Glory Days Turns To Olden Days; Nifa Senior High School Cries For Help

Ghanaeducation.org can confirm that things are not going well at the Nifa Senior High School in Adukrom-Akuapem in the Okere District of the Eastern Region.

The school that used to be Okere’s pride is in bad shape. Most of the school’s buildings are falling apart, including classrooms, the dining hall, the boys’ dormitory, and washrooms.

Most of the louver blades in the school’s dining hall, which is also used as the Assembly Hall, are broken.

Saddening things are going on at the boys’ dorm. When it rains, the roofs leak badly and flood the rooms, ruining the things that the students own.

Under the condition of anonymity, a second-year student said, “We are living in a mess. Nifa is not what it used to be a few years ago. If I’d known that Nifa was like this, I wouldn’t have picked it. The dorm we live in is in very bad shape. Louvre blades are all gone off. The place is also cold, so you can imagine how we feel, especially when it rains.”

He also said, “I think the PTA and the old students can help us in some way. The P.T.A. should come here to see for themselves what’s going on. I think the P.T.A. should do something to help make this place better.

He asked the government and other important people to help the school build an assembly hall so that the dining hall could be used for what it was made for.

He said that the school had problems with infrastructure growth because only 20 of the 108 teachers stayed on campus. With less than 20 teachers on campus, it is hard to teach discipline to the more than 2,500 students.

He also said that there should be a good environment for learning, and that fixing the louvre blades in the classroom would help keep students warm when the weather is bad.

To handle the huge number of students, the dining hall needs to be bigger, a meeting hall needs to be built, and the teachers need more bungalows.

The school also doesn’t have enough desks and chairs to help teach and learn well. When they want to write, some students have to put their books on their laps.

We were not able to talk to the school’s headmaster, Dr. Philip Victor Akoto, about the state of the buildings.

The Ministry of Education closed the Adukrom Teacher Training College in 1971, which led to the creation of Nifa SHS (now Ghana Education Service).

The main goal of the change in status was to give full secondary school educations to the growing number of boys and girls, especially those who lived in the Okere community and didn’t have many other options for getting a secondary education because there weren’t enough secondary schools.

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