President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the late former First Lady, Theresa Kufuor, will be given a state funeral.
At a meeting with the late former first lady’s family, President Akufo-Addo announced that the state funeral would be held on November 16, 2023.
Nana Akufo-Addo stated that Theresa Kufour deserves all of the state’s respect, thus the decision.
The former First Lady died on October 1, 2023, at the age of 87, after a long illness.
She was the wife of former President John Agyekum Kufour who ruled Ghana from 2000 to 2008.
She 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.
She had five children and eight grandchildren.
She was a practising Roman Catholic.
She founded the Mother and Child Community Development Foundation (MCCDF), a non-governmental organisation operating in Ghana and Canada that supports work in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
