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Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by OAM4J: 10:30pm On Jul 06, 2012
CLARIFICATION FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY ON THE ACTIONS OF THE INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE THAT IS WORKING TO ENSURE THAT FOREIGNERS IN THE TRADING RETAIL SECTOR CONDUCT THEIR OPERATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF GHANA.





The attention of the Ministry of Trade & Industry has been drawn to a number of statements in the public domain, and in the media that show a basic misunderstanding of the exercise that is currently being undertaken by the inter-agency task force led by the Ministry of Trade & Industry to ensure that foreign traders comply with the laws of Ghana.

When the Ministry undertook this exercise it was stated that the Ministry was taking steps to enforce the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act, 1994 (Act 478) which made it quite clear that activities that are categorized as petty trading, and small trading businesses were reserved in the act for Ghanaians. It is important to note that the act does not prevent foreigners from trading in Ghana, it however provides for a situation where foreign traders are expected to engage in larger scale trading activities that indeed provide Ghanaian Consumers with wider product choices. However recognizing that petty trading is an area which does not require a large capital outlay in starting a business, it was decided to reserve that as an area of operation for Ghanaians.

Generally speaking therefore in order for a foreigner to undertake trading activities in Ghana he or she must invest at least three hundred thousand united states dollars in their trading activity, they must employ at least ten Ghanaians and they must also not locate their trading activities in the markets, but are at liberty to operate in any commercial area that is not a market. Therefore trading in Makola Market for example is not allowed, but establishing a shop in any commercial area such as locating on the Kojo Thompson Road or on Osu Oxford Street in Accra, for example is allowed.

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre Act was passed into law in 1994, and at that time even though there were foreign traders operating in the country, they were not doing so on the scale and in the numbers that are present today. Over the last ten years especially as the economy has expanded there have been many more foreign traders who have established in Ghana and though a good number of them have made the effort to comply with the GIPC Act there are a number of them who have not done so. Indeed over the last two days as fifty shops within Makola have been locked, at least half of them have no form of business negotiation whatsoever, let alone compliance with the GIPC Act.

The action taken by the Inter-Agency Task force is to ensure compliance with the GIPC Act, however the Task Force is making some exceptions for ECOWAS citizens in recognition of the ECOWAS Protocol on the right of residence and establishment. Specifically ECOWAS citizens are not being asked to have invested US$300,000.00 neither are they being asked to employ ten Ghanaians in their businesses. They are however expected to meet the same conditions that Ghanaian citizens who start businesses are expected to comply with. This means that they are required to register businesses with the Registrar General’s Department, they are required to register with the Ghana Revenue Authority and pay taxes in the same way as Ghanaians are expected to do, and because they are not our nationals they are expected to properly apply for residential status in Ghana.

Recently the Minister of Trade & Industry – Ms. Hanna Tetteh had the opportunity to meet a delegation from the ECOWAS Parliament, after the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana petitioned the ECOWAS Parliament informing them that the Government of Ghana was engaged in an action targeted at ECOWAS citizens. The Minister had the opportunity to inform the ECOWAS Parliament that this was not the case and that they had been misinformed, and the Ministry wishes to use this opportunity to restate that this action is not targeted at ECOWAS Citizens, but to bring sanity into the operations of foreign traders activities in Ghana.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 10:40pm On Jul 06, 2012
They don't need to clarify anything, it's their country..

! cool

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by solomon111(m): 11:49pm On Jul 06, 2012
^^
once a fool,always a fool.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 11:51pm On Jul 06, 2012
Ghana, have you forgotten so soon ? Shall we begin our own ?
Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 11:52pm On Jul 06, 2012
shymmex: They don't need to clarify anything, it's their country..

! cool

u mind those clueless morons

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 11:53pm On Jul 06, 2012
Billyonaire: Ghana, have you forgotten so soon ? Shall we begin our own ?

begin now, what are you waiting for?

