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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:24pm On Oct 06, 2014
chei, some apes go pkeme oooh roforoforofo grin grin grin grin grin

Delayed Ghana gas project to start production end-2014 -president
Tue Sep 2, 2014 7:10pm GMT

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By Kwasi Kpodo

ATUABO, Ghana, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Ghana's delayed project to supply gas from its offshore Jubilee oil field will start production by the end of the year, President John Mahama said on Tuesday on a visit to the site.

The $850 million project was supposed to have opened in December but stalled largely because of difficulties securing the disbursement of $600 million from the Chinese Development Bank, part of a $3 billion loan agreement signed in 2011.

As a result, Mahama's government has struggled to tackle the country's energy supply deficit and has spent more money than its budget projections on oil imports. This in turn has worsened a fiscal deficit.

Mahama said during an inspection of the terminal at Atuabo the project will be a "gamechanger" for the economy and save $1.5 billion per year in foreign exchange and other costs.

"Some gas will start flowing soon but commissioning will be when the full volume of 120 million standard cubic feet of gas is being transmitted to Aboadze and I suppose that will be sometime by the end of this year," he told reporters.

The Western Corridor Gas Infrastructure Development Project

includes a 111-km pipeline in Western Region that will take gas via Atuabo to thermal turbines at Aboadze run by the Volta River Authority that will generate 500 megawatts of power.

Delays in its completion is one reason why production at the Jubilee field has held steady at a lower level than the government initially expected.

Tullow Oil said in June the government had granted it permission to increase the amount of gas it flares from Jubilee, a decision that will help the company meet its 2014 gross production target of 100,000 barrels per day.

Ghana's economy has grown strongly in recent years on the back of exports of gold, cocoa and oil but it faces an array of fiscal problems including inflation and a falling currency and, as a result, the government needs to conserve foreign exchange.

Finance Minister Seth Terkper is in Europe this week ahead of the country's third Eurobond, Mahama said, adding that he hoped the country would get a good rate.

Ghana decided in August to open talks with the International Monetary Fund on an assistance package in a bid to resolve its fiscal difficulties. (Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Tom Heneghan)
Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Nobody: 7:27pm On Oct 06, 2014
[size=15pt]Ghana: Cut in gas supplies from Nigeria triggers another power crisis in Ghana[/size]

The decision of the Nigerian-based West African Gas Pipeline to halt gas supplies to Ghana is causing another huge power crisis in Ghana, with industries and businesses expected to be the worst affected.

Gas supplies from Nigeria were restored only recently after an eight-month break, caused by the destruction of gas pipelines in Togo by a ship.

Now, the cause of the break in supplies is not a destruction of the pipelines but labour unrest, the state-owned Graphic newspaper reported on Wednesday.

“The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon (Tuesday). We are working out emergency measures to forestall adverse effects on individuals and industry,” the newspaper quoted sources at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum as saying in Accra.

http://www.africanmanager.com/site_eng/detail_article.php?art_id=22538

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:29pm On Oct 06, 2014
OMG grin a nation of 160 million foooooooooooooooooooooooooooools grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Nigeria: A Nation of 160million Fools grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

By Dan Amor , 081 5180 8817 (sms only pls) danamor67@yahoo.com

When the Union Jack (the British flag) was, at the glittering mews of the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos on October 1, 1960, lowered for a free Nigeria’s green-white-green flag, gloriously fluttered in the sky by the breezy flurry of pride and ecstasy, it was a great moment pregnant with hope and expectation. The whole world had seen a newly independent Nigeria, a potential world power, only buried in the sands of time. Endowed with immense wealth, a dynamic population and an enviable talent for political compromise, Nigeria stood out in the 1960s as the potential leader in Africa, a continent in dire need of guidance. For, it was widely thought that the country was immune from the wasting diseases of tribalism, disunity and instability which remorselessly attacked so many other new African states. But when bursts of machine gun fire shattered the predawn calm of Lagos its erstwhile capital city in January 1966, it was now clear that Nigeria was no exception to Africa’s common post-independence experience.

