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The government felt Black Stars players deserved a bonus of $20,000 each, what is shameful about that? Don't forget they got very generous match bonuses during the championship itself.

I think if anyone should be ashamed, it should be the over-hyped and over-rated Super Chickens who got whacked by the Ghanaians, and yet shamelessly collected $30,000 apiece!

Vergeltungswaffen!

@Alias64, don’t try to dodge the issue that Nigerian men are now desperate to marry Ghanaian women so they can become Ghanaian citizens! And by the way, your Nigerian sister still lives under my roof,huh?

And believe me; she needs this marriage more than I do. I made her to be who she is today. I paid for her to go and get a degree in law and finish up at the law school and today she’s a very successful lawyer.

I’ve also had my fair share of Nigerian women, including some of your so-called “society” women.

I don’t have anything against Nigerians, but woe betides anyone who seeks to denigrate my country. If you wish to see me at my worst, then come and run your mouth about Ghana in my presence. I think Ghana is a great country. It is not perfect but it is a damn great country. I love my country and willing to put my life on the line for my beloved country. That is how passionate I am about my country. Everything else, including my marriage is secondary. Ghana First!

Case closed.

After reading Gbawe’s post, I have come to the conclusion there is nothing to talk about further as far this thread is concerned. Listen to him:

"Do you even know the number of Nigerian men naturalising as Ghanaians via marraige to Ghanaian women?"

How does that sound to you all? Nigerian men have become so desperate to naturalise as Ghanaians that they’ve resorted to marrying Ghanaian women! That sums up the whole scenario! i know most of you suffer from schizophrenia, otherwise you'll agree after what Gbawe said there is nothing to talk about again,huh?

I’d been married to a Nigerian woman- a lawyer- for 13 years and NEVER EVER considered Nigerian citizenship. Tufiakwa!

Case closed!


By the way, can anyone suggest where I can get Idris Abdulkadir’s blockbuster album Nigeria jagajaga? That’s the only Nigerian music I enjoy. Unfortunately, the CD is a bit rustic from too much playing time!

Welcome to the noisy world of Ghana haters.

For the sake of that scum bag jona, I had wanted to paste some really gory (never-before-seen) pictures of the recent genocide in Jos. At least so that the whole world will know the barbaric tendencies of these world-acclaimed terrorists, ruthless nappy headed, pigeon drop eating negroes! I will try uploading those fascinating pictures tomorrow.

Now that al Qaeda has joined the party in Nigeria, let’s see how these unfuckingbeliavable offspring of a failed state will cope! The United Nations is in the process of declaring Nigeria a failed state destined for the dustbin and you people are here making noise. The ranting of ants, all sounds and fury, signifying nothing!
Sheshi, don’t bother your head about these clueless basketmouth look-alikes. If Nigerians have investments in Ghana, so what? And by the time Ghana kick them out-which will be soon- who will be talking about Nigerian investment? It is just a matter of time. For now, it looks as if Ghanaians don’t know what they are doing-but very soon we will see who the landlord is and who the tenant is. So keep “investing” in Ghana, after all the more the merrier,huh?

Listen to some scum bag talking about Glo and crap! Can anyone tell me how many fixed landlines exist in Nigeria today? Virtually none, because these bunch of corrupt and incompetent shulmuta ingalas have long destroyed NITEL which provided that service. Today, virtually everyone in Nigeria depends on mobile phones and you are here exposing your ignorance big time.

Another dumbass was talking about Ghanaians speaking pidgin English like Nigerians. Can you imagine that rubbish? I guess that statement vividly captures the shallowness of your infantile brain, huh? How can a people you claim hate your guts want to be like you?

I can understand some of you need a need a place(nairaland) and an object (Ghana)to vent your frustrations. And believe me there are many reasons to be particularly frustrated as a Nigerian. A missing president, unemployment officially at 80%, blacklisted for terrorism, globally acclaimed 419ners,the world’s foremost country for infant and maternal mortality, second only to Somalia for sea piracy, persistent lack of ordinary electricity, one of the most corrupt and violence-prone countries in the world….need I say more?
My advice to all of you is to look elsewhere to vent your frustration. Ghana is not responsible for your problems!

londoner. when someone posts a story from a Nigerian newspaper saying Nigeria contributes 60% of all FDIs in Ghana, and the Ghana Investment Promotion Council says China is the leading source of FDIs in Ghana with South Africa being the second major source of FDI, do I need to talk about the volume or level of FDI coming from Nigeria? What is obvious from the GIPC is that Nigeria is NOT the leading source of FDI in Ghana.To me that is the crux of the matter,huh. You cannot contribute 60% when you are not the leading contributor. Simple logic,huh?

