Committee Proposes 10yrs For Validity of Passport

Committee on Foreign Affairs of Parliament has proposed a ten-year duration period after which a Ghanaian passport should be renewed. The proposal is one of the many ways the Committee puts forward before the Director of Passports, Mr. Alexander Ntrakwa, when he appeared before them. Ranking Member of the Committee, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, in an … Read more

Parliament Wants 10 Years Valid Passports Not 5

Parliament is proposing a ten year period during which a passport in Ghana can be deemed to be valid. After the ten year period the passport will be deemed to have expired and must be renewed. This proposal is one of many others, Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs suggested to the Director of Passports Alexander … Read more

Ghana’s Kwasi Quartey Elected Deputy Chair of AU

Ghanaian Diplomat, Thomas Kwasi Quartey, has been appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Africa Union (AU). The former Secretary to Ex-President John Mahama’s appointment, was elected today [Monday] January 30, 2017, at the opening of the 28th Ordinary session of the African Union (AU) in Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Guinean President, Alpha Conde, has … Read more

Passports Director Complains About Rot At Passport Office

After many attempts to redeem the image of his outfit, the Director of Passports, Alexander Ntrakwa, has conceded that there are enormous cases of extortion, bribery and corruption at the passports office. Many applicants in their desperation to acquire passports in the country, illegally pay huge sums of money to unauthorized facilitators, popularly known as … Read more

Passports Director Complains About Rot At Passport Office

After many attempts to redeem the image of his outfit, the Director of Passports, Alexander Ntrakwa, has conceded that there are enormous cases of extortion, bribery and corruption at the passports office. Many applicants in their desperation to acquire passports in the country, illegally pay huge sums of money to unauthorized facilitators, popularly known as … Read more

Passports Director Complains About Rot At Passport Office

After many attempts to redeem the image of his outfit, the Director of Passports, Alexander Ntrakwa, has conceded that there are enormous cases of extortion, bribery and corruption at the passports office. Many applicants in their desperation to acquire passports in the country, illegally pay huge sums of money to unauthorized facilitators, popularly known as … Read more

NPP Youth Organiser Moves To Dissuade Party Supporters From ‘taking Over’ Passport Office

A group of persons on Monday, January 9 stormed the Passports Office in Accra to ostensibly take over the facility. The group said to have stormed the place in shirts marked ‘Invisible Forces’ demanded the immediate exit of the Director of Passports. Invisible Forces is the security appendage of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). … Read more