{"id":70214,"date":"2014-12-01T15:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=70214"},"modified":"2014-12-01T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:21:15","slug":"govt-declares-friday-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=70214","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t declares Friday a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Interior has declared Friday, December 5 a statutory public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday has been declared to celebrate the 2014 National Farmers&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7MELdJ4TacZCLWjwVXi0Tr49X3jwcGpC&#8221;]This was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga on behalf of the substantive Minister, Mark Owen Woyongo.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has therefore urged the general public to observe the day as such.<\/p>\n<p>The 30th National Farmers\u2019 Day celebration will be under the theme: \u201cEat what you grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Farmers Day celebration was established by the\u00a0Ministry of Food and Agriculture to honour the nation\u2019s hard working\u00a0farmers.<\/p>\n<p>On the first Friday of every December, farmers who excel in their respect fields are awarded with certificates and other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, 58-year-old Alhaji Awudu Karim from the Kasena Nankana District of the Upper East region was adjudged the National Best Farmer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><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.crea   teElement(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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Interior has declared Friday, December 5 a statutory public holiday. The holiday has been declared to celebrate the 2014 National Farmers&#8217; Day. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;7MELdJ4TacZCLWjwVXi0Tr49X3jwcGpC&#8221;]This was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga on behalf of the substantive Minister, Mark Owen Woyongo. The Ministry has therefore urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":70301,"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":[2],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-70214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70214","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=70214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}