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Bishop Herman College: One of Ghana's Ten Best!

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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Daniel:

    A good essay, except that "ten best" does not cut it. Make a case for your school: Ghana's best! I went to Gomoa Secondary School and considers it the best school in Ghana!

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Thank you, Daniel, for this piece commemorating Kodzo's death. You never met him but his spirit was still living in Biheco when you were there.

    Kodzo was the best headmaster in the Volta Region and among the best in Ghana ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    "For a long time, he was chairman of the conference of headmasters of assisted secondary schools in the VR and he bullied his fellow headmasters to do the right things always."

    "And yet we had four meals a day - one of the ...
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  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Yes, Daniel, I have lots of memories from Biheco under Kodzo. I hope to share a few during the course of the day.

    For a Dutchman, Kodzo's English was very good. He liked using big words so you'd have loved him, Daniel. He ...
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  • BISHOP 11 years ago

    I enjoyed reading this article even though I was never a student of BIHECO but it brought back lots of memories.
    Bro Danny how can you leave out the great Volta University (MAWULI SCHOOL) as it was once affectionately called ...
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  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    Mawuli Secondary School was also affectionately called Kole Bu, 37 Millitary Hospital, KATH, Effia Nkwanta, etc.

    The reason was the only school which produced all the Medical Doctors.

  • BISHOP 11 years ago

    It was said that MAWULI SCHOOL at one time produced more students for the legon medical school than any other in the nation. I believed this was in the 70s and 80s. Those are past glories though, gone are those good days.

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

    Thanks to Akadu Mensema for exposing this Illiterate fool SARPONG who uses his childrens computers in addition to his own in his ghetto and from work with different names to attract 'audience' to his Trash when he alone contr ...
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  • jkg 11 years ago

    Are you not even ashamed to use the word illiterate? What is childrens computers? What is childrens?

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

    Childrens used in my sentence means 'group of children's I.e is childrens ......Your illiteracy has no limit, Kookoase Sarpong

  • Kyeremeh Gyan 11 years ago

    Hahahahahahahahaha

    So children is singular and its plural is childrens? Kola, you let your English Teacher down

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

    WHERE DID YOU SCHOOLED THAT YOU ARE SO BACKWARD ON SPELLING? THE OTHER TIME YOU SPELT COCKROACH AS COCCROCH AND TO DAY CONCENTRATE AS COSENTRATE-IS IT ASANTENGLISH?
    FROLICSOME ANIMAL YOU ARE,YOU HAVE NOTHING DOING BUT A MER ...
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  • ???????? 11 years ago

    Author:C.Y. ANDY-K

    Date:2012-03-22 21:20:56

    Comment to:A GROUP OF CHILDREN IS CHILDRENS


    My man! It is clear you don't even know that you are making a mistake! You could have saved face by saying you omitted the ...
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  • Concerned Citizen 11 years ago

    It should read Children's computer(s). Children's becomes possessive meaning the computer belongs to his children. From the way computer has been used in plural form denotes that Sarpong has more than one child each of who ma ...
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  • ????????? 11 years ago

    Author:C.Y. ANDY-K

    Date:2012-03-22 21:23:55

    Comment to:Kola is a disgrace




    Kola is indeed a disgrace though.

    Andy-K

  • Natural Mystic 11 years ago

    Daniel, what a great piece you have written to "celebrate" the life of "Kodzo" and to also hail the contributions of "Amakpa". I never met Father Priems but the foundation he laid enabled the likes of me to go to BH for the ...
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  • Akwele 11 years ago

    But you left out Holy Child Secondary School, among the ten best.

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Alfred Agbesi Woyome went to Biheco. It may not have been at the time of Kodzo.

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    He attended during Amakpa era but he was disciplined and straight.He was a prefect and i know he may still be.One fact the guy is extremely intelligent and until he is proven to be a fraudster by a court lets assume he is inn ...
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  • Dzube 11 years ago

    There are so many intelligent and evil men in this world.The world is so screwed up because of so many very smart,intelligent misfits and terrorists.Let God/Allah be the judge !

