December 2004: Professor Stephen Adei, Rector and Director-General of
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA),
led a
group of Election monitoring team from GIMPA made up of lecturers,
graduate students and staff to monitor the election nationwide.
To support democratic governance in Ghana,
Professor Adei sent representatives as observers to all the
10 regions of the country to observe the elections.
He said reports from these representatives who
were at the various constituencies indicated that, apart
from minor irregularities such as late arrival of voting
materials and late starting of voting, the elections were
free and fair.
"It is anticipated that the way of holding peaceful election
would continue and be sustained in our democratisation process," he said
The Rector said the improvement was an indication that Ghanaians
were matured in democracy and hoped it would continue. He said GIMPA
as an institution had a special interest in the election because of
its new graduate programme "Masters in Governance and Leadership".
Senior William Ofori Boafo, who was formerly Secretary
and Vice President of the Ghana Bar Association won the parliamentary election and became
Member of Parliament for Akropong North
constituency. He is also the Deputy Minister for Defence.
President Kufuor in December was re-elected to a second term by winning 52%
of the votes to his opponent's 44%.
The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry congratulated President
John Agyekum Kufuor on his victory in Election 2004.
The Chamber released the message: "You have for the past four years
stood for unification, enhancement of the standard of living of
Ghanaians, inculcating a sense of accountability, ensuring macroeconomic
stability, and many more, which have earned you the mandate to continue
with such good works."
They said President Kufuor's victory attested to an acknowledgement of the good work he was doing, "especially in such areas as private sector empowerment, infrastructure development, education and general economic reforms.
The President's second term is called "Positive Change Chapter Two."
In a very powerful message, the Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Boateng II, has advised Kwahu citizens to avoid spending huge sums of money on the funeral rites on the dead and use their limited resources to educate their children. The Senior was addressing an end-of-year meeting of the Kwahu Traditional Council, of which he's the President, at Mpraeso. He noted that, "while we cry over our inability to pay school fees and purchase books and uniforms for our wards, we are able to find money to purchase special funeral clothes, expensive coffins, drinks, food and other expensive items for funeral."
The NDC newspaper Palaver, a paper that is seldom taken seriously,
attacked Senior Adjei-Barwuah, Ghana's Ambassador to Japan, for arranging scholarships and projects
for Ashantis only.
"Take a look at our diplomatic representation abroad.
More than two-thirds are either Ashantis or Akans.
One of these is called Dr. Adjei-Barwuah, Ghana’s
Ambassador to Japan. All we read about him since his
appointment is either arranging Japanese scholarships
for Ashanti youth, or arranging Japanese funding for
projects in Ashanti," the paper said.
October 2004: Senior Mike Ahey, who was conspicuously axed from 15 inductees into the first-ever Sports Hall of Fame when it was announced in September 2004, has suddenly been
inducted into the Hall of fame. Senior Ahey, who is considered by the press as "the best male sprinter the nation has ever produced,"
expressed regret ever competing for the nation after the nominees for the Hall of Fame came out on September 29.
That is probably what prompted the Committee to reconsider the forgotten legend.
A gold medallist at the 1962 Australia Commonwealth Games, he also won silver in the 4 x 100 relay race at the same event, and also competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, 1968 Mexico Olympic Games and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Ahey, Stanley Allotey and Joshua Owusu (all of Prempeh) were Ghana's top three athletes for several decades. The legend Ahey, whose 100m time of 10.49secs set in 1968 was once an all-time best, now ranks in the Top 20. His 10.2secs record set in Kumasi on 4/9/64 remained a national record for decades. It now ranks in the all-time Top 5. He was Africa's best in 100m while Prempeh's Allotey reigned as the best in 200m. The great Ahey's long jump record of jump of 8.17, which was set in Kampala on 6/10/62 was only broken 42 years later in 2004, and remains the longest held record in the history of Ghana's athletics. Even his worst jump of 7.97 (set on 5/5/74) ranks 4th on Ghana's all-time list.
Mr Justice Richard Twum Aninakwah was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice by President Kufuor in October. He was one of three justices
sworn in for the job at the nation's highest court that day.
On October 29th, Barima Danso Kokroko, Okyeman Akyempemhene, a product of Pearson House died at 62, after a short illness.
