Hundreds of mourners today joined the family of Saeed Ali Yaqub and The Multimedia Group to bid farewell to its longest serving editor.
Saeed Ali Yaqub died on Sunday morning at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after a short illness.
Per Islamic customs, the late Yaqub, who was affectionately called the ‘Editor’s editor’, was buried a day after he passed, in his hometown, Gyamase in the Ashanti region.
The Multimedia Group earlier held a special service for him at the company premises in Kumasi.
Many well-wishers trooped to the premises of the company to pay their Last Respects with some few words in a book of condolence at the entrance.
It included high-profile personalities such as the Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Professor Adom Asamoah, Pro-Vice Chancellor.
Mr Yaqub was born in 1963 at Gyamase in the Ashanti region, where he had his primary education.
He attended now Adu Gyamfi Senior High School at Gyamase and because of his love for reading, he ended up at the Institute of Business Management and Journalism in 1997.
After two years, he was done with the journalism programme.
In the year 2000, he had the opportunity to do his internship with Luv FM and has since been with the Multimedia Group.
