Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang

thumb|Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang in 2020 Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang FGA (née Sam; born 22 November 1951) is a Ghanaian academic and politician who served as Minister for Education from February 2013 to January 2017. She is a professor of literature. She served as the first female Vice-Chancellor of a state university in Ghana when she took over as Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast. She currently serves as the Chancellor of the Women's University in Africa. Quotes We must provide opportunities that transcend political patronage 'connection' and the practice of whom-you-know. Equal and fair opportunities based on merit are an imperative for sustainable economic growth. The time for a shift is now. Prof.Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang NDC running mate for election 2020. “It’s all about putting the group above the individual and understanding that our actions today shape the legacy we leave for tomorrow” “My age is not a nuisance, it is a blessing … I’m proud of every minute God has given me.” “When you are going into an election and you are very sure that the right structures have been put in place … whatever outcome you get, you are compelled to accept it.” “Politics should be geared towards development and devoid of insults and acrimony.” “The NPP’s ‘It Is Possible’ is pure deception: look at their track record.” “Politics about fighting injustice, hunger, hopelessness, arrogance, selfishness, unbridled greed, corruption, state capture, disrespect of fellow human beings.” “A future that excludes young people, women and small enterprises is not one we can afford to sleepwalk into.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “Act with boldness, act with clarity, act with purpose.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “Don’t be intimidated.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “It is not about making yourself in other people’s image.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “It is not about your hairline.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “It is not about your eyebrow.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “It is not about the hair you do not like.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) It is about impact; it is about staying true to the values.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/02/vice-president-urges-public-service-agencies-to-promote-equity-through-organisational-culture/? gna.org (february 18,2026) “Even as we continue to navigate global and domestic challenges, this moment must be used not only to recover but to reset our economic direction.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “As an advisory body, our mandate is clear and demanding to provide independent, rigorous and practical advice to support the Government.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “We complement existing institutions by offering insight, testing assumptions and proposing solutions informed by global best practice and grounded in Ghana’s realities.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “We will foster dialogue, intellectual honesty and collective responsibility, engage across sectors and deliver actionable advice aligned with Ghana’s long-term development vision.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “As a lifelong teacher myself, I would like to respectfully leave my esteemed colleagues and myself with our first piece of homework.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “That is, for us to constantly reflect on what the term, the economy, should mean to our fellow citizens.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “In short, our task is sobering.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “Our pledge is to provide independent, thorough and practical leadership to support this collective effort.” Economic transformation require discipline _ vise president gna.org (February 11,2026) “As we commemorate this important day, let us remember our shared responsibility to build workplaces where equity, respect, dignity, and opportunity are a reality for every woman, and let me add, for every man too.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “You don’t agree to that, do you?” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “We can continue to build institutions and a nation where talent, competence, and leadership are recognized and rewarded without limitation.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “The vast majority of our women don’t have this.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “They are also in the workplace in the markets.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “They are in the workplace on the streets.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “They are in the workplace in their homes.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “They also matter.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “When we have voices, let us use the voices in the interest of those who don’t have the voices.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “I’ve never heard them go on strike because nobody will listen to them.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “And yet they have needs.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “In fact, I’ll sponsor the brass band.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “I’m not saying that a strike is a reason or that I’m calling for strikes.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “We should use our voice not only for ourselves, but also for those who don’t have voices.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “International Women’s Day is a reminder that a nation’s advancement could not be separated from the advancement of its women.” The path to gender Equality requires collaboration_ vise president gna.org (march11,2026) “If you went to any school and you looked at the attendance, you would notice that there were certain times when some girls were missing.” Vise president presents sanitary pads to some schools in Upper west gna.org (April26,2026) “Insofar as you see a pattern and you can extract the meaning of that pattern, it means you can problematise the problem, and then you can find a solution.” Vise president presents sanitary pads to some schools in Upper west gna.org (April26,2026) “What we saw was that the girls were missing school, not because they didn’t want to come to school, not because there was a problem, but because their natural bodies were behaving the way they are expected to.” Vise president presents sanitary pads to some schools in Upper west gna.org (April26,2026) “Believe in yourselves, focus on what you are doing, do it well.” Vise president presents sanitary pads to some schools in Upper west gna.org (April26,2026) “I want to encourage you to become much, much better than you have ever been.” Vise president presents sanitary pads to some schools in Upper west gna.org (April26,2026) “It is therefore important to examine what we preserve, what we discard, and why.” Vise president Opoku Agyemang engages ghanaians students to university of oxford gna.org (May16,2026) “The future of African food security must be grown in African soil, financed by beneficial partnerships, powered by African enterprise and sustained through regional cooperation.” Future of Africa's food security must be grown on African soil_vise president gna.org (June 2,2026) “Ghana’s transformation will be achieved through the collective efforts of citizens who are educated, innovative, patriotic and committed to the national cause.” Education,human capital development is government' topmost priority_Veep gna.org (August11,2026) “As you leave these walls you must become active participants in the Resetting Ghana Agenda by exhibiting integrity at work, being innovative and entrepreneurial, rejecting corruption and mediocrity, creating employment, solving community problems and using the means to improve the lives of others.” Education,human capital development is government' topmost priority_Veep gna.org (August11,2026) “Football and democracy have much in common.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/08/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-receives-democracy-cup/# gna.org (August28,2026) “Both thrive on participation, rules, fairness and respect for institutions.