{"id":630,"date":"2023-06-19T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:31:16","slug":"6000-ghanaians-expected-to-perform-hajj-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/6000-ghanaians-expected-to-perform-hajj-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"6,000 Ghanaians expected to perform Hajj this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 6,000 Ghanaians are expected to perform this year\u2019s Hajj as part of the five pillars of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, a first set of over 400 Muslims have left Accra for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the first flight for the pilgrimage was delayed due to technical challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communications Director for the Hajj Board, Alhaji Rahman Gomda made this known in an interview in Accra on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe flight has taken off already. 437 [persons] have taken off to Saudi Arabia. The aircraft came yesterday to start the flight, the maiden flight from Accra. So the second one has taken off. We will have the third one tomorrow and another one on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year we had a quota of 6000. Every year, the Saudi authorities give quota. Ghana\u2019s quota this year is 6,000. Last year it was 3,069 as a result of COVID-19,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sub>Source: Citi Newsroom<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" width=\"179\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 6,000 Ghanaians are expected to perform this year\u2019s Hajj as part of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/images-8.jpg",311,162,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}