Day: October 21, 2023

Nairobi – Angola’s President João Lourenço and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto on Saturday will address issues of bilateral interest, with emphasis on strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries.

The talks are taking place as part of the visit of the Angolan Head of State, since Thursday, to Kenya, at the invitation of William Ruto.

At the table will be the discussion, for signature, of 13 legal instruments submitted by the Bilateral Joint Commission, to strengthen cooperation in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, mineral resources, oil and gas, tourism, telecommunications, information and communication technologies, transport and maritime cooperation, trade and industry, youth, among others.

There is also a Memorandum of Understanding between the Venâncio de Moura Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Angola and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya.

Cooperation between the two countries will also be supported by the Memorandum of Understanding between the National School of Administration and Public Policy (ENAPP) and the Kenya Government School in the Field of Capacity Development in the Public Service.

Before leaving Nairobi, on Saturday, João Lourenço will go to the Mausoleum of Jomo Kenyatta, the first President of Kenya, to pay tribute to the late statesman.

The friendly relationship between Angola and Kenya dates back to the years of the struggle for independence, when the then President of the Republic of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, brought together at the same table, in 1975, the leaders of Angola’s liberation movements, to align a common vision about their liberation.

But cooperation, in the broadest sense of the word, gained momentum in 2010, when Kenya Airways began flying to Luanda, under an agreement in the air transport sector signed in 2011.

Meanwhile, in 2014, Angola and Kenya signed four agreements that reinforced bilateral cooperation, namely the General Agreement on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation; the Memorandum of Understanding on Political Consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya; the Agreement on the Creation of the Bilateral Commission; the Agreement for the Operation of Air Services between and beyond the respective territories, in the field of transport

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Nairobi – The President of Kenya, William Ruto, assured this Saturday, in Nairobi, his country’s support for Angola’s candidacy for the presidency of the African Union (AU), in 2025.

The Kenyan President, who was speaking to the press at the end of a meeting with his Angolan counterpart, considered Angola worthy of presiding over the AU, as President João Lourenço has already demonstrated great statesmanship in his mediation efforts on the continent, especially between the DRC and Rwanda, as well as its leadership in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL).

He congratulated the President of the Republic for his leadership in the mediation effort between these two countries and for believing in his commitment that the situation must be resolved through engagement in consultations and dialogue. On the other hand, he considered that the state visit of the Angolan Head of State marks a turning point in cordial relations between the two countries.

After witnessing the signing of 11 cooperation agreements, alongside João Lourenço, he reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to continuing to develop bilateral relations, mainly in matters of trade, agriculture, tourism, transport and communications. He said that there is a need for greater interaction between the two peoples, therefore, the resumption of air connections between Luanda and Nairobi will be accelerated in order to also facilitate businesspeople from both

countries and increase commercial exchanges.

He encouraged this increase, which in the last four years has gone from 60 million to 350 million dollars and could grow into billions.

Angola and Kenya, on the last day of the Angolan president’s visit, signed eleven cooperation instruments that will form the basis for the growth of business relations.

Source: Angola Press News Agency

Reverend Godson Gbloe, a Member of the International Executive Council of the Great Commission Church International (GCCI) has launched an appeal for support for flood victims of the recent Akosombo Dam and Kpong Dam spillage.

He made the appeal through the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Vome Battor in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region during a fact-finding visit to affected communities.

Rev Gbloe said the flood had destroyed homes and many farmlands within the affected areas, hence the need to provide support in the form of relief items such as medicine, food and clothing for affected persons in communities such as Vome Battor.

‘Our farmlands are all submerged in the flood; a food crisis has emerged, and the people have no work to do,’ he told the GNA.

Adding that the effects of the recent floods had traumatised the people due to the fact that their farmlands had been devastated by the floods.

He reiterated that the flood had destroyed mud houses and therefore, he was also appealing support in the form of cement and mattresses.

He said their sources of drinking water were also affected by the floods and that some of the people at Vome Battor were being affected by skin rashes.

