The recent interview granted The Punch by one Professor Ishaq Akintola titled “We want Fridays work-free for Muslims” wherein among other things he acerbically nay needlessly criticized the...
Boanna, a sleepy village in the heart of Brong-Ahafo close to Sunyani and Techiman, laid quietly in the afternoon sun with work done for the day. Women and Girls were standing under the Village Tree...
A Ghanaian pilgrim performing this year's Hajj in Saudi Arabian city of Mecca has been confirmed dead. The Deputy Communications Director of the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG), Mohammed Amin...
President John Mahama says he remains confident of peaceful and transparent elections in December this year. Speaking Monday at the Black Star Square in Accra as part of activities to mark this...
President John Dramani Mahama has tasked the Hajj Committee to request for an increase in the quota of Ghanaian pilgrims that are allowed to make the annual hajj trip. Currently, Saudi authorities...
President John Mahama has apologised for government’s inability to airlift all Muslims scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia for the 2016 Hajj pilgrimage. “I wish to express my regret to all who due...
Ghanaian pilgrims and Ghanaians in general who live in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been led in a special prayer, known as ‘adu'a’, by the National Chief Imam, Sheik Nuhu Sharubutu, for...
President John Mahama has apologized for government’s inability to airlift all Muslims scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia for the 2016 Hajj pilgrimage. “I wish to express my regret to all who due...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on Muslims in the country to pray for peace as part of their Eid ul-Adha celebration as the nation heads to the polls in December. In a statement signed by...
God willing Muslims throughout Ghana and other parts of the world will observe the Eid Al Adha festival on Monday September 12, which has been declared a public holiday in Ghana. Congregational...
Close to 1.5 million Muslims from around the world prepared on Saturday night for the climax of the annual hajj pilgrimage at a rocky hill known as Mount Arafat. The pilgrims will mark Sunday with...
More than 1.5 million Muslims from across the globe have converged on Saudi Arabia for the annual five-day Hajj. The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam, and all able-bodied Muslims who...
Introduction Regionalism - dialectical and constructional - has become a feature of Modern English. While some structures may be disallowed in Queen's English, they are largely accepted in English as...
Introduction Who says REPETITION is always bad? REPETITION is a powerful tool of effective communication in many ways. One of these ways is prevention of ambiguity. Let us consider the following...
Introduction The headline - Language Matters in Mecca - appears simple in usage. However, it is obviously ambiguous in grammatical analysis. With all humility, LANGUAGE AGENDA discovers ambiguity in...
Iran's supreme leader has attacked Saudi Arabia's handling of the Hajj almost a year on since hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said because of Riyadh's...
Some stranded Muslim pilgrims at the Hajj Village in Accra are accusing the Hajj Board of preferential treatment in the selection of people to enplane on the last flight to Mecca. They have been...
The National Hajj Committee says it is working around the clock to get the repatriated female pilgrims from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia back to the Arab state on Tuesday morning. Thirty-Nine (39)...
A woman died yesterday at the Hajj Village after a fall in the bath house where she had gone to wash up. According to the Deputy Head of the Communications Bureau of the Pilgrims Affairs Office,...
Some thirty-nine female pilgrims from Ghana have been repatriated from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “The Pilgrims Affairs Office, Ghana (PAOG), regret to announce the repatriation of some 39 female...
