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Dropping Your Sperm Outside Your Woman During Sex Increases High Risk of Prostrate Cancer – Oheneba

Oheneba Ntim Berima

Oheneba Ntim Berima is advising Men to be careful about a practice which dominate mostly during sexual intercourse.

Oheneba was speaking on Kantanka TV’s newly launched morning show “Fontonfrom”, when he advised that men should never drop their sperm outside their women during sex.

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According to Oheneba the practice increases the risk of the man getting prostrate cancer.

He said most men does that for fear of preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Oheneba is in the nutshell advising people to put a stop to enjoy a better sex life and healthy living.

The scientific term is Coitus Interruptus- a withdrawal or the pull-out method during ejaculation.

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Covid-19: 2 recovered siblings lead campaign against stigmatisation

Two siblings who have recovered from Covid-19 contracted in the line of duty as front liners have launched a campaign against stigmatisation.
Dorcas Owusu Frimpong and Elizabeth Owusu say their decision is informed by widespread discrimination against recovered patients.

The duo, a psychologist and a nursing officer at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital say their decision is informed by widespread discrimination against recovered patients.
In a household of nine occupants including four children, only none of them tested positive.

Many patients who have recovered from Covid-19 continue to suffer public in Ghana.
Some are even virtually ostracized and banished from their communities and place of work.
Dorcas, a psychologist, and nursing officer, Elizabeth, are among about 20 health workers who tested positive for Coronavirus at KATH.
“You don’t need to stigmatised the person.Covid-19 is not a death sentence ; being positive of Covid-19 is not a death sentence. You can go through it successfully as I have gone through it, ” says Dorcas Owusu.

For her, she was touched by the story of a woman who recovered from Covid-19 in Upper East region only to be faced with stigmatization from the community.

“I watched the woman’s story on Joynews TV and I was touched. I think no one should go through what the woman and her family went through because of Coronavirus,” Dorcas added.

Ghana Health Service says stigmatization of Covid-19 patients remains a challenge.
patients who tested positive faced the shock of their lives as they are ostracized or banished from their communities and in some instances, place of work.
Dorcas, an expectant mother, and her sister are encouraged by their scary situation to fight for all victims who are being despised by society.
They have, in one way or the other, suffered had a fair share of the negative attitude even from colleagues at work.

For instance, Elizabeth have had to endure the canker from some of her colleagues at office.
“I heard a whole lot of news; those gossiping, stigmatizing and all that.
Most of them even thought that I brought the condition to the directorate,” Elizabeth Owusu revealed.

Dorcas and Elizabeth are aware of the challenge ahead of them but they are determined to make a positive impact.

With support from relatives, they are reaching out to as many Ghanaians as possible to change the mindset about Coronavirus.
” I know there are good people in Ghana who would be interested in this campaign and they would come onboard to help fund this campaign.”

Source : Ohemeng Tawiah

Any Church or Mosque That Flout 100 Worshippers Order Will Be Closed Down – Oppong Nkrumah

President Akufo-Addo has eased the restrictions on public and social gatherings by announcing the commencement of religious activities from June 5.

In his 10th address to the nation on measures being taken against the spread of COVID-19, the President said effective 5th June, churches and mosques can start meeting with a maximum congregation of 100.”An abridged format for religious services can commence.

Twenty-five per cent attendance, with a maximum number of 100 congregants, can worship at a time in church or at the mosque, with a mandatory one metre rule of social distancing between congregants . . . ” he said.Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in an interview on Peace FM’s morning show ‘Kokrokoo’ explained that no matter how big the church or mosque auditorium, the number should not exceed 100.

He said there will be officials who will be going round to ensure the adherence to the President’s directive and any church or mosque that flouts the measures will be closed down.

“No matter how big your church is, you cannot exceed the 100 mark, but you are allowed to have multiple services,” he said.Nose Mask
“In addition to mandatory wearing of masks, a register of names and contact details of all worshippers must be provided; maximum duration of one hour per service,” the President said in his address.Kojo Oppong Nkrumah speaking to this asked leaders to ensure that their members don’t wear mask exceeding 1hour.

