i heard dat on xmas day, ghanians were awakend with an increament in their pms pump price, pls o, can anyone explain why there is no seeming opposition to dis development.

Because most nigerians are corrupt and lazy. They want to be spoon fed by Gov.

increase was announced way in advance

increase was 15per cent
have you seen how much their parliamentarians earn compared to ours?

they have plans in the pipeline since they discovered oil,

Exactly. Here in the US, the pump prices rise and fall with no notice every other day with no problem.

because they are not parasites and lazy people who depend on govt for everything in their life.

Ghanaians don't have Boko Horam, they have light, and they have water , 

stop with the foolish comparison 

Ghanaians have also built an economy not solely dependent on Oyeeel

Increase in fuel prices affects patronage of transport services
Source: GNA - Ghana News Agency

Accra, Jan. 6, GNA – Mr Ohene Nyarko, Station Manager of Tudu Intercity State Transport Corporation (STC) Coaches Limited, has said the recent increment in fuel prices had affected patronage of their services.

He said STC management used to dispatch four 30-seater buses from Accra to Aflao but now due to the increment only two buses operate on the route.

Mr Nyarko said these in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Friday.

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) increased the prices of petroleum products with effect from Thursday, December 29, 2011, citing rising world oil prices and depreciation of the Cedi,

The NPA in a statement said the prices of petroleum products had gone up by 15 per cent at GHp175.48 per litre for petrol and GHp177.09 per litre for diesel while Liquefied Petroleum Gas had also gone up by 30 per cent at GHp136.19 per kilogramme.

Mr Nyarko noted that with such low patronage, STC was forced to combine Hohoe and Kpando passengers for easy accessibility.

He said STC increased its fares by 12 per cent, and that from Accra to Aflao was GH¢10 but now it is GH¢12.

Mr Nyarko advised travellers to patronise the STC buses for safe arrival at their destinations and said: “Initially the passengers were complaining about the price hikes but we envisage that with time they will be used to the new fares,”.

Mr Samuel Mensah, Secretary to Accra Kpando Progressive Transport Union, said the timing of the fuel increases was not appropriate since it was during the festive season where most people had planned their budget.

He said passengers used to pay GH¢ 8 as lorry fare from Accra to Kpando but now it has been increased to GH¢ 9.

Mr Jacob Wilson, a driver at the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMTL), said management had not increased fares, making patronage high at their terminal.

He said the fare from Accra to Anum-Bosso was GH¢3.50 while the commercial vehicles charged GH¢ 4.50, Accra to Akosombo was GH¢2.50 and the commercial vehicles charged GH¢ 4.

The GNA observed that the MMT bus terminal at Tema station, Accra, was choked with long queues of travelers.

However, there were still mixed reactions to the increase in the fuel prices and transport fares when the GNA visited other terminals.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/370608/1/increase-in-fuel-prices-affects-patronage-of-trans.html

Fuel prices rise in Ghana as govt cuts subsidies
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30 December 2011, Sweetcrude, ACCRA - Ghana has cut fuel subsidies, citing increase in crude oil prices and the depreciation of the Ghana cedi currency as reasons.

Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (GNPA), Alex Mould, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

Reuters reports that Ghana, which joined the club of oil producers in West Africa last year, has come under increased pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to remove the fuel subsidies.

The IMF has urged countries across West and Central Africa to cut fuel subsidies, which they say are not effective in directly aiding the poor, but rather promote corruption and smuggling. The past months have seen governments in Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon and Chad moving to cut state subsidies on fuel.

Mould said the cumulative effect of the rise in crude oil prices this year and the about 5.7 per cent depreciation of the cedi meant a 25 per cent increase in cedi terms in the cost of procuring crude oil and petroleum products since January.

Mould said Ghana had spent about 450 million cedis (N 44,725,608,210.76) on fuel subsidies in 2011.

The price change effective from December 29, will see the cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) increase by 30 per cent while petrol and diesel will go up 15 per cent at pump.

Mould said the GNPA would be monitoring crude oil prices and will not to increase or decrease pump prices if the average crude price stay within the $107-110 per barrel range.

