{"id":234468,"date":"2026-05-26T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-constituency-official-of-ruling-party-bars-journalist-from-public-event-issues-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:02:00","slug":"ghana-constituency-official-of-ruling-party-bars-journalist-from-public-event-issues-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-constituency-official-of-ruling-party-bars-journalist-from-public-event-issues-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Constituency Official of Ruling Party Bars Journalist From Public Event, Issues Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Ibrahim Abode, a reporter with Metro TV, was <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotvonline.com\/metro-tv-reporter-alleges-intimidation-at-24-hour-economy-project-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prevented<\/a> from covering a government project launch in Ghana&#8217;s Upper East Region on May 19, 2026, after a party official ordered him to leave and warned of consequences if he stayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Abode, an alumni of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/media-good-governance-and-development\/next-generation-investigative-journalism-fellowship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Investigative Journalism (NGIJ)<\/a> programme run by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), had travelled to the Pusiga constituency as part of a press contingent covering sod-cutting ceremonies for the government&#8217;s 24-hour economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605250594.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>Ibrahim Abode, a reporter with Metro TV, was prevented from covering a government project launch in Ghana&#8217;s Upper East Region on May 19, 2026, after a party official ordered him to leave and warned of consequences if he stayed. Abode, an alumni of the Next Generation Investigative Journalism (NGIJ) programme run by the Media Foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234469,"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":[258,256,8212,9268,13835,4508,4509,8008,7277,257,5092,7024,5751,7870,254,7611],"class_list":["post-234468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bars","tag-constituency","tag-event","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-issues","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-official","tag-party","tag-public","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats"],"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\/234468","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=234468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}