POLITICS

The President has appointed Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng as the Chief Executive of the State Enterprises Commission (SEC). He takes over from Dr Camynt Baezie. Sources close to the Daily Graphic said Dr Baizie was asked to proceed on leave from last Monday, April 24, 2017. He was therefore, asked to hand over to Mr Asamoah-Boateng last Monday. The SEC is ...

Former President John Mahama lost the 2016 presidential election due to the governing New Patriotic Party’s “efficient deceptive campaign,” the Member of Parliament for Tamale North Alhassan Suhuyini has stated. According to him, the NPP’s promises heading into the elections were so enticing that Ghanaians gullibly bought into them. Mahama lost the 2016 presidential election collecting 44.4 percent of valid ...

The four, according to the High Commission, have used their diplomatic passports to secure visas for persons who traveled to the UK and never returned. In that letter Mr. Benjamin said: “The British High Commission considers the actions [of the MPs] completely unacceptable. In some cases these behaviours may arguably be criminal in nature.” But speaking on Morning Starr Friday, ...

The former Member of Parliament for Asunafo South Constituency, George Boakye, has said that his 37-year-old daughter tricked him into taking her to London under the pretext of going to see her uncle, but disappeared on their arrival in the UK. According to him, although he knew he was being irresponsible by not reporting his daughter’s disappearance once he couldn’t ...

Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Prof. Mike Oquaye has served notice he will deal with the three Members of Parliament who have been fingered in a Visa fraud. The UK High Commission has banned three Ghanaian lawmakers and a former MP from entering the European country over their alleged involvement in visa fraud with their Diplomatic passports. The MPs are Richard ...

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he is more focused on fulfiling God’s purpose and not moved by threats by some ‘Galamseyers’ in voting against him in 2020 general elections. The Akufo-Addo government has given a 40-day window period to miners in the country to move their machines from their sites. Speaking at Soabe in the Eastern ...

Hajia Kande, the Savelugu constituency Women’s Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has warned she will resign if the president’s nominee for District Chief Executive for her area, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu, is maintained. According to her, the president’s nominee is not known to constituency executives, therefore, they cannot work with her in prosecuting the NPP’s agenda for change. ...

The entrance of the Builsa North NPP Office, vandalized All is not well in the Builsa North District in the Upper East Region as some youth of the New Patriotic Party have been demonstrating over the nomination of David Afoko, for the position of District Chief Executive. The NPP Youth of the district, led by the Constituency Youth Organiser of ...

An Office at the District Assembly building Calm has returned to Zebilla, the capital of the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region, after some angry youth believed to be supporters and members of the ruling New Patriotic Party in that district, had gone on rampage over the selection of the District Chief Executive nominee. They vandalized items at ...

So yesterday the Delta Forces were fined GHC2,400? Hmmm, Simpa Panyin, sometimes you disappoint me paaa ooo; the way you have started twisting your waist, some of your initial dances are not matching the rhythm koraa oo, hmmm… Honestly I have in recent times been wondering what the next eight years will look like, still living in Ghana. Our election ...