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hahahaha I am going to throw up nigerians are the poison of the world pervert, violent, drug dealers, uneducated bastardz

nigerians are a problem everywhere. everybody else in the world can't be wrong! genocidal fagg0ts living in a primitive sh1thole

timilehin007: Truth am not as dumb as u are..that ur missive is wayyyyyyyyyyy too long...so fu*k what ever it contains..I'd rather sleep off

hahahaha you are not only dumb, you are the biggest fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool in the whole wide world, modafaka. fvck ya. fvck ya sh1thole. fvck sh1tnigeria!!!

Antell95: , Apes on rampage

remember we are your masters. so we are here to do what we always do- flog you like rented mules, mor0n

MUMU country= MUMUDOM

timilehin007: Who ever read this super story ?

of course you are too dumb to read it,huh? your IQ level is simply too low to comprehend

dummy the dumb dumb mumugerian

timilehin007: U are just as r3tard as ur queer-bait gaynian brother Kwame..why so concern abwt nigeria..so u spend ur MB on making research abwt nigeria, u are trying to pull us down to ur level..not in dz planet earth...u shud compete with either Jos or Enugu alone...Lagos is way too far sef not to talk of almighty Nigeria, giant of Africa.

hahahaha omo naija generator republic GENERATOGERIA It is not funny any more

I feel so sorry for these mumus. the only thing keeping them alive is the hope that one day they'll be able to leave their sh1thole and never come back

timilehin007: Let them know...this is an insult to Nigeria..gaynian beefiNg nigeria..God its a slap on we faces oo..they no reach, its not suppose to be gayna..we are not in there league

what is this mumu modafaka saying? of course it is an insult to compare Ghana with sh1tnigeria. you should be comparing your dustbin country with sh1tholes like Somalia,huh? you guys already have a lot in common with somalia. both sh1tholes are the epi centres of piracy around the world. both sh1tholes are failed dustbin countries

MUMU country

iconize: Gaynains should know that Nigeria as a country is not on the same level with their one city country gayna. Gaynaians should go and play with their mates zambians, burkinabes and nigeriens etc.
I keep asking why some countries can't buy other countries and its inhabitants. Gayna doesn't deserve to be a country, or isn't it the same gayna where the british kept their livestocks during colonial period!

The british kept their livestocks in Ghana? hahahaha sh1tnigeria must have been their toilet then

The Toilet Named Nigeria
http://washafrica./2011/07/12/the-toilet-named-nigeria/

In his latest column, government critic and Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity College (USA) Okey Ndibe, voices his disgust at the practice of open defecation in his homeland Nigeria.

If you want to gauge how badly Nigerians have been animalized, then pay attention to how, and where, many of them defecate. Just recently, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that 33 million Nigerians have no access to decent toilets. As a consequence, said the report, these citizens of Africa’s most populous nation answer the call of nature in the open.

Is it really only 33 million Nigerians? One is afraid that here’s one occasion when statisticians have pegged the figure too low. Nigeria – as I wrote three years ago – may be described as one vast toilet. Anybody who has traveled from Lagos to Onitsha by road knows that there isn’t one single rest area with toilet facilities along the route. At stops in Ore or Benin City, pressed passengers must hurry off into the brushes, gingerly skating around others’ feces, in order to relieve themselves.


In Ndibe’s eyes the “habit of doing in public what ought to be done in private” points to a deep cultural crisis.

Long habituated to inhuman conditions, many Nigerians have ceased noticing those peeing or defecating in the open. Or, when we notice, too many of us have lost our sense of outrage at the oddity. Public acts of pissing and defecation have become – more or less – normal, part and parcel of our social experience and landscape.


Open defecation in Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo: Kola Aliyu / PM News

The associated health risks of Nigeria’s insanitary conditions have made Ndibe feel uneasy about shaking hands.

For me, it’s often a dilemma. I know how scandalous it would be to refuse to offer one’s hand. Yet, I can’t help wondering where the hands I shake have been, and whether they’ve been washed.

Ndibe retells an revealing anecdote about local government staff who staunchly opposed a plan to build staff toilets. They told the local government administrator to “just give them a share of the public funds – and to leave it up to them to decide on toilet matters”.

iconize: Alaba international market generates more money annually than gayna as a country.

hahahaha this can only come from a citizen of the federal republic of foooooooooooooooooooooooooools http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/ sh1tnigeria hahahahah fuckeduppedness

iconize: Dude stop embarrassing your black self. The last time I checked Nigerians in gayna were employing gaynains, in a nutshell Nigerians outshines gaynains in their own territory.
But in here in Nigeria your burnt offering brothers have decided to hawk buns and liter our streets till eternity.
An advice from a bigger African, urge your government to come PICK your burnt offering brothers, or face massive deportation.

