17 student cadets awarded at 2025 Cadet Media Personality Awards

Seventeen student cadets from various schools received awards while several other dignitaries were honoured for promoting fire safety education at this year’s Cadet Media Personality Awards held last Thursday at the Fire Academy and Training School in Accra.

The event coincided with the launch of the 2025 ‘Fire Safety Tales.’

The awardees received various prizes including tablets, smartphones, smart watches, laptops, game consoles, and trophies, among others. Student cadets from the Covenant Presbyterian School in Dzorwulu received most of the prizes.

The purpose of the ‘Fire Safety Tales’, a television programme to be broadcast on Fire Television, the television station of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), was to promote fire safety education through creative content.

Speaking at the launch of the programme and awards ceremony, the Director of Culture and Creative Arts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Divine Owusu-Ansah, commended Cadet Media Ghana for creating a platform for young people to obtain practical skills in media literacy and reporting, while building a strong partnership with the GNFS and other security agencies.

He pledged the support of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts to Cadet Media Ghana and the GNFS towards the launch of similar partnership programmes.

The Chief Fire Officer of the GNFS, CFO Daniella Mawusi Ntow-Sarpong, in her remarks, said that it was working with Usher University in the United Kingdom and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to create a fire safety curriculum for all basic schools in the country to educate the youth on fire safety.

CFO Ntow-Sarpong noted that the GNFS had visited many schools, worship centres, markets, and communities to educate members on fire safety, noting that fire safety was a shared responsibility and therefore encouraged the public to build a strong relationship with the GNFS.

The Director of Cadet Media Ghana, the official media organisation for the National Cadet Corps Ghana, Mr. Jacob Nyarko, urged relevant stakeholders, including school heads and the GES, to prioritise media education.

Cadet Akosua Baah Asare of the Covenant Presbyterian School, Dzorwulu, now at Holy Child Senior High School, Cape Coast, was adjudged the overall best cadet personality and took home a laptop, a trophy, and bouquet as her prize.

By Benjamin Arcton-Tettey

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