linearity:


Did you read the article or understand why Ghana was sanctioned?

Any little fallout between the passives ‘big’ guy and the the ‘lilltle’ guy is not because the big guy is out to oppress the little guy....sometimes, it is the little guy’s fault....as the case in point.

the case is that
for two years now, the US has been pressuring Ghana to give travel documents to people who are not it citizens

the US can impose all the sanctions in it book
Ghana will still not give travel documents to aliens

Mizwisdom:



Go away!

soon as you stop having mental breakdown on Ghana

Just30:
Ghana will only give travel documents to Ghanaian
the US can go and find the natuonality of the remaining

You have a good point. But at the end of the day,what will pay the Ghanian economy should be what is Paramount and not ego.

Hello fellow haters,concerned and unconcerned people against Ghana the motherland.This is the official position of Ghana in this particular report
* Ghana was forced to accept mostly7000 hardened criminals in USA who were released from prison and claimed to come from Ghana.They're forcing us to accept them by giving them Ghanaian documents to prove their Ghanaian status so they deport them to Ghana
*Our foreign minister officially replied that we're not accepting a single person unless we as a sovereign country verify them personally to know their verbal claims of been Ghanaians.Note,most Africans especially West Africans try to take advantage of our excellent name and world recognition as the posterboy of West Africa and Africa as a whole to hide their .nationality.Personally most of these people can't speak a single local language in Ghana and besides some have been in the states almost all their lives and when they become ex convict,they force them back on us
*Ghana is the only country in Africa to have the guts to have said No to them and this force acceptance began in 2016 and since then,they've threatened visa sanctions and other sanctions on us for refusing their demands and since 2016 they have now carried out just a little fracture of their threat.This visa Restrictions only affect diplomats and state officials only and does not include normal visas.Their embassy released a statement clarifying the report and pleading to us to start negotiation to immediately lift the sanction.
*The citizens of Ghana fully support the stance of our president and government and believe that no country can bully our rights and impose demands on us.Other Africans have shown their solidarity on all social media platforms and supported our stance by being so bold to stand against our will and our right.They all wish their government have the balls to replicate this historical action.America needs us than we need them.We're the beacon of democracy,stability,economic progress,first pan African country and first independent black African country in Africa so no one dictates to us.We might retaliate the action.Their companies are all over us including exxonmobile trying to acquire contracts to manage our new numerous crude oil discovery sites which has the capacity to generate over a million barrel per day.Our gold resources which is the 10th largest gold reserves and production country in the world.2nd largest cocoa production country worldwide,top coffee producers,Africa's largest with 500 billion dollar bauxite reserves discovered in Atiwa Forest,Ghana,diamonds,manganese,,etc.They need us than ever and this sanction has been calculated because they want their share in all these resources discoveries other than that then the question is why now.They refused our ministers visa in 2009 when exxonmobile lost their bid to produce the our first oil well discovered.Ghana will not cave in.We're the gateway to Africa and to hell with their visa.We're coming big this time .The black star of Africa and our motto is always "Freedom And Justice".Thanks

grandstar:


You have a good point. But at the end of the day,what will pay the Ghanian economy should be what is Paramount and not ego.

it is not about ego
it is about giving travel documents to aliens
that is paramount.

Just30:

it is not about ego
it is about giving travel documents to aliens
that is paramount.

Okay. I heae

Just30:




The Ghanaian government will not give travel documents to people who are not it citizens
the Ghanaian government can put restrictions on American businesses in Ghana

as to Ghana's economy crashing
worry about yours because your are sitting on a disaster with a 140 million poor people

Hate when Ghanaians and Nigerians engage in childish mudslinging.

But dude let’s keep it real. The GDP of just Lagos alone is almost THREE TIMES the size of the entire Ghana’s GDP (in fact, it’s bigger than the GDP of Ghana and Kenya combined), with a smaller population. Meanwhile, billions of dollars of Nigerian direct investment contributes to propping up the Ghanaian economy (from massive investments like Dangote Cement and Globacom to banking, real estate and even retail), and even with the discovery of oil and gas in Ghana, it still depends on below market-priced gas from Nigeria’s Escravos for a lot of its gas-powered electricity, and of course Nigeria’s MainOne and Glo submarine cables power large swathes of Ghana’s broadband infrastructure (in addition to MTN’s WACS). Meanwhile, there is no such reciprocal Ghanaian influence on the Nigerian economy.

