A 56-year-old driver who admitted in court to defiling and impregnating his 15-year-old house help has made a shocking U-turn in the case. Kwasi Akuffo had on October 11, 2017pleaded guilty with explanation to the charge of defilement before the court presided by Mr Aboagye Tandoh who was then a relieving judge. However when Akuffo … Read more
The Vice President Mahmmud Bawumia has charged the newly constituted Board of Directors of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to resuscitate the scheme. He said the scheme was at a critical stage and needed the full expertise of the Board to improve. “There is so much we want to do within a limited budget. … Read more
State agencies, such as the Social Welfare Department, have been urged to speed up processes intended to curtail child marriages. The Programme Manager of ActionAid Ghana for End Child Marriage Campaign, She-Vera Anzagira, said these institutions hardly follow up on reported cases of child marriages and that enables the people involve to have their way. … Read more
Commercial drivers in the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi have called for action from the local authorities; the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) against the increasing number of street children hawking within the metropolis. Minors who should have been in school are always spotted busily selling on the road side putting their lives in danger and that … Read more
Kwame looks completely normal, bouncing around the compound of the orphanage at Kwao Bondzie, a sprawling neighbourhood in the outskirt of Kasoa in the Central Region. With thick-black hair, white clear eyes and shy smile, Kwame has the features of any two and half-year-old, until the diaper is pulled off. Life has pelted Kwame with … Read more
Physically challenged persons at Abofuor in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti Region are agitating the non-payment of their share of the disability fund in the past five years. They say their interest to participate in the 2016 general elections has waned due to the posture of local authorities to deprive them of access to … Read more
Mrs. Gladys Asmah, was born on October 16, 1939, at Cape Coast, in the Central Region. She started her primary education at Wesley Girls School and then to the Ghana, National College, both in Cape coast. After her secondary education, she -worked briefly with the Ghana Railway Corporation and subsequently as a supervisor at the … Read more
A senior officer at the Mion District Social Welfare and Community Development Department, Iddrisu Alhassan Ganiyu, has raised alarm over the rate at which teenage pregnancies are being recorded in the district. According to him, between 30 and 40 teenage girls become pregnant in the district every year and that 90% of the number do … Read more