The recent deaths of some Nigerian students in Ghana shattered the ‘Eldorado’ perceptions of Nigerian parents towards Ghanaian tertiary institutions. Subsequent critical assessment of Ghana’s institutions has highlighted their good, bad and the ugly sides – along with the extraordinary news that there are now some 75,000 Nigerians studying in Ghana.

Authorities in the two West African countries have agreed to implement the Arusha Convention on recognition of higher education qualifications in Africa, with a view to improving the portability of degrees and tackling problems in many private universities in Ghana, where Nigerian enrolments are on the rise.

The murder of Godwin Ayogu (19), a Nigerian social science student at the University of Cape Coast, awakened the consciousness of Nigerians towards some harsh realities of the living and working conditions of Nigerians in the neighbouring country.

In April, five students were arrested for allegedly killing Ayogu when he tried to recover money lent to a fellow student. Late last year two Nigerian students accidently drowned while on a university outing in Ghana, and a Nigerian school pupil died mysteriously in Tema.

Surprising numbers

The Ayogu case triggered an intervention by the Nigerian government through its embassy in Ghana’s capital Accra, and also made Nigerians aware for the first time just how many Nigerian students were in Ghana’s public and private universities.

In a public lecture Lamido Sanusi, former governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, revealed the numbers and cost implications for students.

“Although there are no comprehensive data on the number of Nigerian students abroad, recent data have shown that there are about 71,000 Nigerian students in Ghana paying about US$1 billion annually as tuition fees and upkeep, as against the annual budget of US$751 million for all federal universities.

“In other words, the money spent by Nigerian students studying in Ghana with a better organised system is more than the annual budget of all federal universities in the country,” Sanusi said.

“Nigeria is today placed third on the list of countries with the highest number of students studying overseas.”

Sanusi’s extraordinary figures are considered reliable, since all requests for overseas remittances – including for student fee and upkeep payments – go through the bank. But they could be on the low side as they are based only on remittances, and other estimates have put the numbers at 75,000 Nigerian students in Ghana.

Nigerians highly value education and families dream of producing a graduate. But there are not nearly enough places in universities.

Every year about 1.5 million school leavers sit for compulsory entrance examinations into 150 public and private universities whose approved carrying capacity is 600,000 students.

It is not surprising that Ghana has become a destination for many of the very large number of Nigerian students who do not gain access to higher education at home.

Source: World University News

http://www.punchng.com/education/75000-nigerians-studying-in-ghana-study/

Really?

borga112: Really?

Really?

WAT DO U EXPECT,FORM OUR KIND OF ABNORMAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Worthless degrees. Dem too study ABROAD. Nigeria just de die slowly.

Hmmm. Nigeria enriching Ghana since 1995.

jerseyboy: Worthless degrees. Dem too study ABROAD. Nigeria just de die slowly.

Worthless degrees you say? Use it to console. yourself

overhypedsteve: Hmmm. Nigeria enriching Ghana since 1995.

I mean! What are friends for? Lol.. I will encourage them to keep spending so far they get what they r looking for

overhypedsteve: Hmmm. Nigeria enriching Ghana since 1995.

rubbish! who gives a fvck about some MUMUs.Ghana is doing you mor0ns a huge favour! arrant nonsense!

PetroDolla3: rubbish! who gives a fvck about some MUMUs.Ghana is doing you mor0ns a huge favour! arrant nonsense!

Gayna is yet to do itself a favour by being an outright independent nation.

You and I know where 50% of your annual budget comes from...

That's the effect of waec and jamb

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Gayna is yet to do itself a favour by being an outright independent nation.

You and I know where 50% of your annual budget comes from...

fuckeduppedness do you know where more than 50 percent of the money for health, education and agricultural interventions in your sh1thole come from? even 50% for elections in your country, where does it come from? Bill Gates is funding polio eradication efforts in your dustbin country

The biggest shith0ole ever in the history of mankind exports 2.5 million barrels of oil daily and yet 90% of their impoverished and long-suffering citizens struggle to survive on less than $ 2 a day.

Dirty, ugly pig!

empty barrels make the most noise. arrant nonsense!

like serious oh

PetroDolla3: fuckeduppedness do you know where more than 50 percent of the money for health, education and agricultural interventions in your sh1thole come from? even 50% for elections in your country, where does it come from? Bill Gates is funding polio eradication efforts in your dustbin country
The biggest shith0ole ever in the history of mankind exports 2.5 million barrels of oil daily and yet 90% of their impoverished and long-suffering citizens struggle to survive on less than $ 2 a day.
Dirty, ugly pig!
empty barrels make the most noise. arrant nonsense!

GUY. CALM DOWN. SPEAK NOT OF WHAT YOU KNOW LITTLE ABOUT. okay? show some level of maturity. How you react after an verbal attack say much about you.

PetroDolla3: fuckeduppedness do you know where more than 50 percent of the money for health, education and agricultural interventions in your sh1thole come from? even 50% for elections in your country, where does it come from? Bill Gates is funding polio eradication efforts in your dustbin country

The biggest shith0ole ever in the history of mankind exports 2.5 million barrels of oil daily and yet 90% of their impoverished and long-suffering citizens struggle to survive on less than $ 2 a day.

Dirty, ugly pig!

empty barrels make the most noise. arrant nonsense!

What a t_wat!

Are you still pained from the lash bashing?

A god-accursed fuggly looking burnt scavenger from the gorilla clan is mouthing off.

You're dam.n hungry, have you eaten?

Hunger has really rendered your thinking faculty barren. 90% of Nigerians are impoverished, yet 60M Nigerians spend N1.8 biliion daily on sport betting

Only one thiRd of Nigerians are poor - World bank

What a dunce! Apart from hunger, cholera also played a part rendering your brain barren.

PetroDolla3: fuckeduppedness do you know where more than 50 percent of the money for health, education and agricultural interventions in your sh1thole come from? even 50% for elections in your country, where does it come from? Bill Gates is funding polio eradication efforts in your dustbin country

The biggest shith0ole ever in the history of mankind exports 2.5 million barrels of oil daily and yet 90% of their impoverished and long-suffering citizens struggle to survive on less than $ 2 a day.

Dirty, ugly pig!

empty barrels make the most noise. arrant nonsense!

bill gate donate to help polio and that's your problem? Nigeria was among the top donors to sponsor the hurricane kathrina victims in USA. So what are we now saying? Mind you bill gate has charities all over Asia and Africa. Mumu person. There is a different between charitable donations and foreign financial aids. Your country relies on aids from Europe 70%, African countries (nigeria) 20%, usa10% to fund its budget and you are still proud enough to log in to a nigerian site and say human development index says you are developing? Keep reading the index while mahama occupy himself with the shameful business of keeping obama's balls clean.

