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who are we voting for?

iamord:
am so happy for legon. This is a big feat and the biggest teaching hospital in West Africa.. Am not pleased with the current incumbent and will vote him out . But I must say they have tackled the health and a bit of the transport sector well. The health master plan of Ghana is being formed. There is also eco medical village coming up at achimota. That's the game changer which will make Ghana a destination to presidents and high net worth individuals for medical tourism...... AS for the ict sector I long to see the hope city

Wait ooo, have they started construction on that eco medical thing? that would be really huge. Currently as it stand, i dont really know who im going to vote for cos the two parties are not serious at all. if i vote for NPP, they would handle the economy well but the role of the government to invest in great infrastructure will be lacking. If i vote for the NDC, they would invest in great infrastructure that would eventually lead to strong economic growth but mostly, the cost of the project is blotted. and their handling of the entire economy is not coherent.
Now im banking my hopes on PPP, they would be great at both and do well for Ghana but voting for them will trow the election into a run off between NPP and NDC. Now what should i do? We are in the same situation as the USA

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popizaino:
In my humble opinion ,such massive infrastructural development should have been cited in the northern part of the country to spread development evenly in the country .accra for me has enough government and private health institutions to cater for its ever growing population.

current health structures cannot withstand the test of time and are quite small for the ever increasing health cases being reported whereby , conjestions has become a problem for all the main hospitals in Accra namely Police hospital( under expansion ), Korle Bu, 37 Millitary hospital, University of Ghana Medical Center (new hospital), Accra Regional Hospital ( second face yet to begin).

there aregood accommodations there

was there yesterday

chukzyblingz:
the poorest don't make 20 cedis. An average Ghanaian find it difficult to make 20 cedis. The standard of living is so low. And things are extremely expensive the reason why most Ghanaians can't afford luxury goods. Ghana is a good country but but extremely jealous. I'm not against Ghana in any way but I just want to make the record straight because of some people that think Ghana is paradise.

nowhere on earth is paradise, your sense of luxury is different from that of a Ghanaian ; while a nigerian would use the little money he has acquired to buy a house, a new car, dish washers, washing machine, 64 inch TV set and soo on and plush them around and boost luxury living. A Ghanaian would try as much as he can to keep the authorities of state from noticing his wealth because of the past of this country. He will prefer to keep on living in his family house ;no matter how dilapidated it may be. He wouldn't flaunt it for people to realize, all he wants is a comfortable life. Try going into his investment accounts and the returns he redraws every week to spend, then you would know. I was shocked when I finally decided to invest a portion of my returns in gold early this year, at the amount of money a simple looking hustler came to redraw as returns from his account ; yet he live in a one bedroom apartment. Never undertook a Ghanaian as being poor, even though he may look poor

chukzyblingz:
it would have been OK if it's only school fees but it's not. I'm running a program in Ghana but it's not in a Ghanaian school - it's an Indian school. Ghanaians know I'm not Ghanaian by mere looking at me. Whenever I want to buy anything, they always inflate the price. I have many examples of when I almost had problems with Ghanaian workmen. It's unfair. I'm not complaining because I have the money to pay. Ghanaians charge Nigerians high because an average Ghanaian believes that Nigerians have money. What about the other foreigners that don't have money? Is that the price they pay for living in your country? Does other African countries do same to you in their country?

Don't make it look like they do it to only nigerians, they do it to all foreigners including diasporian Ghanaians as well myself talking. In a typical shop where goods are not price stamped, your bargaining strength determine the price of the goods. Maybe you should try going to stores where goods are stamped, it's done in Nigeria geria, China, America and etc.

A police recruit earns 1200 cedis minimum a month in Ghana while a recruit in nigeria earns N9019. 42, can he afford the cost of living in nigeria as compared to his colleagues in Ghana with a higher pay? What percentage of his salary can he bank account, what percentage does he spend on water and electricity bills as well as house rent?

chukzyblingz:
An average Ghanaian has a low self esteem, fearful and at the same time suffering from delusion de grandeur. If there's a way these three things can come together.

Is it this same Ghana where I have to pay 3x what a Ghanaian citizens pay? Is it this same Ghana where 20 cedis is a fortune to majority of the youths? Is it this same Ghana that there's no single work? Ghanaians don't have work in their country talk less of foreigners.

at least, the poorest in Ghana who makes 20 cedis a day can afford to put food on his table. 20 cedis is equivalent to USD 5.35, 20 cedis is N1020 in nigeria. Minimum wage in nigeria, which is calculateld on the monthly basis is 18000 naira. so why don't you do the maths?

chukzyblingz:
Which of my points is wrong? Why do you have to charge a fellow African 3x what you charge a Ghanaian for any service? Is that wickedness or poverty mentality?

