Tag Archives: Rawlings

Rev. Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, the former General Secretary of the Christian Council, has spoken about instances when members of the clergy have been threatened by people in authority. According to him, there are several ways that the clergy today are being attacked by people in power stating that previously, some …

Paul Adom-Otchere, the host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, has recounted the story of how founding a member of the New Patriotic Party, Kwame Pianim, tried unsuccessfully to stage a coup d’état against then head of state, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, in 1982. Adom-Otchere narrates that the celebrated …

A former General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has spoken about how the late former President Jerry John Rawlings implored Kofi Atta Mills to stick with him [Koku] because he is a brother. He explained that his former boss, the late former President John Evans Atta Mills, was the …

The Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government is hell-bent on passing the Electronic Transaction Levy, E-levy, which is to impose a 1.75% tax on all electronic transactions. Since the announcement of the introduction of the E-levy during the 2022 budget presentation by Ken Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, on November 17, 2021, …

JA Kufuor was a member of the PNDC He was the Secretary for Local Government He later resigned in August, 1982 Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, on August 2, 1982, wrote a letter to the leader of the Provisional National Defence Council, PNDC, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, requesting to resign as …

Jerry Rawlings loved animals JJ’s animals announced his death Late Jerry John Rawlings loved people The late former president, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings was known to have loved many things including people, which was universally obvious through his charisma. At his death, it was also found out that the late statesman loved animals, …

But for the late Captain Kojo Tsikata, President Jerry John Rawlings would have succeeded in engineering another coup in the dying embers of his civilian presidency, ex-military officer Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has revealed in an exclusive interview with Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom aired on Monday, 13 December 2021. Eulogizing the …

Mr Rolex Honesty Agbey Miheso, Anlo Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress, has indicated that to the Party, its founder, the late Mr Jerry John Rawlings, “is still in the morgue.” He said similarly, the chiefs and people of Anlo and the Volta Region shared the same view that …

The family of the late former president, Jerry John Rawlings will on Friday November 12, 2021 hold a commemorative mass to mark the first year anniversary of his demise. The former Ghanaian leader passed away on November 12, 2020 after a short illness at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. His …

NB: Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the passing of late former president Jerry John Rawlings on November 12 2021, we take you down memory lane of some monumental moments of the late Ghanaian leader. While the demise of former President Jerry John Rawlings is still a shock to many, people from …