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overhypedsteve: bill gate donate to help polio and that's your problem? Nigeria was among the top donors to sponsor the hurricane kathrina victims in USA. So what are we now saying? Mind you bill gate has charities all over Asia and Africa. Mumu person. There is a different between charitable donations and foreign financial aids. Your country relies on aids from Europe 70%, African countries (nigeria) 20%, usa10% to fund its budget and you are still proud enough to log in to a nigerian site and say human development index says you are developing? Keep reading the index while mahama occupy himself with the shameful business of keeping obama's balls clean.
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Nigeria jagajaga, Everything scatter scatter Poor man dey suffer suffer Gbosa, gbosa, gunshot inna de air. you give aid to Ghana? hahahaha shitnigeria needs AID from Ghana what is the annual budget of your federal government? $32 billion. what is the annual budget of Ghana? $16 billion. $32 billion for 200 million MUMUs and $16 billion for 24 million progressive people, which of these two countries/governments is in a position to provide aid to the other? by the time your thieving officials remove their share from your $32 billion budget, the remainder won't be more than $8 billion $8 fvcking billions for 200 million modafakas

fuckeduppedness I know your limited and compromised IQ makes it impossible to talk with sense, which is the reason my dog has more sense than a fooool like you. shine your eyes, magg0t!

bla bla bla 90% of your fellow apes surviving on less than $2 a day and you are here talking crass nonsense? you did this you did that, and yet you couldn't help your fellow apes back in your sh1tland to the extent most of them feed from the dustbin? http://ugowrite..com/2011/04/nigeria-meal-from-dustbin-in-lagos.html

heard salt and bitter cola no more helping your Ebola-ravaged sh1thole. you may wish to start swallowing otapiapia

no wonder your crime-infested youths are the least happy in the whole world https://www.nairaland.com/1694439/nigerian-youth-least-happy-world#22547342

https://www.nairaland.com/1607845/how-lies-truths-nigeria


shitnigerians breed unhindered, like pigs. The MUMUs will have 10 children when they hardly have enough to feed themselves- thereby breeding robbers, pr0stitutes, vagabonds etc

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

There are no words to describe sh1tnigeria

hahahahaha 90% of your long-suffering, boko haramed, crime-prone, depraved people survive on $2 a day

no wonder lagbaja says shitnigerians are MUMUs/foooolshttp://fabmagazineonline.com/fab-outburst-nigerians-are-mumus-fools-lagbaja/

read what your own national bureau is saying about endemic poverty in sh1tland

even sef seeing they way your fellow shitnigerian apes rushed for fashola's fanta, I am convinced poverty level in shitnigeria is about 99%. if grown ups and supposedly employed men can fight like this over fanta, what will unemployed younger shitnigerians do when they see food? hahahaha heard fights break out often over food ad social gatherings in shitnigeria hahahaha the United Nations should be thinking of organising food aid for these suffering and smiling apes

112.5 million Nigerians live in poverty
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/112-5-million-nigerians-live-in-poverty-nbs/

The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said that 112.519 million Nigerians live in relative poverty conditions.

This is staggering when compared with the country’s estimated 163 million population.

Relative poverty is the comparison of the living standards of people living in a given society within a specified period of time.

It is the most acceptable poverty measurement which has been adopted by the NBS for many years.

Apart from the relative poverty index, other poverty measurement standards are absolute measure, which puts the country’s poverty rate at 99.284 million or 60.9 per cent; the dollar per day measure, which puts the poverty rate at 61.2 per cent; and the subjective poverty measure, which puts the poverty level at 93.9 per cent.

Instructively, all the four methods used in measuring poverty by the NBS pointed to the fact that there was disconnect between the country’s Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 7.75 per cent and the high poverty rate.

The relative poverty figure of 112.5 million, which was contained in the 2010 poverty profile report of the agency, was released in Abuja on Monday. It represents 69 per cent of the country’s total population.

The 26-page report, which provides details of poverty and income distribution across the country, put the 2004 poverty measurement rate at 54.4 per cent.

The Statistician-General of the NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale, while unveiling the report, noted that the figure might increase to 71.5 per cent when the 2011 figure is computed.

“The NBS estimates that this trend may have increased further in 2011 if the potential impacts of several anti-poverty and employment generation intervention programmes are not taken into account,” he said.

In arriving at the 2010 figure, the NBS boss said data from 20 million households having an average of between four to six family members were collected.

The agency has yet to carry out a survey of the 2011 poverty level as funds for the exercise are still being expected.

According to the report, the North-West and North-East recorded the highest poverty rates in the country in 2010with 77.7 per cent and 76.3 per cent respectively.

On the other hand, the South-West geo-political zone, according to the report, recorded the lowest at 59.1 per cent.

Among the 36 states of the federation, the report stated that Sokoto had the highest poverty rate (86.4 per cent), while Niger had the lowest at (43.6, per cent).

As at 2004, Jigawa State had the highest poverty rate (95 per cent), while Anambra, with a poverty rate of 22 per cent, was the least poverty-stricken state.

Kale said, “In 2004, Nigeria’s relative poverty measurement stood at 54.4 per cent but increased to 69 per cent or 112.518 million Nigerians in 2010.

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What a t_wat!

Are you still pained from the lash bashing?

A god-accursed fuggly looking burnt scavenger from the gorilla clan is mouthing off.

You're dam.n hungry, have you eaten?

Hunger has really rendered your thinking faculty barren. 90% of Nigerians are impoverished, yet 60M Nigerians spend N1.8 biliion daily on sport betting

Only one thiRd of Nigerians are poor - World bank

What a dunce! Apart from hunger, cholera also played a part rendering your brain barren.

PetroDolla3: https://www.nairaland.com/1607845/how-lies-truths-nigeria


shitnigerians breed unhindered, like pigs. The MUMUs will have 10 children when they hardly have enough to feed themselves- thereby breeding robbers, pr0stitutes, vagabonds etc

Hahahaha no wonder sh1tnigeria

hahahahahaha petrodullard, your dumbness is legendary.
If gaynaians are living like Germans why then are Y'all committing suicide.



five gaynaians commit suicide daily poverty



It may come as a surprise to you, but by the end of today, five or more people in Ghana would have taken their own lives, a phenomenon known as suicide. The worst part of it is that some of these persons may take the life of other people (Homicide) before taking theirs.

Some alarming information stumbled upon by The Globe newspaper reveal that the rate of suicide (the action of killing oneself intentionally) in Ghana is climbing at an incredible rate.

The last few weeks have seen the crime dominating newspaper headlines. This has caused fear and panic with some calling for national prayers to exorcise Ghana from any evil.

Available statistics on suicide in Ghana put together by the Network for Anti-suicide and Crisis Prevention over a year indicate that Greater Accra region had the highest number of deaths by suicide, recording 431 and still counting.

Below is the breakdown by region Greater Accra Region 431 Northern Region 276 Ashanti Region 132 Upper West 118 Brong Ahafo Region 114 Upper East 102 Western Region 102 Eastern Region 98 Volta Region 97 Central region 86

Total: 1,556

Per the data, an average of five out of every 10 people die every day in Ghana and this could even be worse should families or victims be bold enough to give information about some deaths that have been covered up and blamed on “illness”.

The Globe’s checks indicate that the most dominant method being used in the southern sector was by hanging and poisoning while in the northern sector it was by fire arm and hanging.

According to the statistics, the highest number of cases recorded was between the ages of 20 to 35 years which recorded a total of 702 and the outstanding reason for them committing suicide has been attributed to love relationship problems, poverty amongst others.

The next category is people between the ages of nine to 19 years which recorded 531 deaths. The dominant cause of their death ranged between problems with parents, failure at school, inability of parents to provide their needs, love relationship problems amongst others.

The third category ranges from 36 years upwards and that recorded about 323 deaths. The foremost reason for this category of people is impotence and poverty.

The staggering statistics further revealed that within the year more men committed suicide than women. 1, 129 men took their lives as against 427 women.

