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 Celebrities / Re: Don Jazzy's Crush Peace Hyde Said Yes! (Photo) by achimotan(m): 3:49pm On Oct 27, 2015 |
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| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 4:33pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
lezz: Conjuring figures to boost your as usual. In 2013 the percentage was 3x higher than you even alleged Ghana’s Internet Penetration Inches To 40.7% Figures from Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) have revealed that the overall internet penetration rate in the country increased from 40% to 40.7% as at the end of August, 2013. This shoots up the number of data subscribers in Ghana to 10,564,180 at the end of August, 2013 from 10,344,322 at the end of July 2013, depicting a growth rate of 2.1%. According to the Paarock Vanpercy-led NCA, MTN subscriber base increased from 5,968,583 in July 2013 to 6,053,183 at the end of August. The share of MTN’s Subscriber base has marginally decreased from 57.70 % to 57.30%. Similarly, during the period under review, Tigo’s subscriber base increased from 1,415,710 to 1,468,383 representing 13.90% of the total market share. Also, Vodafone’s subscriber base increased from 1,086,912 to 1,139,306 representing 10.78 % of the total market share. The telecom industry regulator was quick to add: “Airtel’s subscriber base increased from 1,532,112 in the previous month to 1,615,729 as at the end of the month under review, this figure represents 15.29% of the total market share”. Glo’s subscriber base reduced by 293,740 to 241,437 which represents 2.29% of the total market share as at the end of August, 2013. Expresso’s market share also declined from 0.46% to 0.44% as at the end of August, 2013. Their subscriber base totaled 46,142 at the end of the month under review. Meanwhile, subscriber base for mobile voice telephony has shown a growth rate of 0.1 % from 27,244,579 subscribers recorded in July to 27,511,659 as at the end of August, 2013. MTN maintained its position as the dominant mobile operator, however, its subscriber base reduced from 12,792,148 to 12,740,003 as at the end of August, 2013, while Vodafone’s subscriber base of 5,792,061 in July increased to 5,834,004 in August 2013, representing 21.21% of the market share. The NCA noted that tiGo’s subscriber base shot up to 3,785,738 representing 13.76 % of the market share. Again, Airtel’s subscriber base at the end of August, 2013 also indicated an increase from 3,117,543 to 3,366,252 subscribers which represents 12.24% of the total market share. Glo’s market share from July reduced from 6.00% to 5.92% as at the end of August 2013, with a subscriber base of 1,629,369. Expresso maintained a market share of 0.57% with their subscriber base increasing from 154,824 to 156,293 as at the end of August, 2013, according to the regulator. 1 Like |
| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 4:24pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
lezz: SORRY TO DISAPPOINT YOU Mobile penetration in Ghana hits 116 percent Ghana’s mobile voice penetration rate has now hit 115.64 percent as at the end of March this year. This is far above the projections years ago which predicted penetration to be at about 70 percent by the close of 2015. According to latest figures released by the telecommunications industry regulator, National Communications Authority (NCA), mobile subscriber base increased from 31,028,253 in February this year to end March at 31,154,420. This represents a marginal growth of 0.41 per cent during the period. Biggest tele-company During the period, the country’s biggest telecom company by subscriber base and finance, MTN Ghana, increased its share marginally from 14,113,432 at the end of February to end March with 14,207,778. This represents a positive variance of 0.67 percent and puts MTN’s total market share at 45.60 percent. For the first time in the year, Glo Ghana joined the gainers as its subscriber base went up from 1,422,113 in February 2015 to end March with 1,481,903. This represents an increase of 4.20 percent. It also translates into a market share of 4.76 percent for March, up from the previous month’s market share of 4.58 percent. Airtel Ghana again maintained its marginal growth momentum as its subscriber base increased to 3,863,252 at the end of the month under review from the February 2015 figure of 3,808,747, representing an increase of 1.43 percent. As a result, Airtel’s market share of 12.28 percent in February increased to 12.40 percent at the end of March 2015. Tigo and Expresso Tigo’s subscriber base also registered an increase from 4,264,078 at the end of February to end March with 4,315,719, representing a 1.21 percent growth. The company’s market share also increased from 13.74 per cent to 13.85 per cent. Expresso, the smallest telecom firm, made a leap to end March with a subscriber base of 126,202 from the 119,386 subscribers it registered in February. Subsequently, the company’s market share now stands at 0.41 percent during the period. Vodafone Ghana, however, after seeing a rise in its subscriber base for months, saw a drop for the first time in the year. Its subscriber base decreased to 7,159,566 at the end of March from the February figure of 7,300,497. As a result, Vodafone suffered a dip in its total market share from 23.53 percent in February to 22.98 percent at the end of March. In a related development, some customers of the telcos continued their agitations for better services, saying they had been denied quality services for long. Against this background, they urged the new Director General of the NCA, William Tevie, to work at ensuring that the quality of service from the telcos is improved to enable them to get value for money. 1 Like |
| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 5:48pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
wallace83: Which level?Have you forgotten you were the first to insult. Nonsense |
| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 5:38pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
wallace83: See this mumu. So who were u deceiving when u claimed to hail from the volta region of Ghana and even put a phone number here? |
| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 4:22pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
menxer: We started incurring the debt when a ship broke one of the pipelines that supplied the gas from Nigeria so the VRA(Ghana's power provider) had to purchase light crude oil to power the machines for almost a year, and that affected their balance sheet .Light crude oil is 3x expensive than gas . When the pipe was fixed and the gas started flowing, it had already affected the accounts of the VRA but currently, there is a plan in place to pay the debt. 2 Likes |
| Nairaland / General / Re: Ghana Agrees To Pay N33.8bn Gas Debt Owed Nigeria By Feb. 2016 by achimotan(m): 3:58pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
Ilekeh: The gas sold to Togo,Benin and Ghana is priced at $8MMBTU which is higher than gas sold in Nigeria.N Gas is after profit maximiztion 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Ghana Scurries To Settle Electricity Dispute With Nigeria by achimotan(m): 12:27pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
[quote author=lezz post=39193180] Here are the facts from BBC in summary: 1 Ghana has been borrowing from world bank to pay for Nigerians gas for years 2 Since Ghana has been unable to access world bank loans,it has been unable to pay for this gas. 3 The Ghana's electricity Management has not been making profit because this gas is almost free . Consequently they have been charging Ghanaians very low energy billing. 4. Ghana has been using Nigeria's quasi- free gas to run a welfare system in Ghana. That's deception and emotional fraud. 5 Nigeria has restored hope back as plans to cut Ghana off from this source of energy have been shelved. 1 VRA ,Ghana's power generator does not borrow from the world bank to buy gas from Nigeria 2 VRA"s non payment has nothing to do with getting a loan from the world bank.In 2013 or 14 thereabout , the West Africa gas pipeline got destroyed and for a year VRA had to import oil which was more expensive to power the thermal plants.The importation of oil affected their balance sheet which resulted in them delaying debts owed to N-Gas 4 The gas is paid for and is not free. 5 It was the reasonable thing to do . We will pay our outstanding debt.N-Gas will not have flare the gas.Its a win win |
| Politics / Re: Ghana Scurries To Settle Electricity Dispute With Nigeria by achimotan(m): 12:01pm On Oct 21, 2015 |
lezz: @ bolded in red. Is Kumasi now in Nigeria? AN FRANCISCO, October 19, (THEWILL) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and incoming Minister, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu and the President of Ghana, Mr. John Mahama Monday met in Kumasi, Ghana to resolve the outstanding debts owed Nigeria by the Volta River Authority (VRA) for gas supplied. The agreement allows the VRA more time (last day of February 2016) to settle a backlog of debts believed to be around $171m, but it must pay in full the invoices for the months of August and September latest by October 31 or risk being cut off from supplies, sources with knowledge of the agreement told THEWILL. THEWILL also understands that the Ministry of Finance has been directed to write requesting West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCO) to extend the November 5 date for the Ghanaian government's guaranty called WAPCO. The debt covers gas supplied to VRA, which is 100% owned by the government of Ghana, and the cost of supply and transportation of the gas from Nigeria. Nigeria had threatened to cut gas supplies to Ghana over the unpaid debts. Read more at: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/194150/1/nnpc-gmd-kachikwu-president-mahama-reach-deal-to-s.html |
| Celebrities / Re: Deloris Frimpong Manso: I Would Love To Make Love 10 Times A Week by achimotan(m): 3:00pm On Oct 19, 2015 |
Chartey: it will be part 5 of their unending fights |
| Celebrities / Re: "Yvonne Said Nigerians Are Useless And silly": Man Accused Of Assaulting Actress by achimotan(m): 1:33pm On Oct 17, 2015 |
phrezzz: U seem to be level headed. First time of reading an apology here after e_war |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 11:56am On Oct 12, 2015 |
[quote author=Hizzy post=38894634] Can you tell me how I can go about getting admission in Ghana The applications forms are issued in March/April for the academic year which begins in August for the Public Universities. For the private ones,i think Wisconsin University has admission on going for those who will begin in February next year. |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 10:18am On Oct 12, 2015 |
