{"id":28691,"date":"2022-12-23T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:29:04","slug":"pres-akufo-addo-declares-dec-27-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/23\/pres-akufo-addo-declares-dec-27-a-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Pres Akufo-Addo declares Dec 27 a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday, December 27, 2022, has been declared a public holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement was made by the Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday, December 21, on the mint.gov.gh website by the Minister of the Interior Ambrose Dery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of the Interior statement said: &#8220;The general public is hereby notified that&nbsp;Sunday, 25th&nbsp;December, 2022&nbsp;marks&nbsp;Christmas Day&nbsp;which is a Statutory Public Holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;However, in view of the fact that 25th&nbsp;December, 2022 falls on a Sunday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, (Act 601) declared&nbsp;Tuesday, 27th&nbsp;December, 2022&nbsp;as an additional Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, the long weekend is Saturday, Christmas Eve December 24, Sunday, Christmas Day December 25, Monday, Boxing Day December 26, and Tuesday, December 27.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December 27, 2022, has been declared a public holiday. The announcement was made by the Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday, December 21, on the mint.gov.gh website by the Minister of the Interior Ambrose Dery.&nbsp; The Ministry of the Interior statement said: &#8220;The general public is hereby notified that&nbsp;Sunday, 25th&nbsp;December, 2022&nbsp;marks&nbsp;Christmas Day&nbsp;which is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,7105,5810,9119,5110,9103,9090,192,1971,3805,7669,371,11906,12790],"class_list":["post-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-ambrose-dery","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-day","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-eve","tag-dec-27","tag-ghana","tag-holiday","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-president-of-the-republic","tag-the-general","tag-weekend"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39321,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions\/39321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}