Nonetheless, all admittedly admirable bravado aside, Ghana cannot afford to piss the West off because until quite recently Western aid inflows accounted for about 40% of Ghana’s national budget (down to probably something in the region of 20% these days).
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LordsApostle:

Moles, not at all, cursed with bad people instead..

The problem with Africa is the people, not about the leadership, the leaders are only a reflection of the people...

(((((GBAM))))) like that. reasoning mind are scarce. true words of wisdom from you.
Keep increasing in WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE.

Ghanaians be thinking that their country is a First World nation.
I even heard some of them ranting on bbc pidgin about how they would also sanction America and even deport americans.... Loool.
And one us dude was like "you mean all 8 of them??"
How can you deport expats that are legally there because of your country men who want to illegally reside in murikkaa.
Ghanaians will be forming like they are in some kind of trade war with the us.
Stop taking their aids and grants then.

amalab30:


Naija has always been included. No Western country does not have Nigeria on her watchlist.

9jaRealist:


Hate when Ghanaians and Nigerians engaged in childish mudslinging.

But dude let’s keep it real. The GDP of just Lagos alone is almost THREE TIMES the size of the entire Ghana’s GDP (in fact, it’s bigger than the GDP of Ghana and Kenya combined), with a smaller population. Meanwhile, billions of dollars of Nigerian direct investment contributes to propping up the Ghanaian economy (from massive investments like Dangote Cement and Globacom to banking, real estate and even retail), and even with the discovery of oil and gas in Ghana, it still depends on below market-priced gas from Nigeria’s Escravos for a lot of its gas-powered electricity, and of course Nigeria’s MainOne and Glo submarine cables power large swathes of Ghana’s broadband infrastructure (in addition to MTN’s WACS). Meanwhile, there is no such reciprocal Ghanaian influence on the Nigerian economy.

Nonetheless, all admittedly admirable bravado aside, Ghana cannot afford to piss the West off because until quite recently Western aid inflows accounted for about 40% of Ghana’s national budget (down to probably something in the region of 20% these days).
.

nigeria GDP is bigger than Ghana's
but that means nothing when the ordinary Ghanaian is still better off than a nigerian.
The ordinary Ghanaian will continue to have a better standard of living than the Nigerian.

Ghana offers a sane evevironment for everyone to invest in
Dangote and glo saw an opportunity and they invested.
Ghana will not want to put investment in a fluid case as Nigeria

Ghana have six different fibre optics running through it shores
glo is the least preffered

Nigerian gas has never been a major part of Ghana power sector because Nigeria has consistently lived below the contractual agreement
at most, only pump 60 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Ghana gas supplies 150 million standard cubic feet of gas per day
Ghana still buys 200 million plus standard cubic feet of gas per day from the international market .

so you see
nigeria gas is less important in the Ghanaian sector

Ghana is a middle income economy and does not receive budget support and hasnt receive budget support for 10 years
worry about your country , they are stiil taking budgetry support for education health and the millitary

IjebuWarrior:


You mean bad citizens...

You be correct guy!

Just30:

nigeria GDP is bigger than Ghana's
but that means nothing when the ordinary Ghanaian is still better off than a nigerian.
The ordinary Ghanaian will continue to have a better standard of living than the Nigerian.

Ghana offers a sane evevironment for everyone to invest in
Dangote and glo saw an opportunity and they invested.
Ghana will not want to put investment in a fluid case as Nigeria

Ghana have six different fibre optics running through it shores
glo is the least preffered

Nigerian gas has never been a major part of Ghana power sector because Nigeria has consistently lived below the contractual agreement
at most, only pump 60 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Ghana gas supplies 150 million standard cubic feet of gas per day
Ghana still buys 200 million plus standard cubic feet of gas per day from the international market .

so you see
nigeria gas is less important in the Ghanaian sector

Ghana is a middle income economy and does not receive budget support and hasnt receive budget support for 10 years
worry about your country , they are stiil taking budgetry support for education health and the millitary

More delusional quotes... Ghana doesn't want to put money in a fluid case as Nigeria,, bla bla bla.
Of course you just took the better side of the equation.
Ghana doesn't have any investments in Nigeria because Ghana doesn't have any franchise or company that can survive or even enter the Nigerian market at all. Simple.
Does Ghana have any franchise worth up to a billion dollars?? I don't think so.
And your claims that Ghana doesn't invest in Nigeria because of instability is invalidated by the fact that Nigeria has always received more fdi than Ghana.
You don't really wanna compare the number of multinationals operating in both countries do you??
You stated that Nigeria has never supplied up to the agreed amount of gas to Ghana, well maybe that's because Ghana hasn't been paying up to the agreed sum.
How much are you owing us in gas supply again??
And let's not also forget the fact that it was still Nigeria that paid for and built the same gas pipes Ghana is being fed with.
But of course, Africans don't argue with facts and logic, Just sentiments.
And when you said that Ghana doesn't receive budget support, does that include aids and grants??
As big and powerful as the UK is, they still depend on the highly controversial Russia for much of her energy needs, and they understand that.
Ghanaians always making themselves bigger than they are.

