{"id":66232,"date":"2025-05-21T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66232"},"modified":"2025-05-21T15:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:22:51","slug":"banky-w-bags-policy-degree-from-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/banky-w-bags-policy-degree-from-georgetown\/","title":{"rendered":"Banky W Bags Policy Degree from Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian music star and politician Bankole Wellington, better known as Banky W, has earned a Master\u2019s degree in Policy Management from the prestigious McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old shared the milestone on Instagram yesterday, May 20, 2025, celebrating his academic journey while juggling parenting, politics and public service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaith gives you the courage, resilience and power to redefine endings,\u201d Banky W wrote, reflecting on a demanding season that saw him raising two children in the United States, pursuing a full-time postgraduate degree and serving as a Fellow on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>He described the experience as exhausting but transformative, urging others to embrace growth and renewal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never too late to dream a new dream,\u201d he added, signaling a renewed drive as he prepares to return to public life.<\/p>\n<p>Banky W\u2019s achievement has been met with praise from fans and peers alike, who view it as proof of his evolving influence beyond entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Nigerian music star and politician Bankole Wellington, better known as Banky W, has earned a Master\u2019s degree in Policy Management from the prestigious McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, Washington DC. The 44-year-old shared the milestone on Instagram yesterday, May 20, 2025, celebrating his academic journey while juggling parenting, politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,179,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66234,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66232\/revisions\/66234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}