Following his victory in the 7 December presidential elections and securing a two-thirds majority in parliament President-elect John Dramani Mahama has the executive power and the parliamentary support to make radical policy and constitutional changes...

Prempeh said ‘With the numbers [John Mahama has] in Parliament [he] would be well served to wear [his] non-partisan Head of State hat often so as to keep partisan excesses from [his] camp in check...

This time John Dramani Mahama has again pledged to investigate and prosecute outgoing officials and those implicated in scandals including the collapse of indigenous Ghanaian banks illegal money printing by financial institutions at a supposed cost of 25 billion cedis and the US$58 million worth of contracts for the National Cathedral (AC Vol 63 No 16 Monumental disputes)...

Former President John Dramani Mahama won the 7 December presidential election decisively – defeating Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and leading the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) back to power in a contest that has reinforced Ghana's reputation for political alternance...

The assumption on the streets of most big cities is that John Dramani Mahama standing for president for the opposition National Democratic Congress is more likely to win...

Unlike Bawumia John Mahama is able to self-finance his presidential campaign along with his brother Ibrahim Mahama Chief Executive of Engineers & Planners...

John Mahama the presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is reckoned by pollsters to have a clear lead...

John Dramani Mahama presidential candidate for the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) promises that his administration would renegotiate key terms of the IMF programme and call more IMF funds...

Then President John Dramani Mahama established a task force of military personnel and other state security forces that led to the deportation of over 4 500 Chinese miners and the seizure of mining equipment (AAC Vol 6 No 7 Crackdown on illegal miners)...

Analysts say the protests and public concern could hurt the NPP in December's presidential and parliamentary elections though opposition National Democratic Congress candidate former President John Mahama has not proposed any policy initiatives to tackle the problem...

Bawumia will still struggle to maximise the value of this latest debt deal as he goes head to head with John Dramani Mahama his rival and candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the general election draws close (AC Vol 65 No 9 Rival candidates stoke divisive rhetoric over anti-gay law)...

Mahamudu Bawumia presidential candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Dramani Mahama his rival and candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) agree on one thing – that citing scriptures to justify opposition to same sex relationships is a vote-winner...

That may be a long shot but there is little evidence that voters are particularly enthused by the opposition National Democratic Congress under John Dramani Mahama...