Courts can sit on weekends, public holidays – Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision ruled that courts are to sit on weekends and public holidays to deal with issues that affect personal liberty. This brings to an end the age-long practice where persons are arrested and kept beyond 48 hours because weekends and holidays are not counted. The seven-member panel presided […]

Sell Woyome’s properties to pay debt to the state – Supreme Court orders

A single Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Alfred Benin, has ordered that several properties identified as belonging to the embattled businessman Alfred Woyome, be sold to off set some 51 Million Ghana Cedis judgement debt paid illegally to him by the State. The properties are two executive buildings located at Trassaco in Accra, the […]

It’s a crime to insult Rwanda President, Supreme court rules

The Supreme Court in Rwanda has rejected a challenge to a law which says it is a crime to insult the president. The law, which was introduced last year, means that anyone insulting President Paul Kagame faces between five and seven years in prison. Lawyer Richard Mugisha had argued that the law was unconstitutional as […]

Stonebwoy to headline Concert on his birthday, March 5

Multiple award winning reggae/dancehall and afrobeats artiste, Livingstone Etse Satekla, popularly known as Stonebwoy, has been billed to headline the maiden edition of Independence Concert organised and hosted by Ghana’s premier 5-star Hotel, Labadi Beach Hotel and Burniton Music Group. He made this announcement today, 14th February at a press launch at the Labadi Beach […]