{"id":175662,"date":"2024-07-01T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-republic-day-of-price-hikes\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:47:09","slug":"ghana-the-republic-day-of-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-republic-day-of-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The Republic Day of Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Several price hikes greet Republic Day Commemoration amidst economic hardship. Starting today, consumers will face higher fuel costs, with petrol prices expected to rise by 2.17% from GH\u00a214.17 to GH\u00a215.20 per litre.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Ghana&#8217;s transition into its 64th year as a Republic coincides with significant price hikes across various essential commodities, setting a tone for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Key items such as cement, <a href=\"https:\/\/theaccratimes.com\/fuel-prices-set-to-increase-impacting-cost-of-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fuel,<\/a> water, and electricity are all seeing price increases starting today, July&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407010277.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several price hikes greet Republic Day Commemoration amidst economic hardship. Starting today, consumers will face higher fuel costs, with petrol prices expected to rise by 2.17% from GH\u00a214.17 to GH\u00a215.20 per litre. Ghana&#8217;s transition into its 64th year as a Republic coincides with significant price hikes across various essential commodities, setting a tone for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7165,4508,4509,17582,257,8689,5935,254],"class_list":["post-175662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hikes","tag-news","tag-price","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}