ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 The author is a professional teacher and e-market information agent.

He completed Ghana Secondary School, Tamale in 1994. Later he enrolled at Tamale Polytechnic Institute where he pursued HND Programme in Secretaryship and Management Studies in 2004 and proceeded to the University of Education Winneba, Kumasi where he obtained a Diploma in Education on graduation in 2009. During the period, he enrolled at the University of Cape Coast and completed a Bachelor of Management programme in 2011. He is currently pursuing a postgraduate diploma in International Finance Management at Concord Business College, Tamale.

He started his career as a teacher in 1995 at the Little Flower Primary School, a private school in Tamale. Later he wrote articles and feature stories for the “New Ghanaian” the “Northern Advocate and the “News Update” and was later appointed as a newspaper correspondent for the “Envoy” in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions.

Shortly after completing the HND programme, he served as Marketing Officer for the Association of Church Development Projects (ACDEP) in the execution of their market access sponsored project under the E. P. Church Rural Development Programme in Yendi.

After national service, he served again under the National Voluntary Programme at Dagbong State Senior High Technical School, Yendi in 2006. In the same year, the author was also appointed as secretary to Tisung Agro Production and Processing Organisation, an agro processing non-profit making organisation based in Yendi and Po in Burkina Faso.

He was formally appointed as a teacher by the Ghana Education Service in 2007 and posted to Dagbong State Senior High Technical School where he has been teaching ICT.

He was appointed as Esoko e-market information agent for Yendi in 2008 and later trained as a certified Esoko agent in 2010. In 2010, he was again appointed as a part-time management tutor by the School of Professional Studies, Yendi. He also doubles as assistant to the coordinator of School of Professional Studies, Yendi. He is also a part-time lecturer at Concord Business College, Tamale.