{"id":183488,"date":"2024-10-28T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-nigeria-rejoices-with-ghanas-botchwey-on-election-as-commonwealth-scribe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:55:06","slug":"west-africa-nigeria-rejoices-with-ghanas-botchwey-on-election-as-commonwealth-scribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-nigeria-rejoices-with-ghanas-botchwey-on-election-as-commonwealth-scribe\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Nigeria Rejoices With Ghana&#8217;s Botchwey On Election As Commonwealth Scribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The federal government has congratulated Ghana&#8217;s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, on her election as the new Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">President Bola Tinubu, in a statement issued yesterday by his Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, believed Botchwey&#8217;s extensive career in public administration, foreign affairs, and regional development makes her a perfect fit for the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The president expressed optimism that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410280439.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>The federal government has congratulated Ghana&#8217;s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, on her election as the new Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. President Bola Tinubu, in a statement issued yesterday by his Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, believed Botchwey&#8217;s extensive career in public administration, foreign affairs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183489,"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":[258,256,23673,6405,3119,4509,8226,257,4687,30784,8908,254,4375],"class_list":["post-183488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botchwey","tag-commonwealth","tag-election","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-rejoices","tag-scribe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"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\/183488","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=183488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}