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Today's front pages

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General News Today's front pages
JUL 31, 2014 LISTEN

1.   Arrest Betty over Woyome cash – Ken Agyapong
Tough-talking Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, Kennedy Agyapong, has begun another crusade for the arrest of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, for authorizing the fraudulent payment of GH¢52 million to Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

2.   Supreme Court blocks NHIS cards
3.  Kessben lawyer cries foul
1.   Trip down memory lane: Betty ordered all payments to Woyome…Duffuor's letter to Mills reveals

In view of the landmark ruling by the Supreme Court ordering businessman Alfred Agbesi WOyome to refund GH¢51.28 judgment debt to the state and attendant skewed political spin being put on the ruling of the court to score cheap political points, the Daily Heritage reproduces a letter written to the late President, Prof. John Atta Mills by the then Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor which vividly described how Mrs Betty-Mould Iddrisu authorized all payments of the money.

2.   Bawumia predicts further depreciation of cedi

3.   No NHIS cards for votes – Supreme Court rules

 
1.   No wage increases…private sector insists
Despite the increasingly combative stance being taken against government by organised labour, led by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), corporate Ghana has so far resisted the temptation to offer significant wage hikes as a way of heading off the possibility of looming labour unrest within the private sector.

2.   Fuel utility subsidies re-emerge
 
1.  Court bars NHIS cards…as ID for registration
The Supreme Court yesterday slapped a perpetual injunction on the Electoral Commission (EC), restraining it from using National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards, in their current form, as a form of identity for voter registration.

2.  EC announces new dates for voters registration

3.  MDAs to introduce clocking systems next January

4.   Stop creating needless panic, fear about Ebola – Obeng-Apori

1.  Please wait; Bradez is coming back
2.  The beautiful ones are here
3.  Sarkodie returns to stadium for big Rexona concert

 
1.   Top COCOBOD official nabbed…as security agencies clamp down on stealing syndicate

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), as a result of extensive investigations, has uncovered a cocoa beans stealing syndicate at its warehouses at Tema, Takoradi and Kaasi in Kumasi.

2.   Electoral Commission reschedules voters' register revision

3.   Ashaiman Assembly members 'on strike'
4.  Gov't signs loan pact for pads, others
5.   Fire destroys KNUST Unity Hall
 
THE CHRONICLE
 
1.  NDC Kingpin in $180,000 fraud
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress in the Western Region, Mr. Isaac Dekpey Zorblewu, has been arraigned before the Takoradi Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding an oil and gas service company to the tune of $180,00.

2.  Supreme Court stops EC
3.   KNUST in flames
4.   Customs whistleblower backtracks
 
THE GENERAL TELEGRAPH
 
1.   Chief goes into hiding…after surviving near-lynching

The Chief of Kade in the Kwabirem District of the Eastern Region Osabarima Tenadu Agyare II, who was said to have been destooled last Saturday, narrowly escaped what could have been an attempt by a section of the youth in the area to lynch him.

2.   GH¢60,000 missing from Assembly Disability Fund?

3.   Randy Abbey set to take over as GFA president? Campaign T-shirts surface in Kumasi

 

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