The year 2021 began from a long-drawn election battle with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) announcing days earlier that its Presidential Candidate, John Dramani Mahama, was going to challenge the results at the Supreme Court. He had lost to incumbent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the previous year’s polls.
The first month of the year ended with a nationwide address by President Akufo-Addo on Ghana’s Covid situation, announcing renewed measures in his 23rd Update.
In between those events, the longest-serving Ghanaian leader was laid to rest.
Find below (and re-read) the major headlines in January:
- Poll results: We want justice to triumph – Minority to American and British partners
- A/R: NDC wants election petition case broadcast live
- Seven die in crash at Kpong
- NDC’s petition unbelievable – Eugene Arhin
- Akufo-Addo reopens schools, announces date students can return to class room
- Covid-19: Gov’t announces tough measures at KIA to tackle pandemic
- Free water, electricity tariff cut extended
- State House, Conference Centre & Independence Sq areas declared security zones
- Minority MPs fail to show up in court to answer charges
- Lawsuit: We don’t respond to social media invitations – Minority MPs
- Joe Biden writes to Akufo-Addo, says he looks forward to the two of them working together
- Adwoa Safo out, Afenyo-Markin, Maa Lydia in as NPP selects caucus leadership
- Trump sends delegation to Ghana for Akufo-Addo’s investiture
- SoNA: Akufo-Addo insists Dec 7 election was free & fair
- [Video] Joe Wise likens victims of Techiman South electoral violence to ‘shot armed robbers
- Drama in parliament as NDC MPs takeover NPP MPs’ seats
- [Video] Ursula Owusu’s ‘big push’ plunges parliament into chaos
- Alban Bagbin elected Speaker of 8th Parliament
- NDC MPs to boycott Akufo-Addo swearing-in
- CAF CL: Kotoko fail to make to group stage
- Carlos Ahenkorah apologises for snatching ballot papers
- Dismiss Mahama’s incompetent, vexatious petition – Akufo-Addo to SC
- Election Petition: EC admits possible errors in collation of presidential results
- Stonebwoy wins best African dancehall reggae act in Nigeria
- COVID-19: Treatment centers, hospital staff stretched – GMA
- Rawlings to be buried on January 27
- [Photos] Akufo-Addo, Mahama attend requiem mass held for Rawlings
- Shatta Wale nominated for MTV Africa Music Awards
- Fomena MP officially writes to Speaker to join NPP caucus
- Election Petition: Mahama asks for live broadcast as SC begins hearing
- Election petition to be live on television – Supreme Court orders
- NPP MPs show up in Parl at 4am to sit at the right-hand side of Speaker
- I’ll lock down the country again if active cases of COVID-19 keep rising – Akufo-Addo
- NDC heads to Supreme Court over the declaration of NPP & Fomena MP as majority in Parl.
- Mahama’s application for EC to answer questions dismissed
- Election Petition: Mahama files yet another application at Supreme Court
- Petition Hearing: Asiedu Nketia requests calculator while under cross-examination
- Akufo-Addo keeps Frema Osei-Opare as Chief of Staff
- Bagbin orders compulsory Covid-19 testing for MPs
- EOCO, Medical & Dental Council bust doctors, nurses for ‘baby harvesting’
- Universities senior staff declare nationwide strike
- Akufo-Addo cuts number of ministries from 36 to 28
- Godfred Dame, Yaw Adutwum promoted ministers; Opoku Prempeh named Energy Minister-designate
- COVID-19: Hydrogen peroxide provides immediate protection – Prof Ayettey
- Parliament to hold virtual sessions – Speaker declares
- Akufo-Addo delivers 23rd Covid-19 update
- CARTOON OF THE MONTH: Election of Speaker for the 8th Parliament: ‘Democracy snatched’!
Compiled by Emmanuel Kwame Amoh|3news.com|Ghana
