Accra, March 13, GNA - The death is announced in Accra of Mr Samuel B. Quaicoe, former General Manager of the Ghana News Agency, after a short illness.

Mr Quaicoe, 65, was the GNA General Manager from 1995 to 2000, having spent most of his working life with the Ghana News Agency. A graduate from the University of Ghana, Legon, Mr Quaicoe joined the Ghana News Agency in 1964.

He was GNA Correspondent at the United Nations in New York from February 1965 to September 1970.

On his return to Ghana, he worked at the GNA Home Desk. From 1972 - 73, he was a UNESCO Fellow in Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester, England.

After this programme, he came back to the Headquarters in Accra during which time he read Law at the Ghana Law School from 1976 - 79, and became a Barrister-at-Law.

He rose to become the Head of the Home Desk until 1979 when he was appointed Chief Press Secretary to President Hilla Limann in the People's National Party (PNP) Government of the Third Republic. When the PNP Government was ousted from power, he came back to the He continued to rise from there, first to the post of Supervising Chief Editor from May 1986 to December 1993, ultimately becoming the General Manager of the GNA in 1995 and finally retired in 2000. Mr Quaicoe left behind a wife and five children. Funeral arrangement would be announced later.