Hon. Fatimatu Abubakar is Ghana’s current Minister for Information. She took over at the ministry from the previous Minister, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. She is one of the main speakers scheduled to share her insight with the audience at this year’s Influencer’s Conference 2024.
Her Profile
Honourable Fatimatu Abubakar is the current Minister for Information. She was born in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. She graduated from the University of Ghana with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and English Language and Law for her second degree.
In 2008, while she was schooling at the University of Ghana, she served as the Vice President of Akuafo Hall Junior Common Room and Chairperson of the SRC Week Planning Committee.
In January 2017 she was appointed as the Deputy Communications Director at the Office of the President, Jubilee House, Accra, Ghana.
Prior to her political appointments, she worked at the Lansdown Resort, Aburi, and SRM Engineering Limited, where she served as a house manager and a Clerk respectively.
She previously served the then-candidate Nana Akufo-Addo as a campaign aide in the 2016 and 202 general elections.
She was part of the legal team of President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo-Addo during the 2020 Presidential Election Petition.