stop talking nonsense, dog. stvpid mumugerian. can Nigayrians employ goats, not to talk of employing Ghanaians? you must be smoking some very bad leaves, mor0n! do you know the unemployment level in your sh1thole? hahahahaha why do you think your youths are now armed robbers, pr0stitutes, yahoo yahoo, ritualists, boko harams, militants, oil bunkerers, pirates, terrorists etc etc etc etc etc

hahahahahaha dangote employed graduates last year as drivers and sacked them https://www.nairaland.com/1583129/dangote-sacks-almost-all-graduate#20717975 even professors applied for the driving job that was paying a meager N25,000 per month

[quote author=me_for_you]you are nothing but a typical Ghanaian. My problem with arguing with Ghanaians is that they don't think because they don't have sense. Typical Ghanaian. Na ur papa dey worship whiteman not nigerians[/quote]such a dirty, ugly bleached pig I feel sorry for these obnoxious mumus, azzhole slave in a disgusting sh1thole

adconline: Cos u were not taught logic and reasoning in school. What an ignorant troll! Her accent, phone number, personal info could have given it away that she's Nigeria or black African.

the sh1thead has rags and cotton stuffed into the thing he calls head

striker9: Name of your keeper and your writing epistle na wa o.Just tell us the name na,lmao!.Safarigirl na bad girl ooooo,u just turn petroldullard to eiye ibaka.

Rubbish! you think I give a fvck about you mumus? I don't respond to stvpid questions! arrant rubbish!

prem love: Ghana have a complete team yet you could not even win a bronze medal in the last nations cup mumu nation

a fooooool from mumudom http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/sh1thead dog barking like a mumugerian! nigeria is our wifey,huh? when was the last time your sh1thole won a match against the Mighty Ghana? mudder fugger. aponkye!

timilehin007: May God punish your father...I dnt have anytin to say to u silent is the best answer given to a big dirty black charcoal fool like u...you are not in our leagus so PASS-BY pls..go nd rob shoulders with the likes of Kenya, Gambia Burkibafaso etc even ivory coast is not in ur class..mtchewwww..!!

shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarap dog! modafaka! rub shoulders with a sh1thole- a country filled with 419ners, yahoo yahoo, ritualists, witches&wizards, militants, oil bunkerers, boko harams, piarates, pr0stitutes, terrorists, armed robbers? hahahahaha you must be smoking papaw leaves,huh? ediot!

redsun: People are expected to live together if they are smart enough to see that work makes things easy.Most most africans are too ignorant and short sighted to have the visions of togetherness and great strength in numbers.There is enough to go round,all we need to do is work accounrably.

hahahaha that will not happen so long as some stvpid people think they are better than others. I gave up on africans uniting to do anything long time ago. how can I relate with you ifs you think you are better than me( when the reality is that you are not even better)? Its Ghana for ever. every other country can go to hell...........

Krasid: Answer the simple question.What is the name of the ghana goalie?.Or are you not proud of your goalkeeper?

why won't I be proud of my goalkeeper? our two top goalies like our players have been outstanding and that explains why we conceded few goals and scored the highest number of goals in the world cup qualifiers. Ghana is a complete team- from goalkeeper to strikers, we have them in abundance. and it is not about who is who at a particular point in time. in fact we can even afford to do away with our current team and go with a different team to the world cup and still do very well. We are so blessed!

[quote author=Jigga_man101]Apparently you don't even know about the Liberian war. I have friends that survive that war. They tell me story about the war and horrendous things that Nigerian soldiers did. If you knew about the war you would know that war ended when America troops arrived when George bush asked Charles Taylor to live. Smh like a typical Nigerian always glory chasing.

During the war where did most Liberians seek refuge not Nigeria. In fact anytime something bad occurs in any african country Ghana is the country where they seek refuge.[/quote]don't mind the nigerian ape. ask the troops who were involved in liberating Liberia. Thank God some of us were part of the military operation in Liberia. ask the goat who led ECOMOG into Liberia. if we talk about some of disgraceful behaviour of nigerian troops in Liberia, people will just shake their heads in utter shame. no wonder they were killed like rats by the rebels. hahahahaha I saw it with my own eyes. your own government will not tell you the truth about how many of your mumu soldiers boys scouts died in Liberia because it will cause another civil war in your sh1thole. can you imagine these mumu soldiers were supplied okada helmets as part of their battlefield gear? hahahahahahahaha what a sh1thole

ROSSIKE: Keep lying to yourself. Many of the news links were posted just days ago, not ''slight hiccup months ago''. And news reports are far more reliable and credible sources of information than ''your friend in Ghana''.

what's new? a mumu from MUMUDOM suffering and smiling sh1thole. sh1tnigeria you need to flush the generator fsumes fsrom your brain so you can reason like a human being,huh?

More Nigerians dying from inhaling generator fumes

by ARUKAINO UMUKORO
http://www.punchng.com/feature/living-with-fumes-of-death-more-nigerians-dying-from-inhaling-generator-fumes/

ARUKAINO UMUKORO writes that more Nigerians are dying from inhaling generator fumes even as the country’s energy sector is comatose



In the still of the night, it sneaked in quietly and lingered dangerously for hours.

