Revolva:
Truth to be told when I was in Ghana they were asking me if I was Igbo or other tribe from Nigeria

They don't like igbos I swear .
, My advise to you guys if you know you want to do business in Ghana don't speak Igbo to their hearing ..speak pidgin to your fellow Naija brother o..the day they know you are Igbo ..the day they hate you passionately..u less you prove to them that you are not but explanation of the various minority tribes surrounding majority tribes

Your a stupid bigoted maggot.. And its this hate that will eat you slowly and your bunch of maggots.. Igbos are most loved in ghana, in fact they know an igbo person from citing the person alone..

What ever trbe yoir from, your hate will consume the same way maggots consume dust bin and excreta.. Seeing that your full of shit..

And for you others making noise, that baboon in aso rock has closed borders and made life difficult for ecowas business men, you expect their citizens to look on?..

Togo and benin would soon start..

This is is no way in support of the stupidity of the Ghanaian authorities

Leave Ghana or put up with thire rubish. One Africa na by force?

Sometimes though I recon Ghana does this to show off to the world how they handle the Nigerians. Notice how they selected the tallest police men they could find. Latter, they will boast that part of their humiliating of Nigeria is part of the clever marketing of Ghana.

Were I in power in Nigeria and was capable, I would strip all Nigerians in Ghana of Nigerian citizenship. I will do this because I understand absolutely and fundamentally what is going on, majority of Nigerians do not because Nigerians are not looking closely enough. I understand the Ghana mindset because it is a simple and child-like one not difficult to workout.

Every country has its laws and it must be obeyed....am sorry fornthe woman who was beating but Nigerians have the tendency of not obey simple rules if they have talked to you about this before then you should comply every country is not Nigeria that overlooks their responsibility.......so I dont see what Ecowas will do if they are not obeying their rules.......like the man said come to their office and show prove if compliance and you will be open again.

legitnow:
Tear gas, pepper spray, flogging, kicking, punching pushing and general beating of Nigeria traders, even Pregnant Nigeria woman.

It is time Nigeria Government call to Ecowas attention the violation of Nigeria rights by Ghana authority.

Ghana cannot be trading freely and living in Ecowas couuntries, whilst everyday in Ghana our citizens are humiliated and molested.

Else we return all Ghanaians to live and do business in Ghana and put an end to all this nonsense.

Nigeria government must be seen to act and do so with other Ecowas member state.

The ghanians are wrong and should be called to order now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoX9mB_k_XU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSukl8sorA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibiIAxEf0Q

Thank you for this response! Only a stupid government will not protect its citizens from foreign invasion in the informal market

ksat:
Its either the reporter is ignorant of the situation or he is being biased. and that is not good reportage.
I watched this on news yesterday and the police were not using brute force at all, in fact the joint task force were polite, up until the occupants of the store became agitated and aggressive and the police needed to step in to enforce the law.

For those who care to know the genuine story its simple...

you remember Buhari unilaterally closed the Nigerian border without recourse to whatever protocols many of you are quoting here? only simply because he suspected the influx of agricultural produce (especially rice) which his government has said was crippling the Nigerian market and driving local growers out of business thus, rendering local farmers poor.

its same analogy here. Just consider the population of Nigeria (over 206millio) whiles Ghana's population is a meager 31million (15% of Nigeria). Lagos population is almost same as the whole Ghana. The just ended voter registration exercise in Ghana registered only app.17 million person, these are people 18 yrs and above. so if we just open up the our market without regulations, and even just 2 million Nigerians start to trade in the informal sector (knowing that the informal sector employs most Ghanaian), do you GENUINELY believe Ghanaians will survive?

Our laws are not restricting Nigerians, you can see from the videos that some Nigerian shops were opened right where the scuffling was happening. Thats because he has followed the laws of the land and he is peacefully working.

and that notion of Nigerians in Ghana being abused/harassed must be stopped. Has anyone harassed Access Bank, UBA Bank, Petra Insurance, Zenith Bank, Dangote cement (the list of Nigerian businesses in Ghana is endless). So quit tripping guys

Sleekfingers:



u call ghana a stupid country....do u know that ghana is developing fast? They might not have the population....but the country is investors friendly.....