Ashesi University College, Berekuso – December 15, 2011 - On Tuesday 13th December 2011, Executives from General Electric (GE) Africa hosted an event to announce the selection of Ashesi University College as one of GE’s Executive Schools worldwide. Speaking at the launch, Mr. Abu Sulemana, GE Africa’s Chief Information Officer, gave a brief overview of GE’s business worldwide and shared GE’s engagement with the African continent. Last year, GE was named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company, and was ranked by Fortune as one of the world’s most admired companies. Mr. Sulemana (who just joined GE Africa from GE Healthcare in Princeton, New Jersey) explained that GE has identified a need to invest more in Africa, to spur development on the continent and in GE’s business. The GE Executive Schools, which include the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and Cornell University, “are selected based on academic excellence and GE’s ability to build a recruiting team with the alumni of the school, among many other factors.” In Africa, Ashesi is the second school (and the first in Ghana) to be selected to join the GE Executive Schools list. University of Dayton reports that almost 70% of GE’s interns and college hires comes from this list of schools.[/color] Mr. Kunle Olaifa, GE’s Talent Acquisition Leader for Sub-Sahara Africa and GE Relations Manager for Ashesi, who also spoke at the event, said that he was very enthusiastic about GE’s relationship with Ashesi. Mr. Olaifa explained that even though it was the second university in Africa GE was partnering with, Ashesi is currently the leader in terms of Return on Investment (ROI) for GE Africa. He further stated that a university like Ashesi, which shared very similar values with GE, was a model for other universities in Africa. Mr. Olaifa also shared his excitement for the Ashesi Honour Code and explained that he had become an evangelist for the system in his home country Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Within the last 18 months, GE has recruited 8 Ashesi graduates, and currently has one student interning with the GE Ghana office. GE’s partnership with Ashesi will be aimed at talent identification, developing focused relationships and increasing placement for Ashesi’s graduates in GE. The partnership would see a rise in several GE related activities at Ashesi, including leadership workshops with some of GE’s global executives, and would allow more opportunities for Ashesi’s students to intern at GE’s offices. Also, the GE relationship with Ashesi would extend to the university’s alumni who may be interested in working with GE Africa. |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 10:16am On Oct 12, 2015 |
One of the best Universities in Ghana attracting students all over Africa
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| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 10:15am On Oct 12, 2015 |
GOLDMAN SACHS SELECTS SIX ASHESI STUDENTS FOR SPRING 2014 INTERNSHIPS IN LONDON S[b]ix Ashesi students have been selected to participate in the Goldman Sachs 2014 Spring Internship in London. The Goldman Sachs Spring Internship Programme is designed to allow excellent undergraduate students gain insights into working at the highest levels of the global securities and investment management industry. This is the highest number of students that Goldman Sachs has recruited from Ashesi since they started recruiting from Ashesi in 2006. In 2012 and 2013, all Goldman Sachs interns from Ghana came from Ashesi. The students selected this year are Phoebe Amoako ‘15, Desmond Darlington ’16, Wumpini Hussein ’14, Abena Gyekye ’15, Effie Bartels-Kodwo ’16 and Amanda Ofosu-Siaw ‘15. “I enjoy knowledge acquisition and expect that my experience with Goldman Sachs will give me insight into how technology is driving the global industry,” said Wumpini Hussein ’14. “I expect a fast-paced environment that will foster creativity, initiative and growth.” The six students, together with several other bright students from around the world, will be flown to London next week to spend two weeks gaining insight into working in different divisions at Goldman Sachs. The programme will have the students participating in seminars, presentations, exciting group assignments and give them an opportunity to meet top business leaders in London. “I hope this internship helps me better understand how to analyse and value investments,” Abena Gyekye ’15 added. “I am also hoping to meet different people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and gain valuable networking skills.” Goldman Sachs is a global investment-banking firm, and offers diverse financial services to a wide client base. Candidates who apply to the firm are evaluated on the core measures of leadership, analytical thinking, teamwork, commercial focus achievement and the ability to make an impact. This will be the ninth year in a row that the firm is selecting students from Ashesi to join its team in London.[/b] |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 10:15am On Oct 12, 2015 |
OXYGEN01: Ashesi has set the standard for private universities in Ghana.Every year their students get internships with some of the best firms in the world like Goldman Sachs,Bank of America ,GE and the rest. BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH SELECTS TEN STUDENTS FOR 2015 SUMMER INTERNSHIPS Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has selected ten Ashesi students for its 2015 summer internship programme in London. BAML’s highly competitive global summer internship programme provides a good introduction into the world of financial services for excellent students around the world. Students that are selected gain from structured development programmes, networking opportunities and a mentor system that help them grow their careers. The students, Sela Agbakpe ’15, Israel Agyeman-Prempeh ’16, Jessica Ali ’15, Effie Bartel-Kodwo ’16, Akosua Dei-Anang ’15, Justina Etteh ’15, Yaw Ohene ’15, Jesse Opoku Asiedu ’15, Peter Vanderpuye ’15 and Esi Yeboah ’15, will join other students from around the world in London to collaborate and learn from each other. “I am really looking forward to engaging the people at BAML,” said Israel Agyemang-Prempeh ’16, who will be joining the Global Markets and Technology division. “The diversity will allow me to connect with some of the world’s best minds, and I look forward to improving my leadership and software development skills.” The ten students are the second group of students to be hired for internships at the global banking giant. The first group of students selected in 2014, Phoebe Amoako ’16, Efua Graham ’15 and Sandra Aminarh ’15, have all received full-time job offers from the bank. “We are excited that BAML has been impressed with the students they have recruited from Ashesi so far,” said Assistant Director of Career Services, Esi Bentsi-Enchill. “This shows the competitive edge of Ashesi students globally. Internship opportunities like these help students develop strong career skills, and better prepares them for the world stage. