Afia Pokua (known as Vim Lady) is a

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media personality and the Head of Programs at the Despite Media Group, operating Peace FM,

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and

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Education

Afia attended

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for her secondary education. She then proceeded to the Ghana Institute of Journalism and the

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 ...

for a bachelor's degree in law.

Career

She is the former editor of

Adom FM Adom FM is a privately owned radio station in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The station is owned and run by the media group company Multimedia Group Limited. The word ''Adom'' in the Twi dialect means ''grace''. Adom FM organizes the annual gospe ...

, a subsidiary of

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. Seven 7 years ago, Afia had attempted to quit Mulitimedia following a misunderstanding she had with the management. In October 2019, she resigned from the Multimedia Group and joined UTV, a satellite television station owned by the Despite Media Group Currently, Afia Pokuaa is the host of ''Egyaso Gyaso'', a popular news analysis program aired on

Mondays and Fridays between 7pm and 9:30pm. She also co-hosts UTV's morning show dubbed ''Adekye Nsroma''.

Awards and recognition

Radio and Television Personalities Awards Radio Female Presenter of the Year 2019–2020.

Personal life

In May 2020, Afia Pokua revealed for the first time that she has a son, who is in his teens.

Voluntary work

In 2018, she founded the SugarDem Ministry, a

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activist group set up to parallel the PepperDem Ministry that advocates for women to uphold stricter relationships with men.

References

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