A statement in Accra from the Office of the Okyenhene said the Akyempimhene died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The late Akyempemhene was known in private life, as Mr. Kwame Danso Misa and he was the eldest son
of the Very Reverend K. Sintim Misa, Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. He
worked with the Bank of Ghana and Social Security Bank. He was also the proprietor of Hotel
Harambee and Managing Director of EB and Co, a pharmaceutical company. He was the writer of a powerful tribute to the late
Akyem King Kuntunkununku, who was also a resident of Pearson house.
His Excellency John Agyekum Kufour, the President of Ghana
commissioned the KNUST Ghana University Staff Superannuation Scheme (GUSS) Hostel
and also cut the sod for the commencement of the Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) Hostel Complex
for Postgraduate Students at a historic ceremony at the KNUST campus.
September 2004: Weekend Sports just reported that Yussif Chibsah is quiting Asante Kotoko to
further his education in the USA.
The national under-23 team captain who led the nation in the Olympics soccer tournament, and who was recently picked for the
senior national team, the Black Stars, is waiting for his admission for January 2005, the paper reported.
The GBC Board of Directors, which was chaired by
Professor Stephen Adei was dissolved. The former
Board chair said the NMC acted
primitively by dissolving the GBC board and
replacing it with a three-member interim board
headed by a former Director-General of GBC.
“It is a primitive action. It is ancient Ashanti
primitive action taken by the NMC. You cannot
appoint a board and expect us to allow you to
interfere. It is against corporate governance”, Adei said.
He remains the President of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG), as well as Rector
and Director-General of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
Class of 1955, Senior Richard Twum Aninakwah, who was nominated for the Supreme Court in July 2004, appeared before the
Parliamentary Appointments Committee. He called for the extension of the retirement age of 70, for members of the Bench
to enable experienced judges to share their knowledge with upcoming lawyers. "Some retire when they are full of energy
and can help increase the knowledge of law in the country."
Samuel Adade also called Maurice Green, is to lead the junior athletics team to Australia next month.
Adade, the West African juvenile 100m and 200m champion, broke the African Junior Athletics Games record in Togo.
He was a reserve in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and
participated in the Ghanaian contingent's march during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Senior K. Sintim-Misa (KSM) was listed on the national coordination campaign team of
NDC flagbearer, Prof. John Evans Mills. THE NDC put him on the 58-member national coordination campaign
without his consent.
“I was approached by the NDC to be part but I declined on grounds that being a social commentator, I do not want my political affiliation known.
In my case I am neutral to all the political parties."
The Lens wrote this about him: "Kweku Sintim Misah has revealed that apart from the NDC, two other political parties have tried to get him to be part of their campaign teams, but he turned them down.
The Lens can reveal that KSM, as he is affectionately called, was a very key part of the NPP's communications team during the 1996 elections.
KSM, one of the most consistent critics of government, be it the NDC or the NPP government, has refused to jump on the NPP gravy train and has maintained his independence of thought, which has endeared him to people of all shades of political opinion in the country, therefore giving him an unassailable credibility that makes his criticism of government policies very telling on government.
Various forms of pressures have been brought to bear on him, including the withdrawal of his licence to operate an FM
station, just to get him to 'play ball', but he has consistently stood his ground."
August 2004:
The Chibsah-led national team failed to progress past the preliminary round as they tied
for 2nd place in their group with Italy but fell short on goal difference. They could have
qualified outright by drawing with Japan in the last game, but they lost 0:1.
Samuel Adade of the Class of 2002 participated in the Ghanaian contingent's march
during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Adade is the West African juvenile 100m and 200m champion. Even though
he is very young, he made the squad because of his exceptional talent.
It is highly probable that this prodigy
will reach his peak in 2008 Olympics, where he certainly will win some medals for Prempeh.
When incumbent MP Dr. William Boakye Akoto lost the parliamentary election primaries, he
damned the Party General Secretary and accused the NPP of practising “moneycracy” and threatened to contest as an independent candidate. (Insight, Wednesday 11th Thursday 12th August, 2004, Front Page)
Senior Chibsah retained his captaincy of the national under-23 football team in the Olympics.
Though Chibsah has always been the captain of the team, the inclusion of the senior national team Black Stars' captain
Stephen Appiah in the squad left everyone wondering if Chibsah was going to get the opportunity to lead the team.
This issue was widely debated in Ghana during the first week of the Olympics. However, the coach retained the Prempeh boy as the captain.
