Ten finalist will battle for the ultimate at the coronation of Miss Malaika Ghana 2023, which comes off on Friday, November 24, at the Accra International Conference Centre.
One name, which stands out from the lot, is Lady Nana Yaa Nsarko who has maintained an admirable composure and shown remarkable progress and impeccable achievements throughout the show.
‘Lady’, as she is affectionately called, is noted to have won four of the six in-house tasks all the competitors were assigned frequently, including cultural, photoshoot, fun night, and fashion tasks, and would be looking forward to crowing this feat with the grand prize of cash, a car and a crown.
Nana Yaa Nsarko who aims to be a human rights lawyer says she would live up to expectation when she wins the competition.
Showstoppers including, Mr Drew, Sefa, Olive the Boy, Loli X Lola, Maya Blu and Banzy Banero are expected to perform on Friday night when the show kicks off at 8pm.
Lady Nana Yaa Nsarko had her basic education at St Peter’s Mission Scho
ol before proceeding to Aburi Girls’ Senior High School where she became the President of the Ghana United Nations Student and Youth Association.
She holds a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). During her time at KNUST, she participated in various legal forums, showcasing her prowess in women empowerment, negotiations, clinic and mooting and youth advocacy.
Yaa Nsarko has a special appreciation for diverse perspectives and believes in constructive dialogues. Outside academics, she is a Youth Counselor, a Digital content creator.
Recently, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Women Empowerment in Ghana by the New York Base International Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
Global Peace, an initiative of ACCORD based in Durban, South Africa, once featured Nana Yaa Nsarko as a distinguished speaker at the Global Peace Summit on Youth, Peace and Security.
Global Peace initially had its maiden Intergenerational Dialogue launched in Accra in May 2019 by
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana.
With exceptional talent, she hopes to combine legal knowledge, communication skills, and high school experiences to excel in her career and positively influence the lives of her peers and her community.
Nana Yaa seeks to embark on deepening awareness creation on HIV and promoting HIV self-testing as her project when she wins the crown. Her hobbies are cooking, dancing and taking pictures.
Source: Ghana News Agency
The Young Professional and Youth Coalition (YPYC) has charged the youth to increase climate activism in furtherance of achieving the objects of the ‘Conference of the Parties’ – COP 28.
In a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency in Accra ahead of a one-day high level virtual youth conference, scheduled for November 27, President and Founder, YPYC, Mr Andy Osei Okrah, said diverse initiatives had been triggered locally to feed into the global challenge to strengthen youth participation in climate change programmes and urged young people to take advantage of them.
‘The YPYC will join the comity of nations in a concerted campaign to roll back the pervasive effects of climate change on humanity and livelihoods.’
Mr Osei Okrah said behavioral change held the key to positioning the youth as owners with a greater stake in the fortunes of the environment in the distant future to join global initiatives in restoring the ecology to its former self.
He said student leaders, tertiary students, young professional
s, youth and climate change advocates and ambassadors, who made up the target group, should constitute themselves into brand ambassadors of climate change content for the good of humanity.
He said the conference would navigate the delicate balance of achieving a healthy, regulated climate and the ever-increasing human reliance on same for research, industrial growth and technological advances.
‘We need collective mobilisation to bring issues of the environment to the front burner to let same feature prominently on the table of officialdom in tandem with political success and economic prosperity, which predominantly, has been the priority of the political class,’ Mr Osei Okrah added.
He noted that: ‘Stopping global warming is an inherently global goal since greenhouse gasses emitted anywhere, affect people everywhere, and the survival or otherwise of one, is inextricably indexed to the other.’
The YPYC Founder called for fair and inclusive decision-making process in a bid to thread down the wave of increas
ed heat and drought in parts of the world.
‘The single biggest health threat facing humanity, including air quality, disease, extreme weather events, forced displacement, increased hunger and poor nutrition can be reversed with the active inclusion of the youth.’
Speakers for the conference include Miss Roselyn Fosuah Adjei, Director of Climate Change, Forestry Commission, Professor Daniel Ofori, Director, Forest Research institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Miss Dora Cudjoe, lead stakeholder engagement, CIF,USA.
Source: Ghana News Agency