A former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Professor Brian Mishara in a survey conducted by his institution revealed that “more than a million people worldwide die by suicide each year, many millions make suicide attempts severe enough to need medical treatment and many more millions are affected by the disastrous impact of a suicide. A global mortality rate of 1 death every 40 seconds.”

He added that “in this age of preoccupation with global violence, terrorism and homicides, we often ignore the fact that worldwide more people kill themselves than die in all wars, terrorist acts and interpersonal violence combined.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that by the year 2020, 1.5 million people will kill themselves annually worldwide. The sheer numbers make suicide and suicidal behaviour a top health issue. The WHO has, in fact, made suicide prevention, along with public prevention of malaria and tobacco related diseases, the top priorities for the first decade of this millennium.

Committing suicide in Ghana or attempting to commit suicide in Ghana is a criminal act and some Civil Society Organisations are calling for the decriminalisation of suicide so that persons who have the intention to commit or are contemplating the act can come forward for help.

Section 57 Clause 2 of the 1960 Criminal Code of Ghana clearly states that attempted suicide is a crime.

Just last week, about four people were reported to have committed suicide and these reports came from the rural areas. Information is, however, rife that the act of suicide is rampant in the rural areas and due to the fear of stigma against relatives of the victims, most of the cases are covered up.

The Chief Psychiatrist at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Akwasi Osei, said 93-95% of all suicides and attempted suicides are from mental disorders, with over 80% of the lot from depression.

Creative Minds, an NGO established with the aim of preventing and a helping person with suicide intentions told The Globe in an interview that “the rate at which suicide is spreading in the country is becoming alarming. It has become more dangerous than HIV/Aids that we’re all fighting against. When someone decides to commit suicide it doesn’t take 10 minutes to execute, by the time you step out of the room and return, you’d see him or her hanging or poison themselves.”

The founder of Creative Minds, Madam Mary Addy, who herself contemplated suicide some years ago confirmed the fact that “more men are committing suicide than women and it is the youth, the working class.”

Madam Addy and her NGO which is crying for funding to help reduce the suicide rate in the country literally moves from town to town whenever she gets a call from someone who is contemplating suicide and try to counsel the person out of it. This hectic assignation, she said, is funded from her own pocket, but said this has helped her realise reasons why people would want to take their lives.

She outlined some of the reasons saying “in Ghana, some of the causes are sexual abuses, stigmatisation, emotional pains from serious losses – be it the loss of a relative or some material things. People who have been diagnosed with HIV can commit suicide.”

She added: “In my case for example, I was defiled when I was nine years and the mental pain was there throughout and I was growing with the pain and stigma. When your relatives or guardians do not show you any love or tell you anything good about yourself and all you go through is sorrow and suffering, what then is the essence of life? People have taken suicide as the means to an end or the only way available to end it all.”

Dr. David Brent, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said “a first-degree relative – a parent, sibling or child – of a person who has committed suicide is four to six times more likely to attempt or complete a suicide.”**

chineke, see this magg0t! only five suicides in Ghana? hahahaha do you know the number of suicide bombings that occur each day in your sh1thole? hahahaha fuckeduppedness

aluu killing tinz http://globalvillenews.com/2012/10/08/nigeria-four-uniport-students-murder-in-cold-blood-video/

food stampede hahahaha http://news.silobreaker.com/food-stampede-kills-20-in-nigeria-5_2267180766955831391

“THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE”,BEING TITLE OF LECTURE DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA, SAN ON THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF HIS EXCELLENCY TIMIPRE SYLVA
I think it is too elementary to attempt any formal definition of democracy.
It will serve our purpose to say that it is participatory governance in the sense that we all have a say, whether we vote or not.

It is also useful to remind ourselves that participation is largely by representation; in other words, those who are old enough to vote and those who are not, are represented by people elected to speak, think and act for us.
This part is very important because we all cannot be in Government, especially the Executive and Legislative arm, so we must elect or otherwise choose people to go there on our behalf.
The problem is compounded by size.

Can you imagine what a Senate or House of Representatives where all 160 million of us can sit will look like?
From this point we can see the inherent challenges that lie in a process of collective decision making.
In order to further highlight some of the challenges that lie in democratic governance, I will share with you a report of developments across the World published by Newsweek Magazine on August 23 & 30, 2010 edition titled “the Best Countries in the World”, Newsweek Top 100.
An article by Rana Foroohar posed the following question before delivering the report of a survey of 100 nations:-

”If you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous and upwardly mobile life?”
In the answer, Finland was number 1, Nigeria was number 99, Ghana was number 86, South Africa was number 82, Brazil was number 48, Singapore was number 20, USA was number 11, United Kingdom was number 14. Greece, with its recent economic and debt crises was number 26, Russia was number 51.

The United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, that are not democracies in the contemporary sense of the western conception were rated 43, 53, 54 and 64 respectively.
Out of the 53 African countries on the continent, only 18 made the ranking, the highest being Tunisia 65, Morocco 67 and Egypt 74.
South Africa, which is reputed to be arguably the best democracy in Africa and at the time, the largest economy ranked lower than

these “undemocratic” North African countries at 82.
As if this was not bad enough, earlier this year on a business trip to Abu Dhabi, I was forced to enter into conversation with a middle aged man of Arab extraction.
It was in the evening in our hotel. He had come out to the restaurant to dine and unwind. I ended up on the same table with him and he was insistent on making conversation while he drank a glass of red alcoholic wine.

In the event he sought to know where I came from and when I said Nigeria, he accused our Government of pauperizing our country when we have oil like his own country, Saudi Arabia.
When I told him that he was not supposed to drink alcohol he asked me if I was going to report to his country.

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hahahahahaha petrodullard, your dumbness is legendary.
If gaynaians are living like Germans why then are Y'all committing suicide.



five gaynaians commit suicide daily poverty



It may come as a surprise to you, but by the end of today, five or more people in Ghana would have taken their own lives, a phenomenon known as suicide. The worst part of it is that some of these persons may take the life of other people (Homicide) before taking theirs.

Some alarming information stumbled upon by The Globe newspaper reveal that the rate of suicide (the action of killing oneself intentionally) in Ghana is climbing at an incredible rate.

The last few weeks have seen the crime dominating newspaper headlines. This has caused fear and panic with some calling for national prayers to exorcise Ghana from any evil.

Available statistics on suicide in Ghana put together by the Network for Anti-suicide and Crisis Prevention over a year indicate that Greater Accra region had the highest number of deaths by suicide, recording 431 and still counting.

Below is the breakdown by region Greater Accra Region 431 Northern Region 276 Ashanti Region 132 Upper West 118 Brong Ahafo Region 114 Upper East 102 Western Region 102 Eastern Region 98 Volta Region 97 Central region 86

Total: 1,556

Per the data, an average of five out of every 10 people die every day in Ghana and this could even be worse should families or victims be bold enough to give information about some deaths that have been covered up and blamed on “illness”.

The Globe’s checks indicate that the most dominant method being used in the southern sector was by hanging and poisoning while in the northern sector it was by fire arm and hanging.

According to the statistics, the highest number of cases recorded was between the ages of 20 to 35 years which recorded a total of 702 and the outstanding reason for them committing suicide has been attributed to love relationship problems, poverty amongst others.

The next category is people between the ages of nine to 19 years which recorded 531 deaths. The dominant cause of their death ranged between problems with parents, failure at school, inability of parents to provide their needs, love relationship problems amongst others.

