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Losing weight is not easy, but growing awareness of the health impacts of excess body weight is leading more people to make the effort to lose the extra pounds. People who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop health problems like heart disease, strokes, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, depression, and cancer. Fortunately, losing weight can reduce your risk of developing some of these problems. Regular exercise and a healthy diet can go a long way toward reaching your weight loss target. However, people often make mistakes in planning their diet. Just like there are certain foods that help you…

Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Ibrahim Sanni Daara has debunked rumours circulating on social media that Black Stars coach Avram Grant has died of a heart attack. There were reports that the coach had passed on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack in Gabon but Sanni Daara says these rumours are absolutely false. “Let me start with this viral news claiming that Ghana coach Avram Grant died yesterday and let  me assure the fans of the Black Stars that Avram Grant is fully alive and even trained with the squad yesterday,” Saani told the press in…

Accra’s most thriving radio station, 3FM – 92.7, marked a year-old of quality broadcasting with a difference on January 21, 2017. A member of the Media General Group, the station for the last year been the alternative source of credible, accurate and timeous content delivered with soothing and great tunes for all audience. Watch the short documentary below for the 3FM story so far and what to expect in the years ahead. By 3news.com|Ghana

It’s been twelve good months since the latest kid on the block in the English radio fraternity emerged. The Station which was initially “nameless” because it operated with its frequency 92.7 was eventually announced on November 30, 2015 by the New Morning Show Host, Winston Amoah. On January 21 2016 however the Omanhene of the Essikadu Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nkestia IV launched the Station saying that 3FM 92.7 “was going to be the hope and difference the whole of Ghana had been waiting for”. In what has been a walk down memory lane, many presenters, producers, resource persons as…

Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs Shirley Ayorkor Botchway has promised getting Passport Application Centers in the remaining four regions of Ghana “within two years”. The country has Passport Application Centers in six regions including Western and Volta regions. At her vetting on Monday, January 23, Ms Botchway said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already identified properties in the four remainder regions – Eastern, Upper West, Upper East and Central regions – for conversion into Passport Application Centers. “What is left is for some money to be made available for renovation and set up.” She promised to deliver this by the…

A large number of Gambians are still rejoicing over the exit of former President Yahya Jammeh after 22 years of ruling The Gambia. The Editor of the Point newspaper Ousman Kargbo recounted to host of Yen Nsem Pa on Onua FM, Bright Kwesi Asempa on Monday morning, how the people jubilated when the ex-president of the smallest country in West Africa made his way into his flight on Saturday. Ousman Kargbo said “When the former President was going, you can see people jubilating and others crying. It doesn’t look as if they want him back into the country in the…

Ghana has been ranked as second in Africa in open defecation with 19 per cent of its population resorting to sanitation practice deemed the riskiest of all. The Tamale Metropolis in the Northern Region is the second highest percentage of people who defecate in the open in the country. This was revealed by the Chief Director of the Northern Region Coordinating Council, Issahaku Alhassan, in conjunction with the Environmental Health Sanitation Unit of the Region and other stakeholders in Tamale at the unveiling ceremony to launch the Open Defecation League Table. He said open defecation has caused the country about…

There was something curious about Asamoah Gyan during Ghana’s camping period in Al Ain ahead of the 2017 Nation Cup.  A few times he would be out in front of the Rotana Hotel alone, fiddling with his phone as most players do. Then a taxi pulls over, he gets in with Black Stars physical trainer Jamie Lawrence and then off he goes. By the time the rest of the team arrives at the Al Ain Sports Complex, Gyan is sweating it off already, getting dragged all over the pitch by Lawrence and panting. He looked like a man on a…

King of traditional kologo music, King Ayisoba, says Ghana’s rapper, Sarkodie, is a no match for him when it comes to live stage performance. According to him, no hip-life artiste in Ghana can rub shoulders with him with regards to live band performance, adding the rapperholic cannot performance in countries he (Ayisoba) perfoms “Sarkodie is not fit for those shows because he (Sarkodie) cannot perform to a live band, the only thing Sarkodie can do is to mime to his songs on CDs,” he told Onua FM’s Christian Agyei Frimpong. King Ayisoba argued that in countries that he has performed,…

The Minister of Trade and Industry-designate, Alan Kyerematen has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), insisting that Ghana would have to impress on Nigeria to also sign the agreement. He noted that the partnership would hugely be disadvantaged if Nigeria, a powerhouse within the sub-region, refuses to sign the EPA. Ghana signed the interim agreement in July, 2016, and Mr. Kyerematen told Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday that he would advise Ghana’s president to use “quiet diplomacy” to ensure that Nigeria becomes part of the agreement. “We will encourage our brothers in Nigeria, because we were…