Outgoing president of Ghana, John Mahama late Friday conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo, winner of the presidential election in the West African country. Mahama said he lost the election simply because Ghanaians were fed up, and that his time was up. Read full speech below: Good evening, my fellow countrymen and women. A few minutes ago,... Read More

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December 10, 2016

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Buhari congratulates Akufo-Addo on historic win

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo, on his historic win of the December 7 Ghana presidential election. This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina. Buhari also felicitated with the Government... Read More

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December 8, 2016

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#GhanaDecides: Mahama leading Akufo-Addo, NDC insists

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says incumbent, President John Dramani Mahama is leading in the presidential election. According to Vibe Ghana, the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Mr. Koku Anyidoho said Mahama is leading with 50.6 per cent, while the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo is trailing with 49.4 per cent.... Read More

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December 8, 2016

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YNaija Analysis: After two attempts, Nana Akufo-Addo is the new Muhammadu Buhari

Couple of weeks ago when former vice president, Atiku Abubakar turned seventy, the President, Muhammadu Buhari didn’t just wish him the customary ‘happy birthday’ and it’s overflow of merry prayers. He made it a welcome message: welcome to the seventies club, Atiku. It was as thoughtful as it was suspicious. But above all, it was... Read More

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December 8, 2016

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The establishment is crumbling: How Nana Akufo-Addo is the latest beneficiary of a global movement

In the end, it wasn’t even close. Elections in Ghana are usually closely contested affairs, but the margin of victory for Nana Akufo-Addo leaves no one in any doubt about the direction the country wants to go in. For all Mahama’s likeability and late media blitz, commissioning projects left and right, voters had clearly made... Read More

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December 7, 2016

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#GhanaDecides: Will the anti-establishment wave sweep away Mahama?

It is a bad time to be an incumbent, or at least a member of the political establishment, anywhere in the world. Last year, on his fourth attempt, Muhammadu Buhari beat Goodluck Jonathan to unseat an incumbent president for the first time in Nigerian history. This year, there has been the shock vote to leave... Read More

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February 18, 2013

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Chukwuma Soludo: Where is the political party for the Nigerian economy?

by Chukwuma Soludo As students in those days, we relished in the intellectual debates on the alternatives offered by different parties. Regular campus symposia involved high ranking members of different political parties explaining and defending their party manifestoes. In a multi-party democracy, political parties are the vehicles for acquiring power, and for governance and development.... Read More

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Full transcript of outgoing Ghanaian President, John Mahama’s concession speech (READ)

Buhari congratulates Akufo-Addo on historic win

#GhanaDecides: Mahama leading Akufo-Addo, NDC insists

YNaija Analysis: After two attempts, Nana Akufo-Addo is the new Muhammadu Buhari

The establishment is crumbling: How Nana Akufo-Addo is the latest beneficiary of a global movement

#GhanaDecides: Will the anti-establishment wave sweep away Mahama?

Chukwuma Soludo: Where is the political party for the Nigerian economy?

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