Society

More than 50 countries warned the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday that they demanded that members of the UN organization who committed sexual abuse be prosecuted. People who have experienced sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment must also receive appropriate support, countries said at the UN health agency’s Executive Board …

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a trader who caused harm to a “Good Samaritan” to six months in hard labour as he hit him with a stick making him unconscious in Ghana, reports said. “The suspect was pursuing a thief and the complainant tried to advise him,” according to …

Founder of Life Assembly Worship Centre, Reverend Christian Kwabena Andrew popularly known as Osofo Kyiri Abosom said he will ban the importation of condoms into the country if he becomes President of Ghana. Guest on Dadwene TV, the pastor expressed his opposition to the use of condoms. According to him, …

A 30-year-old fetish priest is currently in the clutches of the police in connection with the investigation of the disappearance of an Okada driver at Assin OtabilKrom in Assin South, Ghana. The victim got missing after he received a call to pick up a pillion rider from one of the …

A 78-year-old Kenyan man’s private part was allegedly bitten off by his daughter-in-law as he attempted to resolve a physical fight between her and a lady. “He was called by his grandson while eating to separate a fight between her daughter in-law and a lady,” he told Citizen TV kenya. …

A family of three has been burnt to death in a domestic fire at Abuakwa Nsonyameye in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti region, Ghana, according to reports. A mother aged, 28, the daughter of the landlady and her two children aged nine and six years. “The mother …

A Magistrate’s Court in Makurdi, Benue State, has remanded a 40-year-old housewife and her son in custody for beating her brother-in-law to death in Nigeria, according to reports. “The woman and her son beat up her in-law living with her,” according to information. The woman claimed that her in-law stole …

Forty-nine students between seven and fourteen years died when their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, reports said. “The water of the dam was freezing due to cold weather that impeded the rescue mission” said Khateer Ahmad, a senior official with Rescue 1122. “The bodies of a teacher and one …

A military officer of 48 Engineering Regiment, is in the grips of Kasoa Divisional Police Command for allegedly brutalizing a civilian in Ghana, reports said. “The victim was accused of demolishing the suspect father’s building construction,” information said. The suspect mobilized some persons to attack the victim in his home. …

A sex worker was found dead when cleaners swept her room in a hotel in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The victim was suspected to be murdered or had committed suicide. The positioning of the body suggested that she was strangled. A colleague of the deceased said she …