Richie 🇬🇭

Mathematics Educator || Research Enthusiast || Staunch Catholic || Music Enthusiast || @chelseafc forever

[Khanya Thembane @noksy_k]

Dear African academics,

cite 👏🏿 each 👏🏿 other’s 👏🏿 work. 👏🏿

Context matters. Representation matters. Citation matters.

Let’s build African scholarship by making African scholarship visible. 🌍📚

[Ademola @Demo4show]

Sample Statement of Purpose for US PhD Application
https://t.co/0uraP8GUuJ

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@oguntuyakitimi Congratulations 🎊 👏 scholar

[Timilehin Oguntuyaki @oguntuyakitimi]

Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis, and I’ve still not gotten over the good feelings.

You can now call me Dr. Timilehin Oguntuyaki. Glory to God!!!

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@MAdjubi54208 On this journey with you

[Adjubi Kete 🫧🌝 @MAdjubi54208]

Applying for Fall 2027 funding like my entire future depends on it, because it does. 😭

Rejection emails? Seen them. Sleepless nights? Living them. But giving up? Never met her. 💪🏾

Let's get this scholarship, bestie. 🎓✨

#ScholarshipJourney #Fall2027 #StudyAbroad #FullyFunded #ScholarshipHunter #FundingOpportunities

[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

Mary, Mother of the Holy Family, intercede for married couples who are struggling. Heal wounds, restore communication, and renew the love that brought them together. Help them forgive one another and remember the grace of the sacrament they have received. Amen.

[Yeboah Agyekum Francis @AgyekumYeboah]

The Yeboah Agyekum Francis Journey (part2)

[Theo Acheampong, PhD @mytheoz]

𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗥𝗔-𝗞𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗜 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟯𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗝𝗢𝗕𝗦?
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1. The short answer is yes, and if anything, the figure is conservative. Let me show the math using a standard employment-content calculation.

2. First, some fundamentals. Infrastructure jobs are measured in job-years: one full-time position for 12 months. A labourer engaged for 6 months counts as half a job-year. This is how the ILO, the World Bank and every serious infrastructure agency counts construction employment.

3. Second, the DIRECT JOBS. Roughly a tenth of an expressway budget goes to on-site labour: labourers, plant operators, artisans, engineers and supervisors. For a project of this size, that is in the region of US$400 to 500 million [based on comparable projects]. Divide by the blended cost of employing one person for a year, including accommodation, transport and safety kit (about US$10,000), and you get roughly 38,000 to 48,000 direct job-years during construction. I use the lower figure of 38,000 below.

4. Third, the INDIRECT JOBS. Every truckload of aggregate from a quarry, every bag of cement, every haulage contract and every caterer is a job created by project spending. Domestic purchases of even US$1.2 to 1.5 billion support roughly 12,000 to 14,000 further job-years in QUARRYING, CEMENT, HAULAGE AND SERVICES, once the suppliers' own suppliers are counted. Note: this excludes imported bitumen, steel and equipment, which create no Ghanaian jobs beyond port handling.

5. That gives a combined figure of about 50,000 job-years, within a plausible range of 38,000 to 70,000 depending on labour share, wage levels and import content. Averaged over a 30-month build, that is about 20,000 people employed at any one time, and because road labour turns over quickly, well over 50,000 individuals will likely earn a wage from the project before it opens.

6. So 30,000 is not an exaggeration: it is the floor [a conservative estimate].

7. The lasting employment effect will come from the logistics hubs, industrial parks and market access the corridor enables, and that is a separate calculation. Also, the indirect number depends heavily on how much is sourced locally. By my estimate, every ten percentage points of project spending shifted from imports to Ghanaian suppliers adds roughly 4,000 job-years.

8. From a policy angle, we are working on local labour and sourcing requirements in the construction contracts, apprenticeship places linked to our TVET institutions, and payroll-verified reporting of at least the direct jobs figures for auditing purposes.

𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀
· Owoo, N. and Lambon-Quayefio, M. P. (2018) The Role of the Construction Sector in Ghana. WIDER Working Paper 2018/119. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. https://t.co/KMtHunvCAc

· Calderon, C. and Serven, L. (2010) Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of African Economies, 19(S1), pp. i13 to i87. Open-access version: https://t.co/cFStMYTkL0

· Ghana Statistical Service, ISSER and IFPRI (2023) 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Ghana: A Nexus Project SAM. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://t.co/aaQl1LZ3Sv

· Ianchovichina, E., Estache, A., Foucart, R., Garsous, G. and Yepes, T. (2013) Job Creation through Infrastructure Investment in the Middle East and North Africa. World Development, 45, pp. 209-222: https://t.co/F0K6CPA8hf

· International Labour Organisation, Employment-Intensive Investment Programme. Employment Impact Assessments of Infrastructure Investment. Geneva: ILO, Development and Investment Branch. https://t.co/yFQwbHhqoG

· Schwartz, J., Andres, L. and Dragoiu, G. (2009) Crisis in Latin America: Infrastructure Investment, Employment and the Expectations of Stimulus. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5009. https://t.co/3JK8L3trKY

#AccraKumasiExpressway #BigPush #Ghana #Infrastructure #Jobs

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@Oluwanonso_Esq Fantastic, schalar

[Kobe Boujee @Kobe_boujee]

23yr old Ghanaian who went from being rejected by Neuralink to building the world’s first beaded technology “MAKOMA” bracelet

[THE MANUEL LIFE☝️🇬🇭🇨🇳🇭🇰 @Manuel_LiFe67]

If you know anyone willing to study in China fall 2027 for Master’s or PhD, tell him or her to apply to these schools now because they have enough funding options.

I have attached their official websites so you can read more.

1. Yenching Academy of Peking University - https://t.co/8Lsm8Njkak

2. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) - https://t.co/v4QwPsfviF
( Doctor of Education (EdD) has a lot of funding)

3. Peking University - https://t.co/3AgJ7Ok1bc

4. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - https://t.co/2k6gjMBjpQ

[Kefas Gyurison @Kefasgyurison]

Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Geodesy, Geography, Agriculture, Forestry, or spatial related technologies?

You can apply for the Master’s in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany 🇩🇪

DAAD Scholarship deadline: October 15, 2026

If you’re eligible, don’t miss this opportunity.

Link: https://t.co/W3aJeGuiBJ

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@BukkyOA Fully funded scholarship

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

How I slept knowing Catholicism is true

[Endee @iamendee]

BSc — Statistics 🇳🇬
MSc — Statistics 🇺🇸
PhD — Educational Statistics 🇺🇸

💼 Psychometrician/Survey Statistician, Adjunct Professor, and U.S. Air Force Reservist.

How about you?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

“Happy Birthday Mary, Queen of Victories!” - President Donald J. Trump

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@Marie_Onma Thank you, I'll try it out

[Namibian Opportunities 💡🇳🇦🌍ℹ️📲 @namibian_opp]

🚨 FULLY FUNDED MASTER’S IN SCOTLAND 🇬🇧🎓

The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Edinburgh is open for the 2027/28 academic year, supporting eligible African students in pursuing selected postgraduate programmes on campus or online.

Benefits
• Full tuition and eligible study costs
• Living-cost support
• Support related to studying in the UK
• Academic and leadership development

Eligibility

Applicants must:
• Be a citizen and resident of an African country
• Be 35 or younger
• Have faced significant barriers to education or career opportunities
• Demonstrate leadership and community service
• Show interest in addressing the climate crisis
• Not already hold a postgraduate degree (Master’s applicants)

⚠️ IMPORTANT: You cannot apply directly. You must first attend a mandatory virtual information session from 15–24 September 2026. Eligible attendees will then be invited to apply.

Register to attend the session here

📅 Key Dates
• Information sessions: 15–24 September 2026
• Applicant Declaration: 19 October 2026
• Application deadline: 19 November 2026
🔗 Official information: https://t.co/fFe5adzL45

[Richie 🇬🇭 @only1richy]

@BScondi My Marian prayer after praying the rosary.
Don't forget the Catena prayer too