He had his early education at Bremen Mission Schools at Anloga and Keta where he received his standard 7 certificate in 1928.
In 1930 he sat for the Common Gold Coast Entrance Examination for training as a nurse pharmacist and passed.
During the period he worked as a civil servant, he served in hospitals in several parts of the Ghana (then Gold Coast) including Sefwi-Wiawso, Kumasi, Accra and Dunkwa-on-Offin.
Prior to his resignation from civil service to venture private business in 1948, he was stationed at Agona Swedru.
In 1956, he was re-elected as a member of the legislative assembly and that same year he was posted to the Ministry of Finance still as a Ministerial Secretary until May, 1957.