Two senior US officials visited Accra in the week before the peace talks and met Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo Pentagon General Charles F...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
In a cabinet reshuffle Information and Presidential Affairs Minister Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey is tipped for demotion and Justice Minister Nana Akufo-Addo is likely to move to Foreign Affairs...
Three strands in the NPP date from the 1998 leadership contest when Kufuor beat Nana Akufo-Addo and J...
Kufuor came over as presidential but accessible in an inquisition managed by his spokesperson Elizabeth Ohene; she and Attorney General Nana Akufo-Addo want the obnoxious criminal libel laws abrogated this year...
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Attorney General and Minister for Justice; a barrister and MP for Abuakwa in the Eastern Region...
He is also likely to name his rival for the New Patriotic Party leadership Nana Akufo-Addo as his Minister of Justice and Attorney General...
At the end of October the Weekend Statesman (owned by Nana Akufo-Addo an NPP MP and Legal Affairs Spokesperson) published a transcript of a tape recording which if authentic could implicate people at the highest levels of government in several unsolved crimes...
6 per cent of the vote was the NPP's failed presidential candidate in 1996 John Agyekum Kufuor; Nana Akufo-Addo won 31...
The flagbearer issue obsesses the NPP and the newspapers that support it; a clutch of candidates has already emerged ahead of the party's national congress due before the end of 1998:• John Kufour: Kumasi businessman; the NNP's dour representative in 1996; widely regarded as lacking the bite to take on either Nana Konadu or her husband; • Nana Akufo-Addo: Accra-based lawyer whose father was President in 1969-72; this might tell against him in the dynasty argument; looks the most dynamic and imaginative of the contenders; • Kofi Apraku: parliamentary finance spokesman cerebral but questions have been raised about his ability to cope with the political rough stuff; • Malik Alhassan Yakubu: MP for Yendi and a leader in the North; would have a strong case for getting on the NPP ticket to break its image as an elitist conservative alliance for the cities; • Agyare Koi Larbi: member of parliament Akropong; lawyer; leads a Young Turks group in party; argues party must concentrate on grassroots organisation...