‘So, we are appealing to corporate entities, philanthropists, religious organisations and civil society organisations and the international communities come to our aid,’ Rev Gbloe said.

He noted that although the flood would soon be over once the spillage of the two Dams were over, they had no food in their farms for the next six months to one year due to the flooding of their farmlands.

Rev Gbloe, who is a native of Vome Battor and Head of the Gborglah Family said corporate entities, civil society organisations and individuals, who had been touched by the plights of the people of Vome Battor and surrounding areas could reach him on mobile +233 24 447 9702 or Mr Gabriel Kwame Vetsi, the Assembly Member for Vome Battor Electoral Area and also an Elder Church of Pentecost at Vome Battor on +233 549770776.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mr Emmanuel Gemegah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Keta in the Volta Region has stated that the three Assemblies along the coastal belt have completed extensive consultations to open the Keta lagoon floodgate and Sand bar sited at Azizadzi on Saturday.

This, according to him, would allow free flow of the lagoon into the sea to mitigate the devastating flood incidents in the area.

Mr Gemagah, at a press conference held on Friday to address the ongoing flood situations in Keta, Ketu South, and Anloga Districts, said all the necessary consultations with stakeholders were conducted.

‘We consulted traditional authorities, renowned engineers, and others to open the lagoon into the sea,’ he said.

He explained that the urgency of the situation was crucial and needed immediate action to address the current situation to prevent any destruction to the major road linking the three Districts as well as other communities, and national assets located in the area.

‘On October 19, a total of 24 communities within Keta were affected by the floods and 19 Basic schools with a total population of 9,803 pupils, were displaced.’

Mr Gemegah also said that the consultations revealed that the Keta lagoon has currently risen to the height of 1.382 metres as compared to that of 0.592 of the sea.

He urged the communities to do away with all forms of fears and support them to carry out the exercise to create easy flow of the lagoon into the sea without any damage to the communities.

Mr Gemegah added that work would begin on Saturday, October 21 to open the lagoon into the sea.

The occasion was attended by Mr Maxwell Lugudor, Ketu South MCE, Mr Seth Yormewu, DCE for Anloga, Chiefs, Heads of Institutions, and others.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Volta Region House of Chiefs has launched a disaster relief fund to support victims of the Akosombo dam spillage in the Region.

The regional body of traditional rulers has responded with a structured support initiative, called Volta Region House of Chiefs Disaster Relief Fund.

The fund was launched in Ho, Friday, seeded with an amount of GHC50,000 taken ‘directly’ from its welfare fund.

‘We are launching a disaster relief fund for our displaced brothers and sisters in areas inundated by dam spillage.

‘The spillage has brought so much suffering to our people, and it is in the light of our role as leaders in our communities that we are gathered here to map out a strategy for our brothers to see how best we can at least reduce the suffering that they are going through,’ Togbe Tepre Hodo IV, President of the House, said.

He appealed to all to support considering the enormity of the problem and noted the loss of livelihoods and investments in the downstream economy, calling on stakeholders including the operators of the dam, Volta River Authority (VRA), to work towards a lasting solution.

Togbe Tepre Hodo commended ongoing support from corporate society, State institutions and religious bodies, praising also the First Sky Group for both cash and kind donations while helping construct several thousand housing units for the estimated 20,000 displaced in the Region.

He rallied other individuals especially from the Region in the diaspora who wished to support the relocation effort, saying, ‘we are at the brunt of all that is happening’.

The President of the House called attention to the possible outbreak of diseases in flooded settlements and said health stakeholders should consider an increase in volunteers to help safeguard human life.

The region house of chiefs is collaborating with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s Volta Star Radio in Ho, and private broadcaster Radio Gold in Accra to promote and populate the relief fund, with more organisations expected to sign up.

The House gave the assurance that the support initiative was being structured and decentralised to benefit all, and that a dashboard would be established for more effective distribution of the resources.

A ‘Volta Region House of Chiefs Disaster Relief Fund’ with account number 5011180003678, GCB Ho Main Branch, is available for monetary contributions and a Momo number would be made available soon.

