{"id":1167742,"date":"2022-08-05T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/no-heartbreak-trumps-this-oppong-nkrumah-consoles-bernard-avle-over-the-loss-of-his-wife\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:21:35","slug":"no-heartbreak-trumps-this-oppong-nkrumah-consoles-bernard-avle-over-the-loss-of-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/no-heartbreak-trumps-this-oppong-nkrumah-consoles-bernard-avle-over-the-loss-of-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No heartbreak trumps this\u2019 \u2013 Oppong Nkrumah consoles Bernard Avle over the loss of his wife \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Following the passing of Bernard Avle\u2019s wife, Justine, on Citi FM\u2019s morning show, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the minister of information, has begged with the public to remember him in their prayers.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the tragic news happened as Bernard was getting ready for his Point of View news analysis program on the evening of Wednesday, August 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard, who also serves as the general manager of Citi FM, wed Justine in 2011; over the course of their 11-year union, they have had four children.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Every time Mr. Avle was heard discussing his wife on the radio, he invariably referred to her as his greatest inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Following the devastating news, many social media users shared their condolences and prayed for the journalist\u2019s courage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSpent some time with Koku this afternoon. No heartbreak trumps this. Please say a prayer for strength for him and the kids,\u201d<\/em> the tweet which had the picture of the bereaved and the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Oppong Nkrumah, a broadcaster before transitioning to politics, expressed his devastation over the news in a tweet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spent some time with koku this afternoon. No heartbreak trumps this. Please say a prayer for strength for him and the kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXOwxlkYqT\">pic.twitter.com\/aXOwxlkYqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/konkrumah\/status\/1555340091966488576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Following the passing of Bernard Avle\u2019s wife, Justine, on Citi FM\u2019s morning show, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the minister of information, has begged with the public to remember him in their prayers. According to reports, the tragic news happened as Bernard was getting ready for his Point of View news analysis program on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6441,11112,3502,18561,1300,5359,6421,12943,54],"class_list":["post-1167742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-avle","tag-bernard","tag-consoles","tag-heartbreak","tag-loss","tag-nkrumah","tag-oppong","tag-trumps","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}