Stories making headlines on the front pages in the major newspapers include:
Daily Graphic
• EC to reduce voting time – It’ll allow early collation of results
• Finance Ministry to release GHC50m for teachers’ transfer grant
• Speaker defends Ghana Beyond Aid policy
• Yani celebrates Fire Festival after 17-year break
The Finder
• Free SHS placement frustrations –Disgruntled parents, students besiege secretariat
• President encourages Pitch winners to create jobs
• 22 Ghanaians deported from Saudi Arabia
• Melcom @30: 60 lucky customers receive cars and motorbikes
The Daily Statesman
• The DS Interview: Owusu Afriyie Akoto on PFJ
• 300,000 BECE holders get school placements
• I’m better than Eric Opoku
• General Mosquito steps up lobbying for NDC running mate
The Publisher
• Fear grips Kumasi NDC – After burning of party office
• Poverty killing MPs – They fight with you over ‘trotro’ – Bagbin
• EC to reduce voting time by one hour
• I saw 20 men kill my dada – 14-year-old daughter of chief
• Minister attends KG1
Goldstreet Business
• Benchmark import values, straight levy up for review
• Ivory Coast/Ghana cocoa price plan gets EU backing
• E-commerce protocol to be incorporated into AfCTA agreement