Traditional rulers from areas affected raised concerns over what they claimed was an over-concentration of ongoing relief support in certain areas, and that attention should be given to all affected.

‘We are losing our communities, and the loud silence is deafening,’ Togbe Patamia, Paramount of Battor who Vice President of the House, said, citing the lack of a long-term solution to the lower Volta flooding.

Osie Adza Terkpor of Avatime, and Chairman of the Social Affairs and Welfare Committee of the House, said it was concerned about the recovery of affected communities.

‘It is important probably for the VRA to think about post disaster reconstruction, which is a key area,’ he stated.

Source: Ghana News Agency

It is a routine for Alhassan to send his four children to and back from school every weekday. The family lives at Sakasaka but the basic school the children attend is located at Kukuo, both suburbs of Tamale.

To save fuel and time, Alhassan ‘loads’ all four children on his small motorbike to school and brings them home after classes. All of them do not wear helmet or any protective gear.

He takes extra care on the road, a distance of aboutthree kilometres, to avoid crashing his family into other motorists.

He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that: ‘I know it is not safe for all the five of us to be on this motorbike but there is no alternative for me. If I send them one after the other, we will all be late.’

Mariam lives at Sognayili but her three children attend a basic school at Choggu, both suburbs of the Greater Tamale Area. Mariam also, without wearing any protective gear, ‘loads’ all her three children on her small motorbike to and from school (all without any protective gear).

‘There’s too much workload on me in the house. By the time I’m done with my chores, it’s almost time for school. If I send them one after the other, they will be late for school,’ she said.

‘Procuring the services of a taxi will increase my expenditure. Already, we’re making sacrifices to make ends meet. I know the road is busy and anything can happen, but God will protect us.’

Alhassan and Mariam are not the only parents in the Northern Region, who ‘overload’ their motorbikes with their children. Many parents engage in the practice. The children are arranged on the motorbikes; some sitting in front and the rest behind their parents from the youngest to the oldest, clinging onto one another ostensibly to avoid falling. In some instances, especially after school, some of the children could be seen sleeping as they sat on the motorbikes without any protection.

This is because public transport is not common in the area and some parents also think hiring taxi serviceswill be a burden on their pockets.

The dangers, statistics, and law enforcement measures

On Friday, January 28, 2022, a woman carrying two children (believed to be two and four years old) on a motorbike riding towards Kalpohin Estate from Kalpohin Low Cost in Tamale, sped and overtook a tipper truck, and right after that, she hit a speed ramp, making the motorbike to spring.

The two children, who did not have the capacity to firmly hold onto the motorbike, fell. The tipper truck could not stop instantly, and ran over the children, killing them instantly.

A week after that crash, another woman, who was carrying her three children on a motorbike to school before going to work, ran into another motorbike, which had stopped abruptly at a T-junction near a fueling station on the Russian Bungalow – TTH Road in Tamale.

She and her three children fell and sustained injuries. They were lucky not to have been run over by approaching motorbikes and vehicles. About a monthlater, a man carrying four children on a motorbike from school, crashed into a tricycle on the TTH – Town Road, where they sustained severe injuries.

While motorbike crashes are common in the region, statistics on such crashes are not reliable as most are not reported. In most cases, when the injuries are not severe, the victims prefer treatment at home. Statistics from the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) show that 135 motorbike crashes were reported in the region in 2022 as against 117 in 2021.

However, there is no statistics regarding the number of persons killed or injured as result of the crashes because the data is mixed with those involving vehicles as well. Meanwhile, the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), which attends to most of the cases, reported that head injuries due to motorbike crashes were among the top three leading causes of deaths at the hospital since 2018.

Dr Adam Atiku, the then Director of Medical Affairs at TTH, presenting the situation during the hospital’s annual performance review meeting in Tamale in 2022, said 73 patients, who arrived at the emergency unit in 2021, died from severe head injuries whilst 16 others, who were on admission with such injuries, also died.

Among the top five causes of admission at the hospital were head injuries and fractures sustained through motorbike crashes, with some of the victims being children.