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration.” Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, large corporations and governments with a full range of financial and risk management products and services. Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the marketing name for the global banking and markets businesses. The bank has offices in 23 countries on three continents, combining the best of local knowledge and global expertise. |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 9:56pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
akike: Ashesi University is one of the best in West Africa |
| Education / Re: Before You Send Your Daughter To A University In Ghana, Please Read This. by achimotan(m): 9:24pm On Oct 11, 2015 |
| Politics / Re: How Ghanaian, Kevin Okyere Made Billions In Nigerian's Petroleum Sector by achimotan(m): 4:29pm On Oct 09, 2015 |
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| Politics / Re: How Ghanaian, Kevin Okyere Made Billions In Nigerian's Petroleum Sector by achimotan(m): 4:28pm On Oct 09, 2015 |
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| Culture / Re: I Wonder What Ghananians Are Turning In To: (it's A Shame) by achimotan(m): 11:51am On Oct 06, 2015 |
[quote author=iamord post=38712764] its very bad..i wont remain here for long.. thats for sure, am doing great.. and i hope you are as well..?  what have u been up to..? any plan to come home this festive season.?[/q\Rocky u have no where to go  .u are one of the sane minds here.But i agree the place can be toxic sometimes.Awaiting u on Skyscraper city for your your projects update 1 Like 1 Share |
| Celebrities / Re: Lydia Forson's Outfit To Glitz Africa Style Awards Sparks Controversy by achimotan(m): 1:34pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
dollarlander: Nonsensical rantings from a goon 3 Likes |
| Celebrities / Re: Lydia Forson's Outfit To Glitz Africa Style Awards Sparks Controversy by achimotan(m): 1:31pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
MRSANITY: Like the numerous prostitutes u having been visiting in Benin city abi 1 Like |
| Celebrities / Re: Lydia Forson's Outfit To Glitz Africa Style Awards Sparks Controversy by achimotan(m): 11:56am On Oct 05, 2015 |
ODUBEZE: smh .have you not seen some of ur celebrities. dressed worse than this. 1 Like |
| Culture / Re: I Wonder What Ghananians Are Turning In To: (it's A Shame) by achimotan(m): 9:53am On Oct 05, 2015 |
[quote author=V0lv0 post=38679847] Rickyross1 aka Cusubasa/Cucubaba or whatever your previous moniker was. Cusubaba's new Moniker is Mbila |
| Politics / Re: Throwback Picture Of Nnamdi Azikiwe And Nkrumah In The 1960s by achimotan(m): 12:31pm On Sep 28, 2015 |
Our Resources No independent African state today by itself has a chance to follow an independent course of economic development, and many of us who have tried to do this have been almost ruined or have had to return to the fold of the former colonial rulers. This position will not change unless we have a unified policy working at the continental level. The first step towards our cohesive economy would be a unified monetary zone, with, initially, an agreed common parity for our currencies. To facilitate this arrangement, Ghana would change to a decimal system. When we find that the arrangement of a fixed common parity is working successfully, there would seem to be no reason for not instituting one common currency and a single bank of issue. With a common currency from one common bank of issue, we should be able to stand erect on our own feet because such an arrangement would be fully backed by the combined national products of the states composing the union. After all, the purchasing power of money depends on productivity and the productive exploitation of the natural, human and physical resources of the nation. While we are assuring our stability by a common defence system, and our economy is being orientated beyond foreign control by a common currency, monetary zone, and central bank of issue, we can investigate the resources of our continent. We can begin to ascertain whether in reality we are the richest, and not, as we have been taught to believe, the poorest among the continents. We can determine whether we possess the largest potential in hydro-electric power, and whether we can harness it and other sources of energy to our industries. We can proceed to plan our industrialisation on a continental scale, and to build up a common market for nearly 300 million people. Common continental planning for the industrial and agricultural development of Africa is a vital necessity! So many blessings flow from our unity; so many disasters must follow on our continued disunity. The hour of history which has brought us to this assembly is a revolutionary hour. It is the hour of decision. The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity. The people of Africa call for the breaking down of the boundaries that keep them apart. They demand an end to the border disputes between sister African states – disputes