Mr Boateng, mr antwi, and mr kwame. Those were my best teachers. Mehnn these guys could flogg damn!!! I also remember attah mamiye the beans seller and kojo the reaggae musician. . . Nostalgia. God bless Africa!!!

these days,tears are hard to come to my eyes but however hard I tried,I couldnt resist these ones after reading this article of the Nigeria that was(and never to be).
Why wasnt I born in the 1960s?

Cafenol, green sands shandy, berec, planta, kingsway, UTC, phensic, satis, kings cinema, casino cinema, chicken george, stationery stores (particularly "fire 2" and the great exodus after matches), UAC stadium, odd and even numbers, 199-198-197 (I remember playing an april fool joke on my aunt with these numbers. We got the phone to ring back, told her that it was a phone call that she had been expecting and watched her sprint from the bathroom to answer the call), P&T, FGN, GHQ, SHQ, bhojsons, schweppes golden orange, etc.

Oh my God, what an article, i culd not hold the tears from falling, i remember vividly well these times, and all i can only say is that "GOD PLEASE, IN YOUR MERCY RESTORE BACK TO NIGERIA IS LOST GLORY IN JESUS NAME", Amen. I remember well that i use to pay 30Kobo from Ketu to my school/Fadeyi in does days. I remember my Maths Ghanian teacher, Mr, Osei, oh, if not for him i would not hav written my G2/Common Entrans exam then cos i became ill during exam and he was running up and down to get me drugs and also took me back home, he happen to be the only teacher dat knows my house then, he is such a wonderful teacher dat all the student love so much.

Secondly, you are so wright about Nigerians, but some Ghanians dont see us like dat, and am happy to know dat not all Ghanians see us as criminals or bad people, God bless you.

Very nice. It reminds me of the VW beetul my dad bought for 3,000 in 91' and how he travelled 4rm onitsha to kano state with 50naira and came bk with 30naira after buying things for his family in the 70's/80's. How to go to U.K for just 80-100naira, How his father bought a house for £1.4 in 58', indeed 9ja was better in those days. We pray we would get bk to our lost glories. Just like Rev. Mbaka said, "A day would come when all Nigerians would cherish Nigeria and no one would want to leave Nigeria as they do now buh b4 that time, Nigeria would fall for 3days and rise up back". Remember dat a thousand years is jst like a day in God's eyes nd when his servant speaks of 3 days, only God knows how long. It myt b 3yrz, myt b 30months, myt b 30yrz, e.t.c lets all hope we see that day.

What a thought stimulating article! Weldone OP. Yes some of us are still grateful for the academic foundation given to us by our noble Ghanian teachers. Uncle Alfred and Uncle George easily come to my mind.
Obviously, SW Nigeria had prospered and enjoyed symbiotic relationship with neighbouring countries even before the influx of eastern brethren. lol ;
Africans should all learn to live in peace abeg.

afam4eva:
It was a good article but i noticed that he always replaced "Nigerians" with "Yorubas".

Maybe if you had made Igbo land more habitable, he would have spent more time there and had much to say about Igbos.

@ OP, it would be nice for you to visit after 26 years. You will be very welcome. But note, you won't be as safe as you were in the late 70s.

Now wat d fnck is wrong wif our leaders...instead of dem planning on how 2 bring bck d good old days, dey r 2 busy embezzlin public funds n acquiring private jets.
The most painful part is dt an average Nigerian youth could not careless most dnt even see anything bad in these terrible act.
When wud we get it right?
How wud we get it right

Tony Spike: From all indications, the deterioration of Nigeria started from mid-1980s. I understand that the then Head-of-State, General Babangida, was responsible for flushing out lots of foreigners especially from our academia, industries and hospitality business. As a personal experience, an auditor I know lost more than 15 Indian companies from his pool of clients between 1990 and 1998. It was also He, Babangida, that destroyed this country called Nigeria. I still can't believe he wants to come back to rule after all the economic, political and intellectual abyss he plunged Nigeria into. As for the Ghanaian that wrote this piece, at least you remember Nigeria was good back in those days. Front Page please!!!

Check this out:

http://www.kmjn.org/notes/voting_with_feet.html

Nigeria was 10th in the list of countries with the highest immigration targets in the early 80s.