Now you can see how Nigerians peddle falsehoods to massage their Zuma-rock sized ego?

Jona, the stories you pasted were based on a story initially published by the Lagos-based Vanguard newspaper. Ghanaweb actually cut and pasted that story on its website while Konye Obaji Ori simply juggled up that Vanguard story a bit.

What do you expect from a Nigerian newspaper? They have long become an instrument for massaging the ego of Nigerians. I wasn’t surprised at all to read that piece of trash in the Vanguard. Guardian published something along that line but not as emphatic as Vanguard did.

Let me tell you a few home truths. Statistics released by the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre at the end of 2009 showed China and South Africa as the two leading source of investment in Ghana, not Nigeria. So tell me, how can Nigeria account for 60 percent of FDI in Ghana when Nigeria is not the leading source of FDI? You see the 419 Nigerians are known to peddle? Perhaps the Ghana News Agency story below will help you.
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Ghana Investment Promotion Centre registers companies worth GH¢374.15m[/size]

Despite the global economic crisis, which has slowed down the pace of global economic growth, the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has made significant gains in the 2009 financial year.

The GIPC during the third quarter of this year registered a total of 81 new companies with a combined value of GH¢374.15 million compared to 83 new companies in the second quarter which were valued at GH¢156.34 million.
Mr. George Aboagye, Chief Executive of the GIPC, who announced this at an end-of-year press conference in Accra on Tuesday, said the figure for the third quarter represented a significant jump, inching closer to the country’s annual projected estimates of GH¢400 million which had not been realized in the previous years.

According to him, fifty out of the total 81 companies registered within the period were wholly-owned foreign enterprises and valued at GH¢134.96 million while the remaining 31 were joint ventures between Ghanaians and foreign partners valued at GH¢239.19 million.

He said the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) component of the estimated value of the companies registered during the period under review was GH¢339.32 million.

On sources of the FDI, Mr. Aboagye said China was at the top recording the highest number of companies in the country but South Africa topped the list of countries with the largest value of investments within the period.
He said the figures in terms of the value and number of companies registered within period indicated that more Ghanaians were investing especially, through joint partnerships.

Mr. Aboagye said taking over as the Chief Executive of the GIPC since May this year, he had transformed the Centre and had adopted three core values towards dealing with the investment community.

He mentioned the values as respect, tolerance and service, which, he said, had revived the hope and belief in the country’s investment climate culminating in the significant gains made within the period.
He said to end the agitations between locals and foreigners within the country’s trade sector, the GIPC earlier this year, inaugurated a National Task Force to monitor the activities of foreigners to ensure that Ghana’s investment regulations were respected and complied with.

Mr. Aboagye said the National Task Force had been working effectively resulting in the foreigners regularizing their operations, a situation which had stemmed the agitations of the Ghanaian traders.
He also spoke about the centre’s organization of the Ghana Investment Forum and the 2009 Ghana Club 100, which saw the introduction of the best listed company on the stock market.

Mr. Aboagye also announced the relocation of the GIPC to its original offices within the Public Services Commission building in the Ministries area in Accra.

He said the relocation was to ensure proximity to all major Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) that worked closely with the GIPC as well as to deliver improved services to its clientele.

He reiterated the Centre’s commitment to position Ghana as the preferred place for doing business in Africa.
Meanwhile, the GIPC will release the figures for the last quarter in January but the Chief Executive says the Centre has already registered close to 80 companies for the period.

Source: GNA

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@ Jona, are you kidding me?

Posting that picture, allegedly from Ghana, shows how despicable and desperate you are.

For all I know, that picture could have come from any of the numerous shanties dotting the landscape of Nigeria- from Ajungule to Alaba, from oshodi to ajangbadi. I can post even more horrifying pictures if you challenge me to do so. He who lives in a glass house throws no stones,huh? A word to the wise….

@Celebritee, Look at this shulmuta ingala, with an IQ of a lemon. What are you smoking?

Where in my post did I say conducting elections was the greatest achievement of Ghana? Go back and read my post very well so that you don’t make a tool of yourself. It is better to be thought a tool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Londoner, did I hear you say Fashola is doing well? The last time I heard, the state house assembly was considering impeaching his for fraud and corruption. So, how does that help your argument?

Ghanaians has shown themselves to be disciplined and focused –a people with integrity. Why do you think they have conducted world-acclaimed elections with ease? Why do you think our electoral commission is helping you guys to conduct free, air and credible elections? Dr.Afari Gyan was in Nigeria to lecture your senators and election officials, including Maurice Iwu, couple of months ago.

