₦airaland Forum

Just30:
their current president was trained at Burma Camp
and the military academy

abbeg:
Dont mind these people.Most of them know zip about Nigeria.Just making baseless assumptions.Just stuff the expect to be true.Do they seriously think Nigeria is that crappy?

Just30:
you need re-education

mention one of your politcal leaders or military leaders who werent trained in Ghana

Buhari had his military training in Ghana

as to how he got a WAEC certificate from Accra ,
baffles me

O0XYGEN:
When will you stop being dumb?

Can’t you update yourself a little bit?

Which year was those pictures taken?

You think we are dumb like nigerians?

As it stands now , all cattles in Ghana are in ranches.

We are too advanced and civilised to allow them to roam anywhere they want

jaycent:
Oga see for yourself

Just30:
first of all
dont compare the two
GC ARPS has a different mandate
one that was more political in nature

and more Africanistic

O0XYGEN:
The dumbest dude on th thread at it again.
When Ghanaians started using rails you idiots were still slaves.

Stop making noise because you are too dull and dumb.

I don’t even want to argue with such a dumb illiterate who knows nothing.

achimotan:
Mention the names of members of the so called branch in London and the year it was formed

They had no help from the so called branch in London in its formation.
In any case if it was really related to the one formed in Cape Coast,how come Mensah Sarbah and Co had to travel to London in 1887 to argue against the land bill that was being introduced in the Gold Coast.
The so called London branch could have stood in and spoken for the people of the Gold Coast

achimotan:
So who formed ARPS? Nigerians Do some reading



Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
The Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) was an African association critical of colonial rule, formed in 1897 in the former Gold Coast, as Ghana was then known. Originally established by traditional leaders and the educated elite to protest the Crown Lands Bill of 1896 and the Lands Bill of 1897, which threatened traditional land tenure, the Gold Coast ARPS became the main political organisation that led organised and sustained opposition against the colonial government in the Gold Coast, laying the foundation for political action that would ultimately lead to Ghanaian independence.[1][2] J.W. de Graft-Johnson, Jacob Wilson Sey, J. P. Brown, J. E. Casely Hayford, and John Mensah Sarbah were co-founders.[



The Gold Coast ARPS formed as a conglomerate of different groups of intellectuals in Cape Coast and Southern Ghana who sought to protect the traditional land tenure practices of the indigenous Gold Coast peoples from being usurped by the colonial government of Britain. One of the initial goals of the Gold Coast ARPS was to ensure "…that every person may understand [the Lands Bill of 1897] the same".[4] The Gold Coast ARPS became a voice for the rights of indigenous peoples by both broadcasting their aims in their own newspaper, Gold Coast Aborigines, and advocating on behalf of indigenous land rights by presenting the reasons for their dissent of the Lands Bill of 1897 in front of the Legislative Council.[4] Particularly, John Mensah Sarbah, a key member of the Gold Coast ARPS and a lawyer, helped to advocate against the introduction of the Lands Bill of 1897 by arguing that it was no different from a previous, unsuccessful bill in 1894; that its introduction would break family and society ties, and that the land was valuable to indigenous peoples for its religious significance.[4] The Gold Coast ARPS then sent a delegation to London in order to advocate for the dismissal of the Lands Bill of 1897 in front of Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State of Britain at the time. A notable aspect of the delegation is that it included not only members of the Gold Coast elite, but also "prominent merchants".[4] It was through their meeting with Joseph Chamberlain that the Gold Coast ARPS was able to get support for the denunciation of the Lands Bill of 1897 and the assurance that "native law would remain and prevail with regard to devolution of land".[4] The Gold Coast ARPS eventually fell out of fashion in exchange for newer nationalist movements, such as the National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) in 1920.

Influences on the founding of the Gold Coast ARPS
The formation of the Gold Coast ARPS came at a period during the late 19th century in which the educated Gold Coast elite were systematically barred from high-ranking positions in the colonial government.[6] It was this exclusion, in part, that fuelled both the "cultural nationalism" and "anti-colonial political activity" that led to the creation of the Gold Coast ARPS in 1897.[6] As part of the emergence of cultural nationalism during the late 19th century, members of the educated elite throughout the Western African region began to return to their traditional roots by either reclaiming their "original African names, when these could be discovered…" or "new African names when they could not".[7] This reclamation of nomenclature influenced the naming of the "Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society," as it was originally conceived as a branch of the Aborigines' Protection Society of London but later renamed so as to serve as its own unique entity with a direct connection to the African continent in general and the Gold Coast in particular.[7]

jaycent:
Hahahaha he keeps trying harder to prove his point while you keep educating him

NairobiWalker:
It is smaller than 2 rivers mall in Nairobi.

