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How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Aero Contractors in my view is a budget airline only that it is not so-called. The airline has been advertising very low fares to all its destinations, for some time now. I dragged myself into flying Aero twice in recent times, to satisfy my curiosity on how they could offer such low fares. This blog [...]

Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Africa Magic Yoruba and Africa Magic Hausa launched today Monday 1st March 2010. However, this blog post would focus on the journey of how the Yoruba channel came to be. There is no doubt that the country Nigeria is a very important market for Multichoice. Being Africa’s largest population and home to Nollywood, it not only [...]

Support Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, the Snow Leopard

Friday, February 26, 2010

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I heard about Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong for the first time a few years ago when he was being interviewed on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show about his skiing efforts. It was an odd story and his dreams of setting-up artificial snow scapes in Ghana sounded unrealistic. I remember some listeners sending text messages that appeared to [...]

Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Kenya’s tourism industry is back at full steam with earnings from tourism back to where they were before the 2007-2008 Kenyan electoral crisis. I watched Kenya’s Tourism Minister, Najib Balala, confirm the growth in an NTV news report a few days ago. Information available from Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism website further confirms the sharp decline in [...]

Angola 2010: Ghana vrs Nigeria match. Who would dominate?

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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This year’s African Cup of Nations tournament – Angola 2010 – has not been short of drama. A few underdogs have made a mark by spoiling the chances of football giants while some favourites who even qualified for the South Africa 2010 World Cup tournament (Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Tunisia) have witnessed an early exit. Last night’s [...]

The “Sick” Attah Mills still lives while…

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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This is a guest post by Nunya Akumey-Affizie. Presidents do fall ill all the time. Sometime in 2004, former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, was whisked to hospital after experiencing breathing difficulties as he addressed a political rally. Not quite long after that incident, former president of Tanzanian Benjamin Mkapa took ill for several months and even [...]

Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?

Monday, January 18, 2010

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I woke up to a news report about an earth quake scare in Ghana. An earth quake was supposed to have happened somewhere close to where I live. Yet, I had slept soundly all night and was not ruffled at any point by the earth shaking. It all started with a call I got from a [...]

A review of MTN Ghana Mobile Broadband service

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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With over 7.4 million subscribers as of September 2009, MTN is easily Ghana’s leading telecommunications network, offering mobile telephony services, Internet connectivity and more. I recently picked up an MTN “Exclusive 3G Pack” for 100 Ghana Cedis (about $69) and have used it extensively for about 14 days mainly in Accra. The information below is based [...]

How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. I [...]

BarCamp Ghana 2009: GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session

Monday, December 21, 2009

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GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session started at 15:20pm and is moderated by Kajsa Hallberg Adu. She started blogged to tell people back home (Sweden) about life abroad (Ghana). Blogging is a conversation and so she sort to meet other bloggers, thus facilitating the creation of GhanaBlogging.com Steve Danso blogs about how technology can affect our business. He blogs [...]

BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report

Monday, December 21, 2009

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BarCamp Ghana 2009 took off to a great start here at MEST in Accra with Patrick Awuah delivering the keynote address. He cited examples from his experience at Microsoft and his current experience with Ashesi University, to drive home the importance of key values like honesty, integrity, trust etc. The theme of this year’s event is [...]

Chasing the Elephant into the Bush: The Politics of Complacency

Saturday, December 12, 2009

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Chasing the Elephant into the Bush: The Politics of Complacency by Arthur Kennedy is the most sizzling book in Ghana at this time. It has created a lot of controversy in the media with the leading stakeholders exchanging their views and criticism of the book. I have listened to many leading politicians commend the author, [...]

BarCamp Ghana 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Find below a release from the organizers of BarCamp Ghana 09, announcing the event: On December 22, 2008, over a hundred young Ghanaians met in Accra for BarCamp Ghana ‘08 to exchange ideas on entrepreneurship, innovation and development for a rising Ghana. This summer, the conversations moved to Washington, DC on July 25, 2009 where BarCamp [...]

Maksi Clothing: A Fresh Fashion House launches in Accra

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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It was a night of glitz and glamour. Last Friday 27th November 2009 was the night and the poolside of African Regent Hotel was the venue. It was a night that witnessed the colourful launch of Maksi Clothing. Maksi Clothing is a new fashion line created by two young Ghanaians who are out to raise the [...]

Expressions: Literary & Arts Night featuring Ghana Bloggers

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Expressions is a monthly event revolving around a literary & arts night. It is hosted by DK Osei-Yaw and this month’s event features Ghana Bloggers. It is to be held at Smoothy’s on Upper Oxford Street in Osu, Accra. It comes-up this Friday 4th December 2009 @ 7pm prompt. Ghana Bloggers can be found at www.ghanablogging.com

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Posts Tagged with "Ghana"

How Aero Contractors offers very low airfares. The catches!

Africa Magic Yoruba launches; a 24-hour Yoruba channel on DSTV

Support Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, the Snow Leopard

Kenya’s Tourism Industry is back & a trip to Nairobi National Park

Angola 2010: Ghana vrs Nigeria match. Who would dominate?

The “Sick” Attah Mills still lives while…

Earthquake scare in Ghana. Is Ghana prepared?

A review of MTN Ghana Mobile Broadband service

How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile

BarCamp Ghana 2009: GhanaBlogging.com Break-out Session

BarCamp Ghana 2009 Live Report

Chasing the Elephant into the Bush: The Politics of Complacency

BarCamp Ghana 2009

Maksi Clothing: A Fresh Fashion House launches in Accra

Expressions: Literary & Arts Night featuring Ghana Bloggers

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