{"id":135400,"date":"2015-07-17T06:22:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135400"},"modified":"2015-07-17T06:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T06:22:13","slug":"july-20-declared-a-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135400","title":{"rendered":"July 20 declared a public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President, John Mahama has by an Executive Instrument declared\u00a0Monday, July 20 a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Minister of Interior, Mark Woyongo announced that the decision was taken due to the fact that the Eid-Ul-Fitr celebrations by Muslims falls on Saturday, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>However, because it is a statutory holiday, the President had to declare the next working day a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;poZZ0piOzKMJwJfjx58qPh7QXWYOq3J6&#8243;]The Interior Ministry has thus urged the general public to take note and observe the day as such across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr, to mark the end of the month-long period of Ramadan fasting, prayers and devotion.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the Ramadan period, President Mahama urged\u00a0Muslims to <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/18\/ramadan-mahama-urges-muslims-to-pray-for-peace-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>pray for peace and prosperity<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>in Ghana as they begin this year\u2019s Ramadan month of fasting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation expects our Muslim brothers and sisters during this period of fasting to totally submit to Allah and remember our beloved country in their prayers\u201d,he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, John Mahama has by an Executive Instrument declared\u00a0Monday, July 20 a public holiday. A statement signed by the Minister of Interior, Mark Woyongo announced that the decision was taken due to the fact that the Eid-Ul-Fitr celebrations by Muslims falls on Saturday, July 18. However, because it is a statutory holiday, the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25127,"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":[38,6,33,17],"class_list":["post-135400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135400","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}