Chibsah led the Black Meteors to a 2-2 draw with Italy in the opening game and a 2-1 victory over Paraguay on Sunday, August 15th. Their next game is against Japan on August 18.
While Chibsah is leading the national team in Athens, his junior brother
of the same, who just completed his SSSCE exams, is about to lead the Prempeh football squad to challenge for the VALCO
National football championships in Sunyani. The younger Chibsah, who is captain of Prempeh's team, led us
to the Ashanti Milo Soccer glory. However, when it came to the
National Milo Championship, we lost to the Central Regional champions Potsi on penalty kicks.
The VALCO national tourney gives us another opportunity not only to avenge that sole loss on our record this year, but also to
win another national title.
The famous Canadian dentist, Dr. La Kumi, who was formerly Ghana's Consul-General to Canada, was the
Special Keynote Speaker of the 2004 Ghana Festival in Chicago, Illinois. In this picture, Dr. La Kumi (right) is seen
shaking hands with the various chiefs of the Ghanaian ethinc groups of Chicago.
Our other man at the Olympics is not a participant: he is Senior Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of
Education, Youth and Sports.
July 2004:
Coach Mariano Barreto named the players for the 2004 Olympic Games in football and, as expected, Premeph's
Yussif Alhassan Chibsah of Kumasi Asante Kotoko fame, who is captain of the national Under-23 side, was named as part of the team.
However, Senior Edmund Owusu Ansah of Asante Kotoko, who helped the Black Meteors qualify for the Olympics, was left behind because of
the inclusion of 3 senior players (over age 23). One of the 3 over-23 players was the Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah, who plays
the same position as Edmund. Ghana’s Olympic squad, the Black Meteors has been drawn in Group B together with Paraguay, Japan and Italy for the soccer category of the Athens Olympic games.
The Black Meteors is one of Africa’s four representatives including Morocco, Tunisia and Mali that secured qualification.
Samuel Adade has been selected as part of the Ghana Olympic contingent to Athens.
he is the West African 100m and 200m junoir champion. As you may recall, in the All-Africa Juvenile Athletics Competition held in Nigeria in May, 2004,
Senior Adade of the Class of 2002, popularly known as Maurice Green, won the 100m and 200m races as well as the 400m race. During the 4x100 race, Samuel Adade led the Ghanaians
to take the gold and thus set a new record at the olympics in Nigeria.
Thus Prempeh's remarkable list of Olympians increases
by 2. Over the last 2 decades, Prempeh has sent at least 1 athlete to each Olympic
Games (Henry Hagan and Nti-Berkoh in '92; Sierra Leone's Pierre Lisk in '96 & 2000; Augustus & Ebenezer Lawson and Kojo Duodu in the 1980s), but this is the first time we have produced sportsmen in the realm of soccer.
Ashanti's contributions to national athletics teams has been predominantly Prempeh, though AMASS has done extremely well over the years. Their star Emmanuel "Koora" Tuffour was a key member of Ghana's national teams for over a decade. Kumasi High and Tech Sec have also done
well, with High School producing the famous Nelson Boateng ("Billy Murphy"). But Prempeh's record in athletics is truly outstanding:
Prempeh's Stanley Allotey remains the only Ghanaian inducted into the Commonwealth Games Hall of Fame. At the turn of the millenium, Allotey
was cited by Ghana Review magazine as "Ghana's greatest athlete of all time."
Indeed Mother Prempeh is keeping not only
the Ashanti flag flying high, but also the Ghanaian flag as well.
In July, thieves raided the palace of Kumawuhene Barimah Asumadu Sakyi II, who is the former Senior Kwadwo Kore of Pearson House.
Gold ornaments and stool regalia worth several millions of cedis belonging to the Kumawu Traditional Area were stolen when thieves broke into the Omanhene's Palace.
Among the missing items were a calabash full of gold ornaments and a brass pot decorated with the hand of a mother and her twins, referred to as "abamo".
All these were hapening at a time when the Life Patron of the Royal School was visiting the World Bank President. In this photo, we see the President of the World Bank
James Wolfensohn welcoming His Majesty Nana Osei Tutu II to his office.
In the President's Republic Day Cup played on republic day, July 1st, in which Senior Kufuor presented the trophy to the winning team, Senior Chibsah
was again the goal-scorer for Kotoko, in a game whose ceremonial kick-off was performed by Senior Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, Minister of
Education, Youth and Sports. Kotoko beat Liberty 1-0.
