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Ghana’s Education 1st Class - Nana Yalley

By Citizen Korsi / The aL-hAJJ
Education Nana Yalley
AUG 4, 2016 LISTEN
Nana Yalley

A renowned US-based Ghanaian technology expert, Nana Yalley has ranked the country’s educational system as one of the best in the world.

According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Agrobrasilia International Group Export, a company hell-bent on solving the power challenges facing countries across the Africa sub-region, his schooling experience outside Ghana has exposed him to the reality that the country runs one of the best educational systems across the globe.

Speaking on Metro Tv’s Good Evening Ghana program hosted by Mr Paul Adom Otchere, Mr Yalley narrated the chilling story of how he left the shores of Ghana at age 16 and ended up schooling in one of the Scandinavian countries.

According to the technology giant, he was a stowaway on a ship from Takoradi at a tender age of 16 with hopes of landing in Europe, but was dropped off in Liberia after he was discovered and had to find his way to Norway to school courtesy the benevolence of a family friend and captain of Angel Block, a Greek ship,.

“My whole objective was I wanted to put myself back to school but I heard somewhere that Scandinavian countries were much more generous and much more understanding. So I took a train and ended up in Oslo, Norway, and I ended up going to a boarding school. The headmaster of the school and his family adopted me and helped me get all my documents in Norway and they treated me as one of their own. As soon I completed High School I went to Sweden for my university education where I studied technology,” Mr Yalley noted.

Though he has lived outside the country over the past 40 years and only came on visits, Mr Yalley praised Ghana’s educational system as offering one of the best teaching and learning methods one could get around the globe.

From a humble beginning on the streets of Takoradi where he lost his mother at age 12, Mr Yalley has built up an international profile that includes a stint at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and starting his own internet based company.

His mother, the technology giant sorrowfully narrated, was run over by a drunk driver when she was walking the streets of Takoradi with him one afternoon to make ends meet.

Mr Yalley revealed how he sold his company to Microsoft and now leading a commodities company in Brazil, and now deciding to return to Ghana to help solve the debilitating power crisis which as cripple many business and brought untold hardship to many homes.

His said his plan now is to introduce the use of ethanol, extracted from genetically modified sugar cane, to serve as an alternative energy source to solve the power challenges bedeviling Ghana and other countries across the sub region.

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