THE PARROTS

Actor Joseph Nana Osei Kofi, popularly known as Wayoosi, says he is very disappointed that some people, particularly the media, are peddling reports that he is dead. He said he is alive and that he hasn’t been well for some time now. Last week, the Ghanaian media and social media was trending with reports that the actor had passed. Contrary to the reports, the actor has cleared the air saying he is on admission and is currently receiving treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Speaking in a Twi interview with seancitygh.com from his hospital bed, the actor wondered how he could grant an interview if he was dead. He noted that this won’t be the first time false dead rumours are being peddled about an entertainment personality citing Daddy Lumba as an example. President John Dramani Mahama recently donated an amount of GH¢5,000 to the actor through the Ministry of Tourism Culture and Creative Arts.  

The Ghana Inter-bank Payment and Settlements Systems (GhIPSS) has charged banks in the country to expand the Instant Pay service to afford bank customers more flexibility and convenience. The instant pay service allows bank account holders to transfer money from their accounts to another account instantly even if the recipient is with another bank. The real-time payment service was recently launched as part of initiatives towards attaining a cash-light economy. The Chief Executive of GHIPSS Archie Hesse spoke with Joy Business today during a meeting with banks, telcos and other stakeholders towards full implementation of the service and tasked them to develop solutions to the benefit of customers. "The world is moving very fast, it would be a big shame if you are able to order things quickly but when it comes to payment it lets you down. It takes a second for two to place an order but it might take you a whole day to make payment, which is not good for business,&

More than 200 girls from four districts in the Volta Region have stated their resolve to resist attempts by their parents to force them into early marriage. The girls said, “it is no for early marriage, we have rights to sexual health and our parents must support us or face the law”. They made the pledge after a two-day regional camp on teenage pregnancy, sexual reproductive health and child marriage in Ho under the auspices of the Department of Gender with support from the Regional Coordinating Council and UNFPA. The girls selected from junior and senior high Schools in Ho, Ho-West, Adaklu and Agotime-Ziope said they are not comfortable with increasing cases of early marriage and teenage pregnancy in the region and promised to lead exemplary lives and educate other girls on the subjects. They said they assumed the roles of watchdogs in their communities and would report attempts to force any girl into early marriage to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrati

An eye is for seeing, a nose is for smelling. Many aspects of the human body have obvious purposes. But some defy easy explanation. For biologists, few phenomena are as mysterious as the female orgasm. While orgasms have an important role in a woman’s intimate relationships, the evolutionary roots of the experience — a combination of muscle contractions, hormone release, and intense pleasure — have been difficult to uncover. For decades, researchers have put forward theories, but none are widely accepted. Now two evolutionary biologists have joined the fray, offering a new way of thinking about the female orgasm based on a reconstruction of its ancient history. On Monday, in The Journal of Experimental Zoology , the authors conclude that the response originated in mammals more than 150 million years ago as a way to release eggs to be fertilized after sex. Until now, few scientists have investigated the biology of distantly related animals for clues to the mystery.

  President Obama speaking at the Pentagon on Thursday. The Air Force has formally begun the process of asking defense contractors to submit proposals for a new long-range cruise missile and a new land-based intercontinental ballistic missile. These two weapons, capable of carrying nuclear payloads, will cost billions of dollars. The first is unnecessary; the second, debatable. The invitations are ostensibly aimed at modernizing the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The weapons’ dubious value aside, the requests also seem to contradict President Obama’s 2009 promise to change American nuclear policy in ways that would make the nation safer by reducing threats from the world’s most lethal weapons. Mr. Obama, who knows he is running out of time to make good on that pledge, recently made one positive decision — to pursue a United Nations Security Council resolution that calls on all nations to refrain from nuclear testing and to ratify the Comprehensive T

Human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International (AI), has backed calls for an Executive action to free two panelists and a host of pro-government radio station who have been jailed for contempt. Executive Director of the Ghana chapter of AI, Lawrence Amesu, told Joy News President John Mahama would not be doing anything wrong if he evokes Article 72 of the Constitution that enables him to grant the trio Presidential Pardon. “If the President decides to give pardon to the three, we will be applauding the government,” he said. Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson two panelists on a local-language political talk show together with host of the programme, Maase Salifu were jailed four months last month by the Supreme Court for criminal contempt. The panelists had threatened to harm the judges for what they claim was bias in their ruling on a case that was seeking the a declaration that the electoral roll was not credible for the December general elections. The host, a

As if reading could get any better, scientists have now linked it to a longer life. Using data on 3,635 people over 50, researchers found that people who read for up to three and a half hours a week were 17 per cent less likely to die over 12 years of follow-up, and those who read more than that were 23 per cent less likely to die., OpenCulture reported. Book readers live an average of almost two years longer than those who did not read at all. Becca R. Levy, a professor of epidemiology at Yale University, was quoted in the New York Times as saying: “People who report as little as a half-hour a day of book reading had a significant survival advantage over those who did not read.” The reason for why people who read more appear to live longer was not explained in the abstract version of the report. However, multiple studies show that literacy levels can affect several aspects of a person’s life, from economic wellbeing to family circumstances and mental health. A P

Subah Infosolutions’ telecom traffic monitoring and audit systems have been adjudged the best in Africa at a just ended conference of industry giants in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Over 20 participants from eight African countries at the 3rd Annual Africa Telecoms Fraud, Revenue Assurance & Risk Management Forum 2016 voted the Ghanaian company the ‘Best Telecom Traffic Monitoring Solution’, in acknowledgment of its rigourous efforts to bring down SIM Boxing and improve revenue assurance in Ghana and other African countries. Subah SIM-Box Fraud Detection Services enables mobile operators to track down and eliminate SIM boxes from networks in real-time. It utilizes a data feed to collect real-time usage data for each International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) in the network, which is used to quickly identify offending SIMs. Event Coordinator at Falcon Business Research – organisers of the annual conference – Alfred Lelya Kiteme, says Subah Infosolutions’ pr