June 2004:
His Excellency President JA Kufuor attended the G8 Summit in USA with other world leaders. The President is shown in the photo with
U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L-R).
Senior Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, Chief of Staff, Office of the President, lost his father and President Kufuor
was one of the chief mourners.
President John Agyekum Kufuor was among mourners at the
burial service of Opanin Samuel Okyere Akosah, father
of Mr Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, Chief of Staff at Jamasi-Ashanti in June.
He was accompanied by Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Richard Winfred Anane, Minister of Roads and Transport, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, Minister of Ports, Harbours and Railways and Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, Ashanti Regional Minister. They filed past the casket at the Prince of Peace Presbyterian Church at Jamasi-Ashanti.
An Israeli newspaper called Maariv reported that Yussif Alhassan Chibsah of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, will arrive in Israel to the start trials with Israeli side Maccabi Petach Tikve.
According to the paper, the coach of team, Guy Luzun, was impressed from the videoclips of the Ghana Under-23 captain.
May 2004:
Though Kotoko failed today (May 30th) to reach the next stage of the African Champions League, the
crucial goal that sent them into extra-time and penalty shoot-out was scored by Prempeh's
own Chibsah. The Champion club had lost 0-2 in Algeria and needed to win by 3-0 in the
second leg to qualify. Chibsah scored the second goal that gave them the 2-0 win in Kumasi
earlier today. But they failed to win the penalty shootout. Our other great player is
Edmund Owusu Ansah. Both stars will be representing Ghana in the Olympic Games as members of the National Under-23 team.
The Minister of Education, Senior Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu (in cap in the photo) visited UST campus in Kumasi and
familiarised himself with various development projects on campus. Among the projects he inspected were:
the 1300-seater lecture theatre for the School of Engineering (SOE);
the site for the construction of the new buildings for College of Art;
the new College of Science Building Complex near Physics Department to house Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics;
an ultra modern 2500-seater Central Classroom Theatre and many others. Accompanying the Minister and the Vice-Chamcellor
on the tour of the campus facilities was another Amanfoo, Mr. Maxwell Jumah, Mayor of Kumasi.
Some OWASS oldboys have sent death threats via email to one of our website's most prolific columnists, Senior Ebenezer Owusu Wireko, better known as
Agyewodin Nana Kwadwo Owusu II. Senior Wireko, who is the author
of the Factor's Inn column, was
the commentator of our global live broadcast of the prestigious Quiz competition in April.
The Owareans obviously weren't happy that their alma mater lost to Prempeh; they sent email messages threatening to kill him or "eliminate him from this world."
It was not just a single email. Several emails by different people were sent, threatening that
"we will make sure you don't live to continue doing what you do."
Eben Wireko is seen on GTV's "Sun City" on Mondays at 9pm.
One of the leading representatives of the Opoku Ware people recently wrote on our Messageboard
that "we should rather channel our energies to unite and encourage young students in Ghana (whether
they are from Prempeh, Atwimaman or Dompoase). Healthy competition is good but unhealthy competition
is self-destructive." These words by the Owarean webmaster, however sagacious, is a clamor without logic given that
they (the Owareans) evince the readiest propensity to provoke Prempeh people and heap insults on us.
How could the threatening of a fellow man with death qualify as "healthy competition?"
Any anti-OWASS sentiment expressed on our website is not a provocation; it is rather a response to repeated Owarean provocations. In fact, most of such statements, were a direct response to anti-Prempeh remarks and derogatory
statements made by OWAREANS about our academic performance
on Ghanaweb.com when last year's SSCE results rankings were published by the Daily Graphic.
Interrupting Amanfoo meetings
and invading our campus without
necessary cause may be seen as "healthy competition." But casting aspersions on our academic heritage at
a time when we are down, could only elicit negative responses from the Prempeh camp.
Indeed we have tried very hard to ignore their numerous provocations, such as their statement that "corrupt Kufuor used our tax money to purchase a bus for his collapsed school."
It is very exciting to read the encouraging words of the Owarean representative that we must unite and encourage all students in Ghana irrespective of their school affiliation. But how much
more insults, provocations and jealousy-driven distractions must Prempeh endure before this Xanadu arrives?
