Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has indicated plans are far advanced to rename the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) after its founder, Nana Opoku Ampomah.
According to NAPO, “the necessary constitutional and legal processes have been put in motion to effect the name change to ‘Opoku-Ampomah University of Professional Studies.’
He gave this assurance during a courtesy call on the Chief of Amoafo, Nana Opoku Ampomah as part of his tour of the Bekwai Constituency in the Ashanti Region.
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When on August 28, 2023, Joseph Kwaku Opoku-Ampomah, the man who founded what is now University of Professional Studies, Accra, (UPSA), celebrated his 95th birthday, fittingly, it was a day of festivity to commemorate this momentous milestone.
Sadly, the one gift that would have been the superlative icing on his nonagenarian birthday cake is still awaited: the promised renaming of the University after its founder, who is also the Paramount Chief of the Amoafo-Bekwai Traditional Area, in the Ashanti Region, with the stool name of Nana Opoku-Ampomah.
Five long years after that promise was made to the founder of the Institute of Professional Studies, as he named it, and better known in its early years as the famous IPS, Nana Ampomah, is still waiting for the renaming to be done.
The promise was announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo on April 25, 2018, when the President was the Guest of Honour at the UPSA’s Fourth Special Congregation, during which, the University conferred on Nana Opoku-Ampomah an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the development of education in the country.
