The High Court has convicted the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, for unlawfully assigning mineral rights without the requisite approval and deliberately facilitating illegal mining activities at his mining concession in...
The family of the late Charles Henry Amissah, a 29-year-old engineer who died after allegedly being denied emergency medical care at multiple hospitals in Accra, has filed a GH¢20 million lawsuit against three health facilities, some medical personnel and the Attorney General.
The suit, filed...
A former General Manager of Akonta Mining has told the High Court in Accra that Bernard Antwi Boasiako, widely known as Chairman Wontumi, directed them to carry out mining operations in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve without the required permits.
The witness, Edward Akwasi Ekuoko,...
Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, has expressed his displeasure with the relatively light prison sentence and fine that an Accra High Court imposed on Aisha Huang, a Chinese criminal mining kingpin.
Aisha Huang was sentenced under Act 900 by the trial...
