John Henry Martey Newman is a Ghanaian administrator, lawyer and a former Chief of Staff of Ghana.
[1][2][3] Newman had his secondary school education from Mfantsipim School and proceeded to the University of Ghana where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree.
[1] On 13 January 2009, he was appointed as the Chief of Staff of Ghana by President John Evans Atta Mills.
[3][4] After the demise of his boss the President, John Evans Atta Mills, Newman was the one who broke the news publicly to the world on a live television broadcast of the death of Ghana's president on 24 July 2012.
[10] After President John Dramani Mahama won the elections in December 2012, he served as a member of the transitional team[11] and after he was sworn in in January 2013, Newman handed over his duties to Prosper Douglas Bani as the new chief of staff.