₦airaland Forum

aminho: And tomorrow ghanians will say they have build school in 9ja

It's a symbolic gesture to say yes , Achebe was our own too.

Some of you just don't have to be on these pages.

Why are Nigerians so voilent and blood thirsty?

I noticed that Nigerians would kill at the drop of a dime.

I am very careful when dealing with Nigerians.

Nigeria military wants to show off their new toys?

I mean is this the best way to militarily deal with BH?

Using Jet fighters, artillery , gun ships within Nigeria to fight a ragtag insurgents?.

Talk about the civilians who would be killed and the fact that this insurgents would still be standing after all this dumb military display and waste.

They would kill civilians and count them as insurgents. I think Nigeria has just started a civil war.

This is a poor military strategy to use for this kind of operation.

I'm not a military guy but believe me I can give thousand and one strategies to destroy BH without all this military brouhaha.

This type of warfare in your backyard is not about the millitary equipments you display.

Henry120: NIGERIA

Funny pictures, the top one. Are these guys soldiers?

All this na yeye, small ragtag Boko Haram dey give them sleepless nights, na wao.

These Nigerians and their yeye.

Why do you people feel the need to make yourselves important? African Giants, African Soccer Giants, African dumbasses and now African Tallest cake.

Talk about insecurity.

Meanwhile Nigeria is unraveling before your eyes, the problem is NIGERIANS.

adaobi123: na wa oo

I thought Nigeria had good looking men

Where are there ?

Yet to meet one.

What is hot about this old cargo, skin colour?

Orikinla: Ghanaian divas are advertising themselves on Nairaland for Nigerian guys, because we are hotter than their guys.

...Ghanaian divas advertising themselves for Nigerian guys with small dicks? Naaaaah. hehehehehe.

True talk, that is what the studies say.

CAMEROONPRIDE: I really pity African, we have 200M people , the most populous African nation who think they are white or worship light skin, why are Nigerian so obsessed with light skin? Calling others charcoal and apes , Nigerian calling someone charcoal? Wonder shall never end, they went as far as peddling lies and myths about a specific ethnicity being light skinned lol

Anyway sha enjoy your light skin

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Yep, Nigerians are one of the most ugliest and dark skinned people on the continent and yet they are so obsessed with light skin and beauty, beats me.

The history of the few light skinned Nigerians or Africans of the Bantu stock is nothing to right home about.Their ancestors were just used as sex slaves by their white masters and begat a lot of bastards.

Nigerians are not known to be light skin and beautiful so they should get over this obsession.

Why are Nigerians so obsessed with light skin?

No wonder Nigerians lead the world in skin bleeching.

Folks, this is a serious psychological disease. Some call it inferiority complex.

Every picture of a Nigerian girl posted here has been photoshoped to make their skin lighter.

Na wao, dark African mind.

Denn: Boy,

You don't come on a Nigerian platform to spew rubbish.

Going by the chart you placed herein, it's evident that the absolute population of Nigerians living in non slum areas is even greater than the whole of Ghana combined.

Seems you have forgotten so soon that so many Appiah and Mensahs were cobblers on those Nigerian streets before the great Ghana-must-go exodus...

We are here celebrating our nairalander who had the guts to post evidence of his culinary skills online...let's see how you cook that beer-tasting corn mash your 'urban' people devoured with raw pepper when they roamed lagos' streets.

You are right, but long before the Appiah and Mensahs roamed as Cobblers in Nigeria, Nigerians have already roamed as Cobblers in Ghana. Maybe you were not born so go ask your father.

boron10: Tell me the truth, should you be given the opportunity to be a citizen of Naija, won't you grab it with your two hands?

Why would any body with a choice and a right mind want to be a Nigerian?

This shiit only happens in Nigeria.

onitshaigbo: Nigerians have relocated to every country in the world, many of which aren't as good as Nigeria, like Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Philippines, Thailand...

Ghana can't even be compared with tiny Lagos State, talkless of Federated Republic of Nigeria.

You mean these countries are not as rich as Nigeria. Being good and and being rich are 2 different things.

If the white man discovers and digs oil for a bamboon, the bamboon would be rich, very simple.

You see, your point is exactly what the EU is reiterating, that, Nigeria has no reason to be poor. As a matter of fact they should stop giving assistance to many African countries, Nigeria being first.

Nigerians steal, mismanage and plunder their economy so badly that to me the the EU and other foreign donors to the economy must be real mugus.

It's like encouraging a bamboon to continue misbehaving.

See now, Nigeria Police too dey get dog.