slivertongue:
the US sud include Nigeria

They are coming. Signs of things to come.

chrisagyei:
Hello fellow haters,concerned and unconcerned people against Ghana the motherland.This is the official position of Ghana in this particular report
* Ghana was forced to accept mostly7000 hardened criminals in USA who were released from prison and claimed to come from Ghana.They're forcing us to accept them by giving them Ghanaian documents to prove their Ghanaian status so they deport them to Ghana
*Our foreign minister officially replied that we're not accepting a single person unless we as a sovereign country verify them personally to know their verbal claims of been Ghanaians.Note,most Africans especially West Africans try to take advantage of our excellent name and world recognition as the posterboy of West Africa and Africa as a whole to hide their .nationality.Personally most of these people can't speak a single local language in Ghana and besides some have been in the states almost all their lives and when they become ex convict,they force them back on us
*Ghana is the only country in Africa to have the guts to have said No to them and this force acceptance began in 2016 and since then,they've threatened visa sanctions and other sanctions on us for refusing their demands and since 2016 they have now carried out just a little fracture of their threat.This visa Restrictions only affect diplomats and state officials only and does not include normal visas.Their embassy released a statement clarifying the report and pleading to us to start negotiation to immediately lift the sanction.
*The citizens of Ghana fully support the stance of our president and government and believe that no country can bully our rights and impose demands on us.Other Africans have shown their solidarity on all social media platforms and supported our stance by being so bold to stand against our will and our right.They all wish their government have the balls to replicate this historical action.America needs us than we need them.We're the beacon of democracy,stability,economic progress,first pan African country and first independent black African country in Africa so no one dictates to us.We might retaliate the action.Their companies are all over us including exxonmobile trying to acquire contracts to manage our new numerous crude oil discovery sites which has the capacity to generate over a million barrel per day.Our gold resources which is the 10th largest gold reserves and production country in the world.2nd largest cocoa production country worldwide,top coffee producers,Africa's largest with 500 billion dollar bauxite reserves discovered in Atiwa Forest,Ghana,diamonds,manganese,,etc.They need us than ever and this sanction has been calculated because they want their share in all these resources discoveries other than that then the question is why now.They refused our ministers visa in 2009 when exxonmobile lost their bid to produce the our first oil well discovered.Ghana will not cave in.We're the gateway to Africa and to hell with their visa.We're coming big this time .The black star of Africa and our motto is always "Freedom And Justice".Thanks

Well said bro thumbs up...
And one useless Nigerian was saying
Is cos our president has bad luck?stupity at it peak..
No wonder they blame Buhari for a mess Jonathan created n expect him to fix it in a term.. nonsense..!

Rgade:

More delusional quotes... Ghana doesn't want to put money in a fluid case as Nigeria,, bla bla bla.
Of course you just took the better side of the equation.
Ghana doesn't have any investments in Nigeria because Ghana doesn't have any franchise or company that can survive or even enter the Nigerian market at all. Simple.
Does Ghana have any franchise worth up to a billion dollars?? I don't think so.
And your claims that Ghana doesn't invest in Nigeria because of instability is invalidated by the fact that Nigeria has always received more fdi than Ghana.
You don't really wanna compare the number of multinationals operating in both countries do you??
You stated that Nigeria has never supplied up to the agreed amount of gas to Ghana, well maybe that's because Ghana hasn't been paying up to the agreed sum.
How much are you owing us in gas supply again??
And let's not also forget the fact that it was still Nigeria that paid for and built the same gas pipes Ghana is being fed with.
But of course, Africans don't argue with facts and logic, Just sentiments.
And when you said that Ghana doesn't receive budget support, does that include aids and grants??
As big and powerful as the UK is, they still depend on the highly controversial Russia for much of her energy needs, and they understand that.
Ghanaians always making themselves bigger than they are.

With all that u’ve said can u explain to me why nigeria has the largest no of poverty in the world after India ..?

