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Aging is inevitable. It also brings with it several types of health problems including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Plus, with age, the skin becomes thinner and drier. This leads to fine lines and wrinkles, increased pigmentation, loss of elasticity and firmness, and dull skin. At times, body starts showing aging signs sooner than you might expect. Several environment, lifestyle and dietary factors can cause premature aging. This makes you look and feel older, faster. But by taking care of your skin and overall health, and avoiding certain day-to-day habits, you can prevent premature aging. Here are the…

The head of communications of Local Enterprises and skills Development Programme (LESDEP) Ernest Asiedu Caesar has resigned after seven years with the Jospong Group. The Local Enterprises and skills Development Programme is a public- private partnership under the auspices of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. Caesar joined the group in June 2010 as a communication officer in charge of Public Education for Zoomlion Company Limited. As a result of his hard work and diligence, he gained promotion to assistant communication manager of LESDEP in April 2011. He has been heading the communication outfit of LESDEP from 2014…

Aging is inevitable. It also brings with it several types of health problems including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Plus, with age, the skin becomes thinner and drier. This leads to fine lines and wrinkles, increased pigmentation, loss of elasticity and firmness, and dull skin. At times, body starts showing aging signs sooner than you might expect. Several environment, lifestyle and dietary factors can cause premature aging. This makes you look and feel older, faster. But by taking care of your skin and overall health, and avoiding certain day-to-day habits, you can prevent premature aging. Here are the…

Ghana’s new finance minister faces having to fulfill election pledges to spend more on education and job creation while trying to raise investor confidence eroded by fears about the nation’s finances. After promises of free high-school education and tax cuts in the run-up to a December vote, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, 57, will present the 2017 budget on Thursday following last month’s discovery of about 7 billion cedis ($1.5 billion) in unplanned spending by the previous administration. That startled markets, weakening the cedi and raising bond yields. Ghana’s budget deficit was 10.2 percent of gross domestic product last year, almost…

Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has made a strong case for development partners and the private sector to continue to invest in the country’s agricultural sector. Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto argued Ghana’s agricultural sector has lots of potentials, which have been left untapped, particularly by development partners and individuals with the right capacity. He said the Akufo-Addo-led government is ever ready to engage the private sector and create the enabling environment for them to invest in the agric sector. The minister said this when he address a Technical Summit organized by the United States Agency for International…

Some 11 top managers of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) who were asked to proceed on leave last month, have been replaced with persons some of whom are on retirement, 3news.com has reliably been informed. There has been an ongoing shakeup exercise at COCOBOD following the dismissal of Dr. Stephen Opuni as the CEO, with that of about 300 middle level staff pending. In January, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto was said to have ordered the dismissal of 11 technocrats at the various divisions of COCOBOD. Those asked to proceed on leave effective January 30, 2017,…

A 10-day-old baby was burnt to death Wednesday morning at Filling Point a town in Tamale in the Northern Region in a fire outbreak. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Fire Service, A.D.O 1 Nicholas Poku Aikins, a distress call was received about a fire outbreak at the said community at exactly 08:55am Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Few minutes later, fire personnel arrived and managed to extinguish the fire in less than 30 minutes. Unfortunately the swiftness of the fire service was not enough to save the life of the baby who was left behind in the…

The Board of Directors of the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has rendered a “sincere” apology to President Akufo-Addo for criticizing him over a ‘fake’ appointment. The president came under intense fire after the media reported that he has appointed Mr. Kwame Osei Prempeh as the new Chief Executive Officer of GOIL. The critics including the board of the oil retail company argued that the president who is a legal luminary did not follow due process in the appointment. But a statement from the presidency on Tuesday berated the board for issuing an “unfortunate and completely needless” state based on…

The Central Regional Minister, Mr Kwamena Duncan has proposed to Government to consider granting tax holidays to investors who operate in Regions taunted as poor. This, he said, would facilitate direct foreign investment and job creation to help drive the socio-economic development of such regions to take them out of poverty. Tax holiday is a temporary reduction of tax and it is often employed by Governments as incentives for business investment. Addressing the media in Cape Coast on Monday, Mr Duncan said it was not proper for some Regions to be taunted as poor while there were no major initiatives…

Two ex-convicts who spent years in jail have been arrested again by the Tema Regional Police Command for robbery. Cudjoe Boamah, 26 years, and Nicholas Tetteh, 23 years, were both incarcerated on 27th February, 2013 and served 5 years, 4 months, and 3 years, 4 months respectively. They were imprisoned for breaking, entry and stealing, and had served their term at the Nsawam Prison. Investigations into the latest crime indicated that, on the dawn of Monday, February 28, 2017, at 1.00am, around Afienya, the suspects went to the area where a phone shop is located, to cut open the container…