I hope we are not going to see some serious fighting in Anambra this weekend. As you guys know, elections in Nigeria is like warfare. I understand 25,000 policemen have been deployed in Anambra. I wonder if that would be enough. You need to draft every Nigerian policeman and soldier to keep the peace in Anambra, especially when reports from that area suggest people are being armed ahead of the election.

The argument was that Ghana was smaller than Nigeria and that accounted for Ghana’s effectiveness in organizing very successful polls. Yet a few months later, we saw the disgraceful outcome in Ekiti-which is not even up to size of the smallest region in Ghana. We saw how 15,000 well armed policemen assisted by soldiers could not provide security in Ekiti during that laughable rape of democracy.

It is with the same measure of integrity that Ghana will manage its oil resources. Watch and see Ghana make a huge success out of oil. Yes, watch and see. This is Ghana we are talking about-pace setters in Africa.

They said it was impossible for an opposition to win an election in Africa. Ghana proved it is doable. Now they say Ghana will be trapped in the oil curse that is the lot of countries like Nigeria. Ghana is saying no, oil will not be a curse and so shall it be.

Gbawe, Ghanaians see Glo as just one of several mobile phone companies operating or seeking to operate in Ghana. In any case it is not as if Glo is reinventing the wheel here. Let’s wait and see how they perform. One thing I know is there are already world-class telecom companies in Ghana-including Vodafone.

And for those making an issue out of Glo’s sponsorship of the local football league.There is no big deal at all if Glo is a co-sponsor of the league. MTN sponsored the Nigerian league for many years. Or is MTN a Nigerian company? Again Glo is not sponsoring the league in Ghana because it likes Ghanaians(LOL, that is impossible for a Nigerian company). The only reason they are doing it is because they know Ghanaians love their football and thus sponsoring the local league was one way of winning the hearts of potential Ghanaian subscribers. As I said, the telecom market in Ghana is very,very competitive so companies have to devise various strategies to win customers. And Glo was not forced to bid to sponsor the league. They were among several companies that applied to sponsor the league; nobody forced them to do it. And they are only doing it because they are looking for positive feedback from Ghanaians. After the current contract runs out Glo will leave and another comoany will take over-that is how it works all over the world. No big deal.

@Bandit C.  The gullibility of some Nigerians is simply amazing. You’ve clearly shown yourself to be nothing but a , ass.

Now let me tell you a few home truths. The GDP of a country is measured by the totality of wealth generated within that nation space. We all know virtually nothing is produced in Nigeria these days. Who dash them common electricity? As a matter of fact, virtually every single item used in Nigeria is imported, including toothpicks. And that is why you see all those ships lined up at Apapa and Tin Can ports for weeks waiting to berth.And that is why most companies are moving to Ghana.

The only phenomenon keeping Nigeria afloat at this time is oil industry, which is dominated by Western firms. I wonder what happened to the groundnuts pyramids in Kano, the oil palm plantations in Yorubaland and the former Midwest? Thanks to oil, Nigerians don’t have to do anything-all they do is to gather in Abuja every month to collect their allocation from the federation account. Now, revenue from oil is huge factor in computing Nigeria’s GDP. I am sure you will not dispute that. By the way do you know Nigeria has made as much from oil as the United Arab Emirate? 

Regrettably, the fact that Nigerian earns billions of dollars annually in oil revenue tells only a small part of the story. The real story is that very few privileged Nigerians are the only ones enjoying the oil wealth. How else can you explain that fact that 90% of Nigerians survive on less than $2 a day? How can you explain the fact that with your so-called enormous GDP, unemployment is officially 80%? How else do you explain the fact that erosion is decimating the entire southeast? How do you explain the crumbling infrastructure? How do you explain the fact that students these days are either love-peddlers or armed robbers/cultists? How is that PHCN hardly provides electricity despite all of Nigeria’s “wealth”?

On paper, Nigeria it may appear Nigeria has “a huge GDP” but in reality the oil money ends up in the pockets of a few Nigerians and their foreign collaborators. So stop all the nonsense about GDP. It is about how you manage your resources, which Ghana has done a terrific job with. Why do you think hundreds of Nigerians are moving to Ghana these days? I think there are about 60 or so flights between Lagos and Accra.ABC transports and others are also doing brisk business.

You can say all you want, but the people will always vote with their feet. They will go to the country where they think living conditions are better and where things work. And that is exactly what is happening.

