{"id":7318,"date":"2019-12-17T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2019-12-17T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T12:29:50","slug":"prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss","title":{"rendered":"Prez Akufo-Addo sacks Northern Development Authority boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Akufo-Addo has dismissed\u00a0 the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, Dr. Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is according to a letter dated December 12, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The letter signed by President Akufo-Addo\u2019s Executive Secretary, Nana Bediatuo Asante, gave no reason for the removal of Dr. Haroun.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Development Authority was created together with the Middle Belt and Coastal Development Authorities and tasked them to implement the Infrastructure for the Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Development Authority (NDA) was established by the Northern Development Authority Act, 2017, Act 963 to \u201cprovide a framework for the accelerated economic and social development of the Northern Development Zone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7320\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/67621898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/67621898.jpg 600w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/67621898-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun President Akufo-Addo has dismissed\u00a0 the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, Dr. Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun. This is according to a letter dated December 12, 2019. The letter signed by President Akufo-Addo\u2019s Executive Secretary, Nana Bediatuo Asante, gave no reason for the removal of Dr. Haroun. The Northern Development Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":7319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[4740,4741,82],"class_list":["post-7318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-chief-executive-officer-of-the-northern-development-authority","tag-dr-alhaji-abdel-majeed-haroun","tag-president-akufo-addo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prez Akufo-Addo sacks Northern Development Authority boss - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Alhaji Abdel-Majeed HarounPresident Akufo-Addo has dismissed\u00a0 the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, Dr. Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prez Akufo-Addo sacks Northern Development Authority boss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Alhaji Abdel-Majeed HarounPresident Akufo-Addo has dismissed\u00a0 the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, Dr. Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-12-17T12:29:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/nya.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/3687592f7713dc6c826cf5bbd0e55bca\"},\"headline\":\"Prez Akufo-Addo sacks Northern Development Authority boss\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-17T12:29:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\"},\"wordCount\":117,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2019\/12\/nya.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority\",\"Dr. Alhaji Abdel-Majeed Haroun.\",\"President Akufo-Addo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prez-akufo-addo-sacks-northern-development-authority-boss\",\"name\":\"Prez Akufo-Addo sacks Northern Development Authority boss - 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