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Adolescence now lasts from the ages of 10 to 24, although it used to be thought to end at 19, scientists say. Young people continuing their education for longer, as well as delayed marriage and parenthood, has pushed back popular perceptions of when adulthood begins. Changing the definition is vital to ensure laws stay appropriate, they write in an opinion piece in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. But another expert warns doing so risks “further infantilising young people”. When puberty begins Puberty is considered to start when the part of the brain known as the hypothalamus starts releasing…

WhatsApp Business was officially announced in September of 2017 but back then you had to sign up for a beta, register your interest, and hope to be picked to give it a try. Now the app is made official and it’s launching for Android in 5 countries to begin with, with a roll out “around the world” in the coming weeks. The lucky five are: Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, the UK, and the US. Yes, the US, where everyone says they don’t use WhatsApp. I also find it odd that the launch post mentions how businesses in India and Brazil rely on WhatsApp…

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Komla Dumor, the famous Ghanaian journalist who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa. Dumor died on 18 January 2014 in his London home after a cardiac arrest, having been on the air the day before. Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), and Komla were extremely close friends of Dumor,  Herbert remembered this day in a video note from Europe as though it was yesterday. Watch video below Source: 3news.com | Ghana

A Canadian woman has been convicted of killing her friend after police discovered the murder weapon used in a picture of the pair on social media. Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday to killing Brittney Gargol, then 18, in March 2015. Gargol was found strangled to death near a landfill in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Antoine’s belt near her body. Antoine was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. She was identified as a suspect after she posted a selfie on Facebook of the two of them, showing her wearing the belt hours before Gargol died. What happened? The two…

A Canadian woman has been convicted of killing her friend after police discovered the murder weapon used in a picture of the pair on social media. Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday to killing Brittney Gargol, then 18, in March 2015. Gargol was found strangled to death near a landfill in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Antoine’s belt near her body. Antoine was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. She was identified as a suspect after she posted a selfie on Facebook of the two of them, showing her wearing the belt hours before Gargol died. What happened? The two…

A Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has expressed repulsion over the media’s performance at the presidential encounter. According to him, most of the questions were not good enough to pin the president. The Political Science lecturer thinks it would be more productive if the president interacts directly with the citizenry to get many people to engage with him instead of the media. Professor Ransford Gyampo was disappointed in the media for their abysmal performance especially in the line of questioning. He noted that only a few media personnel asked good…

It’s January, which means you may have stood on the scales and decided to go on a diet. But what sort? For many years, low-carb diets have been in fashion – based on the belief that eating lots of carbohydrates, particularly in the form of sugary treats such as white bread, rice or pasta, is bad for your waist and for your blood-sugar control. The reasoning is that if you eat lots of carbohydrates and sugars, particularly the sort without fibre that get quickly absorbed, they will rapidly push up your blood glucose (sugar) levels. Unless you burn this glucose…

It’s January, which means you may have stood on the scales and decided to go on a diet. But what sort? For many years, low-carb diets have been in fashion – based on the belief that eating lots of carbohydrates, particularly in the form of sugary treats such as white bread, rice or pasta, is bad for your waist and for your blood-sugar control. The reasoning is that if you eat lots of carbohydrates and sugars, particularly the sort without fibre that get quickly absorbed, they will rapidly push up your blood glucose (sugar) levels. Unless you burn this glucose…

The Asokwa Juvenile Court has struck out the case involving five suspects alleged to have been involved in a gang-rape in Bantama in the Ashanti Region. According to the state attorney in charge of the case, one of the suspects in the case is not a minor, hence the need to move the case from the juvenile court. The suspects, who were discharged on earlier charges of conspiracy to defile and defilement, have subsequently been re-arrested for trial in a circuit court. The Asokwa Juvenile Court presided over by His Worship Peter Oppong Boahen discharged the suspects after the state attorney…

Government has approved a reduction in industrial development tariff by 26.5 per cent as part of measures to enhance economic growth in the industrial sector. The reduction, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at a media encounter on Wednesday, will enable small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) improve their operations for economic development. “A new rate of $6.50 per million British thermal unit against a previous rate of $8.84 per million British thermal unit has been approved and established to enhance industry competitiveness,” he said. President Akufo-Addo highlighted some interventions made by his government to promote industrial growth ,which…