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Teenage mothers, pregnant pupils write BECE at Agogo
Nine teenage mothers are sitting for this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Asante Akim North District of Ashanti Region.
Woman fakes pregnancy for nine months to stop partner from leaving her
A 37-year-old woman from Colombia recently shocked her...
Woman fakes pregnancy for nine months to stop partner from leaving her
A 37-year-old woman from Colombia recently shocked her entire country after managing to fake her pregnancy for nine months and then coming up with film-worthystory...
Ashanti records 6, 269 teenage pregnancies in six months
A total of 6, 269 teenage pregnancies were recorded in the Ashanti Region between January and June, this year, Dr. Kwasi Yeboah-Awudzi, Deputy Regional...
‘Don’t abort teenage pregnancies’
Dr Linda Vanotoo, immediate past Greater Accra Regional Director of Health, has advised parents against aborting pregnancies for their teenage girls.
Dr Vanotoo stated that...
Pregnant teenager raped; others brutalized by robbers at Budumbumram
Two teenagers, including a sixteen-year-old with eight-month pregnancy, were left severely traumatized after they were allegedly raped and robbed at gunpoint last Sunday.
The two...
Two teenagers flogged by Obinim for fornication ‘missing’
The Police say they are having difficulties in locating the two teenagers who were flogged on live TV during a church service in 2016...
Give teenage girls condoms – MP advocates
Member of Parliament for Kintampo South in the Brong Ahafo Region, Felicia Adjei, is pushing for teenage girls in the country who cannot control their...
Adverse effects of abortion contraceptive pills peak among teenagers
Health experts are reporting rising incidence of adverse and injurious drug reaction among teenage girls who abuse contraceptives in a bid to prevent pregnancy.
Prolonged...
Venezuela pill shortage triggers rise in teenage pregnancies
In downtown Barquisimeto, Margaret Khawan's pharmacy is looking a bit empty these days.
What products she does have she has spaced out along the shelves...
Teenage girls trading sex for fish
Some teenagers in fishing communities in the Central region are reported to be trading sex for fish.
The situation, among others, is affecting efforts aimed...
Hot audio: ‘Free SHS will produce pregnant teenagers’
The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is predicting Ghana may record the high rate of teenage pregnancies following the...
Hot video: Give teenagers condoms to reduce unwanted pregnancies – Counselor Lutterodt
Controversial relationship expert, George Lutterodt has said that many teenagers can prevent unwanted pregnancy if given a condom.
Speaking to Gifty Andoh Appiah on The...
I sleep with 5 different men everyday – pregnant teenage prostitute
The 17-year-old pregnant prostitute, who has been promised support from Nollywood Diva Tonto Dikeh’s Foundation, said she sleeps with five different men every day.
Afia...
19-year old teenager delivers quadruplets
A 19-year old subsistent farmer from Bodada in the Jasikan District of the Volta region has been delivered of a set of quadruplets at...
UCC students accused of impregnating teenagers
A survey conducted by the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) in the Central Region has exposed some male students of the University of Cape...
Teachers, lawyers impregnating teenagers in Central Region – MPs
Members of Parliament (MPs) have bemoaned the increasing spate of teenage pregnancy among some students by their teachers and other professionals including lawyers and...
My teenage kids have agreed to marry after welcoming new born baby – Obinim
Founder and Leader of God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has said he will take full responsibility of the upkeep of a new born...
Central Region: 29 expectant mothers died during child birth in first six months of...
Twenty- nine expectant mothers in the Central Region died during childbirth from January to June this year.
The deaths...
Man, 64, arrested for impregnating stepdaughter at Ofoase Ayirebi
Three persons have been arrested by the Oda Divisional Police Command in connection with the alarming teenage pregnancy cases at Ofoase-Ayirebi in...
NYA sensitises pupils on menstrual health at Sehwi Humjibre
The National Youth Authority (NYA) in the Western North Region has held a public sensitisation on menstrual hygiene and teenage pregnancy for...
Sanitary pads should be tax-free; not menstrual luxury – Rosetta Ntriwaah Boakye
The Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Registered Midwives Ghana, Rosetta Ntriwaah Boakye, has called...
6,000 adolescents in Volta Region pregnant – Stakeholders urged to address trend
According to Ghana Statistical Service data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census, about 79,733 girls in Ghana aged 12 to 17...
Three-day-old baby abandoned in bush rescued
A three-day-old baby boy, abandoned in a bush, has been rescued at Moree, a fishing community in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District in the...
Let’s castrate men who impregnate school girls – Queen mother
The paramount queen mother of Abura Asiebu Kwamankese in the Central Region has cautioned men who impregnate teenagers and end up stalling...
Boarding student delivers on campus, attempts to dump baby
A boarding student of Oyoko Methodist Senior High School (OMESS) in Koforidua has delivered a baby boy at a dormitory in the...
Rewind: Would AB Crentsil’s ‘Moses’ be banned if it were released today?
In a classroom originally designed to be an office on the top right corner of the New Block at Adisadel College, about...
Subsidise sanitary pads to make them affordable
The Upper West Regional Coordinator of Global Communities, Martin Sumbo, has appealed to the government to subsidise or remove taxes on sanitary...
Chief builds 3 unit classroom block for Dawu R/C Primary School
The chief of Dawu has constructed a modern three-Unit Classroom Block for the Dawu R/C Primary school in the Sekyere South District...
Central Region makes strides in reducing maternal mortality
The Central Region has recorded a celebrated reduction in maternal deaths with a maternal mortality ratio reducing from 109/100,000 live births in...
Govt cuts sod for first SHS at Yunyoo-Nasuani district
Government has cut sod for the construction of the first high school in the Yunyoo-Nasuani district of the North East Region.
LGBTQI+: PPAG denies supporting same sex marriage
The Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) has refuted rumours in sections of the Ghanaian society that it supports the legalisation of...
Leave our girls alone – MP tells men who chase adolescent girls
Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Patricia Appiagyei, has cautioned opportunistic men who make sexual advances at...
Youth in my area unduly patronising ‘wee toffee’ – Paramount Chief laments
Paramount Chief of Kwamankese in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District of the Central Region, Okakaben Idun Ando X, has bemoaned the future of his...
Queen mother bans naming ceremonies over this…
The queen mother of Oyoko in New Juaben Traditional area of the Eastern Region has banned outdooring and naming ceremony for teenage...