11TH Ghana Women of Excellence Awards to be held

This year’s Ghana Women of Excellence Awards Dinner will be held at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, North Ridge, Accra, on Friday, 6th March 2026 to commemorate International Women’s Day.

International Women’s Day is celebrated worldwide on 8th March. In Ghana, the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs mandated in 2010 that the occasion should be commemorated with the Ghana Women of Excellence Awards Scheme.

Accordingly, the 1st Ghana Women of Excellence Awards Ceremony was organised on 9th March, 2011. Subsequent editions of the Awards were staged in 2012, 2015 and annually since 2019.

Organised by Top Brass Ghana under the theme “Empowering the Ghanaian Woman for National Development”, the Ghana Women of Excellence Awards Scheme forms part of the celebration in Ghana of International Women’s Day.

According to Mr. Isaac Dakwa, Director of Top Brass Ghana, the primary objective of the Scheme is to motivate Ghanaian women to strive for excellence in their various walks of life and to take their rightful places in the national development process.

Previous Award Winners have included: Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai (world renowned breast cancer surgeon); Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo (Literary luminary. Winner of Commonwealth Writers Book Prize); Rev. Dr. Joyce Rosalind Aryee (Stateswoman); Dr. Joyce Asibey (revered educationist.

First African and long serving Headmistress of Aburi Girls Secondary School); Ms. Anna Bossman (accomplished lawyer and first female Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ)); Ing. Carlien Bou-Chedid (top class Structural Engineer.

First female President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers); Dr. Mary Chinery-Hesse (first ever woman Deputy DirectorGeneral of the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO) with the rank of UN Under Secretary-General) and Prof. Florence Abena Dolphyne (brilliant academic. First female Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana).

Also honoured in the past have been: Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Torkornoo (former Chief Justice of the Republic); Brig-Gen. Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu (distinguished career in the Ghana Armed Forces. First female to reach rank of Brigadier-General); H.E. Judge Akua Kuenyehia (renowned Law Professor.

First female Law Lecturer at the University of Ghana. Long serving Judge and retired President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court (ICC)); Mad. Aurore Lokko (Ghana’s first female qualified Accountant); Mrs. Helen Koshie Lokko (astute banker. First female Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank, now GCB Bank).

Other honorees have included Prof. Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu (outstanding academician and legal luminary. Now exalted Justice of Ghana’s Supreme Court);  Elizabeth Mills-Robertson (distinguished career in Law Enforcement.

First female and only Deputy Inspector-General of Police); Dr. Letitia Eva Takyibea Obeng (excellent Environmental Scientist. First Ghanaian female Botany/Zoology graduate. Former Regional Director for Africa of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)); Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang (renowned academician. First female Vice

Chancellor of a Ghanaian University, University of Cape Coast, and now Vice-President of the Republic); Dr. Theresa Oppong-Beeko (pre-eminent female in Ghana’s real estate sector.

Founder of Manet Housing Limited); Emerita Prof. Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, distinguished research scientist and President of Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences) and Capt. Beatrice Dzifa Vormawah (first Ghanaian female to obtain Master Mariner Certificate. First Ghanaian female Captain of a Merchant Navy Ship).

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