so you want to pay the same fees as Ghanaian students pay? Did you go through the various levels or you just jumped in? Do your parents live and work in this country, for which they pay the various taxes our parents pay which goes into education subsidisation? So, on what logical point can you State for which your fees should be the same as mine ; cos you are African? What a farce

special forces, the so-called "little green men."
Russia has big ambitions,
growing capabilities
Early on the morning of Sept. 30, a Russian three-star general approached the American embassy in Baghdad, walked past a wall of well-armed Marines, to deliver face-to-face a diplomatic demarche to the United States. His statement was blunt: The Russia military would begin air strikes in neighboring Syria within the hour — and the American military should clear the area immediately.
It was a bout of brinksmanship between two nuclear-armed giants that the world has not seen in decades, and it has revived Cold War levels of suspicion, antagonism and gamesmanship.
With the launch of airstrikes in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin instigated a proxy war with the U.S., putting those nation's powerful militaries in support of opposing sides of the multipolar conflict. And it's a huge gamble for Moscow, experts say. "This is really quite difficult for them. It's logistically complex. The Russians don't have much in the way of long-range power projection capability," said Mark Galeotti, a Russian security expert at New York University.
Moscow's military campaign in Syria is relying on supply lines that require air corridors through both Iranian and Iraqi air space. The only alternatives are naval supply lines running from Crimea, requiring a passage of up to 10 days round-trip. How long that can be sustained is unclear.
That and other questions about Russian military capabilities and objectives are taking center stage as Putin shows a relentless willingness to use military force in a heavy-handed foreign policy aimed at restoring his nation's stature as a world power. In that quest, he has raised the specter of resurgent Russian military might — from Ukraine to the Baltics, from Syria to the broader Middle East.

