How MSL Business School Students Won 46 National ICAG and CITG Awards
National Award Record · ICAG & CITG
How one Ghanaian tuition provider produced the National Overall Best Graduating Chartered Accountant at all three 2024 ICAG sittings — and 46 national awards across 13 consecutive ICAG and CITG examination sittings.
In the 2024 ICAG examination year, something happened in Ghana’s professional accounting landscape that had not happened before. One tuition provider produced the National Overall Best Graduating Chartered Accountant for all three examination sittings held that year — March, July and November. Three different cohorts. Three different examination dates. Three different winners. All from MSL Business School.
That was not an accident, and it did not happen in isolation. This page documents the full record: every national award MSL students have won, the names behind the results, and what that pattern of performance reflects about how the institution prepares candidates.
Three different cohorts. Three different examination dates. Three different winners. All from MSL Business School.
The record at a glance
- Total national awards
- 46 (February 2023 to February 2026)
- National Overall Best Graduating Students
- 7
- Subject Overall Best Student awards
- 33
- Additional distinctions
- 6 (5 Overall Best Female Graduating Student awards · 1 ICAG Level 2 Overall Best Student award)
- Consecutive winning sittings
- 13 of 13 — a national best in every ICAG and CITG diet since February 2023
- 2024 ICAG clean sweep
- All three Overall Best Graduating Student awards — March, July, November
- Examination bodies
- Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG) and Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana (CITG)
Every name, with the ceremony photographs. The continuously updated record lives on the MSL Awards page.
See the full verified award recordThe 2024 ICAG clean sweep
The National Overall Best Graduating Student distinction is awarded to the single highest-performing candidate across an entire graduating cohort — one name per examination sitting, nationwide. In 2024, ICAG held three sittings, in March, July and November. MSL Business School produced the National Overall Best Graduating Chartered Accountant in all three.
MSL Business School is the first and only tuition provider in Ghana to produce the National Overall Best Graduating Chartered Accountant at every ICAG sitting in a single examination year.
| Sitting | National Overall Best Graduating Student & other distinctions |
|---|---|
| March 2024 | Abigail Cudjoe — National Overall Best Graduating Student. Also Overall Best Female Graduating Student and Overall Best Student, Strategic Case Study. |
| July 2024 | Godson Nkunu — National Overall Best Graduating Student. Also Overall Best Student in Advanced Taxation and Advanced Audit & Assurance. |
| November 2024 | Jesse Blessing Nyarkoh — National Overall Best Graduating Student. Also Overall Best Student, Advanced Taxation. |
Four consecutive CITG national champions
The same pattern holds in taxation. The Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana (CITG) qualification is technically demanding: the legislation is precise, and the examination rewards both statutory mastery and applied reasoning under time pressure. MSL Business School has produced the CITG National Overall Best Graduating Student for four consecutive years.
| Sitting | National Overall Best Graduating Student |
|---|---|
| August 2023 | Princess Akuwa Agbesi |
| August 2024 | Paula Ayorkor Tengey |
| August 2025 | Rose Bawuah |
| February 2026 | Abigail Cudjoe |
A first across two qualifications
Abigail Cudjoe is the only MSL Business School student to hold the National Overall Best Graduating Student distinction in both ICAG and CITG — ICAG at the March 2024 sitting, and CITG at the February 2026 sitting. At that February 2026 CITG sitting, MSL students also swept the National Overall Best Student award in all three Final Level 2 papers — Strategic Tax Planning, Advanced Taxation Practice, and Tax Practice Administration & Ethics.
The full record — every ceremony, every winner
Every award below was conferred at an official ICAG or CITG graduation ceremony. The figures total 46 national awards across 13 consecutive examination sittings. The continuously updated record, with the ceremony photographs, is published on the MSL Awards page.