With every breath intake, the deadly gas known as carbon monoxide, found in fumes from generators as well as in car exhausts, sucked lives out of its hapless victims who were fast asleep.

This was what happened on May 28, when Mrs. Chinyere Celestine, and four of her children were found dead in their home off Goodnews Street, in Azikoro suburb, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

They were said to have died in their sleep that night, while the generator was still on.

The father of the children and husband of Chinyere, identified as Celestine, who was said to be in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when the tragedy occurred, had called a neighbour when he could not reach his wife on telephone the next day. After several attempts to wake the victims, the neighbour raised the alarm that compelled other neighbours to force the door open. They found the victims’ lifeless bodies.

A similar incident happened on January 3, when death shattered the usual early morning quietude of Robiyan, a sleepy town near Ijoko in Ifo Local Government, Ogun State.

On that fateful day, residents discovered the lifeless bodies of an 80 year-old woman, identified as Madam Kuburat, and her four grandchildren, including a toddler, in a newly completed house. The generator, which was placed in the veranda of the house, was left running all night while the doors and windows were locked.

The traditional ruler of the area, Chief Olu Kujore, remembers the incident vividly. “It was generator fumes that killed them. I was still on my bed when the people living in that area came to me in the early hours of that morning. So I dressed up and followed them. When we got there, I saw all the doors and windows of the building locked. I got the boys who followed me there to force the doors and windows open. In fact, when they forced it open, we who were outside felt the gas as it blew towards our direction. The boys then opened the front and back door, and even had to use rags to cover their noses because of the fumes,” he recollected with a tinge of sadness.

Today, the building lies desolate.

Different accounts of what could have caused their death were rife with some residents insinuating that it could have been caused by evil spirits. But the Divisional Police Officer of Agbado Police Station, Mr. Okere Daniel, put paid to all the rumours when he earlier told PUNCH correspondents that he suspected it could have been fumes from a generator.

“From the physical examination of the victims, it is obvious that they must have died of carbon monoxide. They were all foaming from the mouth; this means that they must have been gasping for breath. A similar thing happened at Obadofin in 2010, when I was a DPO at Alafia. A whole family was wiped off. It was during a festive period like this; they turned on the generator and locked it up inside the house for use overnight,” he had said.

When SUNDAY PUNCH contacted him on phone, Daniel said there was no further development on the case as the family did not suspect a foul play.

“The investigation almost ended at the point where we took the victims to the hospital and the post-mortem examination confirmed the cause of death. Carbon monoxide is something that can kill instantly,” he said.

There have been similar cases reported in the area since then. In April, three men – Wale Ola, Saka Adeosun and Kadiri Akanbi, all died in their sleep after inhaling the fumes from the generator which was left running at 109 Alakuko Road, Akera, Agbado, Ogun State, a welder’s shop where the victims were apprentices.

These deaths are not restricted to private homes. In July 2008, scores of people died at a prayer meeting in Isiala-Ngwa, Abia State, after breathing in fumes from the generator while asleep.

Experts have described deaths caused by inhaling the poisonous fumes from generators as asphyxiation, which according to Wikipedia, ‘is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally.’

“We call it an asphyxia death, resulting from the lack of oxygen. It is like when you are choked through strangulation, but this time around (in the case of generator fumes) you don’t feel it. Strangulation, which is the inability to breathe in oxygen, is similar to what happens with asphyxiation or death caused by generator fumes; where oxygen is depleted and there is more of carbon monoxide,” explained Dr. Sunday Soyemi, a pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

He further explained that a cherry red appearance of organs during autopsy is an indication that asphyxiation was the likely cause of death.

“Apart from that, there is what we call the fluidity of the blood, when it looks as if the blood was diluted with water, and without a single clot.

“There are other factors, but those are the two striking ones. Once you see these two factors on the autopsy table, the first thing you suspect is asphyxiation generally,” he added.

Dr. Soyemi also stated that carbon monoxide from generator fumes was just one cause of asphyxiation, explaining that other causes, including hanging, manual strangulation, less blood circulation in the body, drug overdose and drowning could also lead to asphyxiation.

A toxicologist and senior lecturer in the department of pharmacology, LASUTH, Dr. Kayode Yemitan, also explained that the inhalation of carbon monoxide, no matter the concentration, is toxic.

“It is a silent killer because you can’t smell, taste, feel or see it most of the time. It just keeps accumulating in the system, especially through the lungs. It causes its havoc when it enters into the blood stream, until the person becomes unconscious. It is an instant killer, especially when the concentration is high, as it affects the blood stream immediately. This is because carbon monoxide has a higher affinity than oxygen to the haemoglobin in the red blood cells and so forms carboxy-haemoglobin. This displaces the oxygen and prevents the blood from carrying out its functions, including transporting oxygen around the body. That leads to death,” he said.

Aside the health dangers posed by the use and abuse of generators at homes, Dr. Yemitan also expressed fears over the level of carbon monoxide concentration in some industries where the health and safety of workers are not properly being looked into.

