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• Confusion Over Hajj Again

  Confusion has rocked the Islamic community as two organizations lock horns over which of them has the authority to organize the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Last Friday the National Hajj Council (NHC), which was taken over by an Interim Hajj Management... Posted Aug 25 2008, 12:18 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam, Hajj Council

• Not Again!

  We are dismayed, as would be other Ghanaians at the unfolding confusion over the forthcoming annual pilgrimage of Moslems to Saudi Arabia. Elsewhere in this edition, there is a story about a press conference by a National Hajj Council (NHC) challenging... Posted Aug 25 2008, 12:16 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Hajj Council

• Ghanaian Pilgrims Evacuated

  Government has unfolded an arrangement to evacuate over 1000 stranded Ghanaian pilgrims from the port city of Jeddah and Medina in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrims who had performed their annual Islamic pilgrimage have been disapointed by the Alama Travel and... Posted Jan 17 2008, 04:27 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam

• Ghanaian Women Prostitute In Mecca

  SOME GHANAIAN female pilgrims have joined their Nigerian counterparts to engage in prostitution in Saudi Arabia, a country where such a pastime is punishable in line with strict Islamic law. The women, who flew to the kingdom ostensibly to perform the... Posted Jan 15 2008, 02:48 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam, prostitution

• The Hajj fiasco: Politics spoiled everything

  Barely one month after controversy dogged last year's Hajj pilgrimage, The Independent has stumbled on some facts that put the blame on differences among members of the Hajj Council as well as indecision in certain quarters. The information also suggests... Posted Jan 14 2008, 03:22 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam

• Three dead Ghanaian pilgrims identified

  The three Ghanaian pilgrims who died during this year's Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been identified. A source close to the Interim Hajj Management Committee gave their names as Hajia Maryama Ishak, from Kumasi, Alhaji Adams Alhassan,... Posted Dec 28 2007, 01:49 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam

• Probe Hajj- Chief Imam

  THE NATIONAL Chief Imam and the Muslim Council of Chiefs have endorsed government’s decision to investigate the problems that rocked this year’s Hajj. Disclosing this yesterday to thousands of Muslims who thronged the Independence Square in Accra to celebrate... Posted Dec 20 2007, 08:50 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam

• 2 Dead In Mecca

  THE MUCH-awaited airlifting of Ghanaian pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Muslim ritual of Hajj took place successfully yesterday albeit with some controversies. DAILY GUIDE learnt that two of the pilgrims died in Dubai and... Posted Dec 17 2007, 07:39 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam

• More Muslims Off To Mecca

  Five hundred more Ghanaian pilgrims left the Kotoka International Airport for Jeddah yesterday to perform the holy pilgrimage (Hajj) in Mecca. That brings to 1,130 the number so far lifted from among the 2,700 pilgrims who have been stranded at the airport... Posted Dec 17 2007, 07:15 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam

• GIA To Airlift Stranded Pilgrims, At Government’s Request

  Ghana government has contracted the Ghana International Airline (GIA) to airlift the 2,700 stranded Ghanaian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia to perform the pilgrimage (Hajj). Consequently, the GIA has applied to the Jeddah Airport authorities in Saudi Arabia... Posted Dec 13 2007, 12:29 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline, Islam

• President Kufuor asked to help solve hajj problems

  Sheikh Saeed Abubakr Zakaria, head of the Anbariyya Mosque in Tamale, has appealed to President John Agyekum Kufuor to help solve problems being faced by prospective pilgrims to enable them to travel to Mecca to perform this year's hajj. He expressed... Posted Dec 12 2007, 09:51 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, headline

• The Hajj & Alahaki. Lies, ignorance, scapegoat hunting and political chicanery

  The following rather terse statement was issued by the Government of Ghana yesterday on this year's Hajj: "In spite of positive assurances by the organizers of this year's hajj to prospective pilgrims traveling to Mecca, government has learnt... Posted Dec 12 2007, 09:24 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam

• Stranded Hajj pilgrims call for assistance

  Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, former running mate of Prof. J.E.A. Mills, has urged the Interior Ministry and the National Disaster Management Organisation, (NADMO) to urgently provide relief items to stranded Hajj pilgrims in Accra. Over 300 pilgrims have since... Posted Dec 10 2007, 08:19 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam

• STRANDED AGAIN!

  Perhaps for the umpteenth time, prospective pilgrims from the Islamic communities across the country have had to suffer the ado of being stranded in Accra as they await the arrival of an aircraft to airlift them to Saudi Arabia. It is certainly not a... Posted Dec 10 2007, 08:15 AM by ogblay with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Islam

• Hajj 2007 Society calls on Ghanaian Muslims to ensure a successful pilgrimage

  The following is the full text of a press statement circulated this week by SOMUPRES We the members of the "Society of Muslim Preachers (SOMUPRES)" wish to register our displeasure at the accusations and counter accusations being made by various... Posted Nov 16 2007, 03:51 PM by ghanazone with | with no comments Filed under: Hajj, Muslim