that arise out of the artificial barriers raised by colonialism. It was colonialism’s purpose that divided us. It was colonialism’s purpose that left us with our border irredentism, that rejected our ethnic and cultural fusion. Our people call for unity so that they may not lose their patrimony in the perpetual service of neo-colonialism. In their fervent push for unity, they understand that only its realisation will give full meaning to their freedom and our African independence. It is this popular determination that must move us on to a union of independent African states. In delay lies danger to our well-being, to our very existence as free states. It has been suggested that our approach to unity should be gradual, that it should go piecemeal. This point of view conceives of Africa as a static entity with “frozen” problems which can be eliminated one by one and when all have been cleared then we can come together and say: “Now all is well, let us now unite.” This view takes no account of the impact of external pressures. Nor does it take cognisance of the danger that delay can deepen our isolations and exclusiveness; that it can enlarge our differences and set us drifting further and further apart into the net of neo-colonialism, so that our union will become nothing but a fading hope, and the great design of Africa’s full redemption will be lost, perhaps, forever. The Dangers of Regionalism The view is also expressed that our difficulties can be resolved simply by a greater collaboration through cooperative association in our inter-territorial relationships. This way of looking at our problems denies a proper conception of their inter-relationship and mutuality. It denies faith in a future for African advancement in African independence. It betrays a sense of solution only in continued reliance upon external sources through bilateral agreements for economic and other forms of aid. The fact is that although we have been cooperating and associating with one another in various fields of common endeavour even before colonial times, this has not given us the continental identity and the political and economic force which would help us to deal effectively with the complicated problems confronting us in Africa today. As far as foreign aid is concerned, a United Africa should be in a more favourable position to attract assistance from foreign sources. There is the far more compelling advantage which this arrangement offers, in that aid will come from anywhere to a United Africa because our bargaining power would become infinitely greater. We shall no longer be dependent upon aid from restricted sources. We shall have the world to choose from. What are we looking for in Africa? Are we looking for Charters, conceived in the light of the United Nations’ example? A type of United Nations Organisation whose decisions are framed on the basis of resolutions that in our experience have sometimes been ignored by member states? Where groupings are formed and pressures develop in accordance with the interest of the groups concerned? Or is it intended that Africa should be turned into a loose organisation of states on the model of the Organisation of American States, in which the weaker states within it can be at the mercy of the stronger or more powerful ones politically or economically and all at the mercy of some powerful outside nation or group of nations? Is this the kind of association we want for ourselves in the United Africa we all speak of with such feeling and emotion? We all want a united Africa, united not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis. We meet here today not as Ghanaians, Guineans, Egyptians, Algerians, Moroccans, Malians, Liberians, Congolese or Nigerians, but as Africans. Africans united in our resolve to remain here until we have agreed on the basic principles of a new compact of unity among ourselves which guarantees for us and our future a new arrangement of continental government. If we succeed in establishing a new set of principles as the basis of a new charter for the establishment of a continental unity of Africa, and the creation of social and political progress for our people, then in my view, this conference should mark the end of our various groupings and regional blocs. But if we fail and let this grand and historic opportunity slip by, then we shall give way to greater dissension and division among us for which the people of Africa will never forgive us. And the popular and progressive forces and movements within Africa will condemn us. I am sure therefore that we shall not fail them. To this end, I propose for your consideration the following: As a first step, a declaration of principles uniting and binding us together and to which we must all faithfully and loyally adhere, and laying the foundations of unity, should be set down. As a second and urgent step for the realisation of the unification of Africa, an All-Africa Committee of Foreign Ministers should be set up now. The Committee should establish on behalf of the heads of our governments, a permanent body of officials and experts to work out a machinery for the union government of Africa. This body of officials and experts should be made up of two of the best brains from each independent African state. The various charters of existing groupings and other relevant documents could also be submitted to the officials and experts. We must also decide on a location where this body of officials and experts will work as the new headquarters or capital of our union government. Some central place in Africa might be the fairest suggestion, either in Bangui in the Central African Republic or Leopoldville [Kinshasa] in Congo. My colleagues may have other proposals. The Committee of Foreign Ministers, officials and experts, should be empowered to establish: (1) A commission to frame a constitution for a Union Government of African States. (2) A commission to work out a continent-wide plan for a unified or common economic and industrial programme for Africa; this should include proposals for setting up: a common market for Africa; an African currency; an African monetary zone; an African central bank; a continental communication system; a commission to draw up details for a common foreign policy and diplomacy; a commission to produce plans for a common system of defence; a commission to make proposals for a common African citizenship. Africa must unite! |