  • LotoLoto 11 years ago

    Woyo went to BH and so what?

  • Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 11 years ago

    Ku doa lo ntor. Kodzo was truly one of the best. His penchant for discipline and love for student ownership of adminsitering his own affairs made him support and build a strong School Prefectship which still radiates in the p ...
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  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Well, Daniel could have said Biheco was the very best among the best and he would have been factually correct. This is not liking your alma mater. After all, Manasseh Azure is also proud of his Krachi Sec School and loses no ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Akadu,

    Claiming Biheco was the overall best school would have sounded naive and self-promoting on my part. My goal was to write a credible piece to honor the school's first headmaster, not an unrealistic claim of the schoo ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Daniel:

    I was just pulling your legs! Yours is an informative, balanced, engaging essay. It tells us about how times have changed for the worse. I am sure that if you were to visit BIHECO today, you would weep as I did whe ...
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  • wei 11 years ago

    I was in Kpandu in November 2012 with a group of Canadian Engineers. They could not believe the neatnes and imposing demeanour of the school. One of them asked if it was a Polytechnic and I humbly said that BIHECO is in fact ...
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  • AARON 11 years ago

    I like the mature approach you took in response to Akadu the hermaphrodite.

  • Amankwa 11 years ago

    Humility is the word you are looking for.

  • Kokoroko 11 years ago

    Akadu is right. In those Nkrumah's days geniuses and legends abounded even in obscure schools scattered around the country such as Dompoase Sec Sch or even in the teacher training colleges. Your 10 best should have included A ...
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  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    Akurang Cash and Parry, you could also have written something about your school to at least say thank you to your teachers and to highlight some memorable events in your days.

    You could whilst writing it mention some of th ...
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  • Gha 11 years ago

    If that rings a bell not if that rings the bell.

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    You are not worth correcting anyone here when you can hardly write one complete sentence.

    Beetle off my radar now, you Chartered Kooasi 'DEFACATING' Illiterate.

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

    Where did you schooled that you don't understand what I wrote?

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

    Sarpong,

    When Daniel K Pryce said he admired your bravery, probably you did not get the drift as he meant you are BRAVE to display your idiocy and illiteracy despite the rebuke from us, the intelligentsia.

    OKURASINI SA ...
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  • Ghanaian Patriot 11 years ago

    Did Daniel Pryce tell you that? You are trying to create animosity between the two.

  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Yes, I can regale you with my experiences at Gomoa Secondary School (GOSS). Regarding my mentor, Prof. Akurang-Parry, he attended Presec (Legon). Check Ghanawebm he has an essay on Presec!

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    Oooh is that so, I must have missed that essay on Ghanaweb then. So you first attended GOSS before Presec then?

    Well done Akadu Akurang Parry Mensema. Presec is a great school and that makes you too great. But for your Hy ...
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  • KB 11 years ago

    You are a useless human being, a disgrace to Ewes and a waste of sperm.

  • KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

    Thank you for your contribution.

  • Sani 11 years ago

    I was wondering if it's GOSEC or GOMOSEC but GOSS sounds more beautiful.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    It was in that school that you learn how to pose as a woman.
    Shame on you Kwabena Parry.

  • Readers want to know 11 years ago

    And where did you learn to plagiarize jokes you post in this forum?

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Write Tetteh Quarshie in the grave and ask him whether he gave credit to the people he stole the beans from in Fernando Po.
    Maame Adjoa will tell you that she can make her own soup,but sometimes she borrows fish from Miss G ...
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  • Readers want to know 11 years ago

    Do you know the difference between borrow and stealing? When you take something from somebody without asking for it at first, that is stealing and that is what you have been doing. Posting some other people literally work wi ...
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  • abenayankey@gmail.com 11 years ago

    I have created a lot of mine.
    If you were in Fernando Po before Tetteh Quarshie,Ghana will be struggling today because you will give the Spanish Colonial Masters the credit.
    Many of your literally work was not done on your ...
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  • Readers want to know 11 years ago

    You are not making sense, bitch.

  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Thanks, my Priceless Prince!

  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    GOMOA SECONDARY SCHOOL.

