{"id":753763,"date":"2019-11-28T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T07:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/nana-confers-ghanaian-citizenship-on-126-africans\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T07:51:44","slug":"nana-confers-ghanaian-citizenship-on-126-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/nana-confers-ghanaian-citizenship-on-126-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Confers Ghanaian Citizenship On 126 Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has conferred Ghanaian citizenship on 126 persons from the African diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony to confer the citizenship was held on Wednesday, 27th November, 2019, in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is part of the series of activities commemorating the \u2018Year of Return\u2019. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-  data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG-20191127-WA0029.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-253913 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201%201'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG-20191127-WA0029.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253913 lazy\" data- data-\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Akufo-Addo said the 126  were persons \u201cwho have lived with us for many, many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-  data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG-20191127-WA0022.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-253914 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201%201'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG-20191127-WA0022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-253914 lazy\" data- data-\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>He urged them to respect and abide by the laws of Ghana, and live in accordance with the tenets of Ghana\u2019s Constitution; and guard jealously their new country\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has conferred Ghanaian citizenship on 126 persons from the African diaspora. The ceremony to confer the citizenship was held on Wednesday, 27th November, 2019, in Accra. The ceremony is part of the series of activities commemorating the \u2018Year of Return\u2019. Mr Akufo-Addo said the 126 were persons \u201cwho have lived with us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nana Confers Ghanaian Citizenship On 126 Africans - 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\/2019\/11\/28\/nana-confers-ghanaian-citizenship-on-126-africans\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nana Confers Ghanaian Citizenship On 126 Africans - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Nana Akufo-Addo has conferred Ghanaian citizenship on 126 persons from the African diaspora. 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