The Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a 32-year-old teacher to 12 years' imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old pupil.

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has announced the closure of the existing Terminal 3 car park at Accra International Airport effective Monday, July 20, to facilitate the construction of a seven-storey Multi-Purpose Car Park and Airport Hotel Complex.

The 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Secretariat has disclosed that 268 filling stations and 33 manufacturers are now operating under the multi-shift model, responding to recent parliamentary inquiries about the programme's progress.

Police in Wa have launched investigations into the discovery of the body of a newborn baby at the refuse dump of Sem-B Hotel at Bamahu, a suburb of Wa.

The Nungua District Police Command is investigating a case of alleged assault involving some suspected police officers following a complaint lodged by a resident of Teshie.

The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) says no funds meant for the Accra-Kumasi Expressway project have been expended so far, paid to any contractor or spent on the construction works. 

The Concerned Citizens of Ghana has called on the government to urgently intervene in the coordinated attack on Jonah Capital, a Ghanaian company owned by businessman Sam Esson Jonah, and others in Abuja, Nigeria.

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has said the machinery of chieftaincy adjudication of cases requires urgent modernisation to ensure the speedy resolution of cases brought before chiefs.

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has arrested three persons in connection with the attempted importation of approximately five million tablets of tramadol with an estimated street value of about GH¢100 million.

The President of the Institute of Statisticians and Data Scientists, Professor Nicholas N. N. Nsowah-Nuamah, has called for the title "Government Statistician" to be changed to "Statistician General", arguing that the current designation creates the wrong public perception about the independence of Ghana's official statistics.

The Premier Health Insurance has marked its 15th anniversary by donating 150 wheelchairs to selected public health facilities nationwide to improve healthcare and support patients with mobility challenges.

The Pharmaceutical Importers and Wholesalers Association (PIWA) has launched its 10th anniversary celebration with a call on stakeholders to strengthen collaboration to support local pharmaceutical manufacturing, while maintaining responsible drug imports to ensure Ghanaians have continuous access to medicines.

Military religious leaders from 10 West African countries are attending a symposium in Accra designed to strengthen spiritual readiness, deepen regional partnerships and foster ethical unity.

The Judiciary Services has outlined plans to redevelop the historic West Africa Court of Appeal (WACA) building in Cape Coast into a museum and research centre as part of efforts to preserve its legacy and boost tourism in the city.

They were convicted four years ago; they served the sentence, went to the Court of Appeal, and the sentence was dismissed.

The Republic (prosecution) appealed to the Supreme Court and lost the case. It came out at the Supreme Court that the police did what is described in local parlance as 'kululu.' 

Graphic Online's Justice Agbenorsi reports that a police investigator's close relationship with a complainant (a foreign national) in a criminal trial has drawn sharp criticism from the Supreme Court, which held that the officer showed a real likelihood of bias against two men who stood trial at the High Court in a $270,000 gold export scam case. 

Tony Forson, a private legal practitioner and former President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Justice Sophia Rosetta Bernasko Essah and Justice Edward Amoako Asante, both Justices of the Court of Appeal have been nominated for appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court.

President John Dramani Mahama made the nomination in a move that will increase the membership of the country's apex court if approved.

The third-day Islamic funeral prayer (Adua) for the Overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Abukari II, has been observed in Yendi, drawing thousands of mourners and sympathisers from across the country to pay their final respects.

The Nkawkaw Fire Station Visibility Team rescued a three-year-old boy from drowning during a community engagement exercise at Nkawkaw Kwamang recently.

The Ministry of Health is to reopen the recruitment portal to absorb 16,000 nurses in two phases, President John Dramani Mahama has announced.

This is to help reduce the backlog of qualified nurses awaiting posting in Ghana.

The 43-year-old social media influencer, Camilla Alhassan, who claimed in a series of TikTok videos that President John Dramani Mahama had sacrificed 32 cows to secure political power, has been slapped with a one-year jail term.