mtisTheQubit:

Seriously RVP leave the guy for real..lets work on the zoolians..they are alittle bit fun when hammering them..

mtisTheQubit:

Seriously RVP leave the guy for real..lets work on the zoolians..they are alittle bit fun when hammering them..

Shma:
I truly agree with you suffering and smilling. Rvp and vax are diversifying the Topic just a little bit. Knowing one or two things about Ghana and vice versa is not that bad. Let's give Nigerians a break just for today.

rvp20182:
If you ignore the negativity - there is so much to be learned here about Ghana. Zoo is hopeless. We're are down to the dregs now..likes of samrobo, problemkids...who cannot string one sound argument to save their mother.

rvp20182:
Show me cement production and consumption data for say 2015,2016,2017, 2018 and 2019. These are numbers you should have somewhere - or in your fingertips like me - if you're interested in economy of a country.

The only reason you have caught up with Kenya - is because of 2016 interest capping law - led to problems in our real estate and construction sector - as banks decided to lend to gov - and now the good times for sector are back.

gallivant:


I agree.

vaxx2:
Your government which is very bad in making policy thinks capping interest rate is a doing of the banks not knowing economy determine the interest rate. the better the economy, the better the interest rate will adjust naturally. banks don't control economy, goverment those.
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regarding your crying ....


http://citibusinessnews.com/....



if you can't make informed judgment from this , then you lost redemption


Ghana consume more cement consumption than you lots including your neighbour TZ

mtisTheQubit:

Seriously RVP leave the guy for real..lets work on the zoolians..they are alittle bit fun when hammering them..

rvp2018:
That is funny right there.She was just being polite otherwise if she ever went to say Las Vegas or Florida..she has obviously seen way better stuff.I actually checked that casino and it looks ugly.Ghanians need to change their architects and especially painters...don't think I have seen more ugly buildings than some in Accra.Look at Kigali...small City..great stuff coming up.

gallivant:


I agree.

popizaino:

You keep insulting west Africa architects as if yours are any better. Post your middle class estate and I post from Nigeria let's compare. Pls I don't want your outdated rants of greenery or landscaping. It is simply building for buildings. Key word middle class

popizaino:



You keep insulting west Africa architects as if yours are any better. Post your middle class estate and I post from Nigeria let's compare. Pls I don't want your outdated rants of greenery or landscaping. It is simply building for buildings. Key word middle class

gallivant:


When you have 0 tourists one year and the next year you get 1 tourist, that's 100% growth in tourist numbers. Also, Ethiopian Airlines makes her money ferrying Africans without national airlines like Nigerians, not tourists to Ethiopia. Critical thinking is what you lack.

Problemkid1:
They have look down on the west

rvp20182:
If you ignore the negativity - there is so much to be learned here about Ghana. Zoo is hopeless. We're are down to the dregs now..likes of samrobo, problemkids...who cannot string one sound argument to save their lifes.

Problemkid1:
Because Accra was not listed? Anyway, the kenyans will not agree with you on that.

samorobo:
Finally I am glad we've have completed funding for Lagos cable car..While West Africa is driving for modern diversified modern city mode of transportation(light rail,sky train,cable car, water ferries, trams, monorails), idiots from the east (except TZ)are clamouring for Victorian/European architecture which rubs of their cultural values and remind them of their colonial times. .....No wonder their leaders will continue giving them sub-standard infastructures like "COMMON COMMUTER RAIL"


Five Nigerian states in ‘quiet’ push for foreign funds in Johannesburg
By Marcel Mbamalu, Johannesburg | 13 November 2019 | 7:35 pm

President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina (left); and Governor of Abia state, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu…at the African Investment Forum (AIF) in Johannesburg on Wednesday, November 13, 2019

• Hope rises for Lagos’ $280m cable car project
• Kwara, Abia, Cross River in fresh high-profile talks
• US renews investment drive with $60b
• Abia gets two new deals

At least five state governors are currently making quiet moves to secure funding for some of their capital projects as the African Development Bank (AfDB) assembled direct foreign investors in Johannesburg this week.

The states are Kwara, Cross River, Abia, Ekiti and Lagos, which remotely came into the picture through its $280 million cable car project.

The ‘sky car’ project will span 12 kilometres from Ijora, Iddo and Apapa; to Lagos Island (Adeniji Adele, Obalende), Falomo and Victoria Island.

Capt. Dapo Olumide, the chief executive officer of Ropeways Transport, promoters of the Lagos ‘cable car’ project, told The Guardian there are clear signs the project would come to light within the next four years.



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“The Lagos cable car project,” he said, “will become fully operational within the next four years, now that we have concluded the funding process for the financing of the $280m project.”

Although a handful of Development Financing Institutions are involved, The Guardian gathered that the trio of African Development Bank, Africa Finance Corporation and African Export-Import Bank are the major financiers.

This came as the United States’ International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC), led by Adam Boehler, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to mobilise additional $5 billion for the continent over the next five years.



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AfDB president, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, disclosed that the bank and the IDFC would co-finance about $2 billion each, just as Boehler announced that the United States government has doubled the size of its IDFC Africa fund from $30 billion to $60 billion and simplified its investment portfolio to include equities.

Although none of the state governors could speak directly on why they made a quiet appearance at the AIF, the governors of Kwara, Abia and Cross River were seen holding private discussions with potential foreign investors at the “upper chambers,” hardly accessible to newsmen.