Watin language the dog understand? Pidgin, Hausa, Yuroba or Igbo.

What is the fence for, to keep Nigerians in Nigeria from going out or keep foreigners from coming in?

Last time I checked it's Nigerians who are all over the place craping in other people's countries.

gboss4sure: We aint charcoals, we Are blacks but blacks aint charcoals.

If you call this black

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Then what will you call this.

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Charcoal right?. man black get levels o

Mikel's picture is a bright picture, lots of light, dimwit.
He is not light skin. Are you an idiott or what.

Area-Fada:
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My Dear good to know that.

In reality, I don't know of any Nigerian with any reason to hate Ghana. In my experience, it's Ghanian who are usually suspicious when they first meet you (I guess from all the things they've heard) but soon realise that a Nigerian understands his ways far more than any other African.

With time they come to appreciate your doggedness and resilience and see that you're just striving like them.

My family members and friends married to Ghanian ladies certainly have nothing against anyone.

Actually everybody is wary of a Nigerian when they meet one. Nigerians are such dubious and shady you always have to be on their case.

Every Nigerian you meet is either a homosexual or Just a dumb freak in behaviour. Why?

And you dimwits seem to be proud of such social misfits.

No wonder the country is in such shiit.

Go ahead Boko Haram, clean house now.

ghananotnaija: What's with Nigerians and their obsession with lightening your skin colour? Do you guys think you're whites or Asians, not blacks? Just admit that you are ashamed to be blacks and that you worship light skin. Serious inferiority complex here.

Hehehehe, that is what I notice. Nigerians are always making noise about how they are light-skinned than Ghanaians.

That is what inferiority complex does to you. They are one of the ugliest you can find on the African Continent.

When you see a baboon, you are looking at a Nigerian right there, no shiit here.

They are very ugly, believe me, I know Nigeria very well. 8 )

DBring it on, Nigeria, Ghanaians would break your back, fucck you in the asss and humble you.

ovo4u: Are you surprise, this are one of the stupid people going to ghana to disgrace us, the last time I was in Ghana, I went there cos I wanted to see how black the people are and if you see how their women run after us, I was like dammnnn. It was a nice holidays cos we made the women really feel what is like having fun.

And morever 99% of ghanaian travel out of their poor country with a Nigeria passport back in the days.

And why would a fine Ghanaian want to travel with a Nigerian passport?

Even a dog wouldn't want to do that.

Ghana is a small country but always shiiting on Nigeria. This started when many here were not born.

They educated Nigerian's after they held Nigeria's hands to independence. How can you not respect such a big brother?

mikeapollo: The truth hurts, especially if it is the bitter truth.This IK guy must have been a keen follower of music trends between Ghana and Nigeria

I have been saying this for almost 2 years now, and people did not believe me. Infact, I wanted to post a thread on the same topic!

Most of what young,so-caled Afro-pop Nigerian musicians are playing now is patterned after the Ghana Hiplife music (with lots of Azonto-like beats/rhythm). Only a few Nigerian Afro-pop musicians e.g. PSquare, had been original in recent years.

Any keen and unbiased follower of Nigerian and Ghana music from the 90s would see this trend clearly.
Let us think back to Silverbirds(STV)' Music Africa in the early 2000s and compare the type of songs/music from Ghana and Nigeria. At that time, Ghanaians had already created and playing their Afro-pop/ Hiplife music which is basically up-tempo highlife mixed with rap. In those days, Nigerian musicians were playing R&B....Check the list....Tuface, Eedris,Styl-Plus etc were all playing the so called R&B which was not as danceable. But the Ghanaian musicians had their own indigenous creation of Hiplife(their version of Afro-pop) music which was created/pioneered by REGGIE ROCKSTONE in the early 90s with other musicians like Obour, Obrafour, Praye, 4x4, K.K Fosu(who Olamide mentioned in his 'Bend Down Low'' Azonto dance album) etc

I used to visit Ghana then and I realised a contradiction between the Nigerian and Ghanaian music and film industries. While Nigerian films dominated their TV houses and video clubs, Ghana Hip-life( their self-styled Afro-Pop) dominated all their dance clubs and dance parties. You would never hear a single foreign music at their parties or occassions. Their Hiplife was rock solid for dancehall and parties.
On the contrary, Nigerian club houses were still dominated by foreign songs and Nigerian local music were not rocking our local parties/club houses unlike their Ghanaian counterparts. The reason for this is that the Ghana Hiplife has a faster tempo (more danceable) than the R&B of Nigerian musicians of that era.

