I Will Like To Visit Ghana Please Advice

Cescky, that ok plz enough of this ok.

Anyway how runz?

I want to believe that except that my friends and all the people I went to Ghana with had their USA passport and were let through you minor questions but as soon as they open my Nigerian passport they ask "What are you doing in my country?" Then they meticulously scan it for no apparent reason as if  I came from America with a forged passport. Then they evidently make up random useless baseless questions just to delay.

how many hour is it by road from Lagos to Ghana

well,  you all plz can you help me in my trip to ghana i want go there for my private pilot liecense(people)so plz can you help me find where i can bored abc line  so i could be there n how much it will cost me n help me calculate 7,586,000 in ghana money plz am lucky anugwolu

If you don't want to use your passport or don't have one, you can board a taxi from Mile 2, Lagos for about =N=5,100.00. Tell the driver that you don't have a passport and he will see you through. You will have to pay minor fees (=N=500 at Seme) to go through. It is quicker than coming out of the car to pass through customs and immigration at the borders. You just sit in the car and the driver does the tipping. There is an organised racket for this kind of thing. If you do decide to use your passport (either Ecowas or International) and it has never been used at any of the land borders before, it is classified as a 'virgin passport' and you need to spend even more money to cross at each border.

Femigirl,

My dear get real! I would expect that the majority of persons crossing the border either way don't have valid passports. This is the reality of the country we live in. If one doesn't have a passport and has to make an emergency visit to Ghana then this is the way. Even companies such as Chisco Transport will take you across but you have to pay more. It is not so much an illegality as a convenience.

Very true. I was in Ghana February this year with some friends and i did not travel along with my passport. Reason- i did not want my beautiful passport    decorated with horrid stamps from Seme border/Benin  Republic/Togo/Ghana.  After all, its not like the paste visas on the passports, just all manners of colours and shapes of stamps.

What we did was charter a ride from Mile 2, only one of us had an Ecowas passport, we informed the driver about this and he did the tipping at the Seme border.

The corruption is not limited to Nigeria's end of the border, we still had to tip at the Cotonu end of the border and the Cotonu/Lome end of  the border as well.

Just budget about 2,000 CFA for tips. Be prepared to pay more if your passport is virgin ( it has never  been used on any land border), irrespective of whether or not it has visas from US or india. ( virgin passport holders pay more than those without passports).



I do not know about Chisco but ABC will NOT allow you board without a passport.

I doubt it. The roads from from the Naija end to Ghana are in very good motorable condition. Appears safe. I know people that have travelled at night and they had no horror stories to tell. 


@femigirl

The corruption that goes on at the land borders is an open secret. Like i mentioned earlier, it is even worse at the borders of the other West African cournties, especially Benin Republic.

Thanks for teaching me some new things Cotton.It goesto  show your never to old  to learn.

Facts:

# ABC will not take you without a passport.
# Cross-country and Chisco might.
# Don't go near the airport with the mind of travelling to Ghana without a passport.

There are nice places to visit. Many of the beaches are very clean and unlike the rubbish in Lagos, you'D not have touts harassing you for money. Well, Ghana is enjoyable so long you have the moolah to finance the enjoyment.