Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Prof Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai, has sounded a strong caution to persons practising law in Ghana without the required qualification.

According to him, his outfit's focus for the ensuing year, 2026, will be fishing out people who brand themselves as lawyers but have no degrees to back their titles.

Prof. Jinapor, who is reported to have made these remarks in a news card shared by TV3, indicated that his outfit has intelligence that some persons are practising law in the country without the required qualification.

“From next year we are moving into the legal area. We’ve gathered signals that there are people who are lawyers but don’t have the degree,” he is quoted as saying.

The GTEC boss and his outfit made news in 2025 after calling out a number of personalities and ordering them to stop using their academic titles.

Among the personalities is former presidential candidate and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, who was asked to stop using his ‘Doctor’ title.

The others include the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) and Deputy Director of IT and Elections of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Rashid Tanko-Computer, and the party’s Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Phillis Naa Koryoo Okunor, who were both asked to stop using the ‘Doctor’ title.

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