{"id":106539,"date":"2015-04-08T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=106539"},"modified":"2015-04-08T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:28:13","slug":"ghanaians-jubilate-over-failed-2017-afcon-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=106539","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians jubilate over failed 2017 AFCON bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather unexpected reaction to Ghana&#8217;s failure to win the bid to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournament, some Ghanaians on\u00a0social media are\u00a0excited about the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday named Gabon as the host of the competition for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana can only make another attempt at hosting the tournament after 2023 because\u00a0Cameroon will host it in 2019,\u00a0Ivory Coast in 2021 and\u00a0Guinea 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>God bless Issa Hayatou and his people for this good decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Umar-Farouk Atipaga (@FAROUKATIPAGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAROUKATIPAGA\/status\/585798086552870912\">April 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KG.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KG.png\" alt=\"KG\" width=\"507\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KG.png 507w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KG-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nWow. I guess this is the first time Ghanaians are rejoicing because they did not win a bid to host the AFCON. Times do change indeed. \u2014 christopher opoku (@chrisrobin74) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisrobin74\/status\/585799017495400448\">April 8, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boakyecitifm\">@boakyecitifm<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ghana?src=hash\">#Ghana<\/a> loses out on hosting AFCON 2017 to Gabon <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/7M4ZtYnFkm\">http:\/\/t.co\/7M4ZtYnFkm<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Citi973\">@Citi973<\/a>&#8221; I&#8217;m glad<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vi Vienne (@vivvy_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivvy_\/status\/585822465781276672\">April 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/joojo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106551\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/joojo.png\" alt=\"joojo\" width=\"489\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/joojo.png 489w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/joojo-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reactions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106555\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reactions.png\" alt=\"reactions\" width=\"461\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reactions.png 461w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/reactions-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/facebook.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106556\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/facebook.png\" alt=\"facebook\" width=\"495\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/facebook.png 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/facebook-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\nYour country no get electricity and water, you dey go bid for AFCON. Go and bid for chaskele and let&#8217;s be free.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0186mono (@QuameSev7n) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuameSev7n\/status\/585792543973101568\">April 8, 2015<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather unexpected reaction to Ghana&#8217;s failure to win the bid to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournament, some Ghanaians on\u00a0social media are\u00a0excited about the announcement. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday named Gabon as the host of the competition for 2017. Ghana can only make another attempt at hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":106561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-106539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}