The third category ranges from 36 years upwards and that recorded about 323 deaths. The foremost reason for this category of people is impotence and poverty.

The staggering statistics further revealed that within the year more men committed suicide than women. 1, 129 men took their lives as against 427 women.

A former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Professor Brian Mishara in a survey conducted by his institution revealed that “more than a million people worldwide die by suicide each year, many millions make suicide attempts severe enough to need medical treatment and many more millions are affected by the disastrous impact of a suicide. A global mortality rate of 1 death every 40 seconds.”

He added that “in this age of preoccupation with global violence, terrorism and homicides, we often ignore the fact that worldwide more people kill themselves than die in all wars, terrorist acts and interpersonal violence combined.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that by the year 2020, 1.5 million people will kill themselves annually worldwide. The sheer numbers make suicide and suicidal behaviour a top health issue. The WHO has, in fact, made suicide prevention, along with public prevention of malaria and tobacco related diseases, the top priorities for the first decade of this millennium.

Committing suicide in Ghana or attempting to commit suicide in Ghana is a criminal act and some Civil Society Organisations are calling for the decriminalisation of suicide so that persons who have the intention to commit or are contemplating the act can come forward for help.

Section 57 Clause 2 of the 1960 Criminal Code of Ghana clearly states that attempted suicide is a crime.

Just last week, about four people were reported to have committed suicide and these reports came from the rural areas. Information is, however, rife that the act of suicide is rampant in the rural areas and due to the fear of stigma against relatives of the victims, most of the cases are covered up.

The Chief Psychiatrist at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Akwasi Osei, said 93-95% of all suicides and attempted suicides are from mental disorders, with over 80% of the lot from depression.

Creative Minds, an NGO established with the aim of preventing and a helping person with suicide intentions told The Globe in an interview that “the rate at which suicide is spreading in the country is becoming alarming. It has become more dangerous than HIV/Aids that we’re all fighting against. When someone decides to commit suicide it doesn’t take 10 minutes to execute, by the time you step out of the room and return, you’d see him or her hanging or poison themselves.”

The founder of Creative Minds, Madam Mary Addy, who herself contemplated suicide some years ago confirmed the fact that “more men are committing suicide than women and it is the youth, the working class.”

Madam Addy and her NGO which is crying for funding to help reduce the suicide rate in the country literally moves from town to town whenever she gets a call from someone who is contemplating suicide and try to counsel the person out of it. This hectic assignation, she said, is funded from her own pocket, but said this has helped her realise reasons why people would want to take their lives.

She outlined some of the reasons saying “in Ghana, some of the causes are sexual abuses, stigmatisation, emotional pains from serious losses – be it the loss of a relative or some material things. People who have been diagnosed with HIV can commit suicide.”

She added: “In my case for example, I was defiled when I was nine years and the mental pain was there throughout and I was growing with the pain and stigma. When your relatives or guardians do not show you any love or tell you anything good about yourself and all you go through is sorrow and suffering, what then is the essence of life? People have taken suicide as the means to an end or the only way available to end it all.”

Dr. David Brent, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said “a first-degree relative – a parent, sibling or child – of a person who has committed suicide is four to six times more likely to attempt or complete a suicide.”**

PetroDolla3: chineke, see this

This odious walking corpse keep screaming "Chineke", so you acknowledge me as your chineke?
Well done boy!!!!

Mess up and I'll inflict your household with SARS, ebola, swine influenza, real hardship and Hiv.

What a delusional dunce!

A silly drunk with no hope of survival that even renounced his gaynaian citizenship to seek asylum in Brazil...

Poverty must be seriously dealing with Y'all in gayna...

Petrodullard you're really suffering, no wonder you're raving mad!

More gaynaians renounce their nationality


Many Ghanaians are now renouncing their nationality to become citizens of other countries due to economic reasons, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of the Interior, announced on Monday.

He said in all, a total number of 817 applications were received and approved from Ghanaians in 2013 to enable them to change their nationalities.

Out of the number, 367 were males and 450 were female Ghanaians, who took nationality in Germany (538), Netherlands (233), Norway (32), Denmark (7), Austria (5), Hong Kong (1) and China (1), Mr Ahwoi said this at the-meet-the-press series in Accra.

Elaborating further on the issue, Mr David Agorsor, Director in Charge of Migration Unit of the Ministry said majority of the applicants were health professionals, especially doctors and nurses, who had their passports taken from them and returned to the Passport office on completion of the process.

He explained that, such people renounced their Ghanaian nationality because they are mostly offered job opportunities in those countries which do not recognize dual citizenship.

Mr Agorsor, who described the situation as very alarming, however said such people could regain their Ghanaian citizenship if they renounce the foreign one later.

“The rate at which Ghanaians are naturalizing as Germans is alarming. Almost every week, people come over to naturalise as Germans unlike in previous times-when they go seeking for greener pastures”.

Meanwhile, Mr Ahwoi said 39 foreigners applied to naturalize as Ghanaians, and that 29 of them had been approved and the remaining 10 being outstanding.

Of these, 17 people were Lebanese, five Indians, one each from Nigeria, Korea, Egypt, America, Britain and Liberia.

The Interior Minister gave an overview about work being done within the 10 agencies of the Sector Ministry, made up of the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Service, Ghana Immigration Service, and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

The rest are the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Ghana Refugee Board, Gaming Commission, National Commission on Small Arms and the National Peace Council.

Mr Ahwoi said all the agencies would collaborate and work to provide a safe and secure environment where social economic activities would thrive within the confines of the law to enable Ghana to enhance her status as a middle income country to achieve higher growth and development.

He said many of the laws governing the agencies were obsolete and that, they are being amended at various stages to bring them up to date.

He said a new migration policy, a private security organisations regulations, a locksmiths activities regulations as well as a service charter had been designed while the NADMO Bill had been approved by Cabinet.

A cabinet memorandum on a loan facility to procure logistics for security agencies is also being worked on, and that, when that is approved, the agencies would be provided with the needed logistics for effective operations.

Meanwhile, Mr Ahwoi said 39 foreigners applied to naturalize as Ghanaians, and that 29 of them had been approved and the remaining 10 being outstanding.

Of these, 17 people were Lebanese, five Indians, one each from Nigeria , Korea, Egypt, America, Britain and Liberia. The 10 applicants whose applications are still being considered are all shitnigerians.

The Interior Minister gave an overview about work being done within the 10 agencies of the Sector Ministry, made up of the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Service, Ghana Immigration Service, and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

The rest are the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Ghana Refugee Board, Gaming Commission, National Commission on Small Arms and the National Peace Council.

Mr Ahwoi said all the agencies would collaborate and work to provide a safe and secure environment where social economic activities would thrive within the confines of the law to enable Ghana to enhance her status as a middle income country to achieve higher growth and development.

He said many of the laws governing the agencies were obsolete and that, they are being amended at various stages to bring them up to date.

He said a new migration policy, a private security organisations regulations, a locksmiths activities regulations as well as a service charter had been designed while the NADMO Bill had been approved by Cabinet.

A cabinet memorandum on a loan facility to procure logistics for security agencies is also being worked on, and that, when that is approved, the agencies would be provided with the needed logistics for effective operations.

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This odious walking corpse keep screaming "Chineke", so you acknowledge me as your chineke?
Well done boy!!!!