He said, “The workers should be educated properly to know what to do, especially in places where fumes are being generated for a long period of time. Another problem is that regulations on the distance between factories and residential quarters are not well enforced in Nigeria,” he said.

While there are no accurate statistics on the number of deaths in Nigeria annually, experts believe it is quite high. According to Dr. Soyemi, autopsy reports have shown between twenty five and thirty deaths linked to generator fumes in the last one year, while in the last four months, there have been seven recorded cases at LASUTH.

In terms of state-wide or national statistics, Dr. Yemitan said the figures could be higher as some of these deaths are not reported because some families bury their dead immediately or refuse to present them for autopsy for religious, social or personal reasons.

According to him, the more generators Nigerians buy, the higher the risk of inhaling their fumes. Nigeria imports the highest number of generators and spends about N2tn on generators annually.

According to the Director-General of Centre for Management Development, Dr Kabir Usman, 60 million Nigerians spend N1.6tn on generators annually.

“Currently, there are about 60 million generators in Nigeria at the ratio of one per household of 2.5 people with an annual spending of N1.6 trillion,” he said last year at the launch of the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria graduate skills development programme in Abuja.

This is the more reason why Ehi Iden, an Occupational Health and Safety expert, is of the opinion that the public needs to be better educated on the dangers of leaving their generators too close to their rooms.

“Aside from the effect of fumes, you are also exposed to the risk of explosion and fire outbreak. Not only that, the noise generated by these generators alone is sometimes more than the acceptable global noise decibel limit, which is 80 decibels. Living in that condition for too long could lead to even more serious health issues, like hearing impairment. Not only does it affect the health, these fumes also go into the air and cause the depletion of the ozone layer, which contributes to climate change,” explained Iden.

“Carbon monoxide is highly poisonous and takes over the areas in the body system that should have been occupied by oxygen. That’s why a victim has difficulty in breathing. Don’t leave the generator running in an enclosed place, whether close to the door, at the corridor or inside the living room,” he added.

Leaving one’s generator running for too long also has its general security risk, he warned.

“I read a story many years ago, where robbers succeeded in robbing a residential estate because the generators were left running throughout the night and nobody could hear the screams of the victims. It is advisable to turn off your generator by say 11pm or 12 midnight if you turn it on by 6pm. Don’t leave it till morning. There is still natural air ventilation. Don’t because you want to get maximum sleeping comfort court danger and cause noise pollution in your environment. Which is easier, to die or cope with the situation and preserve your life?” he asked.

Apart from the fact that the country’s power sector is in dire straits, the use of the generators has also become a defining factor of the economic status of individuals or households in both rural and urban areas.

More so, it is affordable for many across the economic divide as they come in different shapes, sizes and prices.

“There is also the euphoria of buying generators. Once you are able to get it, you want to show your people that you have it, and in order to prevent people from stealing it, you are tempted to put it inside the house while it is still switched on,” he said.

Iden added that people should avoid opening the fuel tank to refill it while the generator is still running or using their mobile telephones as torchlight while carrying out any repair or maintenance work.

“It is one of the most hazardous things I’ve seen Nigerians do. The telephone has a level of radiation and is highly inflammable. I’ve seen it happen in Port Harcourt where someone was burnt beyond recognition,” he noted.

Back in Robiyan, Kujore hopes a such an incident would not be recorded in his community. “I told all the Community Development Association chairmen and chiefs in the community to tell their people not to leave their generators on while they are fast asleep. We have been hearing and reading about how it kills. Now we know it is dangerous to put it in the house,” he said.

He seems to be practising what he preached, as the faint sound of a generator could be heard outside his palace. “I put my generator outside because generator fumes are killers. I buy N7,000 worth of petrol every week because I’m a baale and my palace should not be in darkness. So I have a small and big generator because of the visitors I host daily. I use the small one in the morning and the big one at night so that I would have electricity. It’s not that I have the money, but I’m supposed to do it,” he said.

He also told SUNDAY PUNCH that his community had never in its history enjoyed electricity supply from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, except in some areas close to the Ijoko area.

Beyond creating awareness and the nonchalant attitude of many Nigerians towards safety measures, the use of generators has become a ‘necessary evil,’ especially with the poor state of power supply in the country, noted Iden.

“If we must occupy our place in the comity of nations, we must look inward and reform the power/energy sector. People come to Nigeria and wonder what kind of fumes we generate in this country. It’s a shame we have to live with this until the government decides to take responsibility and ensure that Nigeria is more habitable for everyone,” he said, while noting that a better electricity supply would reduce the hazards and risks Nigerians are exposed to daily by using generators.

Presently, the country generates less than 5,000 megawatts of electricity, barely enough to meet the needs of over 160 million people. According to Dr. Yemitan, from periodic tests carried out on some patients at LASUTH, the lung functions of many Nigerians seem to be reducing, most likely as a result of inhaling noxious gases like carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.

“Carbon monoxide is the major one. But there are many other culprits like oxides of sulphur, nitrogen, and hydrogen sulphide, but maybe not to the extent of carbon monoxide” he noted and added that headaches, nausea, and extreme dizziness, are warning signs that carbon monoxide may have accumulated in the body over a period of time.