Just30:
The Gold Coast Aborigines' Rights Protection Society (ARPS) was an African association critical of colonial rule, formed in 1897 in the former Gold Coast, as Ghana was then known. Originally established by traditional leaders and the educated elite to protest the Crown Lands Bill of 1896 and the Lands Bill of 1897, which threatened traditional land tenure, the Gold Coast ARPS became the main political organisation that led organised and sustained opposition against the colonial government in the Gold Coast, laying the foundation for political action that would ultimately lead to Ghanaian independence.[1][2] J.W. de Graft-Johnson, Jacob Wilson Sey, J. P. Brown, J. E. Casely Hayford, and John Mensah Sarbah were co-founders.[3]


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Just30:
The Gold Coast ARPS became a voice for the rights of indigenous peoples by both broadcasting their aims in their own newspaper, Gold Coast Aborigines, and advocating on behalf of indigenous land rights by presenting the reasons for their dissent of the Lands Bill of 1897 in front of the Legislative Council.[4] Particularly, John Mensah Sarbah, a key member of the Gold Coast ARPS and a lawyer, helped to advocate against the introduction of the Lands Bill of 1897 by arguing that it was no different from a previous, unsuccessful bill in 1894; that its introduction would break family and society ties, and that the land was valuable to indigenous peoples for its religious significance.

bantudra:
dont mind that animal...it thinks its dealin with people that dont read...

i forbid that animal to communicate with me....

Just30:
Ghana had it first elective council in the late 1800s ( i dont remember the specific year)

the imposition of certain laws led to the formation of the Aborigines Rights protection Society

achimotan:
Stop mentioning the collapsed Tinapa where there is not even electricity to make the supermarket lively and chill frozen stuff that ought to be in freezers and fridges. . Darkness every where in Tinapa

I will list some malls in Accra and not even Ghana as a whole as you ignorantly claim and you do the maths.

If it does not add up to the non functional Tinapa you are so obsessed with, i would add another 3 within Accra

Oxford mall is 5,580m2
Junction mall is 11,592m2
Achimota mall is 14,622m2
Marina mall is 9,000m2
A&C mall is 6000m2
Accra mall is 23,000m2 after expansion
West hills is 27,000m2 soon to be expanded to 40,000m2

NairobiWalker:
As ranked by a Nigerian writer in a Nigerian blog. I guess this is where that fool Obaboon got the info that he keeps repeating here how a private university is better than Kenyan universities. What a bunch of losers, lol.

Here is the real ranking Zoogerian. Stop using garbage Nigerian bloggers as your source of information.

https://www.4icu.org/top-universities-africa/

rvp20182:
Check all previous times higher education rankings,Q's,webmetrices,name it.And go slow on base insults..we are talking higher education ranking for crying out loud ...so act like you know the subject matter.This year ranking is strange if your source is genuine.Always remember this Makerere, Nairobi,Accra then Ibandan...no need talking about top 6-7 positions.The ranking of conventant highly is probably a mistake..a wild card or outlier best ignored.

rvp20182:
you'll make a meal of this year ranking that out blues ranked convenant highly for the first time ever.The usual is South African 5, 2 Egyptian then Nairobi and Makerere to complete top 10.This true for all the other rankings by other organizations.Nairobi normally rank 7 or 8 in Africa only second to South Africa and Egyptian universities & sometimes Makerere.Ibandan is normal the top rank at around 15.Accra easily beat Ibandan.Pick all the indexes ranking universities and average out.of course you're so desperate like Kazikazqi this wildcard ranking this year will drive you nuts until it get corrected.consistently outside South Africa and Egypt.. Nairobi, Makerere and Accra are the best universities in Africa.Ibandan would probably fight for 5th position with Darsalleem.

achimotan:
A supermarket in virtual darkness Na wa ooo

Just30:

keep dreaming

Kazikazi:
This Nakuru highway has the answer

obaaderemi:
I guess the achimotan shot himself in the foot.

Daejoyoung:
l tire o

achimotan:
You are Big Liar for saying this. It is not bigger than the malls in Accra talkless Ghana.
In any case you know that Tinapa is a white elephant.


Vanguard News Nigeria

Tinapa: Nigeria’s $450 million white elephant
adekunle adekunle
2 years ago

With its futuristic film studios, luxury shops and elevated light railway, Tinapa should be a showcase of Nigerian dynamism, a commercial hub for West Africa raking in millions of dollars.


Aerial view of the reception area of Tinapa Resort.

But 10 years after it opened, the resort in southeast Nigeria is a ghost town and has become a symbol of monumental waste.
Its majestic contours and avant-garde domes rise defiantly out of the bush and palm trees. At the entrance, a giant signboard proclaims: “Tinapa back on track!”


