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Just40:
this write up makes me know how uninformed you are...

The onions import are mostly done by Northerners and Asantes.
It's only recently that I've seen Niger people buying from the Northerners and Asantes inorder to retail them and make a living.

I'm trying to get data on the significant Niger involvement in our onion, beans imports, hard to find. You know there're lots of Niger migrants in our space. More than a 1000 Niger street beggers were deported from Accra alone last year. I watched this youtube of Netherlands biker itchy boots on her west African tour when she got to our elubo border and all the money changers, sim card sellers were nigeriens. Go to time lapse 10:57
https://youtu.be/c_hdKF1AMWk?si=If7JPxx1kvRA3gaJ

vankelvin:
[/b] You and your fellow nigerians on this platform are just silly and childish. You always argue over stupid things.

Who said Nigerians dont export goods/items to Ghana and vice versa?

The truth and only truth is Ghana gets it's bulk supplies of onions from Niger and Burkina Faso but it does not take away the fact that some few people may bring theirs from Nigeria and other places including Europe.

The bone of contention here must be about where Ghana gets bulk supplies of onions from and not those small quantity people import from Nigeria to sell to Nigerians here in Ghana.

For Example they sell Nigerian beans and rice in some of our major markets but ask yourself which people buy those stuffs?
So long as there are millions of Nigerians here in Ghana you will surely find Nigerian produce on our markets. This shouldn't be an issue at all cos in Nigeria there are Ghana stuffs there too

Ask yourself how many Ghanaians would want to eat Nigerian parboiled rice? I personally have no taste for such rice and have never seen any Ghanaian prepare such rice (and your beans as well).

Keep this in mind that Nigeria is not even part of our Top 3 trading partners in Africa so all what you guys are saying is pure nonsense
Even South Africa onions are in some of our Shopping Malls So does it mean that's what Ghanaians depend on?

Some few people bring in Nigeria stuff to sell to Nigerians here etc? Remember it's Ghana we're talking about o , Y3 mbu y3n ho saa where imports are concerned o. The onions that we're importing from Niger, Nigeria, the red big onions that we're importing from Morocco, it's only Nigerians or a select few who patronize them?

You know businesses are importing water into Ghana? You know the malls import eggs from South Africa etc into Ghana? And these imports are big money imports

Even the Niger onion, beans imports, you know it's NIGERIENS in Ghana, either born here or domiciled here doing the importation? Go figure

We do very little production of stuff, considering the advantages we enjoy. And our grievances should be directed to that, not whether we import onions from Nigeria or the quantum of imports. Farmers in northern, south east Nigeria can't farm because of banditry etc. Do we have that problem? We've lake Volta, no2 biggest artificial lake in the world and we're wont for stuff?

One of the reasons why things are costly on our space is the little production we do here

PetroDolla2023:
Are Ghanaians, on this forum and elsewhere, claiming to live in a perfect country?

This's same old petrodollar? Bombastic petrodollar? What happened to your insults?

GeneralDae:
It's not even a big deal. There's free trade in the West African region and all the countries import/export freely. It's just not very regulated or accountable in the official data.

I know it's not a big deal but I'm surprised by fellow brothers' vehement denial. I'm Ghanaian too. Even when you guys were talking about the 'ugliness' of our Ghanaian space, which is obvious to most of us, they'd never admit it. Everybody/every country has wins and losses. Someone like me I have no difficulty admitting a Ghana loss and promising myself/the country to do better.Ghana with all the advantages we enjoy as a country we should be doing wayyy better than we're currently doing, but if even admitting our faults is a problem, how can we grow?

Just40:
The food product Ghana gets from Nigeria is beans

We have Ghanaian beans, Niger beans and Nigerian beans...all of which are of different varieties.

Ghana does not import onions from Nigeria

You know we import even water?. The free market economy we practice where there's little hindrance to the importation of stuff, any Ghanaian/anybody can get up anytime and import virtually anything they like into Ghana. We import or have imported Nigeria onions at some point in time. I've heard onion traders say so themselves. If we're importing beans from Nigeria is it onions we can't import?

popizaino:
I have no problem with whatever any country exports anywhere. What i have issues with is denying that Nigeria doesn't export onions into Ghana and that Nigeria isn't a net food exporter too.

