{"id":374309,"date":"2017-11-16T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=374309"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T07:41:51","slug":"ibn-chambas-speech-on-africas-challenges-at-upsa-leadership-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=374309","title":{"rendered":"Ibn Chambas&#8217; speech on Africa&#8217;s challenges at UPSA Leadership Lecture[Full Text]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, on Wednesday, November 15, delivered a thought-provoking address at the inaugural UPSA Annual Leadership Lecture in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 lecture by the University of Professional Studies, was on the theme\u00a0&#8220;Equipping the youth to renegotiate Africa&#8217;s position in the era of Africa Rising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, \u00a0he urged African leaders to place a lot more focus on the management of the rate of increase in the population of their countries as it could negatively affect their economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the leaders to effectively <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/15\/stop-corruption-to-ensure-efficiency-chambas-to-african-leaders\/\">tackle corruption<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and promote accountability in their states as that would be a giant step towards the development they seek.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SRSG-Inaugural-Speech-on-Youth-Policy-Initiative-UPSA.docx\">Click here<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for the full Speech delivered by Dr. Ibn Chambas<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in West Africa and the Sahel, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, on Wednesday, November 15, delivered a thought-provoking address at the inaugural UPSA Annual Leadership Lecture in Accra. The\u00a0 lecture by the University of Professional Studies, was on the theme\u00a0&#8220;Equipping the youth to renegotiate Africa&#8217;s position in the era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":223360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[780,3743,14646],"class_list":["post-374309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-africa","tag-ibn-chambas","tag-leadership-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374309","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=374309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}