Mr. Chinenye Nwaogu, the special adviser to Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu later told The Guardian that the state’s chief executive was at the forum at the invitation of Adesina, in connection with the AfDB-assisted infrastructure development programmes, especially the Enyimba Economic City project billed to sit on 9,803 hectares of land and spanning three local government areas of Abia State.

Nwaogu explained that approvals from relevant agencies of the Federal Government, including the Ministry of Finance and the Debt Management Office, have been secured for an initial $200 million AfDB-assisted project.

It was gathered that the AfDB had, three months ago, advanced $1million for ‘project preparation’, including the production of development designs for a 300-kilometre component of an original 500-metre road project.

“We came to thank the AfDB and appeal for speedy approval for the designs that are ready,” the governor’s aide told The Guardian. “He (Adesina) has offered Abia State two more (funding) opportunities, including the $2.5 billion Abia Agro-Processing Zone, which the governor has mandated his team to work on.”

According to Nwaogu, AfDB, following Ikpeazu’s Johannesburg visit has invited the governor to the Ivory Coast headquarters of the bank in January next year to meet with AfDB’s project team, with a view to looking at the scale of progress and approving the designs in phases.

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi could not speak to the media as he emerged from a private meeting. His aides were however seen sharing prints of the ‘Ekiti State Investment Guide,’ a copy of which was also given to The Guardian. A major preoccupation of the Fayemi administration currently is the Ekiti Airport project.

Cross River Governor Ben Ayade was not available for comments. But one of his aides, in response to an inquiry by The Guardian, confirmed that it was connected with his two pet projects, the $2 billion Deep Seaport and the Superhighway.
The state government needs President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for a sovereign guarantee on the project.

The deep seaport project embarked upon by Ayade recently attained a major milestone with issuing the Outline Business Case (OBC) certificate by the Federal Government. A sovereign guarantee will, however, boost its actualisation and provide succour following years of hardship occasioned by the loss of Bakassi, a major oil-producing hub.




Displaced Bakassi people are hopeful that the project will make up for the many losses following the ceding of their ancestral homeland to Cameroon. The Bakassi Deep Seaport is expected to be the flagship of Nigeria’s ports.

Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, who entered a special boardroom in the company of his Cross River counterpart, was also said to have come seeking support for his pet projects. A source close to the Kwara Government House told The Guardian: “Yes, Kwara is seeking investments in the health sector, agro-processing (especially sugar cane value chain), e-governance, education, industry, etc.”

Contrary to its relatively impressive showing at last year’s African Investment Forum, during which transactions worth more than $7 billion dollars were reportedly sealed through heavy private sector deals, the Nigerian Federal Government did not make a significant presence at boardroom discussions this year.

The Guardian nevertheless spotted President Buhari’s newly appointed Economic Adviser, Sarah Alade, on the sidelines of the three-day event. Last year, led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, major private sector investors including Alhaji Aliko Dangote and Mr. Tony Elumelu had made significant input at the forum.

Though there was a hint of attendance by the Minister of Finance yesterday, it was unclear why there was no official representation beyond the participation of Nigerians heading international agencies like African Export-Import Bank, Bank of Industry and a few business groups. On the contrary, presidents of many African countries participated in plenary and breakout sessions

popizaino:



You keep insulting west Africa architects as if yours are any better. Post your middle class estate and I post from Nigeria let's compare. Pls I don't want your outdated rants of greenery or landscaping. It is simply building for buildings. Key word middle class

rvp2018:
That is funny right there.She was just being polite otherwise if she ever went to say Las Vegas or Florida..she has obviously seen way better stuff.I actually checked that casino and it looks ugly.Ghanians need to change their architects and especially painters...don't think I have seen more ugly buildings than some in Accra.Look at Kigali...small City..great stuff coming up.

pacretus:
Australia has no national Airline, Kenya isn't up to a street in Australia, so what exactly are you yapping about.

Only 2 Nigeria owned airlines are enough to rival anything Kenya has in aviation.

rvp20182:
The daily dose of Wet dreams. When the project starts construction or even complete - and come & celebrate. I see you're looking for West African alliance - isn't the 200M people in the Zoo not enough

rvp20182:
The daily dose of Wet dreams. When the project starts construction or even complete - and come & celebrate. I see you're looking for West African alliance - isn't the 200M people in the Zoo not enough

rvp20182:
Btw I am still looking for cement data for Ghana that is credible. I see you import lots of cement clinker - perhaps you can begin there if you want to reduce your imports - because clinker can be manufactured internally.

samorobo:


My this is too late...you should have come up with this alot sooner...
Rvp is very stubborn and he will never succumb neither will vaxx....It is way out of your hands now

rvp20182:
You're incoherent. Ghana has got nothing when it come to Casinos or Clubs. Unless you never travelled Africa - leave alone the rest of the world. Concentrate on HDI.

Just30:

you are still not acceptable
because it is exposing how underdeveloped Kenya is

Just30:


those are clubs for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tni6TiqVcBg

pacretus:
Australia has no national Airline, Kenya isn't up to a street in Australia, so what exactly are you yapping about.

Only 2 Nigeria owned airlines are enough to rival anything Kenya has in aviation.

rvp20182:
I don't insult - pictures speak for themselves. I see a tinge of American architecture in West Africa designs - which is nice - but I am yet to see really world-class buildings like you find say in Kenya or South Africa or even Rwanda now. I think Kenya is more European/victorian.

Now I don't know what you mean by the middle-class estate - you got first and I will respond.

gallivant:


Grow a spine please, would you?