Ghana Politics

In an exclusive interview with The Independent Ghana, the queen mother of the tomato sellers association at Agbogbloshie market, Doris Adjei, conveyed the strong backing of traders in the Agbogbloshie area for Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a contender in the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer race. Doris Adjei expressed her firm …

John Willie Kofi Harlley (9 May 1919 – 18 February 1982) was a Ghanaian police officer who was Vice Chairman of the National Liberation Council and the first Inspector General of Police in Ghana from 1966 to 1969. He was a member of the three-man presidential commission which carried out presidential functions during the 1969 democratic transition …

Professor George Panyin Hagan (born 1938), is a prominent academic and politician in Ghana. Early life and education George Hagan was born in Accra in 1938. He had his basic education in Accra, Koforidua, Sekondi and Kumasi because his parents, civil servants, were being transferred. His secondary education was at St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra and sixth form (college) at St. Augustine’s …

George Alfred Grant, popularly known as Paa Grant (15 August 1878 – 30 October 1956), was a merchant and politician in the Gold Coast who has been called “the father of Gold Coast politics”. As a political activist, he was a founder and the first president of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in August 1947. He was …

James Victor Gbeho (born 12 January 1935, in Keta, Ghana) is a Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat who was President of the ECOWAS Commission from 2010 to 2012, to which position he was unanimously elected at the 37th Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the 15 Member States. He was Ghana’s Minister of …

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 June 1913 – 11 July 1998) was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana’s Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961. Known popularly as “Afro Gbede”, he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana. Early life and career Komla Gbedemah was born on 17 June 1913 in Warri, Nigeria, of Ewe parentage. He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast for his secondary …

Colonel Roger Joseph Atogetipoli Felli (May 2, 1941 – June 26, 1979) was a soldier and politician who was once the foreign minister of Ghana. Roger Felli was born at Navrongo, the capital of the Kassena-Nankana District in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Military He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Ghana army in 1963. He rose through the ranks after attending courses in Ghana and the United Kingdom. …

  The Member of Parliament representing Garu, Albert Alalzuuga Akuka, has revealed his intention to file a formal complaint with the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The purpose of this petition is to request an investigation into allegations of military brutality against his constituents. This controversy stems …

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, the founder and leader of Glorious Word Power Ministries International, has refuted claims that he made a prophetic statement regarding Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s potential victory in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries. According to Owusu-Bempah, some individuals advocating for the Vice President have falsely asserted …

  In a pledge he made earlier, Ghanaian politician, actor, and farmer John Dumelo is set to honor his promise by embarking on a unique and symbolic journey. After Presec’s victory in the 2023 National Science and Maths Quiz, defeating his alma mater, Achimota School, and Opoku Ware School, Dumelo …