After years of speculation about the unity of the Nkrumahist family parties, two of them, the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and the People’s National Convention (PNC) have come together to contest this year’s election.

It was comic relief yesterday at the usually serious sitting of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament when a former Accounts Clerk of the Oti Banka Senior High Technical School, told the committee that he embezzled school fees to the tune of ¢2.8 million because the school owed him travel and transport (TNT) refund.

PRINCIPALS of the 38 Teacher Training Colleges in the country yesterday called on President J.A. Kufuor at the Castle to express their gratitude to him for the immense support accorded their schools in recent years.

The Minister of Fisheries, Mrs Gladys Asmah, has denied knowledge of pair trawling activities in the fishing industry and challenged anybody with a contrary view to produce evidence to that effect.

There was jubilation in Yendi municipality yesterday when eight water tankers arrived in the town to distribute water to residents.

Officials of Zoomlion fumigating drains at the Makola Market in Accra.

NEW national membership identification cards introduced by the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) were yesterday unveiled at Bomaa, near Bechem in the Tano South District of the Brong-Ahafo Region.

THE proposed uniform identity cards for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which will enable beneficiaries to access health care in any part of the country, will become operational in the first week of August.

Today is United Nations International Day of Families.

THE Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), has called on Muslim women to make educa-tion their priority so as to be empowered to aspire for leadership positions in the country.

Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Environment, has called for pragmatic solutions to be found to ameliorate the problems in public transportation.

THE failure of members of the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira District Teachers Co-operative Credit Union to pay back loans is affecting the operations of the union, says Dominic Yaw Kontoh, board chairman of the union.