National awards by year
| Year | Total | Overall Best Graduate | Subject awards | Other distinctions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 20 | 4 | 13 | 3 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 2 |
| 2026 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 46 | 7 | 33 | 6 |
CITG graduation — 30 May 2026 · six national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Abigail Cudjoe | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation Practice; Overall Best Student — Tax Practice Administration & Ethics (February 2026) |
| Eric Ofosu | Overall Best Student — Strategic Tax Planning (February 2026) |
| Richard Owiredu Sasu | Overall Best Student — International Taxation (February 2026) |
| Abraham Gozah | Overall Best Student — Tax Practice Administration & Ethics (February 2026) |
ICAG graduation — 28 February 2026 · five national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Wilfred Kwadwo Kumah | Overall Best Student — ICAG Level 2; Overall Best Student — Financial Reporting; Overall Best Student — Public Sector Accounting & Finance (November 2025) |
| Daniel Ankomah | Overall Best Student — Management Accounting (November 2025) |
| Samuel Owusu Bimpong | Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation (November 2025) |
CITG graduation — 6 December 2025 · four national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Rose Bawuah | National Overall Best Graduating Student (August 2025) |
| Eric Ofosu | Overall Best Student — Oil, Gas & Other Minerals Taxation (August 2025) |
| Malcolm Amissah-Arthur | Overall Best Student — Strategic Tax Planning (August 2025) |
| Elsie Oboshie Torgbor | Overall Best Student — Tax Practice Administration & Ethics (August 2025) |
ICAG graduation — 20 September 2025 · five national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Franklina Nintori | Overall Best Female Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation (July 2025) |
| Graham Melomey | Overall Best Student — Financial Management; Overall Best Student — Public Sector Accounting & Finance (July 2025) |
| John Adanu | Overall Best Student — Advanced Audit & Assurance (July 2025) |
CITG graduation — 28 June 2025 · five national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Paula Ayorkor Tengey | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation Practice (August 2024) |
| Issahaku Nasiru Abubakari | Overall Best Student — Oil, Gas & Other Minerals Taxation (August 2024) |
| Godwin Nana Effah | Overall Best Student — Tax Practice Administration & Ethics (August 2024) |
| Asiedu Boadu | Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation Practice (February 2025) |
ICAG graduation — 17 May 2025 · four national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Jesse Blessing Nyarkoh | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation (November 2024) |
| Joshua Klo-Narh | Overall Best Student — Advanced Audit & Assurance (November 2024) |
| Kelvin Nketiah Sarfo | Overall Best Student — Corporate Reporting (March 2025) |
ICAG graduation — 12 October 2024 · eight national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Abigail Cudjoe | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Female Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Strategic Case Study (March 2024) |
| Godson Nkunu | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation; Overall Best Student — Advanced Audit & Assurance (July 2024) |
| Eric Ofosu | Overall Best Student — Public Sector Accounting & Finance (July 2024) |
| Michelle Opoku Sarfo | Overall Best Student — Strategic Case Study (July 2024) |
CITG graduation — 15 June 2024 · eight national awards
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Princess Akuwa Agbesi | National Overall Best Graduating Student; Overall Best Female Graduating Student; Overall Best Student — Advanced Taxation Practice (August 2023) |
| Genevieve Dadzie | Overall Best Female Graduating Student (February 2024) |
| Faustina Sakyiwaa Apraku | Overall Best Female Graduating Student (February 2024) |
| Matthew Annan | Overall Best Student — Tax Audit & Investigations (February 2024) |
| Christian Ahlijah | Overall Best Student — Oil, Gas & Other Minerals Taxation (February 2024) |
| Perpetual Amoah Arhinful | Overall Best Student — Tax Practice Administration & Ethics (February 2024) |
Earliest documented record — February 2023 CITG
| Student | Award (examination sitting) |
|---|---|
| Asiwome Nonu | Overall Best Student — International Taxation (February 2023) |
What this record actually means
National awards in ICAG and CITG examinations are not won in subjects where preparation is optional. Strategic Case Study demands multi-disciplinary judgement across a pre-seen scenario. Advanced Audit & Assurance requires both technical depth and professional scepticism applied under time pressure. Advanced Taxation at CITG demands mastery of Ghana’s tax code and precision in statutory interpretation.
These are not papers where luck determines the outcome. They are won through examiner-aligned preparation — understanding not just what the syllabus covers, but how the examiner marks it, what structure earns marks, and how to execute under pressure.
