As two credible opinion polls show the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia heading for defeat three weeks ahead of the national elections on 7 December arguments over the state of the economy are dominating the campaign...
Compared with a year ago President Nana Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its presidential candidate Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia can point to significant if delayed progress on Ghana's multi-pronged debt restructuring...
Until this month Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia had the unenviable job of running for the presidency as leader of the government's economic management team which has presided over the highest price hikes and interest rates for over two decades and Ghana's first default on its foreign debt since the 1980s...
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...
The reshuffle may allow Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia the NPP's presidential candidate to rejig economic policy and a wider ministerial team ahead of elections in November...
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Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is the ruling New Patriotic Party's presidential candidate and is due to launch his campaign later this month in what is shaping up to be a close contest with the opposition's New Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate former President John Mahama...
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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)...
This 'postponement of austerity' could help Akufo-Addo's Vice President and NPP flagbearer Mahamudu Bawumia but it might lead to another fiscal reckoning...
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The victory of Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia in the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP)'s presidential primaries on 4 November seemed assured with strong backing from the President and most of the cabinet...
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