| Politics / Re: Throwback Picture Of Nnamdi Azikiwe And Nkrumah In The 1960s by achimotan(m): 12:29pm On Sep 28, 2015 |
NKRUMAH'S ADDRESS in 1963 [color=#006600]I am happy to be here in Addis Ababa on this most historic occasion. I bring with me the hopes and fraternal greetings of the government and people of Ghana. Our objective is African union now. There is no time to waste. We must unite now or perish. I am confident that by our concerted effort and determination, we shall lay here the foundations for a continental Union of African States. A whole continent has imposed a mandate upon us to lay the foundation of our union at this conference. It is our responsibility to execute this mandate by creating here and now, the formula upon which the requisite superstructure may be created. On this continent, it has not taken us long to discover that the struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence. Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs; to construct our society according to our aspirations, unhampered by crushing and humiliating neo-colonialist controls and interference. From the start we have been threatened with frustration where rapid change is imperative and with instability where sustained effort and ordered rule are indispensable. No sporadic act nor pious resolution can resolve our present problems. Nothing will be of avail, except the united act of a united Africa. We have already reached the stage where we must unite or sink into that condition which has made Latin America the unwilling and distressed prey of imperialism after one-and-a-half centuries of political independence. As a continent, we have emerged into independence in a different age, with imperialism grown stronger, more ruthless and experienced, and more dangerous in its international associations. Our economic advancement demands the end of colonialist and neo-colonialist domination of Africa. But just as we understood that the shaping of our national destinies required of each of us our political independence and bent all our strength to this attainment, so we must recognise that our economic independence resides in our African union and requires the same concentration upon the political achievement. The unity of our continent, no less than our separate independence, will be delayed if, indeed, we do not lose it, by hobnobbing with colonialism. African unity is, above all, a political kingdom which can only be gained by political means. The social and economic development of Africa will come only within the political kingdom, not the other way round. Is it not unity alone that can weld us into an effective force, capable of creating our own progress and making our valuable contribution to world peace? Which independent African state, which of you here, will claim that its financial structure and banking institutions are fully harnessed to its national development? Which will claim that its material resources and human energies are available for its own national aspirations? Which will disclaim a substantial measure of disappointment and disillusionment in its agricultural and urban development? In independent Africa, we are already re-experiencing the instability and frustration which existed under colonial rule. We are fast learning that political independence is not enough to rid us of the consequences of colonial rule. The movement of the masses of the people of Africa for freedom from that kind of rule was not only a revolt against the conditions which it imposed. Our people supported us in our fight for independence because they believed that African governments could cure the ills of the past in a way which could never be accomplished under colonial rule. If, therefore, now that we are independent we allow the same conditions to exist that existed in colonial days, all the resentment which overthrew colonialism will be mobilised against us. The resources are there. It is for us to marshal them in the active service of our people. Unless we do this by our concerted efforts, within the framework of our combined planning, we shall not progress at the tempo demanded by today’s events and the mood of our people. The symptoms of our troubles will grow, and the troubles themselves become chronic. It will then be too late for pan-African unity to secure for us stability and tranquillity in our labours for a continent of social justice and material wellbeing. Our continent certainly exceeds all the others in potential hydroelectric power, which some experts assess as 42% of the world’s total. What need is there for us to remain hewers of wood and drawers of water for the industrialised areas of the world? It is said, of course, that we have no capital, no industrial skill, no communications, and no internal markets, and that we cannot even agree among ourselves how best to utilise our resources for our own social needs. Yet all stock exchanges in the world are preoccupied with Africa’s gold, diamonds, uranium, platinum, copper and iron ore. Our capital flows out in streams to irrigate the whole system of Western economy. Fifty-two