That is what MSL prepares students to do. Every live session, every revision cycle, and every timed practice simulation is built around how ICAG and CITG mark answers — not just what those answers need to contain.
Different cohorts. Different papers. Different years. The pattern is the same. That is what institutional consistency looks like.
The MSL approach
MSL Business School operates fully online, delivering structured live tuition for the ICAG and CITG qualifications, with same-day recordings, planned revision cycles, timed practice, and direct, examiner-focused feedback. Students work inside one disciplined preparation system rather than assembling fragmented resources on their own.
MSL Business School is Ghana’s clear technology leader in professional education — the first and only provider with multimodal AI for professional exam students. The MSL Business School App integrates structured materials, revision frameworks, practice systems, multimodal AI tools (text, voice, and image input, including photo-based exam-question solving), and performance tracking into one organised learning environment. It is the technology infrastructure behind the record documented on this page.
The conviction behind the method
MSL Business School was founded by Michael Siaw Larbi — a Chartered Accountant and CGMA who completed all sixteen ICAG papers under the old syllabus in under two years while enrolled as a full-time university student, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant at the age of twenty-one. That personal record shaped the institution’s approach: disciplined preparation, examiner focus, and measurable performance.
The record stands
Forty-six national awards. Four consecutive CITG National Overall Best Graduating Students. A clean sweep of all three ICAG Overall Best Graduating Student awards in 2024. Subject-level national distinctions across Management Accounting, Financial Reporting, Corporate Reporting, Advanced Taxation, Advanced Audit & Assurance, Strategic Case Study, Financial Management, Public Sector Accounting & Finance, Oil, Gas & Other Minerals Taxation, Strategic Tax Planning, Tax Practice Administration & Ethics, Tax Audit & Investigations, and Advanced Taxation Practice.
The names on this page earned their results in the examination hall — not in a promotional leaflet. Every winner appears, with the date and ceremony of conferral, on the MSL Awards page, and the record is updated as each new examination sitting produces new winners.
Award terms in this guide
- National Overall Best Graduating Student
- The single highest-performing graduating candidate across the entire national cohort at an examination sitting — one award per sitting, per qualification body.
- Overall Best Student (subject)
- The highest-scoring candidate nationwide in a specific examination paper, such as Advanced Taxation or Strategic Case Study.
- Overall Best Female Graduating Student
- The highest-performing female graduating candidate across the national cohort at an examination sitting.
- ICAG Level 2 Overall Best Student
- The highest-performing candidate nationwide at the intermediate (Level 2) stage of the ICAG qualification, awarded before the final professional level.
- Clean sweep
- Winning every National Overall Best Graduating Student award available in a defined set — for MSL, all three 2024 ICAG sittings, and all three Final Level 2 papers at the February 2026 CITG sitting.
- ICAG
- Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. Examinations are held three times a year, in March, July and November.
- CITG
- Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana. The pathway to Chartered Tax Practitioner status, with examinations held in February and August.
Key points to remember
- MSL Business School students have won 46 national awards across the ICAG and CITG examinations between February 2023 and February 2026.
- This includes 7 National Overall Best Graduating Students, 33 subject Overall Best Student awards, and 6 further distinctions (5 Overall Best Female Graduating Student awards and the ICAG Level 2 Overall Best Student award).
- MSL is the first and only tuition provider in Ghana to win all three ICAG Overall Best Graduating Student awards in a single year (2024).
- MSL has produced the CITG National Overall Best Graduating Student for four consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026).
- Abigail Cudjoe is the only MSL student to hold the National Overall Best Graduating Student title in both ICAG and CITG.
- National award winners have emerged from 13 consecutive examination sittings — a national best in every diet since February 2023.
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Explore MSL ICAG & CITG tuitionSources: All award names, distinctions, examination sittings, and graduation ceremony dates are sourced from MSL Business School’s verified national award record as published on the MSL Awards page, covering the February 2023 to February 2026 ICAG and CITG examination sittings. ICAG examinations are held in March, July and November; CITG examinations in February and August.
