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Yaw Darko Asare
Yaw Darko Asare is a Ghanaian jurist and an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Early life and education Asare was born on 22 August 1963, in Akropong-Akwapim. He received his Ordinary Level Certificate from Okuapeman Senior High School in 1980 and his Advanced Level Certificate from Aggrey Memorial A.M.E. Zion Senior High School in 1982. He then pursued a Bachelor of Arts in law from the University of Ghana, which he obtained in 1986. He furthered his studies at the Ghana School of Law, where he earned his Professional Certificate in Law in 1986 and was called to the bar in 1988. In 1995, Asare obtained a post-graduate degree in International Maritime Law from the International Maritime Law Institute in Malta. Additionally, in 1997, he completed a Certificate of Training in Legislative Drafting from Tulane University in the US, and in 1998, he received a Certificate of Training on Port Management, Operations, and Administration from Galilee College, Israel. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Ghana
The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Constitution of Ghana, Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary of Ghana, Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive (government), Executive arms of government.1992 Constitution Article 125(1). "Justice emanates from the people and shall be administered in the name of the Republic by the Judiciary which shall be independent and subject only to this Constitution." The Supreme Court of Ghana has the final say on legal matters and can overturn lower court decisions. The Court consists of nine Justice (title), justices and hears cases on a wide range of issues, including criminal law, Civil law (legal system), civil law, and administrative law. History The Supreme court, Supreme Court was established by the Supreme Court Ordinance (1876) as the highest tribunal in the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast (now Ghana) during the colonial era. Until 1960, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghana Ports And Harbours Authority
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) is the national port authority of Ghana. Between the 16th and 18th centuries foreign trade in the then Gold Coast was undertaken from about 40 landing points scattered around the Gold Coast. By the 1900s these had converged to six main ports of trade. From 1920 to the 1940s the transport witnessed its first revolution in the road and rail network which culminated in the construction of the Takoradi Port. Further road expansion and shifts in the direction of trade in the post independence era led to the construction of the Ghana's second port ''Tema Port'', and Port of Tema, and the Fishing Harbour at Tema. GPHA main offices are in Tema, and Sekondi-Takoradi. Ports and Harbours The Takoradi Harbour and Tema Harbour and ports serves Sekondi-Takoradi and Tema's role as manufacturing centers, and handles cargo in transshipment to and from bordering countries north of Ghana. The Golden Jubilee Terminal is a recently opened facility of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A January 1963 lunar eclipse, total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the January 1963 lunar eclipse, penumbral lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963, annular solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alban Bagbin
Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin (born 24 September 1957) is a Ghanaian politician who is the current Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana. He was the List of Mills government ministers, Minister for Health in the Ghana government from January 2012 until February 2013. He served as the Member of Parliament for Nadowli West (Ghana parliament constituency), Nadowli West constituency in the Upper West Region, Upper West Region of Ghana in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th parliaments of the 4th republic of Ghana. He contested for the presidential candidate slot of the National Democratic Congress (Ghana), National Democratic Congress in 2019, but lost to former President John Dramani Mahama. On 7 January 2021, Bagbin was elected Speaker of 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. Early life and education Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin was born on 24 September 1957 to Sansunni Bagbin and Margaret B. Bagbin who were both peasant farmers. He is the fourth child of nine children. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse
Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse is a Ghanaian judge. He was a Supreme Court judge of Ghana and has also served on the Supreme Court of the Gambia. He was appointed a judge of both courts in 2008. Early life and education Dotse was born on 8 June 1953 and hails from Kpando in the Volta Region. He attended Kpando Secondary School from 1966 to 1971 and was educated at Accra Academy from 1971 to 1973. He studied law at the University of Ghana, Legon, graduating in June 1976 and was called to the Ghanaian Bar in November 1978. Working life Dotse worked as a State Attorney with the Attorney-General's Department from 1979 to 1981. After this stint, he went into private practice. He founded Mawulorm Chambers in Ho in the Volta Region. He served as president of the Volta Region Branch of the Ghana Bar Association. He handed over Mawulorm Chambers to Stephen Dzanku and Ernest Gaewu. Dotse became a high court judge in June 2002 and became a judge in the Court of Appeal on 16 September 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nene Amegatcher
Nene Abayateye Ofoe Amegatcher is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 3 October 2018 to 28 July 2023. He was born in Suhum, where he began his formal education. After his call to the Bar in 1980, he began teaching while working as a private legal practitioner. Prior to his appointment, he was the managing partner of Sam Okudzeto and Associates and a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law since 1994. Amegatcher is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and once served as president of the association from 2012 to 2015. He is also a member of the International Bar Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Lagos Arbitration Center, the American Bar Foundation, the ICC Court of Arbitration-Paris, London Court of International Arbitration Users' Council and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom. Early life and education Amegatcher was born on 3 February 1953 at Suhum in the Eastern Region. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah (born 24 May 1953) is a Ghanaian judge and a former Chief Justice of Ghana. In December 2019, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo nominated Justice Anin-Yeboah as the Chief Justice of Ghana. Early life and education Anin-Yeboah was born in Toase in Ashanti Region of Ghana on 24 May 1953. He attended Amaniampong Secondary School and Apam Secondary School from 1968 to 1976. He then continued his education at the University of Ghana and later the Ghana School of Law, graduating in 1981. Legal career in Ghana After graduating from law school he served as an assistant state attorney at the Attorney General's Office in Koforidua. He proceeded to work as a partner at the Koforidua branch of Afisem Chambers. He was later elected as the Eastern Regional Bar President. He served as a Justice of the High Court from 2002 to 2003 and the Court of Appeal from 2003 to 2008 in Ghana. Anin-Yeboah has also provided his legal experience to football in his country, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Adjei-Frimpong
Richard Adjei-Frimpong is a Ghanaian judge and an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Early life and education Adjei-Frimpong was born in Acherensua, Ahafo Region, on 27 February 1971. He attended Acherensua Methodist L/A Primary School from 1976 to 1984 for his primary and middle school education. His ordinary-level education and advanced-level education were completed at Acherensua Secondary School (now Acherensua Senior High School) from 1984 to 1989 and from 1989 to 1991, respectively. He then pursued a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree at the University of Ghana from 1992 to 1996. After obtaining his LL.B., he attended the Ghana School of Law for his professional legal education and was called to the Ghana Bar Association, bar in 1998. In 2014, he received a Master of Laws degree in International Maritime Law from the International Maritime Law Institute, International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI) in Malta. His dissertation was entitled ''Safeguarding the Rights of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Anthony Kwofie
Anthony Henry Kwofie is a Ghanaian judge, an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and president of the Association of Magistrates and Justices of Ghana. Early life and education Kwofie was born on 12 May 1960. He hails from Ainyinase, in the Ellembele District of the Western Region. He had his early education at the Bibiani Catholic Boys' primary school at Bibiani in the Western North Region of Ghana and the Methodist Middle School in Ainyisane in the Ellembele District of the Western Region. He proceeded to Half Assini Senior High School where he obtained his Ordinary Level certificate (O-Level) and continued at Navrongo Senior High School, where he obtained his Advanced Level certificate (A-Level). He had his tertiary education at the University of Ghana, Legon where he studied law for his Bachelor of Laws degree and proceeded to the Ghana School of Law, where he was awarded his Barrister-at-Law certificate. Kwofie was consequently called the bar on 3 October 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
