Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid takes over from Mr Mr Hassan Tampuli as the newly appointed Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). His work is officially scheduled to begin on July 1, 2021.
Dr. Hamid was first appointed Minister of information in 2017 by President Akufo Addo. A ministerial reshuffle took Dr. Hamid to head the Ministry of Zongo and inner-city development. A ministry he headed through to the end of the first term of the Akufo led administration.
He is a journalist and an academic who taught for several years at the University of Cape Coast before his appointment as minister in 2017. Dr. Abdul- Hamid holds an MPhil and PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Cape Coast.
Dr. Abdul-Hamid has served in the New Patriotic Party in various capacities including National Youth Organiser, Executive Secretary of the Danquah Institute, a Policy and Research Think-tank based in Accra, and spokesperson for the then New Patriotic Party Presidential Candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, until February 2017.
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In 2020, he was appointed as the Deputy National Campaign Manager for the New Patriotic Party for the Presidential Elections.
Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid was born on the 14th of June 1971 in Tamale, in the Northern Region of Ghana.
He attended the Station Experimental Primary School at the Kamina Barracks from 1976- 1982.
In the same year 1982, he gained admission to Bawku Secondary School where he sat for the Ordinary Level Examination in 1987.
He then attended Tamale Secondary School for his Sixth Form education where he sat for his Advance Level Examination in 1989. In 1991, he entered the University of Cape Coast for his undergraduate studies, where he studied Classics, English and Religion.
He majored in Religious Studies and obtained a Second Class Honours, Upper Division.
He had previously worked as the News Editor for Choice FM, then based in Accra, Editor of the Statesman Newspaper and the Highstreet Journal.
He has several global scholarly publications to his name and comes into the job with a reputation for upholding honesty and integrity in his public life.
Source: ATLFMNEWS
