{"id":205065,"date":"2025-08-20T04:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-violent-clash-forces-closure-of-boltech\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:22:02","slug":"ghana-violent-clash-forces-closure-of-boltech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-violent-clash-forces-closure-of-boltech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Violent Clash Forces Closure of Boltech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOLTECH) has been closed down indefinitely after violent clashes by students in the early hours of Friday, August 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The riots erupted around 1:00 am when aggrieved students vandalised property in protest against the suspension of five colleagues for defying a directive banning unprescribed uniforms on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to reports, the students initially plotted to attack the Senior Housemaster on Thursday evening, accusing him of orchestrating the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190551.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 Bolgatanga Technical Institute (BOLTECH) has been closed down indefinitely after violent clashes by students in the early hours of Friday, August 15, 2025. The riots erupted around 1:00 am when aggrieved students vandalised property in protest against the suspension of five colleagues for defying a directive banning unprescribed uniforms on campus. According to reports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205066,"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":[258,256,52152,7647,5061,5097,4508,4509,257,254,4979],"class_list":["post-205065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boltech","tag-clash","tag-closure","tag-forces","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violent"],"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\/205065","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=205065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}