Goldstar Airlines to recruit Ghanaian Cabin Crew

Goldstar Airlines, a Ghanaian airline company will set in motion a recruitment exercise to recruit Ghanaians as cabin crew for its aircrafts.

The company as part of efforts to indigenize its airline operations will engage and rely on Ghanaians to man the aircraft which will touch down in no time.
Towards this end, the airline will roll out a scheme to invite applications from qualified Ghanaians to apply for the position of cabin crew to take care of the passengers on the aircraft in flight.

The objective of the airline is to promote and protect the interests of Ghanaians. In view of this, Goldstar Airlines, will roll out special programs tailored to the needs of the aviation and tourism sectors.

Again the company will deliver promptly on its promise of getting Ghanaians and other nationals to the destinations such as London-Gatwick, Baltimore-Washington and Guangzhou-China and connecting them to some of the West African countries with the view to promoting and building national network.

Goldstar Airlines is committed to working actively to promote national network and unity of purpose as a local host, will open up possibilities to get a feel of Ghanaian right from boarding the aircraft till when it will touch down at the designated destination.

The company’s pride and joy will be to empower and equip the Ghanaian to pursue economic ventures in the aviation and tourism sectors.
In a statement copied to Ghanaweb, the public relations officer, John Ashong-Mettle, indicated that the company will give credence to its mantra of indigenizing its operations.

Owing to this, the company is flying down a cream of experts to train those who will make the grade after the interviewing exercise to put them through their paces to learn the tricks of the trade.

He added that when the airline company gets off the ground it will rely on expatriates as the cockpit crew but will unfold a tailor-made course of study to be undertaken by some Ghanaians who will be sent abroad to train in order to get or have a handle on piloting the Boeing 767 series which Goldstar airlines will be using.

After the training, the trainees will do a period of apprenticeship with the expatriate pilots to get hands-on experience and knowledge in line with the company’s plan of replacing the foreign pilots with Ghanaians.” he stressed.

He also enumerated that the company is ready to respond to persistent call on individuals and corporate bodies to partner government in reducing and eliminating the unemployment canker in the country.

Source: GhanaWeb

Ministry of Employment to create data for persons with disability

Ministry of Employment to create data for persons with disability

The Gender, Children and Social Protection Ministry is putting together a database of persons with disability to enable the ministry facilitate the employment of persons under the group.

Due to their physical disability, such persons are marginalized in society and even the educated amongst them find it difficult to secure decent jobs even though they are qualified for them.

Launching the Ghana Literacy Training Programme for the Deaf in Accra Thursday, Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Della Sowah stressed that “Government takes seriously, issues of disability and it is doing all within its powers to make life comfortable for them”.

She therefore noted, “To this end, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is working hard to ensure more effective appreciation and inclusion of disability issues in national discourse. We believe this will eliminate stigma and enhance effective integration of persons with disability into the society.”

Mrs. Sowah who is also the Member of Parliament for Kpando, in response to an appeal by the Centre for the Employment of Persons with Disability to help in finding jobs for their members, said the ministry is working to ensure that persons with disability earn a decent living.

“In order to enhance the ability of persons with disability to earn a living, 1,155 persons with disability have been identified and registered by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection for various vocational skills training. This year, the ministry will provide timely, reliable and disaggregated data of persons with disability and mainstream their issues in the national planning process.”

The nationwide literacy training is the initiative of the International Network for Deaf Empowerment (INDE) in partnership with the country chapter of the Christian Literacy Associates and Deaf Mission.

The Deputy Minister has described the literacy programme as timely and essential to empower the deaf in the society.

“The complementary efforts by the International Network for Deaf Empowerment (INDE) in partnership with Christian Literacy Associates and Deaf Mission to reduce the rate of illiteracy among the deaf is highly commendable and I wish to congratulate you on this laudable initiative.

“…the importance of this project to improve the literacy rate of people with hearing challenges cannot be overemphasized.”

The ministry will also facilitate the implementation of the Legislative Instrument (LI) on Persons with Disability Act and ensure that all public buildings are accessible by persons with disability by 2016.

Mr. Francis Botchwey, Executive Director of INDE, said the Network’s vision is to create a literate and self-sufficient deaf society in a mutually respectable world.

“We at the Network are highly hopeful this Project will minimize, if not completely eliminate illiteracy among the deaf in Ghana. We believe this will in turn open working avenues for them in both the formal and non-formal sectors as well as giving them the ability to effectively communicate with the hearing.”

