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Gichwawa254:
Dumsor stories saw miss Trudy n Wode Maya talk about it you have a nice apartment but bad electricity wash taabu tupu ;DDumsor stories saw miss Trudy n Wode Maya talk about it you have a nice apartment but bad electricity wash taabu tupu

How many times will you slum dwellers get this?

Among all the regions in Ghana, Greater Accra Region experiences dumsor the most followed by Ashanti Region, Western Region in that order.

The smaller regions even in the dumsor era did not experienced it that much.

If you want to enjoy better electricity supply Accra is not the best place to live, it's as simple as ABC

Just30:
the most insane part is fish being more expensive in Accra and Takoradi than Kumasi..

But this understood by the fact that about 70% of fish from the coast ends up in KUmasi

Infact, fish is much expensive in all the coastal regions than it is in Kumasi.

Gichwawa254:
that nigga is mad think we don't know what's up in Ghana, better listen to Mr ghanababy Wode Maya (village boy) who knows his stuff,he has been around Ghana n been more than ten times in Kenya n includes last week who has said more than enough times Kenya is better n more developed than Ghana in his clips ,his words be like Ghana is only better than Kenya at only food cuisine (jollof nana rice n okra n some soup guessed called egusi or something).

Please post just one video of Wode Maya where he said that for us all to see.

You think you can lie abi.. I watch Wode Maya videos more than you do so better post such video for us all Or shut up.. Liar

Just30:
The is no difference between the region and the City now because there's no more separation between the two...

Now they are even fighting on where the city boundary ends.

I don't know what you are saying here.

Accra city is different from Accra metropolis.
Same way Accra city is different from Greater Accra Region.

Accra City includes Weija, Teshi, Nungua Madina, Adenta etc but Accra Metropolis does not include all these places.

Same way we have so many Towns and Villages which make up the Greater Accra Region. Some are an hour+ drive away from Accra city.

Note that Tema is a separate city.
Places like Ashiama, Oyibi, Amasama etc are all independent Towns.

We have 16 regions of which Greater Accra Region happens to be one of the regions.. It's not a City.

Gichwawa254:
yap that's what entails a real developed city good organization of industrial zones, residential zones and commercial zones eg cbds with a good road network n NMT and a good skyline (urban planning) to top it up otherwise you get when a city is disorganized even when it grows n develops it becomes a slumpolis , no matter how developed it will be due to lack of zoning rules where anything goes so definitely i will go with organized cities where there is a clear zoned areas where slums are clearly defined from other residential areas n can be eliminated gradually not a mix mash of slums n good residences in one neighborhood which can be tricky to develop due to varied interests so will stick with Abidjan.... thanks n cheers mate

You have a point there.
Abidjan city planners did a good job but all the same Accra has got lots of other good things over Abidjan... There's nothing Abidjan have that Accra do not have.


For a well organized and planned city, Abidjan takes the crown but for development! please Accra ain't joking

popizaino:
Ghana is not the only country with the informal sector as the backbone of her economy,in fact I'm sure 85% of sub-Saharan African countries depend on the informal sector and their capital cities doesn't come off as market centres like Accra.None of the countries ghana claim to look up to look like market centres,I mean Singapore and Norway . The informal trading are always cramped in big market places like you have kejetia. Accra metropolitan authorities should look to build such big markets in every District of the city to take off these mess from the street.This concept isn't alien to the cities you claim to be more developed than. If you want develop, do it like the rest of the world,don't claim development when you are still doing things like you have in stone age. Accra should depict herself as the been the administrative centre of an oil and gold rich nation not looking like open air market.

Coming from a person who is seeking asylum in Ghana? So weird.

I think Buhari will need this advice of yours so why don't you go and tell him this fantastic idea? OR?

Just30:
When I say Accra I'm referring to the entire Greater Accra because there is no difference between the two.


People are so profit minded in Accra aND it is wild ....
Bright Simons was just comparing the price of tomatoes in Accra and New York as well as farm gate prices and boy, market women are rich in Ghana..

Very bad

Even products manufactured in Accra are expensive in Accra than it is in Kumasi.. No wonder some traders from Accra buy their goods from Kumasi( goods that were either manufactured or imported from Accra/Tema)

Just30:
When I say Accra I'm referring to the entire Greater Accra because there is no difference between the two.


People are so profit minded in Accra aND it is wild ....
Bright Simons was just comparing the price of tomatoes in Accra and New York as well as farm gate prices and boy, market women are rich in Ghana..

No No

Accra refers to the city called Accra whereas Greater Accra Region refers to the entire Cities, towns and villages in the Greater Accra Region.

One is a City and the other is a region, they are not the same.

Just30:
I think as Ghanaians we seriously need to have a discussion on why Accra is so expensive..


