{"id":199575,"date":"2016-03-17T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=199575"},"modified":"2016-03-17T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T07:47:10","slug":"mahama-arrives-in-scotland-for-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=199575","title":{"rendered":"Mahama arrives in Scotland for official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, Lordina, have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland for an Official Visit, which will include a meeting this afternoon [Friday] with the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament, Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahead of this afternoon&#8217;s meeting, President Mahama will be the guest of the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and observe the First Minister&#8217;s Question Time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will also address a group of parliamentarians in the company of the Presiding Officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana and Scotland have had years of fruitful political and economic relations, with a number of Scottish oil and gas firms expressing interest in Ghana&#8217;s new energy sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Educational collaboration has also been enhanced lately with many Ghanaian students enrolling in universities in Dundee, Glasgow and Aberdeen for their higher degrees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama will tomorrow, Friday, be honoured with an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Aberdeen after which he will meet and interact with a group of UK business executives before returning home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Flagstaff House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, Lordina, have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland for an Official Visit, which will include a meeting this afternoon [Friday] with the First Minister of the Scottish Parliament, Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon. Ahead of this afternoon&#8217;s meeting, President Mahama will be the guest of the Presiding Officer of the Scottish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199575","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}