Tag Archives: Immigration

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has taken disciplinary action against 27 officers, including three senior officers and 24 junior officers, on suspicion of engaging in various offenses that have tarnished the Service’s reputation. In a circular signed by the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi, it announced that the …

An unidentified officer of the Ghana Immigration Service is being celebrated online for a heroic feat. In videos that have been shared on Twitter, the officer is seen angrily dragging a man suspected to be a serial killer – a man in dreadlocks, and wearing a black tank top, in …

An Assistant Immigration Control Officer II (AICO II), Nurideen Abdul-Ganiew Takra, who saved two police officers, has been promoted to the rank of AICO I by The Comptroller General of Immigration (CGI) Kwame Asuah Takyi (Esq). Two police officers in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region who were detailed …

Two police officers in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region who were detailed to respond to a distress call from a church were on Saturday reportedly rescued by an Immigration Officer in what could have gotten the officers killed. The police officers were reportedly subdued by a man who …

A total of 13 persons including four soldiers and an immigration officer have been arrested at Konongo in the Ashanti Region for allegedly engaging in unauthorised opera­tions at Mantin in the Bosome-Fre­ho District of the Ashanti Region. They were arrested by National Security Operatives with the assis­tance of the Konongo …

Confusion has erupted over the whereabouts of 48 foreigners who were arrested in connec­tion with alleged terrorism and other fraudulent acts in September, last year. While the police claimed the suspects were handed over to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in the Ejisu Municipality to deal with them, the latter …

The Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service, Kwame Asuah Takyi has sued the managers of TV3, Media General over some alleged incidents of defamation. The suit which makes GH¢20 million demand in damages also named the host of the morning show on the television network, Johnnie Hughes as a …

An International Relations Expert, Collons Kwadwo Amoah has alleged that Immigration Service officers at the Kotoka International Airport of helping foreign passengers who disembark to evade immigration screening. His comment comes on the back of news that Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang who was arrested and said to have been …

The Asankrangwa Magistrates Court in the Amenfi West municipality of the Western Region has remanded into police custody a 50-year-old senior officer of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Elorm Tsekpor after he appeared before it charged with defiling two girls aged nine and 10 respectively in June this year. The …

An Immigration Officer identified as ICO Mark Adaako has been crashed to death. This was after he was run over by an articulated truck between Segru and Puffien on the Nandom Hamile road. The remains of the Junior Officer aged 34 is said to have been mutilated as a result …