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Dominic Samson, coach and one of the founders of the Union Football Association (UFA), said Ghanaian football player Ayi Nii Aryee, 20, was scheduled to arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 10:30 last night.


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CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The Clark airport’s "Tom Hanks" is finally flying to his home country at 6 p.m. today after being stranded here for almost six months.


Nineteen-year-old Ayi Nii Aryee, a football celebrity from Ghana in West Africa, is taking a United Emirates flight to Dubai, from where he will board another flight to Accra in Ghana.


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CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Philippines suggested the intervention of President Arroyo on the case of a 19-year-old Ghana football player stranded for over two months now at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) here.


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CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Stranded at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) for 52 days now, a 19-year-old football Ghanaian football player has appealed to Philippine authorities to allow him to take up a computer course in the country instead, after his application for a student visa in Singapore was finally denied.


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Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez said they have studied the case of Ayi Nii Aryee and the request of the honorary consulate of Ghana in Singapore to allow him to stay in the Philippines while he awaits his student visa.


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‘Tom Hanks’ returns on grateful X’mas visit

By Ding Cervantes | December 23, 2007 - 12:00am

Nation

Clark’s ‘Tom Hanks’ is back

February 1, 2007 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Clark airport’s "Tom Hanks," who left the country last Jan. 13 after being stranded here for over six months, boarded a flight in his native Ghana in West Africa last...

Nation

Stranded Ghanaian football player finally going home

By Ding Cervantes | December 30, 2006 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The Clark airport’s "Tom Hanks" is finally flying to his home country at 6 p.m. today after being stranded here for almost six months. Nineteen-year-old Ayi Nii...

Nation

Only Malacañang can help stranded Ghanaian teen — UNHCR

By Ding Cervantes | October 2, 2006 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Philippines suggested the intervention of President Arroyo on the case of a 19-year-old Ghana football...

Nation

Stranded Ghanaian teen pleads for student visa

By Ding Cervantes | September 16, 2006 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Stranded at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) for 52 days now, a 19-year-old football Ghanaian football player has appealed to Philippine authorities to allow...

Nation

No option for ‘stranded’ Ghana teener but to go home, says BI chief

By Ding Cervantes | September 2, 2006 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The 19-year-old football player from Ghana, who has been stranded at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) here for 47 days now, has no choice but return to his home country...

Nation

Hanks’ ‘Terminal’ replayed at Clark

By Ding Cervantes | August 31, 2006 - 12:00am

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Living inside an international airport, a la Tom Hanks in the movie "Terminal," may be an interesting experience, but not if you are stranded at the Diosdado Macapagal International...

News Commentary