Akim Oda,a town in Ghana's Eastern Region,serving as the administrative and traditional center of the Birim Central Municipal District and Akyem Kotoku,respectively. The town has 60,604 residents as of 2013.
Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo,is a Ghanaian barrister and judge who served as the first female Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 2009 to 2013. She was the first woman to be elected to that position in the West African sub-region. Bamford-Addo also was the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. She served in that role from 1991 till 2004 when she retired.
Theresa Amerley Tagoe also known as Iron Lady was a Ghanaian female politician and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party and a former Member of Parliament of the Ablekuma South Constituency.
Ablekuma West is one of the 275 constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Ablekuma West is located in the Accra Metropolis in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The member elected at the 2012 general election was Ursula Owusu of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Freda Akosua Oheneafrewo Prempeh is a Ghanaian politician,and Member of Parliament in the Seventh Parliament and Eighth Parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana representing Tano North Constituency in the Ahafo Region,Ghana. She was the Minister of State,for the Ministry of works and housing,Ghana and previously served as the Deputy Gender Minister and also Assembly member –"Assembly Woman" from 2002 to 2010 for the Lakoo Electoral Area of the La-Dadekotopo Constituency in the Greater Accra Region.
Akosua Frema Osei-Opare is a development practitioner,an academic,and a Ghanaian politician. Having spent 40 years in these domains,Akosua Frema Osei-Opare,is an expert in labour and hiring as well as development consulting. She represented Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in the Parliament of Ghana. She is the current and first female Chief of Staff of Ghana.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took office as Ghana's president on 7 January 2017 after winning the December 2016 presidential elections. A number of controversies have arisen under his administration.
Owusu Afriyie Akoto is a Ghanaian agricultural economist and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was a Member of Parliament for the Kwadaso Constituency from 2009 to 2017. He was a cabinet minister in the Nana Akufo-Addo administration and served as Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana. He resigned on 10 January 2023 to focus on his presidential ambition. He holds MSc and PHD Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Cambridge,England.
Cecilia Abena Dapaah is a Ghanaian politician. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party and a former Member of Parliament for the Bantama constituency. She served as the deputy Minister for Water Resources,Works and Housing,and Minister for Aviation and Santitation and Water Resources respectively.
Bryan Acheampong is a Ghanaian politician and Member of Parliament of Abetifi constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana. He succeeded Peter Wiafe Pepera,who died while in office. He was the Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior between February 2019 to 2020. In 2016,he bought Okwawu United F.C. and currently serves as the Minister of Agriculture.
Barbara Asher Ayisi is a Ghanaian politician and the former Member of Parliament of the Cape Coast North constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and was the former deputy minister for Education in Ghana. She was appointed as the chairperson for the Women's Premier League Super Cup's Local Organizing Committee (LOC).
George Nenyi Kojo Andah is a Ghanaian politician and the former Member of Parliament of the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was the Deputy Minister for communications in Ghana.
Gifty Twum-Ampofo is a Ghanaian politician and a Member of Parliament of the New Patriotic Party. She is currently the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Ampofo is the deputy minister for Gender,Children and Social Protection in Ghana.
Jean Adukwei Mensa is a Ghanaian lawyer by profession who has been serving as chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana since July 2018. She was nominated by the President,Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo to take over the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) from her predecessor,Charlotte Osei. Jean Mensa was born on November 12,1971. Prior to assuming the role of chairperson of the EC,Jean Mensa spent an 18-year career at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA),rising to the position of executive director. As the EC chairperson,Jean Mensa declared the then presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the NPP as the president-elect of the December 7th,2020 Presidential Election.
Nana Akua Owusu Afriyieh is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the New Patriotic Party. She is currently Ghana's Deputy Ambassador to China. She was the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North constituency.
Ophelia Akweley Okyere-Darko is a Ghanaian fashion designer and the Creative Director of Ophelia Crossland Designs Ltd and Ohemaa Kids. Those Who Inspire Limited named her as part of the 75 'Most Inspiring Ghanaians in the world.
Sandra Don-Arthur is a professional makeup artist and Vlogger from Ghana. She is the founder and C.E.O of Alexiglam Studio,a Ghanaian makeup and beauty company that provides beauty services to women in Ghana.
The Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill is a proposed law in Ghana that would introduce wide-ranging restrictions on LGBT+ rights. The bill was approved by the Parliament of Ghana on 28 February 2024 with bipartisan support and will only come into effect only if signed into law by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