    Editor Pryce"friend Fucks and flees.
    Akadu"Please change the headline to make it read Nuts screws and bolts to Bishop Herman college.

  • wei 11 years ago

    You can opine that Gomoa Secondary School is "the best" but nobody will believe you. In fact they will think you have lost it, Kwabena. Unlike your mother's pot of soup to which you can bestow any accolades, the records of th ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    Just drive on the Takoradi Accra road and you will see Gomoa Tarkwa,Gomoa Mankessim,Gomoa Ayensudu,Gomoa Accra,Gomoa Fete.
    Which Gomoa secondary school did he attend?If you attend school in the bush,you will always behave l ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    You Ghanaians are something else. Akurang-Parry's thesis is the first thesis on colonial rule and abolition at work in the Gold Coast. That allegation was not a big deal. If I recall rightly, his thesis won the President's Di ...
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  • abenayankey@gmail.com 11 years ago

    You are the same goat praising yourself.

  • Readers Want to Know 11 years ago

    I thought you would say it is not true?

  • abenayankey@gmail.com 11 years ago

    Its good that i did not screw you in Toronto.Men who have small dicks are always confused and behave like sissy.
    Mr Parry do you remember me?

  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Not because of my small whatever. It was simply because your pungent ordor scare me away! Thanks for remembering me!

  • abenayankey@gmail.com 11 years ago

    When you see the crabs on the Volta in Ada,remember that you did not give me crabs with your small Weiner.

  • Ayittey Bonney 11 years ago

    Typical Voltarian! You went looking crab!How sad! You must thank Akadu who is obviously disease-free!

  • abenayankey@gmail.com 11 years ago

    You are a dumb motherfucker and as hole do. Do you think the ewe people like him also.Do all your family members like you?
    Go to Google and see that he is the only nigger on the faculty in Shippensburg University.

  • Readers Want to Know 11 years ago

    I have been following your uncouth behaviour towards Akadu and others until you called a fellow Ghanaian who has worked hard as "the only nigger on the faculty in Shippensburg University." You seem to know the professor and h ...
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  • PETER 11 years ago

    I guess you don't know what the word phrase "one of" means.

  • Yaw B 11 years ago

    Are you saying Bishop Herman tops Opoku Ware School(OWASS)? Obviously, you should have consulted Reverend Father Cornelius L. “Kodzo” Priems for a better list before he passed away.

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    GNA report, June 2, 2012


    Old students of Bishop Herman College in Kpando have undertaken a medical outreach programme as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the College.

    Past students of the College who are h ...
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  • OSORO GYA 11 years ago

    Daniel, thanks for this peace, I have really enjoyed reading it. May the
    soul of Reverend Father Cornelius Priems rest in perfect peace. But I wish you had mentioned some names of the masters on compus. And by the way, is ...
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  • GHANABA 11 years ago

    In praise of Biheco!

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Hail Bihe.... Biheco Hail Bihe... Biheco Hail Biihee eco ........

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    I don't know who wrote the lyrics but the Biheco anthem was composed by the late Dr E. Y. Egblewogbe, an old student from Lolobi. He later taught English in the school and then went back to Legon to do his phd after which he ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Yes, there is a Web site for old students. I believe it's BHOBU.ORG, although those managing it could do so much better!

  • JOHN ZIGGY,USA 11 years ago

    Bishop Herman, was the High school to attend those days and it was STRICKLY base on your score at the Common entrance exam, no 2-ways about it!You can be the president's son or daughter if you didn't make it,that's it for you ...
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  • Sani 11 years ago

    Too bad ghanaweb put this article in the inside page and refused to post it among the first ten on the Opinion pages for maximum exposure. Instead he posted those stupid articles by Bokor (I hope Bokor didn't attend Biheco) a ...
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  • rizzi 11 years ago

    Nice article but your list can't be complete without Accra Academy. BLEOO

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    Amakpa is a real man of God.I remember the last time we visited him ,that was 2008 he remembered every single student.This is a rare feat,the man has great spirit.I say Amakpa is a living reincarnation of Father Priems becaus ...
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  • JAMES PEROVER 11 years ago

    YOUR ARTICLE IS WORTH READING THIS SHOWS YOU WERE TRULY ON THE HILL.I AM PROUD TO BE SAINT CYPRIAN(HOUSE 3)WRITE ANOTHER ARTICLE TO MENTION OUR SPORTING ACTIVITIES UNDER THE LATE ETU-MANTEY AND JUST RESEARCH ON THE LATE SENOO ...
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  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 11 years ago

    I was in house 6, St Victor.

