{"id":121038,"date":"2015-06-01T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=121038"},"modified":"2015-06-01T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T12:00:31","slug":"bolga-technical-to-remain-closed-until","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=121038","title":{"rendered":"Bolga Technical to remain closed until&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Students&#8217; of Bolgatanga Technical Institute will have to stay home a little longer after the school was closed down last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is because authorities of the school are yet to submit a report of a revolt to the Upper East regional Education directorate for advise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bolgatanga Technical Institute was closed down last Saturday after students demanded for renovation works to be initiated on sections of the boys dormitory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The call came\u00a0after a student raised a false fire alarm and as they rushed out, three of their colleagues sustained various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121043\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school.jpg\" alt=\"bolga technical school\" width=\"768\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aggrieved students refused to eat meals prepared for them by the school until their demands were met; a situation that resulted in the closure of the school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121046\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school-3.jpg\" alt=\"bolga technical school (3)\" width=\"768\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bolga-technical-school-3-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the principal of BOTECH, Mr. Thomas Amare said it is unclear when students will be called back to school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, a situational report will be presented to the Regional Director of Education Emmanuel Zumakpe for advice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Amare said some technical teachers and students were working on the dormitory guardrails but cannot renovate the story-building dormitory as demanded by students&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that students did not destroy any school property and that the school is calm and the Police will continue to patrol the school particularly in the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Frederick Awuni\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students&#8217; of Bolgatanga Technical Institute will have to stay home a little longer after the school was closed down last Saturday. This is because authorities of the school are yet to submit a report of a revolt to the Upper East regional Education directorate for advise. The Bolgatanga Technical Institute was closed down last Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":121042,"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":[],"tags":[38,16],"class_list":["post-121038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121038","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}