Mess up and I'll inflict your household with SARS, ebola, swine influenza, real hardship and Hiv.

What a delusional dunce!

A silly drunk with no hope of survival that even renounced his gaynaian citizenship to seek asylum in Brazil...

Poverty must be seriously dealing with Y'all in gayna...

Petrodullard you're really suffering, no wonder you're raving mad!

More gaynaians renounce their nationality


Many Ghanaians are now renouncing their nationality to become citizens of other countries due to economic reasons, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of the Interior, announced on Monday.

He said in all, a total number of 817 applications were received and approved from Ghanaians in 2013 to enable them to change their nationalities.

Out of the number, 367 were males and 450 were female Ghanaians, who took nationality in Germany (538), Netherlands (233), Norway (32), Denmark (7), Austria (5), Hong Kong (1) and China (1), Mr Ahwoi said this at the-meet-the-press series in Accra.

Elaborating further on the issue, Mr David Agorsor, Director in Charge of Migration Unit of the Ministry said majority of the applicants were health professionals, especially doctors and nurses, who had their passports taken from them and returned to the Passport office on completion of the process.

He explained that, such people renounced their Ghanaian nationality because they are mostly offered job opportunities in those countries which do not recognize dual citizenship.

Mr Agorsor, who described the situation as very alarming, however said such people could regain their Ghanaian citizenship if they renounce the foreign one later.

“The rate at which Ghanaians are naturalizing as Germans is alarming. Almost every week, people come over to naturalise as Germans unlike in previous times-when they go seeking for greener pastures”.

Meanwhile, Mr Ahwoi said 39 foreigners applied to naturalize as Ghanaians, and that 29 of them had been approved and the remaining 10 being outstanding.

Of these, 17 people were Lebanese, five Indians, one each from Nigeria, Korea, Egypt, America, Britain and Liberia.

The Interior Minister gave an overview about work being done within the 10 agencies of the Sector Ministry, made up of the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Service, Ghana Immigration Service, and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

The rest are the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Ghana Refugee Board, Gaming Commission, National Commission on Small Arms and the National Peace Council.

Mr Ahwoi said all the agencies would collaborate and work to provide a safe and secure environment where social economic activities would thrive within the confines of the law to enable Ghana to enhance her status as a middle income country to achieve higher growth and development.

He said many of the laws governing the agencies were obsolete and that, they are being amended at various stages to bring them up to date.

He said a new migration policy, a private security organisations regulations, a locksmiths activities regulations as well as a service charter had been designed while the NADMO Bill had been approved by Cabinet.

A cabinet memorandum on a loan facility to procure logistics for security agencies is also being worked on, and that, when that is approved, the agencies would be provided with the needed logistics for effective operations.

PetroDolla3:
Meanwhile, Mr Ahwoi said 39 foreigners applied to naturalize as Ghanaians, and that 29 of them had been approved and the remaining 10 being outstanding.

Of these, 17 people were Lebanese, five Indians, one each from Nigeria , Korea, Egypt, America, Britain and Liberia. The 10 applicants whose applications are still being considered are all shitnigerians.

The Interior Minister gave an overview about work being done within the 10 agencies of the Sector Ministry, made up of the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Service, Ghana Immigration Service, and the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).

The rest are the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Ghana Refugee Board, Gaming Commission, National Commission on Small Arms and the National Peace Council.

Mr Ahwoi said all the agencies would collaborate and work to provide a safe and secure environment where social economic activities would thrive within the confines of the law to enable Ghana to enhance her status as a middle income country to achieve higher growth and development.

He said many of the laws governing the agencies were obsolete and that, they are being amended at various stages to bring them up to date.

He said a new migration policy, a private security organisations regulations, a locksmiths activities regulations as well as a service charter had been designed while the NADMO Bill had been approved by Cabinet.

A cabinet memorandum on a loan facility to procure logistics for security agencies is also being worked on, and that, when that is approved, the agencies would be provided with the needed logistics for effective operations.

You're a lazy drug-crazed thief

A dumb Lazy midget that sits at home from monday to sunday criticizing the government on the radio, without doing anything to help the economy grow.

You're a useless thief and I'm your chineke! I'll continue to teach you senses...

Petrodullard, go and get a job quit fvcking old mamas..

Gaynaians are lazy - Kwabena adjei



Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Kwabena Adjei says Ghanaians are lazy because they always sit on radio criticizing government without doing any work to support the country’s economy.

He says Ghanaians spend six days in the week on radio for commentary and rest on the seventh day, which is unacceptable.

Dr. Adjei was speaking at the launch of the US$2million Amir Complex, a modern shopping mall at Kisseiman in West Legon.

He argued that if the owners of the new shopping mall had chosen to lazy about talking on radio for six days in a week, the mall would not have been a reality.

“This should be a strong message to Ghanaians that there’s no free lunch in today’s world because every body’s contribution makes the country wealthy,” the NDC Chairman stressed.

Dr. Adjei is therefore urging Ghanaians to engage in something advantageous and desist from continuous radio and television commentary.

Meanwhile, the Director of “Amir Complex”, Stanley Tanor said the mall will support economic growth by contributing to government’s effort at creating jobs.

Tanor noted that the new mall will bring products and service close to people within Kisseiman and West Legon catchment area and ease the pressure on other malls in Accra.

Nigerians full everywhere. ..even in some countries wey never build road

Am tired of going through threads and the only thing I find is lousy people bashing the image of their countries.. Don't u guys get tired

*unfollows thread*

! Idiotic bastardz! What you people deserve is an extermination camp-just like what the Nazists did to the Jews. We need another holocaust to get rid of these unrepented pests who have brought nothing but shame and misery to Africa and the rest of the world. Election riggers, mass murderers,419ers,child rapists-VVFs.. The piece of shit called Nigeria is destined for the dustbin. Period! Hehehehe!

Hahahahahaha no wonder senator chukwumerije described these apes and f00ls as educated illiterates!
Hahahah no wonder Soyinka described your sh1thole as the open sore of Africa.

Nigeria is the centre for pirate attacks, kidnap capital of the world, as well as the top nation for terrorist attacks.

Boko Haram in the north, kidnapping in the southeast, oil bunkering in the south south, armed robberies in the southwest!

see disgrace. Men fighting over coke, Chei, naijaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hahahah what level of pocerty can possibly drive a father into selling his 6-month old son just to obtain a visa so he can flee the hellhole? [url] https://www.nairaland.com/1252740/father-sells-6-month-old-son-visa[/url]

fuckeduppedness1 a nation of 160 million fooooooooooooooooooooooools
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/

About The Nation Of Idiots Ruled By Fools
http://saharareporters.com/article/about-nation-idiots-ruled-fools

LAGBAJA SAYS NIGERIANS ARE MUMUS FOOLS
http://fabmagazineonline.com/fab-outburst-nigerians-are-mumus-fools-lagbaja/


http://lindaikeji..com/2011/09/nigerian-men-are-lazy-british-baroness.html

Politicians are aware Nigerians are lazy and unintelligent – Oluwatosin Adesanya
By Oluwatosin Adesanya on July 3, 2014@todayngr

If you are Nigerian and you feel a need to prove you are not stupid because you just read that headline, then you are worse than stupid.

Asides a person who is professionally involved in politics, one definition of the word Politician that is worthy of note is: “A person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.”

You can scratch off the last few words and replace with: “…typically to gain voters confidence at lightening speed via whatever means necessary.”

