I was an infant. I dont recollect any of it. I was lucky to be outside Ghana that time. I never felt the famine. All these I was told. I understand all except one.
Its the famous 'Ghana Must Go' issue. My parents told me Ghana first sent the Nigerians away when times were good for Ghana. After Nigeria fought and diecovered their oil, they also sent the Ghanaians back. What made this really painful for the Ghanaians was that there were famine already on their dear land when they returned. Unfortunately, most of the effects associated with famine caught up with them.

Can someone really tell me the whole story? Did Nigeria send only Ghanaians away or all foreigners? Was it a revenge for the 'Nigeria Must Go' earlier or was it as my parents told me as a result of the jealousy of the Nigerians then of the Ghanaians because they were academically well poised than the Nigerains.

Please serious contributors only. No Insult

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ur papa and grannies??

Thanx for ur post

@akwasi.i should be less than 6yrs when that  event took place but i bet you the military government must have done that to give nigerians the false impression that the increasing poverty was as a result of influx of foreigners of which ghanians who were our closest brothers had the highest population.it is still happening in our backward africa.especially south africa.

@Abagworo

are you sure about the information you posted?

@Akwasi
Brother,
Africans most be their Brothers keeper, help each other and look after each other in times of plenty and in times of less.
In Africa their are Wicked Africans, driven by envy and Jealousy commites crime against humanity.
In Nigeria their is a tribe call Yoruba, because of rosy achievement of Ghanaians living in their mist, then came the jealousy and hatred towards them by these tribe.
All their unemployment problem and their lack of competitiveness in business field, became a caused by Ghanaians.
Beating and rendering insults on Ghana people in the street of Lagos became order of the day.
when their jealousy towards Ghana people can no more be curtail, Yoruba leaders and politicians lead by one Mr Awolowo persuaded an Hausa/Fulani man called Shagari to deport our Fellow African Brothers.

WilyWily:

@Akwasi
Brother,
Africans most be their Brothers keeper, help each other and look after each other in times of plenty and in times of less.
In Africa their are Wicked Africans, driven by envy and Jealousy commites crime against humanity.
In Nigeria their is a tribe call Yoruba, because of rosy achievement of Ghanaians living in their mist, then came the jealousy and hatred towards them by these tribe.
All their unemployment problem and their lack of competitiveness in business field, became a caused by Ghanaians.
Beating and rendering insults on Ghana people in the street of Lagos became order of the day.
when their jealousy towards Ghana people can no more be curtail, Yoruba leaders and politicians lead by one Mr Awolowo persuaded an Hausa/Fulani man called Shagari to deport our Fellow African Brothers.

Thanx WilyWily. But what baffles me is why was it only Ghana? I think other nationals were in Nigeria too.

=wickedness

Akwasi:

But what baffles me is why was it only Ghana? I think other nationals were in Nigeria too.

Yorubas singled out Ghanaian because, they believed Ghana people living in Lagos were prospering.
Any one in this country that tells you, the deportation and humiliation of Ghanaians was a policy of all Nigerians, that is Total False. The deportation didn't happen in South-South nor South East, it happened only in all Yoruba Land, that tells you what was up. The Deportation was orchestrated and Spearheaded by Yorubas, with their illustrious son Mr Awolowo as the symbol.

@ posters.

I hereby urgeour yoruba folk not to dignify Wily Wily with a reaction. Let him do
a dialogue with himself.

Worda are tools , weapons and signatures. Effective use shows intelligence and enable s the
person interacting with you to decode your personality and treat you with respect.

Wily Wily has already failed woefully i this respect. I had to take pains to go through 70 of his
posts to get to this conclusion. HE is not worth the bother, I tell you.

I have old him elsewhere that he has sausage in his skull for brains and he has gradually started
grilling and eating them. He is on a binge at the moment. This explain the exhibition you are witnessing here.

Thank You

wilywily must still be weak from Ramadan fasting.

@Citizen Y.
Now i noticed you support Evil,
You are supporting Yorubas for carrying out this inhumane treatment against our fellow African Brothers Ghanaians.
Even Ghanaians that didn't want to go back because their Children knew no other place than Lagos which they called home, Yorubas draged them out on the street and beat them up, Ghanian women and their Children were Crying  but these people didn't show no mercy. All were documented.
P/z Citizen Y, Don't support Evil so that it will not come to you.
Tell me if there behaviours against our African Brothers are right.
Check this out, In Nigeria today Hausa/Fulanis has shown to everyone openly that they are Savages for life, but what people don't know is, in the western Nigeria exist the most secret Dangerours poisonous Savages of all black race.

WilyWily:

@Citizen Y.
Now i noticed you support Evil,
You are supporting Yorubas for carrying out this inhumane treatment against our fellow African Brothers Ghanaians.
Even Ghanaians that didn't want to go back because their Children knew no other place than Lagos which they called home, Yorubas draged them out on the street and beat them up, Ghanian women and their Children were Crying  but these people didn't show no mercy. All were documented.
P/z Citizen Y, Don't support Evil so that it will not come to you.
Tell me if there behaviours against our African Brothers are right.
Check this out, In Nigeria today Hausa/Fulanis has shown to everyone openly that they are Savages for life, but what people don't know is, in the western Nigeria exist the most secret Dangerours poisonous Savages of all black race.

