President John Mahama has issued an official directive for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to re-issue service passports and diplomatic passports to eligible individuals by January 24, 2025. This order was communicated to the Ministry of Affairs on January 14, 2025, and was signed by the President’s Secretary, Dr. Callistus Mahama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government views this move as an effort to ensure that service passports are used responsibly and that government officials’ travel documents meet international and national standards, thereby maintaining the country’s reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To facilitate this process, the Ministry of Affairs has been instructed to issue a public notice, requesting individuals holding service passports and diplomatic passports issued by the previous government to return their documents for confirmation and re-issuance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deadline for holders of diplomatic and service passports to surrender their documents is January 24, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Mahama Orders Re-Issuance of Service Passports<\/p>\n
President John Mahama has issued an official directive for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to re-issue service passports and diplomatic passports to eligible individuals by January 24, 2025. This order was communicated to the Ministry of Affairs on January 14, 2025, and was signed by the President’s Secretary, Dr. Callistus Mahama.<\/p>\n
The government views this move as an effort to ensure that service passports are used responsibly and that government officials’ travel documents meet international and national standards, thereby maintaining the country’s reputation.<\/p>\n
To facilitate this process, the Ministry of Affairs has been instructed to issue a public notice, requesting individuals holding service passports and diplomatic passports issued by the previous government to return their documents for confirmation and re-issuance. <\/p>\n
The deadline for holders of diplomatic and service passports to surrender their documents is January 24, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}