General News of Thursday, 23 October 2025

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Tragedy as Ghana's longest-serving First Lady dies

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was Ghana's longest-serving First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings was Ghana's longest-serving First Lady

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the longest-serving First Lady of Ghana, is dead.

She died on Thursday, October 23, at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, also known as Ridge Hospital. She was 76.

A popular figure in Ghana's political landscape, she became the first woman to run for President of Ghana in 2016, and in 2018.

The former Fist Lady served in that position from June 4, 1979 to September 24, 1979 under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and from December 31, 1981 to January 6, 1993 under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), two military regimes headed by her husband, and from January 7, 1993 to January 6, 2001 when former President Jerry John Rawlings had his two terms as a civilian Head of State.

Born Nana Konadu Agyeman on November 17, 1948, in Cape Coast, Central Region, she received her secondary education at the prestigious Achimota School, where she met her future husband, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings.

She went on to study Art and Textiles at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and earned an Interior Design Diploma from the London College of Arts in 1975.