The recent influence of Ghana's Hip-Life music in Nigeria started when Tony Tetuila went into a collabo with TicTac and they produced 'Fefe Ne Fe'.
The followed other Ghanaian groups like VIP who had a collabo with Tuface. Then came the collabo between Wande Cole in the song 'Allow me to kiss your hand'

But the emergence of PSquare and their beautyful songs changed the scenario and signalled the emergence of huge popularity of Nigerian songs in Ghana because PSquare were creative and some of their songs had this 'High-life; kind of effect, and Highlife music is very popular in Ghana.

But the heavy percussions of the Hiplife music and its very danceable rhtyhms and beats made it more attractive to dancers and party goers than our fake R&B. I could remember on STV's Music Africa. Ghanaian songs were more dance-inducing than Tuface's African Queen or any other Nigerian songs e.g Eederis or Style Plue or any other.

Soon, the Ghanaians added the crazy and fun-filled Azonto dance and the dance moves were patterned after the tempo of their Hiplife (Afro Pop) music. The effect on the music scene was too much and Nigerian musicians just decided to join!
The emergence of good Ghanaian rappers like Sarkodie and Guru and some onf their innovations and creative beats has also influenced a lot of Nigerian musicians

Check these trends;

Iyanya: The first album he released after winning MTN Project Fame was purely an R&B album which was not very successful commercially. But right now, just listen to his songs....he has jumped on the Ghanaian Hiplife style of music which rocks very well in parties. Infact, a lot of the clips he showed in the video of 'Kukere' are videos of Ghanaians dancing Azonto music which he downloaded from youtube e.g the small boy dancing

Omawumi: Her Bottom Belle album is an extraction from the Ghana Hiplife style.

Eedris: Even he himself has joined in singing the fast tempo beats of Hiplife/Afro Pop

Duncan Mighty; His songs are pure immitation of Ghana's Hiplife. Infact he featured Ghanaian rappers and the type/style of music are clearly new to Nigeria

Olamide: His 'Bend-Down Low' is clearly an Azonto song and he even acknowledged the Ghana influence in the song by mentioning some Ghanaian slangs and even the name of a musician K.K. Fosu. Remember. that song is different from his usual style which is rap.

J.Martins; He sings mostly highlife, but he is gradually infusing the Hiplife style into his music now

May-D: He jumped on the Azonto train without delay. His 2 singles in the market are purely Azonto/Hiplife songs and they are doing well

Timaya; He has joined in the Azonto/Hiplife craze.

D-Banj; He even featured the white guy that danced Azonto (after dancing with his Ghanaian friends on youtube)

Ruggedman/Terry G; Their latest works show a lot of influence on their music by Ghanaian musicians like Guru and Sarkodie.
Infact their beats are now tailored after Sarkodie's style

Davido; Compare his past works to his lastes songs....you would see the clear influence of Azonto on his songs

PSquare: They are preparing to join the Azonto craze (forget Alongo for now). The beats/rhythm of their song for Glo 'UNLIMITED' is a pure immitation of Sarkodie's beats.

.....the list goes on and on.

It is interesting to note that the latest music style/works of these guys are quite different from what they used to deliver just a few years ago. And the best hits in Nigerian music today are songs that are patterned after the Ghana's Azonto dance...e.g Iyanya, May-D, Olamide, Davido, Wizkid, etc


It should be noted that Nigeria and Ghana have always influenced and learned from each other. Ghana had greater influence on Nigeria in the early days up to the 70s. Nigeria had more influences from the 80s.
In the television/film industry, Nigeria seem to have had greater influence. Nigerian films are vitually in every village in Ghana, and they are preferred to Ghanaian films
But Ghana seems to have had greater influence on Nigeria in music. Highlife music came to Nigeria from Ghana and most of the best Nigerian musicians had their roots in Highlife....they either had Ghanaians in their bands or traveled to learn the act in Ghana. Infact there was a time when Ghanaian musicians were the best in West Africa e.g Ramblers Band and Osibisa, ET Mensah etc

Infact Fela was not a force to be reckoned with in Nigeria music (Highlife) until he traveled to Ghana where he lived for years and learned to master the real act of music. That was where Fela got the name 'AFRO BEAT'. He changed his style of music to Afrobeat while he was in Ghana and became an instant hit when he returned to Nigeria. He even brought some big and tall Ghanaian royal drums(which are played for kings) and he learnt how to beat the drums personally.

