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The Ashanti Region has been recording an alarming rate of glaucoma cases with over 600 per cent rise between 2014 and 2016. One of the communities most affected is Beposo in the Sekyere Central District, where one out of six residents suffers from vision loss and five per cent of glaucoma patients are not aware they have the disease. Residents are hoping for an eye centre in the district to ease access to eye services. The increasing cases of glaucoma are a major concern worldwide.  It is projected 80 million people are likely to suffer from the disease if preventable…

Twenty-six year old Abelenkpe branch manager of Marwako Restaurant, Jihad Thaabn accused of assaulting one Evelyn Boakye, a caterer at the restaurant has been granted a bail of 20,000 cedis with two sureties by the Abeka District Court. Jihad allegedly thrust the face of the caterer into blended pepper and locked her up for hours for working slowly. Jihad has pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault, offensive conduct and causing harm. When he reappeared in court today, his lawyers argued, after the victim had given her testimony, that Jihad was entitled to bail since investigation into the alleged…

Ghana’s foremost indigenous Oil Marketing Company and CIMG Petroleum Company of the year, GOIL, has reduced its ex-pump prices of petroleum products in the second window of the month of March. A statement released in Accra said GOIL’s Super XP (petrol) has been reduced by six pesewas per litre while Diesel XP goes down by four pesewas per litre effective today Thursday, 16th of March 2017. The statement said the reduction is to reflect on the downward trend of petroleum prices on the international market and importantly, to keep faith with the consuming public. READ: Petrol prices to go down…

Former Information Minister, Nana Akomea although concedes that agitation over the number of the president’s ministers is legitimate, the clamoring would soon be overshadowed by the output of the ministers. “There can be no doubt that president Akufo-Addo’s government is the largest in the Fourth Republic,” he acknowledged in a facebook post. Nonetheless, Nana Akomea pointed out, “For now, these numbers are an issue, and the concerns being raised about them are legitimate, a expected, and in order, just as the NPP in opposition raised them. If he indeed begins to deliver concretely on his transformational agenda, then the numbers will…

Mr Herbert Mensah, President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), has joined the Board of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) after his election as one of the five representatives for Olympic sports. Rugby Union was only readmitted as Olympics Sport after a 93-year absence. Shortly after the 1924 games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped rugby union as an Olympic sport. Since then there have been numerous attempts to bring the sport back to the Olympic programme. In October 2009 the IOC voted at its session in Copenhagen to include the sevens version of the sport in the 2016…

The European Parliament has imposed severe sanctions on a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP), for unsavory comments he made against women. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who made the comments during a debate in the parliament, was sanctioned by President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. The sanctions are unprecedented. The far-right Polish MEP during a March 1 debate on the gender pay gap, said “Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, and they are less intelligent that’s all.” But the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, said he “will…

Guinness Ghana Limited has pledged its support for government’s “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme, stating that it would boost the use of local raw materials by manufacturing companies, and at the same time help to create jobs for thousands of Ghanaians. According to Mr. Francis Agbonlahor, Managing Director of Guinness Ghana, the company made a key decision some 5 years ago to use local raw materials for the production of its beverages. Within a 4 year period, the company had increased its use of local raw materials from 12% to the current level of 48%. It is in…

Quality makeup can come with an eye-watering price tag, so it’s no wonder women want to get their money’s worth by using up every last drop. But according to beauty insiders, eking your favourite cosmetics products out could lead to a range of health problems, from breakouts to bacterial infections – even if you’re cleaning your makeup brushes and sponges regularly. Indeed, you should be throwing out mascara every four to six months, while makeup sponges should be changed every four weeks according to Joanne Dodds at Hairtrade.com. So are you following or falling foul of these beauty rules? Read…

Teenage girls in basic and junior high schools at Gnani, a community in the Yendi District of the Northern Region, are rejecting sexual abstinence for family planning methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The crave for sex among the teenagers, some of who are as young as 14 years and betrothed to older men, has forced seven girls of the Gnani Basic School to adopt family planning methods at the community’s Health Centre since January this year. Officials of the facility say the girls mostly visit the health centre on the blindside of their parents and those they are betrothed to,…

Large sacks containing bundles of “crispy” banknotes worth a total of $155,000 (£130,000) have been seized at a Nigerian airport, officials say. The cash, in the local naira currency, was found near Kaduna airport’s check-in and was still in sealed packs. An investigation is under way to trace the source of the cash, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says. Tackling corruption was a key election pledge for President Muhammadu Buhari. “Operatives [of the EFCC] intercepted a sum of 49m naira in five large black 150kg… sacks following a tip off,” the EFCC said on its…