Except for a few who can afford to buy inverters, which do not produce deadly pollutants, millions of Nigerians may have no other choice but to keep using their generators daily in their homes and industries and live with the health consequences, maybe not immediately, but in years to come.

redsun: There are loads of ghanaians living in my village,or rather town.They have been there for decades,fully naturalized and customized.And they don't have any plan to go back to ghana.

People should expect what they give and always try to look into the mirror to see whether they deserve better.

yes, just as there are many nigerians spread out all over Ghana. most of them have naturalised and have no plans to go back to nigeria. didn't you hear the yoruba community in Ghana celebrating their 100 years in Ghana recently?

Yoruba community in Ghana celebrates 200 years
By BABATUNDE SULAIMAN


For the entire Yoruba community in Ghana, it is time now to sing the song of joy and dance the dance of victory. Indeed, when the Yorubas from all the 10 regions of Ghana troop out soon, they will beat the drums, click glasses and backslap in a melodramatic way, while trumpeting their peregrinations and seriocomic adventures in the foreign land in the past two centuries. About 200 years ago, some Yoruba migrants had set out on foot from the ancient old Oyo Empire and other parts of Yoruba land and arrived in Asanti, Ghana (formerly known as Gold Coast). It was, undoubtedly, a daring move that only men with the hearts of lions could have embarked on. But like a flash, days grew into weeks, weeks into months, months into years and then years into centuries.

Who then will not join the Yoruba community in the celebration of life scheduled to hold at the Ghana National Theatre Auditorium, Accra, on August 24? The much-talked about event tagged “200 Years Celebrations and Yoruba Heritage Awards” will bring together sons and daughters of Yoruba in Ghana and at home to engage in the celebration of life. For many who are hoping to grace the forthcoming event, which is already generating buzz all over Ghana, it will be a worthwhile experience, as there will also be a presentation of a book, “Exploit of Migrants community… 200 years of Yoruba in Ghana” by Mr. Joshua Bola Olalere, CEO, Delight Communications .

If it is true that “to live without any form of record is to live without any form of history”, then, there can’t be any more auspicious moment to chronicle the stories of the Yorubas in Ghana. Interestingly, in the heat of his frenetic preparation for the event, Olalere, who is also the Chairman, Planning Committee, told Daily Newswatch that when the first set of Yoruba left home to settle in the present day Ghana, it was not with the intention of searching for the proverbial greener pasture, but it was borne by sheer curiosity and adventurous drive.

Salami, Faseun

The Oyo-State born author, who has been living in Ghana for about eight years, disclosed that “This is not the first time we are celebrating the Yoruba Day in Ghana. The Yoruba communities are scattered in almost all the 10 regions of Ghana, but they are predominantly in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. We have local executives of Yoruba in all these regions; we have Obas of the Yorubas in all these regions, but the overall Oba of Yoruba is in Accra and is recognized by the Ghanaian government.

“The normal Yoruba Day has always been celebrated only among us. But this time, we are inviting Yoruba leaders from Nigeria and all over the world. We are also dedicating a book called the “Exploit of Migrants Community”, on that day. Apart from this, we are going to honour some Yorubas who have made us proud with the Yoruba Heritage Awards. Friends of Yoruba will be there and those who don’t want to identify with Yoruba will come out because it is legal to be Yoruba in Ghana and still have the Yoruba passport. The government recognizes the Yorubas as a sub-tribe in Ghana.”

Speaking about the book, Olalere said, “Many efforts of our past heroes have gone un-celebrated because they were not properly documented. Most of our golden heritages are equally going into extinction because we failed to preserve them. “Yoruba people are one of the most industrious people in West Africa. They have contributed more to the making of modern Ghana and for all these efforts not to go down the drains, we have decided to document this sojourn in Ghana for posterity.

“The book is the chronicle of the earliest migration of Yoruba people from Nigeria since about 200 years. It highlights their influences, impacts and challenges in the foreign land and it also celebrates their successes. “The first sets of Yoruba trekked to Ghana and have made great contributions to the Ghanaian economy over the years. The most popular market in Ghana is called Mocola, which is an adaptation of Mokola in Ibadan; we also have Agege in Accra and there is also Araromi that were all created more than 100 years ago.”

Olalere, who runs a printing press in Ghana, however, said that beyond the intent to re-awaken some consciousness among the far-flung Yorubas in Ghana, the event is also to make a definite statement about the hitherto battered public image of the Yorubas, nay Nigerians in the eyes of their hosts. “Nigerians have a particular image in the eyes of the Ghanaians; so, we want to use this event to correct some misconceptions, while also showing the Ghanaians the impacts the Yoruba have made in their country in the past years.”

