RIP@2007: Gone but not forgotten

• Professor Kwesi Andam, 62, Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from 2002-2006 died on 14 December. He died of cardiac arrest four days after he was admitted at the hospital. Andam was until his death, working in Accra as a consultant. He is survived by a wife and three children

• Sylvester Akakpovi, popularly known as Sly, died on December 12 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi after a short illness. He was the Executive Secretary of Voltarian Co-ordinating Council (VCC) in the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions and a one time Ashanti Regional Secretary of National Democratic Congress.

• Justice Hayfron-Benjamin, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, died on July 9 after a short illness. He was 78 years old.

• Patrick Allotey, 29, Ex-Ghanaian international defender succumbed to illness during 2007, at the tender age of 28. A winner at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Ecuador1995, he played for the two Rotterdam clubs, Feyenoord and Excelsior, between 1996 and 2001.

• Madam Fathia Nkrumah, the First First Lady of Ghana died on May 31 at the Badrawy Hospital in Cairo.

• Justice Kwaku Etrue Amua-Sekyi, who chaired the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) died on May 17. He was 74. He was also a Supreme Court judge. A wife and three children survived him.

• Justice George Kingsley Acquah, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana from June 20 2003 died at the 37military hospital in March 25 of cancer

• Hawa Yakubu, the second vice chairperson of the New Patriotic Party, died in London on March 19. The "Iron Lady", as she was affectionately called, was before her election as second vice-chairperson of the NPP, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, a seat she lost to Mahama Ayariga of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Hawa Yakubu was born in Tarkwa in 1948 (read more)

• Professor Kwesi Andam, 62, Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) from 2002-2006 died on 14 December. He died of cardiac arrest four days after he was admitted at the hospital. Andam was until his death, working in Accra as a consultant. He is survived by a wife and three children

• Sylvester Akakpovi, popularly known as Sly, died on December 12 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi after a short illness. He was the Executive Secretary of Voltarian Co-ordinating Council (VCC) in the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions and a one time Ashanti Regional Secretary of National Democratic Congress.

• Justice Hayfron-Benjamin, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, died on July 9 after a short illness. He was 78 years old.

• Patrick Allotey, 29, Ex-Ghanaian international defender succumbed to illness during 2007, at the tender age of 28. A winner at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Ecuador1995, he played for the two Rotterdam clubs, Feyenoord and Excelsior, between 1996 and 2001.

• Madam Fathia Nkrumah, the First First Lady of Ghana died on May 31 at the Badrawy Hospital in Cairo.

• Justice Kwaku Etrue Amua-Sekyi, who chaired the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) died on May 17. He was 74. He was also a Supreme Court judge. A wife and three children survived him.

• Justice George Kingsley Acquah, Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana from June 20 2003 died at the 37military hospital in March 25 of cancer

• Hawa Yakubu, the second vice chairperson of the New Patriotic Party, died in London on March 19. The "Iron Lady", as she was affectionately called, was before her election as second vice-chairperson of the NPP, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, a seat she lost to Mahama Ayariga of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Hawa Yakubu was born in Tarkwa in 1948 (read more)