{"id":179761,"date":"2024-09-02T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-ghanaians-schooling-abroad-to-return-contribute-to-national-development\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:35:25","slug":"ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-ghanaians-schooling-abroad-to-return-contribute-to-national-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-akufo-addo-urges-ghanaians-schooling-abroad-to-return-contribute-to-national-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Akufo-Addo Urges Ghanaians Schooling Abroad to Return, Contribute to National Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Ghanaians studying abroad have been urged to return to the country and offer the knowledge and experiences acquired as their contribution towards national development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who offered the gesture, said it is regrettable that most Ghanaians who go to school abroad most often feel reluctant to return home while those who even return prefer to be in their private space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President Akufo-Addo made the plea at the 10th-anniversary networking and fundraising dinner of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409020521.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>Ghanaians studying abroad have been urged to return to the country and offer the knowledge and experiences acquired as their contribution towards national development. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who offered the gesture, said it is regrettable that most Ghanaians who go to school abroad most often feel reluctant to return home while those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179762,"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":[258,256,6441,12512,5989,4508,4509,7921,6687,257,2450,6656,15397,254,6810],"class_list":["post-179761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akufoaddo","tag-contribute","tag-development","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaians","tag-national","tag-news","tag-president","tag-return","tag-schooling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/179761","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=179761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}