{"id":177302,"date":"2024-07-26T02:47:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-norwegian-embassy-failed-to-do-its-job-sports-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T02:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T00:47:12","slug":"ghana-the-norwegian-embassy-failed-to-do-its-job-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-norwegian-embassy-failed-to-do-its-job-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The Norwegian Embassy Failed to Do Its Job &#8211; Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>According to the Minister he should not be held responsible for something that was not his responsibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Minister for Youth and Sports,Mustapha Yusif, has criticized the Norwegian Embassy in Ghana for failing to conduct proper due diligence, thereby allowing individuals to enter Norway under false pretenses as Paralympic athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The minister&#8217;s comment, made during a news conference on July 24, 2024, comes after nine members of <a href=\"https:\/\/theaccratimes.com\/alleged-disappearance-of-ghana-para-cycling-team-members-reported-in-oslo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana&#8217;s 11-person Para-athletic team<\/a> were reported missing upon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250488.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>According to the Minister he should not be held responsible for something that was not his responsibility. The Minister for Youth and Sports,Mustapha Yusif, has criticized the Norwegian Embassy in Ghana for failing to conduct proper due diligence, thereby allowing individuals to enter Norway under false pretenses as Paralympic athletes. The minister&#8217;s comment, made during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177303,"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":[258,256,1946,9281,4508,4509,9679,5941,257,4633,254,8045],"class_list":["post-177302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embassy","tag-failed","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-job","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-norwegian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports"],"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\/177302","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=177302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}