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Passport applicants stranded as passport booklet runs out over unpaid debt

  By:brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Some passport applicants in the country are seething with anger following the inability of passport offices across the country to release their passports despite the expiration of their collection dates. According to OTECNews sources, the passport office is currently only attending to priority cases as the …

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Only Ghana card, passport’ll be used for voter roll as Parliament approves C.I.

Speaker of Parliament Ghana’s Parliament has approved the Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126) of the Electoral Commission (EC) to enable the elections management body compile a new register of voters using the Ghana card and passport as the only primary documents of eligibility. One hundred and six MPs voted for it …

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COVID-19: Passport office resumes operations today

Ghana passport The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has informed the public that the passport office will resume operations in all its centres across the country from today, Monday, 18 May 2020. A statement issued by the Ministry said: “The online application portal will be opened for booking …

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COVID-19: Passport offices across Ghana to resume operations

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Passport offices across Ghana are set to resume operations from Monday, May 18, 2020, following a break amid the coronavirus pandemic. This was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. The statement noted all applicants and official visitors would be required …

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COVID-19: Ghana suspends all passport services amid virus outbreak

By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah Ghana has suspended all passport services at all Passport Application Centres (PACs)   The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has suspended all passport services at all Passport Application Centres (PACs) across the country with immediate effect. This is in line with keeping with Government’s directives …

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‘Borga’ loses $5K, passport and Green Card in Obuasi house fire

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah An inferno that ravaged a 12-bedroom storey building at Amangoase, a suburb of the gold mining town of Obuasi in the Ashanti region on Sunday night has left its former occupants stranded and homeless, MyNewsGh.com reports. The over 17 tenants who lost all their belongings in the blaze are …

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Ayariga granted GHS100K bail, passport seized

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       The Financial Court 2 Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Afia Serwa Asare Botwe has admitted Bawku Central MP, Mr Mahama Ayariga, to a self recognisance bail bond of GHS100,000 after pleading not guilty to charges of abuse of …

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Malta now visa-free country for Ghanaian passport holders

  By:brightwebtv.com/Nana asare barimah         Malta and Ghana have signed a visa waiver deal allowing nationals of both countries to visit the other without entry visas, according to multiple reports. Both nations have also signed an Air Service agreement that will see the national airline of Malta …

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Gov’t extends validity of passport booklets to 10 years

  By:brightwebtv.com/bright Agyapong. The government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has extended the validity period of the country’s ordinary passport booklets from five years to 10 years.   This comes after complaints by some Ghanaians that the five-year validity period was too short. An online petition …

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Francis Kotia takes over as new Director of Passport

by;brightwebtv.com/bright agyapong Francis Kotia has taken over as the Director of Operations of the Passport Office from Amanor Daku-Mante who has been re-assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a handing over ceremony held on Friday in Accra, the immediate past Passport Director Mr Amanor Daku-Mante urged the staff …

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