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The construction of the Phase two of the Tamale Airport Development Project has been completed at a cost of US$70 million and awaiting commissioning by the end of this year. The 5,000-square metre airport, with an annual passenger throughput of 400,000 capacity, is expected to boost the local economy, tourism …

A little over two hours after GhanaWeb reported that a security officer of the Ghana Airports Company Limited stationed at the Kumasi Airport had been interdicted for what has been termed ‘embarrassing’ the Minister for National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, the management of the GACL has beaten a retreat. In a statement …

Campaigners are hoping to have the new Kumasi International Airport renamed in honour of Baffour Osei Akoto, the brain behind the National Liberation Movement (NLM). The Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, who is the latest to …

The Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has declared the Sunyani Airport a ‘fit for purpose’ facility after concluding his last inspection tour at the facility on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 with a team of experts from the Ghana Airports Company (GAC), Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and Ghana Air Force. …

On Monday, July 18, the Jubba Airways plane crashed and rolled over on the runway of the Mogadishu airport before taking fire. The dramatic video shows the plane upside-down on the edge of the runway, burning fiercely, spewing dense smoke. When the incident happened, the aircraft was traveling domestically from …

A video that has surfaced on various social media platforms captures a light-skinned woman dressed in navy green bodycon attire chasing a security man with a car jack. According to observers who ran commentaries in the background, the said woman was a foreigner who had a diplomatic issue but resorted …

Multiple award-winning Ghanaian gospel songstress, Empress Gifty, also known as Mrs Gifty Adorye has disclosed that her luggage has been misplaced after boarding Turkish airline to her travel destination in New York. Speaking in a recorded live video on Facebook, the outspoken songstress indicated that just one luggage of she …

Authorities have confirmed the death of a middle-aged male passenger travelling from the US to Ghana’s capital Accra. The deceased arrived onboard United Airlines at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) from Dulles International Airport Washington at approximately 10:20 am in the company of a relative, according to a statement from …

A number of social media users across popular platforms, Facebook and Twitter have ridiculed attempts by some NDC communicators and appointees to link former President Mahama to the ongoing construction of a new international airport in Tamale. The new ultramodern international airport, a project by the Akufo-Addo government which started …

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet) predicted that there will be heavy rainfall in the southern part of Ghana and true to their predictions there was rainstorm in Accra. As usual, the rains in Accra led to several parts of the nation’s capital town flooding, causing a lot of destruction and …