General News of Friday, 22 December 2017
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2017-12-22
Stories making headlines on the front pages in the major newspapers include:
The Informer
*Outrage over $100,000 extortion.. Akufo-Addo to sack minister for putting him on sale of expatriate business
*First Sky Group chair woos investors
*In the matter of UEW controversy… Plaintiffs has no locus in matter – Supreme Court ruled
The Chronicle:
*I want to ‘ marry ‘ Krobos – Akufo-Addo
*Are you bald? .. Beware of prostrate cancer
*No festival for Nkonyans – DISEC
*Most pastors of today are armed robbers in cassock – Part ||
New Weekend Crusading Guide:
*My political detractors have been shamed – Prez tells Krobose
*Ejisu NPP in turmoil over kidnapped polling station coordinator
*’Men of God’ trade blows over offertory
Daily Guide:
*Alan speaks on $100,000 saga
*Korle-Bu considers medical tourism
*Gang rapist smoked out
*’Eggs good for kids’
*Akufo-Addo promises to root out fulani raids
B&FT:
*Investors bullish on 2018
*BF&T wins ‘Best Media in SME reporting’
*Quantum Oil’s subsidiaries win bid to join IFC, OPEC suit
*Kumasi battles Accra for largest ‘city-economy’
*US$1m per constituency to close infrastructure gap – Minister
Daily Graphic:
*Expedite probe of EC Commissioners – Parliament.
*Accra in gridlock
*Self-styled lawyer before court for fraud
Daily Statesman:
*Crude propaganda against me exposed – Akufo-Addo
*Ghana secures executive seat in Pan African Youth Union
The Finder:
*Kumaca students receiving H1N1 vaccination, Frontline hospital staff will also be vaccinated
*GhC800,000 website budget criticised
*Government grabs $200m World Bank credit
Goldstreet Business:
*Ghana gets US$200M IDA support from World Bank
*GTA urges Diasporas to invest in Ghana..group targets US$2BN investment
Ghanaian Times:
*2015 Peabo dynamite explosion: 2,500 victims cry for compensation
*Stop rosewood trees over-exploitation – Lands Ministry
*$100,000 saga – President clears Alan Kyeremanten, deputies of extortion allegation
The Daily Dispatch:
*UN warns Ghana on weak security – 45,000 private security staff & 33,000 police officers
*’Macho men’ beat journalists at NPP headquarters
*Parliament approves GHC800,000 for a Ministry’s website
*Rawlings talks ‘ by heart’ – Ex Prez Kufuor