I have asked many eligible voters, why do you go ahead to vote if you can’t vouch for the person you are electing? Why do you trust a total stranger with four or eight years of your life without asking questions? Why do you sit and watch your tax not do what it is meant to do? Have you asked questions of your own? Have you gotten satisfactory answers? Do you desire more proof?

Yes, Faith is being hopeful and convinced that practical optimism will yield good results but how do you keep trusting that a pig won’t play dirty?

Nowadays, Nigerian Politicians don’t hide their dirty hands anymore. They approach the table like it’s a eat or die affair. These same set of politicians loop the same trick over and over again while we just sit and watch the years roll by. They fart in our faces because we are blind and deaf to their folly. But yeye dey smell!

The year 2015 is fast approaching and most of us are looking to vote for the ‘less corrupt’ because we don’t honestly know who or what party to vote for. Instead of convincing citizens with deeds, our politicians have resorted to idle barter of words.

When you sieve out the bomb blasts headlines and of course the characteristic blunder the Nigerian media has to offer, what do you get? Women with male organs who earn fat salaries, trading blames and allegations.

Can a Tinubu convince me without reminding me Jonathan is responsible for my flat tire? Can a Jonathan just prove I can trust him to not meddle in partisan politics? Can Obanikoro be impartial and do his job? Can the DHQ secure the release of our girls rather than release bland press statements every now and then? Will Jega ensure the people decide?

Which way Nigerians? Is there Diazepam in your stew?

Is history not enough? Methinks facts and reality are all the slaps we need as Nigerians. But it is beginning to look like we need something smarter and more devious than Boko Haram to shake us out of prolonged slumber.

Perhaps we are waiting for when ‘Who killed Ken Saro Wiwa‘ will become a question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘?

Politician A calls Politician B a Goat, Politician B fires back. Politician Z wey nothing concern insults Politician B then Politician C helps out Politician B by blaming Politician A for what Politician D did years ago. It is now like watching badminton. Nigerian politics has become a confusing scheme of nonsense for politicians who in a bid to stay relevant, utter foolishness because they know Nigerians are brain-dead and only play the dutiful audience.

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“in Accra.

PetroDolla3: ! Idiotic bastardz! What you people deserve is an extermination camp-just like what the Nazists did to the Jews. We need another holocaust to get rid of these unrepented pests who have brought nothing but shame and misery to Africa and the rest of the world. Election riggers, mass murderers,419ers,child rapists-VVFs.. The piece of shit called Nigeria is destined for the dustbin. Period! Hehehehe!

Hahahahahaha no wonder senator chukwumerije described these apes and f00ls as educated illiterates!
Hahahah no wonder Soyinka described your sh1thole as the open sore of Africa.

Nigeria is the centre for pirate attacks, kidnap capital of the world, as well as the top nation for terrorist attacks.

Boko Haram in the north, kidnapping in the southeast, oil bunkering in the south south, armed robberies in the southwest!

see disgrace. Men fighting over coke, Chei, naijaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hahahah what level of pocerty can possibly drive a father into selling his 6-month old son just to obtain a visa so he can flee the hellhole? [url] https://www.nairaland.com/1252740/father-sells-6-month-old-son-visa[/url]

fuckeduppedness1 a nation of 160 million fooooooooooooooooooooooools
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/

About The Nation Of Idiots Ruled By Fools
http://saharareporters.com/article/about-nation-idiots-ruled-fools

LAGBAJA SAYS NIGERIANS ARE MUMUS FOOLS
http://fabmagazineonline.com/fab-outburst-nigerians-are-mumus-fools-lagbaja/


http://lindaikeji..com/2011/09/nigerian-men-are-lazy-british-baroness.html

Politicians are aware Nigerians are lazy and unintelligent – Oluwatosin Adesanya
By Oluwatosin Adesanya on July 3, 2014@todayngr

If you are Nigerian and you feel a need to prove you are not stupid because you just read that headline, then you are worse than stupid.

Asides a person who is professionally involved in politics, one definition of the word Politician that is worthy of note is: “A person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement within an organization.”

You can scratch off the last few words and replace with: “…typically to gain voters confidence at lightening speed via whatever means necessary.”

I have asked many eligible voters, why do you go ahead to vote if you can’t vouch for the person you are electing? Why do you trust a total stranger with four or eight years of your life without asking questions? Why do you sit and watch your tax not do what it is meant to do? Have you asked questions of your own? Have you gotten satisfactory answers? Do you desire more proof?

Yes, Faith is being hopeful and convinced that practical optimism will yield good results but how do you keep trusting that a pig won’t play dirty?

Nowadays, Nigerian Politicians don’t hide their dirty hands anymore. They approach the table like it’s a eat or die affair. These same set of politicians loop the same trick over and over again while we just sit and watch the years roll by. They fart in our faces because we are blind and deaf to their folly. But yeye dey smell!

The year 2015 is fast approaching and most of us are looking to vote for the ‘less corrupt’ because we don’t honestly know who or what party to vote for. Instead of convincing citizens with deeds, our politicians have resorted to idle barter of words.

When you sieve out the bomb blasts headlines and of course the characteristic blunder the Nigerian media has to offer, what do you get? Women with male organs who earn fat salaries, trading blames and allegations.

Can a Tinubu convince me without reminding me Jonathan is responsible for my flat tire? Can a Jonathan just prove I can trust him to not meddle in partisan politics? Can Obanikoro be impartial and do his job? Can the DHQ secure the release of our girls rather than release bland press statements every now and then? Will Jega ensure the people decide?

Which way Nigerians? Is there Diazepam in your stew?

Is history not enough? Methinks facts and reality are all the slaps we need as Nigerians. But it is beginning to look like we need something smarter and more devious than Boko Haram to shake us out of prolonged slumber.

Perhaps we are waiting for when ‘Who killed Ken Saro Wiwa‘ will become a question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘?

Politician A calls Politician B a Goat, Politician B fires back. Politician Z wey nothing concern insults Politician B then Politician C helps out Politician B by blaming Politician A for what Politician D did years ago. It is now like watching badminton. Nigerian politics has become a confusing scheme of nonsense for politicians who in a bid to stay relevant, utter foolishness because they know Nigerians are brain-dead and only play the dutiful audience.

Emotions! Emotions!! Emotions!!!

That's all I see, you're so pained that you can't concentrate.

Typical suffering and pretending gaynaian daft.

The reality on ground....

80% of Accra residents live in slums – Farouk Braimah

The chief executive officer of the People’s Dialogue on Human Settlement has said 80% of Accra’s residents live in slums.

“There are basically two definitions we can ascribe to a slum. We identified five key areas; the one that talks about improved sanitation, the one that talks about clean water, the physical condition of the house, tenure security and overcrowding,” he said.

Speaking on Our Cities, Farouk Braimah said his outfit worked with the UN and Ministry Of Local Government to find a localized definition of slums and they discovered that some slums had grown, matured and nothing could be done about them except for regeneration.

“There are different categories of slums. We have one that has grown and matured and there is nothing we can do about it unless you wipe them out or do some regeneration; and we have the smaller slums which are more transient and we can deal with them by getting the people out of the area,” he stated.

Mr. Braimah further stated, “If you have a settlement that provides toilet facilities for a hundred people and the population increases to five hundred and you don’t expand the network of toilet facilities, there is definitely going to [be] an over-stretched pressure on this facility.”