Francis Botchwey called on all to support the project: “We would like to take this opportunity to invite Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as religious groups, communities and civil society to actively be part of this programme and nominate personnel for training.”

The Executive Director of Centre for the Employment of Persons with Disability, Mr. Alex Tetteh who commended the INDE for the laudable initiative, also appealled to all to support the project financially and with equipment.

Source:MyJoyOnline

MTN denies tax avoidance accusations

MTN denies tax avoidance accusations

The MTN Group and the MTN Ghana have responded to recent accusations of shipping hundreds of millions of dollars out of poor African countries into tax havens while paying fewer taxes.

Investigations by a group of journalists across Africa revealed MTN Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda in particular, have been shipping part of their revenue before tax regularly to MTN Dubai supposedly to pay for management services and technology transfer.

But the moneys are often further shipped from Dubai to tax haven Mauritius (where MTN does not have a single staff) to avoid tax.

MTN Group and its operations in the respective countries did not deny shipping out moneys from poor countries but rationalized the shipment as legitimate payments for technology transfer and management fees, which were all agreed upon with the appropriate authorities in the respective countries.

In Ghana, the approval was given by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC).

MTN Ghana was said to have shipped GH 758 MILLION, which is almost 10% of its revenue between 2008 and 2013. This was the highest percentage of shipment compared to less than two percent of transfers from MTN Nigeria and four per cent from Uganda.

A Thabo Mbeki committee has described such huge transfers by multinationals out of poor African countries as "illicit" and "unethical".

But the telecoms giant insists all is well and good because they neither broke any regulations/laws nor did they breach any of the legitimate agreements they had with state authorities prior to the transfers.

Here is a full statement on the MTN Group website, plus questions investigators posed to MTN Ghana specifically, and their responses.

MTN Group Response

MTN complies with all regulations and laws, including tax laws, in the countries where we operate, which include South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana.

Regulatory matters in our markets are addressed directly with local authorities when required, and where applicable, duly reported in our Annual Financial Statements, as per our JSE listing requirements.

Owing to the evolving nature of our business operations and compliance frameworks in our markets, MTN continually engages authorities to find mutually agreeable ways to meet our obligations.

Where the relevant authorities may have queries, MTN has always been accessible to engage on such matters. At no point has MTN ever been found to be involved in any scheme that seeks to help the company evade its tax or legal responsibilities in any jurisdiction where we operate.

Question

We understand that Mrs Mawuena Trebarh, the current head of the GIPC was head of government relations at MTN Ghana prior to taking up her new role. Can the company confirm that Mrs Trebarh’s responsibilities included negotiations with GIPC about management fees.

Answer

We assume by management fees you are referring to payments made on the basis of a technology transfer agreement. The Technology Transfer Agreement that was the basis of past payments expired in 2014. The registration process for a new technology transfer agreement commenced after Mrs Terbarh left Scancom in 2011. Hence Mrs Trebarh did not have occasion to negotiate with GIPC about management fees on behalf of Scancom.

Question

As you know management fees from Ghana are paid to MTN Dubai. This is the same as with MTN Nigeria. However, MTN has confirmed to us that management fees paid by MTN Nigeria to Dubai are then sent on to MTN Mauritius.

Could the company confirm whether the same transaction occurs with MTN Ghana. Are the final destination of management fees paid from MTN Ghana Dubai or Mauritius.

Answer

Scancom’s technology transfer agreement is with MTN Dubai. MTN Dubai is responsible for fulfillment of the obligations under that agreement, as well as the rights thereunder. Payments in relation to a technology agreement will always be made to the entity with whom the agreement has been executed and registered with GIPC.

Question

We will be reporting that between 2008 and 2013 the company paid 758 million Ghana Cedis to MTN Dubai. This accounts for an average of 9.64% of MTN Ghana’s revenues over that period. We have confirmed these figures with MTN head office.

Could the company explain why management fees in Ghana are significantly higher than in other MTN companies? Our investigation has found that management fees paid by MTN Uganda are 3% of revenue and in Nigeria they are 1.75% of revenue.

Answer

We cannot comment on what the fees are for other operating companies in other jurisdictions. Fees paid by Scancom were based on what has been agreed between the parties based on the value placed on IP and technology to be transferred, and registered with the GIPC.

Question

It is our understanding that the usual maximum amount of management fees allowed by GIPC is 6% - why does MTN require significantly higher fees to be paid?

Answer

We are not aware of a “usual maximum amount of management fees allowed by GIPC.” Determination of fees between Scancom and MTN Dubai are based on value of IP and technology to be transferred.

Question

We will report that currently MTN’s management fees have been suspended as the company has not been able to reach an agreement with GIPC over the current level of fees.

We have been told that the first proposal from MTN was rejected as it was not compliant with Ghanaian law. Could the company provide a comment on why it has been unable to reach an agreement with the GIPC.

Answer

There is no disagreement with GIPC over the level of fees. Technology transfer payments are made pursuant to a valid agreement. Under Ghanaian law, a technology transfer agreement becomes valid upon registration with GIPC. The technology transfer agreement that was the basis for past payments expired in April 2014. As required by law, we are in the process of registering a new agreement with GIPC.

Issued by MTN Group Corporate Affairs

Source:MyJoyOnline

Nigeria gives MTN two weeks to pay $5.2 billion fine

 Nigeria gives MTN two weeks to pay $5.2 billion fine 

 

Nigeria's telecoms regulator gave MTN Group two weeks to pay a $5.2 billion fine imposed on the mobile phone company for failure to cut off users with unregistered SIM cards, its spokesman said on Friday.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) imposed the penalty on Monday, hitting Africa's biggest mobile phone operator's stock price. Nigeria is MTN's biggest market by subscribers.

Some analysts have said the size of the fine risked damaging Nigeria's efforts to shake off an image as a risky frontier market for international investors.

MTN had said on Monday the NCC imposed the fine for failing to disconnect subscribers with unregistered or incomplete SIM cards, under a directive given to all network operators which the regulator said only MTN had failed to comply with.

NCC spokesman Tony Ojobo said MTN had until Nov. 16 to make the payment, but the two sides were in talks to resolve the matter. "The outcome of the discussion may affect the date. That's why they are having the discussion so that they can reach a solution," Ojobo said.

Nigeria's presidency and internal security agency were also involved in the talks, a regulatory source said.

MTN shares, up 3 percent at 159.03 rand by 0955 GMT in a slightly higher JSE Top-40 index, have slumped about 20 percent since Monday, knocking more than 60 billion rand ($4.4 billion) off the company's market value.

If it stands, the penalty would wipe out more than two years of MTN's annual profits.

MTN also said in a statement it was talking to Johannesburg bourse operator JSE Ltd about the timing of the announcement of the penalty. Its original confirmation of the fine came only after an online report by Nigeria's Leadership newspaper.

Under South African capital markets rules, companies are required to immediately warn shareholders of any materially price-sensitive information.

Source: MyJoyOnline

The 7 Ultimate Secretes To Internet Business

            The 7 Ultimate Secretes To Internet Business.

Proven steps on how to start an online/internet business at home.
In starting an online business, can be something stressful and tiresome and even you might get confused on how to start it.
In today's edition, I am going to talk about some basic steps needed to start or setup an online business.

Before I start, you need to know these listed below questions.

1. What is Internet Business?
2. Who can start an internet business?
3. Who is Netpreneur?
4. What are the basic steps to start an online business?

Beloved, I am there for you and I will make sure I answer the above listed questions before I take my rest and make sure you are also satisfied as well as to start your own internet business from scratch.

Now let's get the above questions answered.

1. What is Internet Business?
In the process of starting up a business is by not an easy task. But if you want to learn how to make money online or for you to know how to start and set-up an internet home based business, then you need to have a good internet business ideas or mentality.
Internet business is a type of life supporting business that are set-up and maintain online with the help of the internet. The beautiful part of this type of business is that, it can be generated on part-time or full time basis.

2. Who can start an internet business?
For internet business, it can be operated by almost everyone be it young or old, teenage, adults or anyone who is able to browse on the internet for information. As it is said, that information is power!

3. Who is Netpreneur?
NetPreneur simply means Internet Entrepreneur. This person gathers all the factors online and combines it to make something in the form of electronic products or services that can best solve people's problem and so people them their goods or service online.

4. What are the basic steps to start an online business?
In starting an online business even though it is easy and fast, but I bet you there is no way you can succeed without knowing the steps needed to launch it.
So, I will be discovering to you 7 secrete you need before you make an attempt to setup internet business.
Knowing these awesome secrete will help you know the ins and outs of internet business.
When I started Internet business, I came across so many failures since 2012 till now that I found some useful secretes and some ebooks and videos to guide me on developing the right internet business mentality and now, I know the sort of online business that can help me and may one day I will publish some online for you to also start doing it.

