Professor Akua Britwum, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Cape Coast, has been sworn in as the first female Chairperson of the National Media Commission (NMC) since its establishment in 1993.

She was sworn into office alongside 17 other members of the Commission by Justice Noble Jerome Nkrumah, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, who administered the Oath of Allegiance and the Official Oath at a ceremony held at the Supreme Court in Accra on Wednesday, May 29, 2025.

Members of the newly constituted Commission include sports journalist and lawyer Eva Okyere, representing the Ghana Bar Association; Ernest Owusu Addo, representing Publishers and Owners of Private Press; and Anthony Obeng Afrane, representing the Ghana Association of Writers and the Ghana Library Association.

Also on the Commission are Rev.