{"id":172886,"date":"2025-08-07T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/okonjo-iweala-responds-to-ghanaian-ministers-crash"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:05:42","slug":"okonjo-iweala-responds-to-ghanaian-ministers-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/okonjo-iweala-responds-to-ghanaian-ministers-crash","title":{"rendered":"Okonjo-Iweala Responds to Ghanaian Ministers&#8217; Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO, has extended her condolences to Ghana President John Mahama over the deaths of his key cabinet members in a tragic helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Defence, Edward Kofi Boamah, and the Minister of Environment, Science &amp; Technology, Ibrahim Murtala Muhammad, lost their lives in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Boamah and Muhammad, there were six other people on the chopper, which crashed in the central Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The Z9 helicopter was conveying the passengers from Accra to Obuasi for an event.<\/p>\n<p>Okonjo-Iweala wrote on X: \u201cMy deepest condolences to HE President John Dramani Mahama @JDMahama, the bereaved families and the people of Ghana for the tragic loss of the Hon. Min. of Defence Dr Edward Kofi Boamah and the Hon. Min. of Environment, Science and Technology Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammad and six others in a terrible helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay their souls rest in perfect peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO, has extended her condolences to Ghana President John Mahama over the deaths of his key cabinet members in a tragic helicopter crash. 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