Despite the threat on his life, Agyewodin has been enjoying an outstanding success as a star of GTV's Monday night show Sun City, which airs on Mondays at 9pm.
April 2004: Senior Stephen Adei, who is the President of the Chartered Institute of
Marketing, Ghana (CIMG), congratulated the new members of the institute
at the 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of
the CIMG in Accra on April 28. Prof Stephen Adei, who is also the
Director-General of the Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration (GIMPA), asked members of the institute to take
a stand on national issues, particularly those affecting business development.
He said that independent opinion on issues affecting the nation was lacking among members of the institute, pointing out that if contributions are made to positively impact on the economy, businesses would grow and companies could create wealth.
This is the new 475,000,000 cedi bus President Kufuor donated to the school through the GETFund. The bus was presented by the Chief of Staff, Mr.Kwadwo Mpianim (an Amanfoo) to the headmaster. Thus
President Kufuor has fulfilled his
promise to the School.
His Excellency President JA Kufuor met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street, London on April 24 - 26, 2004
.
The President also addressed a Breakfast meeting attended by Executives of Leading British Companies.
The live commentary of the recent National Maths & Science Quiz competition we provided for our global
audience seems to be the talk of the town everywhere. People all over the country are wondering how
we achieved this stunning feat. A shocking number of people from all over the world - almost all continents -
tuned in over the two day period to witness Prempeh's defeat of OWASS in what we called "The Battle of the Titans,"
though in reality, there was only one titan in the battle, as well as the semi-final quiz with Achimota, which
the Quizwoman so cruelly robbed us in favour of her alma mater.
The thousands of people who tuned in far outnumbered the ones that appeared here in October 1999 when we hosted
the then Presidential-Candidate Senior JA Kufuor at this site.
Initially we thought our duty was to report Prempeh's results alone. But when we realized that a large number of people
affiliated with so many schools were checking their alma maters' results from our site (based on information derived from prempeh.org's
search engine statistics), we decided then to rejigger. Senior Asafo Adjei contributed immensely to the score reporting. So was the pioneer comentator Eben and Senior Prefect,
Miah A.S. who was offered the opportunity to broadcast the second commentary telecast (i.e., Prempeh vs. Achimota) but felt too shy to accept.
One thing we could not accomplish was take photos of the Quiz competition as they did not allow us to
enter the Hall with cameras. However, we spent a lot of time with the boys and took many pictures of them, which we will present at a future date.
Our soon-to-be legends received global acclaim because of the broadcast of the program at
this website. Thousands of people from all continents tuned in to follow the program right
here online as well as many from UST, Cape Coast and cafes all over the nation. The program
we planned for the site many months before the College even selected its contestants, turned
out to be a remarkable success. Not only did Prempeh boys and their masters (who were on vacation) followed the commentary but also
many people from rival schools sent in their compliments. One lady who operates a cafe in Kumasi even queried about
"what was at our site that incites children in the neighborhod to frequent her cafe and argue about Prempeh and cause commotion
all the time? What is about Prempeh College
that makes everyone loves it?" After visiting our website herself, the lady, who's married to an Amanfoo has now understood.
March 2004:
The National Under-23 soccer Team, the Black Meteors, captained by Prempeh's own Yussif
Chibsah, qualified for the 2004 Athen Olympics by defeating Zambia 2:0
in the qualifying series in a bid to pick a ticket for the
Olympic Games. Besides Chibsah, another Prempeh boy on the national team is Edmund Owusu Ansah, both of Asante Kotoko FC.
Chibsah is on the extreme left and Owuo on the extreme right with
Charles Taylor and Michael Osei (Ember) in the middle. Our boys are currently starring in the African Champions League after helping Kotoko win the
Premier League for the first time in about a decade.
If the Black Stars (senior national team) qualify for the 2006 World Cup, these 2 Amanfoo will most certainly play in the World Cup.
We wish them success in their wonderful careers; wherever they go, they'll be making Prempeh proud.
It may be recalled that these 2 outstanding Amanfoo led the national team to win a bronze medal
at the All Africa Games
in Abuja, Nigeria, where ironically they won at the expense of the
Zambians.
