Tag Archives: Ghana’s Top Politicians

Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi (born September 3, 1963) is a Ghanaian politician and a former deputy Eastern Regional Minister of Ghana. He was appointed by President John Evan Atta Mills and served till January 2013. He is currently the deputy Minister of Defense of Ghana. Personal Terlabi is a Christian (Church of Pentecost). He is married with three …

Augustus “Goosie” Obuadum Tanoh (born 7 February 1956) is a Ghanaian politician and businessman. He was the leader of the National Reform Party, a breakaway group from the National Democratic Congress between 1999 and 2007 and represented this party in the 2000 presidential election, where he garnered 1.1% of the national vote. He returned to …

Alfred Oko Vanderpuije (born 4 November 1955) is a Ghanaian educationist and politician who currently serves as a member of parliament. He is currently the member of parliament for Ablekuma South Constituency in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. His Dutch surname reflects his Euro-African descent. The ancestors of Vanderpuije originally came from Sint-Maartensdijk on the former island of Tholen in the Netherlands. His ancestor, Jacobus van der Puije, was governor of the Dutch …

Kwame Safo-Adu was a Ghanaian physician and also a Ghanaian politician; a Minister of State in the second republic and a founding member of the New Patriotic Party. Early life and education He was born on 23 December 1932 at Pasuro, Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. He attended Methodist Mission School in Kumasi from 1939 to …

Ekwow Spio-Garbrah (born 1953) is a Ghanaian politician who was the Minister for Trade and Industry from 2014 to 2017 in the Mahama administration. He was formerly the Minister of Communications, Minister of Education and Acting Minister of Mines & Energy in the Rawlings administration. He also previously served as Ghana’s ambassador to the United States and Mexico. He …

Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye (born 11 June 1965) is a Ghanaian sports journalist and politician and the current Member of Parliament of the Odododiodio constituency. He served as Minister of Youth and Sports and as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry in the John Dramani Mahama’s government. Education He is an alumnus of Bechem Presbyterian Boys’ Secondary School and Mfantsipim School, Cape …

Nathaniel Azarco Welbeck (1915–1972) was a Ghanaian politician and a diplomat. He was a member of the Convention People’s Party and minister of state in the first republic. He was briefly resident minister of Ghana in Guinea and also resident minister of Ghana in Congo. Early life and education Welbeck was born at Cape Coast on 25 September 1915 to Madam Adwoa …

Charles Wereko-Brobby popularly known as Tarzan (born 27 March 1953) is a Ghanaian engineer, politician, diplomat and businessman in Ghana. He was once the chief executive officer of Ghana’s Volta River Authority, then the country’s major power generator and distributor. Early life and education Wereko-Brobby was born in Kumasi in March 1953. He …

Moses Amadu Yahaya is a Ghanaian building technician, politician and was a Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the Convention Peoples’ Party. Professional life Yahaya worked as a development worker for the Tolon-Kumbungu District of the Northern Region. From 1996 to 2006 he worked with the international NGO Ghanaian Danish Community Programme …

Tolon Naa Alhaji Yakubu Alhassan Tali (1916-1986) was a Ghanaian politician, Paramount Chief of the Tolon Traditional Area and founding member of the Northern People’s Party. From 1965 to 1968 he was Ghana’s High Commissioner to Lagos (Nigeria). He was Ghana’s Ambassador to Belgrade (Yugoslavia) during the Second Republic. In 1972, he was appointed Ghana’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, and was also accredited to Guinea as an …