Meet The University Don Eric Sakyi Nketia Lacing His Boot To Lead NPP For 2024 Presidential Election

Eric Sakyi Nketia has declared his intention to contest the Flagbearership race of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Eric Sakyi Nketiah officially made this known following the release of the approved timelines for holding presidential primaries of the NPP ahead of the 2024 general elections.

He stated in a Press Release, “I hereby officially and publicly declare my intention to run in the 2023 NPP Presidential Primaries. In doing so, I pledge to abide by the Rules and Regulations governing the conduct of the Presidential Primaries as well as the Constitution of the Party.”

Eric Sakyi Nketiah who is a member of the New Patriotic Party in the Effutu Constituency in the Central Region said he took the decision to run in the 2023 Presidential Primaries after prayer, reflection, consultation with a number of the grassroots of the Party and careful consideration.

“This was not a decision lightly taken. It was a very difficult decision to take considering all the opportunities that time, life and destiny had presented my way. I am clear in my mind that I am doing this for God and country. I do not intend to make any pretentions about my intended candidacy. This is not a campaign,” he said.

He stated that, “This is simply the declaration of intention with a pledge to abide by the processes the party has put in place for the smooth conduct of the 2023 Presidential Primaries which would see our great party making history by BREAKING THE 8.”

PROFILE OF MR. ERIC SAKYI NKETIAH

Born in Sunyani in the Bono Region of Ghana and raised for the most part in Accra, Ghana, Eric Sakyi Nketiah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of History Education (DHE) in the Faculty of Social Science Education (FSSE) of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in Ghana. He teaches various aspects of History.

His major research interests are in social justice history particularly Women’s History. He is also engaged in research in a variety of themes in History. He began his academic career in 2004 as a Demonstrator at the Department of History at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Cape Coast, Ghana.

In 2005, he became Senior Research Assistant at UCC upon completion of a Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) degree in History before finally moving to UEW in 2007 as a Lecturer. For his Bachelor’s degree, he studied English and History at the University of Cape Coast. He had his high school education at the prestigious St. Peter’s Senior High school, Nkwatia-Kwahu, from 1989-1996 where he did both the Ordinary Level and the Advanced Level examinations in 1994 and 1996 respectively. At St Peter’s, he had a keen interest in History and Debating among other disciplines.

Eric Sakyi Nketiah was involved in student activism and leadership activities and developed his interest in leadership activism whilst a student. At the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Cape Coast in Ghana, for instance, where he belonged to the Casely-Hayford Hall, he was President of the Faculty of Arts Students Association (FASA) in the 2001/2002 academic year. Earlier, in the 2000/2001 academic year, he had been Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the Local Chapter of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) at the University of Cape Coast. At the local community level, he was President of Sehwi Oseikojokrom Students Union (OKKSU) at Sehwi Oseikojokrom in the Western North Region of Ghana from 1999-2003.

He has served on the governing boards and committees of a few rights institutions and Christian organizations.

These include the Reprographic Rights Organization of Ghana (COPYGHANA) representing non-fiction authors in Ghana, the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI), the biggest Christian laymen’s organization in the world (in his capacity as Field Representative for Central Region, Zone 1 among other offices held at the Chapter level of the FGBMFI such as Assistant Secretary, Secretary, Vice President and President).

He has also served the office of the UEW University Chaplain as a Member of the Chaplaincy Board, the Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students (GHAFES) and the Scripture Union (SU). He has also served on the Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), the Academic Board of UEW as well as the Board of the Faculty of Social Science Education (FSSE) in his capacity as the Head of the Department of History Education. He has been Chairman of the Board of the Department of History Education of the University of Education; a position he held for a couple of years.

Eric Sakyi Nketiah has been President of the Local chapter of the University Teachers Association of Ghana at the University of Education, Winneba (UTAG-UEW), from 2019 to 2022.

Eric Sakyi Nketiah is the author of the following books:

i. BEYOND THE LECTURE HALL: WHAT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DO NOT HEAR AT LECTURES (2015)

ii. A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN POLITICS IN GHANA, 1957-1992, VOL. 1 (2010); among many other scholarly publications published locally and internationally. He has more than half a dozen yet-to-be published scholarly works.

Eric Sakyi Nketiah has a strong belief in leadership, academic, professional and moral excellence among others. He is a dedicated, punctual, hardworking and goal-driven educator with a solid commitment to academic growth and the professional development of students.