This midfield duo are going to star again at the Olympic Games, increasing
the number of Prempeh Olympians by 2. Over the last 2 decades, Prempeh has sent at least 1 athlete to each Olympic
Games (Henry Hagan and Nti-Berkoh in '92; Sierra Leone's Pierre Lisk in '96 & 2000; Augustus & Ebenezer Lawson and Kojo Duodu in the 1980s), but this is the first time we have produced sportsmen in the realm of soccer. And more importantly, Prempeh is
the first and only school to send two soccer players to the Olympics. Indeed Mother Prempeh is keeping not only
the Ashanti flag flying high, but also the Ghanaian flag as well.
Three Amanfoo competed in this year's "Mr. Legon" contest at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel
on Friday, March 19, 2004. These 3 handsome Amanfoo at the University of Ghana are Seniors
Agyemang Duah, Osei Akoto and Sitsophe.
Amanfoo were trying to win the title from the PRESECANS (Odadees) who have
dominated the event the last few years. However, only Agyemang Duah placed high enough - third!
Congratulations to the second runner-up.
When the Milo soccer victory and the Kotoko players' donation to their alma mater made the March 10 edition of
Graphic Sports, people were surprised by how rapid our site's updates are. They wonder how we reported it faster than the
Daily Graphic. Is our website faster than the Ghana News Agency?
It may be recalled that the inseparable Kotoko and Black Meteors midfielders, Yusif Chibsah (World No.6),
Edmund Owusu Ansah (OWUO)
who are Amanfoo and played in the school team during their stay on the premises of
Prempeh College donated an amount of 600,000 cedis last week to the footballers in
order to boost their morale after clenching the famous MILO
trophy.
When we announced here that Amanfoo-Legon were taking on their Akatakyie counterparts
in a soccer match to commemorate our national Independence on March 6, 2004, we expected the Owareans
to show up in their numbers. However, only six OWASS alumni showed up on the field, which meant that there were either
not many OWASS boys pursuing tertiary education or they were cowards. Could the former actually be the case?
Miss Otoo of the English Department sent a message of thanks to the Amanfoo in Legon for their important services and support
rendered to the debate team when they came to the capital city for the National Finals on March 3rd. Much of the credit goes
to Senior Eben Wireko who organized his fellow Amanfoo for the trip to the Debating Hall.
Speaking of Eben, he has made some really outstanding contributions to
this website. Besides his column, Factors Inn, which calls
Amanfoo to order, he has also posted fliers all over the campuses of the universities asking Amanfoo to tune in to the site, which is why the site's
popularity is at an all-time high. Nearly everyone you see in an internet cafe in Ghana, is browsing the Global Prempeh College Homepage. Here is a sample of the
posters seen on walls of some cafe's and campus bulletin boards.
February 2004:
In February, Dr. Francis Achampong was featured in
Maryland/Washington DC's The Herald Mail newspaper as part of a series of profiles
featuring "prominent blacks who are making a difference in the communities."
The renowned expert in worlkplace sexual harassment law is now the Director of Academic Affairs
of the Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto - a job that keeps him second in command to the University's CEO. The articles were featured in the paper
in commemoration of Black History Month.
We have already told you about how OWASS boys disrupted a meeting of the ROYAL PAIR on February 13, 2004.
Ever since we won the prestigious Milo Soccer tournament for the first time over a week ago, the Santasi boys have jealously been
insulting us for being too sports-minded, in lieu of focusing on academics.
After being promoted to Assistant
Headmaster at Konongo Odumasi Secondary School (KOSS), our legendary
Physics and Maths teacher, "Wofa K"
has been appointed Full headmaster
after just 2 months of outstanding
work in office, which is a feather
in the cap of Mother Prempeh.
Within the past 20 years, nearly
every school in Ashanti has received
one of our masters as a Headmaster.
Prempeh trained-minds are running all
the schools in the Region. Wofa K taught Mathematics and Physics at Prempeh from
the 1980s until December 2003 when he was transferred
to be Assistant Headmaster at KOSS. Congratulations to him.
Professor Stephen Adei, Rector and Director-General of
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA),
led a
group of Election monitoring team from GIMPA made up of lecturers,
graduate students and staff to monitor the election nationwide.
To support democratic governance in Ghana,
Professor Adei sent representatives as observers to all the
10 regions of the country to observe the elections.
Senior William Ofori Boafo, who was formerly Secretary
and Vice President of the Ghana Bar Association won the parliamentary election and became
They said President Kufuor's victory attested to an acknowledgement of the good work he was doing, "especially in such areas as private sector empowerment, infrastructure development, education and general economic reforms.
