ACCRA: NUNGUA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY

Nungua Senior High School Launched 60 years celebration.


Story by BISMARK OPPONG

The Nungua Senior High School (NUNSEC) has launched its 60 years celebration.

The idea to establish the first secondary school in Njngua was conceived in the year 19t8 by Nii Quaye Tawiah, a prominent entrepreneur and son of the town.

In that year, his 15 years-old son, Master Enoch Otu Quaye, who had been mentored by Mr. E.J. Klufio, the headmaster of the Presbyterian Secondary School, Odumase Krobo, and a form one student in that class had to be recalled home and installed a chief Nungua.

The experiences of thses role required thag this young chief would have to stay at Nungua to readily avail himself of chieftaincy duties.

However, the young lad had a great desire for academic honors, and insisted that he be allowed to continue and complete his secondary education.

His father concentered, but rather than sending him back to Krkbo Odumase, he decided to establish a local secondary school at Nungua, his hometown, where Mantse Nii Odai Ayiku, IV, could pursue his studies, and also be readily available for chieftancy affairs and duties.Within two years of his resolve, Nii Quaye Nhngha had made swift Sustainable preparations and converted into a secondary school his multi-unit building complex in his then large residential compound, equipped with it own electricity generator, the only one in the town then.

That building complex, whichnlater became the girls’ dormitory in nearly its original form, had previously  been used by the government to train teachers for secondary and other schools across con country.

Thus began the journey of the first secondary school ever to be established in the Nungua township.

On 4th January, 1960, the school was officially opened with two classrooms on the ground floor of the building that in later years became the gjrls’ dormitory, and the dinning hall.

The first student was of course Nik Odai Ayiku, IV, and theee other young men– Lamptey Awuletey, Omaboe, and Lokko.

It has been 60 years long years with many historic event.







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