Brent crude rose 4 cents to $107.60 a barrel by 0933 GMT on Thursday after falling nearly $2 the day before, while the Ghana cedi was trading at 1.6370/95 to the US dollar.

Ghana’s Minister for Finance Kwabena Duffour said the removal of subsidies would have a positive impact on Ghana’s economy.

By this increase, according to the NPA, the price of petrol to GNp175.48 (N184.972) per litre; diesel is now GHp 177.09 per litre ((N186.668); while LPG will go up by 30 per cent at GHp 136.19 per kilo (N143.765).

This means a 12.5 kg gas cylinder will now sell at GHc17.02 (N1,796.76) while a 14.5 kg cylinder will sell at GHc19.75 (N2,084.96).

The prices of kerosene, premix fuel and Renewable Fuel Oil (RFO) remain unchanged, according to the GNPA.

http://sweetcrudereports.com/2011/12/30/fuel-prices-rise-in-ghana-as-govt-cuts-subsidies/

Ghana Fuel-Price Hike May Boost Inflation Rate to 10%, Standard Bank Says
By Moses Mozart Dzawu - Jan 5, 2011 1:10 PM GMT+0100

Ghana’s inflation rate in January may reach double digits for the first time in eight months after fuel prices were increased 30 percent, leading to higher costs for transport and gasoline, said Standard Bank Group Ltd.

The rate may rise to 10.2 percent in January, said Stephen Bailey-Smith, London-based emerging markets strategist. Inflation was 9.1 percent in November, the most recent data available. December prices will be released by the Ghana Statistical Service Jan. 12.

High costs of fuel imports helped push Ghanaian inflation to a five-year high of 20.7 percent in June 2009. The rate has fallen steadily since then and has remained below 10 percent since June 2010.

“By its nature, an increase in the ex-pump price of crude affects the prices of all other goods and services, basically because of the push it gives to transportation cost,” Bailey- Smith said in a phone interview yesterday.

The price of premium gasoline was increased to 1.52 cedis ($1.02) a liter (0.26 gallons) from 1.17 cedis, according to an e-mail from the state-controlled National Petroleum Authority, which regulates the distribution of fuel in the West African nation.

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union increased fares by 18 percent after the price hike, Alhaji Tetteh, national chaiarman, said by phone yesterday.
Easing Pressure

The fuel-price increase, the first in 14 months, will ease pressure on spending by the government, which had covered the cost of rising international oil prices, said Sampson Akligoh, an economic analyst at Accra-based Databank Group. Consumer prices may rise to 9.6 percent in January in a “one-off jump before inflation stabilizes to its recent trend again,” Akligoh said by phone yesterday. He forecast a December rate of about 9 percent.

Crude oil for February delivery declined for the second day, shedding $1.05 or 1.2 percent to $88.33 per barrel by 11:23 a.m. in London. The commodity traded at $77 per barrel on Oct. 30, 2009, a day before Ghana’s last fuel price increase, when it was raised 5 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/ghana-fuel-price-hike-may-boost-inflation-rate-to-10-standard-bank-says.html

Ghanians have displayed far more maturity than Nigerians. We are acting like a bunch of spoilt kids.

Why The Recent Fuel Price Increase Is Not Such A Bad Idea

Date: 01-Jan-2012        


Recent decision by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) to raise fuel prices in Ghana by up to 20 percent cent is being met with opposition from civil society and trade unions.


The NPA asserts that its decision was necessitated by the Mills administration’s own decision to withdraw subsidies on petroleum products. As expected, the government is incurring the wrath of Ghana’s foremost union, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) – a political pressure group. Both the TUC and AFAG justify their opposition to the latest fuel price hike on the grounds that it will impose unnecessary economic hardship on Ghanaians.

Given how sensitive fuel subsidies are in Ghana, I’m probably one of the few Ghanaians on the surface of this planet who favours the Mills administration’s decision to touch this politically hot cassava, so I expect a few brickbats for this column. Before I say why the decision to withdraw fuel subsidies is not such a bad idea, I’ll like to clarify a few things. First, I’m neither the government’s apologist nor an opposition bootlicker. Second, I don’t deny the validity of the charges being levelled against the decision of the government. Infact, it is true that fuel price increase in a developing economy like Ghana can marginally spike consumer price inflation (CPI) thereby increasing the cost of living for ordinary folks.

