The news from Ghana was not how John Dramani Mahama’s opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), defeated Nana Akufo-Addo’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). The news was how Akufo-Addo managed to survive a full second term. Towards the end of his first and for much of his second term in office, he governed with his head on the block, …

With less than a quarter of the votes announced in Saturday’s presidential candidate in Ghana, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has conceded defeat to his National Democratic Congress (NDC) opponent, former President John Mahama. In a public address broadcast from Bawumia’s official residence hours after results started trickling in, the outgoing Vice President acknowledged the …

After he lost the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections on the ticket of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), the kvetching and blame game went round at the party’s headquarters at Asylum Down, and Nana Akufo-Addo contemplated to nix a re-run. A perspicacious kahuna of the opposition party remembered the prophecy we released about Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 2nd January 2014: …