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General News of Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-02-19
Mr. Oroh with GIJ management when they paid him a courtesy visit to his office in Accra
Mr. Henry Oroh, Managing Director of Zenith Bank Ghana Limited, described the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) as an innovative institution that will benefit from the Bank's support to help it achieve her goals.
He congratulated the GIJ for its contribution to the training of communicators and journalists from Ghana and the West Africa sub-region in order to contribute to human development.
Mr. Oroh made the remarks when GIJ management paid him a courtesy visit to his Accra office.
The visit aimed to explore some areas in which the two institutions could collaborate for mutual benefits as part of measures to achieve the mission of the school.
He congratulated the school for its project to create an endowment fund to help train specialized media professionals in the country and congratulated them on their 60th birthday, adding that "the Bank will do everything in its power to its power to support the Institute ".
Oroh urged school leaders to expand their network by seeking support to help set up the endowment fund, saying "Zenith Bank is one of Ghana's leading commercial institutions." many social responsibilities ".
Professor Kwamina Kwansah-Aidoo, Rector of the GIJ, said that the school collaborated with all relevant institutions and stakeholders to ensure that the Institute remains a highly academic and professional communications institution responding to the needs of the community. needs of students, industry and society.
He added that the bank could collaborate with the school in many areas, explaining that communication was an essential element of any progressive institution.
According to him, the visit also aimed at strengthening the link between the school and the bank, adding: "As partners, we believe that there are areas of collaboration that we need to think about and on which we must work in partnership. "
He took the opportunity to solicit the support of the Bank to contribute to the great celebration of the 60th anniversary.
Dr. Lawrencia Agyapong, Chair of the Foundation's 60th Anniversary Committee, said the creation of the Institute's endowment fund was intended to help the development of the human resources of school-trained communicators.
She said the school would need all of its business partners and all stakeholders to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
Dr. Agyapong also appealed to the bank for her to accept the students from the school for a practical internship.
The GIJ delegation included Mr. Yaw Odame Gyau, keynote speaker.
The GIJ was established in 1959 by the government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to provide journalism training to form a group of patriotic journalists to play an active role in the emancipation of the African continent.
Anxious to become the privileged communication training institute in Africa, respecting high academic standards and training world-clbad professionals for the transformation of society, the school since its inception has trained and continues to train students in the world. ;foreign.
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