₦airaland Forum

durangokid:
. What is all this retaliation bullshit, let GUTA try anything they want let us see, not issue of hate, Nigeria only sneezed Ghana economy is now when nobody or country is targeted, let them start economy war or sabotage, Ghana will collapsed within six months, in as much as some Nigerian business men will be affected but Ghana economy will see hell, Nigeria does not produce anything that need to be sold in Ghana, Dangote us even selling in Ghana at the rate of 800 Naira while he is selling in Nigeria above 2000, because of his greed if you like you can stop buying his cement, it doesn't even concern Nigeria

anyway the price of cement is between 25- 30 cedis
no one can sell above that

The economy of Ghana does not rely on petty traders from Nigeria
That is why we can close those petty traders shops with our economy not even blinking an eye.

We closed 20 banks, 350 microfinance institutions and over 200 finance houses

our economic growth did not even blink to slow down
that is how resilient our economy is.

wirinet:
I am highly disappointed by your stance on this issue. Nigeria is hemorrhaging from our borders, and instead of you guys to understand and help profer a solution, you are threatening trade war. You even said you have similar issues with Togo, I expected you work with Nigeria diplomatically to solve the problem.
Do you know the damage the western and Northern borders are doing to our economy? Are you aware that we import (and pay subsidiaries on 40 million litres of petrol everyday) one would think we drink petrol like alcohol. Since the border closure, our fuel consumption is said to reduce to 30 million litres per day. Imagine multiplying 10 million by N50 subsidy everyday (apart from depleting our foreign reserves from the actual importation). Then there is the vexatious issue of using Benin and Togo as a transit point for smuggling all sorts of goods into Nigeria, cars, rice, poultry, second hand clothing including socks and bra, etc. The smuggling activities undermine all government policies. No other country in this world would endure the kinds of sabotage to its economy as being done by our neighbours.

You are saying the same falsehood that enemies of Nigeria are propagating, that Nigeria banned importation from other countries. This is very far from the truth. What was banned was importation through the land borders (for now). Ghana, being our closest west African brother should look for ways of addressing our concerns by suggesting alternative solutions, like creating a fool proof corridor or using shipping lanes, instead of threatening and emotional rants.

Believe me the $300 million yearly trade Nigeria does with Ghana pales into insignificance, when compared to the daily damage to our economy by smuggling.

Exactly what we are doing now

but if you dont want to take heed, we may have to leave you t your own troubles
Petrol and diesel are cheaper in Ghana than in Burkina Faso

There are over 200 more filling stations on our burder with Burkina Faso than in Accra
So fuel smuggling was a lucrative business.
What did the Ghanaian government do?
It completely removed subsidizes and increase immigration officers checkpoints along the border and went ahead to close down alot of the filling stations along the border.
Placed trackers on all fuel takers that bunker fuel to filling stations in the country.


Now the smugglers have move to smuggling fertilizers out of Ghana to Burkina Faso because the government of Ghana has hugely subsidized it.
THE Government in Ghana is catching them on a daily basis

On the border with Togo, Nigerians are smuggling textiles into Ghana daily
One of the difficult things Ghana has been fighting


so Nigeria has to learn than to close it border

OROSUNBOLB:
If Ghana is a El Dorado and self sufficient as you want us to believe,why don't you simply ignore whatever we do with our border? The rate at which you are barking up and down like a mad dog here shows that something is terribly eating you and your Ghana up!

I honestly don't blame you but those my countrymen who dignify a low life ugly dwarf Ghanaian like you by responding to your fooleries. Even if the economy of your pygmy enclave is bigger than that of the United State,our borders remain closed and no amount of threats,real or imaginary, will make us open them for the benefits of parasitic neighbours.

Now go away,your ugliness irritates me please.

then count the money you are making from other countries as a parasite state gone for good

when the recession starts
hope you stay in your country and chew grass

femolii:
Ghana will not misbehave next time Nigerians are the one doing their jobs there because of their laziness

you mean lazy nigerians are doing Ghanaian jobs here


tickle yourself and laugh.
Nigerians who dont like to work but steal from others.

even your president knows ya are lazy.

