Communication Ministry holds mentorship day celebration for Girls-In-ICT in Gambaga

The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD) last Monday held mentorship day celebration for the North East Girls-in-ICT participants.

The event saw highly respectable mentors taking the ladies through professional tutorials at the Gambaga Girls Senior High School dining hall.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mrs. Magdalene Apenteng, Chief Director of the Ministry who spoke on behalf of the Sector Minister said, “ICTs have become the most basic building block of modern industrial society.”

She added, “In our world today, it has become crucial that we all master and acquire some basic skills and concepts of ICTs. This is because ICTs are so cross cutting that regardless of the sector one wants to work in, knowledge and skills in ICTs will be required to enhance performance, yet one problem poses a serious threat.

“As we all know, the ICT and digital economies are heavily dominated by males with very few women participating in the sector. It is for this reason that the ITU in 2012 enjoined its member states to adopt this laudable Initiative with the singular aim of bridging the digital gender divide.”

PROFILE OF SOME OF THE MENTORS

Adwoa Baah Obeng, Senior Manager, Sales and Distribution, MTN Northern Ghana Business District – Adwoa has over 20years experience in Sales and Branch Management. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences and Masters in Business Administration.

Ing Louisa Ama Sosu, Senior Manager for Networks Performance and SLA, MTN Ghana – Louisa has over sixteen years’ industry experience in Network Quality and Reporting industry. She has a BSc. In Electrical and Electronic Engineering and an MBA in Supply Chain Management.

Rosebud Ami Atsutsey, Manager, Branch Network Service, Sales and Distribution, MTN Ghana (Ashanti/Bono, Ahafo and Bono East Regions) – Rosebud has over 15years’ experience in Branch Management. She pursued Science at Secondary School and Biological Science at Tertiary level. Rosebud later acquired an MBA in Strategic Management and Management Consulting.

Sheila Sorinye, Communication Advisor (Community Relations),MTN Ghana – She has over 8years experience in corporate communications and over 10years experience in customer experience. She has a Degree in Management in Computing, an LLB Certificate and a Masters in Development Communications.

Sophia Tandoh, Advisor, Regulatory Affairs, MTN Ghana – Sophia has over 2years experience in Regulatory and Government Affairs and over 10years experience in customer experience. She holds a Degree in Communications and is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Relations.

Mariam Abubakar, Branch Head and Cluster Head, MTN Ghana (Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Savana and North East Regions) – Mariam has over 2years experience in branch management and 8years experience with the Sales and Distribution team. She has a degree in Management Studies and is currently pursuing an MBA in Human Resource Management.

HELEN ZIFAH ANAADUMBA – Anaadumba Helen-Zilfah is an academic staff of the Center for Educational Innovation and Leadership (CEIL), at the Faculty of Education of the University for Development Studies. She is a Training and Development professional with a wealth of experience in designing and implementing tailor-made training programs that meet a variety of training needs.

Helen is very passionate about educating and building the capacities of girls, women and vulnerable people. Hence, she is always willing to avail herself to activities that encourage and motivate girls, women and vulnerable people to reach their full potentials.

As a professional teacher in her early career, Helen has taught and mentored many young girls in the East Mamprusi District in the North East region, and Tamale in the Northern region, under the CAMFED Teacher Mentorship project.

This project offered Helen the opportunity to serve as a role model to young girls in basic schools and also coached them to learn hard despite the challenges in life, through remedial classes and one-on-one counseling sessions.

In her profession as a lecturer and training, she has participated and also led several continuous professional development trainings for teachers and student teachers from the colleges of education and the Universities; Under the Discovery Learning Alliance (DLA), now Impact-Ed Video learning project, where teachers and students are trained on how to use ICT tools to enhance effective teaching and learning.

She was for several years, the Focal Facilitator for Girls in Science Technology and Mathematics Education (STME) in the East Mamprusi District in the North East Region.

DR. SANATU MUSTAPHA ALIDU – Dr. Sanatu Mustapha Alidu is a Senior lecturer and Plant Breeder at the Crop Science Department of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Sciences, University for Development Studies, Nyankpala, Tamale. ( https://uds.edu.gh/staff/malidu-81675) Born and bred in Northern Ghana, she obtained her primary education, secondary education, and the first face of her tertiary education in Tamale, Northern Ghana.

She obtained a PhD in Plant Breeding at the West African Center for Crop Improvement, University of Ghana Legon- Accra, an MSc in plant Breeding from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a BSc degree in Agricultural Technology Agronomy option and an HND in Agricultural Engineering, with a major in soil and water option. Until she became a faculty member at UDS in 2011, she taught for 11 years at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Tamale Polytechnic.

Her current main career assignment in the University is teaching and carrying out research in the area of Plant Breeding. Her research focus is on developing cowpea varieties that will tolerate drought to increase production and help improve food security and livelihood of people, especially females in Northern Ghana where the bulk of the crop is produced.