Celebrating Diversity, Learning Our Common Humanity.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

It was professionally their duty to arrest pain, restore the body to good health and save lives. They did all that with a difference.

As with many other member countries of the Fund, who are effectively managing their economies and recording sustained growth in a stable environment, we will continue our close collaboration with the Fund, and all the other international financial institutions.

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

From today, we must learn to smile again. We must learn to appreciate the good in each other and we must feel pride in being Ghanaians.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Another problem afflicting higher education is the brain drain of faculty to the more advanced parts of the world. The striking feature of this challenge is that because of poor conditions of service, faculty is not able to attract young lecturers.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.