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The General Legal Council (GLC) has barred prominent Human Rights lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu from practicing as a lawyer for three (3) years, Myjoyonline.com has learnt. The decision to suspend Mr. Sosu was reached Thursday, June 1, 2017, after the Council found him guilty of professional misconduct contrary to the code regulating legal practice in the country. Details regarding the specific ...

tarkwanews.net has obtained pictures of the woman who lit matchstick to finally  kill Captain Maxwell Mahama of the Ghana Army,after he was beaten and killed by a mob at Denkyira-Boase.                 Police operation in Dnkyira-Boase have arrested the woman who lit the matchstick.   Ghana:tarkwanews/Obeng-purefm Share on: WhatsApp

At least five people have suffered severe knife wounds, according to Starrfmonline.com sources. The cause of the mayhem is immediately not known. Confirming the incident to Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene Djan Friday June 2, 2017, the Sekondi District Police Commander, ASP Emmanuel Tetteh said he received a distress call from three indigenes of the community reporting an attack at the ...

President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Affail Monney has called on the security agencies to protect journalists who are being threatened by some illegal miners. According to him, reports indicate that members of the GJA and other media practitioners, particularly in the Central, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions are being threatened for exposing the destructive activities in the galamsey ...

The Accra High Court on Friday restrained the Election Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) from re-opening nominations for the association’s upcoming national elections. It followed the filing of a suit by four candidates in the upcoming elections against the re-opening of nominations, arguing that the Election Committee erred. The plaintiffs are Edmund Kofi Yeboah, an aspiring General Secretary, ...

Ghana’s representative to the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee says although she missed out of the ultimate prize, she got a priceless life-changing experience. Lily Tugbah, 16, and a junior high school (JHS) student of Solidarity International School in Ashiaman could not make it beyond the second round. The winner of the 10th edition of The Spelling Bee Ghana in ...

The Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has donated 2000 mathematical sets to Junior High School students sitting their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Ablekuma West constituency Monday. Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful, who doubles as the MP for the constituency, advised the students to learn hard ahead of the examination so they can pass to become useful to the country in ...

The lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama of the 5th Infantry Battalion (5BN) on May 29, 2017 by angry residents of Denkyira-Boase in the Upper Denkyira West District has gained international appeal with several news outlets reporting it. Prominent among them is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that visited the troubled town of Diaso and Denkyira-Boase and reported its version ...

The Upper Denkyira West Assembly has thrown an invitation to President Akufo-Addo to personally pay a visit to the area following the lynching of an Army Captain, Maxwell Mahama. The Presiding Member of the Assembly Gabriel Kwadwo Karikari said at a press conference Friday “we are appealing to Nana [Akufo-Addo] to come down to the place where the incident happened”. ...

The Chinese woman arrested for illegally mining in Ghana, Aisha Huang, has been granted bail eventually after two previous failed attempts. The court on Friday granted her and four others partial freedom with the sum of GH¢ 500,000 each and two surities both to be justified after spending well over three weeks behind bars. Justice Charles Edward Ekow Baiden adjourned ...