Mr Abdulai Bawa Ghamsah, the Northern Regional Director of NRSA, in an interview with the GNA on the practice of people carrying up to six children on one motorbike in Tamale, said the issue of overloading the motorbikes was a big worry to the NRSA.

‘Sometime ago, we tried to stop the practice, but people were giving flimsy excuses and explanations as to why they engaged in it,’ he said.

He shared his experience regarding a question asked him by a man, who carried four children on his motorbike, saying ‘the man asked me, chief, if you have two wives, who have two children each, and you have to send them to school with one motorbike, which of them will you take first and which second?’

‘What will be the consequences be when you come back? Your wives will fight with you over your choice that you like this woman more than me. That is why you carried her children first. This is why I carry all the four of them at a go.’

He said the NRSA tried to educate motor riders on road traffic regulations and to avoid overloading, while enforcing the laws to address the situation, however, the interference in the work of law enforcement agencies by people in influential positions posed a great challenge.

He said despite the challenge ‘we will not relent in our efforts to ensure that the right things are done to reduce the incidences of crashes, injuries and deaths.’

Chief Superintendent Alexander Obeng, the Director of Education, Research and Training at the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service, in an interview with the GNA in Tamale, said the practice was against the Road Traffic Regulations LI 2180, which permitted a motorbike to carry only a rider and a pillion rider.

He said riders who violated the law were being arrestedand that the enforcement of the law would be intensified to stop the practice.

How others are addressing the situation

The Good Shepherd Schools Complex and Etoile Royale Educational Centre are some of the private schools in Tamale that run bus services for their pupils and students.

The authorities of these schools told the Ghana News Agency that they introduced the bus services toprioritise the safety of the pupils and lessen the burden on parents, who must abide by the daily routine ofsending their children to and from school.

They said it was also to stop the practice where some parents used their motorbikes as buses to carry several children to and from school.

The authorities say no crashes were recorded when the bus was operational but had recently suspended the services due to the rising cost of operations and the refusal of some parents to pay more.

Could public transport be a solution?

Late last year, the Government deployed some buses under the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system to the Greater Tamale Area, which plied specific routes and charged low fares. The government has also supplied buses to all the second cycle schools in the area. Most of the time, all those buses remain parked at the schools.

Taking a cue from the Good Shepherd Schools Complex and Etoile Royale Educational Centre, these buses, in addition to the BRT services, could support the transportation of school children to and from school.

This could ensure sanity on the busy streets of the area and ensure the safety of the children.

The way forward

Road crashes lead to injuries and deaths. Depending on the severity of the injuries, the victim(s) may be incapacitated for life. If they result in death(s), no matter who is involved, the entire society loses. It is true that all the people who use motorbikes as ‘buses’ to carry up to six children to and from school in the Greater Tamale Area know the dangers involved.

If the law is to be strictly enforced, all the parents will be arrested and their children may not go to school on time because of lack of alternative means of transport and or the inability to hire the services of taxis, which are also in short supply in the area.

Therefore, any provable solution to this practice must be the responsibility of all.

It will be in the best interest of society if the Government implemented the public transportation system to help reduce, and or stop crashes, injuries and deaths associated with using motorbikes as buses in the Greater Tamale Area.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Nkwanta South District Court has sentenced one Kwabena Tetteh,?21, unemployed,?to 23-months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing.

He pleaded guilty to unlawful entry, causing damage to properties and stealing and was sentenced accordingly by the court presided over by Mr. Joseph Evans Anang Okropa.

Police Inspector Bright Nkansah, the Prosecutor, told the court that between September 27 and 29, 2023, the convict broke into seven shops within Nkwanta town and made stole several items.

The items, he said, included flat screen televisions, laptops, mobile phones, Ghanaian Kente cloths, cartons of frozen chicken, fish, drugs, condoms and ladies bags, worth millions of cedis.

The Prosecution said during one of the convict’s stealing escapade, his mobile phone fell off and one of the shops owners picked it up and lodged a complain at the Nkwanta Police station together with the six other shop owners.