There are Ghanaians that import food produce from Nigeria. Nothing strange about that, I wonder why we'd be denying it here. I watched citi TV in Ghana onetime, they interviewed some onion farmers in Ashaiman market, and they mentioned Nigeria as the source of their onions.

Toluwanise247:
Which Ghana? If na Ghana that we all know na 100% lie

Aside Cape verde, Ghana is the most developed country in West Africa going by Human Development Index HDI.
But small Cape Verde with an even smaller population of just about 500 thousand people, Ghana might as well be said to be the most developed in West Africa

Pierocash:
To me 16 yrs old girls are no longer kids.

I keep saying that the Senate should review age of consent downward from 18 to 16, because 16 yr olds of this days are full grown babes ,except we just want to continue deceving ourselves

The age of consent is 16 in Ghana. But marriage age is 18. And that presents the dilemma of what to do with a pregnant but unwedded 16,17 year old

Map1:
Can you invest on food stuff?

Invest IN not on foodstuff

FreeStuffsNG:
Funny enough that same Ghana, formerly called Gold Coast, is among the last on the list , even behind Nigeria.

Despite being an independent nation before Nigeria, Ghana, like other nations older than our nation, have gone way behind Nigeria in terms of development and if anyone had predicted that Ghana would be behind us even in Gold, no one would have believed it.

I am happy that the CBN, under Emefiele, had even assured our Gold miners that Federal Government is ready to buy their gold from them too.

We need more investments in mining.

There's abundance of gold in Osun and Oyo state. This is the best time to invest in the mining sector and you will even enjoy tax holidays for 3 years and you can repatriate 100% of your funds!

Invest in Lagos and the neighbouring Yoruba South West states of Nigeria to enjoy great returns and best investor- friendly experience.

There's huge clay, sand for glass making etc deposit in Lagos , Ogun has loads of granite, bitumen, limestone etc, Osun and Oyo have perhaps the largest deposit of lithium ore in Africa along with gemstones, gold etc, Ondo has one of the world's largest deposit of bitumen.

Bring your investment to South West Nigeria today. God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

The list is talking about African countries that have taken money out to buy and keep REFINED GOLD as a RESERVE for economic reasons etc. Not about GOLD PRODUCTION or GOLD DEPOSITS ranking.

Nigeria has 'more money than Ghana and so can afford to buy more gold and keep in reserve for whatever reasons. Ghana is on course to increase her reserves to at least 20 tons, and since July 2023 is now at 16.67 tons

[url]https://thebftonline.com/2023/07/17/bog-adds-7-70-tonnes-of-gold-to-reserves/#:~:text=Ernest%20Addison%2C%20has%20disclosed%20that,16.67%20tonnes%2C%20the%20Governor%20said[/url].

Ghana is the biggest gold PRODUCER in Africa at 117 tons

Germi9:
So we even get gold pass ghana

Not true. You have more money than Ghana and have bought more REFINED gold and kept as a reserve, than Ghana.

Ghana is the biggest gold PRODUCING country in Africa, doing about 117 tons. Gold production, gold reserve could mean the same thing, but mean different things under this context

Bfly:
West African countries still trying to smuggled food out of Niger. How come?
Ghana is beans
Nigeria is meat.
Na wa o.

It's the nigeriens who live in these countries, and there are lots of them, some of them were even born in these countries, that chiefly do the imports. And you know nigeriens with their hausa etc ethnic groups are very good traders

9jatriot:
No, they are not insulated. That is why they are kept high above the ground.

Thank you

9jatriot:
Is that not 11KV (high tension) that I am seeing there?


Just to put things in perspective for people. The normal voltage in your house that can kill is around 220V, now these guys were exposed to 11,000V.

That is instant death na... I do not want to imagine how their last moments were like.

Are the wires not insulated? Why should they cause a shock when they come in contact with a metal?

vengertime:
Tell that to your fellow idiotss not me.

