M.E.A.F. CLARIFIES GRAPHIC PUBLICATION

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The Millennium Excellence Awards Foundation is to release the full list of winners of its competitive awards shortlisted for recognition at its third awards ceremony scheduled for Kumasi in the Ashanti region in December this year. 

It will be the Foundations’ third edition of awards since the inception of the initiative 15 years ago to identify and reward appropriately individuals, both in Ghana and in the Diaspora who are excelling in their respective fields of endeavour. 

Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi, the Operations Officer of the Foundation, Ms Catherine Morten explained that the awards are in two categories. 

These are the competitive and Honorary. 

In the Honorary awards category, certain individuals will be recognized on the second day after the main awards have been duly given out to the competitive winners. 

Ms Morten emphasized the fact that earlier names put out in a section of the local media are only Honorary award winners. 

However, the 15 winners in the competitive category will be published in a later date. 

The winners were selected after a period of painstaking research. 

They have been chosen from the fields of Education, Environment, Agriculture, Sports, Democracy and Governance, Literature among others. 

For the Honorary Award winners, Ms Morten mentioned persons such as ace investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his exceptional public service, President John Dramani Mahama, former President John Agyekum Kuffuor, former Secretary General of the United States, Kofi Annan, the Nigerian prolific Writer, Wole Soyinka among others. 

The Millennium Excellence Awards are awarded every five years with the first two editions held in Ghana’s capital, Accra while the third one is planned for the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi. 

The Foundation, which has the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11 as its Life Patron, has hinted of holding the fourth edition of the awards in South Africa.

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