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 11:55pm On Jul 06, 2012
PetroDolla:

begin now, what are you waiting for?
On monday, I will start with one.
Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by tunapawizzy: 12:06am On Jul 07, 2012
D truth is Ghana values her citizens n restructuring d trading sector to favour her citizens above foreigners. Unfortunately d policy is gona affect our numerous traders out there. But sincerely there's little we can do about it. We won't run their economy 4 dem, We won't make policies for them. It is their country. It is true they could av made d rules less strict knowing d impact it would av on a lot of Nigerians out there.but d ultimate fact remains that it is their country n dey will make wateva policies suit dem. The much we can do is to just RECIPROCATE d unfriendly gesture. But does d ambassador to ghana care enuf to report dis to foreign affairs minister, does jonathan av d will to sanction any form of reciprocal gesture. Are these people humane enuff to feel d pain of these Nigerians trading in Ghana??

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 12:09am On Jul 07, 2012
Billyonaire: On monday, I will start with one.

make we hear mata o jare. shi shi u no fit do. start with one and I'll start with 10. we don tanda for hier

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by brownlord: 12:12am On Jul 07, 2012
Billyonaire: Ghana, have you forgotten so soon ? Shall we begin our own ?


they have forgotten, why wont they, do you still see any ghanians in Nigeria i think the answer is no, with few natural resources they have been able to build their economy and Nigerians and trooping there everyday, yet out govt are here looting and still destroying our own, cursed nation

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by TheGeneral1(m): 12:24am On Jul 07, 2012
Its simple! The laws of Ghana are working.
Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by SisiKill1: 12:25am On Jul 07, 2012
Jeeedus! What Is wrong with what they are asking for heaven's sake? What is the noise about?

Choi! See how we are just showing ourselves, lamenting over the closure of illegal businesses!!! embarassed

We forget not all country is as lawless as ours, where anyone can just wake up and just start a business.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 12:31am On Jul 07, 2012
brownlord:


they have forgotten, why wont they, do you still see any ghanians in Nigeria i think the answer is no, with few natural resources they have been able to build their economy and Nigerians and trooping there everyday, yet out govt are here looting and still destroying our own, cursed nation

Oh shut your ignorant trap. ''Few natural resources''?? ''Built up her economy''?? Where? Which economy did Ghana build up? This is how you idiots come in here to peddle all sorts of nonsensical myths and fairtytales about ''wonderful Ghana'' while the vast majority of that country is wallowing in poverty and illiteracy despite their tiny population which their huge resources should be able to address.

In fact if you ask me, Ghana is doing far worse than Nigeria considering their huge natural resource endowments with only 20 million mouths to feed. The reason Nigerian (Igbo) traders flock there is the same reason they flock to Sokoto and Kano - high public demand for goods due to shortage of Ghanaian traders and entrepreneurs, which in itself is caused by their poverty and corruption. Not because there is anything special about Ghana. Meanwhile their corrupt leaders, just like in northern Nigeria, are encouraging their people to blame the 'outsiders' for their woes in order to divert attention from their own leadership failures.

Tell me: Why would they even be in that position where foreigners are coming in to sell and make profit? If their govt had provided for their people, empowered their people, why would any Nigerian trader find space in Accra to sell anything? Is it not because of the poverty of the average Ghanaian that such spaces exist? How many Ghanaians can find space to trade in Alaba market in Lagos? Or Onitsha? Or Aba? In fact if you ask me, Nigeria has done BETTER by providing more people the opportunity and capital resources to trade far and wide, both in Nigeria and into other countries. But do we appreciate that benefit? Oh no. Useless ingrates.

Here is an article from a Ghanaian who sees things very differently from your stupi.d rose-tinted view!!




Corruption And The Greedy Bastards In Ghana

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645


''Ghana has a total land area of 92,100sq.miles stretching 672 km north to south and 357 km east to west. Ghana’s physical size makes it about the same size as Great Britain. Out of a total land area of 23 million hectares, 13 million hectares representing 57% is suitable for agricultural production, whiles 5.3 million hectares representing 39% of this is under cultivation. Ghana is blessed with rich mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, manganese, limestone, bauxite, iron ore as well as various clays and granite deposit.

It is an incontrovertible fact that Ghana is the second largest producer of gold in Africa, second largest producer of cocoa in the world, second largest exporter of wood and wood products and third largest producer of timber in Africa. Can anybody tell me why we are still poor? It is a shame that a poor country like Bolivia with a poverty level of over 50%, can allocate 23% of its annual budget to education, and is able to offer free education up to senior high school level, whiles we double-cross ourselves and assume it is not feasible here.

