{"id":208148,"date":"2025-09-25T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-breaking-ghana-gets-new-chief-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:16:54","slug":"ghana-breaking-ghana-gets-new-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-breaking-ghana-gets-new-chief-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Breaking &#8211; Ghana Gets New Chief Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">President John Dramani Mahama has nominated Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie as the new Chief Justice of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The President made the nomination in line with Article 144(1) of the 1992 Constitution, which requires him to forward the candidate&#8217;s name to the Council of State for consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Justice Baffoe-Bonnie has served the judiciary for decades, rising through the ranks of the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and most recently, the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He has also been acting as Chief Justice since&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240061.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 John Dramani Mahama has nominated Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie as the new Chief Justice of Ghana. The President made the nomination in line with Article 144(1) of the 1992 Constitution, which requires him to forward the candidate&#8217;s name to the Council of State for consideration. Justice Baffoe-Bonnie has served the judiciary for decades, rising through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671502:cb353705136f455267f3e17c86690cc3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4286,6510,4508,4509,6852,257,254],"class_list":["post-208148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaking","tag-chief","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671502:cb353705136f455267f3e17c86690cc3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208148","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=208148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}