{"id":173408,"date":"2015-12-10T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=173408"},"modified":"2015-12-10T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:09:45","slug":"i-wont-be-in-uk-to-cheer-x-factors-reggie-n-bollie-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=173408","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t be in UK to cheer X-Factor&#8217;s Reggie N Bollie &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A satirical piece ignited a social media discussion\u00a0in Ghana,\u00a0after the report claimed\u00a0that the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare, was to lead a government delegation to the UK to support \u00a0Ghanaian music duo Reggie N Bollie in the finals of the X-Factor reality show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Minister of Tourism is not taking the report lightly although\u00a0it emanated from\u00a0a parody news website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ghanaian duo, Reggie N Bollie, whose music career in Ghana has taken a nosedive, are doing well with great stage performances in the X-Factor show,and have been tipped as favorites to win the ultimate prize.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YfAaK0hWdl2DWlUADFmrHhuRkBl7rZzm&#8221;]The\u00a0Minister of Tourism says although she is happy about the exploits of the two who are flying high the flag of Ghana, she is unhappy with the\u00a0reports suggesting that she is flying with tax payers\u2019 money to cheer them on\u00a0in the finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> \u201cI have honestly not traveled all the way to UK to support them,\u201d she said. \u201cI have not even made any public statement about X factor\u201d she clarified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She went on to describe the reports as mere allegations and\u00a0\u201cpure mischief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reggie, 31, and Bollie, 29 will be competing in the X factor UK finale this weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A satirical piece ignited a social media discussion\u00a0in Ghana,\u00a0after the report claimed\u00a0that the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare, was to lead a government delegation to the UK to support \u00a0Ghanaian music duo Reggie N Bollie in the finals of the X-Factor reality show. But the Minister of Tourism is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":173414,"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],"class_list":["post-173408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173408","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}