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Algeria is teaching Egypt a lesson in Cairo. 3 - 0 to Algeria and the game is still ongoing.

Ghana B Team just taught Mali a similar lesson. 2 - 0 to the Black Stats. We bleed gold!!


btw, why is nigeria still picking Utaka. Dude can't get a game at lowly pompey. how in the hell does he make it into the nigerian team.

can someone be born gay? they must be! cus why would you see such a beautiful thing as a womans body and consciously choose a hairy dirty disgusting man's body? i just can't understand.

actually i blame all women for the increase in gays. girls don't put out enough, lol, so these guys don't really know what they're missing! no really, i'm serious. lol

location  location   location, as in they should not show 98% of the time.

i don't mind a tasteful tattoo on a girl's moneymakers (a$$), lol, or infact any place that is almost always hidden, not too much though, tasteful means not too many, not too big.

as long as it's easy to cover up. how do you know michelle obama doesn't have a tattoo on her moneymakers?, and boy those are some wonderful properties she has there, but i digress, lol.

in my opinion, once you have conspicuos tattoos, good luck trying to portray yourself as a serious person. unless ofcourse you live in hill-billy county. lol.


tattoos on the lower back are a different story though. like those angel wings on the lower back, they almost always mean "this girl is a wild thing", in the very least! i'd do a little more digging into this girl's past before going unprotected on that one if you know what im saying, lol

personally i think the most tasteful place to get a tattoo is encircling the belly button. that's hot! and only seen if you want it to be seen.

personally i don't see anything wrong with saying your name in a way that is easier for the people where you are to say it too. why not. I say my surname differently than when i'm home. us africans are not the only ones who have to do this in the west. I wouldn't change the spelling though. .

what annoys me is those who use the 'westernized' version back at home. what kinda nonsense is that. like one time in ghana, where i'm from, i was standing behind this girl in a bank queue, and she kept on saying her name in a westernized version. the teller couldn't spell the name due to this, and this stupid girl kept on saying her name (which happens to be a fairly common name ) and giving the teller dumb looks like 'why can't you spell this', i was sooo pissed. and this girl was no first generation american- or euro- anything. trust me, she was born and bred in ghana. i could tell by her cracked heels. lol.

with the kids born abroad, don't be too hard on the parents. sometimes these kids just have no interest at all if you try teaching them their mother tongue. they look at you with that face, the "omg, like, wat is he talking about!" face, lol, those of you with kids here know what im talking about.

also, in the world of children, anything that is even slightly different is recipe for teasing and bullying. so even when the kids know how to say their name correctly, they will deliberately not say it ever.

yes. what i meant was, there's been quite a few studies linking canola oil to an increase in HDLs. Olive oil on the other hand has been implicated in LDL increases. anyway i'm not a nutrionist so i don't know the latest.

there is nothing extremely healthy about olive oil. olive oil became olive oil because of its taste and smell. not because of any health benefits.

as far as health goes, canola oil the best. and i think when it comes to oils, low colestrol and HDLs should your only concern. What good is a fantastic eyesight if your heart is no longer beating.

I personally go with the cheapest canola oil i can find. i've always been cheap.

@honoric

what you have to realise it this; as a nigerian, unless you take an active interest in news from other countries, 95% of the news you hear in your local media will be news CONCERNING nigeria. This does not in any way mean that this is ALL that is happening. Did the papers in Nigeria report it when the government of Ghana cancelled the licences of some Norwegian firms and ordered them to leave due to their bad management practices? NO right? Did your newspapers report it when the same happened to some Malaysians a few years ago? NO again right? The group of Chinese businessmen currently on trial in Ghana for underhand business practices, Did that make the news in Nigeria? NO again.

