The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, has been adjudged CEO of the Year – Telecom at the 2nd edition of the Ghana CEO Vision and Awards held in Accra. The CEO of MobileMoney Limited (MML), Shaibu Haruna was also adjudged CEO of the Year – FinTech Service Provider.
Selorm Adadevoh’s award is in recognition of his achievements in the areas of sustainability, leadership excellence, innovation and others in the telecoms space which has contributed to job creation to support the growth of Ghana’s economy.
Management and General Services Selorm, Patrick Afari, General Manager, Supply Chain Management and General Services, expressed appreciation to the organizers for the award. He noted that the award will go a long way to inspire MTN to do more for Ghanaians and the country.
“We are poised to become a technology company where we commit to creating an enabling platform for players to leverage on”, he said.
Shaibu Haruna was honoured for spearheading innovative products and services which keep MTN ahead of the game in the Fintech space and, above all, making lives easy for Ghanaians.
This is the second time MML has been recognized at the Ghana CEO Vision and Awards.
The immediate past CEO of MML, Eli Hini, was awarded CEO of the Year – Fintech Service Provider at the maiden edition in 2022. Paapa Osei, Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs, MML received the award on behalf of Shaibu Haruna.
This year’s edition of the Ghana CEO Vision & Awards was on the theme; “The Role of Business Leadership Towards Achieving the SDGS in Ghana.”
The award seeks to identify, honour, and celebrate a cross-section of the nation’s most influential and accomplished CEOs, who have stayed relevant and used the power of ideas to impact lives and the country in general.
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MTN Ghana,has been recognized for distinguished HR and Employee excellence at the 6th edition of the HR Focus Awards held in Accra.
Having been inducted into the HR Focus Hall of Fame in 2019, MTN continues to demonstrate excellence in the practice of HR. This year, MTN was adjudged the Best Large Organization in the following categories:
Employee Relations Practice
Rewards Management Practice
Performance Management
Employer Branding
In the Special Awards Category, MTN received the HR Team of the Year Award for employing new ways of working, innovation, and a unique approach to all aspects of HR Management.
MTN also retained its status in the HR Hall of Fame for the second consecutive occasion, meaning the company won six awards overall at the 2023 HR Focus Awards.
Commenting on the awards, the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Mr. Selorm Adadevoh said, “I am super proud of Amma Benneh-Amponsah, the Chief Human Resources Officer, and her team for always making us proud.
The HR Team has been consistent in always employing best practices to ensure employees are well motivated and equipped to always give off their best to the success of the organization.”
“The hard work and dedication of our employees are as a result of the best polices and initiatives Amma and her team have put in place to make MTN the employer of choice and the best place to work,” he added.
Speaking at the awards ceremony, Abdallah Ibrahim, Lead Specialist, HR Planning & Analytics commended HR Focus for putting together the event to reward excellence and using the event to give the HR profession the needed attention.
He said, “MTN will continue to focus on its people to ensure we put them first in all we do. Our people are our pillar and all the awards that we have won show that MTN is charting the right path in working with its people. The HR function will continue to play its role as a strategic business partner.”
He dedicated the awards to all MTN Staff for their relentless support to the business.
The HR Focus Awards is a biennial event organized by HR Focus Africa. This year’s conference and awards event was held under the themed “The HR Mandate; Building Resilient People and Businesses”. MTN has received a total of 30 awards since its participation in the awards event in 2013.
REMEMBERING THE TEACHERS WHO MADE IMPACT ON MY LIFE ..
I can’t recall which year it was or what age I was, but the flashbacks and echoes of my mother’s voice, teaching me my first alphabets and forming sentences resurface once in a while throughout my life.
The S.O. you made me pronounce so, the G.O. you made me pronounced go, among other words will always be appreciated Mum.
From our family house house at Asafo behind the Dadiesoaba hene’s palace, I treked to school with colleague students like Evans, Emmanuel Mensah and Gloria Ankara to God First international school at Asafo Abrotia near former Baso club in my early childhood.
Then I started Class 2 at T.I. Ahmadiyya primary school.
There was Mr Lukeman who is perhaps should have been awarded the canning teacher of the Century..
There was Madam Janet Serwaa of blessed memory who was the headmistress, and Madam Cecilia Johnson who I think was the best circuit supervisor ever.
The mere mention of her name and the sight of her made the teachers well mannered in a PNDC led government School.
I was a member of Scout, which taught me a lot of things, especially Comradeship and Patriotism.
My beautiful life Skills madam Joyce left me with some indelible knowledge which are still applicable today.
