{"id":304079,"date":"2017-03-23T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=304079"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:48:38","slug":"residents-of-funsi-name-street-after-wiyaala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=304079","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Funsi name street after Wiyaala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Funsi, in the Upper West Region have honoured\u00a0energetic, award-winning songstress, Noella Wiyaala in a special way by naming a street after her.<\/p>\n<p>The singer revealed this on her Facebook page in a post that read, \u201cMy people said they had a surprise for me. Little did I know. #WIYAALA#STREET \ud83d\ude33 \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude30\ud83d\ude2d.To the people of #FUNSI #SISAALA land. My village, My home town am honoured!.Thank you.\ud83d\ude0a&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Wiyaala<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wiyaala is Ghanaian Afro pop singer-songwriter who sings in her native Sissala and Waale dialects and English, often combining all three languages within her songs.<\/p>\n<p>She has attained public renown with most of her songs.<\/p>\n<p>After making her name in reality shows in Accra, she established a solo career in 2013 with the hit single &#8220;Rock My Body&#8221;, which won her two awards at the 2014 first edition of the All Africa Music Awards, the Most Promising Artiste in Africa and Revelation of The African Continent.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwiyaala%2Fposts%2F1375230362538087&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/showbiz.citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Funsi, in the Upper West Region have honoured\u00a0energetic, award-winning songstress, Noella Wiyaala in a special way by naming a street after her. The singer revealed this on her Facebook page in a post that read, \u201cMy people said they had a surprise for me. Little did I know. #WIYAALA#STREET \ud83d\ude33 \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude30\ud83d\ude2d.To the [&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":[137],"tags":[3,5399],"class_list":["post-304079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-news","tag-wiyaala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304079","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=304079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}