During the following four years (1966-1970), the giant and ‘hope’ of Africa measured its full length in the dust. Two bloody military coups, a series of appalling massacres and a protracted and savage civil war which claimed over a million lives threatened to plunge the entire country into oblivion. It also deprived Black Africa, already weakened and disillusioned, of a crucial element of strength and leadership in the growing confrontation with White Africa along the Zambezi. As God would have it, at the end of the civil war in 1970 the nation experienced an oil boom and a staggering wealth never before recorded in the history of young nations. This new status, coupled with the emergence of a dynamic leader in the person of the late General Murtala Mohammed, in the mid-1970s, launched Nigeria back to a position of relevance in Africa when it proffered a new meaning and identity for the continent. Today, instead of a consummation of that hope and expectation, what confronts Nigeria is the story of a nation that has turned full circle as a giant with feet of clay: a big national and international nuisance and embarrassment. We are experiencing an unnerving weight of fuel scarcity in the sixth largest exporter of crude oil in the world.

A sadistic cabal of recycling local imperialists in both khaki and agbada has since hemmed the supposedly “giant of Africa” in a colony where misrule, ineptitude, crass opportunism and corruption have been elevated to a national culture. More than half a century into this circuitous game in which the nation’s till has been pillaged and her vast wealth frittered away abroad, the rot is peaking; and the hapless people are paying the imponderably colossal price. At the moment, in spite of a record huge revenue from the sale of crude oil and other domestic sources, the social services sector, which more directly impugn on the people’s lives, is almost at the height of a complete system collapse. The story of virtually every social responsibility of the state to the people; of every area where the state remain relevant to her subjects under the unwritten social contract code, has been rewritten on its head: hospitals have graduated from mere prescription clinics into mortuaries as even medical doctors and other health workers are constantly on strike. The public school system is in a shambles; roads, including hitherto smooth expressways are now death traps; and almost a century after electricity supply debuted in Nigeria, her citizens still live more in darkness than light.

Here is a complete story of retrogression and decay. Above all, there is an alarming rate of insecurity in the land. Nigeria is in a ferocious state of anomie. This is made worse by a tired and disheartened bitterness among the citizenry. If Hilaire Belloc is right in his opinion that ‘readable history is melodrama’, the true story of the first decade of the twenty-first century in Nigeria, which also doubles as the longest tragic period of civil misrule since the past 99 years of the forced union by Lugard, should be mind-boggling. It has been a decade of turmoil, with the elemental passions predominant. Never have Nigerian public officials in responsible positions, directing the destiny of the nation, been so brutal, hypocritical and corrupt, leaving the country to swim in infrastructural decay, unemployment, hunger and desperation as in the past fourteen years of quasi-democracy. The outcome is the pervading poll of insecurity which is threatening to drive the country into yet another civil war. Like a demented society, Nigeria is soaked with irrational impulses, stress and tension as the people can no longer elect their leaders.

Aside from armed robbery which has rendered the entire police force vulnerable, there is candidly speaking, an alarming rate of mockery killings in Nigeria. There are indeed gruesome stories of rapes, perversities, and child murders. Hostage taking is now a booming business in the country. An extremely partisan and sympathetic public is willing to read and believe anything as even the crime pages of our national dallies appear tinged with sadism. Yet, where is that Nigerian who does not know that the real criminals in our midst today are our rulers? Who does not know that much of the savagery connected with our current state of hopelessness and bloodletting could be explained in the character of the buccaneers who have misruled us for all these miserable years? How did Ghana which was at the level we are today in early 1980’s make it to now become an enviable haven where our foreign and local investors now relocate to? Why has Nigeria suddenly relapsed into a country where violence has become a national pastime?

It is interesting at this point to draw a historical parallel between Nigeria and India, a former victim of colonialism which has now turned itself to a world power due to political doggedness and economic independence. For a country like Nigeria still paying lip-service to the ideals of a federated union, the Indian Federation is an enduring model. There is a high level of competition with every state controlling its economy, separate army and police. Hence the drive for massive, unprecedented investment in education and manpower development as India exports more than 800 scientists annually to the Silicon Valley of the United States who manufacture made-in-America goods. The difference in age between India and Nigeria is 13 as India gained political independence from Britain in 1947. But the question is: can Nigeria attain the height India has reached in the next 13 years? From a position of relative despair and frustration, India has bequeathed to her children hope and happiness while Nigeria is still dancing in circle. Nigeria, where is thy soul? We are indeed a nation of 160million fools!



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gaynaians are fools says another commissioner
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Ghanaians Are Fools Says Another Leader’| Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice- Lauretta Vivian Lamptey Spends Over $180,000 on Rent & She Was Staying in a $456 a Day Hotel in Ghana

Life in Ghana for some people ‘dey be’ like ‘Aluguntingu’, just add the ‘Medaase’ for me.