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Russia's increasingly aggressive posture has sparked a sweeping review among U.S. defense strategists of America's military policies and contingency plans in the event of a conflict with the former Soviet state. Indeed, the Pentagon's senior leaders are asking questions that have been set aside for more than 20 years:
How much are the Russians truly capable of?
Where precisely might a conflict with Russia occur?
What would a war with Russia look like today?
Make no mistake: Experts agree that the U.S. military's globe-spanning force would clobber the Russian military in any toe-to-toe conventional fight. But modern wars are not toe-to-toe conventional fights; geography, politics and terrain inevitably give one side an advantage.
Today, the U.S. spends nearly 10 times more than Russia on national defense. The U.S. operates 10 aircraft carriers; Russia has just one. And the U.S. military maintains a broad technological edge and a vastly superior ability to project power around the world.
Melinda Johnson/Staff
Toe to toe, a conventional war between the U.S. and Russia would be no contest. But few believe any conflict would play out like that.
Russia remains weak, according to many traditional criteria. But it is now developing some key technologies, new fighting tactics and a brazen geopolitical strategy that is
aggressively undermining America's 25-year claim to being the only truly global superpower. The result: Russia is unexpectedly re-emerging as America's chief military rival.
As U.S. officials watch that unfold, they are "clearly motivated by concerns that at least locally, Russia has the potential to generate superior forces," said David Ochmanek, a former Pentagon official who is now a defense analyst at the RAND Corp. And looming over the entire U.S.-Russian relationship are their nuclear arsenals. Russia has preserved, even modernized, its own "triad" with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, a large fleet of long-range strike aircraft and increasingly sophisticated nuclear-armed submarines.
"The Russian defense industry is being rebuilt from ruins," said Vadim Kozyulin, a military expert at the Moscow-based PIR Center, a think tank. "The military balance can only be ensured by Russia's nuclear might, which isn't as expensive to maintain as many people think."
Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images
Russia’s conventional forces are less impressive than its nuclear forces, though there are conventional areas where the Russians excel, including air defense, submarines and electronic warfare.
But while Russia's conventional forces are less impressive than its nuclear forces, there are specific conventional areas where the Russians excel — among them aircraft, air defenses, submarines, and electronic warfare.
The Soviet-era weapons design bureaus remain prominent internationally. Russia's aerospace industry, for example, has benefited greatly from international exports to non-Western nations, which go to Russia to buy effective fighter jets that are cheaper than their Western variants. China today spends more on defense annually than Russia, but still imports platforms and advanced weaponry from Russia.
Attempting a side-by-side comparisons of the U.S. and Russian militaries is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, many experts say; the Russians have distinctly different strategic goals, and their military structure reflects that. Russia views itself as a land-based power, exerting influence in a sphere expanding outward from its Eurasian heartland into Eastern Europe, Central Asia and possibly the Middle East and Pacific rim. It is well suited for relying on a particular set of capabilities known as "anti-access and area denial."
"The United States and Russia are going for different things," Galeotti said. "What the Russians are looking for is not to take on and compete on equal terms with us. It's denial." For example, he said, "one can look at the U.S. Navy as massively superior to the Russian navy. Most of them are legacy Soviet ships. But in a way, that doesn't matter, because Russia does not plan to send its forces all across the world's oceans."
Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Russia's military strategy is focused on access denial. As a part of that, it is investing heavily to expand its submarine fleet.
That's reflected in the fact that Russia maintains a lone aircraft carrier while the U.S. Navy's 10-carrier fleet operates on a continuing global deployment cycle. Instead of carriers designed for offensive power projection at sea, the Russians are investing in an expanding fleet of submarines that can supplement their nuclear force and, conventionally, threaten an enemy surface fleet in nearby waters such as the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea or the Mediterranean Sea.
Its airspace also is heavily fortified. The quality of Russia's stealth aircraft is far weaker than those of the U.S., but Russia has cutting-edge anti-stealth systems, and also has invested heavily in robust surface-to-air missile systems and arrayed its forces domestically to protect its border regions. "The static airpower picture would favor the Russians because they have a lot of capability in terms of air defense and a variety of tactical and cruise and ballistic missiles," said Paul Schwartz, a Russian military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Russia's electronic warfare capability is also daunting to Pentagon military planners; left unclear is the extent to which Russia could jam the radars and signals intelligence that forms the foundation of the U.S.'s advanced air power. Any attempt by the U.S. and its allies to infiltrate Russian air space "would not necessarily be easy," Schwartz said. "It would be a contested environment. But over time I think we would be able to degrade it. The problem is, with a nuclear power, you try to avoid a full-scale fighting."
Meanwhile, the Russian army, still predominantly a conscripted force, is being transitioned to an American-style professional force. In effect, Russia has two armies: About two thirds of the roughly 800,000-man force remains filled with unmotivated and poorly trained draftees, but about one third is not — and those are the units outfitted with top-notch gear, including the Armata T-14 Main Battle Tanks.
In sum, the Russian military is not the equal of the U.S. military. But the gap has narrowed in recent years.
Forward Operating Base Syria
Russia's swift creation of a forward operating base in Syria has stunned many U.S. officials. In just a few weeks, its military erected a potentially permanent base at Latakia, on Syria's Mediterranean coast. They've deployed dozens of combat aircraft, fortified the installation with tanks and assembled housing for hundreds of troops.
The Russians recently announced plans for a naval exercise in the eastern Mediterranean this fall, but did not specify exactly when ships would deploy to the region. The exercise will feature the Black Sea Fleet's flagship, the guided missile cruiser Moskva, as well as several smaller escort vessels and large amphibious assault and landing ships, Russia's TASS news agency reported. Some military officials question whether the exercise is a cover for shipping more troops and gear to the Syrian coast.
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Smoke rises over Talbiseh, a city in western Syria's Homs province, on Sept. 30, marking Russian first airstrikes in the region.
The new forward operating base will give Russia the capability to fly combat air sorties, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance missions and drones across the Middle East. That could include Iraq, the leadership of which has invited the Russians to assist in the fight against the Islamic State in that country.
The base will help secure Russia's longtime naval support facility at the Syrian port of Tarus, a key to the Russian military's ability to maintain and project power into the Mediterranean. Russia reportedly is expanding its footprint at the Tarus facility.
