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Students of Nursing and Midwifery training collages in the country have applauded the Ministry of health for suspending some heads of nursing and midwifery training collages in the country for charging exorbitant and unproved fees.   The Minister of health, Hon Alex Segbefia, addressing a press conference yesterday announced that heads of the Mampong Nursing and Midwifery College, Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College and School dispensary Optics have all been directed to step aside while investigations into allegations of extortion from students begin.   Commenting on the development, the President of Ghana health nurses and Midwifery training Association, Akazi Godwin Asabre told TOPNEWS1 that the decision taken by the Ministry has been long overdue, as they have suffered the intolerable act of the collage heads for a very long time.   He added, they are really impressed with the action taken by the Health Ministry since it will pave way for peopl...

A youth group within the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region is angry with their Parliamentary Candidate and DCE for the area Hon Idissah Adams accusing him of sleeping on the party’s victory as far as this year’s elections is concern. According to the group, Mr Adams has since his election as the PC, not done anything to sell the party, at a time that the NPP candidate in the area Francisca Oteng is campaigning from house to house. In an interview with Convener of the group Samed Kooli Jnr Akalilu, he said the NDC party is losing its grounds at the Kwabre East due to the actions and inaction of the Parliamentary Candidate and DCE Idissah Adams who seem not interested in helping the party win this year’s elections. The group says it will force the PC to come out and do the campaign if he continues to stay adamant.

Police at Damongo in the Northern Region are bemoaning the lack of proper place of convenience for the personnel, as the men still use pan latrine for easing themselves in this 20 th century. The officer in charge of the Damango Police command, Chief Inspector Daniel Adu Gyamfi, in an interview with TOPNEWS1,  decried the unbearable hardship they are going through due to the situation at hand, saying they fear the possibility of outbreak of a sanitation related disease due to stench emanating from the latrine. According to him, they have been using the pan latrine method of easing for two years now since he was posted to the station, a situation he said has been a very big blow to the personnel, as several complaints lodged to the authorities for better toilet facility have yielded no positive results. He appealed to authorities to as a matter of urgency provide them with a hygienic toilet facility.          ...

Members of Parliament (MP) have been recalled to consider a motion seeking to impeach President John Mahama for accepting a ford Expedition vehicle as a gift from a Burkinabe contractor. An investigative report by Joy News’ Manasseh Awuni Azure quotes Mr Kanazoe confirms giving the vehicle to the President through Ghana’s Ambassador to Burkina Faso. Djibril Kanazoe who describes the President as a friend is the contractor behind the controversial $650,000 Ghana Embassy wall in Burkina Faso which was flagged by Parliament’s Public Account Committee (PAC). But President Mahama in a breakfast meeting with the clergy in June denied using the vehicle for his personal comfort saying, it was given to the state. A summon by the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho directed MPs to return to the house on Thursday, September 1, but fell short of disclosing the agenda for the sitting. However, Article 112 (3) of the Constitution says if 15 percen...