Police in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, have fired live rounds and tear gas during protests after a quarantine was imposed to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Residents of the capital’s West Point slum area say the barbed wire blockade stops them buying food and working. Four people are said to have been injured ...

A former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy has accused the party’s presidential hopeful, Nana Akufo-Addo of instigating the violence which occurred at the party’s headquarters on Tuesday. In a statement, Dr. Arthur Kennedy described the attack as an attempt to nullify the mandate of Chairman of the party ...

A former Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Kobina Arthur Kennedy has accused the party’s presidential hopeful, Nana Akufo-Addo of instigating the violence which occurred at the party’s headquarters on Tuesday. In a statement, Dr. Arthur Kennedy described the attack as an attempt to nullify the mandate of Chairman of the party ...

Renewed clashes were reported on Tuesday night at Bawku in the Northern region. Security Personnel have been on patrols to forestall further acts of violence around the Bawku township. According to Chief Superintendent Tefourtor Kaletsi,who is the Bawku Divisional Police Commander, the security personnel are prepared to maintain security to ensure that the situation does not get ...

Hollywood star Emma Stone is to make her Broadway debut in the current revival of Cabaret. The 25-year-old Amazing Spider-Man actress will play singer Sally Bowles in the musical, the role made famous by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film version. She will replace Oscar-nominated star Michelle Williams, who has been in the role since ...

An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza has killed three senior Hamas military commanders, militants say. Mohammed Abu Shamala, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar died in the attack near the southern town of Rafah. They were among at least 19 killed, a day after Hamas’s military chief Mohammed Deif reportedly survived a strike ...

Don’t apologize for feeling terrible. If you have ever felt devastated by rejection, you are not alone. Recent research shows why: our brains don’t know the difference between the emotional pain of being rejected and actual physical pain. Erin dated John for six months. While he was still checking her out, she was falling deeply in love. Finally, ...

The Public Health Director at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Dr Simpson Boateng, says the city authorities are intensifying efforts to control the spread of Cholera in the region. Authorities at the Korle Bu Teaching Polyclinic, on Wednesday, ordered health facilities in the Greater Accra region to stop referring cholera cases to the facility. The ...

US aircraft have launched fresh strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq, despite threats from the group to kill a second American captive in retribution for continued attacks. US Navy fighters and drones provided air cover to Kurdish and Iraqi forces battling IS near the city of Mosul. On Tuesday the group released ...

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has suspended yet another health facility from providing service to NHIS clients, this time, indefinitely. The facility, Bernice Clinic, is located in Tema. The NHIA tweeted via its twitter handle on Thursday that “NHIA indefinitely suspends Bernice Clinic in Tema from providing service to NHIS subscribers.” Previous messages on ...

A video released by ISIS shows the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and threatens the life of another American if President Barack Obama doesn’t end military operations in Iraq. In the video posted Tuesday on YouTube, Foley is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black. Foley reads a message, presumably scripted by his captors, that his ...

Nadia Ntanu, Ghana’s representative at this year’s Miss World, has been handed her official car. Officials of Exclusive Events Ghana, organizers of the Miss Ghana event, presented the car to her at a short ceremony held at their offices in Accra. The car would serve her numerous movements a lot of good, as she embarks ...

Computer giant Hewlett-Packard has reported a sharp fall in profit despite a rise in revenue helped by improved computer sales. The firm reported $985m (£593m) profit compared to $1.39bn a year ago for the three months to the end of July. Revenue rose 1% to $27.6bn, helped by a surprise 12% rise in its personal computer sales. ...

The Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) has formally named the internationally-acclaimed environmental campaigner Marina Silvaas its new presidential candidate. Ms Silva replaces the late Eduardo Campos, who was killed in a plane crash last week. She was Mr Campos’s running mate and served as environment minister. She is seen as a leading challenger to President Dilma Rousseff, ...

Some celebrities never crack under the pressure of public criticism. Some even prove a harder nut to crack; they don’t give a hoot when lies, downright negative lies, are spun around them. They take everything in their stride and go about their normal business. One such person is TV presenter, Afia Schwarzenegger. For several weeks ...

The cast of popular South African soap opera Generations has been sacked after going on strike in a long-running dispute over pay and contracts. The show’s 16 actors, watched nightly on state broadcaster SABC, were fired after resisting calls to return to work at studios in Johannesburg. The programme will continue to air until October, ...

Workers of the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra on Thursday morning staged a demonstration to protest against what they describe as poor working conditions and the non-payment of salaries. Citi FM’s Rabiu Alhassan who was at the Hotel said “the place was quite filled with about three hundred workers of the hotel who were protesting ...

The Ministry of Education has granted permission to all tertiary institutions in the country to re-open the 2014 /2015 academic year. The decision was taken after a meeting by the inter-ministerial team on Ebola. Tertiary institutions were asked to suspend their re-opening dates due to fears of a possible spread of the disease by students ...

The former Finance and Administration Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Opare Hammond, has expressed shock at the financial impropriety accusations leveled against him by the party Chairman. Paul Afoko at a press briefing on Tuesday disclosed that there is evidence to show that party funds some party funds were mismanaged by Mr Hammond. He ...

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has begun investigations into allegations that some staff of the Ministry of Roads and Highways own companies that are directly involved in the bidding and execution of contracts awarded by the ministry. The sector minister, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, who revealed this at the management meeting of the Department of ...