She was admitted to a three-year midwifery-training course at Korle-Bu Hospital and graduated among the first hospital-trained midwives. First Ladies of Ghana: Representative of her husband on official and ceremonial occasions both at home and abroad, the first lady is closely watched for some hint of her husband’s thinking and for a clue to his future actions. Not much was heard of her. She is an old student of Wesley Grammar School in Dansoman.

Lordina Mahama, wife of former President John Mahama from 2012-2017 would pass as perhaps the most visible after Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.

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You have successfully subscribed to receive the pulse.com.gh newsletter pulse.com.gh, Here's a rare wedding photo of ex-president John Kufuor and Theresa Kufuor, Don't miss a thing, get the latest updates to fuel your conversation daily, 5 photos that show Nana Addo was in Russia for serious business. Nkrumah married Fathia at Christianborg Castle, Accra on the evening of the 1957 New Year’s Eve upon her arrival in Ghana. They have five daughters and five grandchildren. Although the first lady’s role has never been codified or officially defined, she figures prominently in the political and social Her mother was reluctant to see another of her children marry a foreigner and quit the country, as Fathia’s brother had left Egypt with his English wife.

Nana Konadu got married to Rawlings in 1977.

She studied for an MA in Governance and Leadership at GIMPA. She started her education at the Catholic Convent, OLA, at Keta in the Volta Region and ater went to London, where she was educated as a Registered General Nurse, in the Southern Hospital Group of Nursing.
Although unpaid and unelected, her prominence provides her a platform from which to influence behaviour and opinion, and popular first ladies have served as models for how American women should dress and speak.

Mrs Theresa Kufuor, wife of Ghana’s former president, John Agyekum Kufuor turned 84 years on Friday, October 25, 2019. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings became First Lady first when her husband became Head of State briefly in 1979. Her husband, Prof. Busia sailed to England to become the first black African to attend University College, Oxford, he remembered his former pupil, Naa Morkor and sent for her.

She has been the president of the 31st December Women’s Movement in 1982. Mr Kufuor is married to Theresa Kufuor and they are blessed with five children, Saah Kufuor, Owusu Afriyie Kufuor, Nana Ama Gyamfi, Agyekum Kufuor and J. Addo Kufuor. The couple has five children namely J. Addo Kufuor, Nana Ama Gyamfi, Saah Kufuor, Agyekum Kufuor and Owusu Afriyie Kufuor. She worked as a teacher at her school in Zeitoun.

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She attended Ghana International School. Busia became personally responsible for the building and improving midwifery clinics around the country and fought hard to bring down the high infant mortality rate, as First Lady of Ghana.

He was the seventh child of ten children of Nana Kwadwo Agyekum and Nana Ama Dapaah.

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She led a very low profile life as First Lady from 2009 to 2012. Lordina is from Jema-Ampoma in the Nkoranza District, located in the Brong-Ahafo Region. READ MORE: 5 photos that show Nana Addo was in Russia for serious business. Kingdom FM Journalist Nana Ama Owusua Is Dead, Lil Frosh accused of physically abusing girlfriend, 27 Year Old Chinese Commits Suicide In Osu Casino, Akyem States are solidly behind Nana Akofo Addo in the upcoming 2020 Ghanaian elections.
She then worked as a legal secretary for Clifford Chance/Ashurst Morris Crisp all multinational law firms in the United Kingdom. Later she moved to Achimota School, where she met her beloved, Rawlings. Your email address will not be published.

She was First Lady from 2012 to 2017 and President and Founder of the Lordina Foundation.

Fathia was raised by her mother after her husband’s death. Fathia Nkrumah was born and brought up in Zeitoun. 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. Frederick, an American journalist, who published her book in 1967, said Nkrumah sent his friend, Alhaji Saleh Said Sinare, who was one of the first Ghanaian Muslims to study in Egypt, to find him a Christian wife from Egypt, and Fathia was one of the final five women chosen. The people of Akyem are solidly behind Nana Akofo Addo in the upcoming 2020 Ghanaian election. Apart from a few news items of her making donations here and there. Mrs Fulera Limann, and seven children: Lariba Montia (née Limann), Baba Limann, Sibi Andan (née Limann), Lida Limann, Daani Limann, Zilla Limann and Salma Limann.

The project aimed at encouraging and inspiring students in SHSs across the country to lead moral and responsible lifestyles for national development. They mentioned the National Health Insurance Scheme, school feeding programme and the Metro Mass Transit (Kufour Bus) as key initiatives that reflected the president’s commitment to prioritizing the needs of the less privileged in society.

Former President John Agyekum Kufour is celebrating his 80 birthday today, December 8, 2018. She married Dr Hilla Limann who assumed office as president on September 24, 1979 having had power transferred to him by Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings then chairman of a junta, Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).