You come across certain information and you are compelled to ask yourself this; what sort of leaders and custodians do we have in Ghana?

According to reports, the Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights andhttp://www.ghanacelebrities.com/2014/09/17/ghanaians-fools-says-another-leader-commissioner-commission-human-rights-administrative-justice-lauretta-vivian-lamptey-spends-180000-rent-staying-456/
‘Ghanaians Are Fools Says Another Leader’| Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice- Lauretta Vivian Lamptey Spends Over $180,000 on Rent & She Was Staying in a $456 a Day Hotel in Ghana
Ghanacelebrities.com
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:32pm On Oct 06, 2014
.........And they breed unhindered, like pigs. grin grin The mumus will have 10 children when they hardly have enough to feeds themselves- thereby breeding robbers, pr0stitutes, vagabonds etc grin grin grin grin grin grin

Hahahaha no wonder sh1tnigeria is primitive sh1thole run by sh1tmongering twats- a dystonian sh1thole! grin grin grin

Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by OXYGEN011: 7:39pm On Oct 06, 2014
hahahaha Ghanaians whipping mumugerians asses on their own forum as usual.These mumugerian fools will never learn.

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:41pm On Oct 06, 2014
hahahahahaha a shitnigerian goat spewing trash from its aNuS, as usual! How is it my fault or that of any Ghanaian that your human eating, coc-k suckin, sub human vile beasts are so phucked? grin grin grin grin grin grin shitnigeriaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa grin grin grin


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Quote me, you coward! grin

gayna, a nation of brainwashed i_diots grin grin grin grin grin
Yes, I said it! Go hang yourself if you disagree. We are supposed to be a sovereign nation whose citizens should be boasting to the outside world of our rich cultural heritage and prosperity; in stead, we project poverty and inferiority complex. Our forefathers toiled to dissolve the umbilical cord that married us to the colonialists, only for greed and abject stupidity of our leaders to derail our progress, leaving our country worse than the colonialists left it.



For one, Ghanaians suffer collectively from inferiority complex. That should be common knowledge to all. We would rather glorify foreign customs and norms than our own. How do we live in a country that has a bona fide currency but locally trades in the United States Dollars (USD)? Did we run out of Cedi? When?



The following incident prompted me to write this article: A couple of days ago some coworkers of mine and I had a brief discussion about Ghanaian architecture and how much houses are generally sold for. It was easy talking about Mediterranean, contemporary and modern architectural flairs that grace our cities. The discussion went smoothly until we “googled” the cost of houses in Ghana. We were taken to multiple websites, among them Ghanaweb.com. What did we see? Every house was priced in United States Dollars. “Don’t you have a currency?” was asked of me by my coworkers. I have never been this humiliated in my life! (Please see: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/realestate/luxury_houses.php, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/realestate/bargain_houses.php, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/realestate/apartments.php, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/realestate/uncompleted_houses.php, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/realestate/residential_rentals.php, )



Every land or house advertised for sale, completed or otherwise, is in dollars. Being domiciled abroad for decades, I just noticed that this practice has been ongoing for far too long.



If the US dollar is our medium of exchange in many quarters, what then is the purpose of our national currency, Cedi? Are we that stupid as a nation?



Talking to my brother-in-law about this, I discovered that a significant number of Ghanaians converts their earnings into foreign currencies and open foreign accounts with them in the country.

Delving deeper into the subject, I came across several articles online stating the devastating impact of this practice on our economy. (http://business.myjoyonline.com/pages/banking/201206/88229.php; Joy Online News: Statement: BoG has not taken any decision to close foreign deposit accounts [http://business.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201206/88007.php]; Joy Online News: Foreign currency account holders to pay the price for Cedi depreciation [http://business.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201206/87998.php]; Joy Online News: Government denies plan to ban dollar accounts [http://business.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201206/88030.php]

Did our elected officials just realize the devastating impact of this practice on our economy? I mean are they plain stupid, grossly uneducated, simply nonchalant—or all of the above?

