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Kotoka Int. Airport to introduce 3D scanners, end shoe removal for passengers
Passengers travelling through Terminal 2 at Kotoka International Airport will soon experience faster and more convenient security screening as Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL)...
Kotoka International Airport renamed Accra International Airport
The Government has officially reverted the name of Kotoka International Airport to Accra International Airport.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Transport, the...
NACOC intensifies K9 surveillance at Kotoka Airport
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has stepped up behavioural detection and surveillance operations at Kotoka International Airport, resulting in the seizure of controlled drugs,...
NACOC intercepts cocaine hidden in packaged gari at Kotoka Airport
Operatives of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) have arrested a senior manager of a manufacturing company for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine out of...
Volta Chiefs urged to resist renaming of Kotoka International Airport
Former Minister for Trade and Industry, Kobina Tahiru Hammond, has called on traditional leaders in the Volta Region to oppose the proposed renaming of...
Arthur Kennedy urges Ghanaians to leave Kotoka International Airport name intact
Ghana has once again been gripped by debate over the potential renaming of Kotoka International Airport, named after General Emmanuel Kotoka, who was killed...
KIA too big to be named after Kotoka – Kofi Bentil
Vice President of think-tank IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil has argued that Kotoka International Airport (KIA) is too significant a national asset to be named...
KIA: Lt. Gen. Kotoka did nothing for Ghana – Atta Issah
Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu and a member of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) Board, Atta Issah, has criticised the legacy of General...
Paul Adom-Otchere reveals past proposal to rename Kotoka Airport after Kofi Annan
Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL), Paul Adom-Otchere, has revealed that during his tenure, the board considered renaming Kotoka International...
Ashanti chiefs blocked ‘Yaa Asantewaa’ name for Kotoka International Airport – Historian
Private legal practitioner and historian Yaw Anokye Frimpong has revealed that the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) was originally intended to be named after the...
Majority of Ghanaians support setting history right on Kotoka rename – Transport Minister
Minister for Transport, Joseph Bukari Nikpe, has said government harbours no personal issues with General Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka but believes Ghana’s history must be...
Renaming Kotoka International Airport to Accra International Airport is a great honour to the...
The Deputy Director of Operations of the United Party (UP), Miss Afia Korankyewaa, has thrown her support behind the government’s decision to rename Kotoka...
State monuments are for patriots – CPP slams talk around renaming Kotoka Airport
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has insisted that state monuments, streets, and public institutions should be named only after individuals who are truly deemed...
If we keep Kotoka name, we normalise coups for our children – Dr. Kwaku...
Former Member of Parliament for Sefwi-Wiawso, Dr. Yaw Kwaku Afriyie has renewed calls for the renaming of Kotoka International Airport, arguing that retaining the...
Nana Bediatuo Asante opposes renaming of Kotoka International Airport
Former Secretary to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Nana Bediatuo Asante, has spoken against calls to rename the Kotoka International Airport, insisting that the name represents...
Stonebwoy speaks on the debate over renaming of Kotoka Airport
Ghanaian musician Stonebwoy has shared his view on the ongoing debate over calls by the Majority in Parliament to rename Kotoka International Airport (KIA)...
Renaming KIA: You can’t hate coup d’état and love Kotoka
History isn’t a dusty archive. It lives in the names we place on roads, schools, airports and monuments.
These markers aren’t just labels; they broadcast...
CPP supports renaming of Kotoka International Airport, questions legacy of coup leaders
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has welcomed the reported move to rename Kotoka International Airport, arguing that honouring key figures involved in past military...
APC leader supports renaming of Kotoka International Airport
Dr Hassan Ayariga, Founder and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), has voiced his support for the government’s proposal to rename Kotoka International...
It’s an indictment on NDC; there’s no need to remove Kotoka’s name – Minority...
Minority Leader and Effutu Member of Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has criticised the government’s proposal to rename Kotoka International Airport (KIA), describing it as an...
