{"id":31995,"date":"2014-07-15T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=31995"},"modified":"2014-07-15T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:16:33","slug":"we-need-a-youth-sports-lottery-mahama-ayariga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=31995","title":{"rendered":"We need a Youth &#038; Sports Lottery &#8211; Mahama Ayariga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga has requested the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) to support the Ministry to establish a Youth &amp; Sports Lottery to raise funds for sports infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>A post on his Facebook page on Tuesday stated that the Acting Director General of the NLA, Brig. Gen. Martin K G Ahiaglo (Rtd) has promised to present the Minister \u201cwith available options within 2 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also indicated the completion of the Kaneshi Sports Complex in Accra \u201cis prime candidate for the investment of funds raised from such activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minister has promised to totally transform sports in Ghana after taking over the management of the Ministry about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that sports development will lift hundreds of Ghanaians out of poverty but corruption is hindering growth in that sector.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that majority of existing sports facilities in the country are poorly managed.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how this Youth and Sports Lottery will help improve infrastructure but similar schemes introduced by government did not yield positive results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!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');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga has requested the National Lotteries Authority (NLA) to support the Ministry to establish a Youth &amp; Sports Lottery to raise funds for sports infrastructure development. A post on his Facebook page on Tuesday stated that the Acting Director General of the NLA, Brig. Gen. Martin K G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31998,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[43,3,38],"class_list":["post-31995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}