Developing which fast, may be only Accra but still slow, come to rivers state and see road that's up to what you have in Ghana. There's nothing other than electricity in Ghana. If Nigeria solve electricity issue your country is just a dust yard.

so irritating to watch...let everyone come back home and fight for their place..might be a blessing in disguise who knows

It still boils down to bad government we have here,imagine Nigeria banning their goods from coming here and you expect them to be calm with us?

Saifulah:

If this is true, then there is a serious problem. Igbos need to get their act and attitudes together both home and abroad. And Nigerians need to react to this as a Nigerian problem not treat it as just a problem for the igbos

Disregard that idiot....in Ghana we will hardly know which tribe is more between Yorubas,Igbos or NigerDelta(especially Warri&Ijaw).

He is one of the evil people who go about spreading evil misinforming lies.
Its a shame that some Nigerians don't know when to draw the line between our differences...the major problem of Ghana is 'Ghana must go issue' which was done by President Shagari who wasn't even Igbo.

Ghanians have not forgiven Nigerians since then...now coupled with President Buhari's boarder closure making their hatred increase for anything Nigeria.

Our Government must sit up&put these wannabes to other.

Lajet:


Shut up shameless Afonja with c'ock and bull story

some of people you are calling afonja are Fulani and other tribes in Nigeria.. Can u stop this nonsense before u turn same fight again yourselves

YorubaRitualist:
That's was the same thing Yorubas was saying doing the peak of xenophobic attack in SA,they thought that it was only Igbo's that were being affected but alas when it appeared that Yorubas were more affected that it took the intervention of an Igbo man to save their asses and bring them back to their brown roof republic.

You surely have boil in ur brain!

I have lived in ghana for the past 7 yrs now. And I will tell you the truth, the only thing that will save you in ghana is if you go mad. But as a foreigner who want to do something productive. You are on your own. Even their own people are not finding it easy and one of the promise this their present government promise them is that they will chase out all the nigerians doing business in ghana.

bignero:


Your a stupid bigoted maggot.. And its this hate that will eat you slowly and your bunch of maggots.. Igbos are most loved in ghana, in fact they know an igbo person from citing the person alone..

What ever trbe yoir from, your hate will consume the same way maggots consume dust bin and excreta.. Seeing that your full of shit..

And for you others making noise, that baboon in aso rock has closed borders and made life difficult for ecowas business men, you expect their citizens to look on?..

Togo and benin would soon start..

This is is no way in support of the stupidity of the Ghanaian authorities

My dear, leave the idiot.
Truely Igbos r many in these westafrican countries doing legitimate business mostly in retail&imports. They r all loved & respected by their host communities.

He should ask Ghanians/ivoriens/Togolese the tribe they r refer to as 'Anago' & why?.....(The Yorubas) bcus it will open people's eyes about the lies against Igbos by 'some' of these 'idiots'.

However there Nigerian from all tribes in Nigeria in Large numbers doing legitimate business in these countries.

Yorubas,Igbos,NigerDelta, Hausas ,Ijaws,Efiks,Ibibios/Anangs&others.

Only Nigerians with shady character, who committes crimes r mostly targeted.

It is also important to add that Nigerian must sit up bcus 'some' of these countries, their officials&people deliberately target innocent Nigerians for victimization.... They don't check tribes when they do.

Nigerian must know when to draw lines of animosity against each other& unite when our collective safety is targeted.

Besides Nigerians in these countries r always most united and defend themselves irrespective of tribes& its pleasing.

uuzba:

Na that Oil be the main problem.
What you are proposing means that it's only Delta state that will kukuma explore, sell and enjoy their oil like that. Other states, especially Northern states should go and drink their kunu.

Oil isn't the problem per se.

I mean, the UAE has oil, Qatar has Oil, Saudi Arabia has oil.

It's the greed and the lack of foresight.

The derivative that oil producing states get hasn't changed their lots.

The more a state earns from oil, the more their leaders steal from the coffers.

How can Delta State earn so much and still look like a state in a third world country?

If Nigeria breaks up and I have the opportunity to rule Yorubaland, I'll place an embargo on all subterranean resources like oil, gold and diamond.