More broadly, Moscow is signaling a long-term interest in extending its umbrella of anti-access area denial capabilities into the Middle East. The Russians reportedly are shipping some of their most advanced surface-to-air missile systems into Latakia, raising concerns inside the Pentagon because that move runs counter to Russia's claims of limiting the focus of its military activities to Syrian rebel groups like the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Pavel Golovkin/AP
Russia has deployed a number of Su-30 fighters to Syria, aircraft that are capable of striking ground targets as well as those in the air.
"We see some very sophisticated air defenses going into those airfields, we see some very sophisticated air-to-air aircraft going into these airfields," Gen. Phillip Breedlove, chief of the U.S. European Command and also the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, said Sept. 28. "I have not seen ISIL flying any airplanes that require SA-15s or SA-22s [Russian missiles]. I have not seen ISIL flying any airplanes that require sophisticated air-to-air capabilities. These very sophisticated air defense capabilities are not about ISIL ... they're about something else."
In effect, the Russians could challenge the air superiority maintained — even taken for granted — by the U.S. over large swaths the Middle East for more than 20 years. A crucial factor in this equation is Russia's alliance with Iran, another key Syrian ally. Russia depends on Iranian airspace for its flight corridors into Syria, and reportedly is prepared to support Iranian ground troops aligned with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Experts inside Russia believe the incursion into Syria, along with Putin's aggressive speech at the United Nations on Sept. 28, signal his long-term interest in becoming a key player in the region.
"It became clear that Russia is going to exercise a more ambitious policy in the Middle East. The Russian President made it clear that the western model of democracy and its way of dealing with conflicts in the region is not working," said Yury Barmin, a Moscow-based Russian expert on Mideast politics and Russian foreign policy. However, Barmin said, "it is doubtful that Russia has the capacity to emerge as a leading power in [the Middle East] in the near future because its presence in the region is limited if you compare it to that of the United States."
Yet some see Putin's maneuvers in Syria as some broader geopolitical gambit that aims to secure a deal on Ukraine. Russia currently occupies parts of Ukraine, but the U.S. still considers Moscow's March 2014 invasion illegal and its control there illegitimate. "It's much more about the U.S. than it is about Syria and Assad," Galeotti said. "Let's be honest, if Washington indicated that some deal could be struck where they tacitly accept the Russians' position in Crimea and parts of Donbas, they are not going to fight a war for Assad."
In Ukraine, a new brand
of 'hybrid warfare'
The conflict in Ukraine and the American training mission there is giving the Pentagon fresh insight on an enemy they might fight elsewhere in the not-too-distant future. But critics say America's timid response to Russian aggression — both in Crimea and the the Donetsk and Luhansk regions — has done little to deter Moscow. In Ukraine Russia has revealed a new brand of "hybrid warfare," one that mixes non-state proxy fighters, heavy armor and artillery, drones, electronic warfare and aggressive information operations to achieve battlefield victories.
Aleskey Chernyshev/AFP
Ukrainian servicemen patrol near the chemical plant in Avdeevka, a town just north of the city of Donetsk, on June 20. Ukrainian troops face threats from insurgents and conventionally trained forces.
"It is good for us to be aware how they fight," said Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, in an interview with Military Times on Sept. 10. "We have not fought wars the way they do in kind of an urban, mixed urban and nonurban setting with UAVs, with electronic jamming."
Farkas is stepping down from her post at the end of October, after five years at the Defense Department. It's unclear who will take her place as the Pentagon's key policy maker for Russia-related issues.
For the small cadre of U.S. military professionals who've been working alongside Ukrainian government forces, the fight against Russian-backed rebels is a major change from their recent experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. "We've got a ton of experience in low-intensity warfare, counterinsurgency warfare, whereas a bulk of the Ukraine experience is facing a 21st-century, near-peer adversary," said Army Lt. Col. Michael Kloepper, commander of the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, which recently began its third rotation into Ukraine to train that nation's military forces.
The Army deployments are part of a broader U.S. military effort to reassure NATO allies rattled by Russia's actions. Yet the Obama administration has been reluctant to provide more robust support, determined, it seems, to avoid the potential for a proxy war with the Russians.
John Bretschneider/Staff
Since its annexation of Crimea in early 2014, Russia has steadily expanded its more
Russian has lined thousands of troops and large tank and artillery units along its Ukrainian border. Those Russian troops routinely shell the border towns and make incursions into Ukraine to fight alongside the rebels in the contested areas. So far, the administration has pledged only "nonlethal aid" for training and gear such as Humvees, small drones and radar.
Washington has placed economic sanctions on Russia, sent U.S. troops to help train Ukrainian forces and has ramped up military exercises across Eastern Europe. But it has not yet provided any offensive weaponry and ammunition, and it has not threatened military action against Russia. Since March 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine, the U.S. has contributed $244 million in nonlethal security assistance and training. For comparison, that amount would pay for about three weeks of operations in Iraq and Syria.
Ukrainian officials in Kiev have made repeated pleas for more. "We need anti-tank Javelin systems, intelligence and combat drones, ... fighter jets, helicopters, electronic and signal intelligence systems, radars and sound intelligence systems" to counter Russian military equipment used by Moscow-backed separatists on the eastern front, said Colonel General Victor Muzhenko, the Ukrainian military's top officer. They've also asked for anti-aircraft guns and more equipment to neutralize enemy snipers, he told Military Times.
Vadim Ghirda/AP
Ukrainian troops man an anti-aircraft weapon at a checkpoint outside the town more
There are between 30,000 and 35,000 Russian-backed fighters in Eastern Ukraine, about 9,000 of whom are coming solely from the Russian front, Muzhenko estimates. They're using sophisticated electronic warfare systems to jam the Ukrainians' communications, radar, GPS and early warning-detection equipment, said Ihor Dolhov, Ukraine's deputy defense minister for European integration.
It's a unique battlespace, and the Americans who have provided training to Ukrainian forces are eager to collect intelligence about the Russians' new mode of combat. "It has been interesting to hear what they have learned," Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, told Defense News, a sister publication of Military Times. "No Americans have been under Russian artillery or rocket fire or been on the receiving end of significant Russian electronic warfare, the jamming and collecting, for example, not at tactical levels."
The future of the Ukraine conflict is unclear. In late September, all sides agreed to withdraw tanks and heavy artillery from Ukraine's eastern front. A ceasefire in eastern Ukraine also appears to be holding, although each side remains wary, and local parliamentary elections set to take place Oct. 25 may be upended by pro-Russian separatists, who aim to hold their own elections.
For now, Obama shows no signs of conceding to Russian control the regions Ukraine has controlled for decades. "We cannot stand by when the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a nation is flagrantly violated," Obama told the U.N. General Assembly in a major speech on Sept. 28. "That's the basis of the sanctions that the United States and our partners imposed on Russia. It's not a desire to return to the Cold War."

