{"id":216635,"date":"2025-12-14T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-decentralisation-remains-centre-of-national-development-veep\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:26:57","slug":"ghana-decentralisation-remains-centre-of-national-development-veep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-decentralisation-remains-centre-of-national-development-veep\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Decentralisation Remains Centre of National Development &#8211; Veep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has emphasized that decentralisation must remain at the centre of national development. She made the call while opening the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) on Decentralisation in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Professor Opoku-Agyemang described the meeting as an important moment of renewal and action, noting that Ghana&#8217;s decentralisation journey has spanned nearly four decades and requires sustained commitment. She explained&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120417.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 Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has emphasized that decentralisation must remain at the centre of national development. She made the call while opening the first meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) on Decentralisation in Accra. Professor Opoku-Agyemang described the meeting as an important moment of renewal and action, noting that Ghana&#8217;s decentralisation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216636,"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":[258,256,9881,3678,5989,4508,4509,6687,257,7602,254,7661],"class_list":["post-216635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-centre","tag-decentralisation","tag-development","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-remains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veep"],"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\/216635","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=216635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}