“No one is to wear the mask more than an hour continuous,” he urged.

Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com

Covid-19: Schools reopened for final year JHS, SHS and university students, check details her

Schools across the country have been reopened solely for final year students as part of measures to ease restrictions in Ghana’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 10th televised address to the nation said the move is to prepare and enable the students to take their final examinations.

According to him, the reopening is with the appropriate enhanced safety protocols and social distancing adherence.

Universities
Final year university students are expected to resume school on Monday, June 15, 2020.
“All final year students of educational and training institutions, which are being managed by Ministries other than the Education Ministry, are to return to school on 15th June to complete their exit examinations”, the President said.

SHS
Whereas final year SHS students return to school on Monday, June 22, 2020, their counterparts in Junior High Schools will go back to school on Monday, June 29, 2020.

“From Monday, 15th June 2020, the decision has been taken, after engagement with the Teacher Unions, whose co-operation I salute, to reopen schools and universities to allow for final-year junior high, senior high and university students to resume classes ahead of the conduct of their respective exit examinations. Indeed, final year university students are to report to their universities on 15th June; final year senior high school (SHS
3) students, together with SHS 2 Gold Track students, on 22nd June; and final-year junior high school (JHS 3) students on 29th June. JHS 3 classes will comprise a maximum of thirty (30) students; SHS classes a maximum of twenty-five (25) students, and University lectures will take place with half the class sizes”, he added.
Colleges of Education and other training Institutions
In respect to the educational (Colleges of Education) and training Institutions he said, final years of such institutions are to go back on the 15th of June
“All final year students of educational and training institutions, which are
being managed by Ministries other than the Education Ministry, are to return to school on 15th June to complete their exit examinations”.
However, teaching and learning activities for all other levels remain closed.

“Again, prior to the opening of schools and universities, the Ministry of Education, and the heads of public and private educational institutions, will fumigate and disinfect their institutions. Each student, teacher, and nonteaching staff will be provided with re-usable face masks by the Ministry of Education. For the avoidance of doubt, all other educational facilities, private and public, for non-final year students, will remain closed. The Minister for Education, in the coming days, will outline, in detail, the specific guidelines for the safe reopening of our schools and universities” Nana Addo noted.

Asokore Mampong Housing Project Completed, Named After Otumfuo

The Affordable Housing project at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti has been completed and named after the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.

Started in 2006, the project, which was one of the government’s comprehensive affordable housing initiatives, stalled in 2009.However, in 2015, the government handed it over to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to complete.

It is to provide accommodation to low and middle income-workers, create jobs and build the capacity of local contractors.FacilitiesThe gated community consists of 91 blocks of 1,024 housing units of one and two-bedroom flats set on a well-landscaped environment.The facility has a police station and community shops and is managed by a facility manager.

It is equipped with complementary infrastructures such as tarred internal road network with drains, paved walkway, and paved car parks.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic at the site last Tuesday, the Kumasi Area Manager of SSNIT, Mr. Alhassan A. Mahamadu, explained that the project was named after the Asantehene in recognition of his tremendous support and commitment towards its completion.“The facility is one of the best because of its centralized water reservoir and centralized biogas sewage treatment system,” he said.Mr. Mahamadu said the units would be put out for sale.

DeficitThe manager attributed the increasing housing deficit in the country to high population growth, urbanization and less supply of housing units to meet demand.“With growing demand comes the housing affordability debate.

Many people believe that affordable houses are scarce in Ghana. With housing deficit of 1.7 million, 90 per cent of all housing supply in Ghana is built incrementally,” he added.According to Mr. Mahamadu, the investment in the project was a testament to the commitment of the Trust in helping to reduce the housing deficit in Ghana.“The investment in real estate includes a long-term investment strategy for the sustenance of the Pension scheme,” he added.

Asamoah Gyan opens up on becoming MP for Weija-Gbawe

General captain of the Black Stars, Asamoah Gyan, has reacted to news that he is eyeing to become a Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija-Gbawe constituency in the Greater Accra region.

