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Wizzzzmike:
So all those countries you only saw Ghana and wrote bunch of bullsh!t. Why you Nigerians hate and envy us like that.

Wizmike I'm Ghanaian. I live in Ghana, I have Nigeria in-laws. I'm just stating "facts" as I know them. Every country has pros and cons

YoungRay007:
OK, I think I understand where you are heading to. But please am happy you said u are a Ghanaian. Please I have a question for you, between a Ghanaian and a Nigerian, which is easier to make 1000$ in his business.

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Some pros I see for "easy" money making in Nigeria are your large population, you have more rich people, more "millionaires", whether good money or fraudulently earned, things are cheaper in Nigeria, fuel is cheaper in Nigeria and by consequence transportation, food, housing etc is cheaper, there's lots of import of stuff so things are cheaper, buying and selling moves faster in Nigeria, there's market for everything in Nigeria. I've seen your slaughter houses sell everything on a cow including the blood, undigested food in the stomach, the toilet etc. There's not that much diversity in Ghana. Nigerians are big spenders

Some cons I see are your large population may not actually be rich. I've read reports here of 99 percent of Nigerians having less than 500,000 naira in their accounts. There's also the "poverty capital" thing. You have about 40 percent poverty rate, Ghana has about 20 percent. There's insecurity, epileptic electricity supply. There're lots of entrepreneurs in Nigeria so the system is choked. Plenty People are chasing fewer money

Ghana is expensive. Only Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi have 1 million people and over. There's a lot of supply here, less demand for stuff. It's EASIER to export stuff from Ghana than Nigeria, and it's one reason why the cedi is strong because our exports are diversified. The name Ghana has become attractive and there's lots of demand for Ghana made stuff by African Americans/ Ghanaians/Africans in the diaspora like our prints(kente), chocolate, food, soap, etc


I don't know about how much money is in our bank accounts but our mobile money accounts is worth 68 billion dollars (2015-2020), some rate it higher. Lots of people/businesses move tremendous amounts of money through the mobile money platform

Ghana has a virgin, growing market, so there's lots of opportunities to make money, people are coming here for education/holidays etc.

House owners here especially in Accra qoute outrageous charges, take 2 years advance, can charge practically anything for their houses. They make good money

TOURISM is a big seller here. There's a growing Nigeria population here and businesses targeting them fetch tidy profit.

My Nigeria-Ghana cousin has quit her good job at Guinness and is making fruit juice and making big profits. She sells to middle class people. If too many people start doing her type of business she may not make good money.

Artisan masons, tilers, etc in Accra, Kumasi are making good money. They pay no taxes, there're plans to tax them.

Ghana is expensive, so you may make good money but expend a lot of it on fuel, housing etc.

I think it's easier to make 1000 dollars in Nigeria than Ghana. Nigeria's insecurity is a major problem. Some of my Ghana uncles came to Nigeria, got jobs, made money, bought cars etc. They wouldn't have gotten same in Ghana. But that was years ago.

YoungRay007:
So if the Japanese yen performed better than the euro in the last 12 months, those it make it a stronger currency than the euro. Is as if you like this Zambia self, you can migrate there and earn some kwacha

You're missing the point. I've given you an EDUCATED reason for ranking Africa's strongest currencies. If the yen for example consistently performs better than the euro, to the extent where you need more euro for fewer yen, then the yen has become stronger than the euro. Lots of currencies are stronger than the dollar, but the dollar has world wide appeal, and people choose to trade with it.

Aside the demand and supply factors affecting currency strength, inflation etc also determines currency strength.

In your ranking, and in the ranking I provided, the cedi is a better performer than the naira, so your old question on the cedi-naira strength is answered.

I'm Ghanaian, but if the rankings that put the cedi third best in Africa is not true, I'd point it out. These rankings are even unstable because the currencies are changing positions month after month.

YoungRay007:
I totally don't agree with you. You are trying to prove that naira is more valuable than the cedis which is not true. What ever Ghana government did, it has favored them positively. Our weak naira suppose to favor export but the reverse is the case. We import all we consume in this country

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I'm posting this from www.myjoyonline.com/africas-top-currencies-cedi-places-9th/?param=

Economy
Africa’s top currencies: cedi places 9th
Source: Charles Nixon Yeboah
28 September 2021 9:35pm




The Ghana cedi slipped one place to the 9th position out of 15th top African currencies.

According to Joy Business tracking of the performance of African currencies so far this year, the local currency has not fared badly at all.

In August, the cedi was ranked 8th among Africa’s top currencies with a depreciation of 1.30% to the US dollar. This was after it had appreciated against the American ‘greenback’ in the first six months of this year.

The Namibian dollar however dislodged the local currency from the 8th position after an improved performance against the American currency in September 2021.


But the cedi is expected to gain some value to the US dollar soon. This is because the first tranche ($750m) of the $1.5 billion Cocoa Syndication Loan will hit the account of the Bank of Ghana next week. It will help reduce the recent pressures on the local currency.

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison said at the Monetary Policy Committee press conference that the Central Bank has been doing its best to stabilise the cedi.

“You will see that the Bank [BoG] has been fairly active in the forward market. We raised the bi-weekly intervention from $25 million every fortnight to $75 million, and we did that for I believe three consecutive weeks. This was because we thought that the market needed that particular support. And we did that without compromising our reserves and I believe that is the best way forward.”


On the continent, Zambian Kwacha maintained its lead as the best performing currency with an appreciation of 28% to the dollar.

It is followed by the Ugandan shilling and the Egyptian Pound. Both had appreciated by 3.1% and 0.14% in value respectively to the American currency.

Rankings of African 15 top currencies


COUNTRY CURRENCY YEAR-TO-DATE PERFORMANCE
Zambia Kwacha 28.3%
Uganda shilling 3.13
Egypt pound 0.14%%
Tanzania shilling -0.01%
Morocco dirham -1.06%
Kenya shilling -1.10%
Angola kwanza -1.70%
Namibia dollar -1.72%
Ghana cedi -1.78
South Africa rand -2.68


To know the strongest Africa currency, you can look at the performance of the currency (did it lose or gain value) against the dollar from Jan to Dec. You can do a say 3 or 5 year historical analysis of the various currencies' performance against the dollar to declare Africa's strongest currency. This's what myjoyonline has done for the year of 2020/2021

Emergingnation:
Lol ! The skull mining region never disappoint

What is skull mining?

[quote author=YoungRay007 post=107494818][/quote]Forget about the website. I've seen several websites make such infantile/simplistic rankings. Take this example. Ghana redenominated her currency and removed 4 zeros, so 10,000 cedi became 1 cedi. The value of the currency is the same. Supposing we removed only 3 zeros, and nothing stopped us from doing that, and 10,000 became 10 cedi.

Currently the cedi exchanges at 1 dollar to about 6 cedi. Now let's say Ghana removed 3 zeros and the cedi became 1dollar to 60 cedi, do you know the cedi won't rank at number 3? It's go further down the ranking. Because 60 is "bigger" than 6 cedi?

But is 6 cedi not the same as 60 cedi? Same as 600 cedi? Same as 60,000 cedi or 6000 cedi? Because the value is the same?

That's what the rankings are doing. They see Ghana's 6 cedi, they say it's "better" than Botswana's 11 pula etc etc. What's the true value of the currency?

[quote author=YoungRay007

Op check myjoyonline.com for a proper ranking of Africa's strongest currencies. They looked at the various currencies' rate of depreciation or appreciation against the dollar year-on-year to arrive at that conclusion. Not whether a currency that exchanges at 2 whatever to a dollar is better than one which exchanges at 6 whatever to a dollar.

The Zambian kwacha is the strongest on the continent, appreciating by about 27 percent against the dollar. The Ghanaian cedi is 9th in Africa, not 3rd. I'd look for the full list and post it here.

rigarmortis:
you are right on your second point, but thats another story totally bro. The thing is, if your currency is not backed by your economy and production, then knocking off all the zeros in the world wont stop it from inflating. and in the case of ghana, the cedi has worsened even more than the Naira.

if the cedi has gone from 1 cedi to 1 dollar after redomination to over 100cedi to 1$, that means it is now worse than it was before redomination.

6 cedi equals 1dollar not 100 cedi.

[quote author=YoungRay007

Op you're wrong with this ranking. The list of the strong African currency rankings are wrong, they're too simplistic, they only look at face value of the currencies, not their RATE OF DEPRECIATION/APPRECIATION AGAINST THE DOLLAR YEAR-ON-YEAR

So Ghana's "small" 6 cedi giving you a dollar is not better than Nigeria's 410 naira giving you a dollar. 410 naira is the same as 6 cedi. Ghana's 6 cedi is actually 60,000 old cedi

Hartme:
If I had, I wouldn't be here. I need a specialist and I don't want people around me to know I'm still battling with it.
I don't wanna give the person who did it something to gloat with.

Go to Mountain of fire and miracles ministries. Or go to Hand of God church of all nations in Dzodze Ghana. Or buy VIKIL 20, it's a powerful immune system booster made in Ghana that's alleviating a lot of ailments.

Judybash93:
LMAO!!! Nope my brother! Lived in that country for four years and visited every region. It's average at best

Ghana's beautiful. With lake Volta (largest man-made lake by surface area), the hills along the lake, the Wli waterfalls (highest in West Africa), I've not seen any decent "vertical" waterfall in Nigeria, the numerous slave forts along the coast (the largest collection in West Africa, the biggest around), the Mole national Park in the north that offer decent West Africa type safari, the numerous beaches, Accra's sunny environment that looks good on people/buildings etc etc

What's left is to build high rises, deliberately beautify Accra/Kumasi's skyline etc

[quote author=travelwaka post=107269554]Lalasticlala Ghana is really a beautiful place[/quote

Why is the horn blower parts empty of water? It enhanced it's beauty.

Ovo200:
Can this be the queen?
Should she be the queen driving at 95 then mama is still strong with good eye sight.
But why do the elite live so long, what food are they eating?

I hear the queen eats organic food, don't know how true

ishadfurnitures:
Call us today serious buyers only 08099212590

How did you get Ghana cocobod jute bags?

Preciousgirl:
This is fact
Nigerian guys are rushing Ghana ladies like fowl and maize

I hear the average Nigerian guy dreams to date a Ghanaian. This thread is opened for your confessioNs:

Why do you naija guys want Ghana ladies? Why do you rate Ghana ladies over naija ladies?

If you insult on this thread I will report u to the mods For a minimum of 10000 years ban

Precious girl please stop embarrassing Ghana with these your Ghana posts, please, I beg you in the name of God

Morningblues:
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged all to debate the LGBTQ+ bill before Parliament in a civil and tolerant manner.

He said there was need for respect for the opinions of all and sundry in the debate on the Proper Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, a private member’s bill sponsored by some law makers, that seeks to criminalize the practice and promotion of same sex relations in Ghana.

Speaking on an Accra radio station at the start of his three-day tour of the Greater Accra region on Thursday, the President appealed to Members of Parliament to have civil discussions on the Bill.

He said though the Bill sought to check the activities of the LGBTQ+ community, there was need for the public to respect each other’s opinion on the matter.

President Akufo-Addo was happy that opportunity had been created for a private member sponsored bill to be considered by Parliament.

“What I hope for is that the debate itself would be civil and that we would recognise the need for us to be tolerant, of each other’s views even when they are opposing views,” he said.

The President was hopeful that the process for the consideration of the bill would be a credit to Ghanaian democracy

“I am hoping that the process would continue in an acceptable manner and at the end of the day we would know the position of our legislature,” he said.

The Proper Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, which has received tremendous endorsement by religious organizations, traditionalists and individuals, has been considered as one of the most draconian anti-gay law worldwide.

The bill which is yet to reach the second reading stage in Parliament, proposes jail terms ranging from two years to 10-year jail term for gay activities.

The Bill has read for the first time and referred to the Select Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs of Parliament.

The Committee, which is currently considering the bill, has received over 130 memoranda in support and against the bill. Other Organization and Individuals like Human right watch, researcher, Teachers and Academic have been in support of the LGBTQ community and they need to be added to the Ghanaian family bills, and hoping so, Ghana will legalize lgbt soon

Source: GNA

Morning blues STOP the stupidity. Where did the story mention Ghana about to legalize homosexuality? It will NEVER happen

Sharatan:
Women are not as pretty as we think. Its just all this hair and make up that make them look so. Look at this one's face..

She's beautiful with or without hair

Angela4life:
Please stop putting the blame on Nigeria it not Nigerian thing but O-A station's normal crime even any nearby police station will tell you the same

Report the police officers who refused to act on your issue to Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS) at the police headquarters, or on their website or twitter page. Or call any of the media houses in Accra and report the issue

Linderbalogun:
Please if your in Ghana becareful of Christ Embassy church Ghana starting from their National pastor to the least of their pastor which goes by the name Prince located at Busy mouth hotel Nungua estate they are all fraudsters and sadists.

They are looking for who to useless and if you mistakely enters in their web they will render you useless.

They will use different sorts of witchcraft and manipulations to turn your life upside down

They will cook up different kinds of lies to your boss at work so they will sack you and they will also put people to be monitoring you were you live and even go as far as lieing to your landlord so he will push you out of the house

The reason is because your talented and outstanding but they can not afford to pay you so they want to rob you of your God given talents, they want to steal your intellectual properties and useless your life.

They even apply all forms of physical abuse like assault and verbal threats to intimidate their targets

And they will be writting many malicious letters and reports against you in your place of work and businesses so that you can loose your job/business

They are many cases of them at the police station and other government bodies here in Ghana

So we want to use this opportunity to warn the general public do not fall to their victims they are scammers and end time Christians

For more facts visit Nungua DUVSU police station Accra Ghana.

Are you in Ghana? There's a radio station in Accra here called Atinka fm 104.7 FM who run a show where people who have scammed others in the name of religion, or who are victims of "religious scam" come to narrate their experiences.

You'd be given anonymity. Please contact them.

SSIPON:
But witchcraft is not a thing na?

Sipon stop fooling

feelgoodstuffs:
Oh so you mean, you didn’t actually travelled to those countries? UK sef get time with this their research and findings… what annoys me most about UK is the way you have to explain every little details of inflow and outflow of cash in your account statement.

This is what you Nigerians do creating short cuts, bribing your ways through, messing up genuine processes, next thing you know nobody wants to deal with you people and everybody suffers.

Hunter2009:
Ghana's Ex-president Eulogizes Joshua Iginla Duting Volta Region Invasion In Ghana For Christ


Ghana's ex-president, John Dramani Mahama, and other top political leaders in Ghana eulogized internationally acclaimed Nigerian prophet, Joshua Iginla during the Volta Region invasion in Ghana for Christ with Joshua Iginla.


Amidst the unspeakable signs, wonders, and miracles galore experienced during the power-packed crusade which began on Thursday, October 7th, 2021, the Ex-president of Ghana in the person of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama could not but marvel at the awesome move of God during the invasion.




The Ex-president while admonishing the righteous children of God at the Volta Region Crusade described Prophet Joshua Iginla as an incredible teacher of God's word, filled with Wisdom without Fear.




Ex-President John Dramani Mahama appreciated Papa Joshua Iginla for imparting the children of God with the undiluted word from the throne of Grace, including himself as he confessed to having enjoyed a divine atmosphere amidst the children of God.






Of a truth, the presence of Brother Joshua Iginla in Ghanas' Volta Region is a dynamic Holy Ghost encounter program, as an unmeasurable atmosphere filled with the divine presence of God is activated for prophetic impartation, Deliverance, Healing, and Soul-winning.






Thousands troop in to have a life-changing encounter and experience the raw power of God Almighty through Prophet Joshua Iginla and Politicians who pray for the advancement of the country and the futility of the land were not left out as they seek divine direction.










During the invasions, the National Democratic Chairman of the Volta Region in the person of Honourable Henry Amefefe, George Sika-Aide aide to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, Honourable James M.P Ketu Leader in Parliament, Honourable Dzifa Gomashi and so many good-hearted political representatives in one accord asked the Oracle of God Papa Joshua Iginla to Prophetically speak the mind of God to them in all areas.

WHERE did the programme happen? Which church? Owned by who? Who invited the Nigeria guest pastor and the other dignitaries? How many days did the programme last? I see prayed for the "futility" of the land. You mean "fruitfulness?". National Democratic CONGRESS chairman.

Please rewrite this report. The Ghanaian church that organised the programme (HOGCOAN) is modeled after T B Joshua's Synagogue, and is doing well; please write a good report and acknowledge them/their leader

The dominant white colour, the spacious nature of the Kotoka airport, especially the new international terminal is very beautiful. The Murtala Airport building is very big, and would look prettier in an all white colour. The rest of the airports don't impress me, they look too small

staga:
He is close to the presidency there.

Obviously

malcom1X:
Guy don't disturb yourself, countries are cashing out from this Covid stuff. Including Nigerians.

I wrote a topic about it here.

https://www.nairaland.com/6598823/indians-back-nigeria

Some hotels in Lagos are also cashing out on foreigners. Covid won't end easily.

We should still make noise. Even if they'd cash out they should at least put a "human face" to it. Ghana used to charge a whopping 150 dollars for covid, until agitations brought it down to 50 dollars now

saracen:
Lol.....the funny thing is the company doing the COVID tests at the Kotoka Airport is owned by a Nigerian, Benedict Peters and a lot of the staff there are equally Nigerians so its not just a Ghanaian thing, they are pissed about the situation too.

And what are they doing about the situation? So is it the Frontiers (Nigerian-owned covid testers) people who are faking some of the results? Im getting the impression that some countries/people are deliberately "cashing in" on this covid thing to enrich their pockets/economies.

In the case of Ghana maybe if there're no "fake" covid results some of these hotels won't get clients? I don't know

The billionaire Peters man I'm learning has been living in Ghana since 2015. Why he got the covid contract and not our equally competent Noguchi centre only God knows

Xpol:
smile I like you, you’re countering them with facts and stats, you’re also honest with your argument. But I don’t really agree with “Nigerians hate Ghanaians” thing. It’s an African ways no true love for your brothers, within Nigeria the Yoruba,Hausa and Igbo mostly counter one another I’ve also seen similar things in Ghana where an Ashanti man will act as if he’s more Ghanaian than someone from the northern part. Same way you think Nigerians hate Ghanaians that’s the same way Nigerians think Ghanaians hate them but in honesty this is not a pure hatred it’s more of a brotherly competition.

Xpol there's real hate and there's the brotherly competition thing too on both sides. And these are informed by what people see, experience, perceive etc from both sides

Lots of Ghanaians especially older Ghanaians see Nigerians as criminals. You can be a renowned world famous pastor, doctor etc, so far as you're a Nigerian, to them you're a criminal, or capable of very shady stuff. And this perception is "informed" by what they've seen/experienced/heard. They'd hate Nigerians


2/3 years ago there was the unprecedented issue of Nigerians kidnapping and killing 4 girls from Takoradi. You can imagine the level of hate Nigerians suffered.

There're Nigerians who think Ghanaians are xenophobic, think Ghana is a small insignificant country that shouldn't dare compare herself to Nigeria etc and hate us. It's what it is. You know the number of Nigerians who jubilated we didn't progress in the 2010 world cup?

So the hate is there, the brotherly love thing too is there, people can pick and choose which one they should go in for. But of course on the governmental level, our leaders advocate for peace and love between us

iamtardey:
Yes na

Nice one. I did my primary education in Sekondi-Takoradi. Best time of my life

iamtardey:
Yeahh

I am Taadi? Are you Ghanaian?

Eljay1:
Please i need information about Ghana. I intend to go there on vacation with my wife for a week. i will need infomation about flights from Lagos to accra, how much it costs, interesting places to visit in ghana, hotels, taxi, currency etc.

Eljay1 did your Ghana trip happen? Please share

200naira:
I wish the mods here could push this to the front page for more people to know what travellers pass through I'm Ghana especially Nigerians. Something needs to be done about it.

Help to expose the maltreatment and undue advantage Nigerians pass through in these countries

Disguy Justwise lalasticlala Seun

This is sad to hear. I'm Ghanaian. I've seen your musician Bella Smurda, some diaspora Ghanaians, African Americans etc complain about some "fraud" in the covid testing. These issues are not really in the news so we don't know what's going on. Please try to get this published on Ghanaweb for more traction, contact our media houses Joy FM/tv, Citi FM/tv, the presidency on twitter etc to get them notified. I'd also be doing my part. This shouldn't be happening

Babylove44:
Good Evening people, please should this lady's family ever see this thread and decide to come to Ghana to look for her. You guys should go to a roundabout at Accra known as Dankwa. It is a circular roundabout. When you get there ask for a Ghanaian man called Prince selling at that roundabout and begin your enquiry from there. Just in case i do not visit this website again in a long time.

There're Nigeria Associations/Igbo Associations in Ghana, Nigeria churches MFMM, Redeemed etc in Ghana please contact them. Your High Commission too is here, contact them