In starting an online business, there a probability that you may fail even with the second time and that can discourage you from building an online business empire and that's why I need to share these secretes to you in other to avoid failure in launching an internet business.

Here are the secretes you must know:

1. Passion
2. How to operate a computer
3. Technology/Internet terminologies
4. How to launch web browser, how to use the internet
5. How to search for quality information
6. Knowing how to check e-mails:
7. Knowing the opportunities that are available online

These are the basics need for one to start an online business empire for a life time income generation.
I hope to bring you more as this blog is dedicated to provide you with quality information that can't be found anywhere.

5 Easiest Ways To Make Money Online

Awesome and easy businesses you can do to make money online. 

As someone who found it difficult to make it for living, I always try to search for the easy ways to make money until I stumble upon how to start an internet business. So today, I will be sharing with with you the easy types of online businesses you can do right at home.

With these businesses the beautiful part of it is that,in the beginning you start with more effort and once you start then that's all because it will continue to generate money for you even while you are asleep.

I know you may get confused that;
Is there a business online I can do in other to succeed ?
Are there opportunities online ?
Can I get paid simple as working online?
If you are brainstorming these questions in your mind then, what I may tell you is that;
    Yes, believe it or not there are businesses online in which you can do to make money and also get paid on daily basis, weekly or monthly.
But the problem is only to know how to do it then you are done.
    So, will it be information marketing, affiliate marketing, freelancing, online surveys, blogging, web designing and consulting ?
Haaha! The answer to these questions will be amazing and shocking to you by the time you read so that's why you need to continue reading. Why?
Because it is said that, a reading nation is a winning nation. So keep reading!
Now let me start by saying, you can start internet business easily without huge capital or any risks associated with it and it is proven and life supporting business.
One thing I will like to tell you before is to bare in mind that in online business, there is no way you can start without capital just that the capital is less. Believe it or not, it is true and most gurus will not tell you this because what they will tell you is that you need no capital to start internet home based business. It's never true.
=> How about the internet connection fee or internet cafe fee?
=> Time, efforts, energy being used? Are they all not a cost?

So now, what are the easy businesses you can do online to make money?
1. Blog for pay:
The best way to start making money online is to start blogging.
A blog (weblog or web log) is a website which consist of entries also known as posts appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first which is similar in format to a daily journal. Blogs typically include features such as comments and links to increase user interactivity. It’s not like writing for a book, or publication, a newspaper or magazine but blogging is prevalent on the Web because we love sharing, reading and hearing about new experiences. And unlike freelance writing, you don’t answer to a client’s demand or write to adhere to a blog’s direction or scope.
Still, it feels good to be paid to write articles, and you don’t have to manage a blog to actually make money out of your writing.
Blogging for instance, even though it requires less time and effort but you need to start with much efforts at the beginning.
Things you need to know before you blog.

• Gmail Account
• Platform
• Niche(Subject)
• Passion, Time and Efforts
• S.E.O
• Traffic 

For those of you who want to start blogging as well as to make money as a blogger, you can contact me and get some tutorials which will help you create a blog like the Simon Atigah Blog.
 
2. Affiliate Marketing:
From Wikipedia, it states that; Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. The industry popularly has four main agents: the merchant (also known as 'retailer' or 'brand'), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as 'the affiliate'), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity, resulting in the emergence of a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third party vendors.
You can Google around to check on how to start affiliate marketing and make money online.
 
3. Internet Auction:
An online auction is an auction which is held over the internet. Online auctions come in many different formats, but most popularly they are ascending English auctions, descending Dutch auctions, first-price sealed-bid, Vickrey auctions, or sometimes even a combination of multiple auctions, taking elements of one and forging them with another. The scope and reach of these auctions have been propelled by the Internet to a level beyond what the initial purveyors had anticipated. This is mainly because online auctions break down and remove the physical limitations of traditional auctions such as geography, presence, time, space, and a small target audience.This influx in reachability has also made it easier to commit unlawful actions within an auction. In 2002, online auctions were projected to account for 30% of all online e-commerce due to the rapid expansion of the popularity of the form of electronic commerce.
 
4. Selling your own product:
Information marketing is nothing new. Magazines use information in the form of articles to sell advertising. Web sites use information of all kinds—how-to's, checklists, directories, statistics, and so on—to attract readers. But information marketing is not often used in conventional, print marketing pieces such as brochures, fliers, and direct mail.
This presents a significant opportunity. Whether you create a stand-alone piece or add an information component to your existing materials—offering helpful information and organizational tools along side your sales pitch can help cement current relationships and attract new prospects.
For example...
The example shows how a bookkeeping service might use a 7 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch postcard-weight layout to share a checklist. The list defines the records a typical small business is expected to keep on file for tax purposes. It is a simple device that provides valuable information to the bookkeeper's best prospects—startup businesses.
To start an information marketing, you can get the copy of The Science Of Making Money In The Thin Air.
An e-book that guides you throughout all the needs to start an information marketing business.