It is just too much

It's because of the mindset of traders in Accra.. They are profit conscious.. They are only concerned about making huge profit margin.

How come things are cheap in Kumasi, Techiman and Tamale but rather expensive in Accra even though most of the imported goods come through Tema-Accra before reaching the rest of the country.

Even products manufactured in Accra are cheaper in Kumasi than Accra.. Sea Fish is expensive in Accra than Kumasi meanwhile there's no sea in Kumasi, I mean how?

Infact it's not Accra only. Things are very expensive in the entire Greater Accra Region than any other region.

Saw this somewhere

rvp2018:
It mostly how much each gov spend on education. Countries that suceed spend a lot on education. Countries in West and Central Africa - spend very little - in their notorious low budget. Kenya for example use to out spend anyone in education in africa in 70s and 80s - that explain historical high quality of education - but now smaller serious countries invest a lot more.

Yet still your citizens can't perform better than their counterparts from West and Central Africa in anything..

It seems you guys are wasting money

Mkenya2019:
Informal sector=poverty. Kenya also has big informal sector - but we are trying to formalize them - by growing them to become enterprise.

I dont know if you have improved - I have seen data that your private sector employs only 300k (2007 data) - while Kenya private sector is approaching 3m.

You need to grow your formal private sector.

You are not making sense here.
Since you started with the formalization *how is market naw*? How many Kenyans have you taken out of poverty? give us the stats.

Finish with your formalization, get results first then come and tell us those nonsense you typed up there.

Mind you, Kenya has more poorer people than Ghana so stop making Ghana your headache.

Just30:
There is almost no middle class in Kenya

Gichwawa254:
OK if you say so coz haven't been to any of those cities in west Africa but the videos n pictures of 2021 say otherwise bruh Abidjan is good on the eyes than lasgidi n Acrra

That's because Abidjan and Dakar are well organized than Accra and Lagos but if you could look beyond their skyline and perhaps how organized those cities are you will notice that Accra and Lagos have overtaken those cities .

rvp2018:
People are driven to the informal economy out of poverty. Not by choice. It cannot be an economy policy. It's the default - you will find people hawking or eking out a living in the streets out of poverty. That is why your poverty data need to be relooked.

Long and short of the story, informal sector is helping Ghana so why don't you stick to your cooperatives then allow Ghana stick to it's informal sector?

Have you asked yourself why Ghanaians run Ghana but in Kenya it's foreigners that control your country? It's because of poverty.

Perhaps if you changed your ways and allowed your poor and the middle class to work in the informal sector you people would have reduced the kind of poverty you face in your country.

Just30:
I don't know why people in Academia like to home school their children longer than normal.

The the kid turn out anti social?

Sure

That's one negative side of home schooling. In life, Socialization is very very important.

vaxx:
I have a relative who was home school thru out his basic education ( just because of religion dogma) , he only went to university for his tertiary education. To be honest , he didn't do bad at all. He is currently doing his national service with national health insurance .


Though the father is an academian

This home schooling thing is becoming popular in Ghana

Gichwawa254:
true buda Abidjan is a lovely city am watching it's videos n looking at it's pictures on skyscrapercity waah it's breathtaking to me it's the most developed west African city guess [b]it's underrated in Anglophone Africa due to language barrier [/b]with francophone Africa most English speaking African countries only talk of, or know Lagos n to some extend Accra like me here never considered Abidjan will save some mulla n visit it next year looks like a nice laid back city esp that drive by the ocean is amazing they just need to remake it into a nice promenade like Luanda Angola

Abidjan is not underated by Anglophone West African's.. The truth is, Abidjan and Dakar in the 90's were the best cities in West Africa.. Infact, some people were calling those cities "the Paris of Africa". But for some years now these cities have not seen much development like it did in the 70's,80's and the 90's..

When you compare Abidjan-Dakar of the 90's-. to 2021, then Accra and Lagos of the 90's to 2021, Accra and Lagos have seen much development than Abidjan and Dakar.

Those two Francophone cities are well organized than Accra and Lagos but the later are very much developed and mordenized than the former.

vaxx:
oh good. In this era , physical classroom presence is not necessary.

Charlei, face to face lectures is the best.

Online lectures is great but not comparable to face to face lectures

rvp2018:
Nearly every country that has minerals like Ghana has got out poverty except in parts of Africa. Even countries with 1 million people do it even faster. Minerals give you the capital - for free - required to lift people out of poverty - by investing in people, infrastructure and their business.

Ghana GDP by end of this year will be 75b divided by 31M people (recent census). Kenya will be 109B against 50B - so it about 2400 versus 2200.

First of all lift the over 20 million poor Kenyans out of poverty.