“Over a long period of time, we have not had a significant improvement in housing… The houses are not there; the infrastructure is not expanding and more people are moving in so definitely, we’ll have a rundown tournament,” he added.






You're still rambling about 419, huh? dullard!



gayna overtakes Nigeria as 419 capital of the world



The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology. The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.

Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- Ghana is doing extremely well by African standards. Of course "by African standards" means there are dirt roads leading past the brand-new, gold-columned presidential palace, and it seems 1 percent of the country is blowing their country's GDP at bars with $50 cover charges while the other 99 is selling bags of water at stop lights. They have huge mineral reserves and lots of foreign money invested in their extraction, all of which ends up concentrated in the hands of the president, his cabinet, and whichever of their cousins they're getting along with at the time.

The Ghanaian government likes to boast that their unemployment rate is in the single digits and they're creating millions of new jobs a year specifically targeting the youth bulge, but when you pull up a pile of rubble and sit down with a member of said bulge, the story seems a lot less cheery. The actual unemployment rate for 15- to 24-year-olds hovers between 25 and 30 percent and unless you're a relative or close friend of someone in the ruling class, you can look forward to a long and fruitful career in water sales.

But Ghana also has a reasonably sophisticated technology infrastructure and has declared itself the "Internet Capital of West Africa," which is kind of archly tragic because right now the internet is the only thing keeping the kids at bay.

During Nigeria's oil boom in the 70s, Ghanaians flooded into the country to take guest worker jobs. Within 10 years they'd worn out their welcome and were deported en mass back to Ghana, but not before they'd picked up a popular local pastime: the Nigerian "pen pal scam." The way it works is you become pen pals with some dolt in America or Britain, bitch about how hard your life is in Africa, then wait for them to send you money and presents.

See the rest of The Sakawa Boys at Motherboard.tv

As computers made their way into the continent, the scam was adapted to e-mail and gradually evolved into the rainbow of weird phishing messages from state treasurers and estate managers and plane-crash lawyers that crowd your inbox every morning. And as scammers got hungrier for bigger pickins, they hooked up with hacker-types from the U.S. and Europe who taught them basic credit card fraud, which they combined with the playacting of the e-mail scam to create increasingly elaborate -- and profitable -- superscams. Then for some reason they combined all of this with black magic, and that's how Sakawa was born.

In the same way that hip-hop went from a music style into a descriptor for everything from pants to dancing to potato chips, Sakawa (which originally referred to a specific credit card scam) now means pretty much anything involving money -- if you wear a bunch of flashy brand-name clothes you're dressing "Sakawa," if you've got a nice car it's a "Sakawa" car -- all of which makes sense considering internet scamming is the only way most Ghanaians can afford this.

Right now Sakawa is in its salad days. The Sakawa Boys movie franchise has made it up to "Sakawa Boys 8," Juju priests are making a killing enchanting e-mails, Christian preachers are making a killing complaining about enchanted e-mails, and Ghanaians of all ages and interests (but mostly "young" and "not being poor" are packed into internet cafes finding more and more ingenious ways of ripping off Westerners.

While a lot of Sakawa practitioners have cooked up elaborate post-colonial justifications where they're just getting the white man back for taking all their gold, a few, like our guide Seva, see Sakawa for what it really is: a massive bubble just waiting to burst. As Ghana overtakes freaking Nigeria as the e-fraud capital of the world, the government is scrambling to find a way to keep Sakawa from wrecking the country's business reputation without cutting off an entire young generation from their sole source of steady revenue. And just to make things more interesting, Ghana just discovered oil.

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hahahahahaha petrodullard, your dumbness is legendary.
If gaynaians are living like Germans why then are Y'all committing suicide.



five gaynaians commit suicide daily poverty



It may come as a surprise to you, but by the end of today, five or more people in Ghana would have taken their own lives, a phenomenon known as suicide. The worst part of it is that some of these persons may take the life of other people (Homicide) before taking theirs.

Some alarming information stumbled upon by The Globe newspaper reveal that the rate of suicide (the action of killing oneself intentionally) in Ghana is climbing at an incredible rate.

The last few weeks have seen the crime dominating newspaper headlines. This has caused fear and panic with some calling for national prayers to exorcise Ghana from any evil.

Available statistics on suicide in Ghana put together by the Network for Anti-suicide and Crisis Prevention over a year indicate that Greater Accra region had the highest number of deaths by suicide, recording 431 and still counting.

Below is the breakdown by region Greater Accra Region 431 Northern Region 276 Ashanti Region 132 Upper West 118 Brong Ahafo Region 114 Upper East 102 Western Region 102 Eastern Region 98 Volta Region 97 Central region 86

Total: 1,556

Per the data, an average of five out of every 10 people die every day in Ghana and this could even be worse should families or victims be bold enough to give information about some deaths that have been covered up and blamed on “illness”.

The Globe’s checks indicate that the most dominant method being used in the southern sector was by hanging and poisoning while in the northern sector it was by fire arm and hanging.

According to the statistics, the highest number of cases recorded was between the ages of 20 to 35 years which recorded a total of 702 and the outstanding reason for them committing suicide has been attributed to love relationship problems, poverty amongst others.

The next category is people between the ages of nine to 19 years which recorded 531 deaths. The dominant cause of their death ranged between problems with parents, failure at school, inability of parents to provide their needs, love relationship problems amongst others.

The third category ranges from 36 years upwards and that recorded about 323 deaths. The foremost reason for this category of people is impotence and poverty.

The staggering statistics further revealed that within the year more men committed suicide than women. 1, 129 men took their lives as against 427 women.

A former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Professor Brian Mishara in a survey conducted by his institution revealed that “more than a million people worldwide die by suicide each year, many millions make suicide attempts severe enough to need medical treatment and many more millions are affected by the disastrous impact of a suicide. A global mortality rate of 1 death every 40 seconds.”

He added that “in this age of preoccupation with global violence, terrorism and homicides, we often ignore the fact that worldwide more people kill themselves than die in all wars, terrorist acts and interpersonal violence combined.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that by the year 2020, 1.5 million people will kill themselves annually worldwide. The sheer numbers make suicide and suicidal behaviour a top health issue. The WHO has, in fact, made suicide prevention, along with public prevention of malaria and tobacco related diseases, the top priorities for the first decade of this millennium.

Committing suicide in Ghana or attempting to commit suicide in Ghana is a criminal act and some Civil Society Organisations are calling for the decriminalisation of suicide so that persons who have the intention to commit or are contemplating the act can come forward for help.

Section 57 Clause 2 of the 1960 Criminal Code of Ghana clearly states that attempted suicide is a crime.

Just last week, about four people were reported to have committed suicide and these reports came from the rural areas. Information is, however, rife that the act of suicide is rampant in the rural areas and due to the fear of stigma against relatives of the victims, most of the cases are covered up.

The Chief Psychiatrist at the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Akwasi Osei, said 93-95% of all suicides and attempted suicides are from mental disorders, with over 80% of the lot from depression.

Creative Minds, an NGO established with the aim of preventing and a helping person with suicide intentions told The Globe in an interview that “the rate at which suicide is spreading in the country is becoming alarming. It has become more dangerous than HIV/Aids that we’re all fighting against. When someone decides to commit suicide it doesn’t take 10 minutes to execute, by the time you step out of the room and return, you’d see him or her hanging or poison themselves.”

