While Mr and Mrs Djentu were held in custody awaiting sentence Amnesty International regarded them as prisoners of conscience Carrying snippets of love trysts and life with the first family in banal detail the Ghana media is embarrassing the ruling National Democratic Congress ahead of December's elections when President Jerry Rawlings (and First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings) is to stand down after 18 years in power...
Another suggested running mate is presidential wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose own ambitions for the presidency were nullified by her husband and many others...
He hasn't been sacked for his handling of the affair because of high-level support from we hear Presidential wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings...
But without telling the Minister the first couple Jerry and Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings had already reached sale terms with the Franco-Belgian conglomerate TotalFina (now merged with Elf-Aquitaine which specialises in West African oil)...
Though Ohene Kena must have cleared that statement with President Jerry Rawlings he was unceremoniously sacked on 13 October and replaced by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah a close political ally of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings: at the same time the government said it hadn't made a decision on Lonmin's bid - to the surprise of Lonmin Chairman Sir John Craven...
Speculation about the presidential ambitions of Rawlings's wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings had reached fever pitch just weeks before the April 1998 visit of United States President Bill Clinton to Ghana...
Tanoh's broadcast later went out on ‘Joy' and was then released as a cassette in Accra while Rawlings and his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings were visiting the United States and Cuba...
Other pro-Rawlings forces are Nana Konadu's 31 December Women's Movement (DWM) and less importantly the Verandah Boys and Girls Movement which have tried to develop structures parallel to the NDC's in some regions...
The plan follows unease among some in the NDC about the electability of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose candidacy for presidential nomination has been championed by Attorney General Obed Asamoah and Sports Minister Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah...
Vol 39 No 5 |
- WEST AFRICA
There is too the spat between Ghana's first lady Nana Konadu Rawlings and Nigeria's Maryam Abacha who publicly rowed over Abuja's domination of the African First Ladies Association...
There is too the spat between Ghana's first lady Nana Konadu Rawlings and Nigeria's Maryam Abacha who publicly rowed over Abuja's domination of the African First Ladies Association...