My point is, when you hear news from Ghana concerning nigerian businesses, don't assume that it is only nigerian businesses being targeted. To say that some law was enacted purely to keep nigerian businesses out of Ghana is just plain ridiculous.  Nigerians are not the only ones expanding into other markets. We have Liberian businessmen doing brisk business in Ghana and they have been there long before the Nigerian banks came. How come they are not being 'targeted'? Are liberians white? We have Somalian, Kenyan, Sudanese, Libyan, South African, businesses in Ghana. Are they all white? There are ghanaian businessmen expanding into other countries too, including nigeria. I gave some examples in one of my previous posts. Hell my own family owns a T-roll factory in Liberia. When we go there, we follow the rules, if we break them, and we are punished, we won't turn around and say they are only punishing us for breaking the rules because we are africans and that foreigners would have gotten away with breaking the same rules. that's bull.

Your statement that Ghana is failing to produce an entepreneurial class in just wrong. Are there more nigerian businesses in Ghana than Ghanaian businesses? What proportion of businesses in Ghana are Nigerian owned, less than 2%.

Friends, don't be throwing the word Xenophobia around willing-nilly. There are impressionable kids like ikeyman00 around. Do you want our children to grow up thinking they are enemies? Xenophobia is a strong word. Do you see any Pakistanis and Indians hanging together? even as kids? NO. Now that's hate! Every Nigerian living in europe or America has at least 1 ghanaian friend. And vice-versa. since when do we hate you?

A lot has been said on this thread about how nigerians are being targeted, this and that.  But there has been no acknowledgement of the possibility that maybe your businessmen in question are indeed at fault. Are they angels? Do they play by the rules at home? Is it so difficult to believe that they may be breaking the rules outside home?

@ londoner - your point about the nigerian banks is my point exactly. My point was, companies go where they think they can make money, not because they want to help develop anybody's economy. They don't teach philantropy in business school.
I was responding to your countryman Ikey's allusion that somehow Ghana came to beg those nigerian banks to settle in Ghana. He seems to have slipped through the cracks in the educational system. Claims to have a degree. Which i find quite hard to believe.

@Ikey - don't interfere when Adults are having a conversation.

@yommyuk - i want the best cook, lol,

@ikeyman00 - seriously dude, i think at this rate, even your nigerian brothers are starting to be a little embarrased with your posts?

my only reply to your latest posts is: HUH? i don't understand what you're saying!

@ikeyman00
i have a life dude so pardon me if i dont respond to your viral posts every minute. why are you so obsessed with insulting Ghana? did some ghana boy steal your girl or something? for such a small insignificant country, you sure know a lot about us.

of all the blindly-patriotic guys on this thread, you are the most nonsensical. seriously dude, i can't make out what you're trying to say 90% of the time. And when someone asks a question you can't answer, you resort to insults.

YOU need to get out more and see the real world.  You don't seem to understand the way international commerce works? A LOAN is NOT a donation. Nigeria gave Ghana a 40mil dollar loan so Nigeria owns Ghana? or Nigeria is Ghana's Knight in shinning armor because it loaned Ghana 40mil? Do you know what that loan was used for? It was used to complete Ghana's section of the West African Gas Pipeline Project. Do you know who benefits the most from that Gas line? NIGERIA. Why do you think your government was eager to have the project completed. Keep in mind, this is not natural gas we are talking about. This is REFINED gas. REfined in Ghana. That is why the Ghana government couldnt be bothered too much about the completion of the pipeline. Because we dont need it.  Sure we will make some money selling refined gas to our neighbours but it was not a priority. This is why the Nigerian government took the initiative. It was more in their interest. Dude, this is how internation commerce is. Nobody gives anybody free money. If they do, they are called AID, not LOANS. Get educated my friend.

All your other points are similarly misinformed. Okay, so i was wrong, there is 5  nigerian banks in Ghana instead of 3. How big are those banks? What is their market share in Ghana? How many people do they employ? How long have they been operating? As i told you before, our banking sector has only recently been deregulated to allow nigerian input. And as i again mentioned before, By GHana banking regulations, the bank operating in GHana must be at least 45% Ghanaian owned. FACT. And i repeat, all operations of the Nigerian banks in Ghana are small scale, compared to the other banks. They mostly deal in corporate clients. Investments. stuff like that. Again, this is FACT.