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    mr. Etu-Mantey not dead. He's alive and celebrated his 85th birthday last year.

  • Sani 11 years ago

    Wonderful that Conrad Etu-Mantey is still alive. God has blessed these guys with long lives. I wonder how he would take the death of Kodzo. He lost his own daughter a few years ago. Joyce Etu-Mantey was with the Ghana mission ...
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  • Samson 11 years ago

    Well done Daniel for this piece of write up. Fr Kodzo Priems was one of the great headmasters in Ghana's educational history. May he rest in peace .

  • fr. prosper atsu 11 years ago

    nice piece. regards to 1999 past students of Biheco. keep the fire burning. lets help our Alma mater in the best possible way. proud of you guys

  • alfred 11 years ago

    very intelligent students.making good grades under very difficult circumstances.headmaster Eleeza was disciplined and hands on.very few students came from outside the region.nice article still...........

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    I am sure the name Amakpa was given to Father Eleeza way back in the 60s. It was, anyway, there before I entered the school. When I entered Biheco, Father Eleeza had just returned from abroad where he did his M.A. in History ...
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  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    We never thought Biheco would be the same after Kodzo left in 1975. We were very happy we didn't have to be under a black headmaster. It sounds stupid but that was what we felt when we heard Kodzo was leaving at what was a ra ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Thanks, Sam, for the additional information. Sorry, I was out all day and just got back to the article.

  • WHAT ABOUT THE GREAT PREMPEH-COLLEGE 11 years ago

    EWES ALWAYS TOOTING THIER HORNS TO COVER THIER PERSONALITY-SHORTCOMINGS-CHILDRAPE-TROIKOSI

  • PAA NII 11 years ago

    If you have any brains at all then please write the story for Prempeh too. Prempeh is not a bad school school. All he said was that his school is among the top ten in the country. What is wrong with that? Why must this turned ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Thanks, Paa Nii. I am saddened by the fact that this person will turn a piece that was written to honor the departed into another tribal issue. Just so sad.

  • Togbe 11 years ago

    This is a brilliant piece and those of us who were lucky to have been trained by Father priems whill alwys remeber him as the one who shaped our future. May he rest in oerfect peace.

  • J.S.Y Mortty 11 years ago

    Daniel, thanks for article. That's a great loss to BIHECO fraternity. As Soldiers Of Christ (SICUT MILES CHRISTI) we have to take heart during a moment like this. Indeed, we have missed one of the greatest man in the history ...
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  • Akodabone. 11 years ago

    His Last sermon:
    "What shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his own soul"
    I ran to town one day and was caught. I mowed the grass behind his office while he kept an eagle eye on me.
    T ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    I like the fact you shared your experience with us. I've been hoping that people will share their experiences, but, so far, I have not seen many.

  • Akodabone. 11 years ago

    I believe Amakpa is from Baglo Odumase, not Jasikan.

  • Lol 11 years ago

    Correct.

  • The Sheikh 11 years ago

    Great article. But you forgot to list "THE" Mawuli School (The Volta Varsity)among the top ten in those days. Frankly, Bishop Herman was a good school but when compared to Mawuli, it was no match. Go back and check the record ...
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  • Mr. Sekyi Danso 11 years ago

    Great Mawuli
    It was said that MAWULI SCHOOL at one time produced more students for the legon medical school than any other in the nation. I believed this was in the 70s and 80s. Those are past glories though, gone are those ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Mawuli did produce nurses, etc., not Dokitas! That credit goes to Presec!

