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Nkrumah's advocacy of industrial development, with help of longtime friend and Minister of Finance, Komla Agbeli Gbedema, led to the Volta River Project: the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River in eastern Ghana. [207] The Volta River Project was the centrepiece of Nkrumah's economic programme.
He took office as Prime Minister on 3 September 1969. His government was toppled in a 1972 military coup. During the Third Republic, which lasted from 1979 to 1981, the dominant party in the National Assembly was the People's National Party (PNP), led by Hilla Limann, which won 71 out of 104 seats in elections held on 18 June 1979. After the ...
The People's National Party (PNP) was the ruling party in Ghana during the Third Republic (1979–1981). All political parties in Ghana were disbanded following the January 1972 military coup led by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. When political activities resumed in 1979, there were five parties contesting the elections.
Minister for Interior [3] Ebenezer Ako-Adjei: 6 March 1957 – 1958: Krobo Edusei: 1958 – 1958: Kwame Nkrumah: 1958 – 1958: A. E. Inkumsah: 1959 – 1960: Minister for Finance: Komla Agbeli Gbedemah: 1954 – May 1961: Attorney General of Ghana: G. M. Paterson [4] March 1957 – August 1957: Geoffrey Bing [5] 7 August 1957 – 29 August ...
As a political activist, he was the founder, financer and the first president of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in August 1947. [3] [4] He was also one of Ghana's Founding Fathers. [5] He paid for Kwame Nkrumah to return to Ghana from the United States. A roundabout has been named after George Grant in Sekondi Takoradi in his memory.
Asparuh (around 640–701) is the most venerated national founder of Bulgaria. He was a son of Kubrat and started attacking and moving southwest of Old Great Bulgaria, towards the Lower Danube in Southeast Europe. Victorious over the Eastern Roman Empire, he established the First Bulgarian Empire in 680–681. Modern day Bulgaria is a direct ...
The National Liberation Movement was a Ghanaian political party formed on 19 September 1954 [2]. Set up by disaffected members of the Convention People's Party , who were joined by Kofi Abrefa Busia , the NLM opposed the process of centralization whilst supporting a continuing role for traditional leaders.
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah (17 June 1913 – 11 July 1998) [1] was a Ghanaian politician and Minister for Finance in Ghana's Nkrumah government between 1954 and 1961. Known popularly as "Afro Gbede", [2] he was an indigene of Anyako in the Volta Region of Ghana. [3] [4]