Bawumia had wanted to secure a third consecutive victory for the NPP following President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's eight-year tenure (AC Vol 65 No 24 Bawumia tries to defy economic gravity)...

Two weeks earlier at a grand ceremony in Paris President Macron awarded Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo the Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur title for contributions to diplomacy democratic governance and international cooperation...

Using the slogan ‘Breaking the Eight' Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is vying to succeed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in an ambitious bid to win a third consecutive national election for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)...

But compared to a year ago when growth was stagnant inflation rampant and debt restructuring beset by uncertainty President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo his chosen successor and NPP presidential candidate Bawumia finance minister Mohammed Amin Adam and central bank governor Ernest Addison have more ammunition to counter their critics (AC Vol 65 No 14 Government pushes better economy story to swing election back to Bawumia)...

As a minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo's outgoing government she has been involved in securing IMF-brokered loans from China's Sinohydro Corporation...

Compared with a year ago President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its presidential candidate Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia can point to significant if delayed progress on Ghana's multi-pronged debt restructuring...

Vanguard shelvedNana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the NPP promised to ‘put [his] presidency on the line' to stop galamsey (AC Vol 58 No 1 New order tackles old debts)...

He was part of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Small-Scale Mining set up by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to crack down on illegal mining and propose reforms for the sector...

Much as Bawumia casts himself as a technocratic enthusiast for the digital economy he is jointly blamed by many if not most Ghanaians for the crash in living conditions along with former Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...

In March last year President Nana Akufo-Addo appointed Hajia Salima Ahmed Tijani and Peter Appiahene known sympathisers of the NPP as Commissioners of the EC...

Ghana's Minister of Finance Mohammed Amin Adam has given little indication of being more receptive to such financial engineering than Ken Ofori-Atta was before his sacking by President Nana Akufo-Addo in February's reshuffle...