Swanzi:


With all that u’ve said can u explain to me why nigeria has the largest no of poverty in the world after India ..?

For what does it profit a country to have a higher gdp per capita than Ghana and yet still have 50 percent of its citizens to be in grinding extreme poverty.

LordsApostle:

Moles, not at all, cursed with bad people instead..

The problem with Africa is the people, not about the leadership, the leaders are only a reflection of the people...

The leaders are not from separate island. They are part of the people.

When you see comments online and Nairaland about this election in particular, you will know that the govern are even worse than the so-called leaders.

Rgade:

More delusional quotes... Ghana doesn't want to put money in a fluid case as Nigeria,, bla bla bla.
Of course you just took the better side of the equation.
Ghana doesn't have any investments in Nigeria because Ghana doesn't have any franchise or company that can survive or even enter the Nigerian market at all. Simple.
Does Ghana have any franchise worth up to a billion dollars?? I don't think so.
And your claims that Ghana doesn't invest in Nigeria because of instability is invalidated by the fact that Nigeria has always received more fdi than Ghana.
You don't really wanna compare the number of multinationals operating in both countries do you??
You stated that Nigeria has never supplied up to the agreed amount of gas to Ghana, well maybe that's because Ghana hasn't been paying up to the agreed sum.
How much are you owing us in gas supply again??
And let's not also forget the fact that it was still Nigeria that paid for and built the same gas pipes Ghana is being fed with.
But of course, Africans don't argue with facts and logic, Just sentiments.
And when you said that Ghana doesn't receive budget support, does that include aids and grants??
As big and powerful as the UK is, they still depend on the highly controversial Russia for much of her energy needs, and they understand that.
Ghanaians always making themselves bigger than they are.

Baba u know we still don't have sensible light , we are still producing light that Edinburgh in England a city of 300,000 people are using.


Stay there and be comparing us to Ghana.


Nonsense

This shows that Ghana is doing something right. Refusing to be bullied.

But I think Ghana will eventually blink first. The elite won't like to be hit with American travel sanctions.

Luckily Ghana now relies less on Western aid. Unlike before almost half of govt income came from aid.

We can see why Akufo-Addo is passionate about "Africa Beyond Aid" mantra. If you depend on others, they can cut their assistance anytime.

NwaliE01:
Please, what's the true meaning of Africa?

Because i am not getting it at all.

Africa means A free lati seka. We are free to be wicked.

Rgade:

More delusional quotes... Ghana doesn't want to put money in a fluid case as Nigeria,, bla bla bla.
Of course you just took the better side of the equation.
Ghana doesn't have any investments in Nigeria because Ghana doesn't have any franchise or company that can survive or even enter the Nigerian market at all. Simple.
Does Ghana have any franchise worth up to a billion dollars?? I don't think so.
And your claims that Ghana doesn't invest in Nigeria because of instability is invalidated by the fact that Nigeria has always received more fdi than Ghana.
You don't really wanna compare the number of multinationals operating in both countries do you??
You stated that Nigeria has never supplied up to the agreed amount of gas to Ghana, well maybe that's because Ghana hasn't been paying up to the agreed sum.
How much are you owing us in gas supply again??
And let's not also forget the fact that it was still Nigeria that paid for and built the same gas pipes Ghana is being fed with.
But of course, Africans don't argue with facts and logic, Just sentiments.
And when you said that Ghana doesn't receive budget support, does that include aids and grants??
As big and powerful as the UK is, they still depend on the highly controversial Russia for much of her energy needs, and they understand that.
Ghanaians always making themselves bigger than they are.

Let me thread down your write up into the dustbin
first of, Ghana have lots and lots of franchises that are in the Nigerian economy and worth more than a billion dollars
we just dont want to make them known to your citizens because you their xenophobic tendencies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2018/08/27/meet-the-38-year-old-entrepreneur-who-built-a-1-billion-oil-company-in-ghana/
we have closed to 20 companies already in the nigerian economy
from your oil industry to real estate to technology.

your country has never received more fdi than Ghana in reality and scale
Buhari told you Ghana owe your country
so you also bought that dumb statement ......
Buhari chopped the money.

