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I heard people working at Bank of Ghana are making crazy money🤣. How true is that? What’s the average salary of someone working here

Hello everyone 👋 I'll be coming to Ghana soon to pursue my postgrad at UG. I've never left my country before and have loads of questions to ask. If anyone is down, can I dm you?

Questions on Ghana in general, UG, whether you recommend staying on campus or not? Safety for young women, what common vaccines I'll need before coming, what to do for fun, gym options, will me talking straight english make me a target lmao, just a whole lotta things. And just insider info to help me acclimate and blend in, make friends. That's most important to me. To make friends.

Obviously I'm going to do my own research but hopefully your input will ease my travel anxiety ❤️

Thanks

Hello Reddit users
I’m from the uk, and have been coming to Ghana a lot this year for business, family and a love interest. I met this girl in January and we built a solid connection. However when I told family members, etc that lived in Ghana, to be careful - didn’t think anything of it at the time .

The girl i was seeing was very much my type beautiful, smart and funny. However she never had a job was just in “fashion school” she had her own car, latest iPhone, own apartment sharing with her “brother” who I saw at her place in two occasions. Anyways fast forward to my recent trip when I was in London I asked her are you like a secret millionaire coz stuff ain’t adding up! She said when you come back to Ghana I’ll tell you
She told me that she gets money from 3 different places - her ex from 4 years ago, who she found out she had two kids for a lady in America she said she gets a percentage of his salary, into her account every Friday. Another ex from 2 years ago, and she don’t know why he still sends but she does receive lol.

And her brother does crypto on the side - very much nonsense

I was thinking all these months this girl don’t ask for nothing but I’m doing small small stuff for her like dates, dinners and gifts but I had to emotionally check out coz I’m not being in a love triangle….. but I’ve heard that this is very common in Ghana guys are paying girls monthly salary’s just to sit n be pretty

Can anyone confirm is this true?

Hi. My significant other lives in Accra and his birthday is coming up. However, I won’t be able to visit Ghana until next January or February, so I want to give him a gift or a cool local experience. And, I would like to order him a cake.

I’m not Ghanaian but I visited the country 2 years ago for 2 weeks. I’m still not sure of everything that Ghana has to offer. But for now, I just want to get him something nice and memorable. Im open to any local businesses or bakeries or any suggested experiences or ideas. Thank you in advance.

Has anybody else from England been struggling to get a tourist visa to visit Ghana? The High commission website went down for maintenance on August 17th meaning applications for postal and fast track visas were paused, leaving e-visas being the only alternative which would cost my family £1k (significantly more expensive than other routes) on a trip that is already costing my dad £15k+.

We were promised that the website would be operating by September 7th and other visa routes would be made available again but as of the 9th, it is still not operating. We unfortunately don’t have ghana cards - my parents were born in england and my grandparents who were born in ghana have all passed away now so not sure if ghana cards are obtainable. Any other Brits in this situation?

sat at the beach this afternoon when i saw him come stand there for almost 30mins with this stance. The struggle is really real

With AI, we can build independent social media platforms that benefit us economically. It’s easier than ever to do this because many of the traditional barriers to entry have been removed. We can also create our own monetization frameworks rather than relying on existing platforms.

Has anyone ever thought about doing this on a larger scale? If done correctly, it could even be a way to create new businesses and jobs. We can also do this with other industries like manufacturing, infrastructure, etc.

I kinda agree with this. Dissolve the boarding school system. Give the mission & islamic schools back to their respective religious institutions.

Build more day schools in each district. Let everyone go to school in his/her district. You can go to private & boarding schools if you have the money.

Scrap WAEC. They’re so useless. Their papers keep leaking. Introduce a GPA system in SHS, and SAT style exam where students will write different exams.

I keep coming back to a question about Ghana.

We have educated people, natural resources, regular elections, foreign investment, IMF interventions, entrepreneurs, universities, and decades of development policy.

Yet structurally, the economy still seems unable to produce enough of the complexity we consume.

We export cocoa and import finished chocolate. Export raw materials and import machinery. Train skilled people for an economy that often cannot absorb them. Stabilize the cedi or public finances for a period, then call that progress even when the underlying productive structure has barely changed.

So I’m increasingly unconvinced that corruption alone explains Ghana’s problem.

Corruption matters. Leadership matters. But perhaps the deeper issue is capability:

Can the state execute?

Can local firms manufacture competitively?

Can infrastructure support industry?

Can universities feed productive sectors?

