Late Nana Yaa Agyeman

Nana Yaa Agyeman, the wife of the veteran Ghanaian journalist Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Haruna Attah, has died in Accra at age 62.

She died at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) on Wednesday after a short illness.

Nana Yaa was a younger sister of the former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.

She left behind two daughters, Rahma and Ayesha Haruna Attah, and her husband.

Nana Yaa worked with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and later served as an editor at the defunct Accra Daily Mail newspaper, owned by Haruna Attah, who also served as Ghana’s high commissioner to Namibia under the John Dramani Mahama government.