Ghana Swears in new President John Dramani Mahama after demise of former

Date: 25-07-2012 7:16 am (11 years ago) | Author: Steph.
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President John Dramani Mahama, was sworn into office under Article 60 (6 – 10) of the 1992 Constitution, described his the late president as “a father, a friend and a senoir colleague, saying his death was “unprecedented” and “sad”.
President John Dramani Mahama, Fourth President of the Fourth Republic was born on November 29, 1958 at Damango, in the Northern Region of Ghana.
He is a communication expert, historian, writer, former Member of Parliament and Minister of State, and immediate former Vice-President of Ghana.
He ascended to the high office of Presidency following the death of the incumbent President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday, July 24 in Accra.


President Mahama’s father, Mr Emmanuel Adama Mahama was the first Member of Parliament for the West Gonja Constituency and the first Regional Commissioner of the Northern Region during Ghana’s First Republic.
After completing his education, President Mahama went on to pursue an additional postgraduate diploma in social psychology at the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, and returned to Ghana from 1991 to 1996. He worked as the Information, Culture and Research Officer at the Embassy of Japan in Accra.
He moved on to work with PLAN International, Ghana as International Relations, Sponsorship Communications and Grants Manager.
An eloquent champion of the underprivileged, President Mahama was first elected to the Parliament of Ghana in 1996 to represent the Bole/Bamboi Constituency for a four-year term.

In April 1997, President Mahama was appointed Deputy Minister of Communications. He rose to become the substantive Minister of Communications by November 1998; it was a position he held until January 2001 when the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which was the current ruling party, handed over power to the newly elected New Patriotic Party’s government.
In 2000, President Mahama was re-elected for another four-year term as the MP for the Bole/Bamboi Constituency. He was again re-elected in 2004 for a third term.
From 2001 to 2004, President Mahama served as the Minority Parliamentary Spokesman for Communications and in 2002 he was appointed the Director of Communications for the NDC.

That same year, he served as a member of the team of international observers selected to monitor Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Elections.

During his tenure as Minister of Communications, President Mahama also served as the Chairman of the National Communications Authority, in which capacity he played a key role in stabilizing Ghana’s telecommunications sector after it was deregulated in 1997.
President Mahama also served as a member of the National Economic Management Team, a founding member of the Ghana AIDS Commission, a member of the implementation committee of the 2000 National Population Census, and a deputy chairman of the Publicity Committee for the re-introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT).
Continuing to expand his interest and involvement in international affairs, in 2003 President Mahama became a member of the Pan-African Parliament, serving as the Chairperson of the West African Caucus.

In 2005 he was, additionally appointed the Minority Spokesman for Foreign Affairs. He served in these capacities until 2008, when he was handpicked to become the vice presidential candidate.
President Mahama has seven children. He is married to Mrs. Lordina Mahama. Despite his often busy schedule, President Mahama makes it a point to devote time to his family, his faith and his hobbies.
He is a Christian, who believes in the importance of respect for and tolerance of, other faiths and forms of worship in a nation as diverse and peaceful as Ghana.

He has a keen interest in environmental affairs, particularly the problem of plastic pollution in Africa, which he has committed himself to addressing during his tenure as Vice President.
President Mahama loves to read. He is also an avid writer and has had numerous articles published nationally and internationally.
His first book, My First Coup d’État and Other True Stories From the Lost Decades of Africa, was published by Bloomsbury on July 3, 2012.

I could remember how our Politicians behaved after the death of LATE President Umaru Yar'adua, they delayed the swearing in of Goodluck Johnathan.
WHAT LESSON SHOULD NIGERIA LEARN FROM GHANA?


Posted: at 25-07-2012 07:16 AM (11 years ago) | Hero
- HELLO1212 at 25-07-2012 10:06 AM (11 years ago)
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Nigeria is so many light years behind Ghana in terms of politics.seeing the resume of their successive leaders,it is little wonder why their economy has been on steady rise the last years,this coupled with the fact that they separate politics from tribalism is big kudos to them unlike nigeria where you must come from a particular tribe before you can be considerd eligible to rule
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- aso4life1 at 25-07-2012 10:17 AM (11 years ago)
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 Huh? Huh? Huh?

Posted: at 25-07-2012 10:17 AM (11 years ago) | Hero
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- aso4life1 at 25-07-2012 11:19 AM (11 years ago)
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Posted: at 25-07-2012 11:19 AM (11 years ago) | Hero
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- bennydo at 25-07-2012 12:57 PM (11 years ago)
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Ghana is more organise than Nigeria no doubt but Nigerians are great people with great minds all over the world....phyuk boko idiots
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- aso4life1 at 25-07-2012 01:43 PM (11 years ago)
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hmm

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