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Massive renovations at Kotoka International Airport this year

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  • K ASANTE 10 years ago

    Did I read right? " runaway....."

  • Liddie 10 years ago

    Why waste money to renovate this mediocre airport? Why not build a new modern one?

  • DE NAPOLI 10 years ago

    WE NEED NEW AIRPORT AND A MODERN RAILWAY SYSTEM LINKING IT TO ACCRA AND THE MAJOR CITIES.WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE LEADERS WITH FORESIGHT?

  • 9ice! Hmmmm 10 years ago

    Massive renovations at Kotoka International Airport this year...

    By Chinese company again!

    Hmmmm!i hoping is not another chop chop pot!

  • iKnowWhatUdidLastSummer 10 years ago

    I hope they finally change that dirty, tattered, disgraceful baggage conveyor at the arrivals baggage reclaim

  • ADJEI 10 years ago

    Instead of making all these promises, just fix the air conditioners and keep the KOTOKA sign lit. It now reads OTOKA because the light on the K is burned!

  • dr edusei 10 years ago

    you want leaders with brains and ideas. they are called npp. fools

  • CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

    Akwaaba does not really mean WELCOME for any Ghanaian. It is only a snorty way of asking someone "Oh so you've gone and come"? and be sure if you did not bring them anything you ain't welcome.

    ATUU or AWAAWAA ATUU simply i ...
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  • Angel 10 years ago

    Propaganda at best. Just like all other projects that either became 'dead on arrival' or was never completed & left abandon, don't believe this fairytale story.

  • Lil k 10 years ago

    Propaganda indeed! Where's the money for this so called renovation?

  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    He said nothing and nothing to be believed.The airport as it stands now is national shame and the company should look for equity partners to revamp it.They cant go on making outlandish statesments about impending work when th ...
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  • AKONOBA 10 years ago

    Mahama=sada=gyeda=suba=rlg=zoomlion. NDC has been in power for 5YEARS and still are clueless. They inherited Kuffour's policies=NHIS=SCHOOL FEEDING PROG=LEAP=METRO MASS TRANSPORT=NYEP=CAPITATION GRANT=FREE MATERNITY=OIL. What ...
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  • Patriot 10 years ago

    i DON'T KNOW OF A GOVERNMENT WHICH IS CLUELESS AND SHAMEFUL LIKE THIS NDC GOVERNMENT.WHY CAN'T MAHAMA FINISH THE NSAWAM SUHUM ROAD WHICH WAS STARTED BY THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT TO SAFE THE COUNTRY FROM SHAMEFUL GOVERNANCE. THI ...
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  • Yaw k 10 years ago

    So you take kotoka as an international airport?

  • dr edusei 10 years ago

    where is the money. you get money if you have brains like the nap and you make good economic policies. people work and pay taxes. billowing and investors talk like ndc do is just stupid, ghanaian , you wanted change, you got ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Corrupt Dramani Mahama with Bui Dam thief Asiedu-Nketia in Government, they cannot even maintain what we have got, how can a New Airport be built, when we have 7 dwarfs languishing on our cedis rendering it values a hopeless ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Already we are seeing the Cedi strengthen solidly against the dollar since Monday. THANKS BE TO GOD.

    But we can all remember that the ArchBishop prayed for God to give the president and his personnel wisdom to take the rig ...
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  • Me Too 10 years ago

    Another way of "create loot and share". Only two years ago there was major renovation at Kotoka. What did they do then?

  • Boateng 10 years ago

    Renovation should start with renaming the Airport. The Name Kotoka Airport is a shame. Imagine Berlin Airport being named Hitler International Airport.

    Kotoka did not do Ghana anything worth of emulation. Call it som ...
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  • kb 10 years ago

    Boateng is right!

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    Pls Mr. Prez rename this airport-Kwame Nkrumah International.

  • HAWA YAKUBU 10 years ago

    Why Kotoka. He was the worse traitor in Ghana. Rename this airport Kwame Nkrumah International Airport

  • kofI JATA 10 years ago

    I have some back problems and climbing and getting off these stairs are a great pain. Fix it. Long over due.

  • SHOOTER 10 years ago

    They have started with their propaganda already. Who is the consultant? When was the tender for the projected opened? Who won the bid? How much is involved? When exactly ie the time, day, date and month of this year would the ...
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  • Pontius Pilate 10 years ago

    unless and until we expose these lying politicians and government appointees, they will continue to take us for granted.

    this information lacks substance. it doesn't appear to be a well planned project. at best a reaction ...
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  • dr edusei 10 years ago

    ghanaians wanted change. they got change alright. such fools .

  • Alex London 10 years ago

    Shooter, you are right to question how the consultant was appointed. Projects or consulting services are awarded in secrecy because of the corrupt practices. In Europe no member state or a public institution is allowed to awa ...
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  • Asantrofie 10 years ago

    It is very depressing to alight at KIA and see farm tractors unloading bags. Try boarding or getting off a plane in the rain. I have always wondered how someone with a wheel chair will function at the so called Gateway to Afr ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A contractor is working on a roof when a beautiful woman walks by. She smiles at the guy and in a perky voice says, "T.G.I.F!".
    The contractor looks at her and replies, "S.H.I.T.!".
    The blond's smile falters a bit as she di ...
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  • Minnekin Piss 10 years ago

    I like your joke. Please quote the source!

  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    We've heard it all before. Action is better than words. Get on with it!!!!

  • Tijani 10 years ago

    hope they dont convert the place into chop bars and drinking spot

  • HAZOR 10 years ago

    Its time Ghana contractors to tell government enough of all contract to foreigners and the job foreign contractors can do,you folks also can do the job better.Its time you contractor have to fight for your rights as citizens ...
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  • Kwame Angel 10 years ago

    I wonder what Kotoka did to deserve the naming of the country's only airport in his name. Incentive for Jerry Rawlings and the next Jerry Rawlings

  • Mr. Questions 10 years ago

    Where do you find the money ? Plus, how much of the money voted would be stolen by you, the politicians and your friends ? What is in this for you ?

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    You guys are fools papa, why don't you use that money to renovat Kotota to the best standard the fellow to do the same to other Airports as the years come? But you are going to do upgrade of all airports in the country fools

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    Build a damn new modern airport

    Dubai has one of the biggest and modern airports in the world and yet anticipating the future growth of travel, they have almost completed building another massive international airport.
    ...
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  • Minnekin Piss 10 years ago

    Ghanaian decision makers travel around the world apparently blind-folded. What would be achieved by making over this old rusty Kotoka Airport; it is only like dressing an old ailing turkey for an agricultural fair. To be comp ...
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  • Pascalini 10 years ago

    Congratulations at last. This abominable eyesore will be renovated! Please do it but spare the usual corruption that is associated with all NDC projects

  • obtt 10 years ago

    GHANAIAN PRESIDENTS BOTH THE PAST AND PRESENT ARE JUST CALLOUS AND INSENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS/GROWTH OF THE NATION. ALL THE BIG, BIG MONEYS THEY STEAL COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO PRESENT GHANA WITH A VERY MODERN INTERNATIONAL AIRPO ...
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  • obtt 10 years ago

    IN ADDITION, WALKING ON THE TARMAC TO BOARD AIRCRAFTS IS BECOMING SOMETHING OF THE PAST AND OUR LEADERS KNOW THIS BECAUSE THEY TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD. NOT GOING FAR, THIS BECAME A HISTORY AT MURTALA MUHAMMED AIRPORT IN LAG ...
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  • Awudu 10 years ago

    Since Late Dr.Nkrumah build this beautiful airport,passes stateman came only to loot the state coffers.Advise yourself and do something and it is big shame to Ghana.Amen

  • yaa yaa 10 years ago

    the same dwarfs that caused the cedi to depreciate stepped on the roofs to cause the leakage

  • obtt 10 years ago

    AS A MATTER OF FACT MOST NOT ALL, GHANAIAN WOMEN SPEW NONSENSE. THIS IS WHY THEY CANNOT LEAD THE NATION. DE SOSO TALKS RUBBISH AND THIS IS ANOTHER RUBBISH TO READ THIS MORNING.

  • Alex London 10 years ago

    KIA used to have facilities where you can leave your luggages on arrival. This is a basic facility in all international airports. If you arrive Accra and say, you want to go and see a friend in Tema before you go to your Ta ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    We'll like to bring PEACE FM'S attention to the situation that is going on in their sister Radio station at GhanaToday HOLLAND. It has been cleared to the listeners of Ghana Today radio , how the presenter Kofi nyarko was rud ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    ghana has not got airports yet,kotoka is an aeroplane park,it,s only considered to be used as an airport .19 years of rawlings administration of pndc/ndc saw nothing wrong with it except looting and stealing.he lived in the s ...
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  • charles-rotterdam 10 years ago

    so we should vote you to power in 2016? be far it from happening.ghanaians would not make a third mistake bringing this type of government to rule the country.for just the paper work,you can do it and go away.

  • pk 10 years ago

    KIA arrival hall needs a massive facelift. For any visitor to the country, it's the point on contact and to make and indelible impression, should be the most attractive area. I just wonder the departure arena is rather nicer. ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Don't forget water and electricity as you embark on..."upgrade and improve an all infrastructures we have in the country.."
    Just SHOWING OFF and TALKING BIG..NOTHING BEHIND IT!!!!

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  • KWAA 10 years ago

    Because by renovating,they can have more shares.I am sure the amount they will use for this renovation,can build a new Airport.
    I thought Mahama said his Government is going to build a new International Airport in Accra and ...
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  • lovless 10 years ago

    Oh ghana.. no wonder if I even hear morrow that a foreign company gonna take incharge of the airport. Where is the ghana airways even..? The immigration and custom officeers are now going to explode with corruption there.. th ...
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  • TEE 10 years ago

    YHE AIRPORT WAS BUILT TEMPORALLY BY KWAME NKRUMAH AND UP TILL TODAY NO USEFUL PRESIDENT HAS EVER THOUGHT OF BUILDING A NEW ONE OR RENOVATING. MAHAMA IS SO HOPELESS. USELESS AIMLESS VISIONLESS IDEALESS CLUELESS THIEF PRESIDENT ...
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  • TEE 10 years ago

    WITHOUT NKRUMAH JUST IMAGINE HOW GHANA WOULD LOOK LIKE. WELL NORTHERN PART OF GHANA WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN BETTER THAN THE WHOLE GHANA TODAY. NONE OF OUR LEADERS ARE VISIONARY. THEY ARE ALL ORIGINALLY FROM VILLAGES AND NEVER ...
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  • k k 10 years ago

    what happened to the new airport to be constructed at prampram?.

  • k k 10 years ago

    is prampram international airport a hoax?

  • Nii 10 years ago

    How true Mr Asare's word is yet to seen. KIA upgrade is long over due being an international airport.

  • Mohammed Ibrahim 10 years ago

    Ghana Should build a new Airport,Seaport,Railways,and new harbour.