Tag Archives: Rawlings

Former Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Enoch Teye Mensah, has launched a book titled “Setting the record straight (Part 1)”. The unveiling took place at the International Conference Centre at about 1400 hours on Friday, October 15, 2021. The book chronicles a journey of nostalgic reminiscence …

• Government recently announced plans for a new presidential jet • Akufo-Addo has been accused of chartering luxurious jets despite the availability of an official jet • Parliamentary records show that he had opposed the purchase of a jet in 2000  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in early 2000 was an ardent …

West Africa’s Guinea has been in the news in the last 24 hours for what is an unpopular thing in the 21st century, coup d’états. On Sunday, Guinea’s Special Forces, led by Col Mamady Doumbouya, announced that they had captured the country’s president, Alpha Conde, and dissolved its constitution. Addressing …

• Boakye Djan has launched another attack on Rawlings • He has also defended the June 4 uprising but condemned the 1981 coup • He believes Rawlings committed an illegality with the 1981 coup Another June 4 commemoration, another jab at late former President Jerry John Rawlings by his one-time friend and …

• This building was established by the Dutch during the Colonial era • It served as a guest house or hideout for some Ghanaian leaders many years ago • There are still discussions about how well to keep the building in shape without losing its essence It is one of …

  • Kweku Baako shares his experience when he was arrested under former President Rawlings’ military regime • He said he enjoyed his stay at Signals Military Base • He indicated that he was tortured at Field Engineers Military Base Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading …

  Captain Smart has disclosed that the wife of the late former President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is at loggerheads with him because he defended Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to him, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was point-blank that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was not a lawyer but he defended …

The sitting president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and other leading opposition members back in 1993 rejected media regulations in favour of a blanket constitutional provision that guaranteed freedom of the media and locked out censorship. Akufo-Addo along with the then opposition leader Albert Adu Boahen, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby among others, rejected any regulations because …

  Achimota School in Ghana, formerly known as Achimota College, was the school where Zimbabwe’s most iconic citizen, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, attended as a student-teacher to attain his certification to be able to work in newly independent Ghana. But how many times can you say that Mugabe is arguably not …

Horrible and harrowing stories about military dictator Jerry John Rawlings will never go away. One of such stories has been shared by sports journalist, Saddick Adams (Sports Obama) about how a very wealthy businessman in the early days of former President Rawlings’ PNDC regime. The businessman whose name Saddick gave as …