Tag Archives: John Dramani Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has been duly sworn in as the 4th President of the 4th Republic of Ghana. The Chairman of the Electoral Commission declared President Mahama as the winner of the December 7, Presidential elections. The election was … read more »
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) will neither send a delegation to President John Mahama’s inauguration today nor participate in it in anyway, joining the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to boycott the programme. The hint was dropped by the … read more »
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced activities for the Black Stars ahead of their departure for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. The GFA has lined up some important activities on Thursday for the team before it departs to … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Abu Dhabi, Black Stars, GFA, Ghana, Ghana Football Association, John Dramani Mahama, Thursday
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The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) will boycott the inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama on January 7, the party’s National Executive Committee decided on Wednesday. “The NPP will not be there. It will make nonsense of the petition we … read more »
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MAHAMA – WISDOM FROM THE NORTH Your Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, It is often said by elders that those who pay respect to the great, paves their own way to greatness. It is in the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mills, John Dramani Mahama, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, NDC, President of Ghana, Rawlings
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Now that the NPP leaders have submitted their petition to the Supreme Court to demand the declaration of their defeated flagbearer, Akufo-Addo, as winner of Election 2012, they seem to have made good their threat … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, NPP, President, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Even though the NPP is yet to file its case at the Supreme Court to fight the EC (the NDC and the media too) over the outcome of the Presidential elections, I am quite certain … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Even though the NPP is yet to file its case at the Supreme Court to fight the EC (the NDC and the media too) over the outcome of the Presidential elections, I am quite certain … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Electoral Commission, Ghana news, ghanaian news, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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Corruption is King in Ghana; only the ingenuous, the hypocrite and the shameless politician peddling propaganda will attempt to say otherwise. Many a Ghanaian lives the enchanted life where wealth is acquired out of the blue without winning the lottery … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, Ghana news, ghanaian news, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mills, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, United States
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We have so far been interrogating the NPP’s rejection of the results of the Presidential elections and wondered why the focus is on only that aspect of the general elections. As the party’s leaders continue … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ghana, Ghana news, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP, Supreme Court
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opinion The 2012 general elections are over, but the outcomes are being disputed. Many Ghanaians who voted in a particular manner believe that they have been short-changed. Some discrepancies have been identified by the main opposition political party, the New … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, John Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor Gradually, the NPP leaders and the party’s supporters have boxed themselves into a tight corner. Perhaps, they have counted too much self-confidence and misplaced trust in prominent personalities, including the Asantehene, Osei Tutu II, to … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ashanti Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kumasi, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor We continue to focus attention on the NPP at this point in the post-election assessment of our national life. The threat to national stability posed by the riotous behaviour of its members still persists. Likewise, … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, EC number, indepthaffrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kumasi, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Supreme Court
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor The NPP may continue fretting and protesting (whether legally or through riotous behaviour by its activists), but its leaders seem not to know that their fate had long been decided before the 2012 elections were … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Ghana, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, Nana Konadu, National Democratic Congress, NDC, NPP
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Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Opens 7th ACP Summit MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, — Equatorial Guinean President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo called for stronger South-South economic global cooperation aimed at providing guidance for strategy and policies that allow the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group … read more »
…..from current beliefs to have Peace and Prosperity. We are all victims of a belief (cultural, religious, objective science) trap. Believe breeds fear. Ego is a derivative of fear . Fear and ego are the primary generators of divisiveness and … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Ghana, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, jesus, John Dramani Mahama, Opera, Quantum mechanics, West Africa
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Dennis Laumann, africasacountry Ghana held its sixth consecutive elections since its democratic transition in 1992 this past weekend and once again has earned its reputation as a stable and thriving democracy, in spite of predictable cries of fraud by the … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NDC, New Patriotic Party, NPP
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A few days after his election as Ghana’s new leader, John Dramani Mahama has made his first international trip and he headed to Abuja for a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa. Mr Mahama who won a … read more »
Posted in Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Jonathan, Nigeria, West Africa
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday congratulated President John Mahama of Ghana on his victory in last weekend’s presidential and parliamentary elections. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and … read more »
Ghana’s incumbent President John Dramani Mahama has been re-elected with 50.7 per cent of the vote. That’s according to results posted on the Electoral Commission’s Facebook page. But Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Party lead by Nana Akufo-Addo has accused the … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, West Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Friday, Ghana, Ghana 2012 election, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mills, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party, President of Ghana
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Ghanaians waited on Sunday for official results to a presidential election that was fraught with technical problems, but which officials hope will still burnish the country’s reputation as a pillar of African democracy. A leading local news outlet that was … read more »
Posted in Election, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Ghana, ghana election 2012, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mills, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, West Africa
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By Franklin Cudjoe, Bright Simons, Selorm Branttie and Kofi Bentil. Ghanaians are voting for the next president of the longest-lived republic in their country’s history. Despite nostalgia in some quarters for the country’s first republic, under the charismatic Pan-Africanist leader, … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Election, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kwame Nkrumah, Nana Akufo-Addo, National Democratic Congress, NPP
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By Margaret Jackson Many Ghanaians had been waiting patiently to see the day that President John Mahama will take bully Akufo-Addo by the horn and tell him who he really is. This is because Akufo-Addo had been faking his character … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ghana, Ghana 2012 election, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, John Kufuor, Mahama, Margaret Jackson, National Democratic Congress, Volta Region
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Badu, K “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the citizens”(Taft). In practice, … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Ghana, Ghana 2012 election, Ghana Armed Forces, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, Martin Amidu
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By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor As we inch toward Election Day this Friday, some extra-ordinary events have begun happening to provide some comic relief. Forget about the Hassan Ayariga antics and turn to this latest one, reported by Sammi Wiafe, … read more »
Posted in Article, Gambia, Michael Bokor, West Africa
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Tagged Akufo-Addo, Ashanti Region, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kumasi, Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party
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With Their Ill-gotten Booty kept intact To serve as a deterrent from corruption and amassing of ill-gotten wealth through abuse of office, public office holders who fall foul to corruption and abuse of office must not only voted out as … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, George Eliot, Ghana, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, John Dramani Mahama, Mill, Whig
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Sarpong, Justice Answer YES Or No, Mr Temporary President Did President Mills set up an investigative committee to investigate you for inflating prices on the contracts you signed in the name of Ghana? YES or NO? Sarpong, Justice President Mahama … read more »
Posted in Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Armed Forces Council, Ghana, Ghana Armed Forces, IEA, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, Martin Amidu, Mills
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By Appiah, Kofo Nineteen fifty-eight born youthful John Dramani Mahama luckily happens to be the No. 1 man and chief executive officer of the Republic of Ghana in the West African sub-region, a developing nation in the Third World Africa. … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, God, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mill, John Dramani Mahama, Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, NDC
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There is much talked about that President John Mahama, has at a recent campaign at Zualerigu in the Upper East Region, told the chiefs and people that, the people from the Northern Ghana should vote for him because he is … read more »
Posted in Article, Ghana, West Africa
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Tagged Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Aliu Mahama, Ghana, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party, NPP, Vice-President of Ghana
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By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo There’s just 25 days to go before Ghana holds its hotly anticipated presidential and legislative elections, the nation’s sixth round of multi-party elections. The political environment could not be more polarised. Billboards are adorned with party colours … read more »
Posted in Article, Election, Ghana
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Tagged Ghana, ghana election, Ghanaian, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Mahama, National Democratic Congress, New Patriotic Party, NPP, United States
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