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John Agyekum Kufuor

Date of Birth: 8 December 1938
Place of Birth: Kumasi, Ashanti Region


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Akwaaba Obama

Bush in 2008 and William Jefferson Clinton in 1998 - have been little more than extended photo opportunities at the tail end of the governments of John Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings...


Harder cash but warmer words

Working in parallel the High Level Commission on the Modernisation of World Bank Group Governance led by former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo is to report in October: its members include Ghana's former President John Kufuor World Trade Organisation Director Pascal Lamy Britain's Baroness Shriti Vadera and German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeu...


The Mills grind slowly

Communications chief Koku Anyidoho said the target was the opposition in general especially ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor who is holding out for a resettlement package (controversially agreed by the last Parliament) which includes two houses six cars a US$450 000 payoff a life pension a fully staffed office and 60 days' free foreign travel a year all at public expense...


Lining up the Mills team

Three weeks after being sworn in as President in succession to John Agyekum Kufuor Professor John Evans Atta Mills has completed his cabinet line-up and set about formulating an economic blueprint which he hopes will last throughout his four-year term...

She retired from the bench after being passed over for the top job despite her seniority; the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood was appointed by John Kufuor...


Is Rawlings the back-seat driver?

In a radio interview on 26 January Rawlings called for the sacking of security chiefs whom he described as loyal to ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor's NPP: the Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Joseph Boateng Danquah and the Inspector General of Police Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong...


Two and a half cheers for democracy

Outgoing President John Agyekum Kufuor tried to shore up his legacy with a conciliatory final address on 5 January having previously told his more extreme colleagues that they should not try to delay the EC’s announcement of the NDC victory...


MTN, militants and share claims

Following Rawlings's outburst in 1999 Aggrey fled to Nigeria returning in 2001 after Rawlings's National Democratic Congress lost elections to the New Patriotic Party of John Kufuor...


The winner has to wait

The failure to create jobs fast enough to absorb the growing jobless queue will be seen as one of the key shortcomings of President John Kufuor NPP’s government – even if the pace of job creation has stepped up during the last two years of boom...


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