But the few visitors who venture inside are quickly disillusioned.

Apart from a few idle employees, not a soul stirs in the endless aisles of shops and warehouses that should have made the capital of Cross River state, Calabar, famous across Nigeria’s south.

“It’s empty there, we have no clients, it’s like a cemetery,” said one shop assistant in Da Viva, which sells the popular brand of wrapper skirts.

“Many have left already,” he added, pointing to shuttered premises.

A huge supermarket still displays clothes, furniture and foreign-made knick-knacks but in virtual darkness: the electricity was cut off some time ago.

Inside, an old man snoozes in the suffocating heat.

Tinapa, with its 80,000 square metres (861,000 square feet) of warehouses and shops, cost $450 million (413 million euros) to build.

But it has become a financial black hole for its backers.

– Economic development –

At the turn of the century, Nigeria was on the point of becoming Africa’s biggest economy and leading oil producer. Newly returned to civilian rule, everything seemed possible.

A handful of businessmen and architects got together and imagined an international centre of commerce and tourism in a free-trade zone.

Nigeria’s biggest banks fell over themselves to finance the project, which was opened in 2007.

“At that time, everyone was excited. Tinapa was going to boost economic development of the whole region and create thousands of jobs,” said Bassey Ndem, who was in charge of the project.

It aimed to attract Nigerian millionaires, who ordinarily jetted off to Dubai or London to go shopping, as well as make Cross River a commercial crossroads on the Atlantic coast.

A plush 242-room hotel with a view over the lagoon and a water park with slides were built to cater for the cream of high society and their families.

Alongside luxury tourism, imported goods would provide for Nigeria and its neighbours such as Cameroon, Chad and Niger, competing with the country’s commercial capital, Lagos.

“Everything was going well at first,” said Ndem. “At the peak, in 2009, we generated $30 million of revenue. But we faced a lot of resistance from the customs.

“They really didn’t want the tax-free zone to work.”

Goods were supposed to be exempt from import duties in the free-trade zone.

But from the beginning, the customs — which has a reputation for rampant corruption — blocked containers destined for Tinapa in the ports, paralysing business.

– Top down, trickle up –

Ndem left in 2012. None of his successors has managed to get Tinapa off the ground.

“There was clearly a lack of political will” to make the project succeed, he said, describing himself as angry and frustrated at a “wasted opportunity”.

For the economist and blogger Nonso Obikili, Tinapa’s downfall was largely because of a lack of existing infrastructure to transport goods: bad roads and an average-sized port.

“It was a wide project conceived with the deep sea port, which was supposed to enable big ships to come to Calabar,” said Obikili.

“It was the responsibility of the federal government but finally it wasn’t done,” he told AFP.

In the end, no big name jeweller or pret-a-porter line wanted to invest in the paradise promised by its promoters and the hotel remains desperately empty.

The cinema studios have likewise been unable to attract Nollywood’s stars, who have largely preferred to stay in Lagos.

In “Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria”, the British-Nigerian author Noo Saro-Wiwa castigates the leaders in the country of her birth.

Few of Nigeria’s nearly 190 million inhabitants have benefited from the riches brought by oil; most still live in extreme poverty.

“This top-down approach to boosting Calabar’s economy seemed hollow,” she wrote.

“I’d heard Nigerian politicians’ endless talk about theme parks, tourist resorts, shopping malls and their ‘trickle down’ effects on the economy.

“But there’s no such thing as ‘trickle down’ in Nigeria — money trickles upwards or evaporates on contact with air,” Saro-Wiwa wrote in 2012.

Just30:

but no one goes to Nigeria when they have problems

they rather go to Accra to solve their problems

that is why Accra is a political capital

Just30:
became editor of African Morning Post, Ghana, 1934

In 1934 Azikiwe returned to Nigeria and accepted an offer to edit the African Morning Post, a new daily newspaper in Accra, Ghana, which he quickly made into an important organ of nationalist propaganda. In 1937 he returned to Lagos and founded the West African Pilot, which became "a fire-eating and aggressive nationalist paper of the highest order."

In Accra, Gold Coast (which later became Ghana). Three years later he started up the West African Pilot in Lagos, Nigeria, then built his newspaper holdings to including four other city newspapers. Azikiwe used his various publications to actively promote nationalist fervor and attack racial prejudice in the African colonies.


Read his biography as to what he was doing in Nigeria, why he run away to Ghana and what he did in Ghana before he became and editor

obaaderemi:
Who would not get tired of educating such idiots? Just continue doing your best to augment their poor education.