North Africa Qaeda offers to help Nigerian Muslims
01 Feb 2010 13:14:23 GMT
Source: Reuters

DUBAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - An al Qaeda group in North Africa has offered to give Nigerian Muslims training and weapons to fight Christians in the West African country, where more than 460 people were killed in sectarian clashes last month.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan sent in the military to halt the violence after four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes in the area round the city of Jos in central Nigeria. "We are ready to train your people in weapons, and give you whatever support we can in men, arms and munitions to enable you to defend our people in Nigeria," the statement by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.
It was signed in the name of Abu Mus'ab Abdel-Wadoud, who was described as the "emir", or leader, of the group, and appeared on Islamic websites that often carry statements from groups using the al Qaeda name around the world. "You are not alone in this test. The hearts of Mujahideen are in pain over your troubles and desire to help you as much as possible, in the Islamic Maghreb, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya," it said.
Nigeria has roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, though traditional animist beliefs underpin many people's faith.
About 1 million people were killed in Nigeria's 1967-70 civil war, and there have been outbreaks of religious unrest since then. But more than 200 ethnic groups generally live peacefully side by side in the West African oil producer.
Last month's violence erupted after an argument between Muslim and Christian neighbours over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in previous clashes in 2008.
A Nigerian man tried to bomb a U.S.-bound plane on Dec. 25 in an attack claimed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Saudi-Yemeni group using the al Qaeda name and based in Yemen.
AQIM kidnapped a Frenchman and three Spaniards in the Sahara late last year and said it would kill the French hostage by the end of January unless Mali freed four al Qaeda prisoners.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Monday the group had extended the deadline.
AQIM has waged a campaign of suicide bombings and ambushes in Algeria but in the past few years has shifted many of its activities south to the Sahara desert.
Last year it killed a British tourist, Edwin Dyer, after kidnapping him on the border between Niger and Mali while he was attending a festival of Tuareg culture.
The group also said it shot dead a U.S. aid worker in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott in June last year and carried out a suicide bombing on the French embassy there in August that injured three people.
Saharan states have been planning a regional conference to map out a joint response to the al Qaeda threat for more than a year, but the gathering has been postponed repeatedly. (Reporting by Andrew Hammond, editing by Tim Pearce)


Source:Reuters

With all the crap going on about Nigerian investment in Ghana, my prayer is that Nigerians will one day just get pissed off and pull all their so-called investment and let’s see what will happen. I think Nigerians should be grateful to Ghana for providing a conducive clime for them to invest to make money. Or you think Nigerians rushing to Ghana are going to count bridges? I challenge Nigerians doing business in Ghana to withdraw their so-called investment and let us all see what will happen.

Did I hear someone say Ghana’s GDP is 1/20 of Nigeria’s.Well, GDP is a completely misleading way to measure the strength of an economy. I guess you didn’t know that? Now if Ghana’s GDP is that small, why is every Nigerian business rushing to go to Ghana? I hope you are also aware that the World Bank says it had under-assessed Ghana’s GDP over the years and has pledged to review figures by at least 50%?

If anyone is insecure, it should be Nigerians. A country of 150 million, the world’s eighth largest crude exporter, earning billions of dollars per annum yet 90 percent of its citizens survive on less than $2 a day! Mass illiteracy, low life expectancy, crumbling infrastructure, widespread fraud and corruption, election, religious violence, vote rigging, according to the federal government unemployment is about 80 per cent! Why do you think kidnapping has become the most profitable business in Nigeria today? Look at what happened in Jos recently. I got pictures from Jos that were incredibly shocking. I wish I can post some of them here for the whole world to see. Piles of human bodies were being offloaded from a tipper into a huge pit for mass burial. I mean human bodies being dumped like some shit! Kai,my 10-year-old daughter couldn’t sleep for days when I showed her some of the pictures. How civilized people be this barbaric?

By the way, where is Yar’Adua? The prediction is that Nigera will break up in 2015. The signs are very ominous, but some people want to pretend all is well. I wish you all very well. But if I were you, I will rather pay attention to grave issues threatening to destroy your country instead of running your mouths endlessly about other countries and their citizens? Even as we speak, vehicles are queued up at filling stations. And this has been going on since last year in the world’s eight largest oil producer?

@ JustCash First of all, Ghana will succeed whether you or anyone else does not support them. Your support or lack of it is absolutely irrelevant to the success or fortunes of Ghana. So just save your breath. If God is with us who can stand against us?


Did I hear someone say Ghana can go to hell? Well, look at Ghana and Nigeria. Which of these two countries looks like heading for hell? I leave that to your judgment!