SEE A YORUBA GUY PARTYING WITH GHANA BOYS !!

GHANA/NAIJA LETS GO!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMjtmt5gR4U&feature=related

samba boys!

morpheus24:

SEE A YORUBA GUY PARTYING WITH GHANA BOYS !!

GHANA/NAIJA LETS GO!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMjtmt5gR4U&feature=related

I pray Ghanaians Forgive Yorubas.

WillyWilly gotta be right coz it never happened in the East. We still had Ghanian families I went to school with. It happened outside the East. The average Easterners won't support that coz we are too accomodating. We'll rather deport Northerners sef b4 we deport Ghanians and other foreigners.

na shagari regime

Ghana must go home.

,mama-gee:

Ghana must go home.

Bad bele pesin no gree happi 4dem small pikin. Yaweh forgv dm

Nigeria must waka is in the making, so you will be able to witness that one and feel for the ghana people of then

I will be glad if someone can come up to rebutt Willywilly's story with facts. In doing that, it will be justified to reply him with the same measure.

@Akwasi

On behalf of my family, I apologize to your family and to other Ghanaians who must have suffered great losses as a result of our then government's jealousy, wickedness and lack of vision. I hope you guys will find it in your heart to forgive us.

Having said that, I was less than 4 or 5 when that inhuman incident took place. The only thing I can remember is when my dad's best friend; Ali came to our house with his lovely wife to bid us good bye. Little did I know they were being chased away like criminals.

Ali was one of the kindest human beings I've ever come across in my entire life.

Abagworo:

@akwasi.i should be less than 6yrs when that  event took place but i bet you the military government must have done that to give nigerians the false impression that the increasing poverty was as a result of influx of foreigners of which ghanians who were our closest brothers had the highest population.it is still happening in our backward africa.especially south africa.

mistake.i wasn't born then and it wasnt under a military regime but at least it was a very unwise decision.nigeria needs to apologize or show some remorse for that crime against our fellow black men.

Chei, see misinformation, the OP rightly acknowledged that Ghana started it by chasing Nigerians out of their Country and Nigerians only reciprocated years later, yet all some nitwit is trying to tell us is that they should hang the Yorubas who are the sole perpetrator of all things evil in this world, and once the Yorubas have been exterminated and expunged, then the world would be at peace and famine and pestilence and war and genocide and natural disasters would be a thing of the past, what a genius

WilyWily:

@Akwasi
Brother,
Africans most be their Brothers keeper, help each other and look after each other in times of plenty and in times of less.
In Africa their are Wicked Africans, driven by envy and Jealousy commites crime against humanity.
In Nigeria their is a tribe call Yoruba, because of rosy achievement of Ghanaians living in their mist, then came the jealousy and hatred towards them by these tribe.
All their unemployment problem and their lack of competitiveness in business field, became a caused by Ghanaians.
Beating and rendering insults on Ghana people in the street of Lagos became order of the day.
when their jealousy towards Ghana people can no more be curtail, Yoruba leaders and politicians lead by one Mr Awolowo persuaded an Hausa/Fulani man called Shagari to deport our Fellow African Brothers.

hmmm.this is a grave allegation.do you have evidences to back this up?if this is true,then many things i've read on nairaland could be true.

Title: The role of Yoruba commercial migration in West African development.

POPLINE Document Number: 050968

Author(s):

Sudarkasa N

Source citation:

In: African migration and national development, edited by Beverly Lindsay. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. :40-63.

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of Yoruba commercial migrants in contemporary West African regional trade, from the late 19th century to the present and focuses on a group of migrants who voluntarily left Nigeria to work in Ghana from the late 19th century through the 1960s. Most were forcibly repatriated between November 1969 and January 1970. Taxation and the monied economy forced millions of Yoruba to resettle in different parts of Nigeria; many also tried their luck in Ghana and other countries. Yoruba saw the opportunities that existed in the commercial sector of Ghana to trade Nigerian textiles for Ghanaian Kola and create a new niche for middlemen. Yoruba traders have served as intermediaries between African producers in different countries, as traders who sold overseas goods in small lots, as brokers buying cash crops, and as craftsmen who traded with their machines. In 1960 100,560 Yorubas lived in Ghana, 1.5% of that country's population; nearly 84% of these Yoruba were traders. Yoruba men were 20% of the male traders in Ghana; Yoruba women comprised only 6% of the female traders in Ghana. Yorubas traded imported provisions and sundries, hardware and parts, pots and pans, clothing, shoes and sandals, meat and fish, vegetables, herbs, cloth, bread, and prepared foods; they were, however, excluded from trading wholesale agricultural staples, especially yams and plantains. Most Yoruba traders were small-scale operators whose capital ranged from a few cedis to a few hundred. Yoruba retail traders generally preferred to buy goods from other Yorubas, because of better understanding of bargaining practices and language. Most Yoruba traders had at least 1 assistant, often a young relative. Most had switched trades or commodities at least once; they were very responsive to market conditions. In November 1969, the Ghanian government issued an edict expelling all African aliens; Yoruba traders were being used as a scapegoat for Ghana's economic ills. The Ghanaians mistook numbers and visibility for economic exploitation. The Yorubas created jobs and distributed goods; the economic situation worsened after their expulsion.

is the OP sure he's Ghanaian and not a Nigerian trouble maker?

