– The 22-year-old amputee climbs a three-storey building to lectures to access knowledge at the university
– Hayford has received a $6,000 (GHc34,440.00) prosthetic leg through funds raised by the University of Ghana Alumni Association, North America (UGAANA)
A 22-year-old student of the University of Ghana, Emmanuella Catherine Hayford who is an amputee, has been provided with a prosthetic leg to aid her mobility.
Before receiving the prosthetic leg, Hayford used to painstaking climb a three-storey building to attend lectures at the University of Ghana.
The University of Ghana Alumni Association, North America (UGAANA) led by its president, Gifty Dankyi, raised a total amount of $6,000 (GHc34,440.00) to help Emmanuella’s quest to walk normally to access knowledge.
– Mohammed Amin Mansur is the chief executive officer of Amin Furnitures
– The Ghanaian wood artisan graduated with a computer engineering certificate from Intercom Programming and Manufacturing Co (IPMC)
– Amin Mansur now works as a carpenter who runs a successful venture
After defeating the odds despite circles of adversities owing to financial constraints, young Ghanaian engineer, Mohammed Amin Mansur, now runs a successful business.
The chief executive officer of Amin Furnitures now makes a living working as a carpenter despite graduating with a computer engineering certificate from Intercom Programming and Manufacturing Co (IPMC).
Recounting his daunting but worthwhile journey in a long-worded post on social media, Amin Mansur disclosed that after completing Aduman High School in 2009, he was confused like most teenagers with no clear plan ahead.
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– Ghanaian business magnate, Osei Kwame Despite’s son, Saahene, has celebrated his young lookalike sister as she turned a new age in March
– Saahene posed beside his younger sister in amazing photos he splashed on his Instagram status to celebrate her
– The photos have gathered tons of sweet birthday compliments from admirers of the brother-sister duo
Saahene Osei, the youngest son of Ghanaian business magnate, Osei Kwame Despite, has splashed amazing photos of his younger sister on his Instagram status to mark her birthday.
Though 18-year-old Saahene has is known as a fast-rising dandy owing to having an eye for colourful and eye-catching fashionable designs, there’s little information about his younger sister.
ING Group: ING appoints Anne-Sophie Castelnau global head of Sustainability
ING appoints Anne-Sophie Castelnau global head of Sustainability
Anne-Sophie Castelnau has been appointed ING s global head of Sustainability per 1 April 2021. She will succeed Amin Mansour, who fulfilled the role on an interim basis. Anne-Sophie is currently head of Wholesale Banking for ING in France.
Anne-Sophie Castelnau (French) joined ING in France in 2005. Before she became head of Wholesale Banking in France, she held various senior management positions, including head of Corporate Lending and head of Client Coverage. Before she joined ING, Anne-Sophie worked for French banks Natixis and Crédit Industriel et Commercial.
Lærernes Pension –
Carsten Gjede has been appointed by the Danish teachers’ pension fund Lærernes Pension to the newly-created position of chief financial officer. Gjede, who is currently chief risk officer at
Industriens Pension, is set to start the new job on 1 May.
Karsten Kjeldsen, chief executive officer of Lærernes Pension, told IPE why the pension fund was introducing a CFO role, saying the fund was in the process of preparing for a new reality, where it was facing increasing amounts of regulation, not least within the areas of investments and risk.
“This will continuously have an impact on all areas of Lærernes Pension, and it has therefore been important for me to have it integrated naturally in our top management,” he said.