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Member of Parliament for Wa, Joseph Yieleh Chireh, has rebuked Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, for consistently evading a question regarding sanctions given to manufacturers of Adonko Bitters for breaching the law. Angel Group of Companies, manufacturer of the popular alcoholic beverage, was in May this year fined GHC25,000 for allegedly running promotions on Adonko Bitters with celebrity association without approval. This was after the company held an Easter Monday musical concert at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi dubbed “Adonko Aseda Concert”. Scores of revellers mostly youth, went on a boozing spree causing some of them to pass…

It’s no secret that sex comes with many benefits, but a new study suggests that having sex frequently can also keep you from aging. Well, sort of. The study, conducted by the University of California in San Francisco, monitored the sexual habits of 129 mothers in relationships over one week. Researchers found that those who had sex at least once during that week had significantly longer telomeres, nucleoprotein caps at the end of DNA strands that protect chromosomes from deteriorating, than those who didn’t. Telomeres naturally break down due to aging, poor diet, and high alcohol use, according to the…

It’s no secret that sex comes with many benefits, but a new study suggests that having sex frequently can also keep you from aging. Well, sort of. The study, conducted by the University of California in San Francisco, monitored the sexual habits of 129 mothers in relationships over one week. Researchers found that those who had sex at least once during that week had significantly longer telomeres, nucleoprotein caps at the end of DNA strands that protect chromosomes from deteriorating, than those who didn’t. Telomeres naturally break down due to aging, poor diet, and high alcohol use, according to the…

Two nomadic herdsmen were on Tuesday manhandled by residents of two communities in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern after some farmers were allegedly prevented by some nomadic herdsmen from accessing their farms. But for the timely intervention of the Police, the two herdsmen who were riddling on a bicycle from Oboyan to Nkawkaw, would have been lynched. The Police and the District Chief Executive had a tough time saving the two herdsmen. In the process, the residents smeared an itchy plant, locally named as ‘apia’ on the police to vent their anger. Eastern Regional Police PRO, Ebenezer Tetteh…

Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to withdraw their services and release all psychiatric patients on admission if the Ministry of Health fails to remove the Hospital’s medical director, Dr Eugene Dordoye, within a week. They have accused the medical director, who they say they cannot work with anymore, of mismanagement and gross disrespect to staff, our correspondent Kwame Kakraba reported. Addressing a news conference Wednesday, leader of the Psychiatric Nurses Group, Daniel Danso Sarpong, stated “We shall not take care of patients. We shall open the wards for the patients to go out.…

Zimbabwe’s former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was sacked on Monday, has fled the country amid death threats, his allies say. President Robert Mugabe, 93, accuses his former deputy of plotting to take power from him. “He went to apostolic church prophets to find out when Mugabe would die. But he was told he would die first,” Mr Mugabe told supporters on Wednesday. First Lady Grace Mugabe is now the favourite to succeed her husband. Mrs Mugabe had been pushing for the removal of the vice-president, referring to him as a snake that “must be hit on the head.” She is…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana

At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. Reports say the pupils were playing with a grenade they had found. Three were pronounced dead at the time they arrived at hospital. The others succumbed to their wounds, Rulenge hospital’s doctor in charge, Sister Maria Goreth Fredricks, told the BBC. The school is in Kagera region near the border with Burundi. The BBC’s Leonard Mubali in Tanzania reports that the region hosts refugees from neighbouring Burundi, some of them ex-soldiers, who could have abandoned their weapons…

One person was killed and several others injured when land guards attacked residents of Opeikuma near Kasoa in the Central Region on Tuesday evening. The deceased 52-year-old Sampson Tetteh popularly known as Yaw Alebe was a commercial driver at Kasoa-Opeikuma under the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly. There was tension in the area on Wednesday, when colleagues of the deceased driver gathered some youth and planned to attack the suspected land guards, but the police intervened. Narrating the November 7 incident to 3news.com, the son of the deceased, Solomon Tetteh said the attack was as a result of an argument which…

The ongoing Tema Port Expansion Project is a Major Intervention to Accelerate Ghana’s Development Pace in the current competitive business world, President Akufo-Addo has stated. The President made this observation when he kick started his three day tour of the Greater Accra Region with a visit to the Offices of the Meridian Port Services (MPS), the Tema Port Expansion Project site, and the Long Room of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). Addressing Staff and Management of the MPS after a short presentation of the full component of the 1.5 billion dollars port expansion project, President Akufo-Addo said that…