My Question to you is this: Did the government of Ghana come begging Nigerians banks to come and set up shop in Ghana? or was it the other way around? Since when have businessmen (and bankers of all people) been interested in giving alms. You think those Nigerian banks are in Ghana out of the goodness of their hearts to help us develop our economy? pfff, i am tired of you sef. Did Nigerian go beggin MTN to come into your economy? If MTN pulls out of Nigeria, are there no nigerian companies which can take their market share? Do you now see how illogical your arguments are?

And you have taken your time to outline a lot of vices in Ghana. SO WHAT? When did anybody say we are a country of angels? Did anyone say there is no crime in Ghana? Like i said before, PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING.

As yommyuk mentioned, Who is more criminal than the Chinese? Every big city in the world has a chinatown. and it is always the place to find anything illegal in that country. From fake passports to buying a baby, it is always chinatown. SO why have they not gained notoriety as criminals? Answer: they are suave! and diversified! put simply, there is more credible business in china than illegal business. or at least that's what the international community thinks.

In the case of Nigeria, you have somehow allowed your country to be defined by the actions of the small minority criminals. And the little litle disturbances from niger delta (a very small part of a big country). AGAIN, PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING. If everytime the international community hears your name in the news it is either fraud, or disturbances, that is how the average world citizen will view nigeria. simple as that.

Bottom line is this: if you think your country has arrived, FINE. Enjoy. We in Ghana know that we have a long way to go, so we are working towards that. THis is life. You see one man sitting in front on his one bedroom house with a content smile on his face. He has achieved his dream. And then you see another man who is a millionaire with a 5 bedroom house working on Sunday because he wants to be a billonaire. This is life.

goodboybad - you seem like the kind of nigerians  i am used to hanging around. nice people. that's why i was so suprised to be reading some of the things i saw on here.

i'm sure you know that we both, and all africa really, have a long way to go. very long way. like i said, i spent last summer travelling many countries in the caribbean and what i saw suprised and saddened me. i thought i was going to another africa, i quickly realised otherwise. we on the mother continent have a long way to go.

btw, i wanted to say before, perception is everything. what comes to your mind now when you hear Somalia? what the first thing that comes to your mind? Pirates! But in reality, only a small section of a very very very big land, even has pirates in the first place.

Now when the name nigeria is mentioned, people immediately think of 1. '419  2. Internal Problems ( ie. Niger Delta)
People elsewhere don't know that the Niger Delta region is just a small section of Nigeria. Once they hear in the news that there are disturbances in the region, average people around the world assume that this is a countrywide problem.
Eventhough only a small section of the nigerian population engages in 419, it has become what Nigeria is most known for on the world stage. Fair? Perhaps not. But since when has the world been fair.

IF you dont challenge these notions, it will be a very big problem for your country. PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING. Especially when you are a developing country trying to attact FDI. 

You mention Colombia, first thing i think of is Coccaine: Now if i was looking to relocate my office to a country in the region and relocate my family, will Colombia be top of my list? Definately not.

YOu see my point.

My humble advice, is to challenge these notions. Start looking within yourselves for the solutions to these problems. Stop blaming politicians at every turn. Politicians come from WITHIN society. It's not like they're plucked from another country to rule over you. NO, they were picked from within the same society. So what is it about your society that continues to breed corrupt politicians. Address that.

I think i've made my final contribution to this thread. lol, well until i read another ridiculous claim. lol

where do you people get your facts from? Nigeria supplies Ghana electricity? Are you ffing kidding me? Ghana that supplies Power to Burkina Faso, Togo, and Cote D'Ivoire? And Nigeria supplies us power? You are dreaming!

