The Right Hon. Paul Boateng, a member of the British House of Lords and a Patron of the MTN Ghana Foundation is in Ghana to commission the first of the 10 MTN ICT Centres of Learning on August 10, 2011 in the Ningo community in the Greater Accra region. The project is one of the flagship projects of the MTN Ghana Foundation and it is being implemented in partnership with UNDP. A statement from MTN Ghana said, after commissioning the project, Lord Boateng would also visit Tamale in the northern region and launch the Tamale Secondary School Project. It said the school project comprised the refurbishment of the school’s Science Laboratory and Library and the provision of street lights for the school. “He will also visit other new projects yet to be launched,” the statement said. Mr. Paul Boateng has the enviable record of being the first person of African descent to be elected to the British Parliament and the first African to serve in a British Cabinet. Between 2005 and 2009, he was the British High Commissioner to South Africa, where MTN is headquartered. Lord Boateng is a member of the British Labour Party, Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, became UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.