The first batch of pilgrims for the 2024 Hajj is set to depart from Tamale International Airport to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia today, Tuesday, May 28. Over 4,000 pilgrims are expected to participate in this year’s Hajj. In an interview with Citi News, Abdul-Rahman Gomda, Communications Director for the Hajj Board, […]
The Ghana Hajj Board and the Ghana Hajj Agents Association have committed to refunding all monies paid by pilgrims last year to perform the Hajj (an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca) in the event that Saudi Arabia bars foreigners from performing the pilgrimage in 2021. In a communique dated May 22, 2021, and jointly signed […]
The first batch of Ghanaian pilgrims have returned to Accra after partaking in this year’s Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Flynas Boeing 747-400 flight which carried the 472 pilgrims from Jeddah touched down at 2.55am Sunday dawn at the Kotoka International Airport. The visibly exhausted but excited pilgrims then proceeded to the […]
Story by: Dickson Desire Newly returned pilgrims who made it to this year’s hajj from the Lawra constituency in the Upper West Region have paid a courtesy call on the Member of Parliament for the constituency and Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways, Anthony Abayifaa Karbo at his office in Lawra. Their main purpose for […]
