A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere has passed on. He was 67 years old.<\/p>\n
He was on a Food and Agricultural Organisation mission outside Ghana when he died.<\/p>\n
Professor Asenso-Okyere was Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 2002-2006.<\/p>\n
Director of Public Affairs at the University of Ghana, Stella A. Amoa confirmed the news to citifmonline.com<\/strong> in a short statement.<\/p>\n Professor Asenso-Okyere had considerable experience in research and advocacy on economic development issues such as food and agriculture, health and nutrition and international trade policies.<\/p>\n Below is the statement<\/strong><\/p>\n The family of Prof. Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere and the University of Ghana have been informed of the death of Prof. Asenso-Okyere while on an FAO mission outside Ghana.<\/p>\n The news was broken to the University on Saturday, May 10, 2014 by officials of the FAO Office in Accra.<\/p>\n Prof. Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere was a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana (2002-2006).<\/p>\n The family and the University of Ghana are deeply saddened by this news.\u00a0 Further details will be provided as they become available.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stella A. Amoa<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Director of Public Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n May 10, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \/p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere has passed on. He was 67 years old. He was on a Food and Agricultural Organisation mission outside Ghana when he died. Professor Asenso-Okyere was Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 2002-2006. Director of Public Affairs at the University of Ghana, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,43,16],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bugri-naabu","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}