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17 unusual facts about Ghana


Africatown

Dahomey warriors raided a village near the city of Tamale in Ghana, and took the survivors to Whydah, now Benin, where they were put up for sale.

Bureau of National Investigations

Bureau of National Investigations "?title=National Security Council">National Security Council which oversees matters of the counterintelligence and security of Ghana both internal security and external security.

Central Regional Hospital, Cape Coast

The Central Regional Hospital, Cape Coast is a regional hospital in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana.

Ghana Grid Company

Ghana Grid Company is an electricity transmission company in Ghana.

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

Kade Agricultural Research Station

Kade Agricultural Research Station or Center is an agricultural research center located at Kade, in the Eastern Region of Ghana is part of the University of Ghana Centers of Research and Learning.

Kwame Ayew

Born in Tamale, Ayew started playing professionally in France at only 17, spending a couple of Ligue 1 seasons with FC Metz, then moved to Qatar with Al Ahli SC and played in another country in the following two years, Italy, appearing and scoring sparingly for U.S. Lecce (for instance, he netted four goals in 1993–94's Serie A as his club ranked last with only 28 goals, a competition-worst).

Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh

Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana.

Mining industry of Ghana

More than 99% of gold production in the early 1990s came from underground mines in western and Ashanti Region, with the remainder coming from river beds in Ashanti Region and Central Region.

Nafana people

They arrived in the Banda area after the Ligbi people, who according to Stahl (2004) came from Bigu (Begho, Bighu) to the area in the early 17th century.town or Some major towns of the Nafana people are Sampa, Kokoa, Duadaso No 1, Duadaso No 2, Jamera, and Kabile which are in the Jaman North District.

Oppong

Oppong is a surname that originates in Ghana.

Otto Friedrich von der Groeben

They arrived near the village of Accada on 27 December 1682, hoisted the flag of Brandenburg on 1 January 1683 near the modern Princes Town and began to build a fortification, which they called Fort Groß Friedrichsburg.

Radio Upper West

Radio Upper West is a public radio station in Wa, the capital town of the Upper West Region of Ghana.

St John Evans

From 1931 until 1941 he held posts in what is now Ghana, ending his time there as Archdeacon of Ashanti.

St. Francis Girls' Secondary School

It is situated on Wa-Hamile Trunk road, about 2 kilometers away from the main township of Jirapa.

Sulley Muniru

Sulley Sariki Muniru (born 25 October 1992 in Konongo) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who currently plays for CFR Cluj.

The Africans

The programme interviewed Africans living in Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa and focused on the everyday lives of people working for social change, democratisation and progress in their own local communities.


Abdul Salam Mumuni

His first film, which brought attention back to the film industry in Ghana, was God Loves Prostitutes, which starred Nollywood star Genevieve Nnaji.

Addoquaye Addo

Daniel Addoquaye Addo (born 23 April 1985 in Accra) is a Ghanaian football midfielder who played for Ashanti Gold SC.

Air Burkina

Air Burkina SA is the national airline of Burkina Faso, operating scheduled services to one domestic destination, Bobo-Dioulasso, as well as regional services to Togo, Benin, Mali, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

Akropong–Akuapem

This group includes the Akuapem, the Akyem, the Ashanti, the Baoulé, the Brong/Abron, the Fante and the Nzema peoples covering the Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Western, Central, and Eastern Regions, as well as portions of the midsection of the Volta Region, and into North Ghana.

Aluspah Brewah

He played with Ajax Academy in Ghana and Ashanti Gold SC West Africa before departing for Europe at the age of 17 years for Royal Antwerp FC of the Jupiler League.

Amedzofe

Amedzofe, Ghana, the settlement south of Hohoe in the Volta Region of Ghana

Ashongman

Ashongman is a village in the Ga East Municipal district, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.

Awudu Issaka

In July 2006 Issaka, joined the newly promoted Ghana Telecom Premier League club Tema Youth.

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Bruce Arena

The United States scored only twice in its three games, a draw against eventual champion Italy on an own goal by Italian Cristian Zaccardo and a goal from Clint Dempsey against Ghana.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Christian Gyan

Christian Attah Gyan (born 2 November 1978 in Tema) is a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for Leonidas

Church of Pentecost

The Church’s beginnings are linked to the ministry of Pastor James McKeown(1900-1989), an Irish missionary sent by the Apostolic Church, Bradford, UK to the then Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1937 to help a group of believers of the Apostolic Faith in Asamankese.

Congo Serpent Eagle

The Congo Serpent Eagle was first described in 1863 by Hermann Schlegel as Astur spectabilis from a specimen collected near Elmina, Ghana.

Dany Bahar

During his time at Red Bull, Bahar lead the diversification of the brand into NASCAR and football with the acquisition of teams in Salzburg, New York and Ghana.

Fair Trials International

Ghana Girls: In July 2007, two 16-year-old girls, Yetunde Diya and Yasemin Vatansever, were arrested for possession of 6 kilograms of cocaine at Accra airport in Ghana.