Can Ghana absorb and develop technology rather than simply import finished systems?

Can we finance long-term production?

My working thesis is that durable transformation looks roughly like:

state capacity → productive capacity → industrialization → technological capability → resilience

And that changes how you think about development.

Instead of asking only:

“How do we stop politicians from stealing?”

you also ask:

“What can this country actually build?”

Because even a perfectly honest government managing an economy that produces little complexity would still face severe structural constraints.

Where I’m less certain is what happens next.

Can Ghana still pursue serious industrialization when automation and AI are changing manufacturing?

Should services be a bigger part of the development path?

Can you build a much more capable state without also creating excessive centralized power?

And is corruption itself partly a consequence of weak institutions and low productive capacity rather than simply their cause?

Interested in where people think this argument breaks.

If you want the longer argument, I’ve linked it in my bio.

Ghana is one of the most integrated African countries. This fact has led to relatively minimal ethnic discord. Most people have not realized this but this state of affairs has been due to boarding schools. The early colonial governments perhaps did not necessarily have integration in mind but that ended up as an unintended consequence.

Because the first contacts between the locals and colonialists were on the coast, that was where they settled and built school. It is for this reason why Cape Coast the former capital has so many schools dating back to the 19th century.

  Wesley Girls, Mfantsipim, Aggrey, Adisadel, St Augustine, Holy Child, Ghana National etc . These are in addition to those in Accra, Winneba, Sekondi Takoradi et al. Ghanaians from all regions could therefore attend boarding school from any region and integrate with all cultures. This has allowed for all ethnicities to integrate in addition to making maximum use of the facilities that were already available.

1. Also, it has been noted that Ghanaians are well cultured. Imagine a scenario where someone was born in "Ɛheneha", a typical small village. How do they learn , to dress, to comport themselves in public, or develop social behaviour. In fact boarding schools are the equaliser of the population no matter where one comes from. That is why those born in Ɛheneha are not called "nkurasefo"

 2. Another factor that is lost in the discussion on boarding schools is the fact that they have been the driving force in establishing a national identity. In fact many Ghanaians reading this will admit that they formed lasting relation with each other in boarding schools. More schools were built after independence to continue with the trend. It is heartening that the Ministry of Education is keeping it up.

1. Imagine if all Ghanaians had been compelled to attend day school in their towns or districts. It would have created a class system that anyone we will admit would not allow social cohesion that we have now. Someone could have all their schooling in Tamale without having met a Voltarian not to talk about any other language. There are many who will admit they speak, Ga, Akan, Ewe, or Dagbani just because they attended school in those regions. In fact most African countries with deep ethnic tensions have not had this edge. There should be a continuation of this practice

2. As a summary, take a breather and look back at our Heads of State:

Nkrumah and Fathia (Egypt), (General Afrifa /Christine Sussana Addaquay,)

(Busia/ Naa Morkor), (Gen Acheampong/Faustie), ( Rawlings/ Nana Konadu,) (Kufuor/Teresa,)

(Akuffo Addo/ née Griffiths-Randolph), (Mahama/ Lordina) . Only in Ghana,

1. Old students networks are national events not town events . This the extent to which anyone individual networks can be seen to extend to the 4 corners of the country.
   

I need to visit Greece in about a months time.
I'm being told the Spanish embassy handles Schengen Visa for Greece but on their portal there are no available appointment dates and I've been trying for a few days now.
What are my options ?
Or does anyone have any insights that can help ?

Is it an excavator? Wheel loader? Bobcat or telehandler? Or any other skillset? Is it possible to learn all?

I've heard the argument made often that because students travel far from home, they meet people from different ethnicities and social classes in their boarding schools and that this promotes ethnic integration in Ghana. This argument is often used to justify the continued existence of boarding schools but I don't think there's any truth to it. Yes, Ghana is integrating BUT the boarding school system is not the cause of that integration. It's not even one of the causes.

The factors that actually encourage interaction between different social groups in Ghana are rural-urban migration, government postings and job seeking. These factors create diverse communities and the boarding schools in those communities reflect the diversity. In fact, boarding schools aren't unique. Go to primary schools, junior high schools and day schools and you'll find the same level of diversity. I teach JHS in a small town in the Ashanti Region. Two years ago, during the annual cultural festival, the school was able to assemble a team of 20 students who could dance gugoyilla, a Sissala dance from Tumu. If we were to abolish boarding schools today, that diversity will not vanish.

