Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will be the Special Guest of Honour at the Speech and Prize Day of the Ghana National College on Saturday as part of activities climaxing the school’s 75th Anniversary.

Dr. Bawumia will also unveil a new Science laboratory built by Nananom (old students) for the college.

Headmaster of the Ghana National College, Mr. Joseph Ato Sarpong confirmed Vice President Dr. Bawumia’s role in the final celebrations during an interview with Myjoyonline on Wednesday.

“Everything has proceeded as planned. Nothing has changed and the Vice President will be here with us on Saturday”, he said.

The anniversary which is being marked by a week of activities, is under the theme: ‘75 years of holistic education in nurturing leaders for the 21st Century.’

Osagyefo’s own school, as Ghana National College is affectionately called in political circles, situated on the hilly outskirts of the Central regional capital, Cape Coast, has been marking the anniversary since July 16, and will close it on July 23.

It kicked off on Sunday, July 16 with regional church services by regional branches of Nananom.

On Friday, July 21, there will be a football gala, an AGM of all Nananom, and a flag-raising ceremony featuring the school cadet; handing over of a number of projects by year groups, including a fishpond for the study of Science by the ’93 year group, the unveiling of a new crest at the school gate by the 2001 year group, a plaque by the Tema branch featuring sayings of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the renovated L-Block at Down Town by the ’81 year group, and the renovated Vocational Block by the ’85 year group.

Saturday will also witness the usual Speech and Prize-giving Day in the morning on campus and a fund-raising dinner dance in the evening at the Pempamsie Hotel in Cape Coast. Sunday climaxes all the activities, with a thanksgiving and memorial service, with the evening seeing the induction and swearing-in of Nananom national executives, followed by the popular Omotuo and Fufu bash.

Ghana National College was established on 20th July, 1948 by Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Cape Coast with his own funds, as a consequence of agitations for Ghana’s independence from colonial rule.

It started with 17 students – 16 males and a female - with the celebrated Mathematician and Physicist Emeritus Professor Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey recorded as the first student to register as a student.