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Sisa Ntshona, CEO of South African Tourism Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | EDA The CEO of South African Tourism has called for a collaborative effort between African countries to increase the continent’s market share when it comes to tourism globally. Sisa Ntshona, who was on a working visit to Ghana, noted that the continent currently controls only 5% of the world’s tourism market, something he believes can change if all countries work together. He advised that Africans should use the narrative that Africa is a country, to its advantage to combine and win together. Mr Ntshona made the call during an interview with  Myjoyonline.com  during a Tourism and Travel Stakeholders’ Dinner at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra. According to him, “the world looks at Africa as a country; If the world looks at Africa as a country, use it to your advantage to the extent that before anyone of us in our 54 countries wins, you’ve got to convince people to come to...

Kofi Abotsi Source: Ghana|myjoyonline.com|Edwin Appiah|edwin.appiah@myjoyonline.com Parliament’s decision to spare directors of seven collapsed banks from its probe has been criticised as likely to produce shoddy work. Law lecturer Kofi Abotsi wondered how Parliament can come out with “full and complete” findings “if they are not going to speak to the real actors.” Chairman of the Finance Committee tasked to hold hearings into the bank crisis has said  he does not find any basis to invite the directors . “On what basis…on media accounts or what,” Dr Asibey Yeboah told Joy FM Wednesday. Photo:Five Managing Directors of the dissolved banks: L-R: Stephen Kpordzih (Construction Bank) Osei Asafo – Adjei (Royal Bank) Dr Duffuor II (uniBank), Johan Rheeder (Sovereign Bank) , Mike Nyinaku (Beige Bank) The Bank of Ghana will be invited for closing down the banks, and Finance ministry officials are also to appear for creating the Consolidated banks that has ...

Source:  Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | GN Nurses and midwives in the country have threatened to lay down their tools next week unless the government takes steps to find postings for unemployed graduate nurses and midwives. In a press statement issued on August 31, the Coalition of Concerned Nurses and Midwives state, “some of these nurses and midwives who are professionally trained to save lives have now resorted to kayayoo [head potter] and security work [watchman], whiles patients are dying day-in and day-out due to lack of staffs in our hospitals.” The statement, signed by its President, Henry Asante, also urged the government to put newly constructed health facilities to use to bring down the number of unemployed nurses and midwives across the country. Read the full statement below. PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY COALITION OF CONCERNED NURSES AND MIDWIVES ON 31ST AUGUST, 2018 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNEMPLOYED NURSES AND MIDWIVES By this press statement, we concerned...

The mangled KIA Picanto cab Source:  Ghana I Nhyira FM I Ohemeng Tawiah I ohemengtawiah@gmail.com Three staff of the Juaso District Forestry Office were among five people who died in a motor accident, Sunday, on the outskirts of Juaso in the Ashanti Region. The forest guards and two others died on the spot when a KIA Picanto taxi cab in which they were travelling collided head-on with a State Transport bus. Driver of the cab, with registration AS 6720-17 is said to have attempted a wrongful overtaking of another truck, resulting in the tragedy on the Accra-Kumasi Highway. The forestry guards have been identified as Denis Boamah, 32, Kennedy Okyere, also known as Kenya, 35 and Anim Bonsu Christopher -27. The other victims were  Thomas Owusu, and a 19-year old Senior High School graduate, Deborah Addai-Poku. It took the intervention of the Fire Service to cut through the mangled cab to retrieve the bodies. Passengers on board the STC bus who sustained minor in...

Source: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com|Nathan Gadugah Before 2019 the National Disaster Management Organisation together with government will find a permanent solution to the age-old Bagre dam crisis which has claimed lives, destroyed farmlands and displaced dozens. That is the promise given by the Deputy Coordinator of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Abu Ramadan. He told Joy News’ Evans Mensah, Monday, his outfit is liaising with government about the possibility of building mini dams on the White Volta which will store excess water spilled from the bagre dam. These mini dams will then become channels of irrigation for purposes of agriculture. According to Abu Ramadan the proposal falls in line with the government’s promise of building one dam in every village in the Northern Regions of Ghana. His comments come at a time when the Upper East and parts of the northern regions have been submerged by flood waters. Mr Ramadan denied earlier reports the flood w...

Source: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com | Norvan Acquah-Hayford | Joy Business More international oil companies have reportedly shown interest in acquiring oil blocks in Ghana as the government set October 5, to launch the country’s first-ever licensing bidding round for nine oil blocks in the Western Basin. This comes after the petroleum commission the regulator begun a roadshow to attract prospective investors with the technical and financial competency to participate in the bidding round. The bid round will be overseen by a 23 member Committee known as the Licensing Bid Rounds and Negotiation (LBRN) Committee, drawn from the Ministry of Energy, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Ministry of Finance, Attorney-General’s Department, Petroleum Commission and the Ghana Maritime Authority. According to the timetable posted on the ghanapetroleumregister.com website, Promotions to attract investors,...

The Bagre dam Source: Ghana|myjoyonline.com|Edwin Appiah|edwin.appiah@myjoyonline.com It is 2018 and somethings never change. One of them is the spilling of the Bagre dam in Burkina Faso. The pounding flood waters have been hounding out Ghanaian residents and settlers in the Upper East, Upper West and Northern regions. It began in 1999 when during a rainy season up North, the dam could no longer contain anymore beyond its 235m depth. The result of the spillage – 9,000 Ghanaians became homeless, a Cholera outbreak and $21m required to rehabilitate flood victims. This year, another spillage marking the 19th anniversary of an artificially created Ghanaian problem has reproduced expected results – fleeing villagers, furious farmers and flattened farms. ‘One and half acres of my 3-acre maize farm have been destroyed’, a farmer told Joy News Upper East regional correspondent. A few days ago, he just had to walk to his other farm. Now he needs a paddle and a cano...

Source: Ghana| Adomonline.com The maiden edition of the Ghana Outstanding Women Awards (GOWA), has been launched at a very colourful ceremony in Accra. The awards night billed for November 30, 2018, would confer honours on Ghanaian women, who have impacted the growth of the country in areas such as politics, health, education, sports and showbiz. Afua Asantewaa Aduonum, founding President of GOWA, said at the launch of the event that, women have played a significant role in nation-building, but their efforts have been downplayed with little or no recognition. “Women play vital roles in our socio-economic setting yet the society, especially Ghana has to a large extent failed to recognize their efforts. Founding President of GOWA, Afua Asantewaa Aduonum “However, GOWA has a strong conviction that the time has come for women who are doing great exploits in their respective endeavours should be accorded the honour they deserve,” Mrs Adounum noted. Francisca D...

Source: CNN When Wang Yijun put Ethiopia’s most expensive real estate project on the market, he experienced a strange phenomenon. People preferred the lowest floors over those with panoramic city views. “Power cuts mean elevators in this city often don’t work,” explains Wang, the site manager. “So the bottom-floor flats became the most valuable. You won’t see this pricing in any Chinese city.” Replicating China’s urban model in Africa has its challenges, but with limited developable space in Addis Ababa — the capital is surrounded by protected farmland — Wang believes high-rise living, such as Tsehay Real Estate’s $60 million Poli Lotus development, is inevitable. Theodros Amdeberhan, an Ethiopian lawyer, last year bought a three-bedroom, fifth-floor apartment here for about 3.5 million birr ($127,000). “Local developers never deliver on time,” says Amdeberhan. The complex opened in 2016, and so far 70% of lots have sold. “When Mr Wang offered me a good price, I didn’t ...