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570:. Ghana Home Page. 22 April 2001
512:"Ghanaian Chief Justice is dead"
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179:General I. K. Acheampong
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538:"Chief Justice Retires"
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660:Sir Kobina Arku Korsah
607:Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah
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384:Chief Justice of Ghana
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321:Electoral Commissioner
283:Chief Justice of Ghana
203:Joseph Kingsley-Nyinah
46:Chief Justice of Ghana
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686:Edmund A.L. Bannerman
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229:Gold Coast
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170:1978–1978
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