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Prioritise tourism sites to boost revenue and development

13Apr

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Prioritise tourism sites to boost revenue and development

Social Tourists Attraction Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, a lecturer at the Department of Communications, University of Ghana (UG), has urged residents of Vodza in the Volta Region and its surrounding communities in the Keta Municipality to prioritise their tourism sites. She said tourism sites played a sensitive role in attracting people from far and near and must serve as a good source of income to boost development in the various communities. Professor Gadzekpo disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) during an annual Ecotourism Initiative festival celebrated by the people of Vodza. “We need to renovate our tourism areas such as Fort Prinzenstein, Woe Lighthouse, ‘Ʋenya Vudo’ the Lagoon, and the Sea shores to attract tourists from near and far,” she said. Prof. Gadzekpo...

Reserves depletion: Ghana needs IMF support; Fund doesn’t impose restrictions – US Associate Prof.

An Associate Professor of Finance at Andrews University in the United States, Dr. Williams Kwasi Peprah, has described the continuous depletion of the country’s reserves as a major concern that requires urgent support from the International Monetary Fund to enable the country secure concessionary loans at cheaper rates. This, he said, is better than commercial loans at higher rates than government borrow. Ghana’s net international reserves had declined to $4.6 billion in April 2022, from $6.09 billion in January 2022. This has impacted the foreign exchange market as some multinational firms that have declared dividends so far are also expected to repatriate the funds to their investors. Dr. Peprah tells Joy Business the Fund does not impose restrictions on member countr...

History professor who has accurately predicted every US election since 1984 reveals 2020 pick

(CNN)History professor Allan Lichtman is used to being right.He has correctly predicted the winner of each presidential race since Ronald Reagan's reelection victory in 1984 using his "13 keys" system. (It's worth mentioning that in 2000, Lichtman predicted that Al Gore would win the election. Although Gore won the popular vote, he ultimately lost the presidency to George W. Bush after the Supreme Court ruled to stop the recount for Florida's electoral votes. Lichtman stands by validity of his prediction.) Now, Lichtman and his "13 keys" are ready to call 2020.In an interview with CNN, Lichtman was definitive in his answer: "The keys predict that Donald Trump will lose the White House this year."Lichtman bases his prediction on a model of "13 keys" that can be answered as either true o...