{"id":196397,"date":"2025-04-19T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goc-presidential-hopeful-akpokavie-vows-to-unite-sports-federations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T23:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:32:40","slug":"ghana-goc-presidential-hopeful-akpokavie-vows-to-unite-sports-federations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-goc-presidential-hopeful-akpokavie-vows-to-unite-sports-federations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: GOC Presidential Hopeful Akpokavie Vows to Unite Sports Federations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mr Richard Akpokavie, a seasoned sports administrator and legal practitioner, has formally filed his nomination for President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and Commonwealth Games Federation (Ghana).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Mr Akpokavie filed his nomination on Monday, April 14, at the GOC Headquarters in Accra, ahead of the highly anticipated elective congress on April 26 at the Accra International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He submitted his nomination forms to Madam Cynthia Wintima Akudugu, an administration officer at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180451.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>Mr Richard Akpokavie, a seasoned sports administrator and legal practitioner, has formally filed his nomination for President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and Commonwealth Games Federation (Ghana). Mr Akpokavie filed his nomination on Monday, April 14, at the GOC Headquarters in Accra, ahead of the highly anticipated elective congress on April 26 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,51170,20919,4508,4509,44803,13946,257,6438,254,8045,21521,9639],"class_list":["post-196397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpokavie","tag-federations","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-goc","tag-hopeful","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-unite","tag-vows"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196397","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=196397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}