WhoBeThisMan:
well for once I agree with you. What we need is total regional integration. There is no competition between us . No one wins in that.

If only the whole Africa will run with the Kwame Nkuruma(I dont know if I spelt it right) Vision .

Until Africa a is United, collectivly, they will all be backward.

WhoBeThisMan:
my guy you were making sense before , I even praised you, but now you are talking trash and hate again . Bye

chrisagyei:
Exactly, I always research on world largest purchasing power nations.Forget population because higher population does not automatically translate to higher purchasing power. Example is USA has a population of about 300 million people buh a purchasing power of 20 trillion dollars compared to India of 1.3 billion people with a purchasing power of 4 trillion dollars. Meaning, trade within Americans is multiple times more profitable than trade between USA and India. Surplus American products reaches India.

Anytime countries with largest GDP purchasing powers are ranked,USA is first,EU is second and China is third. EU corporately act as one country then later France,Germany, Italy,UK and others represents individually in the top 20.So they keep their soveirenty and laws buh in terms of trade,they're one nation and virtually trade among themselves without restrictions.

In Africa, if Egypt with a GDP PPP of 1.3 trillion dollars, Nigeria with 1.2 trillion dollars,SA with 1 trillion dollars,Algeria with over 500 billion dollars, Morroco has over 350 billion dollars, Ghana with over 200 billion dollars, the rest altogether in Africa with about 3 trillion dollars making a total of over 6 trillion dollars for Africa with a total population of 1.2 billion people. Meaning we beat India,any single European country and other countries apart from the US and China and we can trade among ourselves by both sourcing of raw materials which we have abundantly and selling off finished products which we have the purchasing power to buy our own products and with cheap labour and easy access to raw materials,in the next 20 years,Africa will be the home of trade and extreme development and even with a single currency and free movement of people and services, the world will envy us.

That's how the African Free Trade Agreement has been established. Instead of us seeing ourselves as competitors, we should see ourselves as business associates whilst we keep our individual sovereignty, culture, pride, budget, government type and laws.That's the Nkrumah's dream.

WhoBeThisMan:
now you are making alot of sense. If I could see you I will give you one alomo on me

Joke aside , any division amongst us Africans is counter productive in any regard. No man is an island we all need one another. I wish there could be more enlightenment like this instead of useless competition.

I travel around Africa alot and I see so many untapped potentials if only there is unity and enlightenment.

You see a Nigerian man more willing to do business with a white man who has nothing to offer than an felow African. You see a Ghanian calling a Nigerian man Anago, but a white man is Obroni. Same thing in South Africa, a white man is an investor, a fellow African is a migrant.. It doesn't make sense at all.

We should ask ourselves who is benefiting from this division? Certainly not us, those who are benefiting are the developed nations.

So long as African remains a sleeping giant, they can continue to exploit us and give us useless handouts. Africa is like a mighty camel with such big muscles and legs and such a towering hight, but yet bends to the will of a small boy.

Well as bad as it is, it presents to us a great opportunity in our generation to change it and make the best out of it.

helinues:
Yhen Yhen Yhen

Ordinary your moniker sells you out.

Charlie, why not advise your government to also close their borders...

All this epistles are unnecessary cos combination of Lagos and Kano populations alone is over Ghana populations

seankafor:
Lol..today you didn't come with your normal rants and insults.. glory to God

But brother, honestly and from the depth of my heart, I want to ask you one thing..insults and brawls apart.

Why do you carry this border closure thing to heart?
Why do you take it more personal than even your ministers and nigeria themselves?

I know it's okay to be patriotic and defend your own, but you carry it way more than even Benin and Niger who are greatly affected by the impacts?

You keep telling us how your country accounts for billions of GDP, and other ludicrous figures you keep quoting each an every thread, those ones no do u, u now create a thread for it..

All those self consolations haven't been enough from you?
You enjoy steady power supply, 100% electricity, and good health care..you grow at 8% every week, you are the giant of Africa.. we agree you are all these..

Can you please let's close our border in peace?if it comes out bad for us, let's suffer it..if it comes out good..so be it.

Is that hard to ask?
Why you carry this matter for head like this?

The way am seeing this,this border closure is giving you sleepless nights and hypertension..

