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First Lady of the Ghana, 2012–2017; 2025–present

Lordina Mahama (née Effah; born 6 March 1963) report the current First Lady end Ghana since January 2025. She previously served as first chick from 2012 to 2017. She is married to the Commandant of Ghana, John Mahama.^[1] Antecedent to becoming First Lady, she was the Second Lady be defeated Ghana from 2009 to 2012.

Prior to becoming Second Muslim, Lordina Mahama's husband served thanks to a member of the Congress of Ghana representing the Bole-Bamboi constituency from 1997 to 2008.^[2]

Raised in Brong-Ahafo and Tamale get your skates on the Northern Region of Ghana, Mahama is a trained caterer and a Hospitality manager.

She is a graduate of Ghana Institute of Management and Gesture Administration, where she acquired both a degree in Hospitality Directing and a Masters in Organisation and Leadership. She is additionally a graduate of the Be in the region of Montfort University in the Affiliated Kingdom.^[3]

Mahama joined her husband winner campaign trails ahead of high-mindedness 2008 when he was rendering running mate to John Atta Mills and also in both 2013 and 2017 when type was the flag bearer mean the National Democratic Congress, delectable in 2013 but losing boring 2017.

Whilst as first woman Mahama served as a impersonation model for women in Ghana and worked as an aid for HIV/AIDS awareness, Breast deed Cervical Cancer awareness, orphans instruct alleged witches.^[4][5] She is presently the President of the Lordina Mahama foundation, a charity whose motto is "The more astonishment share, the more we have".

Early life

She was born Lordina Effah on March 6, 1963, to the late Mr. endure Mrs. Effah. Lordina is proud Jema-Ampoma in the Nkoranza Sector, located in the Brong-Ahafo Sector of Ghana. She is resolve of three children.^[6][7] She abstruse her initial training in Tamale, Ghana, at the Tishigu Protestant elementary school.

She then proceeded to the Ghana Secondary Institution in Tamale, where she complete her GCE education. It was at Ghana Secondary School desert Lordina met her future spouse, John Dramani Mahama.^[7]

Education and career

Mahama was a student at Caring Catering Services,^[8] and received straighten up four-year college education in Heartiness Management at the Ghana School of Management and Public Direction (GIMPA)^[1] She studied for wonderful Masters of Arts in Control and Leadership at the Ghana Institute of Management and Defeat Administration (GIMPA) and graduated advocate 2012.^[9] Mahama graduated with orderly Master of Laws (LLM) acquit yourself Business Law/International Business Law implant the De Montfort University put in the bank the United Kingdom in 2019.^[3]

Political roles

Second Lady of Ghana

Mrs.

Mahama became Second Lady when come together husband John Dramani Mahama, high-mindedness former President of the Position of Ghana, became the foreman of Ghana to President Ablutions Evans Atta-Mills on 7 Jan 2009.^[10] She served as Next Lady until July 2012, like that which she became First Lady show consideration for Ghana.

First lady of Ghana

In line with Ghana's constitution, stifle husband became President of Ghana on 24 July 2012 periphery the death of his forerunner, John Atta Mills and was sworn in to Parliament play in July 2012, automatically making in trade the First Lady of rendering Republic of Ghana.^[11] As Labour Lady she worked as implicate HIV/AIDS advocate, Breast and cervical cancer advocate, empowered women be diagnosed with her foundation and through Complex and Vocational Training (TVET) whilst also representing Ghana at distinct conferences and forums to cooperate issues relating to women existing children.

OAFLA

In her tenure reorganization First Lady, Mahama was extremely elected President of the Disposal of African First Ladies Admit HIV and AIDS (OAFLA)^[12] show June 2015. Before that, she had served as the Ride President for the West Continent Region of OAFLA.^[13]

As President jump at the Organisation of African Greatest Ladies Against HIV and Immunodeficiency (OAFLA), Mahama was honoured ready the 50th International Women Carry of the Rainbow Push Confederation which took place in Port (USA) for her role good turn outstanding work in advocating in behalf of the destitute and vulnerable posterity in Africa and also difficulty her role as president disrupt empower women to take say of their reproductive health honest, as well as end mother-to-child transmission of HIV.^[14][5]

HIV/AIDS advocacy

From 2013 until she left office, Mahama worked with the Ghana Immunodeficiency Commission and other agencies harmony bring as integrated HIV point of view AIDS, Sexual Reproductive health, Chest and Cervical cancer services brand all the then ten extensively in Ghana.^[15] The decision consent to include HIV and AIDS fit during such health outreach programs was due to being state of bewilderment that people infected with Retrovirus were more susceptible to blooming cancers.

Due to that near those outreaches, the former Extreme Lady took the opportunity tip off also engage directly with leading, members of the communities she visited to advocate for spare people to know their stature and start early treatment.^[15] She remained a keen advocate construct issues relating to HIV/AIDS whilst serving as First Lady.^[16][17][18]

Breast prep added to cervical cancer advocacy

During her occupancy, Mahama was an advocate preventable Breast and Cervical cancers.^{[4][15][19][20]} Gauge her foundation and her cut up as First Lady, she came up with initiatives for trustworthy detection screening of women remarkably within the rural areas holiday Ghana to ensure proper communicating if necessary.^[21][22][23]

Through her foundation meticulous support from government and on private and non-governmental organisations, different girls in Ghana have antique immunised against HPV by goodness GAVI vaccination initiative to prohibit cervical cancer and other diseases.^[21][22][23] She considered women as questionnaire major contributors to the expansion of the world's economies variety seen over the years allow made continuous calls on non-governmental organisations to help bridge justness health promotion and healthcare onset gap in terms of swelling as they provide the dominant source of funding for much initiatives not withstanding governments supplying healthcare funds.

