₦airaland Forum

Sit your ass down in Nigeria. Think it through how to survive the times into better seasons. Even Kemi Badenoch feels these things.

Dpharisee:
Surprisingly Igbos protected Ghanaians during that period and didn't ask them to go like happened in the North and South West except for those who left on their own volition, Ghanaians screaming Igbos Must Go don't know the difference between Nigeria tribes

Shut it! Igbos did not protect any Ghanaian!
Nobody in the North or South West asked Ghanaians to go. It was the Federal Govt under Shagari and Alex Ekwueme (an Igbo man) that asked Ghanaians to go and their President, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings brought a big ship to carry most of them back to Ghana. Those who could not join the ship found a way to travel back by bus.
Some Ghanaians still remained in Lagos, the South West and other states during the time and after others had left.

Stop the silly lies! The Igbos did not protect anybody,

On January 17, 1983, the Nigerian government issued a directive: all immigrants without proper documentation had just two weeks to leave the country. The order was sweeping, sudden, and uncompromising. The spark that fueled this drastic move was a high-profile robbery incident at Vice President Alex Ekwueme’s residence, in which two of the culprits were identified as Ghanaian (although this was said to be rumoured and unverified).

esnbrutality:
The secret is that nobody remembers the region that championed the deportation of people from Ghana.

Same people flooded the educational sector with quack friends and relatives.

They are the same people shouting Respect your hosts.

Nuff Said

They were born to tell lies and change narrative even when the history said other.

mikeapollo:
Shut it! Igbos did not protect any Ghanaian!
Nobody in the North or South West asked Ghanaians to go. It was the Federal Govt under Shagari and Alex Ekwueme (an Igbo man) that Ghanaians to go and their President, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings brought a big ship to carry most of them back to Ghana. Those who could not join the ship found a way to travel back by bus.
Some Ghanaians still remained in Lagos, the South West and other states during the time and after others had left.

Stop the silly lies! The Igbos did not protect anybody,

mightyhazel:
But then again growing up in the mid to late eighties most of our good and specialized teachers like french,music ,arts n maths teachers were all Ghanaians . Which means the exercise wasn't thorough..but I think it was wrong concept altogether

Yeah...many didn't leave. I guess initially (weeks into it) it was enforced strongly...but after a while, Nigerians forgot about it, and the ones left, stayed behind. Because my home teacher and one of my favorite teachers in my primary school back in the late 80s was a Ghanaian man...Mr. Danso.

Reflect7:
I swear. Those Ghana ashewos were always nice and polite back then. Very good girls. Memories.

Interesting. What era are you talking about?

kay29000:
Yeah...many didn't leave. I guess initially (weeks into it) it was enforced strongly...but after a while, Nigerians forgot about it, and the ones left, stayed behind. Because my home teacher and one of my favorite teachers in my primary school back in the late 80s was a Ghanaian man...Mr. Danso.

Some of them with documented jobs e.g. teachers, nurses, doctors etc. found a way to stay back because their teachers were the best in our secondary schools back then.

Racoon:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FUPad4FiU/

“Ghana Must Go”: The 1983 Mass Expulsion From Nigeria

The Exodus was what started destroying education in Nigeria. Most of the School Teachers were Ghanaians

MarketDispatch:
The Exodus was what started destroying education in Nigeria. Most of the School Teachers were Ghanaians

Exactly!

Reflect7:
No they are not.

Nigerians are in Ghana and nobody is touching them.

The govt there loudly condemned all such protests, and refused police cover for the protesters.

Their president is always in Abuja and has Nigerian blood or something.

He might even have been installed by Nigeria remotely, because Nigeria rules West Africa.

Okay o

Sonnobax15:

So this thing really happened?

Now I understand why an average Ghanaian has so much hatred for Nigerians..

I think we still have so many of them here. Some of the people that built our house were Ghanians. Guess what, they were even speaking our native dialect. To tell you not all of them left. Some stayed behind.

alphaconde:
If an economy is GOOD people would thrive in it, people will go to it.

If the above is not the case in Nigeria, then the economy isnt good.

Those days afghan and Yemeni beggars used to be everywhere, now hardship has push dem out.

Rebasing wont fix thi

Afghans And Yemenis In Nigeria? Or Maybe You Meant Tuaregs.

1983 it was Ghana must GO away from Nigeria 🇳🇬, but today in Ghana it is Nigeria 🇳🇬 must go away from Ghana.

Ghana must go, I remember my dad employed alot of Ghanaians in his transport business back then, they were nice and hardworking.

But Ghana was the first to send Nigerians out of their country in 1969....

Sonnobax15:

So this thing really happened?

Now I understand why an average Ghanaian has so much hatred for Nigerians..

Goodvibes007:
I lost my lesson teachers during that era. Mr Mensah.

Most of them bore Mensah and Kofi. We had a popular teacher then in my primary school. His name was Mensah too. Most of our teachers then were Ghanaians.

pdppower:
Now the tide has turned. It is now Nigeria must go. All thanks to Bala blu bulaba

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Racoon:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FUPad4FiU/

“Ghana Must Go”: The 1983 Mass Expulsion From Nigeria

Zoogirians are now the once heading to Ghana. All thanks to Jerry Lawrence, men wey get prickkk.

Sonnobax15:

So this thing really happened?

Now I understand why an average Ghanaian has so much hatred for Nigerians..

Na them do am first.

Nigerians lost a lot. They wouldn’t even let you withdraw your money from banks.

Today nko??

CoronaVirusPro:
Tables have now turned.

Ghana is now the one chanting “NIGERIANS MUST GO”.

Such history gives me the hope that someday, Israel will be history and Palestine will be free from the River to the sea.

Keep dreaming. It's cheap.

Eh still dey sweet me till today 😆

The tribal bigotry in Nigeria is unrivaled. I couldn't believe people recently revised this Ghana must go policy as a Yoruba thing, saying it's Yorubas that championed it, when this happened under a Presidency headed a Fulani (Shagari) and an Igbo (Ekwueme) man.

Kobicove:
I doubt if there is anyone from that era who did not encounter a Ghanaian teacher who goes by that name.

It appears the name Mensah is very common among Ghanaians

Mensah and Koffi

Kobicove:
I doubt if there is anyone from that era who did not encounter a Ghanaian teacher who goes by that name.

It appears the name Mensah is very common among Ghanaians

And Kofi
Till today my mum still calls people Kofi... not in endearing sense

Emnyte:
Mensah and Koffi

I didn't even see your comment before posting mine

Lioness5280:
West Africans chasing away fellow West Africans?

Take a break, will ya ..


Who said there was a Lebanese around then ...

That happened then and we've gotten over then .. There are billions Ghanaians, Togo's Guinean, Senegalese and so on in Nigeria now .. We don discriminate, we don't do no xenophobia like your likes ...

chopnaira:
There were lots. Especially people from the Ogbomosho area of Oyo state that have intermarried with Ghanaians for over 100 years.

Oh so that explains the multitude of Ghanaians in ogbomosho .

I was shocked when I first discovered that ..

.na there, I been first chop banku ...

ednut1:
yeah my village people had to go to the kings palace. Where they helped linked them to their relatives. Luckily my grandfather on my dads side had visited before and was able to link his relatives 😩. My mums side no living relatives they then proceeded to ilorin

so you're literally Ghanaian??

Kobicove:
I doubt if there is anyone from that era who did not encounter a Ghanaian teacher who goes by that name.

It appears the name Mensah is very common among Ghanaians

Koffi too ..


Now some part of Nigeria has adopted this name

Same goes for mensah..

KingCold:
These are the same people who like screaming "xenophobia" all over the place

It was retaliatory..