I will advise you as I will advise my blood..even us in Nigeria no dey carry naija Mata for head.. you in Ghana carrying naija matter for head..brother you are on a long thing....

Na u go tire

Quorax:


I am a Nigerian (though I had a Ghanaian grandmother) but are you not ashamed that a Ghanaian is quoting GDP, purchasing power and you are quoting population?

Zooposki:


I don’t understand. Why all this unnecessary comparisons with Nigeria? We don’t care. Take the topic to Cediland so that your country men can celebrate it there.

We are striving to achieve China levels, not Ghana. Ghana levels is like moving 1million steps backwards.

helinues:


Oga, I have also lived in that same Ghana for years most especially Accra town. Purchasing power with what populations? if they have the purchasing power, why sending the foreign goods to Nigeria as if we are a dumping site?

Just30:
no one in his right sense will transit goods for nigeria through Ghana
Because Ghana import duties are the highest in West Africa

helinues:


They why are they crying more than Benin and Niger as we partially closed our borders

RTSC:
These Ghanaians are just funny.
A tiny country in every way but with the arrogance of a giant.

Is there any Ghanian company worth a billion dollars?

chrisagyei:
Yes of cos.google worth of Ghana Commercial Bank ,Consolidated Bank of Ghana,Anglo-Ashanti goldfields,Electricity Company of Ghana and others and there're worth more than a billion dollars and they're all Ghanaian owned,

chrisagyei:
Exactly, I always research on world largest purchasing power nations.Forget population because higher population does not automatically translate to higher purchasing power. Example is USA has a population of about 300 million people buh a purchasing power of 20 trillion dollars compared to India of 1.3 billion people with a purchasing power of 4 trillion dollars. Meaning, trade within Americans is multiple times more profitable than trade between USA and India. Surplus American products reaches India.

Anytime countries with largest GDP purchasing powers are ranked,USA is first,EU is second and China is third. EU corporately act as one country then later France,Germany, Italy,UK and others represents individually in the top 20.So they keep their soveirenty and laws buh in terms of trade,they're one nation and virtually trade among themselves without restrictions.

In Africa, if Egypt with a GDP PPP of 1.3 trillion dollars, Nigeria with 1.2 trillion dollars,SA with 1 trillion dollars,Algeria with over 500 billion dollars, Morroco has over 350 billion dollars, Ghana with over 200 billion dollars, the rest altogether in Africa with about 3 trillion dollars making a total of over 6 trillion dollars for Africa with a total population of 1.2 billion people. Meaning we beat India,any single European country and other countries apart from the US and China and we can trade among ourselves by both sourcing of raw materials which we have abundantly and selling off finished products which we have the purchasing power to buy our own products and with cheap labour and easy access to raw materials,in the next 20 years,Africa will be the home of trade and extreme development and even with a single currency and free movement of people and services, the world will envy us.

That's how the African Free Trade Agreement has been established. Instead of us seeing ourselves as competitors, we should see ourselves as business associates whilst we keep our individual sovereignty, culture, pride, budget, government type and laws.That's the Nkrumah's dream.

RTSC:

None of those companies are worth much in Africa.

I don't even know them. I doubt if they are worth 1 billion dollars.

Local champion companies.

theenchanter:
purchasing power is all about strength of a currency and prices of goods in a country.... it has nothing to do with what u're proclaiming.

googi:
Inspite of all the infighting between Africans these days, Ghana remains our traditional brothers in most areas.

But when it comes to market, Ghana cannot even compete with Lagos.

Stop believing all the future sugar high they put on developing countries looking for places to exploit on short-term basis. Focus on your market right now, realities and how to wean ourselves off foreign products most of which are made up of discarded junk in exchange for our forex.

I admire your leaders but they never had the market of Nigeria to manage. Not even South Africa.

Zooposki:


I don’t understand. Why all this unnecessary comparisons with Nigeria? We don’t care. Take the topic to Cediland so that your country men can celebrate it there.

We are striving to achieve China levels, not Ghana. Ghana levels is like moving 1million steps backwards.

chrisagyei:
I don't know if you realise the purchasing power of Ghana is more than 200 billion dollars. Am not sure your Lagos State which is the most biggest financial heart and population wise in your entire country and account for more than 1/5 th of revenue generated in the entire Nigeria.

