, who died on Scores of people from all walks of life yesterday trooped to the St George’s Garrison Anglican Church at Burma Camp for a requiem Mass for a former Chief of Army Staff and politician, Lieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander ErskineMay 7, this year, aged 86.
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BY: Brig. Gen. Dan Frimpong (Rtd)
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”GEN. Erskine is no more” was the terse message announcing the death of Lt Gen. Emmanuel Alexander Erskine at the 37 Military Hospital on May 7, 2021 at age 86.
In his column in the Daily Graphic of April 9, 2021, Communications Consultant and veteran writer Enimil Ashon, celebrating Dr Joyce Aryee on her 75th birthday stated as follows:
“It is impossible to write about Dr Joyce Aryee in the Daily Graphic. In this column, I cannot go beyond 700-750 words. The number of boards on which she sits, is, alone, enough to fill the space.”
By Benjamin Nii-Lartey Ayiku
MAY 11, 2021
The independent presidential candidate in the last general elections, Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker, has lauded the youths in the country for demanding accountability from the government.
He said, he was very excited and in full support of the FIX THE COUNTRY campaign launched on social media by the youths to push the government of the day to do the right thing in fixing the many challenges that are making life unbearable for the citizens.
For about two weeks now, youths across the country have been using social media, especially Twitter and Facebook, to mount pressure on the government to, as a matter of urgency, find a solution to the numerous social-economic challenges that are drowning the country.
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BY: Enoch Darfah Frimpong
The 86-year-old Lt Gen is survived by a wife and eight children.
Family sources confirmed the death of the man who was the first commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981.
He was also a former Chief of Army Staff of the Ghana Army and commanded the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
He had his training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and also attended the Staff College, Camberley in England.
Lt. Gen. Erskine was one of the founding members of the People s Heritage Party (PHP).