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The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) would next year introduce a biometric registration and instant issuance of identification cards to subscribers.

Mr Sylvester Mensah, National Director of the NHIA, said the initiative would ensure efficiency and quality healthcare delivery.

He made this known in a speech read on his behalf at the inauguration of a regional administrative complex for the Authority in Sekondi on Friday.

Read more: GH: NHIA to introduce biometric registration from next year

A member of the National Democratic Congress legal team says the assertions by critics that the star witness for the first and third respondents in the ongoing President contradicted himself in yesterday’s cross-examination is a misunderstanding of Respondents case.

Abraham Amaliba said Johnson Asiedu Nketia acquitted himself and clearly represented the position of the Respondents on the allegations of voting without biometric verification.

Read more: Ghanaians Cannot Be Denied Voting Because Of Machines – Amaliba

Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso of the Centre for International Affairs at the University of Ghana, Legon, has called on the Government to resource teachers and the Colleges of Education with the needed logistics.

He said this would help promote quality teaching and learning in the country, since education was the bedrock of the nation's development.

"Teachers, who impart the needed knowledge to future leaders of the nation, should adequately be supplied with the needed teaching and learning materials, including computers, to enhance the teaching of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools," he said.

Read more: GH: Government urged to resource teacher training colleges

The Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan Thursday told the nine-member Supreme Court hearing the election petition that the whole mystery surrounding the biometric voter registration exercise undertaken for the 2012 general elections, the first such time Ghana used it, hinged on only two basic features; namely the capture of all 10 fingers of the registrant and the capture of the registrant’s photo.

According to him, only the two features made the 2012 voter registration a biometric exercise and marked it differently from previous registration exercises, otherwise all other information such as name, sex, age, residential address, hometown, names of parents whether dead or alive, etc, which were also collected during the exercise, had previously been collected.

Read more: GH: Afari-Gyan ‘demystifies biometric’ voter registration