Our economy is growing massively at 8.8%,our GDP has risen to 65 billion dollars with the highest per capita income in West Africa. We need all West African markets especially Nigeria to develop more and we rather prefer West Africans to tap into our development and economic growth and trade more than Western nations. That's why we were awarded the sole right to host the African Free Trade Agreement Headquarters in Accra,Ghana. That's why our ministers are going to Nigeria to diplomatically resolve any border issues.I hate it when some of your brothers say we're begging you guys because in terms of trade,both sides benefits.We don't smuggle anything out of our country from anywhere cos our port duties alone is taxed and more expensive than any port in West Africa do it will be foolish to import something into Ghana to smuggle to outside Ghana.

We're currently building a factory each in over 200 districts in our country and currently, factories and industries makes up 25% of our GDP. No country is an island.

GENERATOGERIA:
[s]Purchasing power, my azz. Half of your population are children because you guys give birth like pigs. out of the remaining population, half are unenemployed seriously, perhaps only about 10 million Nigerians have any purchasing power go sit down o jare you think large population is the same as higher purchasing power. You’ll be shocked to find out that Ghana as a country has a bigger purchasing power no be mouth [/s]

chrisagyei:
don't let me call you foolish.There are currently millions of Nigerian retail traders in Ghana and thousands have been stranded throughout this week in Kumasi alone because GUTA has locked their shops and businesses. You can move along if you're not interested and stop hating on a country which is not suppressing your already miserable life.

chrisagyei:
I don't know if you realise the purchasing power of Ghana is more than 200 billion dollars. Am not sure your Lagos State which is the most biggest financial heart and population wise in your entire country and account for more than 1/5 th of revenue generated in the entire Nigeria.

Our economy is growing massively at 8.8%,our GDP has risen to 65 billion dollars with the highest per capita income in West Africa. We need all West African markets especially Nigeria to develop more and we rather prefer West Africans to tap into our development and economic growth and trade more than Western nations. That's why we were awarded the sole right to host the African Free Trade Agreement Headquarters in Accra,Ghana. That's why our ministers are going to Nigeria to diplomatically resolve any border issues.I hate it when some of your brothers say we're begging you guys because in terms of trade,both sides benefits.We don't smuggle anything out of our country from anywhere cos our port duties alone is taxed and more expensive than any port in West Africa do it will be foolish to import something into Ghana to smuggle to outside Ghana.

We're currently building a factory each in over 200 districts in our country and currently, factories and industries makes up 25% of our GDP. No country is an island.

GENERATOGERIA:
MUMU talk you don’t know if they are worth 1 billion? Fuckeduppedness the last time I checked, Ghana was not the poverty capital of the world ooh Fuckeduppedness

helinues:


Oga, I have also lived in that same Ghana for years most especially Accra town. Purchasing power with what populations? if they have the purchasing power, why sending the foreign goods to Nigeria as if we are a dumping site?

WhoBeThisMan:

Population has nothing to do with purchasing power. The UK is less than one third of Nigeria in population, but can you compare?

GENERATOGERIA:
Purchasing power, my azz. Half of your population are children because you guys give birth like pigs. out of the remaining population, half are unenemployed seriously, perhaps only about 10 million Nigerians have any purchasing power go sit down o jare you think large population is the same as higher purchasing power. You’ll be shocked to find out that Ghana as a country has a bigger purchasing power no be mouth then why trying selling ur goods in 9ja then since u possess d purchasing power

GENERATOGERIA:
Purchasing power, my azz. Half of your population are children because you guys give birth like pigs. out of the remaining population, half are unenemployed seriously, perhaps only about 10 million Nigerians have any purchasing power go sit down o jare you think large population is the same as higher purchasing power. You’ll be shocked to find out that Ghana as a country has a bigger purchasing power no be mouth

Then why trying selling ur goods in 9ja then since u possess d purchasing power

helinues:


Oga, I have also lived in that same Ghana for years most especially Accra town. Purchasing power with what populations? if they have the purchasing power, why sending the foreign goods to Nigeria as if we are a dumping site?

RTSC:

None of those companies are worth much in Africa.

I don't even know them. I doubt if they are worth 1 billion dollars.

Local champion companies.