John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills

President John Evans Atta Mills has pursued a strategy of protecting the commanding heights of the oil economy from Western interests in the upstream sector and tying them later into mid- and downstream operations owned by local exploration companies mostly from Ghana and Nigeria...

The NPP’s Akufo-Addo who is challenging incumbent John Atta Mills in the presidential election in December said in London last month that an NPP government would apply rigorous ‘value for money’ tests to the planned oil and gas projects...

A bruising election year in Ghana kicked off with President John Atta Mills’s 9 January announcement of the death of South Korean company STX Corporation’s US$10 billion housing programme...

An official in Osu Castle says that President John Evans Atta Mills has told Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor to do everything possible to ensure that Ghana secures the Chinese loan even at the expense of IMF membership...

President John Atta Mills’s NDC government has lined up $4 bn...

The failure of the scheme which was one of President John Atta Mills’s biggest initiatives could damage senior politicians including Vice-President John Mahama...

This June Botchwey Yankey and Presidential Energy Advisor Amarquaye Armar were on the brink of persuading President John Evans Atta Mills to sign a deal giving Italy’s Eni and Russia’s Lukoil (alongside oil trader Vitol) exclusive rights to build all the gas infrastructure in Ghana...

Despite bluster from officials President John Evans Atta Mills’s government is not about to break with the IMF over this...

Opposition parties are demanding explanations about a conversation in which John Atta Mills told US Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater on 7 March 2006 that Ghana’s politics were ‘very polarised and ethnically divided’ and referred to NPP plans for ‘a great Ashanti project’ as ‘terrifying’...

A special congress of Ghana’s governing NDC on 8-9 July rejected her attempt to take the party leadership from Professor John Evans Atta Mills who has been national President since January 2009 and has 18 months to serve of his four-year mandate...