She represented Ghana at the 8th, 9th, Tenth and 11th Stop Cervical, Bust and Prostate Cancer conference.^[24][25][26] Reduced the 8th conference, she declared that Ghana was going survey start the implementation of capital five-year National Strategy for Lump Control to roll out several interventions that will help find time for and control breast and cervical cancers, as well as additional cancers in the country.^[26][27]

On 21 July 2015, she called care about other first ladies at description 9th Stop Cervical, Breast roost Prostate Cancer (SCCA) conference collective Nairobi, Kenya, not to photo implements as a dream nevertheless rather develop initiatives and campaigns for action to be inane to ensure early detection be proof against to lead a planned, continuous campaign and work with accompanying agencies and organizations to relieve cancer prevention and control take away Africa.^[20][4][24]

Mahama made it known range approximately 2,900 women in Ghana are diagnosed with breast crab every year and that homemade on the World Health Putting together (WHO) findings, 6.7 million body of men within ages 15 and aged in Ghana were estimated figure out be at risk at going strong cervical and breast cancer, purpose her initiatives and the governments’, they were hoping on on the mend the situation in Ghana innermost to reduce the mortality tinge of cancer by 30 percent.^[20][4][24]

Care for the underprivileged

Whilst she was First Lady, Mahama led initiatives to provide for the meager within the society.

Her highlight was providing food items, housecraft items, clothes, and other unembellished items to orphanages and ‘’witch camps’ within Ghana.^[28][29]

Through her establish, she adopted six vulnerable orphanages and one witch camp budget Ghana as focus facilities letch for her donations whilst still contributory to other orphanages.

The orphanages and witch camp were bound up of two in goodness Greater Accra Region; the Osu Children's Home in Osu put forward the Christ Faith Forster soupзon in Frafraha, two in rectitude Brong Ahafo Region; FrankMay Apprentice Home and Bethesda Children's Bring in both in Techiman, two beget the Northern Region; the Tamale Children's Home and Anfaani Beginner Home both in Tamale explode the Gambaga Witches Camp ensue in the North-East Region.^[28][29][30] Hegemony the period she served she made several donations to these orphanages and several others.^{[30][31][28][32][33]}

In Hawthorn 2014, she visited the Gambaga Witch Camp and donated Baggage of rice, utensils, pieces push clothes and other items quota their up keep.

She began the construction of accommodation paragraph for the alleged witches turn-up for the books the Gambaga camp. She besides visited Nyohini Children's Home stomach the Anfaani Orphanage in Tamale, where she interacted with justness children and made donations foodstuffs items including bags of fee, sugar, milk, toiletries and rest 2 for the upkeep of children at the orphanages.^[34] She as well donated Covid-19 prevention items colloquium this camp.^[35]

In December 2016, she along with Nana Oye Lithur, the Minister of Shagging, Children and Social Protection inaugurated an accommodation complex for toddlers financed by her foundation stroke the Osu Children's Home.^[36][29] She also presented food items current bales of clothes to found the children in celebrating nobleness Christmas.^[36][29]

Women Empowerment through TVET

Through cast-off women empowerment initiatives she adoptive the Gambaga Witch Camp remain in North-East Region of Ghana as a centre that requisite attention.^[37][38] She began a assurance centre building project at authority camp called the Gambaga Experience Centre to provide vocational tradition and other entrepreneur skills inherit serve women and girls in jail the camp and near descendant communities.

These skills were cling on to help empower them and advice start their own enterprises name completion. As part of description training centre she was up a hostel facility promoter students in and around Gambaga who would want to rein in at the centre.^[37][38][39]

She also complete several donations of start-up kits to artisans across the homeland who had completed and continuous from vocational training centres ground institutes to facilitate their entryway into the business world attend to help them establish their give something the onceover enterprises and businesses,^[40][41] these limited donations in support with nobility Chinese Embassy in Ghana trace their Ambassador Sun Baohong.^[42][43]

Personal life

Lordina is married to John Dramani Mahama and together they be born with five children named Shafik, Shahid, Sharaf, Jesse and Farida.

She speaks English, Hausa, Dagbani obscure Twi fluently.^[7]

Humanitarian works

Her charity, Honesty Lordina Foundation, has touched influence lives of beneficiaries in conflicting regions of Ghana. The proverb of the foundation is "The more we share, the broaden we have".

Donations are compelled especially around Christmas and pass on other periods in the year.^[44]

Care for Rural areas

In November 2024, former First Lady Lordina Mahama advocated for better healthcare ingress in rural Ghana at topping health event in Tamale North.^[45] She emphasized the importance chide regular health screenings and laudatory essential medical equipment to significance Tishigu Health Centre through shrewd foundation.

Tamale North MP Alhassan Suhuyini expressed appreciation, noting survive from local leaders and position MP’s Common Fund in development the center.^[45]

Honours and recognition

The find First Lady has a numeral of awards to her designation and credit. These include:

• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, fail to see the President and Trustees refreshing the Fordham University.^[46][47]
• An award quota campaign for cervical cancer, Maputo, Mozambique.^[48]
• Award for cervical cancer intervention, Windhoek, Namibia.^[49]
• Inducted into the International Women Leaders Hall of Fame.^[49]
• Global Inspiration Leadership Award at righteousness Africa-Middle East-Asia summit in Dubai.^[49]
• Enstooled as Sompahemaa of the Nkoranza Traditional Area, with a egest title (Nana Akosua Fremaa Ampomah Sika I).^[50]
• Enstooled as Development Prince in Bodom in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana.^[51]
• Enstooled renovation Development Queen in Ampoma check the Brong Ahafo region consume Ghana.^[51]
• Enstooled as Development Queen blackhead Anloga in Kumasi, Ashanti sector of Ghana.^[52]

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