government would review the process used to grant mineral rights in the ongoing Damang mine transaction. Speaking on The Forum aired on Asaase Radio over the weekend, Darko questi...
‘Groundbreaking but an uphill struggle’ – Amanda Clinton breaks down UN slavery resolution
Following the historic passage of the UN resolution designating the Transatlantic Slave Trade as the "gravest crime against humanity", legal analyst and Founding Partner of Clinton Consultancy, Amanda Clinton, has provided a comprehensive look at the legal hurdles and monumental shifts ahead.
Human rights action instituted against MIIF by dismissed employee
A former staff member of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), Ms Lisboa Yemotiokor Quarshie, has filed an enforcement action seeking the protection of her fundamental human rights and freedoms against the Fund and the Attorney General of the Republic at the High Court of Justice. The application was filed at the...
Napo sues TV XYZ, Power FM for GHC20m over ECG sabotage claims
A former Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, aka “Napo” has filed a defamation suit against two media outlets seeking GHC20 million in damages over allegations that he was involved in a scheme to sabotage electricity supply in parts of the Ashanti Region. The suit, filed through Sarkodie Baffour Awuah & Partners,...
Kumasi police inspector remanded over alleged mobile money robbery
A police inspector in the Ashanti Region has been interdicted and remanded into custody over his alleged involvement in a robbery attack targeting a mobile money vendor in Kumasi, police said on Monday. The suspect, Inspector Bright Appiah Dankwah, who was stationed at the Asuoyeboah Police Station, was arrested by the...
Arrest and detention of our lawyers unfortunate, unlawful – MPOBB
A leading law firm in Ghana, Minkah-Premo, Osei-Bonsu, Bruce-Cathline and Partners (MPOBB), has described the purported recent arrest and detention of two of its lawyers, Justice Menka-Premoh and Ms. Sophia Korkor, by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), as an unfortunate and unlawful development. The position...
Ex-MASLOC boss Sedina Attionu appeals 10-year sentence
Former chief executive of Ghana’s Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Christine Tamakloe-Attionu, has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn her conviction and 10-year prison sentence. She argues that the charges brought against her were legally defective and violated her constitutional right to a fair...
Gabby reacts to Ecobank case, warns of possible market shock
Ghanaian lawyer and political strategist Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has raised concerns over a Supreme Court ruling that awarded businessman Daniel Ofori monthly compounded interest at 30% over a 10-year period in a dispute involving Ecobank Ghana and the Ghana Stock Exchange. Otchere-Darko said media reports on the 12...
Gabby Otchere-Darko writes: Ubuntu, Afrophobia and Africa’s unfinished struggle for unity
This month the news about Africa continues to centre around the disturbing images from South Africa circulating worldwide on social media. Not even the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi could shift that. African migrants attacked, their shops looted, people chased, assaulted and blamed simply for being from another Afri...
Clemency must not dilute Sedina extradition victory — Assafuah warns after US ruling
Member of Parliament for Old Tafo Vincent Ekow Assafuah has urged authorities to ensure full accountability in the case of former MASLOC chief Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, after a U.S. court approved her extradition to Ghana. The United States District Court for the District of Nevada ruled that all legal require...
Adu-Boahene case: witness confirms GHC1.7M and GHC400,000 transfers to National Security Coordinator’s account in 2018
Mildred Donkor, the third prosecution witness, told the court under cross-examination that bank records showed GHC1.7 million and GHC400,000 transfers from Advantage Solutions Limited into a Fidelity Bank account identified as the National Security Coordinator’s special operations account in 2018, in the ongoing trial...
Wontumi’s Exim Bank move was guided by rule of law, says campaign team
Chairman Wontumi chose to pursue plea negotiations in the Exim Bank matter as part of a lawful effort to resolve outstanding legal and commercial issues, according to a statement from his campaign team. In a statement signed by Media and Communications Director Ewuradjoa Coleman, the campaign said the financial facilit...