Point number two, it is also common knowledge that Ghanaians are a peace-loving and hospitable people. These are virtues I brag about always. But, to what extent, should we allow people to filter through our porous borders into our country? Talking to my friends and family in the Central Region, Kumasi and Accra, it is known that Ghana is now overcrowded with Nigerians. What’s more, their so-called 419 scams have crossed the Nigerian borders into ours. They have flooded our country to the extent that Ghanaians can’t enjoy peace. It’s annoying enough to be called at 5 am from Nigeria about an order from Microsoft, which one didn’t place; and it’s a whole different story to flood another country and become a nuisance. Didn’t a Nigerian kill his Ghanaian girlfriend just this month? (See http://news1.ghananation.com/headlines/261803-nigerian-man-kills-19-year-old-ghanaian-lover-and-tosses-body-in-neighbor-s-compound-photo.html). Did this murderer have the guts to do this because Ghanaians are too stupid, too lax and too accommodating when dealing with foreigners?

Again, didn’t a Nigerian criminal forge the signature of one of our ex-president’s (Kufour’s?) for a shady deal that was later uncovered? Haven’t we heard of many Nigerians implicated in armed robberies in Ghana?

Worse, friends tell me there are loads of buses of people from Nigeria coming into Ghana daily. The annoying thing, as one pointed out, was a bus with an inscription that went something like, “Nigeria: A country of Good People.” I don’t think a genuinely good people would advertise themselves that way. Can this be a cover-up for who they really are? Or is it meant to divert attention from who they really are?

What’s more, any discernable individual who has the guts to talk frankly about Nigerians in Ghana is often confronted with, “We have businesses here, and we pouring billions of dollars into your economy.” For one, Ghanaians didn’t ask any Nigerian to start a business in Ghana.

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Two, Ghana as a whole benefits from a net negative impact of Nigerian presence in our country, all things considered. If starting a business in Nigeria is not feasible for them because of corruption and the political atmosphere, tough luck!! They should look to the Middle East and North Africa for answers: Arab Spring!! We have many problems plaguing our country and we don’t need their presence, which complicates life for us.

Is it being alleged here that every Nigerian is a criminal and nuisance? No! However, there are too many fraudulent acts committed by too many Nigerians that it’s difficult for most Ghanaians to separate the good from the bad. Even in the United States and United Kingdom, there are Nigerians who hide their “Nigerian identity” when dealing with others. If some Nigerians feel uncomfortable disclosing their country of origin because of fraud commonly associated with them, then perhaps many can excuse my ignorance.

My Ga siblings are upset over the procurement of their lands by other tribes, mostly Ashantis. Do Gas know that many foreigners, mostly Nigerians, are snatching up their lands? I will admit that we are literally selling our country to foreigners, and if this trend should continue in that trajectory there will be nothing left for the future generations.

What about the Togolese, Fulanis and other “illegal” foreigners in our country? It is no secret that individuals from countries bordering Ghana easily move to our country as if Ghana is a city in their own country. Being close to Ghana doesn’t make one a Ghanaian, just as being born in Mexico doesn’t make one a citizen of the United States. Our leaders must do a lot to prevent influx of people into our fragile and poor economy. Do I expect them to heed this advice? No, because they are preoccupied with stealing public money.

Do our elected leaders see this as a problem? Sadly, no! Why? It is simply because they only care about money they will make from shady deals and not the wellbeing of the general populace.

Point number three: Our elected leaders are a disgrace to our country. They would sell the soul of our country for a pittance. Corruption is so prevalent in our political culture that there are only a few good politicians, and even they are endangered species. One needs to take a cursory glance at our many national ills and will realize how incompetent our leaders are.

Both the NPP and the NDC are corrupt to the core. Politicians from both parties have lost any shred of trust we have in them. We should all shy away from the partisan nonsense we are mostly engulfed in and fight for the one country we all call home.

How many politicians from both parties haven’t being implicated in corruption? The sanest politician in Ghana, I must reluctantly admit, is probably Rawlings. However, he presided over corruption for decades and his current utterances directed against corruption in his own party are just a means of venting his frustration for the mistreatment of his family by the party he founded.

On the same score, it is no secret that I admire Kwame Nkrumah for all he did. However, I loathe the man for making Ghana a part of ECOWAS. We should expel all foreigners who are in our country illegally and opt out of ECOWAS if needed. We are a sovereign nation and capable of such acts. Our country is on the downward spiral and may continue in that direction if such stringent measures are not taken. We should welcome professionals and citizens from other countries who will further our development, or people who apply to enter our country legally in search of “greener pastures.”

