NUGS, officially The National Union of Ghana Students is the largest student organization in Ghana. [1] However the date of it foundation has been the subject of controversy. The official Facebook page suggests 1964. [2] However Professor Anselmus Kludze, father of Ave Kludze, claimed that he was the National President of NUGS for the period 1962–1963. He stated he was preceded by P.D. Vanderpuije of the University of Science and Technology (UST) and followed by Mr. F.Y.I. Fiagbe, also of the UST. He further claims that both he and Fiagbe, along with Antwi (the General Secretary at the time), Mr. Easmon and Mr. Kodwo Carr were all arrested and imprisoned without trial under the Preventive Detention Act. [3]
The organisation can trace its origins to the Union of Gold Coast Students in West Africa which was founded in the 1930s. [4] Originally the Union had as one of its aims an end to British colonial rule and the achievement independence. [4]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Ghana face legal and societal challenges and discrimination not experienced by non-LGBT citizens.
Joseph Kwame Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah was a Ghanaian politician, scholar, lawyer and statesman. He was a politician in pre- and post-colonial Ghana, which was formerly the Gold Coast, and is credited with giving Ghana its current name.
Achimota School, formerly Prince of Wales College and School at Achimota, later Achimota College, now nicknamed Motown, is a co-educational boarding school located at Achimota in Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The school was founded in 1924 by Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey and the Rev. Alec Garden Fraser. It was formally opened in 1927 by Sir Frederick Guggisberg, then Governor of the British Gold Coast colony. Achimota, modelled on the British public school system, was the first mixed-gender school to be established on the Gold Coast.
West African Football Academy (WAFA) Sporting Club is a Ghanaian professional football club based near Sogakope in the Volta Region that was founded by Feyenoord from Rotterdam. They are competing in the Ghana Premier League. The 2016–17 season was a successful one for WAFA as the side finished second in the Premier League, beating Hearts of Oak 5–0 along the way.
The Big Six were six leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), one of the leading political parties in the British colony of the Gold Coast, known after independence as Ghana. They were detained by the colonial authorities in 1948 following disturbances that led to the killing of three World War II veterans. They are pictured on the front of the Ghana cedi notes.
Adisadel College, popularly known as "Adisco", is an Anglican boys' boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. Adisadel College is one of the oldest senior high schools in Ghana, and was ranked 10th out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based on quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility. Recently, they were ranked among the best senior high schools in Ghana per WAEC standards.
Yaw Osafo-Maafo is a Ghanaian politician who was appointed in April as the senior presidential advisor to the Akufo-Addo Administration 2021. He was Senior Minister of the Republic of Ghana in the Akufo-Addo Administration from 2017 to 2021. He was Member of Parliament for Akim Oda from 1997 to 2009, and previously served as Finance Minister and in other cabinet roles in the Kufuor Administration between 2001 and 2009.
Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng is the first African to be hired on the African version of The Apprentice, a television reality show hosted by Biodun Shobanjo called The Apprentice Africa. Dankyi-Koranteng was hired on television during the premier season finale of The Apprentice Africa in Nigeria on, Silverbird TV, Super Screen, and MBI Television; Ghana on (TV3); Kenya on (KTN); Uganda on (WBS); and Tanzania (TBC1). Until he was hired, Dankyi-Koranteng was the Customer Account Manager for Chinese Telecom giants Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in Ghana. During the season, Dankyi-Koranteng was Project Manager on four occasions winning three. He was never taken to the boardroom by any other Project Manager as the weakest link throughout the season.
Akuafo Hall otherwise referred to as the Hall of Excellence is the second Hall of residence to be established in the University College of the Gold Coast now University of Ghana. The Hall has its own statutes governing the administration of its affairs while the affairs of students are organized and supervised by Executives of the Junior Common Room.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is a Ghanaian politician who is Member of Parliament for North Tongu. He was a deputy minister of state under both John Atta Mills and John Mahama.
St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School is a Ghanaian public day senior high school for boys in the Osu, district of Accra in the Greater Accra Region. This was established in 1952. The school is currently located in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra. It was established to provide education for boys of the Accra Archdiocese of the Catholic Church whose parents could not afford the cost of sending their male children to boarding school.
The Right for Education Foundation is a not-for profit organization based in Ghana. The foundation is registered as a charitable organization in Ireland and Ghana with registration number 20204862 and CG126112014 respectively.[1] The foundation activities are non-partisan and non-religious. The foundation operates independently of governments. The main objective of the foundation is to provide educational materials to a greater audience to Africans through digital platforms.
Anselmus Kodzo Paaku Kludze was a Ghanaian lawyer, author and academic who served as a judge for the Supreme Court of Ghana and was also a professor. He was an Emeritus Professor of law at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States, a chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Ghana, a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
Joshua Alabi is a Ghanaian academic and politician, who served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) from 2012 to 2016. He previously served as the Rector of the same institution from 2009 to 2012 and Pro-Rector from 2005 to 2008. In Ghanaian politics, Alabi was the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Krowor Constituency in the Greater Accra from 1997 to 2001 and Minister of State for the Greater Accra and the Northern Regions respectively from 1997 to 2001.
Nathan Anang Quao, was a Ghanaian statesman and educationist who served as Secretary at the PNDC Secretariat from 1984 to 1993 and Special Assistant to President Jerry Rawlings from 1993 to 2001. A career civil servant, he was appointed principal secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1966 before being moved to the seat of government a year later, where he retired as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service in 1973. Quao was the founding headmaster of Keta Secondary School in 1953 and was appointed the first chairman of the Ghana Education Service Council in 1974.
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Kofi Totobi Quakyi is a Ghanaian politician. He served as Minister for Information from 1985 to 1993 under the Provisional National Defence Council government and continued from 1993 to 2001 in the same capacity in the government of Jerry Rawlings. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
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