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Parliament approves contract for Tamale Int. Airport

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  • Blessed 10 years ago

    I support this project because I believe Ghana deserves a seconds international airport ASAP. But why should expanding the runaway etc cost $100 million? so how much will used to construct the remaining facilities? $1 billion ...
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  • kofi 10 years ago

    100million dollars could build a new airport.Gee l don't know how they come with all this figures.5 million dollars would do to construct the extension from 2438m to 400m of existing runway and rehabilitation of the existing ...
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  • OZA 10 years ago

    You just said you "don't know how they come up with all this figures". That's fine. But can you tell us how you came up with 5million dollars to do the kind of construction you talk about? Just explain it to us, and we will a ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    PLS,REMOVE THAT TRAITOR'S NAME FROM THE ACCRA AIRPORT N NAME IT AFTER NKRUMAH. RENOVATE THE ACCRA AIRPORT OOO TOM!
    BRING IN FOREIGN DIRECTORS,MGRS TO DO THE HIRING N RUN THESE AIRPORTS. IF U PUT THESE LAZY,INDISCIPLINE GH PP ...
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  • prempeh 1. 10 years ago

    Brother, for this I support you 100%, should in case the Meridian Hotel was given to a white man to take in charge, surelly this Hotel must be working still now, but Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah thought the wisdon and the visio ...
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  • ...DEDE 10 years ago

    Healthy people builds healthy nation. first,, look at the hospitals, roads,the gutters in the capital cities, the govt. latrines, where are the lights.Why do you ant to encourage the Al Quedas to get means to the country? H ...
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  • Proudly Pepeni, USA !! 10 years ago

    Every thing about flying is expensive business. $100,000 from what I have read encompasses everything.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    They are not going to build jet fighters. its just rehabilitation and expansion of existing runways. how much does it cost to build first class road from accra to kumasi? The runway is to be upgraded from 2438metres to 4000me ...
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  • WASTE OF MONEY 10 years ago

    NO ONE WILL TRAVEL THERE ANYWAY.NO EVEN THE PEOPLE FROM THE NORTH

  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Complete waste of resource, are they gonna fly cows over there? If demand for a second international airport becomes necessary Tamale is not the right place to build it. One has to factor in, time it will take to travel from ...
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  • Kingsley Onyina 10 years ago

    Ys, how many people travel to Tamale by air???????.
    Instead of upgrading the Kumasi airport to be international, you are putting up this Tamale to become a white elephant. You NDC people do everything on tribal lines. What y ...
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  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    NO Northern president is or are ready yet for prime time, life experience matters, native intelligence counts, so far the accelerated fast track post independent mass education of the less seasoned grafted moron is what is hu ...
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  • Habib 10 years ago

    Charlie open your eyes bro. Look around, the northern have gone beyond what you think. Go to east legon and move across Accra. Tamale is growing, better wake up.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    No white person (christian or atheist) will step foot in north..Unless they are fool with NGO..The airlines will determine wether the airport makes money.. If Lufthansa,Delta,B/A. America say they will be only 1 stop in ghana ...
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  • KANAWU 10 years ago

    IF MONEY IS APPROVED FOR CONTRACTS, WHERE IS THE MONEY FOR THE SOFOLINE EXCHANGE?

  • Proudly Pepeni, USA !! 10 years ago

    It's Interchange! The monies are garnered from different loan sources. One does not equate the other.

  • rab 10 years ago

    If you read it well, there is nothing left out, if what is mentioned is done, then an airport is ready. the other phase is beautification and also major roads construction to tamale township.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    Thats why l am saying,its just another way to steal from POOR GHANA.1,562 METRES OF RUNWAYS COST 100MILLION DOLLARS?ONLY IN GHANA.

  • DAN 10 years ago

    unless Mahama is stealing for this his voters

  • Kwame Shebi 10 years ago

    Hmm this is good project as a nation but do we as Ghana need an international airport in Tamale ? I think we need airports in all the regional capital but when it comes to international standard it should be in Kumasi where b ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    no white man will go there unless oil wells are there..My family in sunyani so i will only use airport in accra or Kumansi

  • KABI MA ME KABI 10 years ago

    kwame,it tells you that our politicians are complete dick heads.Airport at T amale for Hajji purposes not strategic nor commercial...Satisfy 15% of the population religious nonsense at the expense of the most productive and t ...
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  • GIDEON 10 years ago

    The news is good, but let me find out what plans the government has for the upper east region. We do not even have an air strip.

  • mr.osei 10 years ago

    this is purely political.kumasi and tamale which of these two cities need an international first.consider the infrastructure in Kumasi,population of Kumasi(nearly three million)and check from records how many people travel ab ...
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  • Osei Dovlo Saibu 10 years ago

    Rubbish! What a waste of money! Is it for flying cattle out of the north because I do not see any real economic activity there to justify this.

  • SULTAN 10 years ago

    THE END RESULT ...MORE QURAN,MORE USELESS,MALLAMS,ALHAJI"S,MOSQUES,BOKO HARAM, SUB AL QAEDA, AND ALL THE CRAP THAT GOES WITH IT. INSHA ALLAH!

  • me 10 years ago

    Its for flying ASHANTI Gorillas out of the country...idiots!!!! You these ugly pigs have no respect for humans. Most of you talking about the north don't even know a shred about the place. Just compare the personality of Maha ...
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  • mka Ltd 10 years ago

    nice one

  • NANA USED BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    GOOD JOB PREZ MAHAMA! THE BETTER GHANA AGENDA WILL BE REALIZED BY THE END OF PREZ MAHAMA'S SECOND TERM IN 2020.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A man eager to have sex one night in Tamale goes out to a whore house. He says to the Clerk. I need the best room you can get me.
    The Clerk replies I'm sorry were all full for the night. Then man eager begs for anything at a ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    BUILD A HIGHWAY CALLED I-57 FROM THE COASTAL REGIONS ALL THE WAY TO THE NORTH. SO PPL CAN HAVE BETTER ROADS/HIWAYS TO DRIVE ON FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH. CALL THE BRASILIANS, KOREANS, SINGAPORE OR PHILIPPINES FOR ASSISTANCE ...
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  • kwame nsiah 10 years ago

    these motherfuckers will always find means to steal. What benefit are we going to get from renovating a white elephant project in Tamale. How many people travel to tamale in a year ? these stupid people we voted to parliament ...
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  • Danaa 10 years ago

    This is a great job for Ghana. This will give true meaning to Ghana's decentralisation. May the Almighty God see it through.
    This project was started during Nkrumah and has been stalled. Great job!

  • Habib 10 years ago

    This is project is long over due. Kudus to the foresight of Nkrumah. The Ghanaian parliament will surely be remember as one that contributed to the building of a mega city. The Tamale airport project will indeed increase econ ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    just like bank stamps on your bad checks ( no funds in the account)

  • JJK 10 years ago

    Instead of building world standard Airport we are extending and expanding Runways. Go to Dubai Thailand and Singapore and see Airport. Are our Officials not traveling? Invest in the sector at once and stop wasting money on me ...
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