His Excellency John Agyekum Kufour, the President of Ghana
commissioned the KNUST Ghana University Staff Superannuation Scheme (GUSS) Hostel
and also cut the sod for the commencement of the Presidential Special Initiative (PSI) Hostel Complex
for Postgraduate Students at a historic ceremony at the KNUST campus.
Class of 1955, Senior Richard Twum Aninakwah, who was 
Senior K. Sintim-Misa (KSM) was listed on the national coordination campaign team of
NDC flagbearer, Prof. John Evans Mills. THE NDC put him on the 58-member national coordination campaign
without his consent.
“I was approached by the NDC to be part but I declined on grounds that being a social commentator, I do not want my political affiliation known.
In my case I am neutral to all the political parties."
The Lens wrote this about him: "Kweku Sintim Misah has revealed that apart from the NDC, two other political parties have tried to get him to be part of their campaign teams, but he turned them down.
The Lens can reveal that KSM, as he is affectionately called, was a very key part of the NPP's communications team during the 1996 elections.
KSM, one of the most consistent critics of government, be it the NDC or the NPP government, has refused to jump on the NPP gravy train and has maintained his independence of thought, which has endeared him to people of all shades of political opinion in the country, therefore giving him an unassailable credibility that makes his criticism of government policies very telling on government.
Various forms of pressures have been brought to bear on him, including the withdrawal of his licence to operate an FM
station, just to get him to 'play ball', but he has consistently stood his ground."
The Chibsah-led national team failed to progress past the preliminary round as they tied
for 2nd place in their group with Italy but fell short on goal difference. They could have
qualified outright by drawing with Japan in the last game, but they lost 0:1. 
When incumbent MP Dr. William Boakye Akoto lost the parliamentary election primaries, he
damned the Party General Secretary and accused the NPP of practising “moneycracy” and threatened to contest as an independent candidate. (Insight, Wednesday 11th Thursday 12th August, 2004, Front Page)
to the Ashanti Milo Soccer glory. However, when it came to the
National Milo Championship, we lost to the Central Regional champions Potsi on penalty kicks.
The VALCO national tourney gives us another opportunity not only to avenge that sole loss on our record this year, but also to
win another national title.
However, Senior Edmund Owusu Ansah of Asante Kotoko, who helped the Black Meteors qualify for the Olympics, was left behind because of
the inclusion of 3 senior players (over age 23). One of the 3 over-23 players was the Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah, who plays
the same position as Edmund. Ghana’s Olympic squad, the Black Meteors has been drawn in Group B together with Paraguay, Japan and Italy for the soccer category of the Athens Olympic games.
The Black Meteors is one of Africa’s four representatives including Morocco, Tunisia and Mali that secured qualification.
His Excellency President JA Kufuor attended the G8 Summit in USA with other world leaders. The President is shown in the photo with
U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (L-R).
The Minister of Education, Senior Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu (in cap in the photo) visited UST campus in Kumasi and
familiarised himself with various development projects on campus. Among the projects he inspected were:
the 1300-seater lecture theatre for the School of Engineering (SOE);
the site for the construction of the new buildings for College of Art;
the new College of Science Building Complex near Physics Department to house Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics;
an ultra modern 2500-seater Central Classroom Theatre and many others. Accompanying the Minister and the Vice-Chamcellor
on the tour of the campus facilities was another Amanfoo, Mr. Maxwell Jumah, Mayor of Kumasi.
Senior Stephen Adei, who is the President of the Chartered Institute of
Marketing, Ghana (CIMG), congratulated the new members of the institute
at the 15th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of
the CIMG in Accra on April 28. Prof Stephen Adei, who is also the
Director-General of the Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration (GIMPA), asked members of the institute to take
a stand on national issues, particularly those affecting business development.
He said that independent opinion on issues affecting the nation was lacking among members of the institute, pointing out that if contributions are made to positively impact on the economy, businesses would grow and companies could create wealth.
When we announced here that Amanfoo-Legon were taking on their Akatakyie counterparts
in a soccer match to commemorate our national Independence on March 6, 2004, we expected the Owareans
to show up in their numbers. However, only six OWASS alumni showed up on the field, which meant that there were either
not many OWASS boys pursuing tertiary education or they were cowards. Could the former actually be the case?