Oriyomin25:
I Read Most Of Ur Comments And They Are Funny. I Knw Of Some Ghanians Working In A Factory In Lagos And From What Those Guys Told Me About The Standard Of Living Of An Average Person And The Economy, Seriously It's An Insult To Even Compare Lagos State Economy To That Of Ghana.. Abi There Is Another Ghana Aside D One I See On My Tv Screen

you mean like what the Nigerians renting my property tells me about how Nigeria is a shithole or how people cant even afford food there
or the horrors i saw for myself when i came to Nigeria?

is there another nigeria?

dont ever compare a shithole Nigeria to Ghana

Afamed:
You are a joker. Do you have another Ghana besides the one we see on Joy TV stations?

Joke is on you kiddo

the develop one than your villages

seunmsg:
They are begging. Ghana’s minister of foreign affairs and Trade & industry both came to Nigeria this week to lobby the Buhari administration to open the Benin border. We have no direct borders with Ghana so why are they so worried?

they are worried because you are bullying Benin for your own failures

and you stupidly close your border impeding trade without telling other countries you were going to close your border.

thereby causing financial loss to traders whos goods were in transit .

and they came to your country to warn you of the consequences

Nodogragra4me:
The bulk of fuel consumed in the entire west Africa comes from Nigeria and majority through illegal smuggling from which Nigeria loses much more than that your paltry 2 billion dollars.

Mr. , we keep our border closed and fuel of more than 3 billion dollars for which we pay subsidy is saved from getting to ghana and other west African countries... We therefore save more than your patronage and if we keep the illegal supply off your reach, your government will very soon increase the local price of those petroleum products


Nigeria custom has announced a revenue increase since the closure whereas the reverse is the case with all the rest of west African nations... In just a day, the Nigerian custom generated over 9billion naira.


For your information migrants are migrants. They follow opportunities and add value to the local environment. Send 3.5 economically profitable persons out of Ghana and watch both your housing, educational, transport, health and every other sector take a dive of death.

We can keep the border close for as long as it takes to whip sense into all of west African countries including Ghana. The loss is mitigated d by the increase revenue from the custom service

the migrants we get from Nigeria are poor starving good for nothing people excaping the horrors of nigeria .

they are a burden to us and our health care systems

Nodogragra4me:
The bulk of fuel consumed in the entire west Africa comes from Nigeria and majority through illegal smuggling from which Nigeria loses much more than that your paltry 2 billion dollars.

Mr. , we keep our border closed and fuel of more than 3 billion dollars for which we pay subsidy is saved from getting to ghana and other west African countries... We therefore save more than your patronage and if we keep the illegal supply off your reach, your government will very soon increase the local price of those petroleum products


Nigeria custom has announced a revenue increase since the closure whereas the reverse is the case with all the rest of west African nations... In just a day, the Nigerian custom generated over 9billion naira.


For your information migrants are migrants. They follow opportunities and add value to the local environment. Send 3.5 economically profitable persons out of Ghana and watch both your housing, educational, transport, health and every other sector take a dive of death.

We can keep the border close for as long as it takes to whip sense into all of west African countries including Ghana. The loss is mitigated d by the increase revenue from the custom service

all those are your own problems

just like every country have their own problems with plugging leaking revenues .

Its your government personal decision to subsidise fuel for you because if they dont
You wont be able to afford it and the will be a political uprising in Nigeria.

anyway, Ghana buy natural gas from NNPC
i guess they are also smugglers

and crude oil from your oil owners

Nodogragra4me:
Mr. This is not an empty chest-beating contest.

Lagos is bigger than Ghana including the electricity you have mentioned

keep letting bloggers fool you



it nice when you guys keep exposing your ignorance

lagos with morethan 2/3 the population of Ghana cannot even raise 2 billion dollars in revenue yet want to compare to Ghana.

hahaha laughable.

