Kenneth Gilbert Adjei
Kenneth Gilbert Adjei is a Ghanaian politician who served as a Deputy Minister of Defence from 2015 to 2017 during the John Mahama Administration. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. A graduate of the University of Ghana Business School, he is also a marketing executive who previously served as a member of the Board of the National Lottery Authority and currently serves as a board executive of the Lordina foundation. Early life and education Adjei is a native of Trede, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He attended Opoku Ware School for his secondary school education. He served as the Dining Hall prefect whilst at Opoku Ware School. He proceeded to the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where he completed with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing. He also holds a Mater of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Ghana Business School. Career Adjei was the Program Director of the Lordina Foundation, a foundation foun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of Ghana Business School
University of Ghana Business School formerly School of Administration is the undergraduate and post graduate Business School of the University of Ghana in Accra Ghana. It is also the premier and the largest Business School in Ghana. History UGBS came into existence by an Executive Instrument (E.I.127) by the Government of Ghana Accra in January, 1960. It was then known as College of Administration and situated on Western the campus of Achimota School with the old which became the nucleus of KNUST. The School was renamed School of Administration in 1962 and eventually the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) is 2004. Programs The University of Ghana Business currently runs undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Before 2004 the school had only four departments. It was after 2004 that the school was departmentalized into six departments. these departments are, Accounting, Finance, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Organization and Human Resource Management, Operations a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Lottery Authority
National Lottery Authority is a statutory agency of the Ghana and it is under the Ministry of Finance. As a governmental organization, the NLA is responsible for organizing raffles for the nation, for a chance to win outstanding prices thereby making lives more appreciating, fun, and better for each and everyone including rich and poor. The board of the NLA oversees the activities of the organization, headed by the chairperson, one representative of the Ministry of Interior, one representative of the Ministry of Finance, another representative of the Attorney General's Department, two Government appointees, and the Director General. History At the establishment of the national body to oversee lottery affairs, the Kwame Nkrumah administration created the Department of National Lotteries and established it under the Lotteries Act (1958). The department was incorporated into the Lotteries and Betting Act of 1960. Affiliations The NLA is a member of the International Association of S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ashanti Region
The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the most populated region with a population of 4,780,380 according to the 2011 census, accounting for 19.4% of Ghana's total population. The Ashanti Region is known for its major gold bar and cocoa production. The largest city and regional capital is Kumasi. Geography Location and size The Ashanti Region is centrally located in the middle belt of Ghana. It lies between longitudes 0.15W and 2.25W, and latitudes 5.50N and 7.46N. The region shares boundaries with six of the sixteen political regions, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions in the north, Eastern region in the east, Central region in the south and Western region in the South west. The region is divided into 27 districts, each headed by a District Chief Executive. Economy Tourism ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Opoku Ware School
Opoku Ware School, often referred to as OWASS, is a public Catholic senior high school for boys, located in Santasi, a suburb of Kumasi, which is the capital of the Ashanti region of Ghana. Notable alumni * Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, former deputy NDC Minister of State * Kwamena Ahwoi, former NDC Minister of State * Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for food and Agriculture * Stephen Amoah, Member of Parliament for the Nhyiaeso Constituency * James Kwesi Appiah (O 123) former head coach of the Ghana Black Stars * George Boakye, former Chief of Air Staff * Stephen Alan Brobbey, retired jurist; former Chief Justice of the Gambia and justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana * Shadrack Osei Frimpong, founder of Cocoa360 * George Gyan-Baffour, Minister for Planning and Member of Parliament(Wenchi) * Ohene Karikari, former national athlete and Africa's number one sprinter during his time * John Kumah, Deputy Minister of Finance. * Jacob Kwakye-Maafo, physician, surgeon and CEO of W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ghana Institute Of Management And Public Administration
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra, Ghana. The location of GIMPA, Greenhill, was named by Nicholas T. Clerk (1930 – 2012) who served as the Rector of the Institute from 1977 to 1982. The name, "Greenhill", is a reference to the lush greenery and hilly topography of the main campus, as well as its location in Legon which was historically on the periphery of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. Together with 200 state institutions, GIMPA successfully participated in a Public Sector Reform Programme under the auspices of the World Bank and became a self-financing institution as part of the National Institutional Reform Programme in 2001. It was established as a public university by an Act of Parliament in 2004. The institute was established in 1961 by the Government of Ghana with as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lordina Mahama
Lordina Mahama (née Effah; born 6 March 1963) is a Ghanaian former First Lady of Ghana who served as first lady from 2012 to 2017. She is married to the fourth President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama. Prior to becoming First Lady, she was the Second Lady of Ghana from 2009 to 2012. Prior to becoming Second Lady, Lordina Mahama's husband served as a member of the Parliament of Ghana representing the Bole-Bamboi constituency from 1997 to 2008. Raised in Brong-Ahafo and Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana, Mahama is a trained caterer and a Hospitality manager. She is a graduate of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, where she acquired both a degree in Hospitality Management and a Masters in Governance and Leadership. She is also a graduate of the De Montfort University in the United Kingdom. Mahama joined her husband on campaign trails ahead of the 2008 when he was the running mate to John Atta Mills and also in both 2013 and 2017 w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Minister For Defence (Ghana)
The Minister for Defence is the Ghanaian government official responsible for the Ministry of Defence of Ghana and the Ghana Armed Forces. The Minister for Defence since February 2017 is the Hon. Dominic Nitiwul. He was appointed by President Nana Akufo-Addo. List of ministers The ministry has had a succession of ministers since independence starting with the Governor - General. During the rule of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Ghana, Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, there was no specific minister as the council as a body was responsible for Defence. See also *Ministry of Defence (Ghana) References External linksMinister for Defence, Official Ghana Government website {{DEFAULTSORT:Minister for Defence Politics of Ghana Lists of government ministers of Ghana, Defence Defence ministers of Ghana, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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National Democratic Congress (Ghana) Politicians
National Democratic Congress may refer to: * National Democratic Congress (Ghana) * National Democratic Congress (Grenada) * National Democratic Congress (Zambia) National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a political party in Zambia. It was formed by former Information minister Chishimba Kambwili after he was fired from the ruling Patriotic Front by President Edgar Lungu in 2016. Kambwili had been a fierce c ... See also * National Democratic Party (Egypt) {{Disambig, political ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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People From Ashanti Region
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Akan People
The Akan () people live primarily in present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast in West Africa. The Akan language (also known as ''Twi/Fante'') are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family.Languages of the Akan area: papers in Western Kwa linguistics and on the linguistic geography of the area of ancient. Isaac K. Chinebuah, H. Max J. Trutenau, Linguistic Circle of Accra, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1976, pp. 168. Subgroups of the Akan people include: the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Ashanti, Bono, Fante, Kwahu, Wassa, and Ahanta. The Akan subgroups all have cultural attributes in common; most notably the tracing of matrilineal descent, inheritance of property, and succession to high political office. Oral tradition and Ethnogenesis Akan people are believed to have migrated to their current location from the Sahara desert and Sahel regions of Africa into the forest region around the 11th century. Many Akans ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alumni Of Opoku Ware School
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |