The NDC presidential candidate John Atta Mills who was damaged in 2000 by his closeness to the former military leader Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings is trying to show more independence...
As in 2000 these will presumably be Kufuor and Professor John Evans Atta-Mills who was Vice-President in Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings's NDC government of 1997-2001...
On 22 January Kufuor's 90-minute State of the Nation address to parliament failed to mention corruption at all; the chorus of opposition protests was led by Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress who will challenge Kufuor in the parliamentary and presidential polls this November...
The NDC flagbearer John Evans Atta Mills in charge of the project at the time denies ignoring warnings from Ghana's Washington Ambassador Kobby Koomson...
More defections are expected as the fallout spreads from December's acrimonious leadership battle between Professor John Atta-Mills (Vice-President under Rawlings 1997-2001) and Kwesi Botchwey Rawlings' much-admired Finance Minister from 1982 until his dramatic resignation in 1995...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The opposition New Democratic Congress will start campaigning for the 2004 elections with flagbearer John Atta Mills (backed by ex-President Jerry John Rawlings) after he beat former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey (backed by party Chairman Obed Asamoah) for the nomination...
Two Fanti law professors from Central Region former Vice-President John Evans Atta Mills and former Finance Minister Kwesi Botchwey are battling for nomination as the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress at its national conference in December...
As Ghana's longest serving Finance Minister Botchwey is better known than John Atta Mills on the international scene; he spent 13 years dealing with the World Bank International Monetary Fund and United Nations system as he moved from Marxism to social democracy...
Some lawyers suggest that the Quality Grain case (AC Vol 42 No 8) could ensnare Rawlings and his Vice-President John Atta Mills; they are accused of negligence in allowing the state to guarantee loans of US$20 million to Juliet R...
9 per cent to his rival the NDC's John Evans Atta Mills he has secured the backing of all the small parties which should produce another 6...
Will the governing NDC and its presidential flagbearer John Atta Mills concede defeat...
In one of the Bank's toughest stances on corruption its Accra-based Director John Harrold wrote to Vice-President John Atta-Mills cancelling the loan and telling him Ghana's status would be downgraded and it must pay $800 000 for the costs of preparing the defunct project...
