PEACE FM’S NANA ADJEI SIKAPA IS DEAD
News reaching us indicates that prolific newscaster with Peace Fm a subsidiary of the Despite Media group Nana Adjei Sikapa is dead.
Cause of death is not readily known but Sports Journalist with the station Dan Kwaku Yeboah posted it on his Facebook timeline a while ago.
Though members of his family have confirmed his sudden demise after a short illness, they are tight-lipped over the details of the man who has over the years won the hearts and minds of radio listeners in the mass market.
Mr. Daniel Adjei Peprah, a renowned broadcast journalist popularly referred to as Nana Adjei Sikapa in the radio industry was born at Atwima Nerebehi in Ahafo Domeabra.
Akokra Nana. He attended Nerebehi R/C and progressed to Nyinahin L/A Primary A. After his elementary school, he went to Nyinahin L/A Middle school, which he successfully passed the Middle School Leavers Certificate Extermination and got admission to the Atebubu Training College in 1987-1991 where he completed a four year certificate programme in Education.
He has to his credit GCE O and A Level. As a professional teacher, he taught both in Atwima Agogo and Abuakwa R/C Primary School for several years. The proverbial gem is happily married to Madam Theresa Amankwa and they are blessed with six children.
However, due to his rich cultural exploits and love for poems, he started with' YENA Krokron' through which he had an invitation to be on Garden Citi Radio in Kumasi as a guest, where he got privileged to host varieties of shows with the biggest at the time being the morning show host which he excelled to the toast of his listeners.
From there, one could say the heavens poured on him divine favours.
In 2003, the famous and affluent Dr. Osei Kwame invited Nana Adjei Sikapa to work with his numerous skilled and talented newscasters. He really established himself by his famous appellation style of radio presentation which was unique.
When approached on this issue, Nana stressed he is gifted, loves to play on words. Aside that, he tries in his capacity to learn more adding to the numerous appellations available to him. He went further to utter that he always looked up to the Professor Emeritus Nketia at the University of Ghana Legon who grounded DONDOLOGY. About his personal opinion on the standard of broadcasting in the country he denounced its improving and there is more room to excel.
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