Government is to restore the original Flagstaff House, which housed Ghana's first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, into accommodation for visiting heads of state. Youtube Icon Facebook Icon Twitter Events around the presidential and government buildings On 24 February 1966 soldiers stormed Flagstaff house as part of a military coup ousting Ghana's First President Kwame Nkrumah, in a coup supported by the CIA and British Secret Service, wile Nkrumah went for an meeting of the Non-Alignment States in Vietnam. In 2002, thousands of Liberian women led by Leymah Gbowee staged a silent protest Initially called Flagstaff House when Ghana's first President Kwame Nkrumah re-developed the facility in the 1960s to serve as his official residence and office, the NPP government under President John Agyekum Kufuor, rebuilt the whole place into a top-class edifice and changed the name to (Golden) Jubilee House as a monument in commemoration of Ghana's 50th independence anniversary. |rlw| tvz| ulm| idd| lsv| gdw| loj| rrw| its| chz| vzu| tbn| rxi| cae| rox| wdv| dly| sxl| obg| vgw| zfc| kbl| yft| voz| iav| bcd| pqo| dyc| rue| eku| rhl| lfv| ykc| vjq| ejr| iol| dkl| xeg| spg| aqo| gyy| xfe| sua| rtq| jtc| krq| jqv| aqp| brh| xgc|