Title: The role of Yoruba commercial migration in West African development.

POPLINE Document Number: 050968

Author(s):

Sudarkasa N

Source citation:

In: African migration and national development, edited by Beverly Lindsay. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. :40-63.

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of Yoruba commercial migrants in contemporary West African regional trade, from the late 19th century to the present and focuses on a group of migrants who voluntarily left Nigeria to work in Ghana from the late 19th century through the 1960s. Most were forcibly repatriated between November 1969 and January 1970. Taxation and the monied economy forced millions of Yoruba to resettle in different parts of Nigeria; many also tried their luck in Ghana and other countries. Yoruba saw the opportunities that existed in the commercial sector of Ghana to trade Nigerian textiles for Ghanaian Kola and create a new niche for middlemen. Yoruba traders have served as intermediaries between African producers in different countries, as traders who sold overseas goods in small lots, as brokers buying cash crops, and as craftsmen who traded with their machines. In 1960 100,560 Yorubas lived in Ghana, 1.5% of that country's population; nearly 84% of these Yoruba were traders. Yoruba men were 20% of the male traders in Ghana; Yoruba women comprised only 6% of the female traders in Ghana. Yorubas traded imported provisions and sundries, hardware and parts, pots and pans, clothing, shoes and sandals, meat and fish, vegetables, herbs, cloth, bread, and prepared foods; they were, however, excluded from trading wholesale agricultural staples, especially yams and plantains. Most Yoruba traders were small-scale operators whose capital ranged from a few cedis to a few hundred. Yoruba retail traders generally preferred to buy goods from other Yorubas, because of better understanding of bargaining practices and language. Most Yoruba traders had at least 1 assistant, often a young relative. Most had switched trades or commodities at least once; they were very responsive to market conditions. In November 1969, the Ghanian government issued an edict expelling all African aliens; Yoruba traders were being used as a scapegoat for Ghana's economic ills. The Ghanaians mistook numbers and visibility for economic exploitation. The Yorubas created jobs and distributed goods; the economic situation worsened after their expulsion.

Title: The role of Yoruba commercial migration in West African development.

POPLINE Document Number: 050968

Author(s):

Sudarkasa N

Source citation:

In: African migration and national development, edited by Beverly Lindsay. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. :40-63.

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of Yoruba commercial migrants in contemporary West African regional trade, from the late 19th century to the present and focuses on a group of migrants who voluntarily left Nigeria to work in Ghana from the late 19th century through the 1960s. Most were forcibly repatriated between November 1969 and January 1970. Taxation and the monied economy forced millions of Yoruba to resettle in different parts of Nigeria; many also tried their luck in Ghana and other countries. Yoruba saw the opportunities that existed in the commercial sector of Ghana to trade Nigerian textiles for Ghanaian Kola and create a new niche for middlemen. Yoruba traders have served as intermediaries between African producers in different countries, as traders who sold overseas goods in small lots, as brokers buying cash crops, and as craftsmen who traded with their machines. In 1960 100,560 Yorubas lived in Ghana, 1.5% of that country's population; nearly 84% of these Yoruba were traders. Yoruba men were 20% of the male traders in Ghana; Yoruba women comprised only 6% of the female traders in Ghana. Yorubas traded imported provisions and sundries, hardware and parts, pots and pans, clothing, shoes and sandals, meat and fish, vegetables, herbs, cloth, bread, and prepared foods; they were, however, excluded from trading wholesale agricultural staples, especially yams and plantains. Most Yoruba traders were small-scale operators whose capital ranged from a few cedis to a few hundred. Yoruba retail traders generally preferred to buy goods from other Yorubas, because of better understanding of bargaining practices and language. Most Yoruba traders had at least 1 assistant, often a young relative. Most had switched trades or commodities at least once; they were very responsive to market conditions. In November 1969, the Ghanian government issued an edict expelling all African aliens; Yoruba traders were being used as a scapegoat for Ghana's economic ills. The Ghanaians mistook numbers and visibility for economic exploitation. The Yorubas created jobs and distributed goods; the economic situation worsened after their expulsion.

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Moderator why was my post deleted, the one about Nigerian influence in Ghana before being kicked out by the Ghanaians. But small wily is allowed to post derogatory remarks on the board about Nigerians[/size]

they'll blame it on the spambot.

I also have a long article I want to post after the OP answers my question.

If he's not too afraid to do so.

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other countries disguise as Nigerians, Nigerians disguise as other countries. On NL.

Both generally do so in order to attack Nigeria.

no be today.