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Prof. Opoku – Agyemang supports GNAT cancer foundation with Ghc 50,000

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The Vice Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, on Wednesday donated GHC50,000 to the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Cancer Foundation in Accra.

 

The support is in response to an ongoing campaign to raise funds to support the treatment of teachers diagnosed with cancer, their spouses or children.

 

According to GNAT Cancer Foundation the high cost of treatment of the disease, which is on the rise among teachers and their immediate relations is having a heavy toll on them and output to work; hence the need to set up a fund to cushion those affected.

Presenting a banker’s draft to the board of the Foundation at its offices in Accra, Professor Opoku Agyemang, who retired as an astute educationists and the first female Vice Chancelor of the University of Cape Coast, commended GNAT for the bold initiative.

setting up the cancer foundation to help the treatment of its members.

“I want to appeal to the public that a fund like this has been set up. It doesn’t matter how big or small it is, and I am also appealing to all the unions to come on board. Regardless of how you grow up to become, regardless of the profession you follow, you would have gone through school, and I will urge all to show empathy to support this initiative”, she emphasized

The NDC Running Mate expressed hope that the fund will grow very big to become a national fund that can help help many people regardless of their profession.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang also urged the leadership of the Foundation to create awareness on preventive care as part of its programme.

 

The fundraising committee chairman of GNAT Cancer Foundation, Christian Yaw Adinkra commended Prof. Opoku-Agyemang for the donation and urged others to emulate her kind gesture.

 

The Member of Parliament for Adentan, Mohammed Adamu Ramadan, also made a personal donation.

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Prof. Opoku- Agyemang to tour markets in Accra tomorrow

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The Running Mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, will from Thursday, August 15, 2025 embark on a day’s campaign tour of three major markets in the Accra Metropolis.

According a a press release issued, her campaign team will visit the Mallam Atta, Kaneshie and Makola markets where she will personally interact with market women, traders, shop attendants, shoppers, head potters popularly knows as ‘kayayei’, commercial drivers as well as passengers and pedestrians.

She is expected to explain opportunities that will come with the establishment of a Women’s Development Bank, with branches across major trading centers nationwide.

The NDC projects the tour will help Peof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang to reach out directly to about one million women in business, including food vendors, traders, bakers, skilled trained professionals like hairdressers, dressmakers, artisans and the likes who qualify to access to loans to be disbursed at flexible payment terms.

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Reject NPP inducements – Prof. Opoku – Agyemang advises electorates

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The Running Mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof Jane Naana Opoku- Agyemang, has cautioned Ghanaians against accepting monetary and other forms of inducements that could mislead them in voting during the December 7 elections.

 

According to her, elections have consequences and must take cue from bitter experiences over the past eight years Uber the Akufo Addo- Bawumia led government to prevent another mistake.

 

Addressing a community durbar at Budumbram in the Gomoa East constituency on Monday as part of her three-day campaign tour of the Central Region, Prof Opoku-Agyemang observed that state resources should have been used to create jobs for the youth has been hoarded for another vote-buying exercise by the governing NPP.

 

“The monies and other forms of enticements they will bring cannot sustain you for long and cannot build your polyclinic, it cannot construct your road, and it cannot also fix the deplorable school buildings that threaten the life of your wards; the 200, 500 Ghana Cedis cannot fix them”, she emphasized

 

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang explained that good governance is when there is a proper policy in place to provide a better life for all Ghanaians just as the NDC has promised to do with the 24-hour Economy, the Women’s Development Bank, and the Big Push policy for massive infrastructure development across the country.

 

She urged electorates to vote massively for the NDC Flagbearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, in the upcoming general elections and the Gomoa East Paeliamentary candidate Desmond De-Graft Paitoo to bring development to the area.