President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Kumasi and Tamale International Airport will be renamed.
He said the Kumasi International Airport will be renamed Nana Agyeman Prempeh I International Airport and the recently commissioned airport in Tamale will be called the Yakubu Tali International Airport.
He announced this on Tuesday, February 27 when delivering the State of the Nation address.
He said “I have one more scheduled date with the House, when I would be here to give an accounting of my time in office. By that time, my successor would have been elected, and we would be getting ready for the swearing-in ceremony. The elections will be held peacefully, and the candidate with the credibility to take us on to a higher level will win. Let me wish all of us well in the elections on 7th December.
“Before then, there a number of important tasks lie ahead of us, one of which will be commissioning the Nana Agyeman Prempeh I International Airport in Kumasi, and naming the recently commissioned airport in Tamale the Yakubu Tali International Airport.
“Mr. Speaker, we stumbled, but we are rising again. We were bruised, but we are healing. We have recovered our footing. We have dusted ourselves off, and now we face tomorrow with confidence. Every day we pray and hope that adversity may spare our families, our communities and our dear nation. But should we be confronted by misfortune; we must face it like people with a proud history who fight and do not flee. Yenim ko; yen nim adwane. That is the Ghanaian spirit. That is our armour and our shield. This is our ethos.”
Kumasi Airport to be renamed Nana Agyeman Prempeh I; Tamale one to be called Yakubu Tali – President Akufo-Addo#TV3GH #SONA2024 pic.twitter.com/emmtjSh6li
— #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) February 27, 2024
Nana Agyeman Prempeh I was the Asante Kingdom’s 13th monarch. He was enstooled as Asantehene in March 1888 with the stool name Nana Kwaku Dua III Asamu of the Ashanti Empire. The name was later changed to Prempeh I.
Meanwhile, Yakubu Tali was a Ghanaian politician, Paramount Chief of the Tolon Traditional Area and founding member of the Northern People’s Party.