Specialised courts to handle cases of persons indicted in Auditor-General’s reports and ‘galamsey’

Specialised financial courts will soon be established to deal with infractions in the Auditor-General’s reports, the illegal mining (galamsey) menace and other environment-related crimes, President John Dramani Mahama has said. President Mahama said this at the end of a meeting with the Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr […]

See list of 50 unrecognized foreign universities in Ghana by GTEC

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has issued a warning to all heads of tertiary institutions and the public against engaging with 50 foreign tertiary institutions that are not recognised by the Commission due to accreditation and quality assurance breaches. In a statement issued by the Director-General, Prof. Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, GTEC cautioned that these […]

This is Elisha Mahama Akpanichie, the man who killed Jirapa ‘Dubai’ owner who has been sentenced to life imprisonment

Elisha Mahama Akpanichie, the main accused person in the murder of Eric Johnson, the owner of the Royal Cosy Hills Hotel, popularly known as Jirapa ‘Dubai’, has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. The High Court in Wa, presided over by Justice Yussif Assibey, which convicted and sentenced Elisha Mahama on Wednesday [Oct 15, […]

List of Charges against Gifty Oware in NSS scandal

Former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been charged with multiple counts of financial crimes, including stealing, willfully causing financial loss to the state, and money laundering, in what prosecutors describe as a sophisticated scheme to divert public funds through a hire-purchase arrangement under the NSA’s “marketplace” platform. According […]