Today's front pages

NINE BODIES WASHED ASHORE -- BELIEVED TO BE EASTER REVELLERS AT BEACHES NEAR ACCRA

Nine bodies have been retrieved from two beaches near Accra. They are all males and believed to have drowned during the Easter festivities when many people went to the beaches to have fun.

GHANA WILL SUPPORT EPA NEGOTIATIONS
President John Dramani Mahama has given the strongest indication yet about Ghana's resolve to support negotiations that will lead to the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).

JOE GHARTEY, ADDAI NIMOH JOIN NPP FLAG-BEARER RACE

Two more names have emerged in the upcoming contest for the flag-bearer position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

They are the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Attorney General in the Kufuor era, Mr Joe Ghartey, and Mr Francis Addai Nimoh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mampong.

MURDER AT DANSOMAN
The body of an eight-year-old boy believed to have been murdered in cold blood, was discovered lying in an uncompleted septic tank on the premises of the Dansoman Ebenezer Senior High School, around 4:30pm last Tuesday.

NANA, GLORIA AKUFFO HAILED OVER CP DEBTS
The commission of Enquiry investigating the payments of judgement debts yesterday heard how former Attorney-General Nana Akufo-Addo and his Deputy Gloria Akuffo moved heaven and earth to prevent the payment of huge sums of money to Construction Pioneers (CP).

TOP BANKS FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY ON THE GHANAIAN MARKET

The financial statements released by Ghana's universal banks in March this year, covering  their respective financial performances for 2013 have revealed that even as the biggest three banks -- Ecobank, Ghana Commercial Bank and Standard Chartered Bank -- have retained their positions in that order, adjudged by total assets, there have also been some major changes at the upper end of the banking industry's hierachy.

MORE JUDGEMENT DEBTS AGAINST GHANA
The Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague has recently given an award of damages amounting to GH¢197,491,874.00 in a case brought against the state by Bankswitch Ghana.

MILLS MAN FOR NDC DEP. SCRIBE -- GROUP DEMANDS
A pro-National Democratic Congress group calling itself the Global Network for Bare Fact with headquarters in Koforidua, the Eastern regional capital has launched a campaign to urge one time close confidant of the late President John Evans Mills, Koku Anyidoho ,to contest for the deputy general secretary position of the party in the upcoming congress.

POLICE OFFICERS' WIVES ORDERED TO STOP SALE OF 'PURE WATER'

Information available to the Daily Heritage indicates that the New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, DSP Christopher Quacoo, has put a ban on retail of 'pure water' by the wives of some police officers at the Central police station barracks following the paper's expose of mass recruitment of under age children to sell on the streets.

KUFUOR'S SHS BUILDING ABANDONED
Even before government's vision of building two hundred senior high schools (SHS) take full flight to boost the nation's educational system, expansion of infrastructure commenced in line with the implementation of the four-year SHS by the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor administration has been left to rot.

AKUFO-ADDO FIRES BATURE'S AL HAJJ; SAYS MEDIA WORK IS NOT ABOUT MANUFACTURING LIES AGAINST POLITICAL OPONENTS

The 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has debunked and categorically denied, once again, a story published by the Al Hajj newspaper, edited by Alhaji Bature, a kingpin of the ruling National Democratic Congress.

OTIKO, TINA MENSAH BURY DIFFERENCES AS 'NKABOM' CRUSADE BEGINS

It was all joy and excitement when Otiko Djaba, National Women Organiser of the New Patriotic Party, yesterday met Tina Mensah, her fiercest opponent in the just ended National Delegates' Conference of the party in a show of unity.