Nana Akufo-Addo, the President has assured Professor Philip Duku Osei and Mr. Job Asante on their appointment as Vice-Chancellor and Registrar, respectively, of the SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies that they will have his support and the support of the Government in the pursuit of your progressive agenda for the University.
He, therefore, wished both leaders the very best of luck and God’s guidance in all their endeavors.
Speaking at the investiture of a new Vice-Chancellor of the SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, in Wa, on Thursday, 20th January 2022, President Akufo-Addo was confident that, in the two persons, “we have persons capable of laying a strong foundation for the rapid take-off of this University”.
“The Vice Chancellor’s induction into the office today is a mark of the trust that the first-ever Governing Council of the University has reposed in him, and I am confident that this trust will not be broken. His wealth of experience, with decades of service, makes him an appropriate person for this all-important assignment. I want to assure him that my government will help ensure that the University fulfills its mandate,” he added.
It was, thus, the President’s that the University will produce graduates, who are molded to take on the opportunities and possibilities for higher achievement, through creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation, and who will, thereby, help generate prosperity for the masses of Ghanaians.
Professor Philip Duku Osei has been Vice-Chancellor of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) since May 2020. Prior to moving to SDD-UBIDS, Professor Osei was the Deputy Rector of Ghana’s foremost management university, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. He has 21 years of experience as a researcher and an executive in higher education. After a 15year stint as a Researcher and Senior Fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of West Indies( UWI), Mona Campus in Jamaica, he returned to Ghana and took up administrative and executive management positions at GIMPA for six years until the Government of Ghana appointed him to lead as premiering or foundation Vice-Chancellor in the setting up of the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
Source: Mybrytfmnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