According to him, another reason for organizing the coming celebration is that[b] a lot of Yorubas in Ghana have naturalized[/b]; so, there is need to re-connect them again with their root. “We don’t want them to forget about their source. We want to re-awaken them; we want the Ghanaian community to know the impacts of Yorubas in Ghana. Some can’t even speak Yoruba anymore; they are more Ghanaian than Ghanaians. So, most of them feel the best is just to pick up the Ghanaian nationality. Most Yorubas who are great in the Ghanaian government are shying away from identifying with Nigeria for the fear of persecution from Ghanaians.”

Contrary to the impression in some quarters, Olalere, while attesting to God’s goodness in the lives of Nigerian migrants in Ghana, said Nigerians are doing very well in several sectors of the Ghanaian economy, including business, politics and music etc. Thus, he said, “Nigerians are not hustlers and we are not searching for greener pastures. We went there because of our adventurous drive. The pastures at home are even greener more than the pastures there. The earliest Yoruba that went there were into trading. It is on record that we taught the Ghanaians about trading .Yes, one can’t deny that the atmosphere in Ghana is more conducive for business, but Nigeria is more economically buoyant than Ghana.

Read what a journalist from Mumudom wrote about your country and Ghana

A West African Journey (2): Nigeria And Her Neighbours Are Worlds Apart

By EJIRO BARRETT
http://nigerianobservernews.com/24122013/features/features2.html#.UsqjfSdtZiM

I just returned from a trip to Ghana, something that has become a regular escape for me from the chaos that is Nigeria most times . These visits have always been important lessons in contradictions. I have travelled through several towns and discovered that, between Ghana and Nigeria, there are similarities but the differences stand our more. Amongst the Ewes, who occupy most of the coastal lands between the Republic of Benin and south eastern Ghana, I hear words that would sound familiar to the average Nigerian.

Along the West African coast, languages and traditional rites cut across national boundaries that are clearly artificial borderlines imposed by prevailing colonial tongues, and religious missions that are identified by their separate national metropolitan sponsors.

One area where the cultural similarities are glaring is in the burial ceremonies. In Ghana, interestingly, the gun powder announces the burial of someone who has lived a long and rewarding life just as it does among many ethnic groups in Nigeria. There is also a certain sense of deja vu about life in the rural communities here; it actually feels like the same old plot and characters from an old flick but with different names. I take time to observe Ghanaian rural life at a funeral in the serene lake side town of Anyako.

The difference in social attitudes have created several contradictions that are also immediately obvious across borders. What would instantly become apparent at first when one crosses the Nigerian border is the sense of organisation that welcomes; a clear contrast to the chaos that has become our trademark. the absence of smoke billowing trucks honking menacingly for the sole purpose of imposing fear to gain the advantage on highways; the absence of ramshackle police vehicles that look more like abandoned heaps of metal than vehicles intended for hot pursuits; the absence of police men kitted in faded uniforms ; the absence of the complete chaos of Nigerian traffic jams- illustrated by the blatant disregard for traffic regulations; and the absence of filth that we seem to have learnt to live with in Nigeria, without bother. These are some of the differences that would become immediately obvious. There is also the conspicuous bohemian feel that the many street side cafes around Cotonou and Lome exude on cool evenings. I am always amazed at how, just a few hundred kilometres apart, we have managed to remain light years apart in attitudes. I am not talking about the cultural nuances created by the different colonial experiences but the contradictions in temperament and civility. I guess serious research is needed to understand that.
I have mentioned the differences that would strike any visitor who crosses the Nigeria-Benin border, but there is a dangerous virus that I observe has infected all sides with equal devastation; corruption. Do not be fooled, Nigerian officials at border posts may be known for fleecing without fear, but the Togolese and Beninois officials seem even worse. In these countries you do not argue with the set rules: I guess this plays out in their subterranean dealings just as much as it does in their official duties.

The contrast is mind boggling. The average Togolese or Beninois police officer- neatly dressed and whistle at the ready- seems the perfect picture of conscientiousness, and they are- most of the time. When encountered, their sense of commitment is immediately apparent. They carry out searches and ask the necessary questions with stern expressions that betray their preference for routine. However, it is with this same unyielding deportment that they demand set fees for no known reason. Drive through the border posts and check points in these countries and the persistence with which these demands are made rankles. At some of these checkpoints, the officers simply plead for a small cash gift; they do not insist but are quite persistent in their pleas, but they let you go if all documents are in order. In other checkpoints, however, they do not care much for your documents. They demand anything between 300 and 1000 CFA (between 20 and 400 Naira).

These acts notwithstanding, I still believe there is a lot that our security agencies can learn from these countries. The Beninois and Togolese security officials seem a lot more dedicated to their jobs than ours in Nigeria. At every turn, their presence is clearly evident and they seem to have done a good job at keeping their cities safe without the high handed tactics for which our security officers back home are known.