@ Liedetect : I don’t know how you came across the notion that Ghanaians are obsessed with Nigeria/Nigerians? At least I am not! As far as I know, Ghanaians only deal with issues concerning Nigeria when it involves Ghana. I don’t see how web sites dedicated to Ghana will run stories about Nigeria that have no bearing on Ghana. I’ll give you one example (and of course there are several like that even on this forum). Go to the travel section of nairaland. An African American woman posted a thread seeking to know why Nigeria is not following the example of Ghana and Brazil in wooing potential African American tourists to its shores. Can you believe that some of the Nigerian respondents completely left the subject matter of the thread to begin to make derogatory remarks about the Ghanaian economy etc? What has the thread got to with the size or source of funding for the Ghanaian economy? That is the sort of thing you read all the time on Nigerian online fora. Just mention Ghana and everybody goes into frenzy.

Cyber eagles-as the name clearly suggest, is a wholly Nigerian owned site very popular with Nigerian football fans. Ask your kinsmen to confirm what I ‘m saying.

I don’t see how other countries discovering oil has to do with Ghana’s situation. We As always, Ghana is determined to turn its new-found oil wealth into veritable means of rapidly developing its economy. Unlike some other countries who have nothing to show for decades of oil exploitation.

I also was in Abuja when Ghana played the finals of the World Under-20 championship in Egypt last year. Every single person at my hotel was rooting for Brazil. They did not hide the fact that they desperately wanted Brazil to win. It wasn’t the first time I had seen Nigerians throw their weight behind teams playing against Ghana so I wasn’t expecting support from Nigerians. Even when the Egypt –Ghana was being played today, the moment Egypt scored, a Nigerian sitting beside me started clapping wildly in celebration. I don’t mind Nigerians supporting teams Ghana play against, what annoys me is some of you coming here to claim you always support Ghana! And I will be frank with you, because of the attitude of Nigerian fans I also don’t support any Nigerian team- I don’t care who they play against. I don’t pretend about that and will say it anywhere. That is me. I don’t pretend. If I don’t like you I will tell you to your face!

I don’t think any Ghanaian loses sleep over what Nigerians think about them or their country. I guess the same can be said about Nigerians. I am not one of those who think citizens of the two countries are “brothers and sisters.” There is too much bad vibes floating around that the two countries will do well to go their separate ways. With Ghana set to produce oil, it does not need to buy oil from Nigeria again. I think Nigeria can also survive without Ghana, so what all the bad mouthing and stuff?

For those of you who talk about Ghanaian web sites saying bad,bad things about Nigerians, I will advise them to go to a web site called cyber eagles. They do nothing other than insult Ghana and Ghanaians. And if you dare challenge some of the things said on that forum they quickly ban you!

So often on this forum whenever the question had been asked, what do Nigerians have against Ghanaians that makes them react so negatively to anything Ghana?, the answer had been….no, we don’t have anything against Ghana. It is the other way round.Ghanaians don’t like us, blab bla bla. But reading through this particular thread provides some intriguing insight into the negativity that pervades this forum.

How did a post asking why Nigeria has not done as much as Ghana and Brazil to woo African American tourists turn into a commentary on the Ghanaian economy?

Yes, Ghana gets some external support for budget etc. Western governments trust that whatever resources they provide to Ghana will be used for the good of the people. They will not put their money in countries where officials will loot and steal the treasury blind. And having some external funding component in your budget is really entirely not bad. It makes you more conscious of the need to fulfill goals outlined in the budget statement. The same cannot be said of some countries (who fund their budgets by themselves) and whose leaders read their annual budgets and yet implement only about 10 percent of what they had promised and go ahead to pocket the remainder.

It would also be wrong to suggest that Nigeria gets nothing from Western donors. They may not give money directly to the Nigerian govt (for reasons some of which I have outlined above), but they provide substantial funding for NGOs in Nigeria. I know that to be a fact. Nigeria gets more foreign help with NGO activities than any other country in Africa. So from my point of view, whether the funding comes in the form of budget support or NGO funding, it is still money from donor nations. And what is more important to me is which country uses its resources better?

I also hope folks here will focus on issues raised in threads rather than needless distractions.

Wao, I was so impressed with the Ghanaian team. They played so well.They were damn unlucky to have lost to Egypt. To all Ghanaians, you should be very proud about your team because I see it dominating Africa in the years to come. I think Ghana played their worst against Nigeria and still won. Today, they played very well and matched the Egyptians in every aspect of the game. They created more chances and played better then the Egyptians.