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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was born in Swalaba, a suburb of Accra, Ghana, in 1944, to Adeline Akufo-Addo and Edward Akufo-Addo, members of the prominent Ofori-Atta family. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] His father Edward Akufo-Addo from Akropong-Akuapem was Ghana's third Chief Justice from 1966 to 1970, chairman of the 1967–68 Constitutional Commission and ...
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo (née Griffiths-Randolph; born 12 March 1951) [1] is a Ghanaian public figure who served as the First Lady of Ghana from 2017 to 2025. [2] [3] She is the wife of former President Nana Akufo-Addo. [4] [5] As First Lady, she has been praised for her advocacy and fight against Malaria.
Adeline Akufo-Addo, née Nana Yeboakua Ofori-Atta (1917 – 2004), daughter of Ofori-Atta I, wife of second republic president of Ghana Edward Akufo-Addo, and mother of Nana Akufo-Addo; Jones Ofori Atta (1937– 2020), economist and politician, Deputy Minister of Finance, 1969–1972; Nana Akufo-Addo (born 1944), politician and current ...
She was appointed Minister of State in charge of Government Procurement in 2017, serving till 2021, [15] under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 5th president of the 4th Republic of Ghana. In the eighth parliament under the fourth Republic of Ghana, Akufo-Addo appointed her as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection.
This is a listing of the ministers who are currently serving in the New Patriotic Party government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Ghana originally formed on 7 January 2017 following the winning of the December 2016 general election when Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party became president.
In 1948, following a boycott of European imports initiated by a chief in Accra and subsequent rioting in Accra, Danquah was one of "The Big Six" (the others being Nkrumah, Akufo-Addo, Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei and William Ofori Atta) who were detained for a month by the colonial authorities.
Edward Akufo-Addo JSC (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) [1] [2] was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the " Big Six " leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana who engaged in the fight for Ghana's independence. [ 3 ]
He contested re-election for a second term in the 2016 election, but lost to the New Patriotic Party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo. [10] This made him the first president in the history of Ghana to not have won a consecutive second term. [4] Mahama was again the NDC's candidate for president in the 2020 election, where he lost to Akufo-Addo.