Hon Fritz Baffour |
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Member of the Ghana Parliament for Ablekuma South |
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In office Jan 2009 – Dec 2016 |
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Preceded by | Theresa Amerley Tagoe |
Succeeded by | Alfred Vanderpuije |
Majority | 5,283 |
Minister for Information | |
In office Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 |
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President | John Atta Mills |
Preceded by | John Tia |
Personal details | |
Born |
Accra, Ghana |
11 March 1952
Nationality | Ghanaian |
Relations | R. P. Baffour |
Profession | Journalist, Media consultant |
Fritz Baffour (born 11 March 1952) is a Ghanaian journalist, politician and communications consultant. He is the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency in the Parliament of Ghana and the Minister for Information of Ghana. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana.
Baffour was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. His father was R. P. Baffour, an academician and one of the first Ghanaian mechanical engineers as well as the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His mother was a midwife. His secondary education was at the Prempeh College and the Technology Secondary School, both in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his GCE Ordinary Level certificate in 1968. His sixth form education was at the City of Bath College in Avon in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1974, completing with the GCE Advanced Level certificate. Baffour also attended the Bristol Polytechnic between 1974 and 1976. Fritz Baffour did a master's degree in Communication Studies from the Leicester University between 2007 and 2012.