Ghana’s President John Mahama’s choice of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as the special guest of honour at his presidential inauguration ceremony in Accra on 7 January should be leveraged as a strategic opportunity by both leaders to turn a new positive page in Nigeria-Ghana relations. This should foreshadow the deliberate downplay of historic mutual prejudice and parochial negative rivalries. In …

President Bola Tinubu has expressed confident that Ghana’s new President, John Mahama would work with Nigeria to strengthen the powerful bond between both West African states, which, he believed, would lead “to greater shared prosperity for our people. I have no doubt that your administration will bring about positive change and progress”. President Tinubu, who was the Special Guest at …

President Bola Tinubu will be among world leaders who will grace the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as the sixth President in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga said the President Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday for Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Serving as …

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, …

Ghana’s opposition leader John Mahama on Monday officially won the country’s election, easily defeating the ruling party candidate after voters punished the government’s economic management and the high costs of living. Mahama won 56 per cent of the votes in Saturday’s presidential ballot, compared to the ruling party candidate and Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia who secured 41 per cent, the …

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 …