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Muhammad Mumuni
Muhammad Mumuni (born 28 July 1949) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was reelected to Ghana's Parliament in the 7 December 2012 General Elections, when he won the Kumbungu Seat. Mumuni left parliament in 2004 when he became John Atta Mills' vice-Presidential running mate. Early life and education Muhammad Mumuni had his basic education at the Kumbungu Local Authority Primary School between 1955 and 1960. He then attended the Savelugu Local Authority Middle school from 1960 to 1962. His secondary education was at the Tamale Secondary School from 1962 to 1969. He proceeded to the University of Ghana for his LL.B (Hons). In October 1975, he obtained a barrister at law qualification from the Ghana School of Law. He is known in private life as Lawyer Mumuni. Career Mumuni first worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana between 1972 and 1974. He then became the National Service Co-ordinator (North) of the National Service Scheme of Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumbungu (Ghana Parliament Constituency)
Kumbungu is one of the constituency, constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one member of parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. Kumbungu is located in the Northern Region, Ghana, Northern Region of Ghana. The current member of Parliament for the constituency is Hamza Adam. He won the 2020 Ghanaian general election. Members of Parliament Elections The table below shows the parliamentary election results for Kumbungu constituency during the 1996 Ghanaian general election. The following table shows the parliamentary election results for Kumbungu constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general election. The below table shows the parliamentary election results for Kumbungu constituency during the 2004 Ghanaian general election. The following table shows the parliamentary election results for Kumbungu constituency in the 2008 Ghanaian general election. 2012 Ghanaian general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamale, Ghana
Tamale (Dagbani : ), officially called Tamale Metropolitan Area is the capital city of the Northern Region of Ghana. Tamale is Ghana's third-largest city and an emerging investment hotspot in West Africa. It has a projected population of 950,124 according to the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly Official Website. It is the fastest-growing city in West Africa. It is located north of Accra. Most residents of Tamale are Muslims and Dagombas by tribe, as reflected by the multitude of mosques in Tamale, most notably the Central Mosque, Afa Ajura Mosque (Ambariyyah Mosque), Afa Basha mosque (Nuuria mosque) and The Ahmadiyyah Muslim mission Mosque. Tamale is located in the Northern Region of Ghana and more precisely in the Kingdom of Dagbon. The local (neighbourhood) chiefs and the district chief of Tamale are subservient to the Dagomba King in Yendi.The language of the people in Tamale is Dagbani. Due to its central location, Tamale serves as a hub for all administrative and commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Ghanaian General Election
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2000, with a second round of the presidential election on 28 December.Elections in Ghana African Elections Database In the presidential election, of the (NPP) led the field in the first round of voting, taking 48 percent of the vote. Vice President of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Ghanaian Presidential Election
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Rawlings
Jerry John Rawlings (22 June 194712 November 2020) was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who led the country for a brief period in 1979, and then from 1981 to 2001. He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected President of Ghana. Rawlings came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d'état in 1979. Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place. After handing power over to a civilian government, he took back control of the country on 31 December 1981 as the chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). In 1992, Rawlings resigned from the military, founded the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and became the first President of the Fourth Republic. He was re-elected in 1996 for four more years. After two terms in office, the limit ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawlings Government
This is a listing of the ministers who served in Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress government during the Fourth Republic of Ghana. This started on January 7, 1993, after 11 years of military rule by Rawlings. He retired from the Ghana Armed Forces and served a further two democratically elected terms ending January 7, 2001. ''For Rawlings' first military government, see: Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.'' ''For Rawlings' second military government, see: Provisional National Defence Council The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a coup ....'' List of ministers See also * National Democratic Congress References External links and sourcesWhite House (Clinton era) on Ghana [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Ghanaian Parliamentary Election
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 2000, with a second round of the presidential election on 28 December.Elections in Ghana African Elections Database In the presidential election, of the (NPP) led the field in the first round of voting, taking 48 percent of the vote. Vice President of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title. The terms congressman/congresswoman or deputy are equivalent terms used in other jurisdictions. The term parliamentarian is also sometimes used for members of parliament, but this may also be used to refer to unelected government officials with specific roles in a parliament and other expert advisers on parliamentary procedure such as the Senate Parliamentarian in the United States. The term is also used to the characteristic of performing the duties of a member of a legislature, for example: "The two party leaders often disagreed on issues, but both were excellent parliamentarians and cooperated to get many good things done." Members of parliament typically form parliamentary groups, sometimes called caucuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Ghanaian Parliamentary Election
General elections were held in Ghana on 7 December 1996. In the presidential election, incumbent Jerry Rawlings of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was reelected in a single round, defeating John Kufuor of the Great Alliance (led by Kufuor's New Patriotic Party with 57.3 percent of the vote. The NDC retained its majority in Parliament, winning 133 of the 200 seats.Nohlen, D, Krennerich, M & Thibaut, B (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p435 Results President Parliament See also *List of Ghana Parliament constituencies *List of MPs elected in the 1996 Ghanaian parliamentary election References External links1996 Parliamentary Election Results Electoral Commission of GhanaArchivedfrom original on 17 Juy 2011Ghana Centre for Democratic Development {{Ghanaian elections Elections in Ghana Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolon District
Tolon District is one of the twenty seven districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tolon-Kumbungu District in 1988, when it harbored the district capital which was then created from the former West Dagomba District Council, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Kumbungu District Kumbungu District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. The district assembly is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has Kumbungu as its capital town. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tolo ... on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been renamed to become Tolon District. The district assembly is located in the northwest part of Northern Region and has Tolon as its capital town. Communities in the District There are many main-communities in the District. Under their kinship are also Sub-communities. Institution * Tolon Senior High School See also * GhanaDistricts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Region (Ghana)
The Northern Region is one of the sixteen regions of Ghana. It is located in the north of the country and was the largest of the sixteen regions, covering an area of 70,384 square kilometres or 31 percent of Ghana's area until December 2018 when the Savannah Region and North East Region were created from it. The Northern Region is divided into 14 districts. The region's capital is Tamale. Geography and climate Location and size The Northern Region is bordered on the north by the North East region, on the east by the eastern Ghana-Togo international border, on the south by the Oti region, and on the west by the Savannah Region. Northern region is made up of 14 districts. Climate and vegetation The Northern Region is a Guinea Savanna grassland. The vegetation consists predominantly of grassland, especially savanna with clusters of drought-resistant trees such as baobabs or acacias. Between January and March is the dry season. The wet season is between about July and December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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