Beyond Nigeria, Republic of Benin, and Togo, Ghana is a world apart. I have travelled around the world quite a bit and I must admit that Ghanaian police officers are among the most civil I have met anywhere. I cannot remember the last time a police officer in Nigeria started a sentence with ‘please’ or ended with ‘have a good day’, so my shock at hearing this regularly in Ghana should not come as a surprise. The officers of the Ghanaian Police Service seem an aberration in these parts. I have been here four times and have never witnessed an altercation between a police officer and a civilian, not once: something that is so regular in Nigeria that it appears to be the norm. I watched as police officers took notes and measurements at an accident scene on the highway and controlled traffic. They had already evacuated victims and were controlling traffic flow. We had been informed of the accident about two miles before the scene and were advised to drive carefully. I saw this last in Nigeria in the seventies.

The sight of policemen displaying horse whips and ordering people to roll in puddles or pulling traffic offenders by their shirts and striking them in public appears an oddity here. When you commit a traffic offence here, the policeman actually pulls you over, explains your offence and, if you are a first time offender, let’s you go with just a warning and no greasing of palms- if that happens I have never witnessed it, I must confess. Coming from Nigeria, it is surprising to see this. I guess this emanates from the impressive simplicity and civility of the Ghanaian character. In all my visits here Ghanaians have been wonderful hosts who go the extra mile to make you feel welcomed.

Regardless of its challenges, Ghana remains a good example from which we can learn important lessons.

[quote author=me_for_you]you are nothing but a typical Ghanaian. My problem with arguing with Ghanaians is that they don't think because they don't have sense. Typical Ghanaian. Na ur papa dey worship whiteman not nigerians[/quote]ands you are.......a mumugerian, a sh1tnigerian from the Federal Republic of Fooooooooooooooooooooools MUMU from MUMUDOM http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/ a sh1thole where eating from the dustbin is the norm http://ugowrite..com/2011/04/nigeria-meal-from-dustbin-in-lagos.html a colony of chimpanzee http://www.chimpout.com/forum/showthread.php?160202-Lagos-Nigeria-the-largest-nigger-city-in-the-world

safarigirl: Enyeama- First choice GK for Lille of France Ligue 1. 11 consecutive clean sheets this season. Has scored 18 goals in his career. What is the name of the Ghanaian goalie?

crap. what has Ghana's goalie got to do with anything? all we know is that Ghana will beat naija any day any time. simple isn't it? it doesn't even matter who we put in our post

all4naija: All that being said by the useless Petrodolla2. Kotoko(human ritualists) International Airport doesn't look like a well functioning airport to me. The paint on the wall is faded and the building looks dirty. Yolk!

how can you see a well-functioning airport when all you have stuffed inside that ugly thing you call head are pieces of rags and cotton wool?

Wale112: I am a bleached nigerian

hahahahahaha fvcking bleached,huh? chei, na welcome to the bleaching capital of the world where being white is a blessing https://www.nairaland.com/1196697/blessed-white-victoria-pepple-stv-white/1

Wale112: Anything from Ghana = Quality

Anything from Nigeria = Quantity

Essien Career total = 51 goals

Mikel Career total = 10 goals

Great stuff. very impressive. 51 goals for Essien. Can Mikel score as many goals in his career? Essien will always be a legend!

all4naija: Poor Ghana without single billionaire on the Forbes list citizen cannot claim rich here.That is laughable, man! Oh! Poor Ghanaians!

now I know nigerians are truly phucked. they are not known as foooools for nothing http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/nigeria-a-nation-of-160million-fools/ you are 'celebrating' mumugerian billionaires? hahahaha you are the most stvpid animal ever created,huh? yes, you better tell me thank you for telling you the truth, ape. so what has the emergence of those billionaires done for your sh1thole? your people ,90% of who survive on less than $2 a day, are feeding fat from the dustbin despite your billionaires? http://ugowrite..com/2011/04/nigeria-meal-from-dustbin-in-lagos.html you have billionaires and yet more than 120 million of your people don't have access to electricity? https://www.nairaland.com/1314971/120m-nigerians-without-electricity-fg you have billionaires and yet life expectancy in your sh1thole is 52 years? you have billionaires and and yet your country is so lowly rated on the United Nations Human Development Index? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Jeez, people are even burning themselves up because of poverty https://www.nairaland.com/1575652/economic-hardship-fedrick-onuigbo-set

scipher: Nigeria to export more electricity to Benin, Togo, Ghana others
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/10/nigeria-to-export-more-electricity-to-benin-togo-ghana-others/

Nigeria supplies Ghana Electricity through WAGP
(neutral website) http://www.energyglobal.com/news/pipelines/articles/Nigeria_supplies_Ghana_through_WAGP.aspx#.Usqu5_QW2Fk

still puzzled

hahahahaha another fuelish mumugerian. sh1tnigeria can't even supply electricity to its own people not to talk of supplying even one megawatt of power to anybody. you need to flush out the tons of generator fumes you've inhaled.https://www.nairaland.com/782012/flushing-out-inhaled-generator-fumes so supplying natural gas through WAGP is now the same as supplying electricity? hahahahahahahahah I dey laugh ooooo

all4naija: False pretense you mean by investing in your economy. GLO is there in your telecommunication sector doing well, our marketers are paying taxes therefore increasing your internal revenue generation, your president begged Innoson to construction assembly plant in Ghana,etc.Nigerians probably contribute more to your country survival than Ghanaians. Jeez!