What's your problem? Are you depressed?

vengertime:
Ghana is useless if they can't grow their own onions

Ghana grows it's own onions.the niger ones are just a supplement. And Ghana, no country can grow everything it needs. Niger also imports fish etc from Ghana

tevinsolt:
What could be reason for this new trend across West Africa?

Covid? Russia Ukraine war? Exacerbating already precarious situations. My fear is ALL the former french colonies have become antifrench and are bent on doing away with anything french. So that cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, Togo etc are all just whiskers away from coups

brain54:
I admire your sincerity…

Are you presently in Ghana?

And you are right… no need to go on and on.

Ghana is indeed a peaceful country with so many untapped opportunities!

There's a nairaland frontpage story right now of Seychelles allegedly banning visa to Nigerians because of fraudulent activities of some Nigerians. These are some of the things your people do elsewhere and become hated. Nigerians would go to a foreign land and mess it up real good. I've read stories of India, UAE etc all restricting access to Nigerians in one form or the other because of fraud etc. In the case of Ghana yes there's envy, pull him downs etc but where Nigeria's concerned, your people don't make things any easier with their crimes etc

AjaoEstater:
They buy our yams then export it 😂😁😉

I will check it in a while. Thank you.

Note: just checked it and it's a Ghanaian website so it likely a propaganda or fake news since it's not NGO, UN or third party like wikipedia 😂😂😂

It's common knowledge that Ghana's the leading EXPORTER of yam in the world. Overtaking Jamaica. Nigeria's the largest producer of fresh yams in the world. I'm looking for a good UN source to give you. But munch on this old vanguard report for now
https://guardian.ng/features/agro-care/fg-raises-concern-as-ghana-increases-yam-export/

AjaoEstater:
source because it would have been on wiki plus Niferia is to known for yam and cassava there is a whole article dedicated to both "Yam in Nigeria", "Cassava in Nigeria" (the only country in the world to get articles on food products that it dominant in by a trillion miles)

Go here or type yam exports in Ghana or who is the biggest yam exporter in the world.
[url]https://shippers.org.gh/index.php/ntes-2021-report-ghana-leads-yam-export-globally/#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20yam%20exports,in%20world%20export%20of%20yams.[/url]

brain54:
I admire your sincerity…

Are you presently in Ghana?

And you are right… no need to go on and on.

Ghana is indeed a peaceful country with so many untapped opportunities!

I'm in Ghana

AjaoEstater:
It will take Ghana and Ivory Coast a trillion years to surpass Nigeria as largest producer of yam (even if we have some crazy crisis in future) looking at wikipedia article on yam (Nigeria- 50m; Ghana- 8m; Ivory Coast- 7m). Heck we are now #1 rice producer in the whole of africa.

Yes Nigeria is biggest producer of yam BUT Ghana is the BIGGEST EXPORTER of yam

brain54:
You seem like a very liberal Ghanaian…

You speak the truth.

But I think truely whilst many Nigerians in Ghana engage in numerous criminal activities it honestly isn’t enough to warrant the huge hatred your folks have for Nigerians.

It think it majorly stems from bad competition and jealousy from our Ghanaian brothers.

Truth is as much as they are bad/criminal minded Nigerians who engage in illegal activities they are twice as much ingenious, hardworking and lawful Nigerians who do genuine business.

In my opinion Ghanaians can be very judgmental, vindictive and overly competitive and jealous people.

Maybe I will share my experiences one day!

You have a point with what you've said, about Ghanaians being very judgemental, jealous etc. Sometimes poverty causes that. Of late lots of Ghanaians are coming into money so there'd be a lessening of that. When you've money you don't brood over certain things


Nigerians too are not particularly quiet people, you like to show off. Sometimes annoyingly. I read one Nigerian historian Olakunle's study of Ghana's sack of Nigerians in 1969 by the Busia govt. And one accusation he heard was the rich Nigerians would allegedly put on Ghana's most expensive cloth that the chiefs/big men wore and affix our currency the cedi to the cloth, to the annoyance of the locals

Ghanaians are by nature quiet people. We don't like to show off. We were the most peaceful country in west Africa, no. 2 in Africa last year. The crimes we do/experience here pale in comparison to what pertains in Nigeria. So that the 'littlest Nigeria crime' here would generate lots of interest and overshadow whatever good the majority of you were doing

Etc etc. I could go on and on but it's not necessary.

