{"id":449207,"date":"2017-12-22T05:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/former-deputy-sports-minister-nii-nortey-dua-dies\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:15:02","slug":"former-deputy-sports-minister-nii-nortey-dua-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/former-deputy-sports-minister-nii-nortey-dua-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Deputy Sports Minister Nii Nortey Dua dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday, 22 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanasportsonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/40676691.295.jpg\" alt=\"Duah8\" title=\"Duah8\" width=\"295\" height=\"220\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Late Nii Nortey Dua<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513919702_586_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former deputy Minister of Sports Nii Nortey Dua has passed on after contracting an illness.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanasportsonline.com gathers the deceased passed on at the hospital on Thursday dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Nii Nortey Dua worked as the Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku constituency on the ticket of the NDC between 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Politician also served as a lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>He is known to have played a role in ensuring Ghana\u2019s successful campaign at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa where the Black Stars got to the quarterfinals of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 61 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: ghanasportsonline.com 2017-12-22 Late Nii Nortey Dua Former deputy Minister of Sports Nii Nortey Dua has passed on after contracting an illness. Ghanasportsonline.com gathers the deceased passed on at the hospital on Thursday dawn. Nii Nortey Dua worked as the Member of Parliament for the Ledzokuku constituency on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Deputy Sports Minister Nii Nortey Dua dies - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/former-deputy-sports-minister-nii-nortey-dua-dies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Deputy Sports Minister Nii Nortey Dua dies - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: ghanasportsonline.com 2017-12-22 Late Nii Nortey Dua Former deputy Minister of Sports Nii Nortey Dua has passed on after contracting an illness. 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