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Cameron Duodu to deliver GNA @ 50
Lecture
Accra, Feb. 22, GNA – The Ghana News Agency, the only
statutory organisation specifically set up to collect and
distribute objective, unbiased and truthful news to other
media houses, would be celebrating its 50th anniversary on
March 5, 2007.
In connection with the celebration Mr Cameron Duodu, a
Veteran Ghanaian Journalist based in London, would deliver
the “GNA @ 50 Lecture” at the Accra International Conference
Centre on Monday March 5 2007 at 1600 hours.
The celebration is on the theme: “Retooling GNA To Make It
As Relevant Today As It Was In The Beginning”.
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, First President, inaugurated GNA
on the eve of Ghana’s Independence on March 5 1957 in a room
at the Headquarters of Ghana Information Service at James
Town, Accra.
The GNA at its nascent was charged to champion the cause of
the underprivileged in the society and to bring their
concerns to the attention of Government.
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who referred to GNA as his
“baby”, said: “I foresee the day when the initials “GNA”
tagged to news items would find an unchallenged place in any
newspaper of standing wherever it may be.”
The Agency played its role so well that during the
inauguration of its permanent Office at the Ministries in
Accra in 1965, Osagyefo Nkrumah said: “We are gathered here
today to inaugurate this new and modern building of the
Ghana News Agency.
“These Offices are vastly different from the humble
quarters, in James Town, where I first inaugurated the Ghana
News Agency only eight short years ago.
“The growth of the Ghana News Agency since 1957; symbolises
in many ways the gigantic strides made by Ghana in eight
brief years of independence.
“From humble beginning, and bearing the heavy burden of a
colonial legacy, we are developing with great speed into a
strong and progressive State with the great goal of
socialism”, Osagyefo Nkrumah said.
GNA has lived up to Osagyefo Nkrumah’s dream over the years,
growing to become a news agency of repute in the world and
the pride of Africa.
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