{"id":287141,"date":"2017-01-22T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287141"},"modified":"2017-01-22T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T12:50:46","slug":"kokofuman-hemaa-to-act-as-asantehemaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287141","title":{"rendered":"Kokofuman Hemaa to act as Asantehemaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kokofuman Hemaa, Osagyefo Bayie, has been announced the acting Queen-Mother of the Ashanti Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the death of the Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, the late queen-mother, who died in November 2016, and was laid to rest in the late hours of Thursday at Breman in the Ashanti Region. She was 111.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Asantehemaa-funeral-rites-Day-3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-286514\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Asantehemaa-funeral-rites-Day-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"asantehemaa-funeral-rites-day-3-2\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Osagyefo Bayie will act as the new Asantehemaa or queen-mother until the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, nominates a successor for his mother.<\/p>\n<p>The successor is expected to be announced in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This successor, together with the Asantehene, will organize the final funeral rites of the late Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem in 12 months time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Felecia Osei\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kokofuman Hemaa, Osagyefo Bayie, has been announced the acting Queen-Mother of the Ashanti Kingdom. This follows the death of the Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, the late queen-mother, who died in November 2016, and was laid to rest in the late hours of Thursday at Breman in the Ashanti Region. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[3281,3036,3,3282],"class_list":["post-287141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-asante-kingdom","tag-asantehemaa","tag-ghana-news","tag-kokofuman-hemaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287141","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=287141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}