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  What is Obesity? Obesity is a health condition that is on the rise globally and very much so Ghana. Most people live with Obesity but unfortunately as a result of less education on the disease, they are not aware until it gets complicated. Obesity is simply, having excessive or high percentage of body fat in your system. Obesity is largely preventable because it is mostly caused by our daily life styles.   How do I know if I am at risk of a possible Obesity? An individual with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 and above is considered obese and needs to consider looking at his/life style. Body Mass Index is the value derived from the mass (weight) and height of your body. Simply calculated by dividing your body weight by your height expressed in kg/m^2. You might want to do this to have an idea of where you stand as far as Obesity is concerned. All you need is your body weight and height. Click on link below to calculate your BMI https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/

Blaise Compaoré sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Thomas Sankara Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life imprisonment over the murder of revolutionary leader and hero, Thomas Sankara in 1987. His former head of security, Hyacinthe Kafando was also jailed for life. One General Gilbert Diendéré who was a military commander during the coup was equally sentenced for life. The final verdict came after series of prosecutions spanning over 6 months after many years of his demise in 1987. The long awaited judgement follows earlier demands by prosecutors who presented charges including, “attack on state security”, “concealment of a corpse” and “complicity in a murder”. Cr Eye Gambia 

  H.E President Akuffo Addo has stated categorically that, Ghanaiains are not impoverished. The president in response to a question posed to him by the renounced BBCnewsafrica Peter Okotcwe on the controversial  E-Levy tax in an interview, as to why impose tax on already impoverished Ghanaian, flatly rejected the assertion saying "Ghanaians are not impoverished" Also read   Economy doing Well- President Akuffo Addo speaks to BBC on the economy and the E-Levy Tax! The president explained that, the telecommunication sector is a huge emerging economy which they sort to leverage on to capture a lot more people into the tax net who hither to do not pay tax. He added, Ghana in the west Africa sub region has a very low tax to GDP of about 13% when it peers  are doing 18% on the average. Video Below 

 

 H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has for the first time in an interview this year on BBC spoken extensively on the economic situation of the country including the controversial E-Levy which was passed last week. INFLATION, COST OF FUEL AND CEDI DEPRECIATION  On the issue of rising inflation, the president explained that, it’s a global phenomenon which was characterized by the Covid-19 pandemic and Ghana is no exception to this. On the depreciation of the cedi against the major currencies like the dollar, the president posited that, it is being dealt with and the cedi has started gaining strength against the dollar and he expects the trend to continue.. The president vehemently disagreed with the interview who suggested that the Ghanaian economy will not be the best destination to put his money if he were a business man as a result of the ever sky rocketing fuel prices. The president pointed out that the price hike in fuel prices wasn’t only peculiar Ghana and asked the interviewer if

 The beautiful marriage of Brother Sammy, the famous " My God is" Kumasi based gospel musician appears to have hit a snag. Brother Sammy who got emotional revealing the ordeal on  #UnitedShowbiz  told host  Afia Schwarzenegger on Saturday's show. He revealed how one of his boys who lives with him lied to her wife whiles she was on the hospital bed undergoing CS as a result of ectopic pregnancy. According to brother Sammy, his boy told his wife that, he brother Sammy had affair with another woman while she was on admission at the hospital. Per the gospel musician's revelation, her wife believed the story and never asked him about it until one time he was away for a show when her wife called her to accuse him of several ills including the lie told her by his boy. What even broke the camel's back is when her wife on the phone accused him of having used her womb for money ritual after she left to the states. This accusation alone, has made the gospel musician lost any

How simple is it to download a video from Facebook direct unto your phone?  Its that simple! More often than not, we all desire to have certain interesting videos we come across on Facebook directly in our phone gallery. Its is very simple and we are going to take you through the simple steps to doing this with a video demonstration  of same.  STEPS : 1. Click on the video you wish to download on facebook. 2. At the top right corner of the video, there are three dots there  ( ...), locate and touch/click on the three dots and copy video link. 3. Now leave facebook and open any browser on your phone eg. google chrome, UC browser etc 4. Click or touch and hold the in the space of the address bar at the top of your browser and paste the video link you had earlier copied from facebook and enter/search/go 5. The video will appear here in the browser and the next thing is to download it. 6. Finally press and hold  or touch and hold on the video until the query options pops up. 7. Select the