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Miss Malaika Ghana 2024: Queen to Drive Away in new JAC JS2 Vehicle
The excitement is building for the Miss Malaika Ghana 2024 finale, scheduled for Saturday, November 16, 2024.
This year, the prestigious pageant has teamed up with Tryton Motors Ltd. sole distributor of JAC vehicles in Ghana, a partnership that promises to elevate the competition and reward its queen with a brand-new JAC vehicle.
JAC Motors, known for its diverse range of products, including trucks, SUVs, commercial vehicles, passenger cars, and specialised vehicles has established itself as a significant player in the automotive industry globally.
The company’s commitment to quality and innovation aligns perfectly with the values of the Miss Malaika Ghana brand, which has been a beacon of empowerment and trust for over two decades.
According to Christopher Attipoe, the Marketing Manager of Tryton Motors Ltd, ‘We are pleased to partner with Charterhouse for Miss Malaika 2024, a platform that empowers young women and celebrates their unique talents and resilience.
At Tryton Motors Ltd., we believe in recognizing and supporting excellence, and we’re excited to award the ultimate winner with a JAC JS2, a vehicle that embodies both style and reliability.”
We look forward to a successful collaboration and an inspiring journey.”
Robert Klah, Head of Public Events & Communication at Charterhouse, expressed enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “The Miss Malaika Ghana brand is a trusted brand, delivering on its promise over the past two decades. This has been possible because of mutually beneficial partnerships like this. We are happy to travel this partnership path with JAC Motors for the year 2024 and looking forward to many more years together.”
As the competition narrows down to just 12 delegates out of the initial 20, the stakes are high. Only 10 contestants will earn their spots in the grand finale, making it crucial for fans to vote for their favourites to secure their places and avoid elimination.
The Miss Malaika Ghana 2024 finale, to be held at the Palms Convention Center in La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, promises to be a spectacular event celebrating beauty, intelligence, and the spirit of Ghanaian culture.
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Craze for x’mas shopping: Crowded markets, low patronage
Vendors of food and other wares associated with the Christmas celebration have expressed surprise at the low patronage despite the increased number of visitors to some of the major markets across the capital.
Four days to the celebration(Christmas), the markets are filled with various products ranging from food, clothing, livestock and many other stuff, but according to the vendors, patrons are doing more ‘window’ shopping.
The Spectator on visits to some of the markets in the capital, notably the Odawna, Makola, Accra Central Business District, New Town and others made similar observations as shoppers crowd them but did little in terms of purchases.
The paper also observed that majority of vendors, originally selling other wares have switched to product related to the festive season.
What it means is that there are a lot more clothes, food and vegetables, livestock and poultry, toys, firecrackers, drinks of different types and many others on display.
The markets have also stretched to the pedestrian pavement, leaving very narrow spaces for commuters to move about freely.
That, in addition to a few of the female vendors dressed in coloured attires to reflect the occasion, has heightened the euphoria, leaving the low sales as the only headache for the vendors.
Speaking with this paper, they sounded very optimistic, believing that sales would improve in the last few days to the yuletide.
According to them, there was the opportunity to sell beyond Christmas as the New Year celebration offers similar opportunity to trade the same wares.
They urged patrons to throng the markets to shop since prices were quite moderate and products affordable for all.
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Retirement service for Elder John Ackom-Asante,3 others
Retired Deputy Editor of The Spectator, Elder John Ackom-Asante, was last Sunday honoured by the Church of Pentecost Windy Hills District in Kasoa in the Central Region, with a retirement thanksgiving service, after serving for 26 year as an Elder of the church.
He was honoured with a citation and certificate of service along with three other elders who served in the capacity for various years.
Elder Ackom-Asante was baptised at the Darkuman Central Assembly in 1979 and ordained as an Elder in 1997.
The citation read “Your selfless service, zeal, willingness to relate wholeheartedly and your desire to effect change has gone a long way to shape the lives of many people in the church and the nation over the 26 years of your dedication to the service of the Lord.”
Elder Ackom- Asante held many positions at the Darkuman Central Assembly, Obuasi in the Ashanti Region and Tema, serving in various capacities as youth and evangelism ministry leader and marriage counsellor.
He was the founding member of the Darkuman Christian Fellowship, a member of the Greater Accra Christian Fellowship; member of Bible Society of Ghana; founding member Obuasi Chapter Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International and founding member of New Times Corporation Christian Fellowship and Chaplain, Methodist University Tema Campus 2009- 2010.
As a professional journalist, Elder Ackom-Asante combined effectively and efficiently his duty as a member and elder of the church and the demands of his profession, with admiration from the church, kith and kin, till his retirement on December
From Alhaji Salifu Abdul-Rahaman, Kasoa
