Today's front pages

MANUFACTURERS RAISE PRICES RAPIDLY
Manufacturers have been raising their prices at the fastest pace in years in the wake of soaring utility bills, rising transport costs, and higher prices of raw materials.

2 ND WESTERN BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT FAIR OPENS
The second edition of the Western Business and Investment Fair (WEBIF) has kicked off in the Oil City, Sekondi Takoradi, on the theme “Promoting Trade and Investments through Effective Business Networking”.

TELCOS SINK GH₵80M INTO FIBRE REPAIRS
Mobile telecommunications companies have spent more than GH₵80 million over the last three years to repair fibre-optic cables that were damaged through various activities, the Ghana Telecoms Chamber has reported.

WORLD CUP SCANDAL PROBE: COOKS GRAB $67,000
World Cup Project Coordinator, Fred Darko, yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Brazil 2014 scandal that each of the three caterers Ghana hired for the event pocketed a staggering $17,200 as service fee.

ODIKE IN TROUBLE OVER DEATH THREAT
The 2012 Presidential Candidate of the United Front Party (UFP), Akwasi Addai, popularly called Odike, is in trouble again.

COURT DECIDES ON NPP CONGRESS
An Accra Fast Track High Court will today decide on the application before it seeking to prevent  the New Patriotic Party's Super Delegates' Congress slated for Sunday.

HELL OVER 'CHOP MONEY': ECONOMIC CRUNCH TO BLAME
The rising cost of living has badly affected the budgets of families, especially housekeeping money, to the extent that some families have had to cope with steady reduction in their housekeeping budget.

PASSENGERS REJECT LIFE JACKETS
Despite the provision of life jackets by Zoomlion for travelers to use when crossing the Oti River at Dambai in the Krachi East District of the Volta Region, commuters have refused to wear the life jackets, endangering their lives in the process.

FLAGSTAFF HOUSE SWEEPING STARTS
President John Dramani Mahama, has started implementing the recent changes he mentioned in his famous “Green Letter”, he served his appointees inside the Flagstaff House by submitting to the Council of State, two new ambassadorial nominees, Dr Sulley Gariba and Mr Kwesi Ahwoi.

MASSIVE WATER THEFTS DETECTED IN TEMA
A combined team of officials from the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and the National Security, in a swoop have arrested two for tapping state-treated water into their homes, without paying a dime to the water provider.

PORTUPHY BOYS SET TO LOSE IN KETU SOUTH NDC CONSTITUENCY ELECTION

Information reaching The Herald, from the Ketu South Constituency of the Volta Region, indicates that many of nonperforming incumbent Constituency Executives, who are loyalists of Mr Kofi Portuphy and seeking re-election, would be booted out of office in today's crucial election.

NPP BLASTS 4 SUPREME COURT JUDGES; BLAMES THEM FOR ECONOMIC HARDSHIP FACING GHANAIANS BUT NDC SHOOTS DOWN THEIR ARGUMENTS

The former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie, has launched a blistering attack on four Supreme Court judges, accusing them of imposing “untoward economic hardship” and “bad governance” on Ghanaians.

CHOLERA CASES SHOOT UP AGAIN FROM 6,000 TO OVER 7,000 WITHIN A WEEK

The number of cholera cases recorded in the Greater Accra Region has shot up from 6,000 to over 7,000 in less than a week.