{"id":228912,"date":"2016-07-07T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228912"},"modified":"2016-07-07T17:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:46:53","slug":"ieas-evening-encounter-with-nana-addo-comes-off-on-august-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228912","title":{"rendered":"IEA&#8217;s Evening Encounter with Nana Addo comes off on August 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Economic Affairs&#8217; (IEA) Evening Encounter series with the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is expected to come off on August 9.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo was initially expected to take his turn on the platform on July 5 but the Institute subsequently postponed the programme without assigning reasons for its decision.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidates of the People\u2019s National Congress (PNC) and the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Dr. Edward Mahama and Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, have already taken their turn on the platform over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224395\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224395\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cac2912f-ea55-467a-9223-41c8e6f28191.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama at the IEA Evening Encounter Series.\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama at the IEA Evening Encounter Series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The IEA Evening Encounter series is a platform designed for political parties and their Flagbearers to interact with a cross-section of Ghanaians through Civil Society and other interest-group representation ahead of the general elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ivor-green.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-226562\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ivor-green.jpg\" alt=\"ivor green\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After each presentation, representatives of the various civil society groups pose direct questions, seek clarifications or comment on the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Economic Affairs&#8217; (IEA) Evening Encounter series with the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is expected to come off on August 9. Nana Addo was initially expected to take his turn on the platform on July 5 but the Institute subsequently postponed the programme without assigning reasons for its decision. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":228916,"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":[2647,2648,58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2647","category-election","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228912","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}