In fact I'll prohibit all forms of mining and exploration.

Simply because it only makes the leaders lazy and unable to think outside the box, not to mention the fact that it destroys the environment.

If indeed Ghana is a "very stupid country" then what are nigerians doing there?

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GeneralPula:
Ghana is a very stupid country..

Spitt on them and did tax collectors!

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really

backnbeta:
If the whole world treat Africans the way Africans treat each other, the world will be too dangerous for us to live in (Except of course, the Arabs who literally see Africans like poop and they can't even hide it). At least, Europeans, Americans and the rest pretend to tolerate us but we can't just tolerate ourselves! Says a lot about us really

The ability of the Black African to process information is in doubt, to say we are dumb..........let me keep quiet ! tufiakwa isi-oji

Mo3891:
Ipobians should go back home

1st class mumu.
B spilling hatred that will destroy u.

Know when not to cross d line...these nairaland banters should&must not be carried into our real life situations for sake of all our collective good.

These r why all these wannabes countries disrespect Nigeria bcus most of u who r jokes, who go about talking trash about ur countrymen&country.

Nigerian diplomatic house was destroyed some months ago in Ghana...was it owned by the 'Igbos'?
Their problem is with d past&present Nigerian governments as a result of Ghana must go of yrs back not majorly d people.

Learn to comment with sense.

that ECOWAS shiit is dead in water. Didn't nigeria close its borders in contravention of ECOWAS protocols? forget about ECOWAS

NockMedia:
So sad and infuriating. The Government of Ghana should be cautioned by ECOWAS. Something has to be done about this pitiable and despicable treatment of Nigerian traders living in Ghana by their Ghanaian counterparts.

SmartPolician:


I have followed the debate online
The Ghanaians always insist that they have existing laws that no foreign-owned small-scale business is allowed to operate in their country.
Their argument is that they are just few in the country
So, if they allow foreigners to come in their numbers, they will dominate the space and drive their people out of business.
Why question is, Why do Nigerians still go there to start small-scale businesses when they know that they have such laws in place?
Perhaps Nigerians are just being our lawless selves, believing that with some tips everything is possible.

The law conflicts with the ecowas laws even though this matter has been brought up on several occasions at high level but there are measures to which Nigerians or foreigners can still operate. Such that ,they should register under the trade unions of Ghana as well as apply for a resident permit.

Now, the criteria to get the permit to trade might be expensive as a "foreigner" which they do not look into "ecowas" but they tend to make it frustrating on the Nigerians which brings back these issues continuously.

Personally, given the years I spent in Ghana, I feel it is all about hate,envy,jealous seeing the Nigerians make money in Ghana. Keep in mind that there are other foreign nationals who engage in such business ; not that they have regularized their papers but the Ghanaians deem it fit to target a group of people.

Note: Ghanaians trade alot in Cote d'ivoire but do you see ivorians disturbing the Ghanaians about permit even though we know the Ghanaians conduct business illegally.

You nailed it

Gamesmart:


If you use agbero manners and aggression to challenge the legal authorities of another country, then you should be pepper-sprayed, flogged, tasered and dragged away.

Not every country is as lawless or wants to be as lawless as Nigeria.

Follow their laws and use all legal means available to you if you feel enforcers did wrong. Don't think you can use ogboju like you do in Nigeria and then turn chaos and lawlessness into normal everyday thing.

If you don't like their country and laws, go back to your shithole. They did not beg you to come.

Revolva:
Truth to be told when I was in Ghana they were asking me if I was Igbo or other tribe from Nigeria

They don't like igbos I swear .
, My advise to you guys if you know you want to do business in Ghana don't speak Igbo to their hearing ..speak pidgin to your fellow Naija brother o..the day they know you are Igbo ..the day they hate you passionately..u less you prove to them that you are not but explanation of the various minority tribes surrounding majority tribes

What most people do not know is that Ghanians and ndigbo are biblically not the same people,these savages are hamites like their fulani brothers,these are hardcore slave raiders of old,they have been in bed with white slave traders and colonialists for centuries. The British fought and finally destroyed igbo resistance ( during the Aro wars ) with the help of ashanti and fulani foot soldiers.............they have a perpetual hatred for the children of light. see this insignificant and much maligned Biafra.........That nation will come !!

