{"id":709212,"date":"2019-09-24T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/ghanaian-pilot-wins-africa-award\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:06:41","slug":"ghanaian-pilot-wins-africa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/ghanaian-pilot-wins-africa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Pilot Wins Africa Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Captain Solomon Quainoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian pilot, Cpt. Solomon Quainoo whose childhood dream was to become a pilot of great repute, got honoured in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday, 23rd September.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony took place at Eko Hotel and Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>From a humble beginning through tough life lessons, he became the first African to fly the world\u2019s biggest passenger plane, Emirate A380 to the newly built terminal 3 of Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This honour of an award in transportation category for \u201cAfrica Travel 100\u201d was picked on his behalf by Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah, a motivational speaker, at the maiden edition of Africa Diaspora Tourism Conference organized by Akwaaba African Travel Markets, a continental positioned organization and a US-based firm called Africa Diaspora Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The award is to recognize Global Tourism personalities of African origin as a way to commemorate 400 years of the Trans-Atlantic slave Trade as well as use the event to broker strong business partnership between Africa and the diaspora through travel and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Over 20 countries made up of the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry in Africa and the diaspora took part in the conference.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Solomon Quainoo Ghanaian pilot, Cpt. Solomon Quainoo whose childhood dream was to become a pilot of great repute, got honoured in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday, 23rd September. The awards ceremony took place at Eko Hotel and Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos. From a humble beginning through tough life lessons, he became the first African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian Pilot Wins Africa Award - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/ghanaian-pilot-wins-africa-award\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghanaian Pilot Wins Africa Award - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Captain Solomon Quainoo Ghanaian pilot, Cpt. 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