Foreign Affairs Ministry seeks relatives of Ghanaian who died in Nigeria in 2021

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appealed to the public to help locate the relatives of a Ghanaian national, Solomon Apia, who died in Nigeria on July 5, 2021. In a statement issued on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, the Ministry said Mr Apia reportedly lived and worked in Nigeria for more than 15 years, where a construction company, Stabilini Visiononi Ltd, employed him as a cleaner. It said available information indicates that Mr Apia was born on March 6, 1960, in Accra. He was married, stood approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and attended a Methodist primary school in Ghana. The Ministry said documents and information retrieved from his phone suggest he may have had relatives or acquaintances named Steven Yeboah, Wisdom Nanor, Nana and Eva. The Ministry has urged anyone with information about his relatives or who can assist in tracing his next of kin to contact its Information and Public Affairs Bureau (IPAB). The Ministry has appealed for the public’s cooperation in helping to trace Mr Apia’s family. Read the full statement below Screenshot