Top Story: Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has stated that the National Security Minister is best placed to give the needed details of the cost of President Akufo-Addo’s recent trips to France, Belgium and South Africa. According to him, this is because the President’s travels fall within the remit of National Security.

Top story: One person has been killed and another injured by a stray bullet at Aboabo Number 2, a suburb of the Asokore Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region this morning.The deceased, 16-year-old Gafaru Kassim and the injured were reportedly shot by an unknown person when a group of young men was brandishing guns as part of the Eid celebrations.

Top Story: Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has defended his failure to seek Parliamentary approval for a contract with Sheikh Maktoum to procure Covid-19 vaccines.

Topic: Impunity and hate against journalists.

Top Story: The Ashanti Regional Police Command says investigations into the formal complaint filed by The Multimedia Group against the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, for threatening the life of one of its journalists, Erastus Asare Donkor, has commenced.

Top story: Police in the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi, are reviewing video footage from CCTV cameras mounted at the busy Maxima junction where a woman believed to be in her 20s was shot dead by unknown gunmen. Eyewitnesses who described the incident as bizarre say the gunmen bolted with her phone after she was killed.

Top story: The First Lady of the Republic, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has refunded an amount of GH¢899,097.84 paid to her as allowance from the year 2017 to date. A letter addressed to the Chief of Staff, signed by Mrs Shirley Laryea of the Office of the First Lady stated, “I am directed to forward, herewith, a consolidated Bank Ghana Limited cheque number 000002 for an amount of GH¢899,097.84 (Eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand ninety-seven Ghana cedis eighty-four pesewas), being the full refund for monies received from 7th January 2017 to date, as allowances given to her Excellency the First Lady of the republic.”

Top story: The wife of murdered social activist, Ibrahim Mohammed popularly as Kaaka, has charged a commission of inquiry to unveil the culprits to face the law. Sa’adatu Hudu’s wish is that “you (commission) conducts your investigation well, find out the one who caused my husband’s death”. That was the plea of the widow as she appeared before the Justice George Kingsley Koomson commission of inquiry on Monday, July 12.

Topic: Formalizing emoluments for First and Second ladies is long overdue.

Top story: The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has accused the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) of selling water from hydrants meant for firefighting. In what appears to be evolving into a full-blown squabble between the two essential service providers over who is to blame for challenges in fighting Monday’s fire in the Central Business District of Accra, the state utility company said it has satisfied all of its obligations towards assisting the Fire Service do its job.