Margaret Safo passes on

The immediate past Editor of The Mirror,  Mrs Margaret Safo, aka Peggy Oppong, 57,  passed on at the 37 Military Hospital on May 8, 2014, after a short illness.

Born on January 26, 1957 to Mr and Mrs Daniel Odame of Kwahu Mpraeso, then Miss Margaret Odame, entered the Okuapeman Secondary School at Akropong-Akwapim in 1971, and successfully completed the GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level courses in the same school, and gained admission to the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1979. 

Mrs Safo also pursued a year’s Language attachment programme at the Pushkin University Moskow in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, now Russia, and finally graduated with a Second  Class Upper Division from the University of Ghana, Legon.  

With determination, she completed a Graduate Diploma and Masters of Philosophy degrees in Communication Studies, specialising in Development Communication at the same university.

Mrs Safo joined the then Graphic Corporation for her national service. She performed creditably and was, therefore, permanently employed as a Staff Writer on January 2, 1987.

She was appointed the Deputy Editor of The Mirror on May 14, 1998, and eventually became the Editor on January 2, 2003.

 Mrs Safo retired voluntarily from the employment of the Graphic Communications Group Limited in 2011 to be able to write and publish her novels. 

She was the wife of Mr Kojo Safo, a retired Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Post. She left behind four children; Mrs Dela Bonsu, Graphic Communications Group Limited, Mrs Sena Offei-Anim, Fidelity Bank, Tamale; Ms Sedina Safo, Peggy Oppong Books, Accra; and Samuel Safo of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. 

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.