I do believe that now is a great time to remind both visitors--especially them--and our ECOWAS neighbours in the country for Ghana2008 that if they want to travel to Kumasi, Tamale; Sekondi-Takoradi or stay right here in Accra, they can check out the website (caption below) of that site, get the contact numbers and get there. Travel in INTERCITY is safe, albeit sometimes slow.
Feel free to check out the website here: http://intercitystc.com/
With Sulley Muntari saving Ghana from disgrace at the 90th minute, we get newspaper headlines like these...
...and patriotism like this taxi flying a flag. This craze is something many, many Ghanaians have caught on. My flag flutters in my heart!!;-)
Aqua Vitens - GWCL celebrate one year management partnership
Adu Koranteng , 06/06/2007
Aqua Vitens Rand Limited, a water management company in Ghana, yesterday celebrated one year of its partnership with the Ghana Water Company Limited.
The event, which was organised to assure Ghanaians of the pragmatic measures put in place to supply quality water on 24 hour basis, was also aimed at releasing reports on their performance, since they began operation, under the management contract on the Ghana Urban Water Project.
The managing director of AVRL, Anne De Groot, in a presentation, said the company is now able to supply water to about 6 to 8 million people in the urban areas of the country. It has provided computer-based cash register application in the Ashanti Region, and introduced data merging in the Accra West Region to make data capturing easier.
from: http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=3713§ion=2
but the biggest is, I hope, kind of in-your-face: see that map of Africa on the right of Ghana's Daily Graphic? It truly is showtime, with football coming home!!! (Starting Sunday) Reports from the international media are all generating excitement about the football fiesta...
Seeing as I was not blogging, insightful pictures like these failed to make entries. Well, with this New Year, you're getting it hot off the press...as it were...
If you clook closely enough, you can just make out the Atlantic ocean on the landscape, as well as the plenty of palm trees.
The Portuguese built the castle in 1482, originally established as a trading post for goods bartered for local gold and valuable gem. However, as the demand for slaves increased in the Americas and Caribbean, the castle became strategic in the perpetuation of this abhorrent human cargo trade. The storerooms of the castle were converted into dungeons, and the ownership of the castle changed hands several times, eventually ending up being seized by the British in 1872. By this time, slavery had been abolished. The British didn't use Elmina to house slaves; they used Cape Coast Castle for that.
Elmina Castle, known then as the slave castle, is one of over twenty castles built along the shoreline of the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana). The Gold Coast was one of the richest markets for slave traders during the peak of the slave trade. Hundreds of thousands of captives passed through the dungeons of Elmina Castle, and were shipped off, like commodities into the Americas and Caribbean against their wishes. This illicit human trade carried on for...
The developments look they're coming along nicely. Everything is supposed to be ready by 2008.
West Africa's markets are legendary and none more so than the famous Makola market in Ghana's capital, Accra. Run by powerful women traders, Makola is a place where you can buy anything you need - manufactured and imported foods, fresh produce, tools, medicines, shoes, and pots and pans. It's also a place that's good for the soul; its humour and energy will recharge your batteries.
Even Ghanaians who do not live in the capital know about the city's legendary market which has risen like a phoenix from the devastation of a fire more than once.
For visitors, the market conjures up the sights and sounds - as well as the smells and aromas - of West African cookery; the mouth waters as you move from stall to stall, imagining the spread on the table once the shopping is home and the cooking complete!
If you aren't lucky enough to be in a West African city, you can still imagine you're there. Whether you are in New York, Paris or Sao Paolo, Johannesburg, Nairobi or Cairo, click on the link and join Ofeibea Quist-Arcton on a stroll through Makola Market. It will do you good...
In a different take from usual posts, I thought I'd give you this entry as an insight into how our GPRS-enabled mobile service providers (this case Onetouch is able to allow us check email (see on the right)--and now, thanks to Google, even help us locate where we are in town!
The Ghana School of Law was opened in November 1958, the first of its kind in Sub-
Sahara Africa. It is situated in Makola, Accra, close to the Supreme Court.
The first students completed training at the Law School in June 1963. between June 1963 and October 2004, as many as 3,000 lawyers have been trained at the Law School.