Adminisher:
This is a very stupid king and a stupid post. There is nothing modern about it and it is important to stop being shallow about stuff. Royalty is a symbol of sovereignty of his people . He cannot be holding a paid job abroad and symbolise the independence and Sovereign identity of his people. This is colonial mentality on steroids. What if he stays back in his palace and sets up or chairs NGOs targeting the welfare of his people in education, Infrastructure and health, won't that be better?

in Ghana, royalty is not a job and it is not a paid job. It's a right when it falls on you and you do it as a duty

Horus:
An African king with a caucasian woman?. Shame!, he should be removed from power.

racist fool

Liberia has outsourced it entire educational system to an American company. Pressure is already mounting on political leadership in Ghana to make sure that WASSCE is scarped from our educational system as WAEC have consistently indicated how the body itself lacks credibility. The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), is proposing the establishment of an independent national examination agency to oversee all examinations in the country, following the latest leakage of three exam papers in the ongoing West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

NAGRAT’s call follows reports of the leakage of at least four papers in the ongoing exams.

Some students in the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions reportedly had access to the examination papers between 12:00am and 4:00a.m on the day the papers were written.


3 WASSCE papers leak on social media
The Oral English, Integrated Science, Physics and Social Studies papers, were reportedly leaked with pictures on social media even showing students solving the questions.
Last year, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) dismissed two of its employees after a similar leak in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Vice President of NAGRAT, Angel Kabonu said, the only way to prevent exam paper leakages was to abolish the system where the same papers are written by students in all Anglophone West African countries.

Mr Karbonu argued that examinations like the British General Certificate of Education (GCE’s) were written in Ghana without leakages and questioned why WAEC exams were increasingly being associated with leakages.

“The question now is that how come when WAEC administers an examination, there are leakages?”

WASSCE should be scrapped

The Vice President of NAGRAT also described the idea of West African countries writing a single examination as out-of-date.

“That concept where examinations are written internationally among all the West African countries is archaic and outmoded… You don’t get into any modern jurisdiction or into Europe and you have all the European countries writing the same examination from the same company or the same institution.”

Mr. Karbonu recalled the days when Ghana had the Senior Secondary Certificate Exam (SSSCE) which was tailored to just Ghanaian students, and called for the current WASSCE module to be scrapped.

“Is it necessary for us to join a WASSCE community and be writing the same examinations? That concept ought to be discarded because it is absolutely an outmoded concept,” he stated.

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By Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.om/Ghana

iamord:
Sorry the first one is the complete list. The second is wrong

yes the first one is the complete list, the second one was wrongly copied from a site that lacks integrity. And it was politically motivated

100Cents:
Was expecting to see cars and houses..

that's a poor sense of wealth

False report

The report was commissioned after a comprehensive sturdy was done on 100 individuals whose name consistently came up when wealth is being discussed in Ghana

Will create a topic for some successful Ghanaian companies that are breaking chains

The report does not cover politicians who acquired their wealth by virtue of them being in active politics and monarchs who acquired their wealth through their royal status. Ownership of closely-held assets which could not be substantiated were also left out of the calculation.

The Ghana Wealth Report for 2015 was released by Goodman AMC. The report is based on a comprehensive study of more than 100 successful entrepreneurs and investors in Ghana as well as how and what they invest in. This report makes known of fascinating insights about the profiles and net worth of the 80 richest people in Ghana and also provides a compendious review of the wealth sector in Ghana.

Findings from the report shows that tremendous amounts of wealth has been accumulated by Ghanaians during the past 20 years. The report has discovered some intriguing data about the wealthy in Ghana and how they impact on Ghana’s economy and policies.

Ghana’s 80 Richest People control $2.5 billion which represents 6.4% of Ghana’s GDP, they have a combined wealth of $29.3 billion total and employ over 150,000 Ghanaians directly.

Goodman AMC predicts that the wealth held by the wealthiest people in Ghana will rise 8.7% during Ghana’s election year in 2016 next year and decline by 2.1% in 2017.

It has also been quite clear from this report that 92% of the wealthy entrepreneurs and investors in Ghana do not have more capital invested in the Ghana Stock Exchange. The report notes that majority of them do not have equity allocations on the Ghana Stock Exchange and haven’t gone public with their businesses, though most increased their equity holdings in Dubai, Switzerland, South Africa and Frankfurt, Germany.

Another major observation by the Ghana Wealth Report by Goodman AMC ascertains the import reliability of Ghana’s economy; 83% of wealthy entrepreneurs in this report are engaged in the business of importing commodities into Ghana.

Goodman AMC's Ghana Wealth Report discovered 3 billionaires and 77 multimillionaires who all form part of a group of individuals called the Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals (UHNWI). Goodman AMC placed the UHNWI cap at $100 million; meaning that only Ghanaian entrepreneurs and investors with a net worth of $100 million and above were considered for this report.

The Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals in Ghana are holding so much cash due and not investing in Ghana due to the current market volatility in the country and for lifestyle needs. This suggests that the current financial crisis in Ghana lingers on.

On the 80 Richest People in Ghana list, 5 are women; making Patricia Poku-Diaby the richest woman in Ghana with a net worth of $720 million followed by Theresa Oppong-Beeko, Kate Quartey-Papafio and Gifty Lamptey and Grace Amey-Obeng in that order.

According to this wealth report, Charles Ampofo is the richest person in Ghana and he made his fortune through Kampac Oil; an oil and gas firm based in the business hub of Dubai. He has a net worth of $1.46 billion.

The second on the rich list with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion is Ernesto Taricone.The vast majority of Taricone’s wealth comes from real estate and his business interest in the aluminium, agriculture, construction and forestry.

The youngest multimillionaire currently in Ghana with a net worth of $125 million is Mike Nyinaku; he is 39 years and the founder of The BEIGE Group, with his primary source of wealth being The BEIGE Capital, a financial institution in Ghana.

The Ghana Wealth Report has also tracked the richest families in Ghana who inherited their wealth and continue to grow their family fortune. The wealthiest family in Ghana according to this Wealth Report is the Irani Family, whose wealth originated when 2 brothers Anthony Irani and Edward Irani both of Lebanese descent came into Ghana in 1967 and set up a flour mill. The Irani Brothers and Others Limited went on to become the largest producer of flour in Ghana.

