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The first-ever model of unintended pregnancies and abortion rates for 150 countries has estimated that 266,000 abortions were done in Ghana between 2015 and 2019. The Guttmacher Institute, the World Health Organisation and the UN’s Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) released the model-based estimates of unintended pregnancy and abortion rates highlighting …

A 59-year-old Gauteng man was found guilty of sexually assaulting and raping a minor. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison. John Edward Oosthuizen was arrested in 2016 for raping a 14-year-old girl for nearly seven months while renting a backroom at the victim’s home. According to Johannesburg Central …

The Sogakope Circuit Court has sentenced three teenage boys to a jail term of 20 years each for the offense of robbery. The court presided over by His Lordship Isaac Addo, sentenced Godsway Sedofia 19, Seraphim Torgbor 18, and Destiny Adzakpo 18, on Friday, March 18, 2022. Police prosecutor, Chief …

Lawyer Bobby Banson has cautioned the Minority against any attempt to physically prevent the Deputy Speaker from partaking in voting for decision-making in parliament. According to him, anybody who attempts to do so will breach the Supreme Court ruling, which amounts to high crime, liable to 10 years imprisonment without …

A 29-year-old driver who impregnated a 15-year-old girl at La Wireless in Accra, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Justice Shamo Abbey, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. He also denied being responsible for the pregnancy. A DNA test conducted, however, revealed that he …

A Cape Court Circuit ‘1’on Friday, March 18, 2022, has sentenced a 19-year-old Prophet to seven years imprisonment, for defiling a 13-year-old girl Junior High School pupil at Assin Breku, in the Assin North District of the Central Region. The convict, Gideon Adarkwa, a prophet at True Faith Church, pleaded …

The Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced 21-year-old Priscilla Appiah to two (2) and half years in prison with hard labour for conspiring with her mother to steal a newborn baby at the Kumasi South Hospital in June 2019. The court last year sentenced her mother, 45-year-old Theresah Asamoah, to six …

It’s just about a month away from the Easter celebrations and Kwahu is geared up already ahead of the celebrations. Annually, thousands of revelers throng the township to join in the host of fun activities that usually take place on the mountain top. With back to back events, scheduled from …

Accra-based radio station Radio Gold goes live five years of shutting down due to sanctions imposed on it by the National Communications Authority (NCA). The licenses of Radio Gold and 33 other broadcast stations were shut down after a 2017 audit embarked upon by the Authority. The closures were carried …

A painter, who defiled his girlfriend’s 13-year- old daughter, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by an Adentan Circuit Court. Fred Acquaye, 54, is said to have defiled the victim on two occasions after his girlfriend had gone to church. Charged with defilement, Acquaye pleaded guilty with explanation. He …