Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the month-long war. As rocket-warning sirens sounded in southern Israel, the military said Hamas had fired at least 18 rockets from Gaza and Israel’s “Iron Dome” interceptor system brought down two. Gaza militants said they had fired 10 rockets on Friday. In the first casualties since hostilities resumed on Friday, Palestinian {....}

Dark and Lovely announced the launch of Dark and Lovely Crème 6 Oils body lotion, the first multi-active formula which combines six natural oils to help combat the six most common imperfections affecting African skin on the Ghanaian market. African skin is more prone to certain conditions of which the most common is dullness, dryness, roughness, unevenness, tightness and an “ashy”look. As a result, many African women usually add extra oils to traditional body lotions to retain {....}

President John Dramani Mahama has described as timely, the signing of the second compact of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The signing will see the release of $498 million to Ghana which government says will be channeled into the country’s power sector. The $498.2 million will support the transformation of Ghana’s electricity sector and stimulate private investment. The five-year compact is designed to create a self-sustaining energy sector in Ghana by reforming laws and {....}

THE DEPUTY Brong-Ahafo Regional Chief Iman, Alhaji Baaba Seidu, has suggested that if it is permissible for a religious body to govern a country, then the Catholic Church should be allowed to govern Ghana to ensure rapid socio-economic development, unity and peace. According to Alhaji Baaba Seidu, it is an undeniable fact that the Catholic Church is far beyond any other religious sect in the country, per its enormous contribution towards the socio-economic development, unity and peace {....}

Award-winning Ghanaian gospel musician Sonnie Badu is busily finalizing arrangements to get married to the love of his life. Close friends and family sources have confirmed the news to Citifmonline. The ceremony, which would be officiated by Rev. Dr. Victor Osei of Family Chapel – Kumasi and Pastor Kingsley Appiagyei of the Trinity Baptist Church, is scheduled to take place in the United Kingdom on August 23. Even though Sonnie has personally not announced it publicly, close friends {....}

The chief of Tamale, Naa-Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan is asking for the banishment all the women who were filmed on the leaked sex tape recorded in Tamale. A recently leaked nude pictures and videos in circulation reprotedly revealed that about 50 women had been filmed perfoming various sexual acts with a Tamale-born Ghanaian based in Canada. In some of the pictures and videos cited by Citi News, the act was done on different occasions with some of them voluntarily posing naked for {....}

Two soldiers who are alleged to have been arresting people falsely and taking money from them have been apprehended by the Kwabenya Police in Accra. At the time of their arrest, Lance Corporal Mark Gwura Forkes, 25, and Lance Corporal Dickson Ruben, 26, who claimed to be officers of the Tema Eastern Naval Command, were said to have collected GH¢2,508, €2,200, mobile phones and some personal belongings from their victims. Their accomplice, who has been identified only {....}

University of Cape Coast (UCC) has indefinitely postponed its re-opening date due to what it describes as “circumstance beyond control” UCC was initially scheduled to re-open school on the 2nd and 9th August, 2014 for fresh and continuing students respectively. Though reasons for the postponement was not clearly stated, it is believed that it is as a result of the strike by the University’s branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). A press statement issued by the University {....}

Some Journalists in Tamale have blacklisted one of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential hopefuls, Alan John Kwadwo Kyeremanteng for snubbing them during his visit to Tamale on Thursday August 7, 2014. What incurred their wrath was Alan Kyeremanteng’s decision to ignore them upon his late arrival to address the media prior to his meeting with party delegates at the Mafara Hotel in Tamale. By the invitation of his Local Coordinators in Tamale, Alan Kyeremanteng was scheduled {....}

Music has given space to many young people to explore their talents. One of the latest of such talents is 21-year-old Juuju who has just turned out her first song titled, Kakyerɛ Me. As she says in the song, Juuju cannot stand cases involving women who suffer heartbreaks in their relationships and so she wrote her freestyle song to prompt guys on how they must treat their women. Speaking to Showbiz last Sunday, Juuju revealed that she had been singing since she was seven years old. “I used to sing at {....}

The ravaging Ebola disease seems to be threatening every aspect of life in most West African countries and it looks like football may not be spared. Red flags have started flying even ahead of the start of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers next month. With various national teams criss-crossing the continent to honour matches and with the threat of the incurable disease lurking, many countries, including Ghana, are concerned about the risk travelling around could pose to their teams. Ghana's Black {....}

An official of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has advocated a medical insurance and risk allowance package for health workers who will handle Ebola cases should the disease break out in the country. The Head of the Public Health Unit of the hospital, Dr Philip K. Amoo, also asked for standardised personal protection equipment and training for health workers who had volunteered to be part of the Ebola case management team. That, he said, had become necessary in view of the high risk associated with {....}

The hope of a former Member of Parliament (MP) of Nkoranza North in the Brong Ahafo Region, Mr Eric Amoateng, to enjoy his new found freedom in Ghana after his incarceration in Brooklyn, Eastern District of New York for heroin offences has been dashed. He was whisked away by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for a debriefing session as soon as he arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on board a Delta Airlines flight from New York to Accra. More {....}

The police in Lagos have arrested the runaway boyfriend who took the life of Ms Njideka Lizzy Nzewe, the Managing Director of EDMARK. 31-year-old Kelechi Williams is said to have strangled his victim on July 19 in the Amuwo Odofin area of the state after which he escaped to Ghana with some of her belongings. In confessing to the crime, he said: “Lizzy was my girlfriend. I knew her three years ago. But we started getting serious in February this year. “I came back from Ghana to visit her {....}