They are followed by the Awuah-Darko Family who have made their fortune in the insurance and finance sector of Ghana’s economy. The current Awuah-Darko’s inherited VANGUARD Assurance from their late father, Nana Ampem Awuah Darko. The family has built on their late father’s legacy and fortune and now have 4 subsidiaries under the VANGUARD Group and about 10 other companies which are each owned by relatives.

Real estate is the main industry from which Ghana's Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals have acquired their wealth - it is the primary source of wealth for 11.25% of Ghana’s rich in this report. Other important industries for UHNWIs include finance and investment (16.25%), oil and gas (10%), mining (6.25%) and diversified (25%).


Click on each billionaire or millionaire’s name to get more information and insights on what and how they invest.



#1 CHARLES AMPOFO

Est. Net Worth: $1.46 Billion

Source: OIL & GAS


#2 ERNESTO TARICONE

Est. Net Worth: $1.3 Billion

Source: REAL ESTATE


#3 SAM ESSON JONAH

Est. Net Worth: $1.2 Billion

Source: INVESTMENTS


#4 NABIL EDMOND MOURKAZEL

Est. Net Worth: $900 Million

Source: COMMODITIES


#5 MICHAEL IBRAHIM MAHAMA

Est. Net Worth: $860 Million

Source: MINING


#6 MOHAMMED AHMED ODAYMAT

Est. Net Worth: $850 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#7 THE IRANI FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $800 Million

Source: FLOUR


#8 PATRICIA POKU-DIABY

Est. Net Worth: $720 Million

Source: COCOA, COTTON


#9 THE KALMONI FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $700 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#10 KWABENA DUFFUOR

Est. Net Worth: $680 Million

Source: FINANCE


#11 THE AWUAH-DARKO FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $650 Million

Source: FINANCE


#12 MILAD MILLET & FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $620 Million

Source: TEXTILES


#13 JOSEPH SIAW AGYEPONG

Est. Net Worth: $600 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#14 RAMCHAND UDHARAM MOHINANI

Est. Net Worth: $580 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#15 ADAMU IDDRISU

Est. Net Worth: $550 Million

Source: FINANCE, COCOA


#16 THE HITTI FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $540 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#17 THE AZAR FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $520 Million

Source: PAINTS


#18 KWABENA ADJARE DANQUAH

Est. Net Worth: $500 Million

Source: ENGINEERING


#19 GHASSAN YARED

Est. Net Worth: $480 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#20 SERGE BAKALIAN

Est. Net Worth: $460 Million

Source: FLOUR


#21 THE BITAR FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $450 Million

Source: LUMBER


#22 THOMAS SVANIKIER

Est. Net Worth: $435 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#23 SAIED FAKHRY

Est. Net Worth: $430 Million

Source: PLASTICS


#24 THERESA OPPONG-BEEKO

Est. Net Worth: $420 Million

Source: REAL ESTATE


#25 PAPA KWESI NDOUM

Est. Net Worth: $410 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#26 KWABENA ADJEI

Est. Net Worth: $400 Million

Source: ALCOHOL


#27 ENRICO DE SIMONE

Est. Net Worth: $400 Million

Source: CONSTRUCTION


#28 B.K. AMANDI

Est. Net Worth: $400 Million

Source: ENGINEERING


#29 BHAGWAN KHUBCHANDANI

Est. Net Worth: $380 Million

Source: RETAIL


#30 MACDONALD VASNANI

Est. Net Worth: $360 Million

Source: SHIPPING


#31 JOHN TAYLOR

Est. Net Worth: $355 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#32 THE SOLOMON LABA FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $350 Million

Source: MATTRESS


#33 KWAKU BEDIAKO

Est. Net Worth: $350 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#34 KOFI AMOAH

Est. Net Worth: $341 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#35 CHRIS CHINEBUAH

Est. Net Worth: $330 Million

Source: OIL & GAS


#36 OKO-NIKOI DZANI

Est. Net Worth: $324 Million

Source: FINANCE


#37 KWAME BAWUAH-EDUSEI

Est. Net Worth: $300 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#38 TONY OTENG-GYASI

Est. Net Worth: $300 Million

Source: CABLES


#39 TOGBE AFEDE XIV

Est. Net Worth: $280 Million

Source: INVESTMENTS


#40 GEORGE OWUSU

Est. Net Worth: $278 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED

#41 ERNEST BEDIAKO SAMPONG

Est. Net Worth: $276 Million

Source: PHARMACEUTICALS


#42 FAWZI WOLLEY

Est. Net Worth: $275 Million

Source: RETAIL


#43 FRANK ACHAMPONG

Est. Net Worth: $275 Million

Source: ROAD SIGNAGE


#44 MICHAEL AGYEKUM ADDO

Est. Net Worth: $270 Million

Source: PHARMACEUTICALS


#45 KEN OFORI-ATTA

Est. Net Worth: $260 Million

Source: INVESTMENTS


#46 YUSIF IBRAHIM

Est. Net Worth: $255 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#47 THE ADDISON FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $250 Million