My Technical Skills teacher Mr Prosper Makafui’s early and late mental class can never be forgotten since it ended in tears for those who got his questions right and tears for those who got it wrong..
I knew more about colors, beauty through the eyes of art from my vocational skills class,
Even though our teacher Mr Dennis didn’t make it easier.
Mr Owusu Yaw my Agric teacher opened my eyes to the different breeds of goats, sheeps, dogs,trees that existed and I never knew even though I spent my holidays in my hometown.
From classroom to classroom through promotion exams I encountered different teachers who all instilled some sort of discipline and installed some knowledge in me.
There was one things that played out which always got me cained, I was always going to school late.
But was I to be blame?
I Had to sell some ice water, toffees, corn-doe, Bloom, okro, Kerosene, chewing gums (P. K) among other things I could lay my hands on before and after school.
In my high school days at Kumasi Anglican Secondary School, I was nicknamed by Mr Karikari the English tutor of blessed memory as a “professional late comer”
Late comer I was, but what kept me late was known to me and few other people, and that was Hustling through the streets of Asafo Market, Adum and Kejetia Hawking.
I loved my Literature in English class, because it was mostly after the second break when I had finally settled down in school after hawking at dawn and arriving at school late and tired, plus Mr Owusu Agyemang nicknamed Bongo by the students read and dramatize each of the books we learned.
From the collection of countless African Poems, to Romeo and Juliet, Money Galore, things Fall apart among other books, the class was exciting throughout.
The Government Tutor simply nicknamed MC took his time to teach, but I always doze out of tiredness throughout the class.
Did I get a word of what my Economics tutor who was also nick named Cee Banner taught?. Or I now know about Economics through the practicality my mother and hawking in the street taught me?
Can any student of Kumasi Anglican Secondary school in the late 90s and early 200s forget Mr E.A Kyere nicknamed Kontokyi who was also like a father to we the students?
My main problem was Mathematics.
Unlike English and other courses which my mother taught me with love and gentleness, my father also never gave me a rest on writing essays too.
Mathematics and converting me from writing with my left hand to the right hand will be told in another story.
Today with my first Degree in Information Technology from the University of Winneba Kumasi Campus to my Masters in Cyber Security and Data Forensics, it is obvious that I faced the dreaded mathematics head on.
The Government of Ghana and henceforth should ensure teacher’s capacities are built or upgraded and their motivation increase.
Parents must endeavor to help their children in at least one of their courses or subject which they can help their children learn they in the form of homeworks since their contribution and efforts are well appreciated.
Happy Teacher’s Day to the Teacher who taught every Ghanaian child with passion.
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that under government’s new Comprehensive National Teacher Policy, the distribution of laptop computers, enhancing of skills set and institution of appropriate welfare incentives have translated evidently translated into improved effectiveness for our educators.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the Ministry of Education and the National Teaching Council’s implementation of these policies and programmes at both the pre-service and in-service level have ensured the sustained production and maintenance of the quality teachers needed in the education transformation agenda.
He noted that, as a mark towards improving teacher quality and skill set, the National Teaching Council (NTC) instituted the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination which has ensured that graduates recruited to teach have met the professional standards set by the Regulator and that they are fit for purpose in this very important area.
Additionally, the Ministry of Education, through the NTC, he stated, has institutionalised a point-based continuous professional development system that ensures that our teachers do not remain stale, but stay competitive and relevant in the ever-dynamic world of knowledge and skills.
Within the same period, the NPP government, he said, towards ensuring the success of teachers’ continuous professional development, introduced the Continuous Professional Development allowance to enable teachers afford Continuous Professional Development programmes.
Some scenes from the event
The President explained that “Introducing the GH¢1,200 Continuous Professional Development Allowance, paying an intervention allowance amounting to GH¢65 million for senior high school teachers for the 2022/2023 academic year, implementing categories two and three allowances for district and regional directors of education, and ensuring a thirty percent (30%) salary increase for all teachers in 2023,” will go a long way to motivate teachers to deliver more.
He also touched on the mass distribution of laptop computers to every teacher to improve the digital skills of teachers, adding that, “I have tasked the Minister for Education, personally, to ensure that those few teachers yet to receive their laptops join the overwhelming majority who have received theirs.”
President Akufo-Addo was addressing teachers and educationists at the 6th edition of the Ghana Teacher Prize, on Thursday, 5th October, 2023, held at the Ghana Secondary Technical School, in Takoradi.
These key interventions, he indicated is testament to the NPP government’s commitment to the ‘Teacher First’ policy which ensures that “our teachers, who are central to all education reforms, are fully tooled, skilled and supported to deliver quality learning outcomes to support our development aspirations.”