Ghana will not pay monies for gas that you dont supply
since the contract was signed, Nigerian has never supplied the amount of gas they were contracted to supply.
Ghana will keep withholding payment until you live up to the spirit of the agreement.


it wasn't Nigeria that built the pipeline
who told you that lie ?
Your country didnt know what to do with gas and they were busy flaring it
until Ghana decided to build a pipeline from Nigeria and ask Benin and Togo to be offtakers
it just happens that nigeria contributed the largest amount when they were asked to take part.
That is why, Ghana has since been the one managing the pipeline.

i have never come across an oil producer that wait for customers to build their own pipeline before
thats the sorry case of Nigeria

next time you want to argue , do it with facts
not your sentiments
your country is big but has nothing
yet it citizens never seize on trying to make it important than it is

Rgade:
Ghanaians be thinking that their country is a First World nation.
I even heard some of them ranting on bbc pidgin about how they would also sanction America and even deport americans.... Loool.
And one us dude was like "you mean all 8 of them??"
How can you deport expats that are legally there because of your country men who want to illegally reside in murikkaa.
Ghanaians will be forming like they are in some kind of trade war with the us.
Stop taking their aids and grants then.

Ghana does not recieve aid from the US

Just30:

nigeria GDP is bigger than Ghana's
but that means nothing when the ordinary Ghanaian is still better off than a nigerian.
The ordinary Ghanaian will continue to have a better standard of living than the Nigerian.

Ghana offers a sane evevironment for everyone to invest in
Dangote and glo saw an opportunity and they invested.
Ghana will not want to put investment in a fluid case as Nigeria]
Ghana have six different fibre optics running through it shores
glo is the least preffered

Nigerian gas has never been a major part of Ghana power sector because Nigeria has consistently lived below the contractual agreement
at most, only pump 60 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Ghana gas supplies 150 million standard cubic feet of gas per day
Ghana still buys 200 million plus standard cubic feet of gas per day from the international market .

so you see
nigeria gas is less important in the Ghanaian sector

Ghana is a middle income economy and does not receive budget support and hasnt receive budget support for 10 years
worry about your country , they are stiil taking budgetry support for education health and the millitary

Get it right buddy. Lagos’ (not Nigeria’s) GDP is almost three times Ghana’s GDP.
Nigeria’s GDP is about TEN TIMES (or more) the size of Ghana’s and Nigeria has a BETTER GDP per capita.

Again, I hate childish mudslings between people who should be be aspiring towards closer ties and brotherhood (because Ghanaians and Nigerians probably share the most cultural and other commonalities among all sub-Saharan Africans or at least among West Africans), but rest assured that there is NO rational basis for economic comparisons between Ghana and Nigeria.

BTW, not to belabor this tedious discourse, but FYI Ghanaian companies do not invest in Nigeria because they do not have the capacity (financial or otherwise) to do so nor frankly anything of comparative advantage to offer. But of course you are free to share with us where else (that is, other than a Nigeria) Ghanaian companies have invested in any significant manner....go ahead, we are waiting.

Just30:

Let me thread down your write up into the dustbin
first of, Ghana have lots and lots of franchises that are in the Nigerian economy and worth more than a billion dollars
we just dont want to make them known to your citizens because you their xenophobic tendencies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2018/08/27/meet-the-38-year-old-entrepreneur-who-built-a-1-billion-oil-company-in-ghana/
we have closed to 20 companies already in the nigerian economy
from your oil industry to real estate to technology.

your country has never received more fdi than Ghana in reality and scale
Buhari told you Ghana owe your country
so you also bought that dumb statement ......
Buhari chopped the money.

Ghana will not pay monies for gas that you dont supply
since the contract was signed, Nigerian has never supplied the amount of gas they were contracted to supply.
Ghana will keep withholding payment until you live up to the spirit of the agreement.


it wasn't Nigeria that built the pipeline
who told you that lie ?
Your country didnt know what to do with gas and they were busy flaring it
until Ghana decided to build a pipeline from Nigeria and ask Benin and Togo to be offtakers
it just happens that nigeria contributed the largest amount when they were asked to take part.
That is why, Ghana has since been the one managing the pipeline.

i have never come across an oil producer that wait for customers to build their own pipeline before
thats the sorry case of Nigeria

next time you want to argue , do it with facts
not your sentiments
your country is big but has nothing
yet it citizens never seize on trying to make it important than it is

Dude, you are about to score an own-goal.

Springfield Ashburton was linked to Deziani Alison-Madueke’s massively corrupt oil-lifting regime, and therefore its Nigeria business suffered when the NNPC terminated all Offshore Processing Agreements (in fact, the NNPC no longer does OPA transactions at all), but the Okyere dude reportedly helped out Deziani by purchasing her £4.5 million house in London. Not exactly the sort of ‘investors’ we are looking for.