Source: CEMENT


#48 KATE QUARTEY-PAPAFIO

Est. Net Worth: $250 Million

Source: CABLES


#49 KELI GADZEKPO

Est. Net Worth: $235 Million

Source: INVESTMENTS


#50 KWAME ACHAMPONG-KYEI

Est. Net Worth: $233 Million

Source: INSURANCE


#51 PAK-WO SHUM

Est. Net Worth: $227 Million

Source: AVIATION


#52 WILLIAM ATO ESSIEN

Est. Net Worth: $220 Million

Source: FINANCE


#53 FRANK OWUSU SEKYERE

Est. Net Worth: $213 Million

Source: ALCOHOL


#54 TANAL GHANDOUR

Est. Net Worth: $200 Million

Source: COSMETICS


#55 NENE DROLO BOSSO ADAMTEY

Est. Net Worth: $200 Million

Source: INVESTMENTS


#56 THE PEPERA FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $180 Million

Source: AUTOMOBILE


#57 PRINCE KOFI AMOABENG

Est. Net Worth: $170 Million

Source: FINANCE


#58 KWAME OFOSU BAMFO

Est. Net Worth: $170 Million

Source: PAINTS


#59 VICTOR ALHASSAN

Est. Net Worth: $167 Million

Source: OIL & GAS


#60 NIK AMARTEIFIO

Est. Net Worth: $163 Million

Source: INVESTMENTS


#61 KOFI NSIAH POKU

Est. Net Worth: $160 Million

Source: PHARMACEUTICALS


#62 ERNEST OFORI SARPONG

Est. Net Worth: $160 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#63 JOSEPH NSONAMOAH

Est. Net Worth: $155 Million

Source: FINANCE


#64 EMMANUEL ABLEDU

Est. Net Worth: $152 Million

Source: OIL & GAS


#65 QUINCY SINTIM-ABOAGYE

Est. Net Worth: $150 Million

Source: PETROLEUM


#66 YAW ADU-GYAMFI

Est. Net Worth: $144 Million

Source: PHARMACEUTICALS


#67 OSEI KWAME

Est. Net Worth: $142 Million

Source: MEDIA


#68 SETH KWASI DEI

Est. Net Worth: $140 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#69 GIFTY LAMPTEY

Est. Net Worth: $135 Million

Source: FERTILIZERS


#70 THE FRIMPONG-ANSAH FAMILY

Est. Net Worth: $130 Million

Source: TEXTILES


#71 JOHN SACKAH ADDO

Est. Net Worth: $128 Million

Source: FINANCE


#72 MIKE NYINAKU

Est. Net Worth: $125 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#73 JUSTICE TAYLOR

Est. Net Worth: $125 Million

Source: DIVERSIFIED


#74 TORGBOR MENSAH

Est. Net Worth: $120 Million

Source: ADVERTISING


#75 EDWARD BOATENG

Est. Net Worth: $118 Million

Source: MEDIA


#76 SAMIR KALMONI

Est. Net Worth: $115 Million

Source: FAST FOOD


#77 TUTU AGYARE

Est. Net Worth: $110 Million

Source: HEDGE FUND


#78 KWASI TWUM

Est. Net Worth: $110 Million

Source: MEDIA


#79 GRACE AMEY-OBENG

Est. Net Worth: $100 Million

Source: COSMETICS


#80 SANDY OSEI-AGYEMAN

Est. Net Worth: $100 Million

Source: COSMETICS

Lezzlie:
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You can't even construct your fallacy in a logical order to sound believable!!!

You will be my student for tonight, so take your seat at your usual position.

GDP nominal actually is a country's worth in goods and services and monies in circulation in a given country. It is actually the measurement of a country's geopolitical strength. America is no.1 and China is no. 2. Nigeria is no 1 in Africa. Ghana is ranked lower than Sudan. Shame!!!

GDP per capita is a country's wealth in relation between the earning of its citizens. Ghana is still lower than Nigeria.

In purchasing power parity (PPP) Ghana is still inferior. I don't do long tales with Ghanaians.

Hierarchy forbids.

Let me do a screengrab for you to show your position and then come pay homage to those God made your betters.

And if you want proof of your 12% internet users and less than 50% GSM subscribers just ask and I'll furnish you.

Infact you are laughable if there is a word like that..... Since when did IMF start doing telco evaluation. Stop copying fake graphs today date is not 26 November. Why don't you seek better data from the International telecom body or Ghana communication authority. CL

chukzyblingz:
you're the one that lack comprehension. Let me summarize into a more plain language if you'rdumb to dumb comprehend. Nigeria has lots of good quality schools... much more better than any school in Ghana, but we have to go to school in Ghana because of population. Same reason why JAMB was created.

Again, you didn't read my post our your concious mind is being blocked by a tumor that u can't understand any comprehension else you wont post the above

Lezzlie:
Nigerians have the superiority complex Alright. Hate it or love it, we are the boldest and most entrepreneurial in Africa Ghana has no intellectually acclaimed nobel laureate. Your schools are one step above secondary education. The other postulations are the after effects of delusions of grandeur!

Ghana's #50 billion economy ranks her far below war ravaged Sudan and Lybia. So Ghana needs all the money Nigerians are pouring there.

Most Ghanaians didn't have Bank accounts until GTB poped up.

More than half the population of Ghana are without GSM

Only 12% have access to internet, so you need Glo like air.

