{"id":214462,"date":"2025-11-22T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-education-in-bong-county-halts-classes-to-welcome-president-boakai\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:04:10","slug":"liberia-ministry-of-education-in-bong-county-halts-classes-to-welcome-president-boakai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ministry-of-education-in-bong-county-halts-classes-to-welcome-president-boakai\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ministry of Education in Bong County Halts Classes to Welcome President Boakai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Gbarnga \u2014 Educational activities were brought to a standstill across Gbarnga on Friday after the Ministry of Education&#8217;s Bong County office reportedly ordered schools to suspend classes and assemble students along major routes to welcome President Joseph Boakai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The directive, which affected both public and private institutions, left many parents and educators frustrated as thousands of students were taken out of classrooms for what critics described as a political display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">President Boakai is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210471.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gbarnga \u2014 Educational activities were brought to a standstill across Gbarnga on Friday after the Ministry of Education&#8217;s Bong County office reportedly ordered schools to suspend classes and assemble students along major routes to welcome President Joseph Boakai. The directive, which affected both public and private institutions, left many parents and educators frustrated as thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214463,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7324,2960,13628,5091,1632,16494,4712,1107,6857,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-214462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-bong","tag-classes","tag-county","tag-education","tag-halts","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ministry","tag-news","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\/214462","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=214462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}