per cent of the gold in Fort Knox at this moment, where the USA stores its bullion, is believed to have originated from our shores. Africa provides more than 60% of the world’s gold. A great deal of the uranium for nuclear power, of copper for electronics, of titanium for supersonic projectiles, of iron and steel for heavy industries, of other minerals and raw materials for lighter industries – the basic economic might of the foreign powers – come from our continent. Experts have estimated that the Congo Basin alone can produce enough food crops to satisfy the requirements of nearly half the population of the whole world, and here we sit talking about gradualism, talking about step by step. Are you afraid to tackle the bull by the horn? For centuries, Africa has been the milch cow of the Western world. Was it not our continent that helped the Western world to build up its accumulated wealth? We have the resources. It was colonialism in the first place that prevented us from accumulating the effective capital; but we ourselves have failed to make full use of our power in independence to mobilise our resources for the most effective take-off into thorough-going economic and social development. We have been too busy nursing our separate states to understand fully the basic need of our union, rooted in common purpose, common planning and common endeavour. A union that ignores these fundamental necessities will be but a sham. It is only by uniting our productive capacity and the resultant production that we can amass capital. And once we start, the momentum will increase. With capital controlled by our own banks, harnessed to our own true industrial and agricultural development, we shall make our advance. We shall accumulate machinery and establish steel works, iron foundries and factories; we shall link the various states of our continent with communications by land, sea, and air. We shall cable from one place to another, phone from one place to the other and astound the world with our hydro-electric power; we shall drain marshes and swamps, clear infested areas, feed the undernourished, and rid our people of parasites and disease. Camels and Donkeys No More It is within the possibility of science and technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation for agricultural and industrial development. We shall harness the radio, television, giant printing presses to lift our people from the dark recesses of illiteracy. A decade ago, these would have been visionary words, the fantasies of an idle dreamer. But this is the age in which science has transcended the limits of the material world, and technology has invaded the silences of nature. Time and space have been reduced to unimportant abstractions. Giant machines make roads, clear forests, dig dams, lay out aerodromes; monster trucks and planes distribute goods; huge laboratories manufacture drugs; complicated geological surveys are made; mighty power stations are built; colossal factories erected – all at an incredible speed. The world is no longer moving through bush paths or on camels and donkeys. We cannot afford to pace our needs, our development, our security, to the gait of camels and donkeys. We cannot afford not to cut down the overgrown bush of outmoded attitudes that obstruct our path to the modern open road of the widest and earliest achievement of economic independence and the raising up of the lives of our people to the highest level. Even for other continents lacking the resources of Africa, this is the age that sees the end of human want. For us it is a simple matter of grasping with certainty our heritage by using the political might of unity. All we need to do is to develop with our united strength the enormous resources of our continent. What use to the farmer is education and mechanisation, what use is even capital for development, unless we can ensure for him a fair price and a ready market? What has the peasant, worker and farmer gained from political independence, unless we can ensure for him a fair return for his labour and a higher standard of living? Unless we can establish great industrial complexes in Africa, what have the urban worker, and those peasants on overcrowded land gained from political independence? If they are to remain unemployed or in unskilled occupation, what will avail them the better facilities for education, technical training, energy, and ambition which independence enables us to provide? There is hardly any African state without a frontier problem with its adjacent neighbours. It would be futile for me to enumerate them because they are already so familiar to us all. But let me suggest that this fatal relic of colonialism will drive us to war against one another as our unplanned and uncoordinated industrial development expands, just as happened in Europe. Unless we succeed in arresting the danger through mutual understanding on fundamental issues and through African unity, which will render existing boundaries obsolete and superfluous, we shall have fought in vain for independence. Only African unity can heal this festering sore of boundary disputes between our various states. The remedy for these ills is ready in our hands. It stares us in the face at every customs barrier, it shouts to us from every African heart. By creating a true political union of all the independent states of Africa, with executive powers for political direction, we can tackle hopefully every emergency and every complexity. This is because we have emerged in the age of science and technology in which poverty, ignorance, and disease are no longer the masters, but the retreating foes of mankind. Above all, we have emerged at a time when a continental land mass like Africa with its population approaching 300 