The Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, says the quota system introduced this year for admitting students to nursing and midwifery training institutions is to address the issues of equity, quality and capacity in the training institutions. He told Parliament yesterday that the Ministry of Health collaborated with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and other stakeholders in arriving at the decision.

Arnold Asante, the businessman alleged to have defrauded the National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Kofi Adams, of GH¢840,000 has been granted bail by the Accra Circuit Court. The court, presided over by Mrs Janet Harriet Akweley Quaye, last Tuesday granted the businessman bail in the sum of GH¢900,000, with six sureties.

The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged the government to increase the salaries and wages of workers to enable them to live a more dignified life after retirement. It said the generally low wages paid to majority of the country’s workers was at the heart of pension pay challenge and the destitution of pensioners.

The deputy Chairperson in charge of Corporate Services at the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana, Madam Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, has revealed her intention to seek legal redress against the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) over investigations against her. Asante-Krobea Sekyere and Associates, lawyers of Madam Amankwaa, in a letter dated October 3, 2017 stated that they were “giving notice of our intention to go to court against your office to the Attorney-General whom

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East, Mrs Queenstar Maame Pokuah Sawyerr, has said it is not acceptable for assembly members to be overly interested in their personal benefit while the myriad of problems confronting their constituents are left unattended to. She has, therefore, admonished assembly members in the district to have the interest of the people that they represent at heart so that they can work towards addressing them.