Malaysia, the UK, US still rake revenue from foreigners attending their universities and an epileptic, scavanging Ghanaian is here deceiving who?

Go check where your next meal is coming from and see if IMF is ready to feed you again.

Docile lots!!!

Ghana needs no laurette writer cos you know what.... Poetry don't sell in Ghana we learn Poetry from our homes even before we move into the class rooms that is why we would consider Sarkodie a better rapper to any of your rappers because Sarkodie is good at Poet and better than your nobel laureate winner, He had it from infancy that's why he droped out to do music... Boy.
You should know in your intellectual mind that GDP is not measured by the amount of monies that is pour into an economy but the amount of goods and services produced in that economy and by the way, Ghana's GDP is way above that.
The bank with the largest customer base in Ghana is the Ghana commercial bank they have the most Branch-Network and for your information non of your 6 banks is doing better than the remaining 24 banks of which Ghanaian own are the majority. There are more Ghanaians in percentage of population with both GSM AND GPRS phones as compare to nigerians with the same measurement. Ghana's active lines and active mobile subscription is within 30-34 million far above the population of the country. By the way Glo is the least performing telecom company in both GSM and GPRS service. Don't you wonder why the are soo many telcos for such a small population? Ghanaians talk alot.
You must be sick in your brains to make up Internet penetration at 12%

chukzyblingz:
What are you talking about? Are trying to say that Ghana's standard of education is better than Nigeria's? This same Ghana where I am? Haha. Have you ever been to Nigeria? Do you know the number of schools we have in Nigeria? Do you know the number of schools we have in Ogun State Alone? Built by Government and other Nigerians, Do you know the standard of these schools? Do you know Nigeria's population and the number of schools that will contain them? Do you know about jamb? And how difficult it is to get an admission in Nigeria? You don't know sh.t about Nigeria. Does Ghana have an economy? An economy that's controlled by Chinese and the whites? In what way cs

See the outcome of the education you received in your country...... . You couldnt understand the basic comprehension up there, one thing I can't say for sure is ; you didn't read my post cos if you did then you would know that i never mention education in Ghana being better than nigeria's to avoid stupid arguement with faceless people. Again, in your big for nothing brain, you should know that any for forward thinking country with a population of 180m million will have more schools than a 27m populated country. So why don't you educate yourself since I have no interest in educating cos I've not finished educating me. You don't even know the reason why your JAMB Exams was put in place, have you forgotten that your universities don't have the access to take in the number of students that come out from your secondary schools.....? Ghana don't need any other Exams for it students cos the universities decide on who to choose once applications exceed the numbers of students they can take in for any particular programme but first of all you would have to pass the first stage of the process. So why don't you save yourself the embarassment and read my post till you understand

I don't hate nigerians but I hate the life styles they put up when they come to Ghana. They are too load, play music when it's time to go to bed, my neighbours waste bin stink badly and by the way they are nigerians. Sometimes I wonder why I don't complain about Liberians and other citizens of African decent, it always come to this Nigerians feel they have the right to be noticed so they must be treated special which they don't have by the way. How can you consider purchasing the end product of some ones work an investment into an economy? Your schools really have poor standards. So let us take real estate for consideration: so I go out there to look for funding and fund my property developement, after it's completed a nigerian who is fleeing nigeria for a better place in Africa closer to home, make a purchase in my developed property..... How does it make him the invester and own and economy? Let me state facts : glo is folding up cos they can't stand the competition, nigerians attending private universities in Ghana adds nothing to the economy of Ghana they rather gain from the opportunity created by Ghana....and goes on to promote economic growth in nigerians. Providing Educational opportunities is considered the responsibility of the state by Ghana government policy therefore private universities don't pay tax to the state. One thing 95% of educated Ghanaians have in common is public secondary school education

PetroDolla3:
Ghana does not need to build a gas pipeline from equatorial guinea. All we need are gas regasified plants. With those plants in place, Ghana can buy LNG from any part of the world and use locally. Currently, two if such plants are being constructed in Ghana. On top of that, Ghana currently produces about 100million scf/day of gas (almost the same volume currently imported from Nigeria) from its own Jubilee field. A further 300 million scf/d is expected in about 2years when production starts at the OCTP block, Offshore Ghana.

Yeah, I know of the LNG plants being built, we all knows that it would still not be enough. A reliable constant flow of Gas from equatorial Guinea is also being considered as a solution to an unreliable Nigeria. Ghana with it good neighbor policy can also take advantage of a stable partner like E.Guinea to assure it energy future and that of it neighbors like ivory coast and Togo. Thereby making Ghana a major player in the West African energy market

MrGerald:
Nigeria don't want to import but want to export, to whom then? stupid country

Truth be told, I think it's time Ghana start thinking more of it own and move away from it foreign policy of regional integration. Since no one in this West African region want to integrate and do trade. This means, Ghana would have to break all trade ties with a country that does not want to trade.

This means, GNPC will have to invest in it medium to long term plan to finance a gas pipeline from equatorial Guinea to Ghana and we all knows what a lost in market share will mean for Nigeria ( a country whose economy is 90% dependant on the sales of oil and gas)

Dangote's plan to have a share of the Ghanaian cement market, which is already less likely since Ghana's cement deficit is totally closed, could completely vanished