{"id":224744,"date":"2026-02-23T01:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-2-nigerians-jailed-4-years-for-passport-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:06:59","slug":"ghana-2-nigerians-jailed-4-years-for-passport-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-2-nigerians-jailed-4-years-for-passport-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 2 Nigerians Jailed 4 Years for Passport Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">THE Damongo Circuit Court has sentenced two Nigerian nationals to four years&#8217; imprisonment each for illegally acquiring Ghana Cards, birth certificates and attempting to use the forged documents to obtain Ghanaian passports after posing as citizens of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The court, presided over by Livingstone Lartey Yao Ameevor, also convicted a Ghanaian accomplice who aided the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">The convicts, Yunus Ali, 47, and Salawudeen Abdul Hafeez, 42, were charged with three counts: providing false information to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Damongo Circuit Court has sentenced two Nigerian nationals to four years&#8217; imprisonment each for illegally acquiring Ghana Cards, birth certificates and attempting to use the forged documents to obtain Ghanaian passports after posing as citizens of Ghana. The court, presided over by Livingstone Lartey Yao Ameevor, also convicted a Ghanaian accomplice who aided the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8666,4508,4509,5696,257,6665,4346,254,5114],"class_list":["post-224744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-nigerians","tag-passport","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}