State Prosecutors have signaled to the Financial and Tax Court Presided over by Justice Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe, that they intend to call seven more Prosecution witnesses in the case of the Republic verses Sedinam Tamakloe and another to establish their case against the two accused persons. The Former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), ...

There was excitement especially among Majority MPs in Parliament on Monday when the now popular Ekumfi Fruit Juice product known as “Eku Juice” popped up in the law-making chamber during the 2020 budget debate. The Minister for Information and MP for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah displayed the nicely well-packaged juice while contributing to the budget debate focusing on the ...

A bridge collapse that killed two people in south-western France was apparently caused by a lorry that weighed too much, prosecutors say. Two vehicles plunged into the River Tarn, north of Toulouse, when the bridge near the village of Mirepoix-sur-Tarn fell down on Monday morning. One of the vehicles, a lorry, weighed more than 50 tonnes, prosecutors said. The suspension ...

The constitutionality of allocations from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) to Ghana’s Members of Parliament has once again been challenged, with a call on National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) to seek interpretation and declaration at the Supreme Court ostensibly to stop the allocation to the MPs Common Fund. Speaking during a sensitization and stakeholder Engagement jointly ...

The building where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Austria will be turned into a police station, officials have announced. Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said it would be an “unmistakable signal” that the property did not commemorate Nazism. Hitler spent the first few weeks of his life in a flat in the 17th-Century building in the town of Braunau ...

A convicted internet fraudster has been placed under investigation in Nigeria for allegedly masterminding a “mega scam” from a maximum-security prison worth at least $1m (£773,000). Anti-corruption officials said Hope Olusegun Aroke used a “network of accomplices” for the fraud. He was arrested in 2012 and has been serving a 24-year sentence at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison. But a ...

A pregnant woman was killed by dogs in forest land in northern France while a hunt with hounds was happening in the area, investigators have said. The body of the 29-year-old, who was walking her own dogs, was discovered near the town of Villers-Cotterêts. She died after “several dog bites to the upper and lower limbs and the head,” prosecutor ...

President Akufo-Addo has withdrawn the appointment of Dr Baffour Awuah as Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) MyNewsGH has been authoritatively informed. The termination follows information forwarded to the seat of government by a Medical Team loyal to the New Patriotic Party that revealed the new GHS boss is an opposition NDC loyalist since 1992 but managed to warm ...

Former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative has described the ongoing feud between the Economic and Organised Crimes Office and the Auditor General as unfortunate. According to Vitus Azeem, a clash between the two anti-corruption offices is unhealthy for the fight against corruption. Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express with Evans Mensah on Tuesday he said “it is very unfortunate, ...

Former President John Mahama has described Nigeria’s decision to close its border to Ghana and others as worrying. According to the former President, even though he could appreciate the effect of rice smuggling on Nigeria, the unilateral decision to close the border is harmful to the ECOWAS agenda “The unilateral closure of the Nigeria border since August is a very ...