The law conflicts with Ecowas laws? Ecowas is dead and buried. nobody complained when nigeria closed its borders in contravention of ECOWAS protocols. ecowas is dead and buried

360command:
The law conflicts with the ecowas laws even though this matter has been brought up on several occasions at high level but there are measures to which Nigerians or foreigners can still operate. Such that ,they should register under the trade unions of Ghana as well as apply for a resident permit.

Now, the criteria to get the permit to trade might be expensive as a "foreigner" which they do not look into "ecowas" but they tend to make it frustrating on the Nigerians which brings back these issues continuously.

Personally, given the years I spent in Ghana, I feel it is all about hate,envy,jealous seeing the Nigerians make money in Ghana. Keep in mind that there are other foreign nationals who engage in such business ; not that they have regularized their papers but the Ghanaians deem it fit to target a group of people.

Note: Ghanaians trade alot in Cote d'ivoire but do you see ivorians disturbing the Ghanaians about permit even though we know the Ghanaians conduct business illegally.

Another thing, people need to stop protecting Ghana under the aegis “Africa”. Africans did nothing here, Ghana and Ghanaians did. When none South Africa Africans of varying nationalities are maltreated in South Africa, the world condemns South Africans not “Africans”. When Nigerians are critiqued they are criticized as Nigerians not “Africans”, Give unto Ghana her dues good or bad. We need to get away from this racist notions and method of dismissing the complexly and magnitude of genetic variance in Africa by lumping all of Africa as one boring mass of sameness. So, no, what happened in Ghana is example of Ghana mentality and attitudes not example of African ways anymore than the Casts based persecutions in India is an example of Asian ways.

If there are no “typical Asian ways” then certainly Africa, which is the most heterogonous and divers place on Earth, does not have a “typical African way”.

alhassanyusuf29:
no wahala... mostly na ibo people!! nyamuri flat.heads

gworo toothed goofie !!

Aphrygian:

Ode ni e, there are many yorubas in Ghana, infact there is no ogbomosho family without a family member domiciled in Ghana, you better seek knowledge.

The fact is Yoruba people started Ghana migration in the 60s,my dad was born in Ghana and many Yoruba people lived and did business in Ghana at the time.Igbos just start moving to Ghana in the last decade

onyechez:

Developing which fast, may be only Accra but still slow, come to rivers state and see road that's up to what you have in Ghana. There's nothing other than electricity in Ghana. If Nigeria solve electricity issue your country is just a dust yard.

did i say i am from ghana? Mr man i am a nigerian......so construction of mere roads na developing.....id shake my head

brightdestiny96:


Not only Arabs see and treat us like poop, Asians do and go free. Indians will call us monkeys in our country, Chinese work us like slaves and pay little or nothing, Lebanese will scam you, withhold your salary, but the worst treatment you receive in Nigeria will still be from Nigerians... police, army, VIO, FRSC, local government revenue, task force, agbero, NURTW, armed robbers, kidnappers, not to talk of mechanics, tailors, technicians, etc

Seriously, we are in trouble! Even when you attend academic conferences abroad, they listen to your presentation, they read your paper but they have little respect for our publications home and abroad!

SmartProf:
Africans are very hypocritical, babaric & evil to themselves. If this was to be done by security forces of an Asian/European country or America, they will call it Racism and form hashtags everywhere. The Buhari government and our foreign affairs ministry must be firm on international relations. Unfortunately, they themselves are a joke.

Very foolish people

Anago55:
. Oga simply echo Amen and move on. all this grandstanding is uncalled for

Igbos should learn how to respect their host and if they misbehave they should be deal with, I believe you get my message.

No one want nuisances in their community.

you are right. Yorubas have lived in Ghana without problems for more than 100 years now. Yorubas abide by the laws of Ghana, but igbos are something else. By the way, I am Ghanaian and I am being honest here. I have igbo friends in Ghana and Nigeria, but their behaviour sulks. They even want to dictate to Ghanaians in their own country. How is that possible?
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Ordinary Ghana of yesterday... Our government should bury their fat faces in shame.