The Volta Regional capital, Ho, was thrown into a state of mourning on yesterday, following a massive funeral ceremony organised by the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) for the late President John Evans Atta Mills, ahead of the planned national funeral and burial service.
The seven days of national mourning declared by President John Dramani Mahama for Ghanaians to remember Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, the departed Head of State of this Republic, comes to a climax today, when the traditional seventh day of the death of late Head of State will take place at three different locations.
When the sun begins to rise from the East and finally settles at the Western corridor, three venues will be prominent in the history books of the country today, as the nation celebrates one week of the life of the late President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills.
A team of police officials who undertook a fact-finding tour of the Amansie West District to ascertain facts at Manso Nsiana in the Ashanti Region, where Chinese immigrants engaged the chiefs and people of the area in a shootout barely two weeks ago, compromised on the essence of their tour.
Yaw Badu, Assembly Member for Akyeremade in the Atwima Kwanwoma District has appealed to the general public for support in cash and kind, to enable the community complete a toilet project initiated by the chief.
Corporate Organizations in the country continue to mourn the death of President John Evans Atta Mills with messages of condolence. The latest to do so is the mobile phone and computer assembling firm, Rlg Communications Limited.
President John Dramani Mahama has showered praises on the late President Mills for treating him as a son, and also giving him the room to operate as Vice President. According to him, his former boss was a great world leader, and that he was lucky to have worked with him.
A few days after coming under heavy criticism for comments he made on BBC about the health and death of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, former President Jerry John Rawlings seems to have regretted his comments and issued a statement to that effect.
It is now official. The race for the Castle, or the abandoned Jubilee House, is a straight fight between Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, leader of the largest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and President John Mahama, leader of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).
