The University of Cape Coast (UCC) through its unwavering stance for proper maintenance of Ghana and Africa's aquatic nature, has commissioned the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) to aid restore the continent's deteriorating aquatic habitat to a more desirable state if not to its natural status.

The ultramodern four storey World Bank sponsored project facility, commissioned on Friday, November 10, 2023, seizes to solidify and impact individual brains with the holistic knowledge on the blue economy coupled with its sheer benefits to mankind and the disciplinary measures mankind ought to render the oceans.

Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Vice Chancellor for the University of Cape Coast in his address at the well-attended ceremony, recounted UCC as fortunate to be among the few universities, globally sited close to the atlantic ocean, hence imperative on the university to attach much seriousness on its commissioned ACECoR project, which is strategically situated close to the ocean as well.

He eulogized the impact the facility stands to offer the natives of Cape Coast, a city which is well known for its immense fishing activities. Having commended Prof. Denis Worlanyo Aheto, through whom came the actualization of the $5m fully funded building project.

The Vice Chancellor further call for a radical maintenance culture on the project which is yet to receive its final phase of completion, with enough planting of trees on its environment to enhance the beauty of the area.

Prof. Denis Worlanyo Aheto of the Coastal Ecology and Interdisciplinary Ocean Studies department of UCC in his remarks outlined the building to be a modern facility which will boost of internet connectivity, many washrooms, a cafeteria, kitchenette, a multipurpose marine environmental testing laboratory, as well as enough offices for all manner of persons (teachers, researches, students among others).

Moreover, he appealed for further resource assistance for the total development of the project, particularly on facility's high speed internet infrastructure on the next phase of the project, to enhance capacity building of the faculty to cut down cost on physical travels of its potential students at different countries.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan