₦airaland Forum

customized13: nigeria has the largest economy in the world of black nations with a GDP of almost 600billionUSD, ghana has 46billionUSD. Nigeria are gypsys, we like travelling.

NO! nigerians leave their country of our hardships. Get that ryt.

bakynes: My friend Nigerians are like Inidans and Chinese you find them in thousands and millions in various parts of the world. The Nigerians you have in Ghana is not as a result of poverty or being a refugee like Ghanaians were. Refugees in Nigeria back in the day's bt because most of them are business men and women who believe the Nigerian market is too competitive for them and wants to exploit from the Ghanaian market.

keep decieving yourself

diablos: Isn't it obvious dat apart from coming to throw large parties and help alleviate u apeheads redundant economy, ur fat bottom hoes crave Nigerian men and will never hesitate to spread dia bleached legs for nigerian pipes. We Nigerians are d reasons SH.IT Gayna is noticed on d face of d earth...we are like gods to u aborigines

do u know the nice part of this story? All the nigerians in ghana never want to relocate to nigeria again.

cubeet3: I.diot. There are up to 2million Nigerians in Zimbabwe means Zimbabwe economy is good? idio.t gay.na

it means your ecomony is over-hyped. How come nigerians are running out of your country to find greener pastures in ghana, ivory coast, benin, south africa, zimbabwe and yet u say ur economy is good. Are u sure about that?

MadCow1: Atleast Nigerians didnt run into Ghana seeking asylum like the Ghanaians that refused to return from Brazil after the worldcup.. Same way they didnt return to Ghana from Nigeria before we did the Ghana must Go eviction.

did your soldiers not go to seek asylum in cameroon? Are there no nigeria asylum seekers in canada?

diablos: Fo.ol!!! which sensible thinking human will want to exist in dat gruesome habitat u call SH.IT-Ghana u must be an apehead to even suggest such taboo to me...Even John Dramani Mahama...d sh.it..face, clueless n repulsive person of a president knows he runs a sh.it-hole! bas.tard!!!

jim ikye, ur musicians and alot more nigerians come to ghana each minute. Ask them why?

MadCow1: Understand Ghanaians first.. Your country is the size of 2 Nigerian States, you have Gold, Manganese and Oil.. Plant Cocoa and more yet your Economy is so Horrendously poor you have redonominated your currency 2 times and the Value remains as shiity as it always have been if not 3 times worse.. Your economy has gotten so bad in the past that Ghanaians had to seek refuge elsewhere.. And Ghanaians have also been kicked out enmass as refugees from neighbouring countries that previously harboured them.

Nigeria's Electricity problem was the Military who didnt invest in Power for over 35years.. In the Last ten years, Nigeria has invested more in power than it has ever done in its history as a nation.

there are close to 5million nigerians in ghana with more coming in each minute. How can that be if our economy is bad?

customized13: try to help beggars when you can, ghana begs every nation of the world. Even UN and IMF are scared of them now as a result of their begging attitude

lol, so nigeria didnt beg for u.s.a's help to fight boko haram? So nigeria didnt beg for zmapp from u.s.a? So nigeria didnt beg china for money?

iamord: There is something u need to know.. u have nothing to prove to these cats..cos their perception about ghana has been negative from the onset. Let's develop our country and let the work of our hands speak! We have done it before.. Doing it again is a sure thing

thats very true. Thanks

diablos: [size=15pt]Life in Sodom and Gomorrah: the world's largest digital dump
Photographer Asare Adjei captures the lives of locals in Accra's slum city, where 50m tonnes of e-waste is dumped each year
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[size=13pt]Sodom and Gomorrah[/size]

Agbogbloshie's residents live off digital waste that they salvage and sell, but hope for better jobs. Photograph: Asare Adjei
No one knows when Agbogbloshie began. The slum city in south Ghana didn’t exist when the capital of the Gold Coast was moved from Cape Coast to Accra. It’s likely the settlement started when traders began transforming shop kiosks into makeshift homes, and soon a population of Ghanaians on low incomes established a sprawling the slum, which in known to many by its nickname, Sodom and Gomorrah.


Sodom and Gomorrah has also become known as one of the world's digital dumping grounds, where millions of electronic waste products from the west are legally and illegally processed each year. When old computers first began arriving in west Africa, Ghanaians thought they were sent to help bridge the digital divide, as exporters exploited loopholes by labelling junk computers 'donations'. But slowly tonnes of e-waste piled up on this once green area, and transformed it into a global graveyard for electronic equipment.


Each day, workers clear the area through intense heat radiating from burning computers, iPods, radios and televisions. Acrid, black smoke drifts over the huts of the slum wasteland. The nearby Korle-Bu Riveris now black and thick like used oil, as it carries empty computer cases toward the ocean. Fires blaze and consume the plastic material from cables, plugs and motherboards, leaving only metal behind. This is then collected and sold by the locals.


Approximately 50,000 low-income inhabitants have settled into Sodom and Gomorrah, from across Ghana. Many of the villagers find themselves trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, where the old and young toil side by side. Many barely make enough money from a day's work to cover a basic meal. Often the choice facing them is between paying for accommodation or food.


Women and children cook circuit boards to salvage the computer chips, which have trace amounts of gold. Motherboards and other circuitry are cooked each day, mostly by the women, who breathe in the poisonous fumes.

Some of the young children burn old foam on top of computers to melt away the plastic, leaving behind scraps of copper and iron that they collect to sell. Some of these children travelled to Accra by themselves, hoping to earn money to help their families in the villages. Many of them are orphans or have been abandoned. Exposure is hazardous to children, as these toxins inhibit the development of the brain, nervous system and reproductive system.


There are no permanent structures in Sodom and Gomorrah, and no planning permission is required to put up temporary structures, often made of wood or paper. In 2013, fire devastated the area and many inhabitants were killed. There are no water or sewerage systems in the area.


The UN estimates that up to 50m tonnes of e-waste is thrown away globally each year. It costs a lot more to properly dispose of an old computer monitor in Germany than it does to send it on a container ship to Ghana. An international treaty called the Basel convention came into effect in 1989, forbidding developed nations from carrying out unauthorised dumping of e-waste in less developed countries. However, each month cargo containers still arrive in Agbogbloshie, often illegally, from countries all over the world.

I spoke to local people in Sodom and Gomorrah about their aspirations. Many of the children dream of becoming footballers, in spite of their ill health. Many of the adults hope to find steady employment in other fields such as taxi driving or cooking.


Of the people I spoke with, virtually all of them dreamed of escaping their surroundings to the western world, settling into life there and one day owning the same computers that they process every day in Sodom and Gomorrah.

SH.IT-Gayna worse than Sodom and Gomorrah

is that not MAKOKO?

EroticAngelina: STUPID GUYS WITH STUPID COMMENTS

u and your 0.2 megapixel pic. Lmao

jiggaman gh,petrodollar4, your service is needed here. Please

diablos: Sure...boko-geria must be a hell-hole. How is dat oven baking SHit-country of urs? Sure sucks to be a boko-gerian.

take heart my friend. Leave that hell-hole and seek asylum in ghana. We will help u.

diablos: Sure SUCKS to be u

hey stop that crap. We all know nigeria is a hell hole

like seriously i dont really understand nigeria at all. U have oil, gas. Just building of thermal plants to provide electricity for your citizens too is a problem

There's no need to return slap to a lady when u can insult her.

iconize: Soldiers in mufti?

Well perhaps they're gaynaian soldiers going to Liberia to make tea as usual.

Mister man, don't quote me again. Your dumbness made me say sh_it.

hahaha, i will quote u all day. What can u do? didnt u know that bokogerians soldiers lost their army attire and weapons to boko haram? How can u be dis ignorant. Smh

iconize: Gaynaians fleeing to brazil.

isnt that nigerian soldiers going to cameroon? Hahaha

bakynes: My friend Nigeria created the Ecowas body. All you other west African countries benefit from us tell me what we benefit from Ghana? I do not hate Ghana but when you hate a country that has always been there for you since time memorial then you leave me no choice than to hate on Ghana as well.

lol, hahahahaha, nigeria has been where for who? Why do nigerians always keep lying to themselves. What has nigeria done for ecowas countries? Please list them.

iconize: Crap!

You've respect for ladies yet you bang male anu_s like is nobody's business, hun?

hopeless, jobless boko-gerian, u are as useless as your country. Fools republic of bokogeria

iconize: Drunken gaylord, who's arana?
A name of a person, animal, place or thing?

hey iconize so u have no respect for women? We knew we couldnt trust you to be our in- law and u just showed u dont deserve that position. U see that reason boko-gerian ladies chase ghanaian men. It because we have respect for women.

iconize: Another gaynaian gaylord!

our in-law ICONIZE. How far na? Have u gathered courage as a man to tell ARANAA about YOUR feelings for HER?

iconize: Pearl, 1cedi is equal to 10,000cedis.

Meaning that 10,000cedis is N50 or N51 in Nigeria.

With 10,000cedis(1cedi) in Nigeria you can only buy toothpick, I guess.

Go to work! Oops, i forgot that u are an unemployed graduate living in the federal republic of boko-geria. Not to worry. Just come to ghana. I will find u a great job.

brownlords: bruhaha, how many times you want us to deport ghanian, first was in 1983 and the other was recently even though it was not publicized like in 1983, petrodollar, oxygen are victims, they lost their business of gala hawking at mile2.

maybe your parents didnt tell u but nigerians were first deported in ghana in the 60's. So go ahead and deport us, we will do same to u. Boko-gerians, the biggest mistake of the world.

brownlords: one of the deportee is here, how is it like to be back in your poor country?

total fuckeduppedness at its peak. Let nigeria dare to deport any ghanaian. There u will see that your stuppidity has a negative effect. Do u know the number of boko-gerians in ghana? 5 million

brownlords: despite the internal problem the country is facing, the economy is booming while the gay country is going bankrupt.

Ghana seeking foreign aid since Jesus christ turn water to wine.

petrodollar4, please come and show this boko-gerians their baby factory pictures.

chinasaekperem3: no shit, he's our man, ghana need to join nigeria as a state so we can help them out of their mysteries

common english word "miseries" has now turned into mysteries. Is this what your nigerian universities are teaching u? GOD save boko-geria.

chinasaekperem3: dangote can buy ghana, he can single handedly feed your president till he dies and this man is a nigerian

let him help people in makoko first.

chinasaekperem3: hope u know dangote is richer than ghana

and how has that helped those poor nigerians living in the dirty water at makoko?

chinasaekperem3: you have the guts to quote me? i will bury ghana, take your time.

hahahaha, U will bury who? U poor okada driver who cant even afford 2 meals a day. Do u know the number of rich people in ghana? We just dont brag like boko-gerians.