Interestingly, Nigerian musicians break higher grounds than their Ghanaian counterparts because of 2 reasons;

1. More Nigerian musicians sing in English (or Pidgin English) while Ghanaians sing mostly in their local languages....hence Nigeria songs tend to reach more fans
2. Nigeria has a bigger popluation, which translates to relatively more fan base and economic success.

It is not an offence or crime to be influenced by a neigbhbouring country. But we should also strive to create something that every keen follower can identify with us. Nigerian musicians shoudl also do some deep thinkng and bring out something that can rule the world. We have had series of dance styles/name like Alanta, Yahoozee, Galala etc. but s single Azonto from Ghana has had more impact globally in just a few yesrs.

God Bless Nigeria, God Bless Ghana!

Can't explain it any better. You sound like a very keen observer and a good music lover.

Problem is there are too many ignorant Nigerians gracing these pages.

Nigeria and Ghana are two neighbours and the cultural influence of one on the other should not be anything of a suprise.

At the moment the music trend and influence is just what you ably painted, no ifs or buts about it.

I get the impression many people here are kids or they look like kid-adults who can not tell the difference between an asss hole and a pusssy.

timecop28: calm your balls bruv. Apart from the Azonto wave that promted releases of popular remixes to Sarkodie's beat. oya list na. why the stress sef?? Sarkodie, Becca and R2Bees...which other Ghanaian artistes do we know/hear?

Again you are missing the point. You don't have to know any artist and an artist does not have to be popular to steal from their songs . There are tons of Ghanaian highlife music out there, a treasure field for the young Nigerian artist who are pirating left and right.

Believe me they are not original, a little home work would reveal how they are stealing from existing songs claiming it to be their work.

In Africa anything goes so it's a field day for them.

Okija_juju: I thought all Ghanaian songs used the same beats 'hiplife'? Infact, I even thought that all their songs were produced by the same producer 'apietus'.

I love me some ghanaian songs, but they all sound alike, both in beats and lyrics and even dance step.

Ghanaian music is basically highlife and being the originators of the music, it makes sense if it sounds all alike in the ears of an outsider, however, one can't resist the urge to shake it up with every one of these songs.

That is what makes it highlife music.

He is right. You people don't know shiit.

Any contemporary Nigerian music being played by this so-called musicians have a Ghanaian beat somewhere. The annoying fact is they lift these beats from existing Ghanaian songs without any shame. I can list songs after songs and can tell you which Ghanaian music the artist stole from.

Fact is, those really in the music industry know this truth and acknowledge it.

The man knows what he is taking about, too many Mumu on this pages.

Nigeria Immigration Service in Akwa Ibom State, repatriated 32 persons of African origin for flouting immigration rules in 2012.

The command also refused 24 persons entry into the country within the period.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Effiom Effiom, a superintendent of NIS, said this in Uyo on Friday.

Eleven persons from Cameroon, six from Burkina Faso, three from the Gambia, two from Ghana and one each from Mali and Mauritania were among the repatriated persons.

The command, he added, within the period, also admitted 4,328 foreigners into Nigeria through authorised entry and exit points in the state.

He said, “The NIS has in 2012 deported home one Cameroonian on the order of the court, repatriated 32 nationals of African descents for various offences, ranging from lack of valid travel documents, overstaying their visitors permit and other infractions.

“The command had also admitted 4,328 persons into Nigeria and deported 4,738 through various authorised entry and exit points in the state.”

He stated that the command processed 7,199 applications for electronic passport within the period.

He explained that the command had evolved strategies to promote economic growth, tourism and internal security in line with the state government’s transformation agenda.

Effiom, who warned the people about a syndicate deceiving and swindling unsuspected Nigerians for employment into the Immigration, warned members of the public against their antics.

He said, “Consequently, the service wishes to state categorically that it is not recruiting neither has it mandated any person or persons/agents to collect money for employment purposes.

“The public is by this release advised not to patronise these fraudsters or have any dealings with these unscrupulous Nigerians.”

Capnd143: I will continously say that Ghanians and SA zulus are seeing nigerians as "IMPERIALIST IN THE MAKING". I trust our igbo ethnic the will keep going, but this type the will start manufacturing and whole, nigerians are slowly taking over their economy and their GDP is contributed partly by nigerian traders! GO TRADERS, KUDUS TO U! !

If we cut our oil and gas supply to them i wander what thd wil live on. Mtcheew . . . .!

Hehehe, you guys are too many to be torelated in a country. You invade in droves and behave like pests.

You don't play by the rules and you basically become a pain in the asss in any country.

How did Baukina Faso get to Finals.

Shitty African soccer.