Tag Archives: Rawlings

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was the Special Guest of Honour of the 2022 End of Year West African Soldier Social Activities (WASSA) which was organised by the Ghana Armed Forces. WASSA is a social event organised every year by the military to foster comradeship among the officers and men of the …

Retired Ghanaian referee, Emmanuel Okoampah has detailed how a minister under the Rawlings administration instructed him to show bias in a football game between Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko. Without giving details of the date of the match, ex-referee Okoampah disclosed that the game which was a …

Victor Smith, a former aide to late president Jerry John Rawlings has disclosed his willingness to repair the broken relationship between himself, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings and the late president’s children. Victor Smith laments that despite being close to them at the early stages of their lives, he is not on …

The late former President Jerry John Rawlings was typically known as a charismatic person but he also had a rather unique sense of fashion to his persona. During his years as leader, J.J Rawlings had a peculiar choice of fashion dating as far back as his young days in Achimota School and …

The events of May 15, 1979 during a mutiny attempt by some junior rank officers of the Ghana Armed Forces set the tone for what would later become a bloody usurping of the then government. The Supreme Military Council which deposed a democratically elected government in October 1972, witnessed a …

She is known as the first woman to run for Presidency in Ghana and the very first to occupy the position of the First Lady under the Fourth Republic, as wife to Ghana’s first President under the Fourth Republic; Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. She is also acknowledged for her role …

Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, the first daughter of the late Jerry John Rawlings, has stated that she misses her father. According to her, the memory of her father still lives in her heart, two years after his passing. Rawlings died on November 12, 2020, after a short illness at Korle Bu Teaching …

There have been a couple of occasions where the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings interacted publicly with the Asantehene and some others where the Asantehene paid a courtesy call on the former President. As a matter of fact, it is public knowledge how the intervention of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II played a significant …

The son of the late Corporal Carlos Halidu Giwa, one of the soldiers who were killed for their attempt to overthrow Jerry John Rawlings in 1983, has spoken about how close he was to harming the former Head of State in 2008. Issah Mahama, speaking for the first time publicly about his …

In June 1989, the government of Ghana, under the Provisional National Defence Council administration of late former president Jerry John Rawlings, banned the activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Jehovah Witnesses. The two groups and their missionaries were subsequently given one-week ultimatum to leave the …