Nyong-Lana is dead

Tamale, July 10, GNA - The death has been reported of Nyong-Lana Abukari Ibrahim, chief of Nyong in the Dagbon Traditional Area on Saturday July 5.

A statement from the Karaga-Naa's Palace said the late chief, aged 102, was the elder brother of the Karaga-Naa Mahama Adam, paramount chief of Karaga also in the Dagbon Traditional Area. He was the father of Lt-Colonel Abdullai Ibrahim (rtd), a former Northern Regional Minister and a former Managing Director of the Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL).

Nyong-Lana Ibrahim was a veteran of the Second World War with the rank of a sergeant. On demobilization after the war he joined the Ghana Police Service in 1947 and retired with the rank of a sergeant. The statement said the seventh day funeral rites of the late chief, who has been buried, would take place at Nyong on Friday July 11, 2003.