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13 Dec

China Sentences Former Footballer To 20 Years In Prison For Corruption

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A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. Li Tie, 47, who played for the English Premier League Everton alongside Wayne Rooney in the early 2000s, is the biggest name to fall foul of a sweeping crackdown on rampant graft in China’s professional soccer league. Despite leader Xi Jinping’s vision to turn China into a “world soccer superpower,” Chinese professional soccer has been mired with poor financial decision making, deep-rooted corruption and disappointing performance. In 2022, after China’s national men’s…

27 Nov

Man Handed Life Imprisonment After Stabbing Elder Brother To Death

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Daniel Obirikwa Adjin, who stabbed his elder brother to death in 2017 at Mamprobi in Accra, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Accra High Court. Adjin was sentenced after the jury, in a 5-2 decision, returned a guilty verdict at the end of the trial. “The jury, after a majority decision of 5-2, the accused is hereby convicted on the charge of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment,” the court, presided over by Justice Marie-Louise Simmons, said. The court informed the convict that he had one month to appeal the sentence at the Court of Appeal. During the…

06 Nov

Killers Of Ugandan Olympian Sentenced To 35 Years

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A court in Kenya has sentenced two men to 35 years each for the murder of Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat at the end of last year. The Olympic steeplechaser was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve in the town of Eldoret, known as a top training centre for athletes. “Your actions were cruel to a defenceless person whose life you cut short,” Justice Reuben Nyakundi told Peter Ushuru Khalumi and David Ekai Lokere during the sentencing hearing in the High Court in Eldoret. Kiplagat’s murder shocked people in Kenya, which has seen the killing of several other elite athletes…

10 Sep

My Spirit Left Me At The Entrance Of Nsawam Prison – Akuapem Polo Details Jail Experience

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Actress and socialite Rosemond Alade Brown, popularly known as Akuapem Poloo, narrates how she lost herself when the reality of going to jail dawned on her at the entrance of Nsawam Prison. Poloo was given a 90-day jail sentence by an Accra Circuit Court for posting nude photographs of her son, a minor, on social media in 2020. The act was widely condemned by Ghanaians, who vehemently criticized Poloo and urged the court to deal with her legally for violating the rights and dignity of the child. In a conversation with MzGee on Just Being Us, Poloo shed light on…

07 Jun

My Prison Experience Was A Blessing – Tems Reveals

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Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has described her ordeal in Ugandan prison as a blessing in disguise. According to the ‘Crazy Things’ crooner, she felt honoured to have experienced prison. Tems explained that she wouldn’t have known what prisoners were going through if she hadn’t had the experience herself. She emphasised that her prison experience humbled her. “Prison was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I actually feel honoured to have had because otherwise, I would never have thought about these people, and to be in their presence was very humbling,” Tems told ES Magazine. Starrnews recalls that…

24 Nov

Prosecutor Seeks Nine-Year Prison Term For Dani Alves

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A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of nine years for ex-Brazil and Barcelona defender Dani Alves. The 40-year-old is to stand trial in Spain for alleged sexual assault last December. Alves has been in prison without bail since being arrested in January over an allegation he assaulted a woman in a Barcelona nightclub. He has said that he had consensual sex with his accuser after initially denying any sexual encounter with her. The prosecutor has also asked for Alves to receive a restraining order following the jail term and for him to pay damages worth 150,000 euros (£130,500) to…

12 Oct

Capital Bank’s Ato Essien Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison

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Founder of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Accra High Court today. Mr Essien was convicted of stealing over GH¢90m of Bank of Ghana’s liquidity support to the now-defunct financial institution. This comes after his inability to fully pay the said amount back to the State after agreeing to do so despite being afforded the opportunity. He earlier paid ¢30 million upfront in December 2022 and was required to pay ¢20 million as the first installment of the ¢60 million outstanding amount by April 28, 2023. But he was only able…

23 Jul

Prisons In Ghana Have Become An Academy For Graduating Criminals- Security Man (Video)

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Executive Director of IRBARD SECURITY CONSULT, Irbard Ibrahim, has observed that prisons in Ghana are rather churning out more criminals rather positively transforming them. In his view, prisons have become an academy for graduating criminals in the Ghanaian society. https://youtu.be/oVTHS-F71hc In an interview with Oheneba Asiedu on Wontumi TV which was monitored by Wontumionine.com, Irbard Ibrahim called for immediate reforms noting that “we should be limiting custodian sentences. Petty thieves should not be sent to prison yards because they go there and interact with hardened criminals”. He likened the above interactions to a lecturer and student relationship and added that it was a way for petty…