The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for concerted efforts to achieve self-reliance in healthcare product manufacturing in Africa.
President Akufo-Addo has re-echoed the government’s determination to continue prioritizing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, as an essential tool towards equipping the future workforce of the country, with 21st-century skills necessary for the emerging fourth industrial wave.
Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has ordered Torgbiga Wenya III (also known as Ephraim Agbeko Voadorgu) to desist from holding himself as Dutor of Anlo.
Theresa Kufuor, the wife of former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has passed away at the age of 87.
It is reported that the former First Lady died on Sunday, October 1, 2023.
Theresa Kufuor served as Ghana’s First Lady from 2001 to 2009.
She was a retired nurse and midwife.
Education
Kufuor started her education at the Catholic Convent, OLA, at Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana. She later went to London, where she was educated as a Registered General Nurse, in the Southern Hospital Group of Nursing. Edinburgh, Scotland.
After further study at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford and Paddington General Hospital, London, she qualified as a State Certified Midwife with a Certificate in Premature Nursing.
Personal life
Theresa married John Kufuor when he was at age 23 after they met at a Republic Day Anniversary Dance in London in 1961. They got married in 1962. She has five children with John Kufuor, former president of Ghana, J. Addo Kufuor, Nana Ama Gyamfi, Saah Kufuor, Agyekum Kufuor and Owusu Afriyie Kufuor. She is a mother of five, and a grandmother of eight. She is a devout Roman Catholic.
Despite being the first lady of Ghana for eight years between 2001 and 2009, she has managed to maintain a low profile in the political arena. In 2007 she pushed for policy changes in the Government’s white paper on Educational Reforms towards the implementation of UNESCO‘s Free compulsory universal basic education (FCUBE) program for kindergarten children.
She founded the Mother and Child Community Development Foundation (MCCDF), a non-governmental organisation operating in Ghana and Canada that supports work in prevention of mother to child transmission.
Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Baba Sadique Zankawah, has called on the government to resource the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to execute on of its mandates of protecting the rights of citizens.
The Bulk Energy Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has vehemently denied accusations of spending some GHC 28 million cedis on mobile phones for its board members.
A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse, has stressed the need to reduce the powers of the President to appoint staffers and special assistants under the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463).
At least 20 people perished when a Grandbird bus and a Toyota mini-bus collided head-on along the eastern corridor road between Peki-Adzokoe and Tsibu last Wednesday.
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor has called on the media to partner government and the Lands Ministry in the creation of awareness on nature crimes in the country and across.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has released the postings of a total of 122,275 prospective national service personnel for the 2023/2024 service year.