The founder of Creative Minds, Madam Mary Addy, who herself contemplated suicide some years ago confirmed the fact that “more men are committing suicide than women and it is the youth, the working class.”

Madam Addy and her NGO which is crying for funding to help reduce the suicide rate in the country literally moves from town to town whenever she gets a call from someone who is contemplating suicide and try to counsel the person out of it. This hectic assignation, she said, is funded from her own pocket, but said this has helped her realise reasons why people would want to take their lives.

She outlined some of the reasons saying “in Ghana, some of the causes are sexual abuses, stigmatisation, emotional pains from serious losses – be it the loss of a relative or some material things. People who have been diagnosed with HIV can commit suicide.”

She added: “In my case for example, I was defiled when I was nine years and the mental pain was there throughout and I was growing with the pain and stigma. When your relatives or guardians do not show you any love or tell you anything good about yourself and all you go through is sorrow and suffering, what then is the essence of life? People have taken suicide as the means to an end or the only way available to end it all.”

Dr. David Brent, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said “a first-degree relative – a parent, sibling or child – of a person who has committed suicide is four to six times more likely to attempt or complete a suicide.”**

CHISOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahahaha I didn't expect an intelligent post from this cow-fvcking goat, and he did not disappoint hahahaha igbo Igbo fvcking cows and ranting like a rabid dog did some use the fooooooooooooooooooool's head as toilet? talk of a disaster made in shitnigeria my dog has more sense that this product of a baby factory

I'll keep on flogging this magg0t like a rented mule inhaling generator fumes is a national pastime in omo naija generator republic crack-addicted modafaking pedophile



NIGERIA: Lagos, the mega-city of slums
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Canoes glide through the black, stinking water as children run along an overhead maze of precarious walkways through Makoko, a growing slum on stilts in Nigeria’s sprawling commercial capital, Lagos.

Many of the original residents of Makoko are fishermen attracted from across the region to hopes of a better life in Nigeria, West Africa’s oil-rich economic powerhouse. But life is tougher than they had imagined.

“I moved here to fish, to set up a business,” said Martins Oke, in his 70s, who left his village on the Benin border when he was a small boy. “But some days I don’t even catch a single fish.”

Many Makoko residents have been here for generations, losing touch with family back home. Pride stops others from returning to their communities empty handed.

Despite the hardship, every year more and more people come to Lagos.

It is already one of the world’s mega-cities – a crime-ridden, seething mass of some 15 million people crammed into the steamy lagoons of southwest Nigeria. Two out of three Lagos residents live in a slum with no reliable access to clean drinking water, electricity, waste disposal - even roads.

Martins Oke, here making tools to mend his fishing nets
As the city population swells by up to eight percent every year, the slums and their associated problems are growing. The government estimates that Lagos will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.

“By 2015 Lagos will be the third largest city in the world but it has less infrastructure than any of the world’s other largest cities,” said Francisco Bolaji Abosede, Lagos Commissioner for Town Planning and Urbanisation.

Abosede is keen to emphasise that his is not a political appointment – a euphemism for corruption. His desk is piled high with maps and proposals for new developments and regeneration projects for Lagos Island – the city’s central business district.

A WORLD AWAY

Sunday Merunu rarely ventures from his stilt-home in Makoko into downtown Lagos, although he can see it from where he sits amongst his fishing nets.

Merunu shares a two-room shack with three other adults and eight children. The family buys water by the bucket for drinking, cooking and bathing. Like the estimated 15,000 other residents of Makoko, all the family’s waste and raw sewage go directly into the inky water beneath their homes.

Merunu’s house has a couple of light bulbs and even a television, but electricity supply by the state power company, NEPA, is at best erratic and most nights the family has only kerosene lamps for light.

“We spend 20 naira [15 cents] to buy water every couple of days and divide the electricity bill between a few families,” said Merunu. “There isn’t enough money left over to send the kids to school.”

The World Bank has identified nine of Lagos’ largest slums, Agege, Ajegunle, Amukoko, Badia, Bariga, Ijeshatedo/Itire, Ilaje, Iwaya and Makoko, for upgrading with a US $200 million loan to improve drainage and solid waste management.

An estimated one million people will benefit from the loan, which is the largest single project backed by the World Bank in Nigeria.

Since President Olusegun Obasanjo’s elected government came to power in 1999, ending 15 years of military rule, millions of dollars have been spent on urban regeneration and projects aimed at reducing crime, but results have been poor.

Security forces rarely venture into Makoko, except perhaps for the occasional demolition of shanty houses. Instead, security is provided by “Area Boys”, self-styled vigilante groups made up of unemployed young men that defend their territory with threats and often violence.

Children in Makoko. Some of the kids bathe and play in the lagoon waters
CORRUPTION AT THE ROOT

Like the Area Boys, at every level of society in Lagos someone is looking to make their levy.

Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, according to international NGO Transparency International. Since independence in 1960, billions of dollars of Nigeria’s oil revenue have been siphoned from state and government coffers into Swiss bank accounts of the country’s rulers.

Nigeria’s rampant corruption and lack of enforced regulations have enabled buildings to go up unchecked – only 30 percent of houses in the city have an approved building plan.

The Ebute-Metta area of Lagos is a short drive inland from Makoko. New buildings are falling down almost as fast as they are going up. Poor workmanship and corrupt inspectors means that buildings less than five years old are collapsing, sometimes crushing to death whole families inside.

“We had noticed the cracks in the walls, but we never thought it would collapse,” said Debola Igbosanmi, who had a shop on the ground floor of 71 Bola Street before it caved in without warning in mid-July, killing about 20 people.

According to Abosede at the Lagos Town Planning office, 199 buildings in Ebute-Metta alone have been identified for testing for poor workmanship. Many still have people living inside.

Abosede says his office is cracking down on corruption. It’s a crusade that President Obasanjo says he is spearheading since taking up office nearly eight years ago. Although Obasanjo has won praise overseas for his anti-corruption drive, his critics say that the president has used his Anti-Corruption Bill only against his opponents.

In August, the woman at the forefront of his government’s anti-graft campaign, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, quit as foreign minister after being relieved as finance minister in June. This was evidence, critics said, that she had been a little too good at her job.

Okonjo-Iweala led negotiations that resulted in Africa’s biggest debt write-off of US $18 billion. She also initiated reforms which saved Nigeria US $500 million by forcing the renegotiation of contracts that had already been awarded.

But Okonjo-Iweala’s successes merely scratch the surface in a country where corruption is not just a government pursuit but has seeped into the very fabric of society.

Abutting Makoko is Iwaya, one of the oldest slum areas of Lagos. There, Chief Murtiala Aremu Oloko sits in this three-storey home rising out of the haphazard sprawl.

When asked to list the needs faced by his “subjects”, Oloko laughs, “It would take all day.” The problems are too numerous, ranging from healthcare shortages to schools shortages and more, he says.

When asked what he was doing as the traditional leader in Iwaya to help his people, Oloko didn’t pause: “That depends what they give me.”

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oil.

chei, oil rich shitnigeria Igbo governor roasting corn by the roadside

fuckeduppedness dumb the dumb shitnigerian goat. like father like son......naija pikin is the dullest in the world. poverty and generator fumes have destroyed what was left of his tiny brain

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75,000 students!

Those useless people that corruptly enrich themselves and destroyed the country should established universities in this failed country.