  • Mr. Sekyi Danso 11 years ago

    That was funny but Mawuli was great those days. PRESEC might produce more in terms of nos as a result of its population but I think Mawuli did better when you cosider its smaller student population even though Mawuli today is ...
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  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Presec became great only after 1975. Prior to that it was not a particularly good school especially when they were still at Odumase Krobo. The school turned out its first 6th formers in 1975 among whom is the present VC of Le ...
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  • AARON 11 years ago

    Behesco boys, where in the world is Ivan Risch?

  • mojingles 11 years ago

    Pryce, you unwittingly left out some schools in the northern regions that could arguably vie for a spot in your list, perhaps out of ignorance, so let me indulge you.....Saint Charles Secondary School in Tamale. It was and st ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Mojingles, thanks for your comments. Indeed, I did say that I was expecting protestations over my list! Please, don't take it too hard.

  • Sam Duodu 11 years ago

    Mojingles, I believe st Charles was/is a good school. From your description, it smells of Catholic and boys, just like Biheco. Am I right?

  • Paa Kodwo 11 years ago

    THE TEN BEST BUT, THE QUESTION IS WHAT SCIENTIFIC AND INNNOVATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE PAST STUDENTS OF THIS SCHOOL MADE TO ACCELERATE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, JOBS AND INCOME IN THE COUNTRY.

    A FAMOUS CH ...
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  • BISHOP 11 years ago

    I have always maintained that schools in Ghana do not produce thinkers but memorizers. I wish the govt will tackle higher education in Ghana because the school system does not teach nor encourage creativity, critical thinking ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    I understand your argument, but my piece was more general than specific, and it was mainly about honoring the departed Father Priems. I may, someday, write about individual accomplishments, but it's going to be a while, since ...
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  • Lol 11 years ago

    you are overlooking the fact that development is not necessarily due to one person's quantum leap!! people have contributed to the development of the country without being in the position to claim the glory. If a school produ ...
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  • Kenneth Kudjo Ogbete Dabri 11 years ago

    It was the high disciplinary standard I benefited from the late Father Priems' tutelage whilst a student in Biheco(1968-1975) that has brought me this far in life. May he rest in perfect peace.

  • Sani 11 years ago

    We were the last batch which left 6th form in Kodzo's last year. That was quite a batch - Edem Kpodo, the current national chairman of BHOBU and chairman of the tourist board, chubby Dutu, who informed me of Kodzo's death, Ak ...
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  • Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 11 years ago

    This was a batch I vividly remember for augmenting Kodzo's efforts at instilling discipline in the youth of the time.

    Kudos to you all. i still maintain that all the training instilled did help in shaping the future of som ...
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  • Dr. Kofi V. Anani 11 years ago

    Thanks Daniel for this wonderful piece about this great inspirational headmaster of wonderful BIHECO. I was lucky to be among the last batch of Kodzo's recruit to Form One in 1974, and the self discipline instilled in us at t ...
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  • Daniel K. Pryce 11 years ago

    Thanks, Dr. Anani, for your beautiful tribute to Father Priems.

  • capsules for weight loss 11 years ago

    YJNIrM I really enjoy the article post.Really looking forward to read more. Fantastic.

  • OTI 11 years ago

    Biheco heads like Kodzo and Amakpa seem to be unique and will forever be remembered. Thanks for this piece

  • Savior A. Obed 11 years ago

    I love Biheco

  • Michael Kadey 11 years ago

    B.H.C. 4eva, B.H.C. 4 life

  • Sammy Bediako-Cra 11 years ago

    I was also part of last batch admitted by "Kodzo" in 1974/75 academic yr. The guy was really tough!

    Btw, Amakpa's mum is a Jasikan native and the father from Baglo.

  • OBINNA 11 years ago

    Ghanata Secondary School in Dodowa is included in the best 10 Secondary Schools in Ghana during this period.

  • joshua 11 years ago

    bishop herman can not be compared with adisadel

  • Vivian prah 11 years ago

    Dat's great

  • Hypothalamus 10 years ago

    Bishop herman ge no size!

  • Awatror Enam Eugene 9 years ago

    "sicut miles cristi" really soldiers of Christ.