Executive Director for Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare has admonished Ghana's Education Minister Designate, Haruna Iddrisu to bridge the generational north-south divide in education access and quality.

He argues that the five northern sector regions, Oti and Western North represents the most deprived regions in education in Ghana.

Adding that the 7 regions have the highest number of schools under trees (over 4k), pupils without adequate desks (over 1m), pupils without textbooks, teacher deficits and percentage out of school children.

Therefore, as the first Education Minister-designate from the Northern part of the country, this will be an opportunity to bridge that gap.