NEWS IN GHANA

Not many of her kind are that fortunate to have access to basic education, let alone enrol themselves into Senior High School (SHS) to even come out with flying colours despite their woes. Similarly, nowhere in the history of Ghana has it been told about a head porter, popularly called Kayayo, who has demonstrated outmost discipline, commitment and dint of hard work backed by an admirable academic prowess as an achievement. But standing tall among her peers, Abudu Salah,22, a Kayayo who resides within a slum in Accra has defied every odd, broke through the cycle of poverty, torture and all forms of abuses to get herself enrolled into a Senior High School. Ms. Abudu did not only manage to secure an admission into SHS for the sake of it but went ahead to prove herself as the second overall best student in the 2018 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). She did the unthinkable, came out with flying colours, scoring six A’s and two B’s, a result ma