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The 1986 Nobistor Affair meant to overthrow the Rawlings-led PNDC Government of Ghana Listen to article Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s longest serving political ruler from the 1970s to early 2000s had died and his funeral is currently underway. In the acceptable natural order and according to Ghanaian custom, he will be buried today to rest with his ancestors in eternity. This article is to recount one of the numerous attempts in the 1980s to overthrow the Rawlings-led Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) Military Government of Ghana. That significant attempt with foreign to...

Ghana bids farewell to former president Jerry Rawlings More than two months after his passing, Ghana is granting a state funeral to the late leader. Remembering a leader A photograph of the late former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings is displayed at the Accra International Conference Center, where Rawlings is lying in state. The former president died on November 12 at the age of 73. His funeral was originally scheduled for December 23, however, it was postponed, with the foreign ministry citing "unforeseen circumstances." Waiting to pay respects Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, m...

  The Ewe Community in the Ashanti, Ahafo and Brong-East Regions, have suggested to the government to institute memorial lectures in honour of the late former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. According to the Community, the patriotism, commitment to duty and sense of discipline demonstrated by the late President, Ghana’s longest-serving leader, was worth emulating. “We have a lot of lessons to learn from his military adventurism and subsequent life as a democratically-elected President and Statesman,” Torgbiga Mawufeame Fugah, President of the Community, told the Ghana News Agen...

Jerry John Rawlings: Tribute to a new generation statesman On By Tom Ikimi Jerry John Rawlings, the pride of Africa, and my own very dear friend was one of Africa’s most misunderstood statesmen. The reason for this is very clear: he was one African leader who never did the ordinary or the pedestrian, and who successfully broke with political convention. Perhaps the most distinguished member of the second generation of African postcolonial political innovators, Rawlings would best be remembered for inaugurating the tradition of an enduring, well-structured continental democracy which emerge...

A renowned crisis management company, LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has initiated a move aimed at curbing the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the nation mourns the passing of the first President of the 4th Republic, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. To this end, the company has disinfected the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) where the funeral of the former president is being held. The company has also mounted modern state-of-the-art disinfection tunnels at the funeral grounds to ensure that everyone who goes there is disinf...