Is it not startling that we do not have any clear national vision on mobilizing our total manpower for the technological, industrial, economic, and scientific rebuilding of this country, so that we can produce the needed conditions which would result in an abundance of every good thing for the greatest welfare of the masses? The question most Ghanaians are asking is ‘‘what has become of the blessing of the wealth of our gigantic resources, the power of our endowments and the potentialities of our people’’? How can we grasp the prospects before us and meet the challenge to our survival?
We must admit that our leadership over the years has overwhelmingly been run along the lines of the “politics of the belly” a primordial lust for wealth and power along crude racial, tribal, party, and familial lines. In this system, government officials and politically connected business cream of the crop use their positions and authority to enrich themselves, their families and kinsmen at the purse and expense of the tax payer. It is also regrettable that the system our leaders have preferred in recent years thrives on corruption and nepotism...''

Read more:

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by dedeike: 12:45am On Jul 07, 2012
tunapawizzy: D truth is Ghana values her citizens n restructuring d trading sector to favour her citizens above foreigners. Unfortunately d policy is gona affect our numerous traders out there. But sincerely there's little we can do about it. We won't run their economy 4 dem, We won't make policies for them. It is their country. It is true they could av made d rules less strict knowing d impact it would av on a lot of Nigerians out there.but d ultimate fact remains that it is their country n dey will make wateva policies suit dem. The much we can do is to just RECIPROCATE d unfriendly gesture. But does d ambassador to ghana care enuf to report dis to foreign affairs minister, does jonathan av d will to sanction any form of reciprocal gesture. Are these people humane enuff to feel d pain of these Nigerians trading in Ghana??
I know that unless you find a way to squeeze in blames for Jonathan, you will not be happy to respond to this issue. What has Jonathan got to do with this resolve by Ghanian authorities to enforce their trading laws.

In Nigeria, we have become so accustomed to freebies and relaxed regulatory regimes that we do not bother to take certain things serious. I'm happy that it is a Ghanian authority that is closing these shops for non adherence to existing laws, if it were in Nigeria, NLC will go on strike and people will castigate govt for closing down businesses from where the common man earns his daily bread. The whole issue will be so sensationalized in such a way as to depict the insensitivity of govt to the people's plight.

What I'm yet to come to terms is what you want the Nigerian govt to do? In your myopic view, the ambassador of Nigeria to Ghana should liaise with the Miinister of Foriegn affairs to stop Ghanaian authority from enforcing the provisions of a law enacted since 1994? Even when they have gone the extra mile to give concessions to Ecowas indegenes( Nigerians inclusive) you still want our government to persuade them to allow Nigerians operate business without registration? You are not serious.

The Foriegn affairs ministry have more serious issues to contend with. And contrary to your warped opinion about our Foriegn affairs ministry, they have really demonstrated passion for its citizens in diaspora. For the first time in our Foriegn relations history, the govt stood its grounds and reciprocated the repatriation of Nigerian citizens from South Africa on account of the controversial yellow card. we saw how top south African business men in Nigeria were turned back at our airports in retaliation before reason prevailed and the diplomatic row settled. THE TRUTH SHALL ALWAYS SET US FREE.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 12:47am On Jul 07, 2012
OAM4J: CLARIFICATION FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRADE & INDUSTRY ON THE ACTIONS OF THE INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE THAT IS WORKING TO ENSURE THAT FOREIGNERS IN THE TRADING RETAIL SECTOR CONDUCT THEIR OPERATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF GHANA.






Is that lady Ghanaian?!
Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 12:53am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk:

Oh shut your ignorant trap. ''Few natural resources''?? ''Built up her economy''?? Where? Which economy did Ghana build up? This is how you idiots come in here to peddle all sorts of nonsensical myths and fairtytales about ''wonderful Ghana'' while the vast majority of that country is wallowing in poverty and illiteracy despite their tiny population which their huge resources should be able to address.