million is necessary to the economic capitalisation and profitability of modern productive methods and techniques. Not one of us working singly and individually can successfully attain the fullest development. Certainly, in the circumstances, it will not be possible to give adequate assistance to sister states trying, against the most difficult conditions, to improve their economic and social structures. Only a united Africa functioning under a union government can forcefully mobilise the material and moral resources of our separate countries and apply them efficiently and energetically to bring a rapid change in the conditions of our people. Unite we must. Without necessarily sacrificing our sovereignties, big or small, we can here and now forge a political union based on defence, foreign affairs and diplomacy, and a common citizenship, an African currency, an African monetary zone, and an African central bank. We must unite in order to achieve the full liberation of our continent. We need a common defence system with African high command to ensure the stability and security of Africa. We have been charged with this sacred task by our own people, and we cannot betray their trust by failing them. We will be mocking the hopes of our people if we show the slightest hesitation or delay in tackling realistically this question of African unity. We need unified economic planning for Africa. Until the economic power of Africa is in our hands, the masses can have no real concern and no real interest for safeguarding our security, for ensuring the stability of our regimes, and for bending their strength to the fulfilment of our ends. With our united resources, energies and talents we have the means, as soon as we show the will, to transform the economic structures of our individual states from poverty to that of wealth, from inequality to the satisfaction of popular needs. Only on a continental basis shall we be able to plan the proper utilisation of all our resources for the full development of our continent. How else will we retain our own capital for own development? How else will we establish an internal market for our own industries? By belonging to different economic zones, how will we break down the currency and trading barriers between African states, and how will the economically stronger amongst us be able to assist the weaker and less developed states? It is important to remember that independent financing and independent development cannot take place without an independent currency. A currency system that is backed by the resources of a foreign state is ipso facto subject to the trade and financial arrangements of that foreign country. Because we have so many customs and currency barriers as a result of being subject to the different currency systems of foreign powers, this has served to widen the gap between us in Africa. How, for example, can related communities and families trade with, and support one another successfully, if they find themselves divided by national boundaries and currency restrictions? The only alternative open to them in these circumstances is to use smuggled currency and enrich national and international racketeers and crooks who prey upon our financial and economic difficulties. [color=#006600][/color] |
| Travel / Re: Beauty Of KNUST, Kumasi - Ghana (Pictures) by achimotan(m): 5:37pm On Sep 24, 2015 |
Nice pictures. Waiting for updates please. BTW knust can't match UG legon 1 Like |
| Business / Re: List Of Nigerian Tycoons That Impact Ghana's Economy by achimotan(m): 12:40pm On Sep 22, 2015 |
[quote author=lezz post=38260811] What the source says about Nigerian firms and multinational firms run by Nigerians in Ghana is a fact. The question : Are the aforementioned Nigerians actually in those positions in Ghana? Is it true that a giant British pharmaceutical like GlaxoSmithKline opens shop in Ghana and has a Nigerian as the CEO? It is not extraordinary having other other nationals as MDs with Multinationals in host countries.Just as the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline is a Nigerian so also is the MD of Unileaver Nigeria a Ghanaian 1 Like 1 Share |
| Business / Re: List Of Nigerian Tycoons That Impact Ghana's Economy by achimotan(m): 12:22pm On Sep 22, 2015 |
I found the article very condescending. Yes there are Nigerian Companies here but that does not mean they are running the economy. The MD and COO of Equity Assurance, Nem Insurance and Regency Alliance Insurance who were mentioned in the article would admit that their market share of the insurance industry in Ghana is very insignificant. The insurance companies with over 90% market share are all owned and run by Ghanaians. With the banking sector, I must admit the coming of Nigerian banks in a way encouraged Ghanaians to open bank accounts. They came with a policy of zero balance account where your account would not be closed even if you have no money in it as was the case. But aside these Nigerian banks, all the major banks are headed by Ghanaians. The MD of UBI petroleum is also listed as having 4 stations and is mentioned as one of the persons running Ghana’s economy   . Like seriously. What about the numerous guys who own more than 10 stations not to talk about established companies like Goil, allied oil and the rest.Emmanuel Okeson is reported to have the biggest lighting company in West Africa and has 1000 workforce in Ghana. To say that is gross exaggeration is to say the least. Again Krif Ghana is mentioned as the biggest stationary outfit. That is false. The biggest is Ghanaian owned Kingdom books and stationary. So Dele Momodu owns a small restaurant and is included .SMH.I like him anyway. Always so jovial4 Likes |
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