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To get the best out of your daily blood pressure medication, take it just before you go to bed, say researchers. It’s a simple tip that could save lives, they say in the European Heart Journal. The pills offer more protection against heart attacks and strokes when taken at bedtime rather than in the morning, a large new study suggests. Experts believe our body’s biological ‘clock’ or natural 24-hour rhythm alters our response to the medication. Synchronise pills to your body clock There is mounting evidence that many different drugs, including heart pills, might work better when taken at specific…

Gold-dealership firm Menzgold Ghana Limited has announced the commencement of validation of documents of customers in order to make arrangements to settle them all. The validation is scheduled to begin on Monday, October 28 and end on November 28, 2019. A press release on Wednesday, October 23 said the exercise will begin at 9:00am and end at 4:00pm each day at designated locations in four regions. Customers are required to submit photocopies of their gold-trading agreements, receipts of gold-traded purchase and gold-trading commission as well as a valid national ID card for the process. In the Greater Accra Region, six…

The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) has confirmed the termination of the private sector participation transaction agreements with Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited (PDS). The termination was done on 23rd October, 2019, it said. “ECG has therefore assumed full operational and financial control of the electricity distribution business in the Southern Zone of Ghana with immediate effect,” the company said in a statement. The ECG said all activities which were hitherto undertaken by PDS have been reverted. The statement asked all stakeholders and customers to engage ECG in their normal business activities which include but are not limited to…

The bodies of 39 people have been found in a lorry container in Essex. Police were called by the ambulance service shortly before 01:40 BST after the discovery at Waterglade Industrial Park in Eastern Avenue, Grays. The lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Essex Police said the vehicle travelled from Bulgaria and entered the country via Holyhead, Anglesey, on Saturday. Early indications are that 38 adults and one teenager have died, the force said. Police would not say whether any survivors were found in the lorry. Ch Supt Andrew Mariner said…

Parliament reconvened on Tuesday with a call to the Members of the House by the Speaker, the Reverend Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, to brace themselves up for a demanding meeting. He said given the paucity of time, “it is anticipated that business for this meeting would be quite demanding”. There would be the 2020 Budget Statement, consideration and approval of the annual estimates of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies and independent government institutions that draw on the Consolidated Fund, which would culminate in the passage of the Appropriation Act. The Speaker gave what he termed, a “tall list” of Bills…

Government has terminated the Power Distribution Services concession agreement with the Electricity Company of Ghana with immediate effect, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has announced. The minister told a press conference in Accra Wednesday morning, “Government has commenced the necessary process to terminate the agreement.” The process started at exactly 9:30am, the minister said. This comes after days of back and forth the government of Ghana had with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) over the concession agreement with PDS. Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the MCC announced its decision to terminate the PDS agreement which came…

A total of 18 passengers escaped death narrowly on the Aflao-Accra highway Tuesday evening after an STC bus with the registration number GE 2176 16 ran into a herd of cattle crossing the road at Agbakofe in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. The driver was reported to have run into the cattle at 1830 hours at Agbakope after negotiating a curve. Police Inspector Evanz Attitsogbui Grunitzky, South Tongu District Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) Commander, told the Ghana News Agency that the herdsman refused to use the animal crossing which was 200 meters from where the…

Two persons, a man and a lady, have committed suicide by hanging to end matters following misunderstandings with their respective lovers on Thursday and Saturday at Agbagblakope and Agblekpui, suburbs of Aflao, in the Ketu South Municipality. The man, Julius Sewor, aged 25, was found hanging after his wife quarreled with him for not taking care of her and their baby. The body of Bertha Aba, 19, was discovered by some children just hours after she informed her suspected boyfriend in a telephone conversation that she was carrying a pregnancy for him. Mr Eric Vondee, Aflao District Police Crime Officer,…

The government of the United States of America says Ghana’s decision to terminate the concession agreement between the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited (PDS) was wrong. It said its independent investigations of the agreement proved that it was valid. Therefore, a decision by the West African nation to cancel the agreement is “unwarranted”. These were contained in a statement issued by the US Embassy on Tuesday, October 22 in Accra. The statement said as a result of the decision, Ghana will no longer qualify for the $190 million dedicated by the Millennium Challenge Corporation…

Chairman of the University of Education, Winneba Governing Council, Prof Obeng Mireku has said the council is sure of its desire to resolve all issues which seem to militate against the peace of the university. He said in line with this, the Governing Council is assuring the general public that it would take a look at all the petitions received at its subsequent meetings. The council chair admitted though this is appears to be a daunting task, the council would work conscientiously to surmount any challenge that may be encountered. “We wish to indicate that we shall do all that…