Though he says he does not have the ambition to do politics for now, he revealed anything could happen in the future.

I’m happy that people are grateful about what I have done. I said earlier that people want me to become their MP. The most important thing is that people are happy with what I have done, he noted in an interview.

Talking about politics anything can happen, but for now politics is not on my mind, he pointed out.

Explaining further, the all-time leading scorer of the Black Stars with 51 goals, said Sometimes the people choose you, people can choose you to lead them. When the roads were going on plus other projects, many people were urging me to lead them as their MP.

He noted that though he has not planned to do politics for now, “in this world anything can happen.”

Some people did not plan to do politics but at the end of the day they are doing politics which is a normal thing, he said.

It was reported last week that the former Sunderland striker may contest as a Member of Parliament probably on the ticket of the ruling New Patriotic Party.

Source: mynewsgh.com

‘A dangerous assumption’

In 1968, the pioneering Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission lifted America’s morale in a bitter year of political assassinations, race and anti-war riots, the fading presidency of Lyndon Johnson and a hardening Cold War. On Wednesday, US astronauts are again due to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in another landmark for US space exploration. Now, as then, the US is mired in gloom, amid a pandemic that will likely claim its 100,000th victim this week and the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.

The marvel of spaceflight and the courage of astronauts flying for the first time as part of NASA’s delayed private crew launch partnership might offer a moment of diversion. A return to American manned spaceflight after nine years will also ease US blushes over relying on Russia to ferry crew members to the International Space Station. But it’s unlikely to resonate like the first trip around the moon, when astronaut William Anders snapped the iconic Earthrise photograph and gave humanity a view of itself from the threshold of another world.

For all its technological advances, the new mission will seem a step back. US astronauts are using a vehicle, the reusable SpaceX Falcon 9, that will look a lot like a 1960s rocket on the launchpad, following the retirement of the star-crossed space shuttle program. While NASA’s ultimate goal is a trip to Mars, the US program in coming years — trips to and from the space station and then the moon — won’t be a giant leap for mankind. Steady progress will only underscore wonder for the men who left Earth on far more rickety craft, half a century ago.

Given the Covid emergency, NASA has asked crowds not to gather in Florida to watch Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley blast off. That’s not stopping President Donald Trump from making plans to jet down there anyway to bask in reflected patriotic glory — though a dodgy weather forecast may delay Wednesday’s launch.

Back on terra firma after the Apollo 8 odyssey, mission commander Frank Borman received a telegram reading, “You saved 1968.” If only the same were possible in 2020.

*The image above is Earth on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968, seen from lunar orbit. “It makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth,” said Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell.

‘A deficit of hope’

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

The White House briefing has often been contentious, long-winded and stuffed with hot air — emitted by both spinning political flaks and grandstanding reporters. It was all a bit of a game. Presidents sent press secretaries to take heat so they didn’t have to. Reporters knew a tense exchange could get them on the evening news and please their editor.https://nkaros.data.blog

But while most real Washington news seeps out from inside sources, briefings did have a purpose. Every day, a representative of the president had to justify his policies to Americans. It was a powerful way for administrations to talk to the world and an example to authoritarian states of how democratic values work.

You’ll notice we’re using the past tense here.

From the moment President Donald Trump sent Sean Spicer out tocontradict visual evidence about his inaugural crowd, the briefing ceased to be a trusted venue for information. Trump’s fourth press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, has revived the briefing after a yearlong absence. Butit might have been better in hibernation.

McEnany, a Harvard graduate and former CNN commentator, is a talented communicator. But her briefings seem exclusively designed to create viral moments that set Trump’s political base afire. She usually ends up asking the questions — demanding outlets validate Trump’s baseless conspiracies. Last week, when asked whether Trump’s call for pews to be filled was wise amid a pandemic, she implied reporters are a bunch of atheists who want churches closed. On Thursday she hinted doctors should prescribe hydroxychloroquine, the drug boosted by Trump that has not been proven to cure or prevent Covid-19. With a straight face, she said the President always intends to “give truthful information to the American people.”

