# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-hamidu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:18:28.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-hamidu"
name: "Joshua Hamidu"
slug: "joshua-hamidu"
description: "Lieutenant General Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu was a Ghanaian soldier, politician and diplomat. He has been the Chief of Defence Staff and also member of the Supreme Military Council government. Prior to heading the military and being in government, he was the Ghanaian High Commissioner to Zambia. He was appointed National Security Advisor to the Kufuor government in 2001. He was the chairman of the Narcotics Control Board of Ghana and on various boards of the Bank of Ghana. In 2005, he was Ghana's High Commissioner to Nigeria."
tagline: "Former Chief of Defence Staff of Ghana"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936"
deathDate: "2021"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.070950666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Mahamadu_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Mahamadu_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Hamidu"
    title: "Joshua Hamidu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24583812"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump