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Government Declares Wednesday Public Holiday, See Why

Government has declared Wednesday Public Holiday.

Newsone reports that the Ministry of Interior has announced Wednesday, September 21, 2022, as a public holiday to mark Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.

This online news platform understands that the Wednesday Public Holiday was made known in a  statement from the ministry and signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery.

“The general public is hereby informed that Wednesday, 21st September 2022, which marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, is a Statutory Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,” a statement from the ministry and signed by the sector minister, Ambrose Dery, announced.

Newsone Nigeria reports that the Public Holiday will be the fourth time a holiday has been declared to celebrate the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day since Parliament approved it in 2019.

Until 2019, September 21 each year was celebrated as a Founder’s Day public holiday to remember Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, as the founder of modern-day Ghana.

Newsone reports that Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in the Western Region of Ghana, West Africa.

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