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AHISCO celebrates 100 years
The headmistress with other staff dreesed in the new robes after a presentation by the 1993 year old students
Accra High School (AHISCO) has celebrated its 100th Founders’ Day at the school’s premises at North Ridge in Accra.
The anniversary brought together members of the school board, management, old students (Onukpai) and current students.
The event was interspersed with poetry recitals, songs from the school choir, drumming and dancing from the students.
Speaking at the ceremony, Rev. Fr Dr Lt Col Francis Lokko said AHISCO, like some second-cycle institutions was facing overcrowding due to the increasing number of students.
He said the situation was as a result of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) programme, adding that despite the improvements in the facilities by government, pressure remains on most of the school’s facilities.
He therefore urged the students to take good care of the facilities provided including the science and technology laboratory to make their stay in the school comfortable and conducive for learning.
“My dear students, you are the direct recipient of the founding fathers’ vision. Please take advantage of the opportunity to attain greatness. Greatness is achieved through hard work and now is the time to work, time is a golden treasure, use it to the fullest,” Rev. Fr Dr Lt Col Lokko said.
He also urged the students to embrace discipline as a lifestyle, explaining that it was a prerequisite for success.
Touching on unemployment, Rev. Fr Dr Lt Col Lokko said it was important that graduates were engaging in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET), adding that students could consider learning some skills under TVET in addition to what they were studying in school in order to make them self-sufficient.
He commended the teaching and non-teaching staff for their good work while urging them to provide the needed counselling to the students for them to realise their dreams.
The headmistress of the school, Ms Evelyn Sagbil Nabia, said AHISCO had journeyed through a lot of phases but the resilience of its stakeholders had held it together and also kept it at an enviable position.
“We have come to celebrate the dream of one man and all those who supported and encouraged him,” she said.
She commended the Onukpai for the support they give to the school and urged them to keep assisting their alma mater.
During the ceremony, the 1993 year-group donated 10 dining hall tables and benches while the United Kingdom (UK) chapter of ‘Onukpai’ presented 50 choir robes to the school choir.
AHISCO was founded on 17th August, 1923 at the Beach Avenue in Aayalolo, a suburb of Accra. It was the first secondary school in Accra in the Eastern Province of the then Gold Coast.
By Jemima Esinam Kuatsinu
President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned four career diplomats as ambassador-designates to represent Ghana in four countries.
The commissioning ceremony took place on Friday, October 16, 2026.
The new envoys are Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo, Ambassador-Designate to Angola; His Excellency Louis Kwame Obeng, Ambassador-Designate to Qatar; Her Excellency Evelyn Korantemaa Ofosu-Amable, Ambassador-Designate to Israel; and His Excellency Jedidiah Reuben Adogla, Permanent Representative-Designate to Switzerland.
President Mahama charged them to advance Ghana’s national interests through strategic partnerships, economic diplomacy, investment mobilization, and expanded access to international markets.
He said Ghana’s diplomatic engagements must deliver tangible economic benefits, create jobs, and strengthen the country’s standing on the international stage.
The four envoys are career diplomats with over 27 years of experience.
On behalf of her colleagues, Her Excellency Nana Antwiwaa Dodoo thanked the President for the confidence reposed in them and pledged their commitment to emulate his leadership and deliver on the mandate given to them.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The professor who spends his days exploring the intricacies of African languages found himself at the centre of a different kind of lesson on Friday, October 2, 2026. 
This time, there were no lecture notes, academic arguments or university classrooms. Instead, there was the weight of tradition, the rhythm of a community celebration and the solemnity of an oath at a royal palace.
Professor Ọbádélé Kambon, a full Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Ghana, was enstooled as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene of Akuapem Mampong in the Eastern Region in a ceremony that brought academia and traditional authority together.
For the professor, the occasion was more than a new title. It was a moment that connected his academic interests in African languages and indigenous knowledge with the living traditions of an Akan community.
The day’s events unfolded through a series of customary observances. Kambon was first taken to the compounds of the Ɔkyeamehene and Gyasehene, where the preparations for his installation continued.
Then came the application of hyire, the white kaolin powder associated with traditional rites.
With the customary proceedings underway, the new chief was lifted onto the shoulders of celebrants and carried along the main thoroughfare of Akuapem Mampong.
The procession transformed the streets into a public stage for a ceremony rooted in the community’s traditional institutions.
There was something striking about the image, a university professor, accustomed to the measured language of academic discourse, being carried through the town in a display of traditional recognition.
Yet the celebration was not complete with the procession.
A ram was sacrificed at the Mamponghene’s compound before Kambon was taken to the palace, to swear the oath associated with his new offices.
The ceremony brought him formally into his roles as Apagyahene and Sunsum Ɔsahene.
Beyond the colourful proceedings, the titles themselves carry layers of historical meaning.
Kambon in his research explores the historical connections between Apagya and Akan political and military organisation.
Accounts cited in his work linked Apagya to an asafo, or military company, while historical writing traces an Apagya stool in Asante to the reign of Opoku Ware I in the eighteenth century.
These historical associations offer a glimpse into the institutions that have shaped Akan society over generations, although they do not automatically define the precise responsibilities of the office in Akuapem Mampong.
Kambon’s own professional life reflects a similar interest in preserving and examining African knowledge.
His work encompasses Akan language structure, naming practices across the Black world, proverbs and indigenous intellectual traditions.
Through Abibitumi, the platform he founded, he also promotes language learning, scholarship and cultural engagement.
But tradition was only one part of the story that day.
When the formal ceremony gave way to a reception, the occasion expanded into a celebration of three milestones: Kambon’s enstoolment, his promotion to full professor and his daughter Ama’s admission to the University of Ghana.
The gathering therefore carried a personal significance that went beyond the honours bestowed on one man. 
It celebrated professional advancement, the continuation of family aspirations and a connection to cultural heritage.
For a father, seeing a daughter gain admission to the same university where he holds a distinguished academic position offered another reason to celebrate.
For the professor, the moment placed family achievement alongside his own professional and traditional milestones.
Kambon had already established a place in the traditional life of Akuapem Mampɔn through an earlier installation as Banmuhene Kyidɔmhene, recorded in 2017.
His latest enstoolment adds another chapter to that relationship.
In Akuapem Mampɔn, the day brought together the university, the palace and the family table in one celebration. And for Kambon, the journey from the lecture room to the traditional procession showed how scholarship, cultural responsibility and family achievement could converge in a single memorable occasion.
By Enoch Ntiamoah Siaw
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