One of China’s richest families just gave their 24-year-old son a $3.8 billion gift. The founder of Sino Biopharmaceutical Ltd. and his wife are transferring about a fifth of the company’s share capital to their son Eric Tse, making him one of the world’s richest people overnight. The grant of …

The fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed in a US military operation in northwest Syria, President Donald Trump has said. Speaking from the White House, Mr Trump said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated his suicide vest during a raid by special forces late on Saturday. Baghdadi …

Two teenagers who were stabbed to death at a house party in Milton Keynes have been formally identified by police. Dom Ansah (a Ghanaian) and Ben Gillham-Rice, who were both 17, were attacked in Archford Croft, Emerson Valley, on Saturday night, reports ITV news. Thames Valley Police have now formally …

Broadcast journalism students of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) were the toast of the audience on Wednesday, 23 October 2019, as they trashed graduate students from the University of Ghana, Legon and their undergraduate counterparts from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), African University College of Communications (AUCC), …

The US has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s state security minister amid human rights concerns. Owen Ncube would be denied entry to the US because of evidence he was involved in “gross violations of human rights”, a state department statement said. It called on Zimbabwe’s government to “hold accountable officials responsible for human …

Former President JJ Rawlings has waded in the impasse between authorities of the University of Education-Winneba and Professor Mawutor Avoke saying there is a “clear case of injustice”. The former President’s position comes after the former Vice Chancellor of the school petitioned him over his removal by the council of …

EU ambassadors have agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next week. The European Commission said work on this would “continue in the coming days”. The talks came after Chancellor Sajid Javid admitted the government’s deadline to deliver Brexit next Thursday …

About 40,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires rage through California. Firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes as they engulf land and burn buildings in the north and south of the western US state. The fires are being driven by powerful winds, which are expected to …

The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals, it is understood. Police are continuing to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, who was arrested on suspicion of murder. Officers in Northern Ireland have raided two houses and the National Crime Agency said it was …

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana, TUTAG, has rejected the government’s proposal to pay its members extra allowances instead of migrating them onto the public university single spine salary structure. Government officials led by the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations reportedly proposed the payment of entertainment and responsibility …

Residents of Kentinkrono in the Oforikrom municipality of the Ashanti region are angry at the municipal assembly for their inability to open for services, a constructed and equipped Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) compound that have been left to rot for years. The health facility which was constructed by …

The Vice-Chancellors of Technical Universities in Ghana have given strong indications that the academic calendar of technical universities may be extended by three weeks if the ongoing strike by lecturers and administrators is not called off by the end of this week. The group which has been appealing to the …

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is expected to award 100 teachers across the country on 27 November 2019 at the Manhyia Palace. The awardees are basic school teachers teaching in deprive communities across the country for a period of five years. The 7th Otumfuo teachers awards seeks to appreciate hardworking teachers …

The Ghana Education Service says it has commenced the process of posting teachers who completed Colleges of Education in 2018. Only trainees who have written and passed the Teacher Licensure Examination, and are completing their National Service are eligible. “Candidates who duly applied online will be shortlisted and postings effected …

A study done by a German scientist, Dr. Karen Weatherby, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has revealed that staring at women’s breasts is healthy and also elongates men’s lifespan. The study, which was carried out over a period of five years, involved 500 men, half of …

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing a strong backlash from universities this week after banning gender studies programs. “The Government’s standpoint is that people are born either male or female,” a spokesman for the prime minister told CNN, “and we do not consider it acceptable for us to talk …

The Technical University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has accused the government of not taking their concerns seriously despite their strike. Chairman of the Accra Technical University branch of TUTAG, Dr. Ibrahim Zubairu, told media that government’s posture is disrespectful to both students and teachers. TUTAG went on strike on October …

The Duchess of Sussex has said friends advised her not to marry Prince Harry to avoid pressure from the media. Meghan, 38, said she was told “you shouldn’t do it because the British tabloids will destroy your life”. In an ITV documentary, she admitted motherhood was a “struggle” due to …

MPs must be given “a straight up-and-down vote” on the PM’s Brexit deal later, No 10 says, but it is not clear whether the Speaker will allow it. John Bercow is due to announce his decision at about 15:30 BST. The PM tried to bring his deal to the Commons …

The Duke of Sussex has insisted he will “always” protect his family, adding that he “will not be bullied into playing a game that killed my mum”. Speaking in an ITV documentary, the duke said he did not want a “repeat of the past”. Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex said …

Members of the Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association will today, Monday, 21 October 2019 picket the Ministry of Health (MoH) to demand their immediate employment. The association is made up of public-trained nurses and midwives who graduated in 2017 and 2018 and have been home unemployed. “We are going …

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Health Service Workers Union(HSWU) elections which was scheduled to come of Friday October19, 2019 has been called off. The suspension is due to a court injunction placed on the elections by two aggrieved members of HSWU- Awuni Akyireba and Emmanuel Kusi Sarpong, who are also …

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has told teachers to stop complaining about the food they receive from caterers implementing the School Feeding Programme. Cynthia Morrison said the caterers are only doing the teachers a favour because the programme covers only school children. “There are a lot of …

Boris Johnson has sent a request to the EU for a delay to Brexit – but without his signature. The request was accompanied by a second letter, signed by Mr Johnson, which says he believes that a delay would be a mistake. The PM was required by law to ask …

A bus conveying students from the University of Energy and Natural Resources in Sunyani to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has caught fire. Photos circulating on multiple online platforms show huge flames breaking out through the windows of the white bus. The cause of the fire is yet …

Administrators of Technical Universities have declared an indefinite strike. The administrators, who are members of the Technical Universities Administrators Association of Ghana (TUAAG) say their decision is premised on the failure of the government to address their concerns. Key among these is their base pay in line with their new …

A 12-year-old black student in foster care has been suspended from school and accused of physical assault for hugging a teacher during gym class. The boy is a seventh-grader at the Forest Grove Middle School in Worcester. Julie Orozco, the boy’s foster mother, according to reports was extremely furious over …

American singer, Frank Ocean, has opened his first LGBT+ nightclub in New York City years after taking a break from the music business. The ‘Novacane’ singer came out as bisexual or gay in a letter posted to Tumblr in 2012. In the piece, he admitted to having fallen in love with a man. It …

A school bus conveying students of the University of Energy and Natural Resources from Sunyani to the campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi has been engulfed by fire. According to Ghpage.com sources, the bus was carrying level 300 Electrical Engineering students of the university to …

MPs are debating the PM’s Brexit deal, amid uncertainty about whether the decisive vote on it will go ahead. The PM is trying to convince MPs to support the agreement he secured with the EU, in Parliament’s first Saturday session in 37 years. Mr Johnson told MPs “now is the …