 In 1941 he entered the Tamale Middle School and his middle school education ended in 1944.He trained as a teacher at the Government Teacher Training College from 1945 to 1946 and obtained his Teachers' Certificate B.After teaching for a year at Fumbisi (a town in the Builsa District), he returned to the Government Teacher Training College in 1949 and received his Teachers' Certificate A in 1950.