President Akufo-Addo also added that just as the “Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), have trained 75,000 teachers in Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age” at a time when the use and knowledge of technological products and tools is a pre-requisite to 21st century teaching and learning.
Continuing, he said, “with the implementation of the Standard Based Curriculum, we have introduced Professional Learning Community Programmes, as well as Continuous Professional Development Days, in our schools to enable teachers take advantage and sharpen their skills.”
President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that, with essential focus on the benefits of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication and digital literacy, all starts with a good teacher, the NTC, at the pre-service level, in collaboration with the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, introduced the National Teacher Education Curriculum Framework in 2018.
“This resulted in raising the minimum qualification to teach in Ghana to a bachelor’s degree. Five (5) years after the implementation of the curriculum, steps are being taken to review it to keep pace with global dynamics. Undoubtedly, improvement of quality in the teacher education institutions is a priority to Government, hence our focus on improving infrastructure and other learning resources in our colleges of education,” he disclosed.
The founder of the Movement for Change, Mr. Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has emphasized that his Great Transformational Plan (GTP) contains private-sector financing for infrastructural development.
According to Alan, Ghana’s underdevelopment is because successive governments have tried to find developmental projects through their budgets, meanwhile, they lack the required funds.
He said the 15 thematic areas of the GTP will push the transformational agenda for Ghana towards job creation and help address the unemployment situation, particularly of the youth.
The Independent Presidential aspirant told Kwesi Parker Wilson, host of Oyerepa TV Breakfast
Time on Wednesday that the economy must at all times be strong hence his position to pursue a vigorous industrialization policy with adequate funding.
The Great Transformational Plan, he said, will basically promote economic stability, Industrialization, agriculture, energy, Health, and Education to change Ghana.
Hon.Alan Kyeremanten
Mr. Kyerematen pointed to industrialization as the basis of his approach to job creation.
He expressed the hope that
Ghana is about to experience a major transformation following political independence.
He disclosed that he will draw his support from the rank and file of the NDC, NPP, CPP, professionals and
the general public as his Constituency to push the transformational agenda for Ghana and urged the youth to champion the proposed transformational agenda.
Madam Faith Aku Dzakpasu, a teacher at GRETA ‘D’ Shepherd Two Basic School in the Greater Accra region, has been adjudged the most outstanding teacher for the year 2023.
For her prize, she was presented with a prototype of a three-bedroom apartment to be built at a place of her choice in any part of the country, one million cedis worth of insurance from the State Insurance Company (SIC) and 1000 exercise books.
President Akufo-Akufo making presentation to the winner
The first runner-up award went to Madam Isabella Wussa-Tetteh of Sege D/A Primary in the Greater Accra region .She also went home a 4×4 Pick Up, one million cedis worth of insurance cover from SIC and 1000 exercise books as her prize.
Madam Faith Aku Dzakpasu
The second runner-up position on the other hand went to Fredous Idi-Amin of Ogbojo Presbyterian Basic School who also took home a brand new Saloon Car, one million cedis insurance cover from SIC and 1000 exercise books.
Other awards presented were the Best Junior High School Teacher, Best Primary School Teacher, Best Primary Teacher, Best Senior High, and Best Technical Teacher among others.
Aside from these, a new award was presented to Mr Simon Boateng, from the St Monica’s College of Education, Asante Mampong for being the Best Tutor from all the Colleges of education in the country and took home a 4×4 Pick Up.
Address
Speaking at the awards ceremony, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, praised teachers in the country for their dedication and commitment towards the development of the nation through education.
He explained that the huge investment being made in the education sector in the country would not yield any result without the teacher.
Nana Akufo-Addo stated that the role of teachers in the training of the right manpower for the nation cannot be underestimated and pledged to continue supporting the sector to ensure that effective teaching and learning take place in all schools across the country.
He mentioned the payment of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) allowance to teachers, the provision of laptops to teachers, upgrading of Diploma certificates to Degrees for Colleges of Education among others as some of the initiatives put in place to improve education development in the country.
Assurance.
The President assured all teachers who have not yet received their Laptops under the One Teacher One Laptop project, that everything possible would be done to ensure that they received theirs and called on the Education Minister to do everything possible to ensure that the outstanding ones were presented to the deserving teachers.
Nana Akufo-Addo lauded the NTC and all other institutions which contributed in diverse ways towards the awards for their commitment towards honouring the nation’s gallant teachers.
The President was happy the huge investment being made in the education sector has started yielding good results citing the good grades made by this year’s students who sat for the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) which recorded very high scores in all subjects.
Commendation:
Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister for Education was full of praise to the President for his commitment and interest in the development of education in the country.