Olu Maintain adopted a ghanaian kid so what? Has no Ghanaian ever adopted a nigerian kid?

Do you know how much the government of Nigeria owes our Oil Refinery Company at any one time? Billions. WE refine your oil for you on credit. There is nothing special with that. This is how countries do business with each other. But you never hear us ghanaians claiming that we are giving alms to nigeria by doing so.

Ghana borrowed money from Nigeria? Do you understand how international business functions? We bought stuff from Nigeria on credit? THis is routine international transaction. Who told you that is brotherly love. Nigeria buys things from Ghana and other countries on credit all the time. Like my oil refinery example above.

Why do you see this as philantrophy on the part of Nigeria?

goodboybad - i see ur point. i dont agree with it in it's entirety but i see the point you are making. Let me also say that i don't represent Ghana. So i don't speak on behalf of anybody but myself.

The same way i understand that posters here don't represent nigeria. And only speak for themselves. SO my comments here are not directed at nigerians, they are directed at the people on this thread. specifically.

Otherwise i would have to take ikeyman's comments to represent all nigeria and i think you will agree with me that, that will be quite embarassing for nigerians.

@ikeyman00 - do yourself a favor and just shut up already. at this rate i'm beginning to wonder if you have even completed grade school. like seriously.

ikeyman00 - you don't sound intelligible enough for me to engage you in any sort of debate.
i had a good laugh though when you mentioned somewhere that you went to university? hahahaha, you've got to be kidding me.

hilli666 - your claim that nigeria is perched atop the list of bla bla bla is a classic example of what i'm saying - DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR. how do you come by that assesment? remove your green-and-white tinted glasses and see the real picture.

and to the guy who said nigeria is the fourth biggest investor in ghana : you can't be serious. first of all, don't you mean foreign investment? and even when it comes to foreign direct investment, nigeria is no where in the top 10 in ghana. are you crazy. The ONLY sector where there is a visible nigerian presence in Ghana is in the banking sector. AND let me tell you this, by Ghanaian banking regulations, any bank operation in Ghana must be at least 45% Ghanaian owned. So all those subsidiaries of nigerian banks operating in Ghana have significant Ghanaian ownership. If those Nigerian owners pull out today, there are more than enough Ghanaian counterpart ready to step in. Infact, it was nigerians who lobbied to enter the ghanaian market not the other way around. Hitherto, Ghana's banking sector was tightly guarded. It was John Kufuor who opened it up for Nigerian banks and other banks from all over the world to start operating. All this has only been happening since around 2004. Just 2004.

We Ghanaians are happy to welcome foreign direct investment whereever it may come from. This Sudanese man ( or is he even sudanese, i can't remember) the guy with the Telecom company, he is doing brisk business in Ghana and following all the rules.  Similarly, Ghanaian companies are doing business in other african countries including nigeria and there is no problem. A Ghanaian company is building a trans-national railway system in Gambia. Liberia's fibre optic system is being developed by a Ghanaian company? But we dont go and stand there and say we dont have to follow their rules because they need us. THEY DONT. IF we leave there are equally capable liberian businessmen who will step immediately.

But this is not the case with Nigerians. "Oh we won't follow the rules because we are employing their people" Nonsense. All the nigerian banks in Ghana, and i repeat, there are only about 3, are very small banks on the Ghanaian scene. Dealing mostly with corporate clients. How many people do they employ?  Why aren't your companies staying in Nigeria to employ nigerians? are all nigerians employed? THIS is the POMPOSITY i'm talking about. China owns about 70% of American foreign debt. Have you ever heard the Chinese businessmen say they can do what they want in America because of that?


@Carago: I too was suprised by the stupidity i saw on this thread. I don't think that is how most nigerians feel. Even on this forum, you can see that it is just the stupid minority who feel this way. Most nigerians are nice people.

Most of you on this thread are so incredibly stupid.