Kotoka International Airport renaming a step in right direction – Anokye Frimpong
A private legal practitioner and historian, Anokye Frimpong, has described the government’s decision to rename Kotoka International Airport as Accra International Airport as a...
Kotoka International Airport to be renamed Accra International Airport – Majority Leader
Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga has revealed that the government plans to rename Kotoka International Airport as Accra International Airport.
The announcement signals a major change...
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park backs call to rename Kotoka International Airport
The management of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (KNMP) has expressed full support for calls to rename Kotoka International Airport after Ghana’s first President,...
Forestry Commission seizes over 3,000 dried shark fins at Kotoka Airport
Staff of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission stationed at Kotoka International Airport have intercepted a large consignment of dried shark fins at...
Full video: SML disguised at Kotoka: GACL’s last-minute multi-million-cedi contract questioned
Three days before the December 2024 election, the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) awarded a revenue assurance and auditing contract to Evatex Logistics Limited,...
Ga cultural activists stage traditional ‘Oobakɛ’ dance at Kotoka Airport
Arrivals at Kotoka International Airport on the night of Wednesday, September 4, were treated to spirited Ga dances and the traditional salutation “Oobakɛ,” in...
Akosua Agyapong appeals for calm over Kotoka Airport ‘Akwaaba’ debate
Highlife musician and cultural advocate Akosua Agyapong has called for calm following tensions sparked by demands from some Ga-Dangme indigenes to replace the “Akwaaba”...
Ghana launches real-time passenger screening system at Kotoka International Airport
Ghana has taken a big step to strengthen aviation security and streamline passenger processing with the introduction of a new real-time passenger data system...
Full story: SML disguised at Kotoka International Airport
Three days before the December 2024 election, the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) awarded a revenue assurance and auditing contract to Evatex Logistics Limited,...
Over 2,000 rounds of ammunition and 20 guns seized at Kotoka International Airport
In a troubling revelation for national security, the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) intercepted over 2,000 rounds of ammunition and 20 firearms in 2023, exposing...
Rename Kotoka Airport after Nkrumah – Vitus Azeem urges gov’t
Anti-corruption campaigner Vitus Azeem has called for the renaming of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in honour of Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah,...
Ghana Link refutes claims of broken-down scanners at Kotoka International Airport
Ghana Link Network Services Ltd, operators of the Integrated Customs Management Systems (ICUMS), has firmly denied media reports alleging that scanners at the Kotoka...
Rethink Kotoka Airport name – Cardinal Turkson urges
His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences, has urged Ghanaians to reflect deeply on...
Barker-Vormawor defends suit to remove ‘Kotoka’ from airport name
The lead convener of Democracy Hub, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has justified the decision to file a lawsuit seeking the removal of "Kotoka" from the name...
Minority accuses gov’t of corruption in $147m Kotoka e-gate deal
The Minority in Parliament has expressed concerns over alleged corruption surrounding the government's decision to engage a private entity to operate the newly commissioned...
Bawumia commissions E-GATE at Kotoka International Airport
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday commissioned an electronic gate (E-GATE) system at the Kotoka International Airport.
The E-gates will automatically process passengers through...
Owner of luggage emitting smoke at Kotoka handed to NIB
Management of the Kotoka International Airport has confirmed an incident at the Terminal 3 Departure Hall of on Sunday, September 22 when a passenger’s...
NACOC seizes $6million worth of cocaine at Kotoka International Airport, arrests 2 British nationals
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), in collaboration with the UK National Crime Agency, has thwarted a major drug trafficking attempt at Kotoka International Airport...
Kotoka International Airport to use E-gate – Bawumia
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that passengers will check in at the Kotoka International Airport(KIA) through E-gates by...
Man detained at Kotoka Airport for lighting cigarettes on plane
A middle-aged man has been arrested at the Kotoka International Airport after lighting cigarettes on board a Qatar Airways passenger flight.
Flight attendants were seen...