{"id":1207198,"date":"2022-09-19T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/government-declares-september-21-a-public-holiday\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:51:50","slug":"government-declares-september-21-a-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/government-declares-september-21-a-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Government declares September 21 a public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Ministry of Interior has announced Wednesday, September 21, 2022, as a public holiday to mark Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general public is hereby informed that Wednesday, 21st September 2021, which marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, is a Statutory Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,\u201d a statement from the ministry and signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery, announced.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MINT-HOLIDAY.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1042\" height=\"590\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This will be the fourth time a holiday has been declared to celebrate the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day since Parliament approved it in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Until 2019, September 21 each year was celebrated as a Founder\u2019s Day public holiday to remember Ghana\u2019s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, as the founder of modern-day Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Interior has announced Wednesday, September 21, 2022, as a public holiday to mark Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day. \u201cThe general public is hereby informed that Wednesday, 21st September 2021, which marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, is a Statutory Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,\u201d a statement from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207198","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=1207198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}