Nonetheless, as bitter a pill as the new pump prices are, the current level of fuel subsidies is worse on government coffers; they are unsustainable; they create perverse incentives and distortions in the economy. According to reports, the government of Ghana is projecting to spend a whopping GHC 600 million this year alone on petroleum subsidies. Threading on this path is a one way ticket to hell. It exerts high fiscal cost for government, leading to an increase in public debt, and a squeeze on other government spending.

Why? In order to provide subsidies on petroleum products for example, the government of Ghana must borrow more money (from China), raise additional revenue (mostly through foreign aid), and/or reduce public spending (fail to pay workers on Christmas for example). This is how most government spending including fuel subsidies are financed. Don’t mention taxes because we all know what the revenue collection capability of the government is.

Yes, subsidies lower prices of fuel thereby freeing Ghanaians from having to adjust their purchasing behaviour to the cost of supply. But subsidies also provide a perverse incentive to over-consume and it almost always creates unintended but disproportionate benefit to high-income individuals rather than the poor. This is often the case because high-income individuals tend to consume more fuel than average citizens. If you have doubts, ask those driving around in luxurious private cars to pick up their numerous ‘apuskelekes’ across town whether they use more fuel than ordinary Kwaku Manu fighting for half a seat in a Kaneshie trotro. I could go on and on about the economically deleterious effects of fuel subsidies on the poor and the economy at large but time and space will not permit.

Sucking on the subsidy teats sounds like a sweet deal, except a few things. As we economists are fond of saying “there is no free lunch”. The money borrowed from China will have to be paid back with interest. Foreign aid requires a handshake with brother Obama and Mr. Cameron who will later return to serve you with a cold dish of say ‘gay rights’. And, as for government’s “mistake” in failing to pay the meagre but hard earned salary of my good-old-lady this Christmas, she might respond with the only gift that the Ghanaian constitution will give her next Christmas – a vote!

I will conclude this piece by saying that fuel subsidies reduce transportation cost but it does so at a greater cost to society and the government. Rather than being condemned, the Mills administration must be commended for taking such a bold action over this unpopular issue. However, where they failed, in my opinion, was their inability to effectively communicate their intentions to Ghanaians before the decision was made and implemented.

The Mills administration could have taking a chapter from the NPP’s playbook when the Kuffour administration announced a 50 percent price increase on fuel in 2005. Before the announcement, the NPP launched a poverty and social impact assessment (PSIA) for fuel; they embarked on a public relations campaign to explain the need for the price hike; and most importantly, they publicized mitigation measures such as immediate elimination of primary and junior secondary school fees and announced programs to improve public transport.

At the time of writing this piece, the government is now embarking on an emergency meeting to take a decision on how to cushion workers against the impacts of the latest fuel price increase – something they should have done before the fact. It may be too little too late. They better hope that there is no “kume preko” or “sieme preko” style demonstrations in the horizon!



Source: Frank S. Debrah School for International Studies Simon Fraser University Vancouver, Canada

Ghana’s fuel price increases due to IMF pressure – Report
Page last updated at Friday, December 30, 2011 15:15 PM // Leave Your Comment

Ghana increased its prices on petroleum products December 29, 2011 citing two key factors – the increase in crude oil prices and the depreciation of the Ghana cedi. The country has also cut subsidies fuel prices. As at September 30, 2011, the government has subsidized the ex-pump price of petroleum products to the tune of GH¢267.61 million.

A statement signed by Mr Alexander Mould, Acting CEO of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), said the prices of petrol and diesel will go up by 15% each at GHp175.48 per litre and GHp 177.09 per litre respectively while LPG will go up by 30% at GHp 136.19 per kilo.

Even though, the NPA stated rising world prices of the commodity and depreciation of the Ghana cedi currency, reports suggest the increases were due to pressure by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Ghana to stop subsidising petroleumproducts.

