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The following have occurred since the inception of the service; Before the wars of 1914 - 1918, there were many indigenous people in many senior grade positions in the civil service. In 1925 – 1926, Sir Gordon Guggisberg, the then Governor of the Gold Coast promulgated the first proposal for the development of indigenous civil service. This ...
Omaboe received the Grand Medal (Civil Division) of the Republic of Ghana in 1968. [38] [39] In 1973, Omaboe was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, having been a member since 1957. He was made President of the Economic Society of Ghana. Omaboe received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1999. [40 ...
After the 1948 Accra riots, the Coussey Committee incorporate the setting up of the Public Services Commission to train professionals in the African Civil Service. [2] The constitution drafted in 1951 included clauses that granted the commission the opportunity to provide non-binding advisory services to the Governor-General in the personnel ...
The Indo-Aryan peoples and Sindhi, who were the first Indians to arrive in Ghana, initially came as merchants and shopkeepers, and gradually, in the 1950s and 1960s, a few ventures out in the manufacturing industries such as garments, plastics, textiles, insecticides, electronics, pharmaceutical industry, optical goods etc. [2] Some Indians who have lived in Ghana for most of their lives have ...
The history of African Americans in Ghana goes back to individuals such as American civil rights activist and writer W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), who settled in Ghana in the last years of his life and is buried in the capital, Accra. Since then, other African Americans who are descended from slaves imported from areas within the present-day ...
A GoFundMe started by a friend of Wolfe’s has raised over $10,000 for her memorial service. “With her love for art, mixed with her ambitions to enjoy work, 'Nene' quickly obtained her license ...
The restaurant opened on October 8, 1990, in Shenzhen's special economic zone. The South China Morning Post reported that on its opening day, the unique McDonald's received over 40,000 customers ...
The firm was the first indigenous consultancy established by a Ghanaian in his field of expertise. It was therefore the first indigenous engineering consultancy founded in Ghana. [5] He worked on many projects in the following years and also served as a consultant for the Bank of Ghana, the National Investment Bank, and Messrs SKOA. He retired ...