All the same, we should put a cap on the number of people entering our country “legally,” for we still remain a poor country. We are not the United States. We are not the United Kingdom. Our country will remain unsustainable if we continue to open our borders to anyone who wants to come in. We are suffering and something has to be done.

Ghana, wake up!! Our low self-esteem and lax attitude as well as our greedy and selfish leaders are destroying the very fiber of our country. We have been stupid and have acted stupidly for far too long!! Wake-up, Ghana. Wake-up, Ghana. Wake-up!!!
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by GHKWAME1: 7:42pm On Oct 06, 2014
Stewpid nigayrians!!! Boko harram will finish y'all! fucktards. grin grin


Ghana’s ruling government has concluded plans
to begin export of electric power to Nigeria and
other West African countries by 2015. grin

The country’s Vice President, Mr John Dramani
Mahama, who unfolded the plan in Accra, on
Tuesday, said the government has already
embarked on extensive expansion of power
infrastructure to enable them achieve the
project.
Mahama explained that a key motivation for the
investment was that Ghana presently has
competitive advantage in the area of power
supply over other neighbouring countries,
including Nigeria, which is still grappling with
massive power deficit for its estimated 150
million citizens
. grin grin grin https://www.nairaland.com/826346/nigeria-buy-electricity-ghana-believe

Benin, Togo ask for more power from Ghana.............. "Benin and Togo have made a joint request to the Ghana government to
supply them with more power, since their power situation is more desperate than Ghana’s.

“The situation in Benin and Togo is worse.” Ghana has reduced the contractual supply of power to Benin and Togo from 90 MW to 35 MW after the destruction of a pipeline belonging to the West Africa Gas Pipeline Project (WAGP) in August 2012.

The cut in power supply to the two countries has resulted in massive load shedding and power disruption in Togo
and Benin between eight and 12 hours or more daily.
Mr Kassa(Benin minister for energy) looked worried, apprehensive and expectant when he pleaded with the
minister to compromise and increase the power supply slightly upwards, but
Mr Buah(Ghana minister for Energy) was firm and said Ghana could only help when the situation in the
country normalised.
Mr Buah’s response created more distress for Mr Kassa and his team, who shoved diplomacy aside and displayed
open worry.


Ghana Commissions New Dam



The Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) made history on Friday when it
became the first company in the West African sub-region to pioneer the supply of power to villages on the borders of neighbouring countries.



Ghana solar energy plant set to be Africa's largest


Nigeria, highest importer of generator sets grin grin

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by OXYGEN011: 7:44pm On Oct 06, 2014
oga jona dey enjoy

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:47pm On Oct 06, 2014
Damn! Where are the fucking prick-suckers?- grin grin grin grin


Nigeria jagajaga, Everything scatter scatter Poor man dey suffer suffer Gbosa, gbosa, gunshot inna de air.

Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:49pm On Oct 06, 2014
The dustbin country has four oil refineries and yet imports all its refined fuel. If this is not a confirmation of a cursed nation, then what is it? grin grin grin grin grin riforoforoforo grin grin grin grin

Nigeria jagajaga, Everything scatter scatter Poor man dey suffer suffer Gbosa, gbosa, gunshot inna de air. grin

Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Nobody: 7:51pm On Oct 06, 2014
SantaMafia:
hahahaha do you know the number of your fellow apes who are coming to Ghana every single day in search of economic refuge? hahahahaha your zoo country is a confirmed sh1thole grin do you know sambisa forest? grin the Ghanaian economy is growing at nearly 7%. foreign direct investment is more than $3 billion a year, the third highest in africa grin hahahaha who deosn't know shitnigeria is a zoo? grin grin grin soka forest, okija shrine grin grin grin
CHAI, You don hear abt my area also, 'SOKA FOREST' my area don dey world map o.
Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Nobody: 7:52pm On Oct 06, 2014
SantaMafia:
The dustbin country has four oil refineries and yet imports all its refined fuel. If this is not a confirmation of a cursed nation, then what is it? grin grin grin grin grin riforoforoforo grin grin grin grin

[size=15pt]Ghana, a country of just 20 million people, blessed with vast deposits of gold, oil and gas, and cocoa, approached IMF for bailout to save its tanked economy. If this is not a confirmation of a cursed nation, what is?[/size] grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:53pm On Oct 06, 2014
Jeez, the apes eat from the dustbin cool embarassed undecided

A Meal From A Dustbin In Lagos grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

It was a very beautiful evening in Lagos. I had parked the car in front of my wife’s office, and was inside the car waiting for her to get her bag from her office so we could go home together.

