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#1. I call these ones “Resolution Women.” It’s their resolution for every New Year to get married before the year ends. Usually, they are desperate. Their time is limited and can’t afford to waste a lot of it in dating.  Immediately you go for them, you’re not a boyfriend. You’re a husband. A husband who has to be groomed in a short spell of time to be ready for the big occasion. You wouldn’t know but to them, you are the husband. As a result, you have to mature quickly into the new role they are preparing you for. To…

 #1. I call these ones “Resolution Women.” It’s their resolution for every New Year to get married before the year ends. Usually, they are desperate. Their time is limited and can’t afford to waste a lot of it in dating.  Immediately you go for them, you’re not a boyfriend. You’re a husband. A husband who has to be groomed in a short spell of time to be ready for the big occasion. You wouldn’t know but to them, you are the husband. As a result, you have to mature quickly into the new role they are preparing you for. To…

Former Ghanaian international footballer, Nii Odartey Lamptey, says he regrets not listening to his mother when she advised against his marriage to ex-wife Gloria Lamptey. Odartey Lamptey recently brought a finality to a protracted and bitter divorce from Gloria Appiah, his wife of 23 years. DNA tests proved that the former Anderlecht, PSV Eindhoven and Aston Villa star was not the biological father of their three children, following which Gloria resorted to court action seeking an equal share of Lamptey’s properties, including the Glow Lamp Football Academy, acquired while they were married. Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe Agbevey denied Gloria’s request and…

Our favorite terrible-yet-delicious food—French fries—now has another sad strike against it. A new study finds that fries, along with other types of fried potatoes, increase our risk of mortality over the years. Other types of potato preparations didn’t seem to have the same risks involved, which suggest there’s something intrinsic about the fried-ness of French fries that makes them not just unhealthy, but actually (well, potentially) deadly. The study was published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In the study, the team of researchers from England, Italy, Spain and the U.S. looked at data from 4,400 people between 45 and…

Our favorite terrible-yet-delicious food—French fries—now has another sad strike against it. A new study finds that fries, along with other types of fried potatoes, increase our risk of mortality over the years. Other types of potato preparations didn’t seem to have the same risks involved, which suggest there’s something intrinsic about the fried-ness of French fries that makes them not just unhealthy, but actually (well, potentially) deadly. The study was published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In the study, the team of researchers from England, Italy, Spain and the U.S. looked at data from 4,400 people between 45 and…

The Ashanti Regional police command has commenced investigations into an alleged robbery attack on the Cape Coast-Kumasi highway on Monday night that led to the shooting of a policeman. Police Corporal Kwaku Mensah was hit in the jaw and chest as the four suspected robbers shot through the Sprinter bus in which they were travelling from Cape Coast to Kumasi. He is responding to treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ashanti Regional Police PRO, ASP Juliana Obeng told Kumasi-based Akoma FM. The shooting forced the driver to stop for the robbers to take away the valuables and unspecified amount…

Head coach of Accra Hearts of Oak, Frank Nuttall has expressed optimism that his side will win the ongoing MTN FA Cup. Nuttall said Hearts is well poised to win this year’s trophy to end the club’s almost 10-year trophy drought. According to Nuttall, there will be no point in taking part of in the competition if his side fails to win the trophy to earn the team a place in the CAF Champions league. At a post match session after his side beat Young Wise FC 1-0 in the round of 16 of the FA cup match last Sunday,…

King of comedy DKB seems to have found his way into former First Lady of Ghana Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings’ good books. The two were spotted chatting at the send-off party for the UNAIDS ambassador to Ghana, Girmay Haile, at Labadi Beach Hotel on Monday. Not quite long ago, 3news.com reported that the former first lady had left the National Theater while DKB was performing at the Easter Comedy Show because she found him boring. Nana Konadu was also not happy about the use of vulgar language by most of the comedians including DKB and advised they put all those…

Three people lost their lives in Kumasi while over 11, 193 others were displaced within three days through flooding, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has revealed. The deceased were a six-month old baby, a 12 and 14 years old boys. They were submerged by flooding water while sleeping in their rooms, NADMO said. Ashanti Regional Director of NADMO, Kwabena Senkyire, who revealed this on Onua FM’s Mantem Mpuntuo on Tuesday said the incident happened between June 3 and 5,2017. The displaced, according to Mr Senkyire, slept in school buildings and in churches. These floods “are not natural disaster but…

Two former ministers under the John Mahama-led government have been cited as being a part of the reasons the National Democratic Congress lost the December 2016 general elections, a member of the Dr Kwesi Botchwey Committee,  Dr. Ibrahim Zuberu, has revealed. According to Dr Zuberu, it was established that the actions of former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper and former Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah contributed to the defeat of the NDC in the election. Giving highlights of aspects of the Kwesi Botchwey report to Onua FM Tuesday, Dr Zuberu said it emerged during their postmortem meetings at the grassroots…