Afamed:
Don't worry your foreign affairs and Regional integration Minister( Shirley Botchwey ) will soon write another letter begging Nigeria to open our border

you dont have sense

they were diplomatically warning you that Ghana will not hesitate to retaliate if the nigerian decision to close it borders without consulting other countries is not rescinded because of the political pressure it is exerting on it neighbouring countries.

Nodogragra4me:
Assumption is the lowest form of knowledge.

keep following nigerian bloggers and be a fool forever



youre so silly

Lagos does not have a nominal gdp let alone compare it 91 billion ppp to Ghana 190 billion ppp

ba7man:
You just talk like an ignorant Ghanian child.

im not a Nigerian to be ignorant

next time know who you are talking to

facts are just facts

madenigga:
No be fight o. Naturally our export to your country will be higher than your export to ours The ratio of Nigerians in Ghana to Ghanaians in Nigeria is 5:1.

Do the maths, there are no much Ghanaians in Nigeria and its not our fault, since most of u still hate Nigeria for whatever reason.

it is not hate

your country is just not attractive to us for anything

femolii:
Stop crying Oga go ahead and lock nigerians shops in ghana and see what will happen to your economy after all two of your ministers are in nigeria begging up and down.

Ghana economy is bigger than nigerian petty traders trading smuggle goods

TayserMahri:
Gotta give it to the Ugandans for Kiira Ev! Not like the Nyumbu shit from bongo

its really kul

mtisTheQubit:
an yet Ghana's minimum wage per day is only 2 dollars...compare that with kenya which is 6-7 dollars...dont you think there is something funny here...actually i checked how you pay your workers an its not cool....where do they get the money then...Your highly skill folks are pay is same as our living wage folks..now tell me how this folks can afford the stuff ya talking about..I think the common guy is just trying to survive while the foreigners (Americans )abuse the hospitality coz they are loaded..its got nothing to do with prosperity..my take

wages in Ghana is one of the trickiest things to understand

i myself do not understand it

Nodogragra4me:
Please mention some of the things that would happen negatively ,to the Nigerian economy , if Ghana should close her border to us.

for a start
3-5 million Nigerians in Ghana with family extensions in Nigeria will go hungry

It will cause a recession in Nigeria when Ghana blocks Nigeria to it 2 billion dollars gas and fuel market.

mind you 2 billion is a lot to a 30-35 billion export economy

Afamed:
Your economic teacher must have done more harms than goods to you.
At elementary stages, they didn't school you there are 2 major factors that determine Productions

(1) Purchasing power
(2) Population
No worry you go buy PMS at Ghsna15 cedis N900. by December.

what is Nigeria purchasing power
hahaha
do you really want to compare that to Ghana

please dont be dumb to argue on something you'll never understand

Purchasing power in Ghana is 2 to 3 times what you have in Nigeria.


Even you government knows that your population is not an asset because half of it is extremely poor

Nodogragra4me:
What is the size of your economy that 80 million dollars is nothing to it? Lagos, just a state in Nigeria has an economy that is more than twice bigger than that of ghana and that money is a lot to her.

Do, you know that just the incoming refinery in Lagos is more than a quarter of your ghana economy not even adding the new city on the ocean

do you know that just the electricity sector in Ghana is worth more than your refinery and your incoming city?

Nodogragra4me:
What is the size of your economy that 80 million dollars is nothing to it? Lagos, just a state in Nigeria has an economy that is more than twice bigger than that of ghana and that money is a lot to her.

Do, you know that just the incoming refinery in Lagos is more than a quarter of your ghana economy not even adding the new city on the ocean

hahah dumb

lagos does not have a nominal gdp to compare to Ghana
even it purchacing power parity in lower than Ghana

dont be a clown reciting that dumb thing the every nigerian say.

