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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Swalaba, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, in 1944, to Adeline Akufo-Addo and Edward Akufo-Addo, members of the prominent Ofori-Atta family. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His father Edward Akufo-Addo from Akropong-Akuapem was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and ...
Edward Akufo-Addo JSC (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) [1] [2] was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the " Big Six " leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana who engaged in the fight for Ghana's independence. [ 3 ]
Mahama and Akufo-Addo previously ran against each other in both 2012 (with Mahama winning) and 2016 (with Akufo-Addo winning). [147] In all, 17 candidates contested for the election. [ 148 ] As of 2020 [update] , this is the highest number of presidential candidates in a Ghanaian presidential election.
This is a listing of the ministers who are currently serving in the New Patriotic Party government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Ghana originally formed on 7 January 2017 following the winning of the December 2016 general election when Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party became president.
A statue of Ghana's immediate former President, Nana Akufo-Addo, put up at the end of last year has been destroyed. The unveiling by Akufo-Addo of his own likeness in November in the country's ...
Considered the founding fathers of present-day Ghana, [2] the members of the Big Six were: [3] Kwame Nkrumah – first prime minister and first president of Ghana [4] [5]; Ako Adjei – founding member of the UGCC [6]
Edward Akufo-Addo 26 June 1906 17 July 1979 (aged 73) Lawyer, chief justice and politician; studied mathematics, politics and philosophy at St Peter's College, Oxford [36] [36] Nana Akufo-Addo 29 March 1944 —
Akuffo (also Akufo) is an Akan language patronymic surname with Akuapem-Akropong origins. Notable people with the Akan surname include: Edward Akufo-Addo (1906–1979), lawyer, former Chief Justice and President of Ghana in the Second Republic; Fred Akuffo (1937–1979), Ghanaian soldier, politician, former Head of State of Ghana