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/08/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-receives-democracy-cup/# gna.org (August28,2026) “While we may support different sides and disagree passionately, the game is ultimately bigger than any one side.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/08/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-receives-democracy-cup/# gna.org (August28,2026) “I want to congratulate Stratcomm Africa, Madam Cobbah and her team, the Ghana Garden and Flower Movement, the exhibitors and everyone who has contributed to all editions of this show.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/09/veep-commends-esther-cobbah-for-sustaining-ghanas-garden-and-flower-movement/# gna.org (September 13,2026) “West Africa continues to grapple with climate change and environmental degradation with far-reaching consequences for livelihoods and food security, which are compounded by population displacement and growing insecurity.” https://gna.org.gh/2026/09/veep-urges-ecowas-to-invest-in-youth/# gna.org (September22,2026) “When women thrive, families, communities, nations prosper.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “Let us accelerate action for our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, and for the future of our great nation.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “A happy International Women’s Day to all of us.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “Let us continue to accelerate action.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “International Women’s Day is our day.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “Women of Ghana, International Women’s Day is our day.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “We do not only recognize the profound contributions of women in every sphere of society, but we also affirm our commitment to breaking the barriers that have long hindered our full participation in the nation’s progress.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “Ghanaian women are the backbone of our families, communities, and economy, of course.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “Whether in our archives, in the boardrooms, classrooms, farmlands, or on the beaches, women continue to drive innovation, nurture growth, and shape the future of our country.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “And as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to create an ecosystem where everyone can thrive without enforced limitations.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “We all must do better to support the women of Ghana.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “As we celebrate this day, let us reaffirm our collective commitment to building a Ghana where every woman and girl has the freedom to dream, the power to achieve, and the support to excel.” Empowering women is national imperative -Opoku Agyemang gna.org (March8,2025) “We must choose to end all forms of violence against women and girls.” Vise presidents calls an end to violence against women gna.org (March10,2025) “In whatever form it may take, in whatever rationale we can profess for it, whether human trafficking, domestic violence, accusations of witchcraft and the resulting instant justice, child marriage, female genital mutilation or sexual violence, all of these demand our sustained action.” Vise presidents calls an end to violence against women gna.org (March10,2025) “Just the right to grow, the right to choose what helps, the right to contribute to your community, the right to contribute to your nation.” Vise presidents calls an end to violence against women gna.org (March10,2025) “It should not be seen as an aberration.” Vise presidents calls an end to violence against women gna.org (March10,2025) “The Committee’s report will be the foundation upon which our educational policies will be shaped and implemented to build an inclusive, equitable, transformative education system for the benefit of all Ghanaians.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/03/education-forum-report-will-shape-the-foundation-of-our-education-vice-president/# gna.org (March13,2025) “The Forum confirms that education reform is a shared responsibility and a collective journey that requires all voices, all perspectives, and all hands-on-deck.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/03/education-forum-report-will-shape-the-foundation-of-our-education-vice-president/# gna.org (March13,2025) “I wish to assure members of the committee that your recommendations will not gather dust on the shelf.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/03/education-forum-report-will-shape-the-foundation-of-our-education-vice-president/# gna.org (March13,2025) “I expressed my sincere gratitude for their support and congratulated each of them for the strides they are making in their roles.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/06/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-engages-female-mps/#u gna.org ( june 28,2025) “We need to reach out to other aspiring women, offering mentorship and encouragement to help them rise.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/06/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-engages-female-mps/#u gna.org ( june 28,2025) “We need to work ourselves to the position where we are just happy to be in our country and we are happy to contribute to our country.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/07/mahama-climaxes-republic-day-celebration-with-a-luncheon-for-senior-citizens/# gna.org (July2,2025) “I underscored the importance of extending the opportunities we have received to the next generation.” https://gna.org.gh/2025/06/vice-president-opoku-agyemang-engages-female-mps/#u gna.org ( june 28,2025) "5 reasons for $5+ billion: Interview with Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang" Governments must continuously demonstrate that education is the fulcrum of all development, the hub around which all spokes - security, health, the economy, climate change, equality, human rights and others revolve. I found school to be a fun place, making friends, learning and discovering new things. The most impactful teachers were those who smiled, encouraged, tolerated, and who recognized that some flowers take time to bloom. If we base our conviction on the premise that everyone can learn, then we can reach out of school girls too, with different modes of learning. The longer we keep girls out of school, the further the number increases and the more the desire for global peace will elude us all. A major pillar is effective public education on the importance of effective education for all, especially for girls and women to ground their central role in the life of the family, society, self. I am not an economist but I understand the economy. Naana Opoku-Agyemang to critics Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s inaugural speech Giving up is not an option. Stay the course. As a people, we have survived many unspeakable atrocities. Read and know your true history. We just celebrated the Year of Return. Read that history, very, very carefully. It has not been a nice cup of sobolo. Making history is gratifying; but what really matters is not to be first through the door. What matters is to hold the door open for those behind us and create other avenues for self actualization for many more. We are a people who jump over many hurdles. Walking that road is an act of courage. That experience is a forge of character. When there appears to be selective justice; when some offenders are not even placed on the hook but are hailed and promoted for being nasty and violent, the logical outcome is what we see. To all the little girls and boys across our country, always dream big; remain focused. You can grow to become anything you want to be. Believe that only you can stop yourselves. It is not going to be about your parents, rich or poor; not the region you come from and whether it is endowed with resources or not. Remember that natural endowment is what it is; it did not come from the effort of anyone. It is nature that placed those resources there. That is why we call them natural resources. The 2024 election is about "reversing the negative trend" set by the current government and emphasized the need for accountability, prosperity, and job creation. External link Category:Women politicians in Ghana Category:Education ministers Category:Educators from Ghana Category:1951 births Category:Women born in the 1950s Category:Living people Category:Women academics from Ghana