You are not seeing that your citizens have become petroleum criminals in Nigeria lately.Bwahaha...

such a fvcked up ape! how is glo doing well in Ghana? it is the least patronised among the six main telecomm company in Ghana. hahahaha I won't be surprised at all if they decide to pack their bags and head back to nigeria one of these days. Can any sane person leave MTN, airtel, Vodafone,Tigo for such a useless, clueless company? even back in your country glo is a total flop.

Did you say our president begged Innoson? so since Innoson did not come to Ghana the economy of Ghana has since collapsed, abi? Leaders have a duty to attract investments into their country, so what's strange? sh1tnigeria

[quote author=Austine.E]..i didnt really want to join issues with Ghanains but had opportunity to listen to ex president Jerry Lawrence complain of attitude of Africans whenever they meet whites!of particular mention was his experience in the UK when he said he met his Ghanain folks submiting effortlessly to the unjustified intimidation of whites,but on a particularly visit to London he met a Nigerian at the Airport and while a white guy wanted to do their normal 'i am superior' kind of act,he quickly stood up to the white guy and shouted him down...he went ahead to say he loved Nigerians for their toughness and being pride of Africans in diaspora!Seriously no insult intended,Ghanains are good people but even on a Ghana site i once came across a story of a particular club in Ghana where even Ghanains can hardly gain access,that its exclusively white,my heart bled!!!and it seems in Ghana you need to be a (melato)half-cast in order to make it easily to the top of their movie industry,i just hope this do not conote inferiority complex on the side of ghollywood!..that apart,our little neighbours are not doing bad at all.[/quote]crap. shine your jaundiced eyes,mumu. you mumugerians literally worship white people. can you imagine a whole presenter on national television saying being white is a blessing? https://www.nairaland.com/1196697/blessed-white-victoria-pepple-stv-white/1what do you have to say about that?

it is a fact that nigerians see whites as gods. I am a Ghanaian, I live in Ghana. There are lots of white people in Ghana,but I don't see them as being superior and I have not personally seen any Ghanaian giving them undue recognition. I have seen mobile police in your nigeria escorting oyibos in your country,holding their bags like school boys. there was one photo where a mobile policeman was holding an umbrella over an oyibo. can you imagine that rubbish

phantonce: arrested and released I guess.
u dnt av the liver to deport them back.

they were deported of course. you seem not to know what is going on in the world,huh? hahahahaha thousands of chinese have been deported from Ghana in recent months http://exposeghana.com/2013/06/illegal-mining-269-chinese-nigerians-deported/ even some nigerians were also deported in the process


Ghana deports thousands in crackdown on illegal Chinese goldminers

Thousands of Chinese nationals have been deported from Ghana in a crackdown on the plunder of the country's gold by illegal miners.

Immigration authorities say more than 4,500 Chinese nationals have been repatriated after a series of swoops on illegal goldmines.
So far this year 1,577 illegal foreign miners have been arrested by the Ghanaian authorities, and more than 3,800 have submitted to deportation on a voluntary basis, according to the ministry for lands and mines. Immigration authorities said that in June and July alone 4,592 Chinese illegal immigrants were deported.

"All these Chinese were involved in illegal employment in Ghana, the majority in illegal goldmining," said Michael Amoako-Atta, a spokesman for Ghana's immigration service. "This is only the first phase of our operations, we will be continuing in due course."

This year the Guardian exposed the scale of illegal Chinese goldmining in Ghana in a film that showed widespread excavating and use of toxic chemicals, and allegations of human rights abuses. Following the film Ghana's president, John Dramani Mahama, established a high-level taskforce, saying it was necessary to bring "sanity" to the mining sector.

Since then the government has launched a series of raids through the combined military, immigration and police taskforce. Towns that had swelled with the presence of illegal miners have been significantly affected, officials say. In Dunkwa, where the Guardian filmed this year, sources said the departure of Chinese had drastically affected the local economy.

"A very big change has happened in Dunkwa," said one source, who did not want to be named. "They were the ones who provided the mining equipment – most of the Ghanaians left behind cannot continue their operations. It has really affected the mining. The local people are complaining because they say the Chinese were good for business. Now everything has slowed down."

But many Ghanaians have lauded the government's efforts to curb illegal mining. The Chinese have attracted heavy criticism from Ghanaians for taking local jobs, wielding weapons such as AK-47 rifles, and polluting lakes and rivers.

"This illegal goldmining was compromising the environment. It was compromising the security of this country. It had a lot of social consequences and the government was losing a lot of resource revenue," said Fuseini, the mines minister. "The Chinese were just plundering the resources. So what we have done is take action to stop the plunder and ensure that the resource needs of this country are not any way depleted in ways that breaks resource revenue of the state."

bin gbagbo: false news. Muntari is fit

hahahaha the bad belles at their game as usual,huh? wishing Ghana ill as they always do.