The Ghana National College (Osagyefo’s own school) in Cape Coast has outlined a week-long activities to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the school.

The long list of exciting activities spanning July 16 to 23rd, include the launch of a number of educational facilities such as a new Science laboratory funded by old students (Nananom) and a number of year groups.

Mr. Joseph Ato Sarpong, headmaster of Ghana National College who disclosed the programme in an interview with Myjoyonline, said the anniversary will be celebrated under the theme: ‘75 years of holistic education in nurturing leaders for the 21st Century.’

Mr. Sarpong on Monday led a four man delegation to pay a courtesy call on the Chief Operating Officer of the Multimedia Group Limited, Mr. Ken Ansah in Accra. The delegation included the Executive Director of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana. Mr. Kwabena Agyekum, Dorinda Quashie and Koby Koomson, all Nananom.

The programme kicks off on July 16 with regional church services by all regional branches of Nananom, to be followed on July 17 and 18 with media interviews.

There will be an inter-house debate on Wednesday, July 19, giving way on Thursday to ‘Nananom Inspire’, an encounter where old students engage students in thought provoking conversations with a view to inspiring them onto greater works and exposing them to entrepreneurship and sharing success roadmaps. There will also be a sit-down in the evening of Thursday – a get-together or reunion of the Nananom family.

Friday, July 21 will see three major activities;

• 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.

The handing over of major projects will continue on Saturday, July 22, with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as Special Guest of Honour unveiling the new Science lab built by Nananom for the college.

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.

Ghana National College before settling at its present location (Mennya Mennwu in Cape Coast), was previously housed at various locations, first at MacCarthy Hill, then to Siwdu and then to some hostels at Kakumdo, all in Cape Coast.