{"id":186709,"date":"2024-12-17T00:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-rollback-of-free-shs-policy-it-has-come-to-stay-well-ensure-dedicated-funding-for-it-mahama\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:41:50","slug":"ghana-no-rollback-of-free-shs-policy-it-has-come-to-stay-well-ensure-dedicated-funding-for-it-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-rollback-of-free-shs-policy-it-has-come-to-stay-well-ensure-dedicated-funding-for-it-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: No Rollback of Free Shs Policy!! &#8230;It Has Come to Stay, We&#8217;ll Ensure Dedicated Funding for It &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">President-elect John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his commitment to the continuation of Ghana&#8217;s Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy, dismissing claims that his administration would abolish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), Former President Mahama emphasized that the assertions that Free SHS would be scrapped was primarily a propaganda by New Patriotic Party (NPP) members during the election campaign which were founded on political party lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8220;Free SHS has come to stay, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412160602.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>President-elect John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his commitment to the continuation of Ghana&#8217;s Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy, dismissing claims that his administration would abolish it. In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), Former President Mahama emphasized that the assertions that Free SHS would be scrapped was primarily a propaganda by New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186710,"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":[258,256,10976,9925,6544,6141,4508,4509,28300,7780,257,6470,45387,10573,254,9311],"class_list":["post-186709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dedicated","tag-ensure","tag-free","tag-funding","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-it","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-rollback","tag-shs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay"],"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\/186709","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=186709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}