President John Mahama will on Friday March 18 receive an honourary degree of Doctors of Laws from the  University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.

President Mahama who leaves Accra today, for Glasgow will meet with the First Minister of Scotland and visit the Scottish Parliament where he will observe First Minister’s Question Time and address a meeting of Parliamentarians.

He is accompanied by the First Lady, Lordina Dramani Mahama, Foreign Minister Hanna S. Tetteh (MP), Communications Minister Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and the Education Minister Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyeman, President Mahama will also meet leaders of Scotland’s political parties.

He is  the second leader from Ghana after JJ Rawlings to visit Scotland.

With the Vice President on an official visit to India, the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Edward Doe Adjaho will act as President, in accordance with Article 60 (11) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.