{"id":406259,"date":"2018-03-05T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=406259"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:38:53","slug":"president-akufo-addo-receives-exemplary-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=406259","title":{"rendered":"President Akufo-Addo receives ‘Exemplary Leadership Award’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Akufo-Addo was on Friday, 2nd<\/sup> March 2018, presented with the Exemplary Leadership Award, in recognition of his \u201ccourageous and transformative leadership\u201d, \u201ccommitment to education\u201d and for his implementation of \u201cpeople-centred policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cMay Ghana, under your leadership, be a wonder and an inspiration to the world. May the expectation, as we know it will, of every African man and woman be raised because of your pioneering achievements. May every African child believe that he or she can, because you lifted them up, and paved the way,\u201d the citation read.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo received the award at the 15th<\/sup> anniversary gala dinner night of the Whitaker Group, an award which was presented by the CEO of the Group, Rosa Whitaker.<\/p>\n

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Rosa Whitaker, CEO of the Whitaker Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In accepting the award, the President thanked Rosa Whitaker and the Whitaker Group warmly for the honour, indicating that, \u201cwhat our history has taught us is that the spirit of the Ghanaian, in his or her quest for peace, progress and prosperity, cannot be quenched. We are a determined lot, who cannot be deterred.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Ghana being recognized as a beacon of democracy and stability on the African continent, President Akufo-Addo noted that the time has now come for Ghana to move on even further to deepen her democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must create wealth and provide happiness to our nation. We can only do this when we have a powerful private sector, with a strong sense of enterprise, innovation and creativity, and an educated and skilled population that is capable of competing in the global marketplace,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

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The Exemplary Leadership Award presented to President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He continued, \u201cThis is why we are insisting on making basic education, i.e. kindergarten through primary school to junior high school to senior high school, free in all our public schools, to guarantee access to quality basic education to all of Ghana\u2019s children, irrespective of the circumstances of their birth. In doing so, we must expand our horizons and embrace science and technology as critical tools for our development.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries with Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Akufo-Addo told the gathering that \u201cwe have to build a confident Ghana which is united, at peace with itself and takes pride in its diversity, and which continues to pursue its historic pan-African vocation. It will not be easy. We have no illusions whatsoever about the nature of the task that we face, but I know that Ghanaians will rise to the occasion; they always do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was confident that \u201cthe Black Star is going to shine and shine and shine, and we are going to build a Ghana beyond Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Akufo-Addo was on Friday, 2nd March 2018, presented with the Exemplary Leadership Award, in recognition of his \u201ccourageous and transformative leadership\u201d, \u201ccommitment to education\u201d and for his implementation of \u201cpeople-centred policies.\u201d \u201cMay Ghana, under your leadership, be a wonder and an inspiration to the world. May the expectation, as we know it will, of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":406270,"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":[17606,3,312,17607],"class_list":["post-406259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-exemplary-leadership-award","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-akufo-addo","tag-rosa-whitaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406259","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=406259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}