{"id":297304,"date":"2017-02-26T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297304"},"modified":"2017-02-26T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:00:41","slug":"6th-march-confirmed-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297304","title":{"rendered":"6th March confirmed public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has confirmed Monday, 6<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2017 as a statutory public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery said the day must be observed as such throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?attachment_id=297305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-297305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-297305\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Holiday1.jpg\" alt=\"holiday1\" width=\"638\" height=\"806\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6<sup>th<\/sup> March, 2017 marks Ghana\u2019s 60<sup>th<\/sup> independence anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration of this year\u2019s independence anniversary is under the theme, \u201cMobilizing for Ghana\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the celebration, the president, Nana Akufo-Addo constituted at 30-member <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/26\/akufo-addo-inaugurates-30-member-ghana60-committee\/\"><strong>committee<\/strong><\/a><\/span> chaired by Mr Ken Amankwah to plan and organize the various events that will characterize the celebration across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which subsequently announced it will work for free has announced a number of programs including a trade fair, musical concert and technology innovation challenge lined up for the anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Cost of anniversary celebration\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo while unveiling the logo and theme for the celebration announced that the budget for the anniversary events was <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/09\/nana-addo-unveils-ghana60-logo-celebration-to-cost-ghc20m\/\"><strong>GH\u00a220 million<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>and urged private enterprises to come on board and take up part of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>A deputy chief of staff, Abu Jinapor in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said the GH\u00a220 million budget was not only for events and \u201cparties\u201d but to complete some legacy projects and social interventions in various communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!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');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry has confirmed Monday, 6th March, 2017 as a statutory public holiday. A statement signed by the Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery said the day must be observed as such throughout the country. 6th March, 2017 marks Ghana\u2019s 60th independence anniversary. The celebration of this year\u2019s independence anniversary is under the theme, [&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":[5],"tags":[1010,3,1648],"class_list":["post-297304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ambrose-dery","tag-ghana-news","tag-interior-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297304","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=297304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}