The Reuters news agency reports December 29, 2011 that “Ghana, which joined the club of oil producers in West Africa last year, has come under increased pressure from the International Monetary Fund to remove the fuel subsidies.”

Countries such as Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon and Chad are reported to have come under similar intense pressure from the IMF to remove subsidies.

According to the report, the IMF argued that the fuel subsidies are not effective in directly aiding the poor but rather promotes corruption and smuggling.

Reading the 2012 budget themed “Infrastructural Development for Accelerated Growth and Job Creation,” Ghana’s Finance Minister Dr. Kwabena Duffour said November 16, 2011 that “Government has had to subsidize ex-pump price of petroleum products to the tune of GH¢267.61 million as at September 30, 2011.”

The entire under-recovery of petroleum pricing for the year, Dr Duffour says is estimated to be GH¢364.94 million based on the assumption of crude oil price of $110.23 per barrel.

He attributed the cost of subsidy to the rising crude oil prices on the world market.

By Ekow Quandzie

http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2011/12/30/ghanas-fuel-price-increases-due-to-imf-pressure-report/

Please and please,stop comparing nigeria with other countries.part of the few thing that the people benefit from the goverment here in nigeria is petrol price subsidy.can you compare the unemployment rate in ghana with that of nigeria.water and light and good road are part of what you are enjoying over there outside nigeria.thou it may not really be okay(i mean social amenities-).corruption rate is high in nigeria please stop comparing, we understand the importance of the removal of the fuel subsidy but this is not the right time at all.the situation in the country does not even encourage that at all.

Statement by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ghana:

http://www.ghanatuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/28th-decemeber-2011-fuel-prices-29TH-DECEMBER-2011.pdf

efisher:

Ghanians have displayed far more maturity than Nigerians. We are acting like a bunch of spoilt kids.

You are right their leaders have displayed so much maturity than Nigerian leaders in that they have provided their people with steady power and good roads and also do not earn fat salaries and allowances like ours, they have also ensured that corruption is reduced to the minimum.

Ghanaians React To Fuel Price Increases With Mixed Feelings

There are mixed reactions to increases in fuel prices and transport fares announced by the National Petroleum Authority and the Ministry of Transport in Accra on Wednesday.

While the Trade Union Congress and some commercial transport owners, drivers and passengers have expressed disappointment others said the decision was in the best interest of the economy.

Other sections of the public also entreated the government to formulate effective strategies to mitigate the effects of such price hikes.

In a statement signed by the General Secretary, Mr Kofi Asamoah, the TUC said it had noted with “deep concern and outright dismay” the announcement by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) of fuel price increases by between 15 and 30 percent.

[b]The TUC said the increases during the yuletide with all the commitments of Ghanaian workers as well as the imminent payment of the school fees of wards in January, 2012, were astronomical.

“We find it difficult to appreciate how government could slap such astronomical increases on the Ghanaian workers, their families and the travelling public in the middle of the Christmas festivities, especially, when many workers went into the season without receiving their salaries. Working people also have school fees and other commitments in early January to pay,” the statement said.

While pointing out that the timing of the announcement of fuel price increases was wrong and unacceptable, the TUC emphasised the untold hardship the increases would bring to families and households.

The TUC noted that the fuel price increase announced by the NPA was the second increase for the year, with the first increase announced on January 3, 2011, with the increase of between 20 and 30 percent.

“For 2011, therefore, Ghanaians have had to endure a cumulative increase of between 35 and 60 per cent increases in fuel prices.

This astronomical increase is compared with the timid increase of 20 percent in wages and salaries across board for public sector workers for the whole year.[/b]

“This means that for the ‘action year’, Ghanaian workers and their families have only witnessed an erosion of their incomes giving the very direct link between fuel price hikes and the general price levels in the country,” it added.

The statement said TUC had on several occasions expressed concern over such exorbitant increases in fuel prices, equally expressing concern over the manner in which fuel prices were determined and announced in the country.

Transport fares at the Neoplan station in Accra have increased to almost 30 per cent even though the NPA had approved 10 per cent as inter-city fares, reports Zainabu Issah & Mary Ankrah in Accra.