Faustina Acheampong

She was the spouse of General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Chairman of the National Redemption Council and Supreme Military Council and Head of state of Ghana from 1972 to 1978.

Francis Akwaffo-Boateng

Francis Akwaffo-Boateng (born September 7, 1991 in Anum) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Al Nasr Benghazi.

G.V. Series

At the same time in West Africa (what became Nigeria and Ghana, specifically) EMI was recording and releasing Sakara, Juju and Apala music on 78rpm discs in the Parlophone B, HMV JL, HMV JZ and Decca WA/GWA/NGA series (1947–52), as well as HMV owned local labels, such as Ghana's Taymani Special.

Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro

He was appointed in April 2013 after Vice Admiral Matthew Quashie was elevated to Chief of Defence Staff .

Heineken Lokpobiri

After Nigeria performed poorly at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, the Senate Sports Committee of which Lokpobiri was chairman issued a report which cast blame on maladministration and lack of cooperation from the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu.

Iridana

The only known specimen of I. agneshorvathae was collected at light in Bia National Park in Western Ghana from a dry semi-deciduous forest and is most probably a canopy species.

Isaac Kissi

Kiss attended the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School in his native Ghana, and studied for two years at the University of Ghana, before accepting a soccer scholarship with the University of Dayton in the United States in 2007.

Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra

Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts in the city of Accra, Ghana and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

Jewel of Muscat

Timber for the ship was made from Afzelia africana trees felled in Ghana and cut into planks and frames at a Ghanaian lumberyard.

John Singleton

On October 12, 1996, John married Ghanaian actress Akosua Gyamama Busia, an actress and the daughter of Ghana's second Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.

Joseph Awinongya

Joseph Awinongya (born Asiaman, Ghana, 1974) is a professional boxing trainer and public speaker on sports who operates the Will County Boxing Gym in Joliet, Illinois, and is best known as the trainer of IBO International Middleweight champion Osumanu Adama.

Julian Owusu-Bekoe

Julian Owusu-Bekoe (born 10 May 1989 in Tooting) is an English-born Ghanaian football player who plays for Hayes & Yeading United in the Conference National.

Kojo Botsio

Mr Botsio was also once Vice-Principal of the Abuakwa State College at Kibi in Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute

The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute (officially known as the Kwame Nkrumah Institute of Economics and Political Science or Winneba ideological Institute) was an educational body in Winneba founded to promote socialism in Ghana as well as the decolonization of Africa.

L-Tido

L-tido has worked with numerous artists all over Africa, and has been on songs with Banky W, Wizkid and Ice-prince from Nigeria, Camp Mulla and Bon-Eye from Kenya, Sarkodie and D-Black from Ghana.

Lisa I'Anson

Later on she was also presenting other live TV shows including the very first and subsequent MOBO awards (music of black origin), The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium and a live link from Ghana, West Africa direct to London with then British Prime Minister and U.S. President, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.

Melcom

On December 22, 2012, Melcom suffered another major accident when its mall in Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana was totally burnt down by fire.

Meltwater Group

The Meltwater Foundation, a non-profit branch of the company, provides entrepreneurial and software training to promising young African students at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana.

Moringa community

In March 2007, Abubakar “Abu” Abdulai contacted Jeffry Lohr from an Internet Cafe in Cape Coast, a city in Ghana, West Africa, hoping to study at Jeffry’s Lohr woodworking school in Pennsylvania so that he could gain skills that would help him develop his country.

NAPE Foundation

NAPE Foundation has also supported secondary students in Nafana Presbyterian Senior High School in Sampa, in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana as well as the Ghana Senior High School Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.

Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport

On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Peter Nanfuri

He is a former Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Ghana.

Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School

Prof. Ernest Aryeetey - Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana - Legon (2010 - ).

Prince Buaben

Prince Buaben (The Fresh Prince of Firhill) (born 23 April 1988 in Akosombo) is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who is currently playing for Partick Thistle on loan from Carlisle United.

Ralph Atkin

Atkin has also been associated with the attempted takeover of Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 2001 and with the startup of Ghana International Airlines in Ghana in 2004.

Ransford Osei

In July 2012, Osei signed a contract with the twenty-two times champions of Ghana and two times champions of Africa, Asante Kotoko.

Seth Berkley

Some of his initiatives included developing a public health training program, Public Health School without Walls, which began in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Uganda, and then spread to Vietnam, as well as an international program to support non-governmental organizations working on AIDS, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

Victor Kofi Agawu

Kofi Agawu or more often simply as Kofi Agawu, is a music scholar from the Volta Region of Ghana.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.

Yussif Chibsah

In the 2006/07 season he played for Asanta Kotoko FC in Ghana and later on came close to sign for Danish side Randers FC but eventually signed in October 2007 a two year contract with Swedish Allsvenskan club Gefle IF under manager Per Olsson.