In fact if you ask me, Ghana is doing far worse than Nigeria considering their huge natural resource endowments with only 20 million mouths to feed. The reason Nigerian (Igbo) traders flock there is the same reason they flock to Sokoto and Kano - high public demand for goods due to shortage of Ghanaian traders and entrepreneurs, which in itself is caused by their poverty and corruption. Not because there is anything special about Ghana. Meanwhile their corrupt leaders, just like in northern Nigeria, are encouraging their people to blame the 'foreigners' ie Nigerians for their woes in order to divert attention from their own leadership failures.

Here is an article from a Ghanaian who sees things very differently from your stupi.d rose-tinted view!!




Corruption And The Greedy Bastards In Ghana

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645


''Ghana has a total land area of 92,100sq.miles stretching 672 km north to south and 357 km east to west. Ghana’s physical size makes it about the same size as Great Britain. Out of a total land area of 23 million hectares, 13 million hectares representing 57% is suitable for agricultural production, whiles 5.3 million hectares representing 39% of this is under cultivation. Ghana is blessed with rich mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, manganese, limestone, bauxite, iron ore as well as various clays and granite deposit.

It is an incontrovertible fact that Ghana is the second largest producer of gold in Africa, second largest producer of cocoa in the world, second largest exporter of wood and wood products and third largest producer of timber in Africa. Can anybody tell me why we are still poor? It is a shame that a poor country like Bolivia with a poverty level of over 50%, can allocate 23% of its annual budget to education, and is able to offer free education up to senior high school level, whiles we double-cross ourselves and assume it is not feasible here.

Is it not startling that we do not have any clear national vision on mobilizing our total manpower for the technological, industrial, economic, and scientific rebuilding of this country, so that we can produce the needed conditions which would result in an abundance of every good thing for the greatest welfare of the masses? The question most Ghanaians are asking is ‘‘what has become of the blessing of the wealth of our gigantic resources, the power of our endowments and the potentialities of our people’’? How can we grasp the prospects before us and meet the challenge to our survival?
We must admit that our leadership over the years has overwhelmingly been run along the lines of the “politics of the belly” a primordial lust for wealth and power along crude racial, tribal, party, and familial lines. In this system, government officials and politically connected business cream of the crop use their positions and authority to enrich themselves, their families and kinsmen at the purse and expense of the tax payer. It is also regrettable that the system our leaders have preferred in recent years thrives on corruption and nepotism...''

Read more:

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645
This does not mean a thing. In most cases the grass always looks greener on the other side.

No one is saying that Ghana is heaven on earth, but what many peole are saying is that Ghana seems to be making much more purposeful strides towards development than Nigeria.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 1:00am On Jul 07, 2012
^^^What purposeful strides? Dude, outside Accra there is nothing! Even Kumasi, their second city is not more developed than Owerri.

Nigerians have an inbred pessimism against Nigeria which to me is their biggest weakness. No other country in Africa can boast as many traders and entrepreneurs with capital, as Nigeria. Where did that capital and wherewithal come from?

Can any African find space to go and trade in Onitsha or Aba or Lagos? Not in a thousand years. All the space is taken up! So where did our people get all that wealth to dominate the market if you say everthing is collapsed and nothing is working in Nigeria, and all the money has been stolen by politicians etc??

Go into these Igbo villages and see the kind of mansions these traders are erecting left right and center, in this same Nigeria that you say is failed? Some of those traders cannot even read a line of English.

I mean it's obvious there is still a lot of economic buoyancy in the country (which in fact is rising) for this to happen. Sure we have problems like infrastructural deficits etc, which if we're being honest we'll agree is gradually being addressed, but the country is nowhere near this nightmare of all-round failure that some of these folks come here to paint.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 1:14am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk:

Nigerians have an inbred pessimism against Nigeria which to me is their biggest weakness. No other country in Africa can boast as many traders and entrepreneurs with capital, as Nigeria. Where did that capital and wherewithal come from?

Can any African find space to go and trade in Onitsha or Aba or Lagos? Not in a thousand years. All the space is taken up! So where did our people get all that wealth to dominate the market if you say everthing is collapsed and nothing is working in Nigeria, and all the money has been stolen by politicians etc??