Mr John Tetteh, the First Trustee of the Neoplan Drivers Union told the Daily Graphic that the increment of the petroleum products also affects the prices of spare parts and lubricants.

The new fare prices include Accra to Kumasi 49 seater bus which previously cost GHC 13 is now GHC 15, 31 VVIP seater from Accra to Kumasi now cost GHC 22, an increment of 20 per cent, Sunyani 49 seater bus formerly GHC16 now GHC19.

The rest are from Accra to Wenchi 49 seater bus now costs GH 20 which was formally GH17, Accra to Bibiani also increased form GH 14 to GH17. Techiman to Accra also now costs GHC 19 with Accra to Kintampo increasing form GH18 to GH21.

The Transport Manager of the VIP Transport services at the Nkrumah Circle, Mr Eric Botswe told the Daily Graphic that they increased their fares only around 12 noon today (Thursday), after a board meeting held by the Board Members of the company.

Before 12 noon, they were taking a fare of GHC 10 for the Yutong buses that moved from Circle to Kumasi, but have now increased the fare to GHC 15. The VIP buses that used to charge GHC 20 from circle to Kumasi has also increased to GHC 25.

Marian Ansah & Moses Awiah reports that the situation was not different at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle trotro station where most transport operators although dissatisfied about the increase in the petroleum prices, stated that there was nothing they could do about it, because the government had already taken its decisions.

They said they were contented that the passengers had not given them any problems so far.

Mr Stephen Ana, the Secretary of the Biakoye Taxi Drivers Union said the increment came unexpected that at the moment some taxi fares in his jurisdiction will be increase and others will maintain the old prices until another petroleum increment.

This was because the little increment on those fares are insignificant and would not cause any problem to the drivers.

He added that the union was still waiting for the National Coordinating Council of the GPRTU to print the new fares list to paste so that passengers will have a fair ideal about the new developments in the station.

Mr Ana pointed that the taxi fares from Circle to Dansoman which supposed to be increased from GHC 1.50 to GHC1.65 is GH 1.60, Circle to North Kaneshie and Fadama still remain GHC 1.10 while North Kaneshie to Swanlake has moved from 0.60Gp to 0.70Gp for Peugeot cars.

[b]Some passengers at the various lorry parks admitted that it was in the past that passengers quarrelled with drivers and their conductors over increase in transport fares when fuel price was increased, due to lack of communication writes Alice Aryeetey They stated that things are not the same anymore since most people now have radio and television sets, as well as read newspapers in their homes and work places, from which they get most information from.

“There is no need in fighting over this, when you hear it on the radio that fuel prices have been increased”, a passenger said. From Tamale Vincent Amenueveve reports Drivers who ply between Savelugu and Tamale said business slowed down when the new fuel prices were announced as most residents in Tamale and Savelugu were reluctant to travel. [/b]The fares between Tamale and

Savelugu have gone up from 1.20 Ghana cedis to 1.50 Ghana cedis.

The Northern Regional Vice Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Alhaji Abukari Chendiba,confirmed the fuel hikes and new transport fares but warned drivers to charge the approved transport fares that have gone up by 10 percent.

He urged them to avoid overloading as a means of making more money at the expense of the passengers’ comfort and safety. He said the various stations have been instructed to boldly display the new fares on their respective notice boards for passengers to be aware of them.

A taxi driver, Mr. Abdulai Mohammed stated that the 15 percent price hike in petrol does not tally with the 10 percent increment in transport fares. He explained that the discrepancy was likely to affect commercial drivers than the rest of the public.

Mr. Adam Mohammed, a student was not happy at the fuel increases saying “money is hard to come by these days”.

From Koforidua, Nana Konadu Agyeman, reports that all the transport union executives at the various lorry stations in the New Juaben Municipality have complied with 15 per cent increases in fares.

At the Kumasi Lorry Park, fare for Koforidua-Kumasi bound air-conditioned vehicles had been increased from GH8 to GH9, while the fare for the ordinary ones had also shot up from GH7 to GH8.

