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Regional News of Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Source: GNA

Kongo SSS Headmaster wants boarding status.

Zoog (UE), Jan. 17, GNA - Mr. Paul Ayamga, Headmaster of the Kongo Senior High School in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region, at the weekend appealed to government and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to accord the school a boarding status to enable it to cater for the ever-growing student population.

Mr Ayamga said starting with 74 students in 1991, the school currently had an enrolment of 650 students with some coming from the Upper West and Northern regions, Bawku and nearby communities.

He said the growing number of students compelled the school to move to its present location in Zoog near Pelungu to cater for the increasing number of students even though the infrastructural development there was low.

He made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the school during a ceremony to rece'