I mean it's obvious there is still a lot of economic buoyancy in the country (which in fact is rising) for this to happen, Sure we have problems like infrastructural deficits etc, but te country is not this nightmare of all-round failure that some of these idiots come here to paint.


So how come your country is so rotten and poverty is so widespread- with 90% survining on less that $2 a day? And did you include kidnappers, 419ners,ritualists, prostitutes,militants, occultists,terrorists etc among your 'traders and entreprenuers with capital?'

economic buoyancy my foot!

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 1:20am On Jul 07, 2012
PetroDolla:

So how come your country is so rotten and poverty is so widespread- with 90% survining on less that $2 a day?

If you're dumb enough to believe that fraudulent, nonsensical statistic, it's no wonder you're dumb enough to type the above rubbish.

And did you include kidnappers, 419ners,ritualists, prostitutes,militants, occultists,terrorists etc among your 'traders and entreprenuers with capital?'

Why should I include them? Such people make up less than 0.01% of the Nigerian population. Sure, they might dominate the news because of the sensationalist nature of their activities, but you really must be dense beyond redemption to imagine that such people even come close to comprising the generality of the 160 million Nigerians.

economic buoyancy my foot!

Just because YOU are a failure with nothing happening in your life doesn't mean it applies to others.

If an Igbo trader who can barely read can make it in Nigeria what is your excuse? Lazy mor.on.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 1:30am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk: ^^^What purposeful strides? Dude, outside Accra there is nothing! Even Kumasi, their second city is not more developed than Owerri.

Nigerians have an inbred pessimism against Nigeria which to me is their biggest weakness. No other country in Africa can boast as many traders and entrepreneurs with capital, as Nigeria. Where did that capital and wherewithal come from?

Can any African find space to go and trade in Onitsha or Aba or Lagos? Not in a thousand years. All the space is taken up! So where did our people get all that wealth to dominate the market if you say everthing is collapsed and nothing is working in Nigeria, and all the money has been stolen by politicians etc??

Go into these Igbo villages and see the kind of mansions these traders are erecting left right and center, in this same Nigeria that you say is failed? Some of those traders cannot even read a line of English.

I mean it's obvious there is still a lot of economic buoyancy in the country (which in fact is rising) for this to happen. Sure we have problems like infrastructural deficits etc, which if we're being honest we'll agree is gradually being addressed, but the country is nowhere near this nightmare of all-round failure that some of these folks come here to paint.


you mean those okotoko igbo money ritualists? We all know how those igbo people make their money so don't come here talking as if you are talking to ignorant people shocked the spare parts and other stuff they do are just a front. look, nothing works in nigeria today apart from the upstream sector of the oil industry. and this is so because it is being done by foreign companies. nothing goes on around nigeria. all your officials do is to go to abuja every month to share your oil money.
go to any governor's office in nigeria and see the crowd looking for one favour or the other from officials!during the era of governor sherrif in borno, he'll be driving around maiduguri and whereever he'll see a crowd of young people gathered under a tree or something, he'll come down from his car and order that a dstv system be provided to them! chei naija we faillllllllllllllllllllllllllll

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 1:34am On Jul 07, 2012
PetroDolla:

you mean those okotoko igbo money ritualists? We all know how those igbo people make their money so don't come here talking as if you are talking to ignorant people shocked the spare parts and other stuff they do are just a front. look, nothing works in nigeria today apart from the upstream sector of the oil industry. and this is so because it is being done by foreign companies. nothing goes on around nigeria. all your officials do is to go to abuja every month to share your oil money.
go to any governor's office in nigeria and see the crowd looking for one favour or the other from officials!during the era of governor sherrif in borno, he'll be driving around maiduguri and whereever he'll see a crowd of young people gathered under a tree or something, he'll come down from his car and order that a dstv system be provided to them! chei naija we faillllllllllllllllllllllllllll


And there I was thinking I was debating with a sane person. Ok, return to your cheap ogogoro or is it kai kai which you use to drown your misery. Damn riff raff.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by lacasa: 1:41am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk:

Oh shut your ignorant trap. ''Few natural resources''?? ''Built up her economy''?? Where? Which economy did Ghana build up? This is how you idiots come in here to peddle all sorts of nonsensical myths and fairtytales about ''wonderful Ghana'' while the vast majority of that country is wallowing in poverty and illiteracy despite their tiny population which their huge resources should be able to address.

