Despite lengthy mediation by Presidents Nana Akufo Addo of Ghana and Alpha Condé of Guinea under the aegis of the Economic Community of West African States the government refused to budge on the constitutional amendments and the response of the opposition was to boycott the 2018 parliamentary elections...
This follows a meeting between President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo and the Chief Executive Officer of the MCC Sean Cairncross on the margins of the UN General Assembly on 23 September at which government officials proposed that the concession held by PDS would be ended and replaced with a new arrangement...
The leader, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, owns the Citadel hospital in Accra and is a vehement critic, on social media and other platforms, of the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but also lambasts the opposition Presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama...
As he marks the halfway point for his government President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo wants to push ahead with ambitious economic modernisation plans before campaigning for the 2020 elections takes over Ghanaian politics...
Ofori-Atta a banker whose professional instincts clash with some party political imperatives announced a bold plan for big spending on infrastructure promised steps towards 'A Stronger Economy for Jobs and Prosperity' and progress towards realising President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo's celebrated vision of a 'Ghana Beyond Aid'...
They were eventually mollified by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in September but some gripes persist...
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At public gatherings Rawlings has been socialising with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
The sacking of Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko on 6 August for supposedly mishandling renegotiations with the Dubai-based Ameri group on a power supply contract has triggered a crisis in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government...
On top of this Ghana is leading the charge for the 'Beyond Aid' campaign with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo winning plaudits across the continent for calling time on the aid industry...
BoG moves to strengthen regulatory compliance have deepened rifts between arch-reformers and pragmatists in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government exposing how politics holds sway over the banks...
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In November the Ghanaian President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo delivered a stern indictment of Africa's dependency on European benefactors both economically and politically during a visit to Accra by President Emmanuel Macron of France (AC Vol 58 No 25 Power to the president's elbow)...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo starts the year well ahead of the governing New Patriotic Party in the popularity stakes after a difficult first year in power...