80m is nothing to a 17 billion export economy

2 billion will be worth a lot to a 35 billion export economy especially your gas sector.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
clown

bumb ass nigga



one of the dumbest people ive come across here

Harlem2:
In what way is Benin republic a threat to Nigeria economy talkless of competition?

if they are not, then why are you closing your border to trade from them which is against every ecowas protocol?

You have failed to tax transit goods
you dont blame other people for your failure

Afamed:
The goods we import from Benin,( Rice.) Are they produced in Benin. Capital No
When Rice is imported from Thailand to Benin ( Who gets the import duty <{ Benin) govt.
And who are the consumers of 90% of such Rice ? ( Nigeria) You shortchange our Government. When it only takes 3/ 4 months to plant the same rice locally here

the goods like textiles and spare parts or cars that Nigerians import into Ghana from Nigeria
are they made in Nigeria or they come from China ?

yet Ghana is not closing it borders because we have an effective way to tax those products .


there is Togo right becide Ghana
they also have a free port

and Ghana hasn't even complained
You have to make yourself competitive and stop blaming other people.

Nigerians go to the market and decide to buy foreign rice over local ones
no one makes those choices for them.

Today, local rice in Ghana is a big thing because it is cheaper and well polished and taste better
so people buy it, it doesnt mean we dont buy foreign rice.

Afamed:
Tell us the Tema market that is bigger than Lagos market? We will not forget in hurry

Tema raises 2.4 billion dollars in Taxes with less than a million population.
Lagos only raise 2 billion dollars

Afamed:
Keep quiet and stop confusing yourself.
Average standard of living is different from infrastructural development. In the 2 terms, Nigeria is 200 miles ahead of Ghana. Stop living a life of self deceit

hahaha

there is nothing like infrastructure development index

dont get confused

the whole of Nigeria infrastructure does not match even that of a regional capital in Ghana so hash it

development is about the people
its a social thing


you cant claim developed when 50% of your population is starving.

and that is why Ghana has a higher Human development Index than Nigeria
That is why Ghana has a higher per capita income than Nigeria

Harlem2:
This guy is a Ghanaian

yes i am

what are you?
Igbo, yoruba, hausa , fulani?

NigeriaIsDoomed:
make nana kunfu or wetin be that their dwarf president name pack all their minister come lie down cry beg buhari maybe buhari go look him face small.

Chrisagyei and just30 come see una people don dey cry.hahahaha

did you say begging
im laughing

it seems you dont know what warnings are

when Ghana retaliate even Dangote will cry

Nodogragra4me:
We have already lived with the worst of Ghana bad behavior. They can only rehash them.

We can keep the border close and in months, body go tell them.

It is less than two months and they are already jumping over the heads of our close border neighbors to engage in high level diplomatic talks over the closure.

you wont survive when Ghana close it border for just a week


it is great Ghana only does 80 million trade with Nigeria
GUTA will make sure it make the Ghanaian government enforce it own laws

you dont want to go on that path with GUTA
the current government in Ghana is a law enforcement government oo.

sinkhole:
Abeg, let the trucks return, abi the drivers don forget how dem dey do U-turn ne?

They will sue your government for damages

They will if you dont open your borders as diplomatic efforts are requiring

watchout for the sanctions

femolii:
Oga Ghana is feeling the heat badly and you are here saying rubbish.

80 million dollars is nothing to Ghana oo

we export more than 80 million dollars worth of goods to Liberia than worthless Nigeria
your market is just not attractive to us.

We are talking because we have to enforce the ECOWAS rules on free movement of goods else you will bully small countries like Benin and Togo

They've found out that making a free port work will work in their favour.
Ghana has managed to survive without closing it borders

learn

Afamed:
I wonder what yardstick you used in arriving at your conclusion. All your developments in Ghana with 238,537 land mass
Kindly spread those developments in the same 923,763 land Mass here in Nigeria. You will truly come to conclusion that the development in Ghana is less than what we have in Lagos state

do you know what averages is or equity is

that is how development is compared
please go back to school