In fact if you ask me, Ghana is doing far worse than Nigeria considering their huge natural resource endowments with only 20 million mouths to feed. The reason Nigerian (Igbo) traders flock there is the same reason they flock to Sokoto and Kano - high public demand for goods due to shortage of Ghanaian traders and entrepreneurs, which in itself is caused by their poverty and corruption. Not because there is anything special about Ghana. Meanwhile their corrupt leaders, just like in northern Nigeria, are encouraging their people to blame the 'outsiders' for their woes in order to divert attention from their own leadership failures.

Tell me: Why would they even be in that position where foreigners are coming in to sell and make profit? If their govt had provided for their people, empowered their people, why would any Nigerian trader find space in Accra to sell anything? Is it not because of the poverty of the average Ghanaian that such spaces exist? How many Ghanaians can find space to trade in Alaba market in Lagos? Or Onitsha? Or Aba? In fact if you ask me, Nigeria has done BETTER by providing more people the opportunity and capital resources to trade far and wide, both in Nigeria and into other countries. But do we appreciate that benefit? Oh no. Useless ingrates.

Here is an article from a Ghanaian who sees things very differently from your stupi.d rose-tinted view!!




Corruption And The Greedy Bastards In Ghana

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645


''Ghana has a total land area of 92,100sq.miles stretching 672 km north to south and 357 km east to west. Ghana’s physical size makes it about the same size as Great Britain. Out of a total land area of 23 million hectares, 13 million hectares representing 57% is suitable for agricultural production, whiles 5.3 million hectares representing 39% of this is under cultivation. Ghana is blessed with rich mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, manganese, limestone, bauxite, iron ore as well as various clays and granite deposit.

It is an incontrovertible fact that Ghana is the second largest producer of gold in Africa, second largest producer of cocoa in the world, second largest exporter of wood and wood products and third largest producer of timber in Africa. Can anybody tell me why we are still poor? It is a shame that a poor country like Bolivia with a poverty level of over 50%, can allocate 23% of its annual budget to education, and is able to offer free education up to senior high school level, whiles we double-cross ourselves and assume it is not feasible here.

Is it not startling that we do not have any clear national vision on mobilizing our total manpower for the technological, industrial, economic, and scientific rebuilding of this country, so that we can produce the needed conditions which would result in an abundance of every good thing for the greatest welfare of the masses? The question most Ghanaians are asking is ‘‘what has become of the blessing of the wealth of our gigantic resources, the power of our endowments and the potentialities of our people’’? How can we grasp the prospects before us and meet the challenge to our survival?
We must admit that our leadership over the years has overwhelmingly been run along the lines of the “politics of the belly” a primordial lust for wealth and power along crude racial, tribal, party, and familial lines. In this system, government officials and politically connected business cream of the crop use their positions and authority to enrich themselves, their families and kinsmen at the purse and expense of the tax payer. It is also regrettable that the system our leaders have preferred in recent years thrives on corruption and nepotism...''

Read more:

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=236645


Guy, go relax abeg!

All dis u̶̲̥̅̊​r grammar no jux make sense

Na beans! ϑ way nigerians dey flock run go ghana?

Go τ̅o dia schools n see our Ђδω our students don yakpa

Naija na 4kup place n u̶̲̥̅̊​ dnt nid a magician τ̅o tell u̶̲̥̅̊​ say Ghana dey work na

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by OAM4J: 1:41am On Jul 07, 2012
all4naija: Is that lady Ghanaian?!

I think she is Ghana Minister of Trade & Industry
Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by trimwis: 1:42am On Jul 07, 2012
Ghanians are the most ungrateful people on earth, they will welcome you into their country by the time you have invest a lot AND START MAKING MONEY they use their useless LAWS to come after your business. them be JEALOUSY PEOPLE

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 1:44am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk:

If you're dumb enough to believe that fraudulent, nonsensical statistic, it's no wonder you're dumb enough to type the above rubbish.



