{"id":239218,"date":"2026-07-21T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pres-mahama-eulogises-yaa-naa-as-fountain-of-wisdom-as-dagbon-informs-him-of-his-passing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:28:08","slug":"ghana-pres-mahama-eulogises-yaa-naa-as-fountain-of-wisdom-as-dagbon-informs-him-of-his-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pres-mahama-eulogises-yaa-naa-as-fountain-of-wisdom-as-dagbon-informs-him-of-his-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Pres Mahama Eulogises Yaa-Naa As &#8216;Fountain of Wisdom&#8217; &#8230;As Dagbon Informs Him of His Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama has eulogised the late Overlord of the Dagbon Kingdom, Yaa-Naa Abukari II, describing him as a fountain of wisdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mr Mahama said the philosophy of the late King was simple but profound: love for those who built bridges of peace and rejection for those who destroyed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Receiving a delegation from Dagbon who formally informed him of the passing of the revered late King, President Mahama said the late Yaa-Naa Abukari&#8217;s moderation and commitment to peace earned him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210525.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 eulogised the late Overlord of the Dagbon Kingdom, Yaa-Naa Abukari II, describing him as a fountain of wisdom. Mr Mahama said the philosophy of the late King was simple but profound: love for those who built bridges of peace and rejection for those who destroyed it. Receiving a delegation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[43394,258,256,14208,20902,54902,4508,4509,7410,7780,257,9062,6911,254,44529,25855],"class_list":["post-239218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-as","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dagbon","tag-eulogises","tag-fountain","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-informs","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-passing","tag-pres","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wisdom","tag-yaanaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239218","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=239218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}