Inspector Nkansah said the Police during their investigations arrested the convict on October 2, at his hideout at Nsana Zongo, a suburb of Nkwanta and arraigned him.

The Judge, in passing his judgement, said even though this was the first appearance of the convict in court, his actions were dangerous to the society, thus the sentence.

He said the conviction was an opportunity for the convict to avoid stealing and also to protect him from being harmed by the society.

Meanwhile, Madam Adwoa Tawiah, 56, mother of the convict and a Zoomlion staff in Nkwanta South, was fine GHS 1,200 for dishonestly receiving stolen items from her son.

She also pleaded guilty to her offence and asked the court to temper justice with mercy.

Prosecution told the court, Madam Tawiah, has received several stolen items from the son, but refused to report to the authorities.

Inspector Nkansah described the action of the mother of the victim as deliberate to protect the son and also enjoy the stolen items.

He said some of the items were found with her upon police investigation hence her punishment.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), in a recently released African Transformation Index 2023 (ATI), says repeated economic shocks and uneven growth have slowed the continent’s overall economic transformation after two decades.

The index indicated that since the year 2000, many African economies had become less diversified and less competitive globally.

According to the index, the slow progress was making countries on the continent more vulnerable to future shocks, which made them more likely to struggle with debt and less likely to achieve crucial transformation milestones in support of sustainable development.

The index acknowledged that while some African countries had seen progress since 2000, many were lagging, which had impacted their ability to recover from major global shocks like COVID-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The New African Transformation Index tracks the progress and challenges of respective African countries since 2000.

The ATI offers pathways for countries to take action to keep the transformation agenda on track and build up their economic resilience, including lessons from strong performers like Morocco, Tunisia, and Rwanda, which are among the countries that made the biggest improvements.

The 2023 ATI update broadens the scope of the index to cover 30 African countries, representing 86.5 percent of the continent’s population.

The index tracks the success and setbacks at the country level over two decades, from 2000 to 2020, along several key dimensions of economic transformation in Africa, which ACET refers to as growth in depth.

The depth includes diversification, exports, competitiveness, productivity, technology, and human well-being.

The index is also an essential tool that can help African leaders learn from the past to craft better policies for the future.

Dr. K.Y. Amoako, Founder and President of the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), said most African countries were not transforming nearly as quickly as they needed to, and that the ATI offered data and analysis that helped explain why they were less successful.

He added,’ This is not just a numbers exercise; investing in transformation can improve African lives and livelihoods and create a path to long-term economic success for our continent.’

Despite the challenges, the index also showed some encouraging trends, which includes higher wages, more income equality, and better opportunities for women in the workplace, has improved notably in most African countries this century.

The index further revealed that while the progress was laudable, it was important for countries to strive for long-term growth that benefited everyone and to support the most vulnerable, who were often the hardest hit by climate and economic shocks.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Mr Samuel Atuahene Antwi, a nutritionist at the Tema Metropolitan (TMA)Health Directorate, has tasked nurses and midwives serving as frontline nutrition coaches for breastfeeding mothers to encourage total breastfeeding for a child’s survival.

He said that to protect the baby from certain short- and long-term illnesses and disorders like asthma, obesity, and Type 1 Diabetes, it was necessary for nurses to counsel breastfeeding mothers to adhere to the tenets of breastfeeding.

Mr Atuahene Antwi who gave the advice during an interaction with nurses and some breastfeeding mothers at the TMA Maternity and Child Health Clinic at Tema Community One said breastfeeding is advantageous to both mother and child.

Speaking on the benefits of first-month breastfeeding, the Tema Metro Health Directorate Nutritionist stressed that breastfeeding women also had a lower incidence of ovarian cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and breast and other cancers.

He said it prevents the baby from acquiring infections since it comes directly from the breast, and it also saves mothers money since breast milk is free and available, hence the need to feed the baby with breast milk.

Mr Atuahene Antwi said that, according to research, the ingredients used in the artificial baby foods were not originally designed for human children, making them unsuitable for babies’ digestive systems and triggering a lot of allergic reactions when taken in by babies.

