Minister for Information (Ghana)

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The Minister for Information in Ghana usually heads the Ministry of Information. This position has existed in various configurations until the cabinet reshuffle of 16 July 2014 when President Mahama merged the functions of this ministry into that of the Ministry of Communications with the Minister of Communications having oversight for both Information as well as Communications.^[1] On 16 July 2014, Mahama had another cabinet reshuffle involving a lot of ministries.^[2]

List of ministers

Number	Minister	Took office	Left office	Government	Party
1		6 March 1957		Nkrumah government	Convention People's Party
2	Kwaku Boateng
3	Tawia Adamafio	1960	1962
4	Imoru Egala	1962
5				National Liberation Council	Military government
6	T. D. Brodie Mends			Busia government	Progress Party
7	Colonel I. K. Acheampong			National Redemption Council	Military government
8	Colonel C. R. Tachie-Menson			National Redemption Council
9	Major General Robert Kotei			Supreme Military Council
10	Colonel Parker H.S. Yarney			Supreme Military Council
11	Kwame Afreh {Commissioner for Information and Cocoa Affairs}			Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
12	Yaw O. Afriyie {Minister for Information and Tourism}	1979		Limann government	People's National Party
13	Joyce Aryee	1982	1985	Provisional National Defence Council	Military government
14	Kofi Totobi Quakyi	1985	1993	Provisional National Defence Council	Military government
14	Kofi Totobi Quakyi	1993	2001	Rawlings government	National Democratic Congress
15	Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey		2003	Kufuor government	New Patriotic Party
16	Nana Akomea	2003	2005
17	Daniel Kwaku Botwe	2005	2006
18	Kwamena Bartels	2006	2007
19	Oboshie Sai-Cofie	2007	2009
20	Zita Okaikoi	2009	2010	Mills government	National Democratic Congress
21	John Tia (MP)	2010	2012
22	Fritz Baffour (MP)	2012	2012
22	Fritz Baffour (MP)	2012	2013	Mahama government
23	Mahama Ayariga (MP)	2013	2014^[1]	Mahama government

References

1 2 "Mahama announces first ministerial reshuffle". General news. Ghana Home Page. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
↑ "Ministerial reshuffle: Spio rejoins gov't". Ghanaweb.com. Ghana Home Page. Retrieved 31 July 2014.

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