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Being single allows people to “live their best, most authentic and most meaningful life” and the idea of wedded bliss is largely a myth, a psychologist has claimed. Professor Bella DePaulo told the American Psychological Association’s annual convention in Denver that she wanted to challenge the “conventional wisdom” that getting married helped people live longer, happier and healthier lives. She said she had looked at more than 800 different academic studies carried out over the last 30 years that mentioned single people. “The available findings are telling. For example, research comparing people who have stayed single with those who have…

The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest. Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict cases will rise from 36 million to 115 million by 2050, if treatment is not improved by better funding. A growing ageing population is behind the rising numbers. Some of the highest rates of blindness and vision impairment are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The percentage of the world’s population with visual impairments is actually falling, according to the study. But because the global population is growing and more people are living well…

The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest. Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict cases will rise from 36 million to 115 million by 2050, if treatment is not improved by better funding. A growing ageing population is behind the rising numbers. Some of the highest rates of blindness and vision impairment are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The percentage of the world’s population with visual impairments is actually falling, according to the study. But because the global population is growing and more people are living well…

Mr Millison Kwadwo Narh has retired from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) as the First Deputy Governor, a position he has since July 21, 2013 held. Mr. Narh on Monday paid a courtesy call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to announce his retirement from the Bank. President Akufo-Addo thanked Mr. Narh for his years of dedicated service to the country, and wished him well in his retirement. Present at the meeting were His Excellency, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison. In April last year, Mr Narh took over…

Petroleum prices are set be reviewed upward by three per cent effective August 1, the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has predicted. “Indications from the various Bulk Distribution Companies and players as well as Oil Marketing Companies points to an upward revision of about 3% on current pump prices,” it said in a statement. Petrol currently sells at the pumps averagely at around GHC3.790 while diesel is trading averagely at around 3.780. Prices of finished products and crude oil prices have shot up between 2.8 and 4 per cent in the past two week on the global market while the cedi…

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing companies in the country have kicked against a new policy that would ensure distribution of LPG to homes through pipelines. Implementation of the policy will mean gas filling stations will no longer be allowed to refill gas cylinders at their stations. According to the National Petroleum Authority, the policy would increase rural penetration of gas and help minimise the recent gas explosions at filling stations across the country. But the LPG Marketing Companies Association of Ghana have explained the new policy is a recipe for economic chaos, noting it is going to collapse local businesses.…

A healthy 30-year-old man in Stockholm has died after undergoing penis enlargement surgery. Aside from a minor case of asthma, the deceased suffered from no other pre-existing medical conditions. He had requested penile elongation and penile enlargement, often carried out in the same procedure, which is typically done by extracting unwanted fat cells from places such as the belly or the thighs. The elongation was completed successfully, but when the enlargement began – in which the fat cells are injected into the penis – the patient’s heart rate soared, his blood pressure dived and his oxygen levels fell drastically. Half…

Former Deputy Finance Minister under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government Cassiel Ato Forson says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has now reviewed its much touted 2017 budget from ‘Asempa budget’ to ‘Asembon budget’. The Ranking Member of the Finance Committee in Parliament said the mid-year budget review presented by Finance Minister to Parliament Monday will bring untold hardships to the people of Ghana as most of the reviews were downwards. The National Democratic Congress MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam in the Central Region told Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene moment after the presentation on Monday in Fanti that “the budget has been reviewed…

They give nothing but winning numbers, yet they are not rich. They spend almost all their time reading and checking numbers for their ‘stakers’. But most lotto doctors, as they are called, have nothing to show after many years of loyalty and hardwork for their job. Sixty-two-year-old lotto doctor Moro Adamu says he has nothing to live on after his 30 years’ experience as a lotto doctor. It was 7:00am on a Wednesday morning at the Tema Station in Accra. While some lotto doctors were seriously working out for winning numbers, others were still not awake from their sleep. Moro…

Mr. Justice Lumor Torkpla, the head-teacher of Oduman Asuaba M/A Basic School, has appealed for requisite resources to his school to enhance the education of pupils there. Speaking at the Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the school, Mr. Torkla said the school was in dire need of resources like desks, textbooks and computers and that the situation is to blame for the low academic performance, which has hit the school in recent times. “We lack desks in the school. The last time that the school took desks from the government was some ten years ago. Some of our pupils sit…