Rita Ampofo crowned Miss Oxford 2006

Tema, Aug. 20, GNA - Miss Rita Ampofo, was crowned Miss Oxford 2006 in a beauty pageant organised by the Management of Oxford Computer Systems (OCS) for its students at the Rotary Centre in Tema at the weekend.

Miss Ampofo took home a 14-inch colour television, cash, certificate and free software training worth 1.4 million cedis at OCS. Miss Josephine Ameka, the first runner-up received a ghetto blaster, cash and certificate, while Miss Emelia Ferguson the second runner-up had a gas cooker, cash and certificate.

Eleven other contestants received consolation prizes of 300,000 cedis each and a certificate.

The pageant formed part of activities marking the fifth graduation of OCS, a training institution in computer software, hardware, networking and secretarial courses.

It was under the theme "Thirteen years of Academic Excellence," to unearth talents of the contestants.

Osahene Boakye Djan, Consultant Director of Strategic Wealth Consulting, stressed the need for proper training of the mental and physical faculties of the youth to assume leadership roles in future. He appealed to government to give Technology Education the needed attention it deserved, because technology held the key to wealth creation and socio-economic development of the country. Osahene Boakye Djan commended the management of OCS for the high academic excellence in the past 13 years and the training of more than 10,000 students most of whom were gainfully employed. Mr Albert Armah, Director of the Institute, was optimistic that students of OCS would enter the society with self-confidence from their training at the institute.

Dr Debora Cubagee, a retired medical practitioner noted that beauty was a blessed gift from God that an individual ought to utilize in an acceptable manner to develop in society.