{"id":190679,"date":"2025-02-06T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-make-safety-security-of-fans-paramount-swag-tells-gfa\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:47:03","slug":"ghana-make-safety-security-of-fans-paramount-swag-tells-gfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-make-safety-security-of-fans-paramount-swag-tells-gfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Make Safety, Security of Fans Paramount &#8230;Swag Tells GFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has expressed shock at the violent clashes that erupted during the Ghana Premier League (GPL) match between Nsoatreman and Kotoko, resulting in the death of a Kumasi Asante Kotoko supporter known as Francis Yaw Frimpong, aka Nana Pooley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Expressing commiseration to the family of Nana Pooley, the SWAG condemned the hooliganism and thuggery that has become a recurring decimal in local football leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Consequently, SWAG has called on government, Ghana&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502050669.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 Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has expressed shock at the violent clashes that erupted during the Ghana Premier League (GPL) match between Nsoatreman and Kotoko, resulting in the death of a Kumasi Asante Kotoko supporter known as Francis Yaw Frimpong, aka Nana Pooley. Expressing commiseration to the family of Nana Pooley, the SWAG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190680,"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":[258,256,11012,7795,4508,4509,257,12047,4672,4586,254,31338,7036],"class_list":["post-190679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fans","tag-gfa","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-paramount","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swag","tag-tells"],"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\/190679","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=190679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}