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20,000 girls below 18 give birth every day-UNFPA The State of the World Population (SWOP) 2013 report has indicated that 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth in developing countries every day. According to the report, nine in 10 of this birth occurs within marriages or a union. It further projected that by 2030 if the current trend continues, the number of birth to girls under 15 could rise to 3 million. This was revealed at the launch of the State of the World Population (SWOP) 2013 report. The launch was on the theme “Motherhood in Childhood: facing the challenges of adolescent pregnancy” The SWOP highlights the main challenges of adolescent pregnancy and its serious impact on girl’s education, health and long-term employment opportunities. It also outlines possible means to curb this trend and protect girls’ human rights and well-being. The report indicated that in every region of the world, impoverished, poorly educated and rural girls are at risk to be...

Internal squabble won’t tear NPP apart - Fred Oware Indeed there are some issues that the party has to deal with but I don't think it is tearing the party apart, said Mr. Oware, the Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He is convinced that the internal disagreement and squabble within the leadership of the NPP will not divide the party Media reports have indicated that the constituency election of the NPP was fraught with fierce anger and disagreement leading to abrupt end of some constituency poll. But Mr. Oware maintained that those reports are false in that they do not represent the true information of events. He said "We would have wished that we did not have these problems but the fact that the elections were halted in about three or four out of 43 constituencies due to some problems perhaps is not a justification that there is a huge problem going on in the party.” Reacting to some rescheduled election in the Northern region, he noted i...

Flying 'wizard' crash-lands at Kasoa A man believed to be in his 70s, who claimed to.be a wizard, was on Wednesday found on the banks of the Okrudu River at Kaimebre, a settlement near the Kasoa New Market in the Central Region.. The man, who gave his name as Charles Atta, looked frail, pale and bore protruding breasts like that of a teenage girl. His body was smeared with mud from the bank of the river where he was found by two brothers, Liberty Obeng and Innocent Obeng, who claimed they found the strange man crying for help. The two brothers told Daily Guide reporters that the self-acclaimed wizard confessed to them that he was in the company of colleagues, including a medical doctor and were flying to Cape Coast for a meeting when he was forced down. According to him, they were flying over a church where an all-night vigil was being held when he crash- landed at Servant Kings International School. "When we asked him where he was comin...

Flying 'wizard' crash-lands at Kasoa

Juju exhumed in classroom   The A.M. E Zion basic school at Ho in the Volta Region has witnessed a bizarre situation as Prophet exhumed spiritual items from one of the classrooms on Friday to redeem pupils and teachers of failures in examination, finance and marriages. The items exhumed included female thunder stone/bolt (flat and round stone with hole at the center), pieces of red and black calico, a wood carving in the form of a human being, piece of chalk, quantity of cowries and others. The prophet also exhumed two sheets of papers with the inscription “some teachers will die and the performance of the pupil shall see more disgracing circumstances” According to one of the teachers (name withheld), he has been experiencing spiritual and demonic attacks in his dreams alluding that to his financial and marital failure. He narrated that the attack has been extended to the academic performance of the pupils since great efforts put in the academic excellenc...

Headmasters will be sanctioned- Okudjeto The Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, has indicated that the ministry of education would sanction headmasters who charge unapproved fees. According to him, some of the headmasters deliberately flout the directive of the ministry. He said “We had some headmasters deliberately flouting the directive. The names have been taken, and they are going through the disciplinary process. I can assure you that they will be sanctioned. There is no doubt at all. We have also said that sanctions will not be enough and that the extra fees, the extra charges must be deducted from the fees of the next term”. He expressed dismayed at the way some of the heads of schools charge extra fee from students. The headmaster of Toase Secondary School, Mr Annor Yeboah, in the Ashanti region has been suspended for charging exorbitant fees. He was indefinitely suspended and asked to hand over to the regional director of ...