{"id":13196,"date":"2025-09-17T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13196"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:52:55","slug":"interior-ministry-declares-monday-sept-22-as-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13196","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry declares Monday Sept. 22 as Public Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Interior has announced that Monday, September 22, will be observed as a statutory public holiday across the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, this is in commemoration of the Founder\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry said the holiday, originally scheduled for Sunday, September 21, coincides with a weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of this, President John Mahama has, by Executive Instrument, declared the following Monday as an additional holiday in line with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act (Act 601), as amended.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, who signed the statement, urged the public to observe the day nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Interior has announced that Monday, September 22, will be observed as a statutory public holiday across the country. According to the Ministry, this is in commemoration of the Founder\u2019s Day. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry said the holiday, originally scheduled for Sunday, September 21, coincides with a weekend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507],"tags":[3993,4037,198],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national","tag-interior-ministry","tag-muntaka","tag-public-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13198,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions\/13198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}