Vehicles plying Koforidua-Somanya road had increased their fare from GH2.20p to GH2.50p, while those travelling from Koforidua to Krobo-Odumase had been raised fare from GH2.40p to GH2.70p.

Koforidua-Nkawkaw bound vehicles had their fares increased from GH3.20p to GH4, while air-conditioned vehicles moving from Koforidua to Accra had also raised their fare from GH4.20p to GH5, with the ordinary vehicles increasing their fares from GH3.50 to GH4.

At the main taxi rank, fares for taxi cabs running short destinations within the municipality had seen a GH0.50 increment, while long destinations within the area with rough roads such as Agavenya, Trom, Osabane, Okorase and parts of Kasadjan had their fares increased by GH0.10.

A number of passengers the Daily Graphic spoke at the various stations expressed no resentment at the fares increases but hoped that there would not be further fare increase in the near future.

Managers of fuel stations in the Sunyani Municipality have started implementing the announcement of the increases in the commodity while drivers plying the various routes in the area and beyond have adjusted their fares correspondingly reports Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah in Sunyani.

From the lorry stations to the various destinations, taxi fares which attracted 40Gp and 50Gp, have now gone up to 50Gp and 60Gp respectively while Urvan bus drivers from Sunyani to Kumasi are charging GHC50.00 instead of the previous fare of GHC40.00.

From Sekondi/Takoradi, Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, reports that the increase in the fuel prices announced by NPA has reflected in various fuel and LPG stations in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis.

Before the approved 10 per cent fare adjustment was announced, drivers at various lorry stations had adjusted their prices a little higher than what was announced.

Some of the drivers were rather charging between 50 and 100 per cent which resulted in some form of heated argument between the drivers and passengers in the early hours of Thursday.

At the Sekondi/Takoradi station prior to the increment, Takoradi to Adiembra was GHc70p and had been increase to GHc1.00 and Sekondi-Takoradi and Essikado had also been increase from GHc70p to GHc1.00 and GHc1.20p respectively.

The situation was replicated in other parts of the metropolis but some passengers at lorry parks at Anaji refused to board the ‘trotro’ due to the arbitrary increament but the situation was later resolved.

At the time of going to the press, situations have normalized and drivers were going on as usual.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=226733

I consider it baffling when people make comments on when they know little or nothing about or too lazy to get informed. One fella wrote here that Nigerians are lazy, I think he is not a Nigerian so I will not dignify his stupidity with a response. The minimum wage in Ghana is about 64,000 naira. It is convenient to observe that Ghanaians are not protesting over the hike, but you are too shallow-minded to understand why. This issue is beyond tribalism or religious sentiments. If you cannot see beyond your bigoted prisms, too bad.

OP, its cos Ghanians are slow to reacts.  

How can 15% increase be compare to ~100% increase?

Situations are not comparable, are they?

pcicero:

I consider it baffling when people make comments on when they know little or nothing about or too lazy to get informed. One fella wrote here that Nigerians are lazy, I think he is not a Nigerian so I will not dignify his stupidity with a response. [/b]The minimum wage in Ghana is about 64,000 naira. It is convenient to observe that Ghanaians are not protesting over the hike, but you are too shallow-minded to understand why. This issue is beyond tribalism or religious sentiments. If you cannot see beyond your bigoted prisms, too bad.

Indeed my brother.  Why don't those who have called Nigerians lazy asked the Ghanaians in Ghana , [b]the best judge in this case, whether Nigerians are "lazy" from what they observe of the legitimate Nigerians living in Ghana? People just open their mouth to vomit ignorant thrash. Honest and decent Ghanaians have nothing but respect and admiration for the hardworking and enterpreneural persona of Nigerians. In fact even Ghanaians who loathe Nigerians would call them anything under the Sun but never "lazy".

The topic itself only pays homage to ignorance.

How will we see the same level of protest in Ghana when their subsidy removal saw PMS rise 15% in cost while Nigeria's subsidy removal has seen PMS rise by an astronomical 120% -200%? Is basic logical reasoning a problem for some? Aside even the percentage of increase in PMS , there are far too many socio-economic reasons that explains the different reception to subsidy removal . Unfortunately, most on this thread are ignorantly obstinate so even a million reasons will make no difference to them preferring to view Nigerians as comparatively lazy and more parasitic  .