Dshocker:
Are you a Ghanaian?

Of recent, Ghanaians don't like Nigerians, judging from the report we get from those doing legitimate business there.

If you see the Ghana investment promotion council people, you express your business desire, you pay the necessary monies, you'd be guaranteed a hassle-free business environment. There's good infrastructure too in the area of roads, electricity, good port turnaround time, etc

Dshocker:
Are you a Ghanaian?

Of recent, Ghanaians don't like Nigerians, judging from the report we get from those doing legitimate business there.

I'm Ghanaian. There's some truth to the 'ghana hate' of Nigerians, I won't deny it

But it's not like nigerians make things any easy for us. There's kidnapping, robbery, killing etc where we've had several Nigeria involvement. There was a notorious kidnapping/killing case some 3 years ago where a Nigerian immigrant befriended 4 Ghanaian girls, lured them to his place, slept with them etc AND KILLED them (for no reason), dumped their bodies in a septic tank. The 'Nigeria hate' then went through the roofs. Etc etc. There're too many examples

But lately there's very low 'nigeria crimes'. Your high commission people here etc have been speaking to your people and you can tell people are tired of the bad name

On the business front I wish Ghanaians would be lax with our 'no foreigners/nigerians should do retail trade' etc. Nigerians are very prolific hardworking people, BUT with your huge 200 million plus population, your 'dominant nature ' etc there's reasonable fear you guys would take over our space if we allow it

Etc etc

Dshocker:
Truth is that, i have massive love and passion for agricultural, but the problem is Nigeria.

I was working towards investing on a massive coconut plantation project, but i noticed that, when they start yielding fruits, the king and youths of were you executed that project will become greedy and will start taxing you unnecessarily.

Even when you buy the land outright, your host community will show you shege.

Come to Ghana

GODPUNISHALABI:
I ve always thought she doesn't look nigerian more of Ghanaian I would say

There's a Ghanaian woman actually claiming right now that a certain mercy Johnson is her daughter. Search Ghana youtube

rvp2018:
Now that Tinubu has decided to wake up the sleeping giant - nobody will hear of Ghana again. Ghana despite being as irresponsible as Zambia is only relevant because Nigeria under Buhari went down. With Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan - Nigeria was in frontline. Little Ghana appeared sane man in west africa - as Ivory Coast also went into civil war.

Now Nigeria and Ivory coast are back. Ghana will revert to being a slave dungeon.

Buhari like Yardua should never have led Nigeria. Dangote has been leading.

Mahama would come back in 2025 January, and Ghana'd be back to winning ways

POKUASI2:
maybe his sister had thrown her stench emitting body to an igbo guy who told her she stinks.
I mean, that's a common thing with them.
They thrown their dirty born 2 bodies before 14th birthday to Nigerian guys for food.
Ghanaian women are ever willing to throw their stinking legs wide open so long as to can buy them food.
Just buy them 5 cedis fried rice and chicken and you'll own her body for as long as you want



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cc11qj88kg..
This is how barbaric they are in ghana

Stop fooling. If we want to list despicable things in Nigeria, we won't leave here. From cannibalism, to baby factory, to breast ironing, to kidnapping, skull mining even this witch camp you're mentioning and trokosi there're Nigeria versions.

Etc etc

okoroemeka:
I remembered in 2003 a friend of mine came back for Xmas with a Ghana must go bag of money and declared we must be spending #100k everyday till Xmas period stops,I tried my best with my babes and other men for three days and gave up after seeing that it is possible to die spending such money on flexing when one bottle of beer is #100 naira and pepper soup #200 naira a plate.

Where did he get the money from? Was that not blood money?

SPAMBOX7:
You can try it sir. Let's check something

Be my guest let's set the ball rolling