Author: TNRgh

After Former NAFCO CEO’s Attempt To ‘Abscond’ Fails By Phillip AntohFormer Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has filed a habeas corpus application demanding that the state produce former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba before the High Court, setting up a constitutional showdown over the legality of his detention. The application, filed on Monday 6 July under the 1992 Constitution and the Habeas Corpus Act, 1964 (Act 244), follows Aludiba’s arrest by the Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) on Saturday 4 July at the Accra International Airport just days after the High Court had granted him…

A simmering succession dispute within the Kristo Asafo Mission has erupted into open conflict, with former Member of Parliament Sarah Adwoa Safo formally petitioning the church’s Council of Elders to disqualify her brother, Nana Kwadwo Safo Akofena, from succeeding their late father, Apostle Prof. Emeritus Kwadwo Safo Kantanka. The petition, filed through her lawyer Kwame Boafo Akuffo, raises profound questions about the intersection of family dynamics, constitutional governance, and leadership succession within one of Ghana’s most prominent independent churches. At the heart of the dispute is a constitutional amendment passed in 2024, which Adwoa Safo’s lawyers argue explicitly revoked the…

Files Appeal Challenging Contempt Conviction and Gag OrderBy Gifty BoatengThe Managing Editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Alans Dogbey, has filed a Notice of Appeal challenging his 7-day imprisonment for contempt, in a case that has become a landmark test of press freedom and judicial authority in Ghana. The 9-page document, filed at the Court of Appeal by his lawyer Peter Okudzeto, cites Kevin Okyere and Springfield Exploration and Production Limited as respondents, with Prime Mark Company Limited and Abdul Razak Bawa named as co-defendants. The appeal seeks to overturn both the contempt conviction and the interlocutory injunction that barred…

…Court Rejects Emergency Bid, Sets Stay Hearing for July 9 but lawyer questions client’s whereabouts By Prince Ahenkorah The High Court in Accra has slapped down an emergency bid by lawyers for alleged romance scam kingpin Frederick Kumi better known as Abu Trica to halt his extradition to the United States over an eye-watering $8 million fraud plot. In a dramatic twist that has left his legal team scrambling, Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul Baasit ruled that the emergency ex-parte application simply could not be heard without the Attorney-General being given proper notice. The judge made it crystal clear that extradition…

By Gifty BoatengThe preventable death of a 46-year-old woman at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital on Sunday has reignited criticism of successive governments’ failure to resolve the teaching hospital’s chronic bed shortage, a crisis that has now claimed multiple lives in recent months. Laila, sister of popular musician Mzbel (Belinda Nana Akua Amoah), was rushed to the premier health facility in critical condition but was turned away because no bed was available. She died hours later, reportedly on the hospital floor. The tragedy follows the February death of 29-year-old engineer Charles Amissah, whose demise after being denied care at three Accra hospitals,…

Every rainy season, Accra behaves as if water has committed a surprise attack. The clouds gather. The drains overflow. Roads vanish under brown water. Homes flood. Shops shut. Drivers calculate risk with their tyres. Commuters remove their shoes and become emergency engineers. Radio stations open their phone lines. Officials tour affected areas. Everyone agrees the situation is serious. Then the sun returns, the water recedes, and Accra quietly prepares to forget. Until the next rain. The June 29 flooding should therefore not be treated as breaking news. It is a reminder. Heavy rains that began late on Sunday, June 28,…

-As Amoako Atta Leads Ken’s Trial-Party’s Disciplinary Committee Members Haunted By Their Own Scandals As They Move Against Firebrand MPBy Gifty BoatengThe New Patriotic Party has lit a fuse it may not be able to extinguish.In a move dripping with irony, former Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako Atta a man whose tenure was dogged by corruption allegations has been handed the gavel to chair an eight-member disciplinary committee against Kennedy Agyapong.The party has given the committee fourteen days to determine the fate of the Assin Central firebrand following a staggering ten petitions against him. But the move may prove to be…

Former Spy Chief Amassed 27-Unit Apartment, Seven Homes At Mayfair Garden Despite Earning GH¢5,000 MonthlyBy Prince AhenkorahEconomic and Organised Crime Office investigators have told a High Court that properties linked to former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahen are grossly inconsistent with his known income, as the prosecution continues building its case in the GH¢49.1 million corruption trial. Frank Marshall Cromwell, an EOCO investigator and the prosecution’s fourth witness, testified on Wednesday that investigators scrutinised Adu-Boahen’s salary records covering 2017 to 2019. The documents showed the former spy chief earned approximately GH¢5,000 monthly in 2017, rising to GH¢6,000 in 2018…

…agrees US$4.4m restitution…Sentencing set for September as Ghanaian socialite trades denial for pleaBy Prince Ahenkorah Joseph Kwadwo Badu Boateng better known in Accra’s nightlife circuit as Dada Joe Remix has entered a guilty plea in a federal court in Arizona, ending a decade-long chase that stretched from Ghana’s political salons to the retirement homes of the American Midwest. The entrepreneur and self-styled socialite admitted to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and has agreed to pay roughly US$4.4 million in restitution to a string of elderly victims he and his co-conspirators systematically fleeced.The plea, entered before the U.S. District Court for…

Pesticide Levels Exceed Safety Limits By Philip Antoh A study conducted in June by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has confirmed that cabbages sold at Accra’s Agbogbloshie and Madina markets are contaminated with pesticide residues above statutory limits. Every cabbage sample tested failed the safety standards for eight different chemical compounds.Okra performed marginally better: 67% of samples met the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs). However, okra sourced directly from Agbogbloshie showed high concentrations of hazardous substances, indicating a market-specific contamination risk. The contaminated cabbages were traced to major farming supply hubs…