And then, I saw the man as he passed, looking very hungry, haggard and harassed. It was quite clear that he was not mad. At least, not yet. What was easy to notice was that he was greatly traumatized by the impossible conditions under which he struggled each day to exist in this impossible place called Nigeria, a country so richly endowed, but where life for the majority has become hellish.

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Recent studies have shown that due to boundless plundering of the public treasury flourishing in Nigeria, about 99% of the country’s resources are in the hands of just 1% of the population, and more than 85 per cent of Nigerians live below poverty level.

Well, suddenly, the man’s hungry eyes caught the dustbin outside the office complex, a few meters away from where my car was packed. He appeared so elated at his clearly delicious find. His face creased into an awful gesture, which he probably meant to be a smile.

Then, with a quickened pace, he made for the dustbin, and began to desperately rummage in it, among its decayed, putrid, stinking contents. He seemed afraid that someone might come out to drive him away before he was through. His diligence, meticulousness, and sense of urgency would have been very infectious were it not that were deployed on the clearly diseased contents of a refuse bin.

An idea occurred to me immediately. Nigerians ought to share this heart-rending image with me, to see one of their own reduced to such a sorry spectacle in a country that was overwhelmingly prospering from crude oil exports. Perhaps, a few would weep and think deeply about the unbearable condition that years of abysmal misrulership have reduced many Nigerians.


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Vacuous trash! grin

Tell us why gaynaians are eating maggots in this modern time. grin grin grin

Now the apes are now eating maggots grin grin grin grin grin
gaynaians are eating maggots

How's it my fault that gaynaians are maggot eating apes?



Accra, June 13 (Crusading Guide) -- Creamy and crispy Malt n Milk, Cleo Digestive, Wafer and Sweety biscuits are hot confectionaries for children and adults in the homes of most Ghanaians and other African countries. Cocktail parties buffet, wedding ceremonies ad other social gatherings, are spiced up with these tasty and nutritionally rich biscuits.

Little do people know, however, that when they eat these biscuits, they are indirectly gulping down roasted maggots, worm, weevils, termites and fungi. A company, Eurofood (Gh) Limited, situated off the Spintex Road in Accra, is where these unwholesome biscuits and others like Anibal, Bolo, Fitini, Baba Junior, Mobile, are produced.

The owners of the company, knowing very well that the flour used for producing the confectionaries had expired and could pose health hazard to unsuspecting consumers, put pressure on the labourers to work day and night so as to finish the over 1000 bags which had been stocked in the warehouse near the production room. Products of Eurofood can be found in the markets of Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Cote D'ivore and other West African countries.

The flour was produced by Grand Moulins of France under the brand name Melissa; but had been left to go bad. It weighs 50 kg and the expiry date on it is June 2006. Workers of the company said that they spotted the worms in the flour over two months ago. "In this company we do not sieve flour before using it; we pour it straight into the mixer, but in this particular case, we sieve the content of every sack because of the worms and insects. In every sack you find a lot of worms.

After sieving them we empty the maggots and the other little creatures into a big dustbin outside. These are direct instructions from the owners of the company.

I once reported it to some of our supervisors, Makoo, Kasim and Ellem, to advise management on what we were seeing but nothing has been done so far about it and we are quiet, because if you make small noise, you will be fired the next day and that will mean no food for your family", said Kwame Ansah, one of the labourers.

Paul Anum, a casual worker, said that he was always hurt on seeing that the products of Eurofood bear the inscription "Made in Ghana, "Foreigners must respect the people of this country. "These foreigners would not manufacture such bad products in their own countries. Infact, they don't even eat their own country biscuits produced by their own company. They buy other biscuits from super markets for their family while they produce these unwholesome products for Ghana and other countries", Anum lamented.

The World Health Organisation in a risk analysis report in 2002 (Geneva Switzerland, WHO/CDS/CSR EPH 2002.21) stated that the symptoms of food poisoning from such maggots can vary.

"Common symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrheoa, and sometimes fever. Occasionally, food poisoning can be very serious and even cause death. The length of the incubation period depends on the type of bacteria and how many are swallowed. It could be hours or days. The bacteria stick to the lining of the intestine and destroy the cells, either by sheer weight or numbers or by the toxins (poisons) they produce. Sometimes these toxins are absorbed and cause damage elsewhere in the body" the report said.

