Attah Issah
Attah Issah or Atta Issah is a Ghanaians, Ghanaian politician who is a member of the ninth parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana representing Sagnarigu (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Northern Region (Ghana), Northern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress (Ghana), National Democratic Congress(NDC). Issah married Hajia Karima Educational career Attah Issah holds BSc in Economics from the University of Ghana and Master's degree in Finance from the University of Professional Studies, University of Professional Studies, UPSA. He want to Business Senior High School (BISCO), Tamale, Ghana, Tamale. Politics NDC 2023 parliamentary primaries Hon. Attah Issah contested the National Democratic Congress (Ghana), National Democratic Congress(NDC) 2023 primaries and won with 801 votes of the total votes over Alhassan Bashir Fuseini, Hon. Alhassan Bashir Alhassan Fuseini after receiving 330 votes. Other contenders in the election are Abdul Majid, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2024 Ghanaian General Election
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2024 to elect the president and all 276 members of Parliament. The incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo, having completed his constitutional term limits, was ineligible for re-election. Former President John Mahama, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, won a majority of the votes, securing victory without the need for a runoff. Mahamudu Bawumia, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, conceded defeat the morning after the election. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Mahama’s running mate, made history as the first woman elected Vice President of Ghana. In the parliamentary elections, the NDC won a landslide victory, winning 183 out of 276 seats, while the NPP secured 88 seats, with independent candidates also winning four seats. The number of women elected to parliament was 40, the same as in the previous election (2020), which means that the percentage of women members of parliament in Ghana remains at 15%, a l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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People From Tamale, Ghana
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ghanaian Muslims
The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of 2024, making up 85% of the population. The word "Ghana" means "warrior king". An estimated diaspora population of 4 million people worldwide are of Ghanaian descent. The term ethnic Ghanaian may also be used in some contexts to refer to a group of related ethnic groups native to the Gold Coast. History The ethnogenesis of Ghanaians is traced back to nomadic migration from Nubia along the Sahara desert then south to the Gold Coast, and the Ghanaian ethnogenesis taking place on the Ghanaian Gold Coast region from the 10th to 16th century AD. Early Ghanaians were involved in a lucrative trade with gold bars and other natural minerals to the Portuguese in 1471; these Ghanaian states were among the wealthiest on the African continent from the 17th century ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dagomba People
The Dagbamba or Dagomba are an ethnic group of Ghana, and Togo. They number more than 3.1 million people. The term Dagbamba is originally extended to refer to other related peoples who were unified by Naa Gbewaa including the Mamprusi people, Mamprusi and Nanumba people, Nanumba. The Dagomba country is called Kingdom of Dagbon, Dagbon and they speak Dagbani language, Dagbanli language. Dagbanli is the most spoken language of northern Ghana and is a widely spoken local language of Ghana. Dagbanli belongs to the Mabia languages, Mabia (Mole-Dagbon people, Mole-Dagbani) subgroup of the Gur languages, a large group of related languages in West Africa. The Dagomba practises both patrilineal and matrilineal systems of inheritance. In the late 1600s, List of kings of Dagbon, King Zanjina, became the first ruler to practise Islam. The reign of Zanjina ushered in an era of greater prosperity. Many learning centres were established and scholarship became an important part of tradition. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Democratic Congress (Ghana) Politicians
National Democratic Congress may refer to: * National Democratic Congress (Ghana) * National Democratic Congress (Grenada) * National Democratic Congress (Zambia) See also *National Democratic Party (Egypt) The National Democratic Party (), often referred to in Egypt as simply the National Party (), was the ruling List of political parties in Egypt, political party in Egypt from 1978 to 2011. It was founded by President Anwar Sadat in 1978. The NDP ... * National Democratic Party (Ghana) {{Disambig, political ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
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New Patriotic Party
The New Patriotic Party (NPP; ) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratisation of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghanaian politics, with its leading rival being the centre-left National Democratic Congress (Ghana), National Democratic Congress (NDC). John Kufuor of the NPP was President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009. At the elections in Ghana, elections held on 7 December 2004, the party won 129 out of 230 seats. The NPP candidate was Kufuor, who was Ghanaian presidential election, 2004, re-elected as president with 52.75% of the vote. The New Patriotic Party symbol is the African elephant and the New Patriotic Party colours are red, white, and blue. In the Ghanaian general election, 2008, 2008 general election, the NPP candidate Nana Akufo-Addo conceded to losing in the closely contested presidential election runoff amidst accusations of Electoral fraud, vote ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sagnarigu Constituency Is One Of The Connstuencies Represented In The Parliament Of Ghana Which Operates Under The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly
Sagnarigu is a community and capital of Sagnarigu District in the Northern Region of Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t .... History Yakubu II was born in Sangarigu in 1945 and later went on to rule as King of Dagbon until his assassination on 27 March 2002. On 7 November 2012, Alhaji Saani Abdul-Razak, the Northern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education observed that violence promotes the destruction of pre-mature society. He convinced the people of Sagnarigu to despise violence and promote peace in the community. Today, the community maintains its own chief palace for cultural events and is the seat of the Paramount Chief. See also * Suburbs of Tamale (Ghana) metropolis References Communities in Ghana Suburbs of Tamale, Gha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ghanaians
The Ghanaian people are a nation originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the Republic of Ghana and are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana, numbering 34 million people as of 2024, making up 85% of the population. The word "Ghana" means "warrior king". An estimated diaspora population of 4 million people worldwide are of Ghanaian descent. The term ethnic Ghanaian may also be used in some contexts to refer to a group of related ethnic groups native to the Gold Coast. History The ethnogenesis of Ghanaians is traced back to nomadic migration from Nubia along the Sahara desert then south to the Gold Coast, and the Ghanaian ethnogenesis taking place on the Ghanaian Gold Coast region from the 10th to 16th century AD. Early Ghanaians were involved in a lucrative trade with gold bars and other natural minerals to the Portuguese in 1471; these Ghanaian states were among the wealthiest on the African continent from the 17th century ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alhassan Bashir Fuseini
Hon. Alhassan Bashir Alhassan Fuseini (born 2 February 1956), popularly known as Alhaji A. B. A. Fuseini, is a Ghanaian journalist and politician, who is the former deputy Northern Regional Minister of Ghana. He is a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Sagnarigu (Ghana parliament constituency) in the Northern Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. Personal life Fuseini is a Muslim. He is married with four children. Early life and education Fuseini was born on 2 February 1956. He hails from Tamale, a town in the Northern Region of Ghana. He had his secondary education at Yendi secondary school and T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, Kumasi. He earned his first degree at the University of Ghana, after which he entered the University of Essex, UK, obtaining a master's degree in Human Rights in 1993. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma from the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin. Politics Fus ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tamale, Ghana
Tamale () is the capital city of the Northern Region of Ghana. It is Ghana's third largest city, with a population of 371,351 people (as of 2010). The city has been ranked as the fastest-growing city in West Africa. Tamale is located in the Kingdom of Dagbon, Ghana's oldest Kingdom. Major ethnic groups who resided in Tamale are Dagomba, Gonja, Mamprusi, Akan, and Dagaaba. The city grew from a small village to an important economic center in the Northern Territories after the British had established administrative headquarters in the area. It became the capital of the Northern Region in 1960. The biggest economic sector of Tamale is agriculture, followed by trading, teaching, and manufacturing. Tamale boasts a thriving artistic and literary scene, evident in its numerous art studios, poets, and musicians. Numerous art studios are scattered throughout the urban landscape. Annual festivals are celebrated all around the city, such as fire festival, Eid ul-Fitr, Eid Adha an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |