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BE VIGILANT & COLLABORATE ̴̴ SAYS INTERIOR MINISTER |
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The Minister for the Interior, Hon Mark Owen Woyongo has urged security personnel at the country’s frontiers to be vigilant and collaborate with each other to efficiently manage the borders.
This he said would serve as a platform to effectively deal with terrorism, money laundering, human smuggling and trafficking and other trans-national crimes since the security of the country is a collective responsibility. Read More..... |
| ACCRA |
PRESS RELEASE |
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The Ghana Immigration Service [GIS] wishes to bring to the attention of the general public that it has not embarked on any recruitment exercise for 2014 and does not have any intentions to undertake any such exercise any time soon.It is however instructive to note that, between 19th July and 15th August 2013, the GIS advertised for prospective applicants to buy forms and submit same to designated EMS post offices across the Read More...... |
| ACCRA |
PREZ COMMISSIONS NEOPE BORDER |
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The President, H. E. John Dramani Mahama, has commissioned a Joint Border Project worth € 10, 287,077 between Ghana and Togo at Neope in the Volta Region.
The Project which covers an area of 17.7 hectors and funded by the European Union and other development partners is to facilitate transport as well as cross border movement of persons and goods from the neighboring member states. Read More..... |
| ACCRA |
GIFEC HANDS OVER120 COMPUTERS TO GIS |
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The Ghana Investment for Electronic Communications [GIFEC] at a short ceremony in Accra, has presented 120 computers to the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS].The equipment which is worth GH¢244,800.00 is to be distributed amongst all the Regions beginning with a pilot phase in the Western, Central, Greater Accra, Volta and Eastern Regions. The rest of the Regions would receive theirs by the end of the second quarter of 2015 Read More....... |
| ACCRA |
INTERIOR MINISTER'S MAIDEN VISIT TO GIS |
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The Minister for the Interior, Honourable Mark Woyongo, has tasked the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS] to refuse to issue work permits to foreign nationals whose expertise are common to the Ghanaian work force and only grant permits to expatriates with skills not readily available on the job market. He said, GIS should come up with a comprehensive plan to reduce the influx of unwanted foreign labour which tends to deprive indigenes of the few jobs available. |
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GIS WINNEBA COMMAND LAUNCHES A 3-YEAR PROJECT AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING |
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As part of measures being put in place by the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS] to clamp down on human trafficking in the country, the Winneba office of the Service has launched a 3-year project dubbed “Combating the trafficking of Children for Labour Exploitation in the Effutu Municipality”. It intends to reduce child trafficking to 70% by the end of year 2016 within the Winneba Read More..... |
| ACCRA |
THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT ON MIGRATION |
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The out gone Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration, [IOM], Dyane Epstein, says there has been a significant improvement in migration management in Ghana. She attributed this stride to the development of a national migration policy and the establishment of the Diaspora Affairs Bureau, [DAB] under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Read More......... |
| ACCRA |
EIB TRAINS ITS PERSONNEL |
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A five week Basic Intelligence Gathering Training scduled to end on 31st July 2014 is under way in Accra for some selected Junior Immigration Personnel.The training which is the first of its kind is being organized by the Enforcement Intelligence Bureau [EIB] of the Ghana Immigration Service, [GIS], which consist of Document Fraud Expertise Centre, Enforcement, Intelligence, and ASTIP Unit. Read More ...... |
| ACCRA |
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BEWARE OF VISA CONTRATORS - MIGRATION INFORMATION BUREAU CAUTION'S |
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The Migration Information Bureau [MIB] of the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS] has cautioned human smuggling and trafficking syndicates to desist from the act since human smuggling is a crime against the state under the Immigration Amendment Act 2012, Act 848 while human trafficking is also a crime against humanity under the Trafficking Act, 2005. Read More........ |
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BE VIGILANT- SAY's HON. AWOI |
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The Minister for the Interior, Hon. Kwesi Ahwoi, has appealed to the personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service, [GIS], especially the Border Patrol Unit, to be extremely vigilant in enforcing the provision of the Economic Community of West African State, [ECOWAS] Treaty Protocols on free movements of persons and goods in the Sub-region, at the nation’s frontiers. Read More....... |
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IMMIGRATION SERVICE TO PAY OFFICERS FROM COFFERS |
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The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says plans are underway to pay unpaid personnel, allowances from the service’s own coffers by end of this week. 390 Immigration officers have not being paid for 10 months after their passing out ceremony on August 16, 2013. The situation is said to have angered the personnel who have not received their allowances.Read More.....
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| ACCRA |
BPU PERSONNEL TO BEAR ARMS SOON |
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The Minister for the Interior, Hon. Kwasi Ahwoi, has assured the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS], that adequate support would be given to double its efforts in getting the necessary legal framework for Border Patrol Personnel [BPU] to bear firearms. He also disclosed that the relevant draft bill would soon be put before parliament for the required legislative processes. Read More...... |
| ACCRA |
AFRICAN’S SECURITY CAN IMPROVE |
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The German Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. John Rudiger, has assured the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS], that his government will continue to support the Service in the role it plays in securing and safeguarding the country’s borders against illegal immigrant and other border crimes. He stated that security in the African Sub-region is not getting better especially in the face of recent attacks on Nigeria and Cameroon Read More |
| ACCRA |
BE ADVOCATES FOR GIS - DIS URGES RETIRED OFFICES |
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The Director of Ghana Immigration Service, [GIS], Commissioner of Police [COP] Dr. Peter A. Wiredu has commended retired officers of the Service, for laying a solid foundation for future generations to build on and also improve upon. He appealed to them to serve as advocates and use the experience gained over the years to project the image of the Service Read More...... |
| ACCRA |
47 FULANIS ILLEGALLY MIGRATING TO GHANA INTERCEPTED |
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Forty-seven people believed to be Fulanis, migrating to Ghana from Nigeria have been intercepted by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at the Segbe-border, near Dzodze in the Ketu-North District. The migrants, made up of 10 men, 12 women and 25 children, with their Read More..... |
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ARREST OF TWO BANGLADESH NATIONALS FOR SMUGGLING |
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The Anti- Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons Unit (AHSTIP) of the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS], has arrested eight [8] Bangladesh nationals at Kasoa in the Central region for allegedly smuggling migrants into the country.Investigations conducted by the Unit Read More.... |
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26 TRAINED AS REGIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICERS |
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The GIS has organized a three day public relations training for twenty six selected officers across the county. This forms part of measures the Service is putting in place to revamp and decentralize the operations of its Public Affairs Unit. The training which was under the theme Read More...... |
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REDEEM OUR CORPERATE IMAGE, SAYS DIRECTOR GIS |
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The National Intelligence and Enforcement Bureau of the Ghana Immigration Service has been tasked to redeem the corporate image of the Service, by making their operations effective and visible, exhibit high standards of professionalism in the way and manner in which they gather information, conduct investigations and also deal with other stakeholder agencies. Addressing the first National Read More...... |
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125 NIGERIANS ARRESTTED FOR ILLIGAL MINING |
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The Ghana Immigration Service, in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, based on the directives of the Eastern Regional Security Council, arrested one hundred and twenty-five (125) Nigerians engaged in illegal mining activities in Kyebi in the Eastern Region.The exercise which was conducted at five different locations within the Kyebi Read More.... |
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