He believes this is achieved through the educator having to cultivate a culture of reading, researching and writing and publishing so that they can have something to give since a person cannot offer what they do not have. He believes that the educator must apply good interpersonal and communication skills to foster meaningful relationships with students and staff in order to achieve goals. This is because Eric Sakyi Nketiah views education as the management of excellence and so nothing must be spared in this endeavor to arrive at excellence for students singularly and collectively.

As an academic, Eric Sakyi Nketiah’s professional activities have revolved around the following:
• Planning, Designing and Development of Course Syllabus/Outline

• Planning, Designing and Implementation of Instruction

• Assessment of Learning Outcomes

• Academic Advising/Counselling of Students

• Supervision of Students’ Research Projects

• Analysing Students’ performance for Curriculum/Course Review

• Conducting Subject Area Research

• Conducting Extra-Curricular Research

• Publication of Research Output

• Co-ordinating, Organising, Invigilating/Supervising students during Examinations

• Accompanying students on Educational Trips

• Sitting on Committees at the Department/Faculty/University Level

• Providing Leadership in Academic Departments/Faculties

He believes in God and is a practicing Christian. He is a very active member of the Holy Spirit Catholic Chaplaincy (HSCC) at the North Campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in Ghana where he has served as a member of the HSCC Church Council. He lives in Winneba with his wife, Akosua Serwaa Nketiah and daughters, Abena Antwiwaa Nketiah, Akua Kwartenmaa Nketiah and son Samuel Akwasi Sakyi Nketiah.

ERIC SAKYI NKETIAH (MR.)
SENIOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY EDUCATION
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA (UEW)
GHANA

REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS @ AGE 45
(TO GOD BE THE GLORY)

A Christian’s life must be evidence that if you pay attention to Jesus Christ and you turn towards his ways, he will make you a sign and a wonder.

A. AS A LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER

1. Between 2004 and 2022, he successfully taught hundreds of students who have graduated and are now working and empowering thousands of students throughout Ghana and beyond. Some of them are lecturers.
By the end of 2022, he had taught nineteen batches of university graduate year groups; the first batch graduating in 2006 and the nineteenth batch expected to graduate in 2024.

2. In 2010, he led a team to put together the Social Science Conference under the theme “Bringing the Gown to Town: Reflections on Contemporary Issues in the Development of Africa”
This has been the first in-house conference at the University of Education, Winneba since 1992. There was none before it and as at the end of 2022, there had been none after it.
When he came out with the idea of this conference in 2008, he was the youngest lecturer in Ghana to have created an academic conference.

3. In 2010 when he published A History of Women in Politics in Ghana from 1957 to 1992, he was the youngest University of Education, Winneba lecturer to have published a book outside the country.

4. In 2011, when he led a group of colleagues to write DISTANCE VOLUME VOL. 1, he was the youngest University of Education, Winneba lecturer to have edited a book written by colleagues……….. and the youngest University of Education, Winneba lecturer to have edited a book written by colleagues and published outside Ghana. This was a double achievement!

5. In the 2011/2012 academic year; he was the youngest University of Education, Winneba academic to have been appointed to a national board or council established under an Act of Parliament (ACT 690, LI 1962) when he was appointed to represent all non-fiction writers in Ghana on the Reprography (Copy Ghana) Board. On the board itself, he was the youngest of the Members of the Board of Directors. For more than ten years, he remained the youngest Board Member on that national board.

B. AS A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT BOARD.

6. First of all, at the time, in 2017, he was the youngest Ghanaian Academic/ Historian to have been appointed as Head of a Department for the study of history in Ghana.

C. AS U.T.A.G – UEW PRESIDENT

7. The youngest person to have been elected president of UTAG-UEW in 2019.

8. The first UTAG-UEW President to have initiated a real estate project and to have successfully rolled it out.
9. The first to win an election by beating an incumbent UTAG-UEW President
10. The youngest Lecturer to win the UTAG-UEW Presidency back-to-back during his reelection bid in September, 2021

D. AS MEMBER OF UEW GOVERNING COUNCIL

11. The youngest lecturer to have been elected by Convocation in February 2020 at age forty-two years to serve on the University of Education, Winneba’s Governing Council.

 
Published By: Sir Phylose (FINAL YEAR HISTORY STUDENT -UEW)

Source:  MyGhanaMedia.com