Tensions always flare between press secretaries and the press. Relations were sour under Richard Nixon’s man Ron Ziegler. Mike McCurry took a pounding during Bill Clinton’s scandals. Ari Fleischer clashed heatedly with reporters under George W. Bush. And the White House press was often deeply frustrated about access to Barack Obama.

Information in those briefings was sometimes selective, slanted and politically self-serving. But it generally stopped short of outright falsehoods.

The White House podium no longer carries that guarantee.

Source : CNN

Test all Teachers and Learners before reopening of Schools;Teacher Unions suggest 19 measures to curb COVID-19

Teacher Unions have suggested some nineteen (19) possible measures to curb the spread of the novel COVID-19 Pandemic, in response to a request by the Ghana Education Service(GES) to propose some practical measures to curb the prevalence ahead of a possible reopening of Schools.

The Unions, in a letter dated May 26, 2020, to the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Prof. Kwesi Opoku Amankwa and copied to EducationGhana . have given some 19 suggestions categorized under two thematic areas.

The thematic areas include short and Intermediate terms as well as a medium-long term measure.

Responding to the GES request, the Four teacher Unions – GNAT, NAGRAT, TEWU and CCT indicated emphatically that though they were not in favour of the reopening of schools due to the current data on COVID-19 available to them, they wish to make the proposal to the Management of the GES should the GES decide to reopen schools regardless of the prevailing evidence of horizontal spread of the disease.

According to the Unions, the following are the Short Term and Intermediate options available;

All schools should be disinfected.
Ensure that all Schools have good water and sanitation facilities.
Improve Ventilation in all School facilities.
All staff and learners should be tested before schools reopen and those with positive results should not be allowed entry into the schools.
Commence reopening with only JHS 3 and SHS 3 Learnersas a pilot for the reopening of schools.
1. All schools should be provided with a thermometer Guns, Veronica Buckets and Hand Sanitizers.
2. Reduce all class sizes to a maximum of 20 using all-round 1-metre distancing.
3. Provide appropriate nose masks for learners and staff of schools.
4. Assign Schools to designated health facilities.
5. Develop new operational guidelines for schools under the “new normal”|.

Provide appropriate technological tools for teaching and learning.
Introduce a shift system at the Basic Schools.
Provide Free Transportation for Learners.
Decongest dormitories to maintain social distancing protocols.
Provide Special Incentives for the staff of the Ghanan Education Service
Medium – Long Term

Expand and Improve existing Infrastructural facilities.
Decongest dormitories to maintain social distancing protocols.
Recruit more teachers to support teaching and learning
Study the outcomes of the JHS 3 and SHS3 pilot and use it to improve reopening of the entire school system.

Sarkodie & Titi Join Tracy Sarkcess In The UK To Welcome Junior Sarkcess

This is the second time Sarkodie is visiting the UK within a period of 2 months, I stand to be corrected on this and this time, he travelled with his daughter, Titi.

Sarkodie has posted photos of Titi having fun in the United Kingdom──and I’m just fighting with my keyboard to know their mission in the UK after their last chillout at Aqua Safari.

Ever since it was reported that Tracy Sarkcess is pregnant and hiding in Germany preparing to welcome another baby, she has been mute on social media by refusing to post current photos of herself.

Tracy Sarkcess was also missing at Sarkodie’s 2019 Rapperholic Concert and that alone should tell you that there is an iota of truth in her pregnancy rumours.

I think Tracy Sarkcess isn’t in Germany as speculated a few months ago──I can bet with my last pesewa that she is rather in the UK preparing to welcome their second child.

Remember, Sarkodie in the latter part of 2019 posted on his Instagram stories that he needs a baby boy and that screenshot went viral on the internet with Ghanaians reading different meanings into his post.

It could also be that Tracy Sarkcess has already delivered their second child the lowkey style just to avoid making the headlines.

I’m even thinking of placing a bet that Sarkodie and Titi are in the United Kingdom to witness the birth of Sarkodie Junior──and I’m 80% sure to win this bet.

Check out photos of Titi chilling in the UK.

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