In the field of legislative drafting, the Law School has available to it the services of a distinguished and renowned figure in the subject, Professor V C R A C Crabbe as well asPage 5
Mrs Sabina Ofori-Boateng, Mr Gottfried Nikoi and Mrs Estelle Appiah who are all
Ghanaian citizens with extensive experience in legislative drafting.
The Law School has an infrastructure and environment which is conducive to intensive
study. It has a well-stocked library, internet resources and a computer laboratory,
spacious premises and good administrative support.
In my series of shameless promotions that will earn me nothing, here is the latest feature: Jaria Hotel. 
Shoprite opened its doors to Ghanaians on 1 November, but I failed to blog about it, believing it to be more of the same. I chaged my mind last night when I was there--armed with my camera--to take a picture for posting, naturally on this blog.
As you can probably see, this is the fruit and veg section, adjacent to the fast foods section. I could hardly believe there to be so many Ghanaians in town on a Sunday night around 8.30pm!!
This is a scene right out of the market near Tema station, where a number of Ghanaian workers head to in travelling outside the centre of Accra. It is also located some minutes before the Tudu branch of the Electricity Company of Ghana.
...Away it goes!...
No surprises that there will still be vestiges of the accident in the minds of Ghanaians, for an accident of the magnitude of last week Wednesday that involved no less than the President of the nation, will prompt discussions for a while, and queries--like this one here. The photo shows the front cover of the what could be described as the "morning after (the night before)" picture, by the Daily Graphic...
That said, I thought I'd continue the car vignette by posting this one here of one I took earlier this morning on my way to work in a taxi. The driver of this car either inherited the car, or put all those stickers which were all generating a tag of "sanctimony" the more I looked. Sanctimony that can only be Ghana-style;-)
It's already bad experiencing Spintex road traffic, which I can only describe as "legendary", but it's especially worse this time of the year, when the whole world is a whisker away from festivities of Christmas...
This is the front of the National Theatre. Located minutes away from the British Council, it certainly is an inimitable structure...built for us by the Chinese!!!
This is the perfect scene for comment. Some twenty-five minutes before I arrived here from a work-related press conference to see this scene--and take a picture of it--my Mum called me to ask me whether I had heard the news about no less than the President of Ghana John Kufuor being involved in a near-fatal car crash that involved the car somersaulting THREE times, after a car, travelling at top speed hit it.Ghanaian President Kufuor involved in car accident - witnesses
Wed 14 Nov 2007, 13:34 GMT
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ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghanaian President John Kufuor, chairman of the African Union, escaped unhurt when a car crashed into his vehicle on Wednesday, rolling it over several times, officials and witnesses said.
Presidential Press Secretary Andy Awuni said Kufuor appeared healthy and composed but was undergoing medical checks in the presidential palace to ensure he was not at risk.
Witnesses said a red car coming from the opposite direction struck the president's vehicle at a major intersection near the Kotoka International Airport in the capital Accra.
"The car finally rested on the sidewalk and the people around helped his security men to pull him out. The president came out holding his head," James Kobinah, an electrician working nearby, told Reuters.
Awuni said police were investigating the cause of the accident and would question the driver of the red car, who was being treated in hospital. Some other people involved in the accident were also receiving medical attention.
"The picture is not very clear about the accident," Awuni said. "It's a bit strange for the car to run into his car directly."
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from: http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN447886.html
President Kufuor escapes unhurt after his car was rammed late morning Wednesday while on his way to his office.
President Kufuor is reported to be in good health and already back in his seat at the Castle, Osu, after he escaped unhurt in a late morning accident on Wednesday.
A man yet to be identified is said to have driven a Benz saloon car straight into that of the President at the Opeibea Intersection on the Airport – 37 Military Hospital road.
President Kufuor was said to be on his way to his office.
According to Mr. Andrew Awuni, Press Secretary to the President, those who were injured, including the President’s driver, have been moved to the 37 Military Hospital for medical check-up.
“But the President is doing well. He is right in his seat here at the Castle,” Awuni assured.
Awuni, who described the accident as a strange one, said only two cars were involved but added it was not clear how many people may have been involved. He could also not tell the whereabouts of the driver of the other vehicle and suggested he might be at the hospital or with the President’s security detail.
Explaining why the accident appeared strange, he said usually outriders would be fending off all junctions, which they did, “nevertheless this car came and just ran into the President’s car and of course nobody expects to see an accident so sometimes you don’t get to see how it happens.”
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