As at press time yesterday, the Ghana Police upon information by the Crusading Guide invited Ghana Television News team and stormed the premises of Eurofood to see things for themselves.

The operation was led by Chief Superintendent J K Agboada, Deputy Director, Police Operations. The Police, Ghana Standards Board and the Food and Drugs Board as a result of the shock they saw on the spot, immediately closed the place down, pending further directives from the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service.

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:56pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 7:58pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Nobody: 7:58pm On Oct 06, 2014
[size=15pt]Cut in Supply of Nigerian Gas to Ghana Could Hurt Economy - Ghana Central Bank Governor[/size]

Wed, Sep 17, 2014 12:54pm GMT



ACCRA (Reuters) - A cut in the supply of gas from Nigeria to Ghana through the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPCO) is "not good news" and could damage the country's economy if prolonged, Ghana's central bank governor Henry Kofi Wampah told a news conference on Wednesday.

A senior official at WAPCO in Ghana said on Wednesday gas supplies through the pipeline, which serves, Togo, Benin and Ghana, have been cut due to a strike in Nigeria. Ghana's economy was hurt in 2013 by an energy deficit.


http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKBN0HC1AF20140917


Meanwhile..

Long queues at filling stations in Ghana caused by fuel shortages.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/437432/1/fuel-shortage-hits-accra.html

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[size=15pt]Ghana faces acute power cuts as Nigeria pulls plug on gas supply[/size]

Daily Graphic (Ghana)

September 17, 2014




Power outages are set to worsen in the country after Nigerian authorities announced that the country will stop gas supplies to Ghana.

The decision, which took effect from yesterday, follows labour unrest in Nigeria.

“The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon. We are working out emergency measures to forestall adverse effects on individuals and industry,” a senior official at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum told the Daily Graphic.

“What the stoppage of gas flow to Ghana means is that the Asogli Power Plant will shut down because it runs only on gas,” the official said.

The Asogli Power Plant was augmenting Ghana’s energy needs with an average of 180 megawatts (MW).

“This is certainly not good because other power plants are operating below capacity due to maintenance schedules, delay in crude oil supply and other factors,” the source added.

Individuals and businesses have been facing intermittent supply of electricity for several months.

Ghana’s demand for electricity is between 1,800 and 2,000 MW, but it is targeting 5,000 MW by 2016.

It wants to have enough to export to other West African countries by the end of 2016.

http://kessbenfm.com/ghana-faces-more-power-cuts-as-nigeria-cuts-gas-supplies/
Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by OXYGEN011: 8:00pm On Oct 06, 2014
see how poverty dey whip these stu.pid mumugerians.GOD SHOULD HELP THEM BECAUSE THEIR STUPIDITY EXCEEDS THAT OF MORONS.

Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 8:01pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 8:05pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 8:08pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by SantaMafia: 8:09pm On Oct 06, 2014
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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Tokunbohkinibig: 8:11pm On Oct 06, 2014
It's quite ignominious, shameful, discrediting and demeaning to see Nigerian guys talking or having argument with these Apes/Ghananians out of all people on earth. It's like having an argument with your housemaid!!!

Chai!!! This is one of the reasons i love Nigerian ladies, they r very classy when it comes to issue of relationship with Ghananians. They don't allow Ghananians to talk to them so as to keep that 9ja pride/superiority intact.

Nigerian ladies find it insulting, dishonourable and disrespectful to be associated with Ghananians. Trust me on this, 9ja babes ll fight u to stand still if you dare say "you look like a Ghananian". Chai!!! You ve already spoil her mood for the rest of the week for calling her a Ghananian.

Pls guys, if our ladies can maintain that standard, nothing stops us- 9ja guyz from ignoring these Apes so as to maintain that our national/international pride. They r only trying to bring us down to their level and God forbid.

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Re: Ghana's Central Bank Governor - ''We're Desperate For Nigerian Gas'' by Adminisher: 8:11pm On Oct 06, 2014
meforyou1:
I thought Ghana wanted to export electricity to Nigeria. Clownish black charcoals of Kumasi

They will export electricity to Nigeria. It is not an insult. Our economy I'll grow faster than them for the next 20 years and we can't build power plants fast enough. Please stop all this imaginary competition with Ghana. It is the Nigerian economy that most countries in west africa will use to grow. There is nothing wrong in buying electricity from Ghana.Most European countries export electricity to each other.

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