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3 October: Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. [2]14 October: A bus falls into a ditch in Kwapia, Ashanti Region, killing 13 people. [3]18 October: Parliament speaker Alban Bagbin declares four seats held by MPs who switched parties vacant, effectively giving the opposition National Democratic Congress a majority in the legislature. [4]
Mahama Ayariga (born 12 May 1974) is a lawyer and politician in Ghana.He belongs to the National Democratic Congress.He was the Minister of Information and Media Relations and the Minister of Youth and Sports under the John Dramani Mahama administration.
This is the second time that John Mahama has been President of Ghana. His first term in government was when he inherited the government of President John Atta Mills who died in office in 2012. [1] [2] Mahama has remained as the leader of the National Democratic Congress since the death of Atta Mills.
Heart attack Bjarni Benediktsson: 1970 Iceland: Prime Minister: Þingvellir Iceland: Accident – fire [198] Gamal Abdel Nasser: 1970 Egypt: President and Prime Minister: Cairo Egypt: Heart attack [199] Yusof bin Ishak: 1970 Singapore: President Singapore: Heart attack [200] François Duvalier: 1971 Haiti: President for life: Port-au-Prince Haiti
On 28 October 2024, Akua Donkor, the presidential candidate for the Ghana Freedom Party, died after a sudden illness. [71] [72] The GFP was given ten days to nominate a replacement for Akua Donkor. They submitted forms for Philip Appiah-Kubi who was her running mate.
The 2024 Ghanaian general election took place on 7 December 2024 to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) to the 9th Parliament of the Fourth Republic. [1] The Speaker is not an elected member of parliament though must be qualified to stand for election as such. There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament first convened on ...
Under the current Constitution the president is head of both state and government. [13] [17] The president is directly elected and serves a four-year term that expires at the next general election; a president may serve a maximum of two terms. In the event of a vacancy, the vice-president serves the remaining time as the president. [18]
Ahead of Ghana becoming a republic, the first presidential election was held on 27 April 1960. Nkrumah won 89 per cent of the vote and was subsequently declared President for life. [ 10 ] [ 16 ] In the 1965 Ghanaian parliamentary election , all the CPP candidates were elected unopposed due to the one-party state system in place at the time. [ 17 ]