Villa Royale calls Africans in the diaspora to Ghana

By Oral Ofori

Villa Royale Guest house in Ghana

During the last quarter of August 2012, Nana Prempeh was joined by Pastor Kingsley Appiagyei friends and business acquaintances to officially open the Villa Royale located inside the exclusive area of Spintex Road along the coast of Ghana's capital city of Accra. The facility which is designed to be used for the purposes of both business and pleasure is a self catering guest house which aims to give its guests the best in international standard and service in an enabling environment that allows them to pursue their respective businesses with no disturbance or to simply kick back and enjoy the moment of pleasure in a leisurely way.

The pursuit of happiness turns a Ghanaian into an American

By Oral Ofori

Virgil Afortor of the US Navy

Ghanaian born Virgil Afortor was one of the many Africans who filled out forms to participate in the US Diversity Visa Lottery (USDVL) program in 2008 with high hopes of winning. Winning the lottery and gaining permanent legal residency in the USA was not the most important to Virgil, but also making sense of his opportunities so it  has a far reaching benefit not only for himself, but for the family that he has back home in Ghana was of equal importance.

Before taking a chance in the USDVL Virgil completed his high school education in Ghana at the coastal city of Tema in 1997. He went to Chemu Senior High School where he majored in the Sciences. From Chemu he pursued a degree pathway in Information Technology with the IPMC College of Technology affiliated to the mother institution in the United Kingdom and graduated with an International Diploma in Computer Studies.