This year’s National Best Teacher Award was won by Nicholas Mawunyo Gborse of the Bishop Herman College, Kpando in the Volta Region.
For his prize, he won a three bedroom house worth GH¢180,000 (One hundred and eighty thousand Ghana cedis) and a certificate of honour.
The second prize of a 4×4 vehicle, laptop and educational materials went to Mrs Augusta Lartey-Young of the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School.
Mr. Owusu Antepin of the Nsutaman Catholic Senior High took the third prize of a Saloon car worth one hundred thousand, laptop and educational materials.
In his acceptance speech, the overall best teacher Nicholas Mawunyo Gbosee thanked government for recognising teachers, adding that despite the structural challenges, government has fulfilled the dreams of thousands of school children with the free SHS.