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Women are more than twice as likely as men to lack interest in sex when living with a partner, a study of British sexual attitudes suggests. It found that while men and women lost passion with age, women were often left cold by longer relationships. Overall, poor health and a lack of emotional closeness affected both men’s and women’s desire for sex. The findings are based on the experiences of nearly 5,000 men and 6,700 women, published in BMJ Open. The UK researchers said problems of sexual desire should be treated by looking at the whole person, rather than simply…

Women are more than twice as likely as men to lack interest in sex when living with a partner, a study of British sexual attitudes suggests. It found that while men and women lost passion with age, women were often left cold by longer relationships. Overall, poor health and a lack of emotional closeness affected both men’s and women’s desire for sex. The findings are based on the experiences of nearly 5,000 men and 6,700 women, published in BMJ Open. The UK researchers said problems of sexual desire should be treated by looking at the whole person, rather than simply…

The Libyan Football Federation has written to FIFA demanding that their last year’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Tunisia be replayed because the referee’s wife is Tunisian and showed open bias against them. The Libyan football authorities also alleged that the Kenyan referee also lives in the North African country and these factors could have conspired to help the Tunisians defeat them in the qualifier. The refereeing of the match, held on 11 November 2016, was controversial, with an early Libyan goal being wrongly disallowed for off-side. The Libyan captain being sent off early in the second half and the Tunisians…

At least 24 students and teachers have died in a fire at a religious school in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The fire at the Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning. The victims are thought to been trapped in their dormitory as the windows were barred with metal grilles. “It is one of the country’s worst fire disasters in the past 20 years,” Khirudin Drahman, director of the fire and rescue department, told AFP. Initial counts put the death toll at 25, but police later revised that down by one. Police said the dead…

The Economic and Organised Crime Organisation (EOCO) has stated that it intends to collaborate with the Office of the Special Prosecutor to carry out its mandate.  According to EOCO, the setting up of the Office of the Special Prosecutor would rather complement their effort in the fight against corruption. Mr Edward Cudjoe, a Legal Officer at EOCO, said this at a Stakeholders Conference on the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in Accra. The conference, which was organised by the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, was to solicit the views and inputs of various stakeholders including civil…

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana is proposing government introduces a ‘coupon system’ where every Ghanaian child that passes his/her Basic Education Certificate Examination would be given as a license to claim for fees they would pay at their choice of Senior High School (SHS). This, IMANI Ghana believes, is the surest way to effectively run the Free SHS policy. The suggestion follows claims by the Conference of Heads of Private Second Cycle Schools (CHOPSS) that they have been sidelined in the policy’s implementation. The Vice President of IMANI Ghana, Kofi Bentil told 3FM News interview, the call by CHOPSS is…

One person is reportedly injured in a latest attack on the Sagnarigu District Assembly by a pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group in the Northern Region, the Kandahar Boys. Some members of the group stormed the District Assembly Wednesday evening to demand why the District Chief Executive, Mariam Iddrisu, overlooked their preferred candidate, Hajia Mama Haruna, to appoint another person as the District Coordinator for the School Feeding Programme. Wielding clubs, machetes and stones, the apparent angry ‘boys’ broke into the office of the Chief Executive where they smashed a glass door and destroyed some stationery, some are believed to be…

The prospect of losing the only copy of her master’s thesis during a robbery was just too much for one South African student to bear. Noxolo Ntusi, 26, grappled with armed attackers to hold on to it during the incident in Johannesburg on Tuesday. “There’s no way I will let them take it,” she told the BBC. But she also said her actions were “not very smart” and advised others to give robbers what they ask for. “You can always write again,” she said. Ms Ntusi, a medical scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service, had her molecular zoology master’s…

Government has released an amount of GH¢10,000,000 to settle outstanding debts of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Ms. Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) has announced. National Secretariat of the GSFP is currently working on the reconciliation of transactions executed within the last two academic terms between the GSFP caterers, and MASLOC, suppliers of rice, maize and catering equipment to caterers on credit in the 2016/17 academic year. “There is the need for us to conduct proper and diligent reconciliations in order to pay accurate amounts to the caterers,” Madam Afisa Djaba stated…