He continued that some mothers insist on adding artificial foods to the baby’s diet because they feel they can afford it, even though babies do not absorb any kind of nutrients from the artificial foods, making the baby miss out on the potential benefits of exclusive breastfeeding.

He also elaborated on the need for mothers to add staple foods, vegetables, fruits, legumes, and animal-source foods to their diets over the course of six months, as they are needed critically for the absorption of vitamins and iron, but they must also continue to breastfeed the babies with these foods.

Nurses must take note of the figures obtained during the growth monitoring and promotion and counsel the mothers on some reasons for such results so that mothers will appreciate their work and make efforts to maintain, start, or continue a good diet and breastfeeding of the baby.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has conferred an honorary doctorate on Prof. Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, a Professor of African and African American history at Harvard University.

The honour was in recognition of his inspirational academic and socio-cultural contributions, as well as professional career development.

It was also in fulfilment of the University’s affirmation to honour industrious local and international icons to encourage others to emulate.

This year’s conferment marked the 13th edition of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture series instituted in 1974 but inaugurated in November 1976 by UCC’s first Vice Chancellor, Dr Archie Casley Hayford.

Held annually in honour of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, the 2023 programme, saw a two-day lecture series aimed at reliving the noble life of the late leader.

Similarly, UCC has over the years recognised about 51 other personalities, including Mr Eleazar Chukwuemeka Anyaoku, a former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Mr Benjamin William Mkapa, the former President of Tanzania, and Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, a former Minister of Finance.

Other beneficiaries included Mr Kwaku Baprui Asante, a former Secretary to Dr Nkrumah, Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a lawyer and Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.

Prof. Akyeampong earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Ghana, Legon, an M. A. in History from Wake Forest University, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia, USA.

He is also a graduate of the Andover Newton Theological Seminary and serves as an affiliate minister of the Gospel for the Outreach at Acton Congregational Church.

He is married to Mrs Ntuli Qoboza-Akyeampong and they have three children.

Prof. Akyeampong has been awarded several research fellowships, and made publications including ‘Themes in West Africa’s History, Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders, Between the Sea and the Lagoon: an Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, 1850 to Recent Times; Drink, Power and Cultural Change: a social history of alcohol in Ghana, 1800 to Present Times.’

Prof. Acheampong expressed appreciation to the UCC for recognising his efforts and promised to work hard to ensure social development.

He recounted his assistance to graduates from UCC at Harvard University and his many research collaborations that were helping to reshape society.

Earlier in a lecture, Prof. Akyeampong, had taken a bold stroll through the life of Dr Nkrumah on the topic: ‘The Pan-Africanist Nkrumah and Africa’s triple heritage: Christianity, Islam, and Africa’s indigenous religion.’

In a hilarious but thought-provoking recount of Dr Nkrumah’s ordeal, Prof. Akyeampong recalled how he wandered about on the streets of the US but remained true to his spiritual journey.

He said in 1930, Dr Nkrumah endured homelessness in the US, shining shoes, washing pots in restaurants and even selling fish at street corners.

‘Though Dr Nkrumah gave up on priesthood and aesthetic lifestyle, spiritual discipline remained attractive to him,’ he said.

Dr Nkrumah was completely unpredictable, except for his stand against colonialism, imperialism and racial exploitation of man, Prof. Acheampong said.

Notwithstanding, Dr Nkrumah was shy when he was in a relationship, saying: ‘Nkrumah was reluctant or too shy to talk to white girls, dance with them or even get too close to them,’ he said.

Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, the Vice-Chancellor, reiterated the University’s vision to produce graduates with entrepreneurial mind sets to reduce the phenomenon of graduate unemployment.

He said his administration would seek to ensure that UCC created a niche by providing quality, equitable, and inclusive education that empowered the graduates to be independent, lifelong learners and responsible citizens, with passion for job creation while contributing to public service.

He pledged to reposition UCC as the global hub of creative thinkers offering demand-driven programmes integrated with practical entrepreneurial courses and actively translating the products of its innovative research for sustainable development.

Source: Ghana News Agency