Ghanians may not protest, because the standard of living in Ghana is on the rise, because the wage rate is increasing, because the rate of unemployment is reducing, becos they see a gvt committed to economic growth, a gvt they trust and can rely on.

Ghanaians have come to trust  their leaders since their last revolution when a whole class of them were lined up and shot. No such thing has ever happened in Nigeria. Now if we line up David Mark along side a few of his nay and yeh sayers we as Nigerians will begin to accept what our leaders tell us. Bc nobody want die esp when u have tasted power

stiyke:

Because most nigerians are corrupt and lazy. They want to be spoon fed by Gov.

these are the children of david mark, the telephone is not for the poor, or the children of the twats who say we are not poor because we are not eating from dustbins

dustydee:

You are right their leaders have displayed so much maturity than Nigerian leaders in that they have provided their people with steady power and good roads and also do not earn fat salaries and allowances like ours, they have also ensured that corruption is reduced to the minimum.

GBAM!!!

Pennywise:

Ghanaians have come to trust  their leaders since their last revolution when a whole class of them were lined up and shot. No such thing has ever happened in Nigeria. Now if we line up David Mark along side a few of his nay and yeh sayers we as Nigerians will begin to accept what our leaders tell us. Bc nobody want die esp when u have tasted power

GBAM again!!!

Did anybody notice that their cooking gas is about 40% cheaper than ours despite the increases?

seeing the topic alone, I knew it wud av been written by someone dat is daft, see useless comparison, abeg, if u are paid to say this, the it is ur generation unbor dat will suffer, I wonder why some people are so s.tupid and dont think before posting, dia was neva a subsidy , so why remove what has not been dia, we have refineries they refuse to repair, roads that are death-traps, no light, no water, nothing is working and yet they wanna increase the suffering of the people, badluck cant face the cabals, but he can inflict suffering on the innocent, poor u, shame on u poster

tnx to everyone who contributed to d topic. my candid opinion is that, their leaders learnt from the past "assasination" of their corrupt officials. This necessitated a prompt developmental approach in resucifying their economy. Moreso, palliatives were already obvious and real to all and sundry.

obowunmi:

Ghanaians don't have Boko Horam, they have light, and they have water , 

stop with the foolish comparison 

Who's fault is it that we don't have light and water?
Who ruled Nigeria for 50 years?

You know them all, fish them out and deal with them; they are in your midst and you worship them.

Even if you pro gej. Does that mean one should also be daft.

because they are not parasites and lazy people who depend on govt for everything in their life.

@umechuma,
even the most foolish slowpoke in this world will never call nigerians parasites and lazy people. i sincerely believe u shld be in a mental rehabilitation home and not else where.
if you have gone out of this country, u will know that nigerians are everywhere in this world struggling, dying, living in freedom and are in every jail in all the countries of this world.
@topic,
are u trying to compare nigeria to ghana? why are u not asking why obama visited ghana without visiting nigeria? ghana has security, they have light, nigerians are schooling in ghana, ghana have hospitals, ghana have roads, ghana has pipe born water, ghana conducted a very credible election not what jega did, ghanians trust their leaders.
we have no roads,light, water, security, no schools, no hospitals, no, no no. and above all, we do not trust these criminals that claim to be our rulers.
have u heard in ghana that bankole took N50B? did you hear of any alamasieya in ghana? did you hear of ibori there? have u heard of any bode george?
it is a shame that a nigerian will believe jonathan when he says a cabal is responsible for the fuel problem. for heaven's sake you are the C in C. what is our fate if our number 1 citizen is telling us there is nothing he can do to cabals and boko haram.
how can jonathan not be able to jail one single politician even in all the stealings.
are we not aware that his own wife(first and last lady) is into money laundry too? how can a thief jail another thief?

Because in Ghana. . .you are dealing with 'humans'.
In Nigeria. . . brainless, sub-humans with 'borrow-borrow' make me rich lifestyles. . . !