Hon. Helen Adjoa Ntoso MP | |
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Member of the Ghana Parliament for Krachi West | |
Assumed office 7 January 2013 | |
Preceded by | Francis Yaw Osei Sarfo |
Volta Regional Minister | |
In office 16 July 2014 –6 January 2017 | |
President | John Mahama |
Preceded by | Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo |
Succeeded by | Archibald Letsa |
Eastern Regional Minister | |
In office 11 March 2013 –16 July 2014 | |
President | John Mahama |
Preceded by | Julius Debrah |
Succeeded by | Antwi Boasiako Sekyere |
Volta Regional Minister | |
In office January 2013 –11 March 2013 | |
President | John Mahama |
Preceded by | Henry Ford Kamel |
Succeeded by | Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo |
Personal details | |
Born | Helen Adjoa Ntoso February 1958 (age 67) Ghana |
Political party | NDC |
Alma mater | Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre |
Cabinet | Minister |
Committees | Gender and Children Committee Defence and Interior Committee |
Helen Adjoa Ntoso (born February 1958) is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana to representing Krachi West constituency in the Volta Region of Ghana. [1] [2] She is a member of the National Democratic Congress. [3] Hon Ntoso is a former Regional Minister for the Volta and Eastern Regions in the NDC government of President Mahama. [4]
Ntoso is from Kete Krachi which was located in the Volta Region until December 2018 when new regions were created. It is now in the Oti Region. [3] She completed her post-secondary education at St Francis Training College. She has an Advanced Diploma in Education from Lambeth College in London. She also holds a Master of Arts in Conflict Peace and Security from Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. [3]
She was a Senior Child Care taker at Elizabeth Hamwod Nursery School from 2005 to 2007. She was a Missionary for Bright Church Army from 2003 to 2005. [3] She was also the Director of Operations at NADMO 2009 to 2012. [3]
Ntoso won the Krachi West seat in the 2012 Ghanaian general election. She retained her seat in the 2016,2020 and 2024 elections. [5] She was appointed Volta Regional Minister by President John Mahama in 2013. She was made the Eastern Regional Minister in a cabinet reshuffle in March 2013. [6] She was the Volta Regional Minister in 2015. [7] In July 2014,she was redesignated as Volta Regional Minister,a position she held until the end of the Mahama NDC government on 6 January 2017.
Helen Ntoso won an award for Regional Minister of the Year 2015,organized by West African International Magazine. [8]