Henrietta Ikeorah is OBAASIMA `06”

2006-05-03T05:00:00.000-07:00

Miss Henrietta Ikeorah has been crowned Obaasima 2006 in a glitz and glamorous pageant staged by the central University College at the Accra International Conference Centre.

For her award, she receives a living room furniture set and becomes an ambassador for decent dressing and a role model on campus. She told myAnanse.com briefly after being crowned that she least expected the ultimate crown adding “oh my God, I feel so great”.

She encouraged fellow women to take challenges in life “for you might not know when your opportunity will come”.

“OBAASIMA 06” being the third edition saw the highest and enthusiastic crowd cheering the ladies as they catwalk the stage. The pageant was on the theme “Malaria eradication” and as part of grooming for the virtuous ladies, they had a debate on the theme, a clean up at kaneshie market and interestingly a home was placed in a mess and they were asked to put it in order as OBAASIMA`s.

The ladies where eleven in all and after they had gone through the various stages last five finalists were selected. Among the five were Henrietta Ikeorah, Osman Fedelia, Nana Serwaa Adu- Ntiamoah, Dzuali Sika Romana and Mills Briggitte. The beauties cat walked the stage to answer some questions from the five Judges. Questions from judges where centered on the theme of the pageant “MALERIA”.

The hour finally arrived when the MC had to declare who becomes the next “OBAASIMA” and her Runners up. The candle search fell on Dzuali Sika Romana and Nana Serwaa Adu- Ntiamoah as 1st Runner and 2nd runner ups respectively. Amidst cheers from the crowd, the new Queen was crowned as the third virtuous lady of Central University College.

Fine Hip Life artistes entertained the audience with their hit songs. They include Slim Baster, Wutah, Kwabena Kwabena and many others. Papa Sly was also in the house with his bags of jokes.
Miss Selase Kwawu, the Chairman of the planning committee told myAnanse.com in a later interview that the success of this year’s event shows how hard the committee worked. She expressed the universities appreciation to all the organizations who gave their support in making ‘OBAASIMA 06’ historic.
myAnanse.com's Palgrave speaks to Obaasima 05
Henrietta takes her prize

In an interview with “OBAASIMA 05” MISS Adwoa Henewaa Opoku-Gyamfi who was a member of the planning committee for this year’s OBAASIMA `06, she consented that there has been an improvement compared to her event last year. According to Miss Opoku-Gyamfi she is a proud Queen because OBAASIMA stands for a virtuous lady who is a home maker, an asset, who does not compromise whatever the circumstance, a source of happiness to her family, who has a good sense of humour and one who can fit in any circumstance, she however complained that during her reign as Queen she was not able to achieve her set objective which was to be an ambassador for personal hygiene. When asked the reason behind her failure she said the organizers where not foresighted and also she faced a lot of issues when campaigning for sponsorships. Miss Opoku-Gyamfi finally pledged to support the new “OBAASIMA”.

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By: Palgrave F. Boakye-Danquah & Selase Attah

Ghana's Campus politics grows with bizarre

2006-04-28T03:59:00.000-07:00

An announcement by the Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana, Legon of its breakaway from the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), the umbrella body of all students in the country, has given the Legon campus politics a bizarre twist.The President of Legon SRC, Mr. Lom Nuku Ahlijah said the decision was taken in a General Assembly of SRC, on Tuesday based on a statement by NUGS President, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwah, and the Press Information Secretary, Selorm Amevor.He told The Chronicle in an interview that the purported NUGS' statement, which cautioned the authorities of the university against interfering in the election process, had received a disclaimer from other sister unions, including NUGS itself, describing it as not a collective one, since it was a statement from only the two persons.He said that the statement of the two sparked the decision of the Legon SRC to breakaway until further notice.Meanwhile, but for the timely intervention of the police and the heavy rains that fell in the nation's capital on Tuesday, the Legon campus could have recorded one of the bloodiest demonstrations in the century.And as fate would have it the over 500 students, mainly from the Commonwealth Hall, who were protesting over the disqualification of Mr. Lord Koranteng Hamah from the SRC elections, were only dispersed by nature, and partially by the police.The angry students had been protesting for days that the school authorities, particularly the Dean of Students, whom they claimed had a personal vendetta against Hamah, and asked that he refrained from meddling in students' elections.They were of the view that the authorities had manipulated the Electoral Commission and prompted it to disqualify the vociferous student in the second round of the elections though he was deemed qualified to have contested in the first round.As a result of the tension security presence on campus was appreciably high and at a point the police had to throw canisters of teargas at demonstrators who insisted that a court injunction placed on the election be heeded to.The development on campus again took a dramatic turn with the SRC announcing its breakaway from the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), its mother union.Hammer, the maverick, had become a 'thorn' in the flesh of the university authorities, who had become peeved since the day he dragged them to the court last year and won.According to eyewitnesses, the demonstrators assembled around 11:00 a.m. in front of the Commonwealth Hall.Initially, voting was said to have gone on smoothly at all polling stations, except in Commonwealth Hall, where tension was highest. But before anybody could say jack, some of the demonstrators started vandalizing ballot boxes, plastic chairs and the like.Starting from the female block in the Volta Hall, the destruction of property spread to Legon Hall, and eventually to the SRC Hall.Eyewitnesses told the paper that after the demonstrators were dispersed by the police, the 'irate' students re-assembled and marched to Akuafo Hall and there too destroyed ballot papers and chairs. Then the force of nature took over from the police, as heavy rains compelled the students to flee for shelter.The current SRC President, Mr. Lom Nuku Ahlijah, in an interview with 'The Chronicle' conceded that it looked like lawlessness was taking over the entire university.He emphasized that there were enough processes that one needed to go through when one felt dissatisfied with things of this nature, adding that there was no need for the students to resort to mob action.The Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Obed Donkor, told The Chronicle that the Electoral Commission had postponed the elections, adding that the new date would be determined in their next meeting.He said, "We organized the elections because we had not received a suit or an injunction from Mr. Hamah or from any court."He stressed that the decision to disqualify Mr. Hamah was not influenced by either the school authorities or the Dean of Students, but it was based on an advice given to them by the SRC court.According to him two students had on two different occasions taken the commission to the SRC court over the elections because they claimed Mr. Hamah had been rusticated before in an exams malpractice, and as a result was not qualified to vie for the presidency of the SRC.He explained that though the petitioners withdrew their suit, the court advised that they contacted their legal advisers because the allegations that had been levelled against Mr. Hamah might have some merit.

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Henrietta Ikeorah is OBAASIMA `06”

Ghana's Campus politics grows with bizarre