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Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that after enduring the campaign of slander and sabotage by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of the Danquah-Busia tradition, he totally empathises with Ghana’s founding President Kwame Nkrumah who, he said, suffered a similar fate until he was overthrown in a Coup D’etat …

Ten months after his overthrow in 1966, the first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, sent an emotional Christmas message to Ghanaians from the capital town of Guinea, Conakry, where he was in exile. Nkrumah, who was addressing Ghanaians on a radio station in Conakry, wished Ghanaians well despite the fact that they …

On Thursday, February 24, 1966, Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown through a National Liberation Council (NLC) coup d’état. The coup was led by Lieutenant-General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka. “Operation Cold Chop” was its code name. Kwame Nkrumah, who had led Ghana’s independence struggle and had won the hearts of …

A little over a year after seizing power from the Limann administration, Flt. Lt Jerry John Rawlings was almost overthrown by men who used to be his allies. In October 28, 1982, Akata Pore, Mathew Adabuga and some other men who were not happy Rawlings’ leadership though they played pivotal …

In February 1966, Ghana experienced its first taste of a military takeover when the country’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was kicked out while he was on an international assignment in Hanoi, Vietnam. The man touted for gaining independence for the country, was on a peacemaking trip over the Vietnam …

On February 24, 1966, he was thrown out of his seat, sacked from his country, and denied every possibility of seeing his family till his death. Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, on the said day, was overthrown while he was out of the country executing an assignment on behalf of …