{"id":459418,"date":"2018-01-29T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/29\/banning-of-names-in-the-country-not-surprising-nacee\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:00:26","slug":"banning-of-names-in-the-country-not-surprising-nacee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/29\/banning-of-names-in-the-country-not-surprising-nacee\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning of names in the country not surprising \u2013 Nacee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Monday, 29 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/81705668.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nacee Onaapo Attention\" title=\"Nacee Onaapo Attention\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghanaian artiste Nacee<\/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=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1517238026_176_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Multiple award-winning artiste, Nana Kweku Osei, popularly known as Nacee has stated categorically that he is not surprised local names have been banned by the Birth and Death registry.<\/p>\n<p>Nacee\u2019s message comes on the heels of a policy by the Birth and Death Registry that indigenous Ghanaian names such as \u201cMaame, Papa, Nana, Junior, Nene, Nii, Ohemaa and others will not be registered.<\/p>\n<p>The registry considers such names as titles.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to this policy on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM, the gospel musician said he cannot fathom why foreign names would be allowed in the country while local names would be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Efata Wo\u2019 hitmaker blamed some leaders in the country who have allowed foreigners to dictate to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Prince which is a foreign name and not our language can be accepted, why can\u2019t we be proud of what we have here?\u201d he queried.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore called on the bigwigs in the country to sit up and safeguard our culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is wrong with our leaders drawing us closer to them than sitting far from us and criticizing us? I don\u2019t know what is wrong with Ghanaians. Prince can be allowed but Nana is not\u2026\u201d Nacee told host Andy Dosty.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/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>Entertainment of Monday, 29 January 2018 Source: adomonline.com 2018-01-29 Ghanaian artiste Nacee Multiple award-winning artiste, Nana Kweku Osei, popularly known as Nacee has stated categorically that he is not surprised local names have been banned by the Birth and Death registry. Nacee\u2019s message comes on the heels of a policy by the Birth and Death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":459421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}