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Ghana: The General Legal Council can’t save Akufo-Addo!

By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor My good friends, here is the latest insider information for you to know how Justice Kpegah’s lawsuit has shaken the Akufo-Addo camp and his supporters in the ranks of the Ghanaian legal system despite their … read more »

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Ethiopia: High Court Judge Suspect in Receiving Bribe

By Melkeam Aschalew,Addis Fortune A judge at the Federal First Instant Court was arrested two weeks ago by investigators at the Federal Ethics & Anticorruption Commission, for allegedly receiving a bribe and pledging to issue judgment in favour of one … read more »

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Ghana: President Mahama’s 4,800 witnesses and the NPP leaders’ headache

By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Folks, there is more trouble in Osonokrom. President Mahama’s intention to call about 4,800 witnesses to testify for him in the NPP’s election-related case now before the Supreme Court has sent serious shock waves through … read more »

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Hulk Hogan sues ex wife

Wrestler Hulk Hogan is suing his ex-wife, claiming she lied and defamed him in her new book. Hogan – whose real name is Terry Bollea – filed the 18-page lawsuit in Florida. It claims Linda Bollea wrote Wrestling the Hulk … read more »

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Zimbabawe female rape suspects get death threats

Harare – Three Zimbabwean women charged with attacking male hitchhikers to collect semen for rituals have received death threats, their lawyers told a Harare court on Tuesday. “We have indicated that they have received death threats. Every time they appear … read more »

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New York maid hits Strauss-Kahn with civil lawsuit

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted a housekeeper in a “violent and sadistic attack” in his hotel suite in Manhattan in May, a civil lawsuit filed on Monday alleges. The lawsuit, which follows criminal charges against the Frenchman, repeats … read more »

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P Diddy sued for $1-trillion

P. Diddy is being sued for $1 trillion. Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks has filed a lawsuit against the hip-hop superstar accusing him of being behind the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and stealing a poker chip from … read more »

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Gabon: Civil damages are not a tool for punishment

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Gabonese authorities to free a journalist who was jailed on Tuesday for failing to pay exorbitant damages stemming from a 2004 civil libel suit. Jean-Yves Ntoutoume, editor of the private bimonthly Le Temps, … read more »

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Oprah sued for plagiarism

New York – Oprah Winfrey is being sued by the author of political booklet, “How America Elects Her Presidents”. Charles Harris claims in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in US District Court in Pennsylvania that in 2008, as Winfrey began … read more »

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