5. Sell your service online:
A 'freelancer' or 'freelance worker" is a term commonly used for a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and labor contributed by its regular employees. Others are completely independent. While "independent contractor" would be the term used in a higher register of English, freelancing is common in culture and creative industries and this term specifically motions to participation therein.
Fields where freelancing is predominant include: music, journalism, publishing, screenwriting, filmmaking, acting, photojournalism, cosmetics, fragrances, editing, photography, event planning, event management, copy editing, proofreading, author editing, indexing, copywriting, computer programming, web design, graphic design, website development, consulting, tour guiding, video editing, video production, translating, illustrating and micro jobs.

KEEP NOTE: The 5 Easy Ways To Make Money Online, is to start;
==> A Blog
==> Affiliate Marketing
==> Internet Auction
==> Selling you own product
==> Sell your service online
    Guys, I hope this article helps kindly share with your friends but before make sure to subscribe to my blog to receive latest posts delivered to your inbox to be inspired and updated on making money online.
Thanks for reading.

MAKE MONEY UPLOADING OR PROMOTING iREPORTERS TV VIDEOS ONLINE

How To Make Money Promoting or Publishing iReporters TV Videos Online.

 A report on how to make money publishing and promoting  videos on iReporters Tv online and make money directly to your bank account continuously.
Beloved, do you know that you can make money online just by publishing or promoting videos and make money easily ?
I know your answer to this is, NO!
And do you want to start right now just by publishing or uploading videos online so that when someone view and watch your video, you get paid? If your answer to this question is YES, then this is the time to start by taking your time to read through this article. Many claim that they are into internet business but ask what do they do? This is the type of business they work on making money even when they are asleep aside from blogging. And since you you are here you are soo lucky that, I will reveal everything to you worth over $100 for free to help you start your online money making venture.
But before I do that, I have some 3 big questions to ask below:

1. What is iReporters Tv and when it exists?
2. Who is the founder ?
3. How do they make money to pay you? 

Hahaaa! Here are the answers to these questions.

1. What is iReporters Tv? 
   iReportersTv is an internet TV site targeted at the Nigerian and African audience. On iReportersTv, you can watch movies, music, and TV shows as well as lots of interesting and informative. You can also share your videos and make money when other users watch them.
   
    

  2. Who is the founder? iReporters Tv was founded by a nigerian called
 Mr. Henry O

3.  How do they make money?
iRepoprters Tv make money each time some drives traffic to their site to view and watch videos.
Now, it's time to begin with with the journey.
How do you join this awesome program and start raking some amount of cash monthly to your bank account?
For iReporters Tv, you earn each or whenever someone click on the link given to you by iReporters Tv and watch video there. Which means you can only make money when you drive traffic to the link page given to you.
Here is how,  to start the program.

1. Visit ireporterstv.co
2. Click partner with us/join
3. Choose whether to promote or produce and click sign up
4. State the ways you will promote the videos. 

This is either on blog, facebook, twitter etc. Then fill the forms given to you and when you are done, you will see a message that allow somedays to get approve. This may take somedays before you get approved to this program.

Promotional guide: How do you promote it after approval?
Here is the most importance place because business without customers may not make profit.
So you can promote this through:

1.  Facebook. By promoting you link on your facebook account can be easy and lucrative for more traffic to your link page. You can do this by sharing the link on you facebook status so that all you friends may see it, click and watch you make money.
2. Twitter: You can also promote you link on twitter by sharing in on your status.
3.  What's Upp: This is another social media with over millions of users so it guarantees you can get more traffic.
4.  Linked In: Another social media platform with over thousands of users worldwide which very essential for promoting your business so which means you get paid per clicks to watch the video promoted by you.

 Note:  1. Visit ireporterstv.co
                   2. Click partner with us to register
                   3. Wait for approval and after approval get the link to promote.

Guys at this Junction Time I will be taking my rest here and I will be given you some awesome tutorials concerning making money with iReporters Tv Online.

I hope this article helps, kindly share with your friends but before you need to subscribe to our blog to receive daily updates on money making online, see you next time.