{"id":196865,"date":"2025-04-26T23:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-nominates-new-batch-of-mmdces\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:46:38","slug":"ghana-president-nominates-new-batch-of-mmdces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-nominates-new-batch-of-mmdces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President Nominates New Batch of MMDCEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The President, John Dramani Mahama, has nominated total of 31 persons from three regions across the country to the positions of as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), subject to approval by their respective assemblies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The nomination is in accordance with Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Construction and section 20 (1) of the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936) as amended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">This was contained in a statement signed by the Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250264.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 President, John Dramani Mahama, has nominated total of 31 persons from three regions across the country to the positions of as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), subject to approval by their respective assemblies. The nomination is in accordance with Article 243 (1) of the 1992 Construction and section 20 (1) of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196866,"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":[258,256,7247,4508,4509,43582,257,10406,2450,254],"class_list":["post-196865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batch","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mmdces","tag-news","tag-nominates","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/196865","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=196865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}