First 462 Ghanaian pilgrims from the Northern zone of Ghana have been airlifted to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this year's Hajj. The aircraft took off from the Tamale international airport at 12:45pm Ghana time and are expected to arrive in Medina around 6:45pm Ghana time and 9:45pm Saudi Arabia Time.
The minister of interior Ambrose Derry, who represented the president of Ghana bid the pilgrims a warm farewell and among the entourage were the Chairman of Hajj board and other members of the Board including government delegation .
The flight take off was successful and the operations of the pilgrims Office of Ghana have been described has satisfactory as we wait for the airlift of the rest of the pilgrims.
END/ Tanko Mohammed Rabiu/ hajj communications
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