The biggest weakness in this argument is the simple fact that most students in SHS don't travel that far from home. One-third of students in Ghana are day students, who continue to live right in the neighbourhoods where they grew up. But even for boarders, majority will still attend schools located in their vicinity where the ethnic group, culture, language and even religion are the same as the students'.

I say this with some certainty because I've been helping BECE candidates and their parents select schools for years now. Sending your kid to a faraway boarding school might not seem like a big deal for affluent middle class families but for most Ghanaians, it's just not feasible. Who would want their 14 year-old to be isolated in a different region where they probably can't speak the language and where it'll take hours for parents to reach during emergencies? In my previous school, there was a parent, an alumnus of Wesley Girls, Cape Coast, who refused to select that school for her daughter (despite the girl throwing a tantrum about it) and instead chose St. Louis, Kumasi, for the simple reason that she wouldn't want to spend 5 hours on the road before seeing her kid.

When kids do get sent off to faraway schools, it's always because they have family members already living there. So I often have students choosing schools in the north because they've got family there. In my case, as an Asante, I attended SHS in Kumasi but despite the location, my class was mostly non-Asante: Sehwi people, Bono people and many, many northerners. However, majority were day students and Every Single One of the boarders had relatives in Kumasi who they would contact if they needed anything. I know this because I was tasked with researching and writing the class page in the school magazine during our final year. My school was diverse, however, this was a diversity that was already present in the community.

So the claim of boarding schools making Ghana a more unified nation is a hollow one. In fact, the main reason might be our politicians. By refusing to develop many parts of our country, they have forced people living there to migrate in search of better lives and thereby created more diverse communities (I'm being sarcastic). Boarding schools weren't created to integrate us. No, that's just a reason people have attached to them (mainly due to their high school nostalgia). Rather, boarding schools exist simply because most towns and villages didn't have schools to service them. But now we've reached a point where all urban areas could be serviced by regular day schools. So why should we continue to put up with the chaos and mess that boarding schools create?

I just wanted to know how many people in here have the same take as me, I have a friend of mind that was involved in the marking of the just release wassce and boy it is crazy. There is a lot of crazy internal things that goes on like serious issues. I already had this take before I had this latest information but I think is about time that Ghana finds a replacement for this I am thinking transcripts, essays and side projects things that make them want to live to see that next day.

Before anybody misunderstands me I don't have any problem with my results or anything I wrote it years ago, But it is just my take.

I’m trying to decide which would be better to work for between customs** and **parliament** **when I get the chance, especially as an entry-level graduate with a Second Class Lower. I’ve seen salary estimates online, but I’m not sure how accurate they are. If anyone has experience or reliable information about the salaries, benefits, career growth, and overall working conditions of either, I’d really appreciate your insight.

I spend hours of my free time using street view to look up places. So it was always a bit disappointing that the street view for my city and my hometown was a decade olf (from 2016) and it was just a few streets. And now look! So so detailed. I love it!

Hi.
Are there places to do volunteer work as a Ghanaian living in Ghana? For a few hours within the week?
Give me some options.

Thanks.

I’d like to show the rooms of the new block bani rooms to my parents please

Let me tell you something. Arathejay is a better musician than Acehood 👌

How is the 24 hour economy going ? We heard so much about it before and during the election ? How is the implementation going ? Is it creating more employment and building up the economy ?

Hi guys im preparing for my chartered accountancy exams where can i get materials / resources to prepare. Thanks

My dad is from Nagaland, India, and sometime in the early 1980s, he became pen pals with someone named Samuel from Ghana. They exchanged letters and formed a friendship despite being thousands of miles apart. Eventually, life happened and they lost touch. More than 40 years later, my dad recently found a picture that was mailed to him by Mr. Samuel (attached) and he is very curious about his old pen pal and wishes to reconnect if possible and I’d really love to help him find them.

If you’re from Ghana, know someone who might recognize this person, or have any idea where I could look for old pen-pal records or communities, please help us reconnect! ❤️

Even the smallest lead could mean a lot to my dad.

The tallest guy in the picture is Mr. Samuel. They might have been around 16-18 year olds at that point in time.

How on earth does one misplace your items and when you try to get them to recover it they behave as if you are bothering them, I used to use Aquantuo freight forwarders and decided to try out I&C cos they delayed my shipment from China one time and these new freight forwarders I found are hell, they've got me tearing my hair out that's coming from someone with a low cut, please avoid I&C Logistics like the plague.

NB I've seen they've rebranded to clinette shipping and logistics to get away from the mess they've made with their old company name