Nana Kwasi Gyan-Apen­teng, a veteran journalist and former chairman of the National Media Commission, has passed on in London.

He is said to have died on Monday.He was 74.Nana Gyan-Apenteng became Chairman of the 8th NMC from Novem­ber 2015 to November 2018 after Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere had finished serving his tenure.He was a Consultant in Communication, Media and Culture and was also the President of the Gha­na Association of Writers (GAW).He had an extensive experience in media hav­ing practised for over 45 years as a reporter, editor, writer, teacher and trainer.He was a former editor and columnist of The Mirror weekly newspaper, as well as the Apagyahene of Tafo Eti in the Eastern Region.He was deputy editor of the erstwhile Lon­don-based West Africa Magazine in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Returning to Gha­na in the 1990s, Nana Gyan-Apenteng worked with the Third World Network as head of the non-governmental organ­isation's communication unit and editor of its monthly magazine, Africa Agenda.He served as media trainer and communication consultant for several corpo­rate, intergov­ernmental and non-governmental organisations including MTN Ghana, some UN agencies, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), STAR Ghana and others.He was a grad­uate of Apam Secondary School and the University of Ghana, Legon.He began work formal­ly as a journalist at Daily Graphic in 1982 as a Staff Writer.

He subsequently became Foreign News Editor and later had a stint as acting Editor.He was subsequently appointed editor of The Mirror where he intro­duced news features, which have endured till today.Nana Gyan-Apenteng relocated to the Unit­ed Kingdom where he co-founded Ghana News magazine before being invited to be the Deputy and Acting Editor of West Africa magazine.He also founded and edited African Top­ics magazine, the only Pan-African publication dedicated to governance and human rights.He also worked with the Third World Net­work, Cultural Initiatives Support Programme, the European Union Culture Fund for Ghana, among others as a communica­tions expert.He also served as a part time lecturer at Vauxhall College in London and the European University Centre for Peace Studies in Austria.He also provided training for both state and private sector institutions and was a columnist for The Mirror newspaper.