Ebenezer Otoo: 2021 Most Outstanding Teacher Takes Home GHc250K for 3-Bedroom House

Ebenezer Otoo: 2021 Most Outstanding Teacher Takes Home GHc250K for 3-Bedroom House

  • Ebenezer Kojo Otoo of the Winneba Senior High School in the Central Region has been adjudged the Most Outstanding Teacher for 2021
  • The 44-year-old Visual Arts and Ceramics teacher emerged winner at a ceremony to commemorate World Teachers' Day in Sunyani
  • Otoo received a cheque of GHc250,000, which is to be used to construct a three-bedroom house at a location of his choice

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Ebenezer Kojo Otoo of the Winneba Senior High School in the Central Region has been adjudged the Most Outstanding Teacher for 2021 at a ceremony to commemorate World Teachers' Day in Sunyani, Graphic Online reported.

The 44-year-old Visual Arts and Ceramics teacher, who doubles as a farmer, was among 19 other teaching and non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service who were honoured during the occasion.

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Otoo received a cheque for GHc250,000 to be used to construct a three-bedroom house at a location of his choice.

Ebenezer Otoo receiving his award as the Most Outstanding Teacher for 2021
Ebenezer Otoo: 2021 Most Outstanding Teacher Takes Home GHc250K for 3-Bedroom House Photo credit: Graphic Online/Asaase Radio
Source: UGC

First and second runner ups

Reverend Sister Justina Kwakyewaa of the Saint Francis Senior High and Technical School in Birim Central in the Eastern Region emerged the first runner up and was presented with a double-cabin pickup vehicle.

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Also, a teacher from the Awutu Swinton SHS in the Central Region received a saloon car as the second runner up at the event.

This year's occasion, which was held on the theme: Teachers Wanted: Reclaiming Teaching and Learning for Human-centred Recovery, saw some ministers of state, officials of the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education, various teacher unions, and a cross-section of teachers from all over Ghana were in attendance.

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Meanwhile, Madam Vivian, a Ghanaian mother of triplets abandoned by her husband, has received a donation in cash, food products, and other items for their upkeep.

The new mother was abandoned by the father of the babies when he learnt about their premature birth.

Vivian, domiciled in a village in the Central Region, told Etwerso Hemaa that she lost one of the babies due to ill health because she couldn't afford to take the baby to the hospital.

Source: YEN.com.gh

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.