On 7 December Ghanaians are due to elect a successor to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in what is shaping up to be a tight race between Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress...
Adu Boahen was sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in November 2022 and referred to the OSP for investigation after he was recorded telling undercover journalists from Anas Aremeyaw Anas's Tiger Eye PI investigative organisation that Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia could be paid US$200 000 as an 'appearance fee' for a meeting with investors (Dispatches 14/11/22 Treasury team in disarray as finance minister faces probe and his deputy is sacked)...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's success in securing the return of enough MPs from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to push through the 2024 budget by 138 to 136 votes on 8 December has done nothing to silence growing critics of the government's strategy...
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As Vice-President to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for two terms Bawumia will have to work hard to exonerate himself from blame for the current crisis in which the government has written down much of its domestic debts and agreed a US$3 billion loan deal with the IMF...
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Questions about political bias and conflicts of interest are being raised by the double-hatted post of Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice currently held by Godfred Dame a protégé of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (AC Vol 64 No 6 Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign)...
Outgoing Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah was lauded by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo but castigated by the opposition National Democratic Congress for his handling of their appeal against the results of the 2020 elections...
Ghana's highest court has ruled unconstitutional President Nana Akufo-Addo's demand three years ago for the Auditor-General Daniel Domelevo to go on leave...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told the Qatar Economic Forum on 24 May that the IMF deal would help Ghana reposition its economy bring down interest rates and manage public spending...
Although West Africa's second largest economy had been expected to receive an International Monetary Fund deal in the coming months the IMF's 17 May announcement – that its Executive Board has approved the US$3 billion three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) requested by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government – is a major development that has already boosted the cedi Africa's worst performing currency in 2022...
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But controversy still swirls around the government's 'gold purchase' and 'gold-for-oil' programmes that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo touted in his March 'State of the Nation' address as 'already bearing fruit'...