Stories making headlines on the front pages in the major newspapers include:

Daily Dispatch

*Health alert on drug abuse ; Youth mixing tramadol with energy drinks and ogeeri seeds.

*30 shops destroyed at Kanda.

Daily Heritage

*Pedestrians face jail

*Hungary supports 1D 1F

*No house for 2017 National Best Farmer but gets juicy $100,000

The Independent

*Africa must stop depending on foreign aid - Akufo-Addo

*Free SHS will be sustained by commitment to develop Ghana , not laws - Bawumia

The Inquisitor

*EPA on fire

*Depletion of Forest Reserves; all is not lost..says Owusu Afriyie...as FC gets busy with afforestation

*Illegal loggers busted...over 20 trucks impounded

Daily Graphic

*UEW withholds certificates of 300 students..they breached congregation rules

*Skills training surest way for development - Akufo-Addo

*Sewage , waste water treatment plants for Kumasi

The Finder

*AOMC's laud govt for reducing levy on diesel , LPG.. appeal for similar intervention on petrol

*Forestry Commission impounds 19 trucks with illegal swan timber

*2018: Government to construct 192 dams - President

The Insight

*Free SHS; more heads teachers speak about crisis

*Big boss converts uncompleted structures into classrooms

Daily Guide

*Akufo-Addo jabs NDC for scrapping pro-poor policies

*3 Kumasi Academy students die

*John Mahama's camp puts NDC in danger

Daily Searchlight

*NPP stands for the poor ! - Akufo-Addo says we know those who scrap policies meant for the poor

*Government abolishes 7.5% tax on lotto commission

*Forestry Commission impounds 19 trucks loaded of illegal lumber