I Just cldnt hold back my tears. The end is indeed here. Dedicated 2 my Ghanian teacher . Mr Shekere !

Some didn't believe me when I wrote on the PHCN thread that nepa or water works would announce on the radio that there would be a disruption of service and that we would phone nepa when there's an unexpected power outage and cry that we have homework and they'd restore power within 10 minutes

Wey my handkerchief I wan cry. A copy of this article should be forwarded to IBB and his cohorts.

logica: Maybe if you had made Igbo land more habitable, he would have spent more time there and had much to say about Igbos.

Maybe if you used your brain and realised that Yoruba land was preferred due to proximity, you wouldn't appear so obtuse.

I see the great Naptu2 on this thread spreading his goodness and sagacity! Hailings sir... Expecting the able lieutenant Madam Ishilove to grace us with her unalloyed presence.

yuzedo:
Maybe if you used your brain and realised that Yoruba land was preferred due to proximity, you wouldn't appear so obtuse.

Proximity to what, you monkey. The dude that was unhappy about Yoruba being referenced in the article himself dare not respond, na you come dey respond. You better find a hole to enter.

logica:
Check this out:

http://www.kmjn.org/notes/voting_with_feet.html

Nigeria was 10th in the list of countries with the highest immigration targets in the early 80s.

This statistics is very accurate, bro. Would anyone believe that Nigeria was among the top 20 choice immigration destinations in the 70's and 80's? This is an overwhelming evidence that General Ibrahim Babangida actually ruined Nigeria in his cursed regime which lasted for 8 years (1985 - 1993). That man needs to be publicly executed on a stake....

But on a serious note, can we ever get this country back from these crazy and useless leaders?

The statistics is down here. I will start a thread on this, this is very eye-opening!!!

logica: Proximity to what, you monkey. The dude that was unhappy about Yoruba being referenced in the article himself dare not respond, na you come dey respond. You better find a hole to enter.

Park well you dis sp(e)rm-slurper! Since you are so slow, i'll explain once: Proximity from Ghana to Western Nigeria is closer than Ghana to Eastern Nigeria!
The only holes i'll be entering are the orifices your fat girlfriend forgets to wash. Proper sanitation will precede my excursion, of course.
Dare to respond? You are surely deluded young man! Oh wait, you must be Conan the destroyer, The Balogun 1 of your cocoa-selling tribe!
... My friend don't piss me off this afternoon abeg.

Cannibal, well done.

yuzedo:

Park well you dis sp(e)rm-slurper! Since you are so slow, i'll explain once: Proximity from Ghana to Western Nigeria is closer than Ghana to Eastern Nigeria!
The only holes i'll be entering are the orifices your fat girlfriend forgets to wash. Proper sanitation will precede my excursion, of course.
Dare to respond? You are surely deluded young man! Oh wait, you must be Conan the destroyer, The Balogun 1 of your cocoa-selling tribe!
... My friend don't piss me off this afternoon abeg.

My best teachers in the primary school were Ghanaians. Mr Samuel, Mr Asiedu, Mr James. Oh, memories, that was early to mid nineties in Kwara state.

I remember back then at st bernedettes nur/pry school ibara ,Abeokuta, most of our teachers were Ghanians and they thought us some really good accents in pronounciations ,even our headmaster Mr Appiaha was a ghanian and there was so much peace,days when 1naira was in note form and 10kobo was 20naira of today......nice memories

yuzedo:

Park well you dis sp(e)rm-slurper! Since you are so slow, i'll explain once: Proximity from Ghana to Western Nigeria is closer than Ghana to Eastern Nigeria!
The only holes i'll be entering are the orifices your fat girlfriend forgets to wash. Proper sanitation will precede my excursion, of course.
Dare to respond? You are surely deluded young man! Oh wait, you must be Conan the destroyer, The Balogun 1 of your cocoa-selling tribe!
... My friend don't piss me off this afternoon abeg.

Sango strike your entire lineage dead. So the extra 8 hours to Eastern Nigeria is too much if it was worth it? You think Ghanaians would not have taken an extra 8 hour journey to the East if it was WORTH IT? Try again, monkey. Oh, maybe it's the same proximity that explains the mass exodus out of the East.