He assured the President of his readiness to continue working very hard towards the attainment of the best education for the nation since education was the driving force behind the development of every country.
The Education Minister appealed to all stakeholders in the education space to continue working very hard towards the transformation of the country through education.
Dr Adutwum stated that “we are not just providing education for the nation’s youth but we are positioning the nation to become a giant in various facets with the training of people with critical thinking skills and knowledge that is required towards the development of the nation’s economy.
The Registrar of the NTC, Dr Christian Addai-Poku, praised the sponsors and other institutions which played various roles towards the honouring of the teachers as a way of motivating and appreciating them for their roles played.
He pledged to continue working very hard to ensure that the quality of teaching in schools was improved by putting in place the right initiatives to ensure that the quality of instruction in schools was maintained.
Dr Addai-Poku called for something to be done to help reduce the high teacher attrition situation in the country which posed a great danger to the nation’s development.
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The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has taken a subtle jab at the National Democratic Congress’ Green Book, while referring to the amount of work the sitting president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has out into the education sector.
The minister said that Ghana remains one of the leaders in the world when it comes to countries with a lot of qualified teachers, although he admitted that more still needs to be done for them.
Referring to the Green Book, a comprehensive document put together by the National Democratic Congress under John Dramani Mahama that showcased all the projects undertaken by their government, Dr. Adutwum said he has adopted evidenced-based approaches in highlighting what the president has done in education.
“We are one of the few countries in the world where you can get 100 teachers today, if you want them. So, our universities have done a good job, but we need to a better job in the deployment process and we are going to do just that.
Dr.Osei Yaw Adutwum responding to cheers
“You seem politicians, sometimes we don’t do ourselves a favour. We are our worst enemies. Worst enemies in the sense that if you look at the work Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has put into education, somebody can look at you, say with a straight face that he has done nothing. So, these days, I do evidence-based communication; no Green Book wahala – I show you what we have done,” he said.
Dr, Yaw Osei Adutwum made this known while speaking at the 2023 Ghana Teacher Prize being held at Takoradi in the Western Region.
The Ghana Teacher Prize is in its 6th year after it was rebranded in 2018 from the Best Teacher Source:otixpress.com
Your response to the tax payers and demonstrators is unprecedented. You want to determine how they voice their dissatisfaction about your abysmal performance?
You described them as hooligans for demonstrating against you? Please who are you? Are you a demi-god or some deified ancestor-incarnate?
It appears you have a very infinitesimal understanding of the system of government we have decided to operate and I strongly recommend that you take lessons in the tenets of democracy, that creates the kind of environment conducive for your work and for all us to thrive.
Otherwise, your attitude is going to be the cause of many demonstrations that would peak our political temperature and create unnecessary tension.
Isn’t it under your watch that the BoG has negative equity? If my understanding of negative equity is correct, it means the BoG has no money to operate, and if so, where are you getting money for the construction of your new Headquarters? Borrowing to soak us into more debt or printing more money?
The BoG is currently insolvent under your watch and it doesn’t lie in your mouth to offer your own definition of what insolvency is.
Prof. Ransford Gyampo
Dr Ernest Addison, Governor BOG
It is an insult to our intelligence to get us into this quagmire, and still marshal the audacity to tell us that the BoG is technically not insolvent because, it is a state entity. If there’s no money, there’s no money.
You spent about 137 million on vehicle maintenance; collapsed over 400 banks and micro-finance companies; printed over 700 trillion within 2 years; and depleted our foreign reserves.
Yet you still want to determine how the tax payer reacts to your decision to choose excessive partisanship over competence? Your attitude and response epitomizes what my father referred to as IMPUNITY PERSONIFIED.
The President of the land has received several calls for his resignation and your boss, Ken Ofori Atta is still being asked to resign or be sacked. None of these have responded arrogantly like the way you have.
Please Governor, printing money does not make you owner of human life and human rights and respectfully, sir, you portray a certain high level poverty, if all you have, is the money you have printed, which makes you arrogant in insulting tax payers who are unhappy with your abysmal performance.
This isn’t how Governors G.K Agamah, K. Dufuor, P. Acquah, and N. Ishahakku handled the BoG. These chaps were simply sober and competent.
Whether you resign or not, you would by all means, account one day, for your stewardship either in heaven or in hell or in prison or in your home. One thing is certain to me and must be clear in the minds of all, if we survive 2024, the conduct of governance, politics and the management of our economy wouldn’t be business as usual.
Things would change to the glory of God, for the betterment of lives of Ghanaians, and to the shame of wicked and incompetent leadership.
Thank you
Yaw Gyampo
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