Why should I include them? Such people make up less than 0.01% of the Nigerian population. Sure, they might dominate the news because of the sensationalist nature of their activities, but you really must be dense beyond redemption to imagine that such people even come close to comprising the generality of the 160 million Nigerians.



Just because YOU are a failure with nothing happening in your life doesn't mean it applies to others.

If an Igbo trader who can barely read can make it in Nigeria what is your excuse? Lazy mor.on.

Shut the Bleep up you fucking slowpoke! dirty, rotten slowpoke! you are not even fit to polish my shoes,slowpoke! Even if you live for another 300 years you can't achieve one-tenth of what I have achieved in my life so far,huh?

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 1:59am On Jul 07, 2012
PetroDolla:

Shut the Bleep up you fucking slowpoke! dirty, rotten slowpoke! you are not even fit to polish my shoes,slowpoke! Even if you live for another 300 years you can't achieve one-tenth of what I have achieved in my life so far,huh?

You've achieved nothing in your dirty, worthless life. Na to come NL make mouth? Frustrated loser blaming Jonathan for his failures.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Rossikk(m): 2:02am On Jul 07, 2012
lacasa:


Guy, go relax abeg!

All dis u̶̲̥̅̊​r grammar no jux make sense

Na beans! ϑ way nigerians dey flock run go ghana?

Go τ̅o dia schools n see our Ђδω our students don yakpa

Naija na 4kup place n u̶̲̥̅̊​ dnt nid a magician τ̅o tell u̶̲̥̅̊​ say Ghana dey work na

Common shut your trap, bush man. Go to the UK and America, it's filled with Indians and Chinese in their millions. They even have 'China Town' specially created for them in those places. Indians and Chinese even flock to Nigeria these days. Plus the same Ghana. So by implication it means their own countries must be really fu.cked up since they are all fleeing from there? Educated illiterate! Or should I say, Know-nothing Dunce!

If anything, Nigerians travelling abroad in droves for trade and education indicates greater economic mobility and empowerment caused by rising incomes. I know they didn't teach you that level of economics in your Primary 2 final exams.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by PetroDolla: 2:09am On Jul 07, 2012
Rossikk:

You've achieved nothing in your dirty, worthless life. Na to come NL make mouth? Frustrated loser blaming Jonathan for his failures.

I can see that nigeria is rich with stupid fucking morons. grin no wonder your cursed,shitty country is so Bleep-ed. Look at fuckin-g piece of shiT. disgusting, filthy bastard. Be cursed and go to hell! grin grin igbo dog, ewu

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by trimwis: 2:17am On Jul 07, 2012

Shut the Bleep up you bleeping slowpoke! dirty, rotten slowpoke! you are not even fit to polish my shoes,slowpoke! Even if you live for another 300 years you can't achieve one-tenth of what I have achieved in my life so far,huh?

You can see how criminal minded Ghanians are they are using their tax payers money to pay This petrodolla to post on nairaland on their behalf. lazy monkeys who dont want to work hard

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by Nobody: 2:20am On Jul 07, 2012
whatever!!! they can go to hell for all i care, as far as Africa (as a continent) is concerned, ghana is a house-boy to Nigeria. even their president knows that.
I for one am glad that instead of washing plates or washing cars to survive, our guys are now outshining indigenous ghanian traders... grin grin grin that tells a lot about our capabilities as Nigerians. I bet you, just give Nigeria a set of good leaders under a single tenure we shall give you the best economy in the world...Mtcheew!! nonsense economy-miss-road like ghana.

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Re: Clarification: Ghana Is Not Closing Legal Nigerian Businesses by trimwis: 2:28am On Jul 07, 2012
991: whatever!!! they can go to hell for all i care, as far as Africa (as a continent) is concerned, ghana is a house-boy to Nigeria. even their president knows that.
I for one am glad that instead of washing plates or washing cars to survive, our guys are now outshining indigenous ghanian traders... grin grin grin that tells a lot about our capabilities as Nigerians. I bet you, just give Nigeria a set of good leaders under a single tenure we shall give you the best economy in the world...Mtcheew!! nonsense economy-miss-road like ghana.

you absolutely correct they are so lazy most especially their men, thats why they have time for jealousy

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