Maximize profit on your minerals then come back and tell us all the rubbish you wrote up there

rvp2018:
That you still have povery of 19 % with gold for all those centuries in a sacrielege. When it come to gdp per capita - kenya and ghan are now pretty close - the same with HDI.

Face your front, Ghana cannot be blamed for Kenya's inability to make profit from it's natural resources.

I didn't go hard on you. I don't know why you're hyperventilating.

I shock saf

rvp2018:
Again you dont tell me to continue - I can choose not to. You simply f.off. if you have nothing to contribute. I am here as myself - not appendage or a team - I am here to share my knolwedge and to sometimes (rarely) learn.

Eii, what did you eat today? It's your friend @Shma so why the anger?

rvp2018:
I havent stopped anybody from commenting; I choose when to come here; which posts to reply to; which one to ignore; I am not going to wait for you to tell me what to do or not do. I know enough of ivory coast - because if you're inquisitive - you wont wait for this thread to learn stuff - you got the internet.

I believe I have not told you or anybody else what to do with your time or post here or elsewhere.

Come in when you want, comment on stuff you want, and leave when you want.

Please do your work, don't mind anyone

You can't allow us to learn something from Ivory coast? Interesting


Continue.

I can assure you Ivory Coast is doing well.
It was ahead of Ghana in so many areas some years ago but not anymore..

I wanted @Popzaino to help us with the so called development of Ivory Coast but as usual he bolted, just the coward he is.

rvp2018:
Despite Ghana being almost arable - and with so many minerals - you have almost as serious poverty as kenya - which is barren semi-arid and arid - and with no minerals.

No No.

On this platform the country with the most poorest citizens is none other than Kenya

But as for minerals, Ghana is not to blame for Kenyans inability to maximize profit on its minerals... Your half baked elites should be blamed not Ghanaians

rvp2018:
If the kitchen is too hot for you; step out; this thread is comparasion reason; Just run your life the best way you know; why on earth would you imagine you can even advice me? Like really?

Informal sector in Ghana has more positives than negatives so get over it...

Let Kenya practice the so called cooperatives whilst Ghana continues with it's informal sector... After all one country have more poorer people than the other

Mkenya2019:
Which infrastructure is in Accra? The small sewage network in CBD has been discontinued. The city is plagued with dumsor power cuts. Everywhere is dumpsite right to the beaches - the country is choking in plastic bags - and everywhere is hawker selling everything on earth - most of which are imported goods. Maybe the donated George Walker Bush Highway? Outside few areas - the rest is unplanned hodgepodge of buildings.

Give me Abdijan and Dakar any day. I think Ivory Coast is the most promising country in the entire west africa. Their civil war set them back 10yrs but they are back on track. Next would be senegal. Ghana is all talk and no show - it failed the kazikazi picture test.

Ghana only look good when compared with Nigeria. But Ivory Coast and Senegal are more progressive and promising.

Okay

popizaino:
How ironical is it that you accused me of seeking attention and then you rush to quote my mention? What sort of projection is that? Youtube comment section is filled with your rants jumping at people's mention of what you knkw nothing about. Van idiot avoid my mention if you iQ is still below Alaska room temperature. You spit a lot of jargon that shouldn't be dignify a response from any worthy person. Pls avoid me. I'm not caught up for your usual modus operandi of always splitting hair when development is talked about. Take it to your fellow idiots.

idiot thinks nothing is going on in abidjan, plateau is old, ikoyi is too old but nowhere in lagos compares to it .abeg take your ignorance somewhere else.

I thought you will accept the challenge and start posting much pictures of Abidjan but as usual YouTube comments is what you want to base your argument on. How desperate and dumb you are.

By the way, which African country have got no negative comments on YouTube? Just mention one.

Is it Nigeria OR what? name it? waiting

The boldened.. Go read what I wrote very well, no lies

Just30:
As more and more people are building in Dawhenya and Prampram , that road traffic will only get worse until the road is completely expanded..

Hope they start the expansion works soon cos the traffic situation from the Tema stretch through Dorwenya is so bad

Just30:
The traffic starts outside of Tema...
Just after we're the road narrows...
That area has some of the worse traffic in Accra ..

Has the expansion begun ?

Not yet.
The last time I travelled that road was just September ending.

My next trip on that road will be in December..

Just30:
Dorwenya is outside Tema

We already have public transport system and it's effective..

The problem is, no one wants to be inconvenienced.
Public transport inconvenience people and no one currently wants that....

You can go and listen to why people stopped parking their cars at the Achimota transport yard and joining Aayalolo buses.

They said it was inconveniencing them because it wasn't dropping them Infront of their offices.. Hence they had to walk a kilometer or 2

I said Tema to Dorwenya road. The traffic starts from the new Tema Interchange area through Dorwenya and ends at Prampram junction.
I use that road often so I know what I'm talking about.. The traffic situation there is terrible