John Dramani Mahama

The other poll from veteran election analyst Ben Ephson predicts a win by less than one percentage point for President John Dramani Mahama...

Voting in an economic storm This will be the last top-level political contest to include both President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his main challenger Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)...

The opposition New Patriotic Party which negotiated an historic debt reduction deal with the Fund and World Bank when it was in power a decade ago accuses President John Dramani Mahama's government of profligacy and running up unsustainable debts to secure electoral victory...

More warnings came in a World Bank report pointing out that inequalities were growing sharply between the southern rainforest regions and the northern savannah President John Dramani Mahama's base...

On 25 February a smiling President John Dramani Mahama strolled into Parliament in Accra sporting a well-tailored red blue and white dashiki shirt to deliver a three hour State of the Nation Address...

Now it is President John Mahama's NDC government that is in the frame for contracts great and small...

President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) party have the advantages of incumbency and the considerable executive authority and powers of patronage that come with it under the constitution...

Smiling broadly and sporting his trademark northern smock on 7 September John Mahama submitted his application in Accra to stand again as the governing party's presidential candidate in next year's election...

Worse still for President John Dramani Mahama's government power shortages are increasing amid a torrent of other problems: rising inflation and interest rates falling economic growth and a weakening currency together with the threat of deep cuts in public spending and job losses...

President John Mahama's government faces a tough choice between deep cuts in recurrent costs – with wage cuts and redundancies on the state payroll – and abandoning some much needed capital investment to develop power and water services said an official close to the talks...

Prospects for a deal have been complicated by a statement from President John Dramani Mahama that Ghana would struggle to agree to the IMF's demand for a three-year freeze in public sector wages...