@logica and yuzedo et al
u guys shouldstop derailing this thread. Pls stop this exchange of words.

I did not realize that this country was once so sweet.

Hopefully those great years (70s and early 80s) will one day return.

Those Ghanaian teachers sabi mathematics die!

Shout out to Mr Ayedzi and Mr Mensah. You're the reason why I aced Mathematics all through my secondary school years. You guys laid a great foundation for me in primary school and its a pity I didn't train to be an engineer in the university. One love.

Thank you for this heart warming account of our Nigeria,the Nigeria of Awolowo . I have heard the stories from my parent and i felt a abit of it growing up. My brothers couldn't stop showing their mates our passports indicating family holidays and visits to England (it was a big thing then ojare )I have close Ghanians friends and they tell me about their Nigerian stories and of friends and families but yours is more fascinating and well laid out.
I have been taunted with Omo alata,agege boi,Anogo pele pele o, , and i have always retorted ;it is not anogo its yoruba, anyways, "ese bondenche" (my favourite Ghanian word meaning-its up to you).You should add Orlando Owoh to the playlists cos i have a Ghanaian mate who has never been to Nigeria sing "Yellow sisi" by Orlando which he learnt from returnees.



We can still take our country back from these middle-aged, hedonistic fools who shamelessly stood all night fawning and virtually slobbering over president Obama and the American electoral system while the one committed to their hands is nearing it shocking demise . awon Oni ise ina kete !

handmaid: @logica and yuzedo et al
u guys shouldstop derailing this thread. Pls stop this exchange of words.

Sorry about "derailing" the thread, but I would be glad if he can explain why Igbos don't stop at Benin City on the trail to the West. Or is proximity not the factor? *Hiss* Make your home comfortable, and you will receive visitors.

logica: Sorry about "derailing" the thread, but I would be glad if he can explain why Igbos don't stop at Benin City on the trail to the West. Or is proximity not the factor? *Hiss* Make your home comfortable, and you will receive visitors.

This particular Nigerian gave an account of his stay in Nigeria. There were also Ghanians all over the country but Lagos will always have a huge chunk of them and Lagos is the closest Nigerian state to Ghana. While i was in Port-hacourt there were loads of Ghanians teachers.

afam4eva:
This particular Nigerian gave an account of his stay in Nigeria. There were also Ghanians all over the country but Lagos will always have a huge chunk of them and Lagos is the closest Nigerian state to Ghana. While i was in Port-hacourt there were loads of Ghanians teachers.

Can you pretend to be above board, atleast for the sake of this thread please

Jarus: My best teachers in the primary school were Ghanaians. Mr Samuel, Mr Asiedu, Mr James. Oh, memories, that was early to mid nineties in Kwara state.

ditto

the teacher who really unlocked my potential was a Mr Adams

Even though Ghanaians could be found in every state, most of them were in the Yoruba speaking states which are geographically nearest to Ghana. The Yoruba are the single largest of Nigeria’s more than 250 ethnic groups. There are far more Yoruba than there are Ghanaians of all tribes worldwide! Most of the Nigerians who lived among us in Ghana before the Aliens Compliance Order (ACO) were Yoruba. They were the ones we called “Alatafuo” or “Anago” and when we went to them, they also called us “omo Ghana” (no offence meant, none was taken either). So the Ghanaian connection with the Yoruba, in particular, is a long one. Some versions of Ewe history even trace the origins of the Ewe to a place called Ketu in Yorubaland. In the early 80s, in places like Ogbomosho, Ejigbo, Osogbo, Ilesha, one could still meet those Yoruba who had lived in Ghana before ACO and who still spoke fluent Twi, Fante, Ewe or Ga. They were proud to display their knowledge of these languages, having quite left the bitterness of the “munko munko” (ACO) behind them.

In my hometown of Ogbomoso almost every family had someone who had lived in Ghana

logica: Sango strike your entire lineage dead. So the extra 8 hours to Eastern Nigeria is too much if it was worth it? You think Ghanaians would not have taken an extra 8 hour journey to the East if it was WORTH IT? Try again, monkey. Oh, maybe it's the same proximity that explains the mass exodus out of the East.

Kai! Owokowo! O buru sa!!

Painful story - I can't read this...