The Amasaman Circuit Court, presided over by Mrs Barbara Tetteh-Charwey, has sentenced Nii Adu Otu, an elder of Addyman, near Amasaman, to a four-year prison term with hard labour. When the case was first mentioned in court, he pleaded not guilty but subsequently changed his plea to guilty. Nii Otu was charged with causing harm ...

Egypt has a key role to play in countering Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Cairo. He said Egypt could “publicly renounce” IS ideology, reaffirming US support for Egypt’s battle against Sinai militants. Foreign fighters crossing Sinai en route for Syria are advising ...

A brutal student tried to blackmail his former girlfriend out of £700 and force her into cleaning his flat by threatening to release their home made sex tape. Feng Xiao, 21, even sent her snapshots of the video to prove his threat was serious, a court in New Zealand heard. Xiao met his 20-year-old partner last ...

A student died of a heart attack while looking at erotic magazines in a private booth at a sperm bank. It was Zhen Gang’s fourth visit in just over a week. Medics at the sperm bank set up at Wuhan University in China noticed that the young man seemed to be taking a long time ...

A Fast Track High Court on Friday threw out an interlocutory injunction filed by three persons seeking to restrain National Democratic Congress (NDC), Greater Accra Regional Committee from holding elections at the Kpone Katamanso Constituency. Patience Boakye, King Estie and Setordjie Wilson were vying for positions including women’s organiser, deputy youth organiser and executive members ...

The Northern Regional branch of the National Disaster National Management Organisation (NADMO) is asking government and philanthropists to supply them with boats and life jackets to save residents affected by the Bagre Dam water spillage. The spillage has increased the levels of water bodies along the water way of the dam. Four people drowned when ...

An advice to African youths not to focus only on money coming from Ashish Thakkar may seem ironic giving the fact that he is Africa’s youngest Billionaire. That advice is however worth the money as is the Mara Mentor App launched by Thakkar over the weekend. Ugandan business tycoon and Founder of Mara Group Mr ...

Diego Costa scored his first Chelsea hat-trick as they came from behind to beat Swansea and maintain their 100% start to the Premier League season. Swansea took the lead as John Terry turned a low cross into his own net but Costa equalised just before half-time. Chelsea’s dominance was rewarded when Costa converted a Cesc ...

Shinji Kagawa dazzled on his Borussia Dortmund return to inspire a 3-1 victory over Freiburg in the Bundesliga. The 25-year-old was given a huge reception when his name was announced in Jurgen Klopp’s injury-stricken side before kick-off, and he responded by helping set up the first for Adrian Ramos and scoring the second at Signal ...

Franck Ribery marked his first appearance of the season with a goal as Bayern Munich beat Stuttgart 2-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday. The former France winger came off the bench to seal a deserved win for the champions with a well-taken late goal on his return from a knee injury. Ribery, who this week stated he would not reverse ...

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has underscored the relevance of research, science and technology in a nation’s socio-economic development, stressing that the subjects play crucial roles in this competitive world. At the 6th graduation ceremony of the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT) at Cantonments in Accra, he said: “I can see that a time is ...

The Greater Accra Regional Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Aristo Aryee has described a court injunction restraining the party from holding its constituency elections as unnecessary. He accused the plaintiffs of failing to use internal party channels to address their grievances. “As much I want to believe that they went to court genuinely ...

When our politicians visit abroad, don’t they feel ashamed when they see/experience the facilities which they fail to roll out for the benefit of their citizens back home? When they visit museums abroad, don’t they feel ashamed knowing there is no proper museum in Ghana? Don’t they feel ashamed when they drive on wide, first-class, ...

One of the candidates seeking to be the next national chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dan Abodakpi says that his brief stint in prison will  not hinder his chances of leading the party. “As far as I am concerned and as far as the legal advice my lawyers give to me, there are ...

Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (512GB) of storage space – the highest capacity ever released. The card, which is the size of a postage stamp, will go on sale for $800 (£490). The launch comes a decade after the firm released a 512-megabyte (MB) SD card with one-thousandth of ...

The State on Thursday presented its first prosecution witness in the case involving Eric Amoateng, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza North, over a forged passport. Mr Ibrahim Issaka Lang-Hani, an Assistant Controller of Immigration Service told an Accra Circuit Court that he was on duty, when he was notified by the Bureau ...

Many constitutional experts and lay observers of Ghana’s 1992 constitution have argued that it unjustifiably sets up the winner of any general election as the sole distributor of ‘political and economic spoils’. It gets worse with a majoritarian parliament aligned to the winner president.  From economic decision making, laying of bills in parliament to appointing ...

A Seattle judge has ordered an HIV-positive man to stop spreading the disease and to seek treatment after he infected eight people in four years. The man, known only as “AO” in court documents, is required to show up for counselling and to protect future sexual partners. Officials maintain they are not trying to criminalise ...