I am a Ghanaian, and 99% of what is being said on this thread is pure Bullshit. First of all, Why should we open our markets to influx by inferior nigerian goods and services when the Nigerians are not completely opening up theirs?  If you are looking to bully someone, try Togo, not the Great Nation of Ghana.

Second, Us Ghanaians dont take bullshit from anybody. A couple of years ago, when some malaysians were engaging in bad management practises in our country, we sacked them. Yes, i mean sacked. We did the same to the Norwegians who were managing a telecom company in ghana about four years ago. A group of Chinese businessmen are currently on trial in Ghana for under-hand business tactics.
Who the hell do you nigerians think you are to be immune from criticism. Nonsense.

Also, what 'good deeds' are you people talking about? What amazingly good deed has nigeria done for ghana that you all seem to talk so much about? please enlighten me cus i'm quite stumped!

From what i understand, African countries help each other when they can from time to time. But you guys talk like you have carried the whole continent on your shoulders. What Nonsense.
Do you know that the entire Nigerian independence movement was based in Ghana. When Ghana gained Independence, our first president Nkrumah, bankrolled the independence movement of several african countries, including Nigeria, whose entire independence operation was headquartered in Ghana. How did you thank us? by kicking our pregnant women and children out when they came to your country because there was a famine in Ghana.

Humility is a word that seems lost on a large number of Nigerians. Mainly the uneducated ones, as you see on this tread. Do you ever think of What other African countries have done for you?

Your government is currently begging Ghana to build a nuclear power plant in Ghana to solely supply Nigeria, because the Americans won't agree to have Nigeria handle nuclear material.

Some Nigerians have such delusions of grandeur. It's amazing! as no one can see the source of this delusion.

"We are this, we are that, our economy is big, our budget is this, and that, " Look here morons, the size of your economy, is purely a product of your population size. nothing more. if you understood economics better, you would know that the fact that the german economy is bigger than England's,  doesn't make Germany a better country than England. Infact, several germans are daily making their way to England to find better employment even though their economy is bigger. I dont have time to delve into the nuances of economics with you here. Some of you are too stupid to appreciate the concepts anyway.

"If we pull out, they will miss us"   ,  Really? lol, that is funny. because i only know of about 3 banks in Ghana that are nigerian. that's it!  3 banks.  And even one of those banks' CEO was recently arrested for consistenly depositing fake foreign currency at the central bank. that case is still pending. We can kick nigerians out today, and our economy would not even flinch. 


Don't confuse notoriety with popularity. Can you give me 2 instances in the past 10 years, when Nigeria has been in the International news for something positive? lol, that's right, YOU CAN'T. Because everytime we hear nigeria, is either internet fraud, or drugs, or silly activities in their delta whatever driving up the price of oil. In essense, your country is widely regarded as a nuisance by the most of the world.

Ask yourselves why Nigerians are the only ones finding problem everywhere they go? Are you the only africans who travel? If it's not Houston, it's South Africa, or Ghana, or China, or Singapore. Why are you always in the news for all the bad reasons? Is the whole world against you somehow? Is everybody jealous of you?

lol. start looking within yourselves.

while us ghanaians know we have a long way to go and are keeping our head down and working hard and improving our country, Nigerians are happy to sit back and say they are a big country. Talking about 'our economy, our economy'. Having a big population only means you have to work that much more to provide the same basic amenities others take for granted.  Ask your brothers and sisters who have travelled around the world a bit. Just visit the caribbean and you will be amazed to see how much more advanced fellow 3rd world countries are than us. I was in Barbados recently and couldn't believe it. Go the dominican and it's the same thing.


Whoever said pride comes before a fall sure must have been observing nigeria. And you are still falling my friends. wake up.

PS. this is my buddy's account so don't kick him out or anything. lol.

I've been visiting this site every now and again for about 2 years. This is my very first post.

This topic is worth it.

What is happening is SA is just appalling. I know it is just a minority engaging in these acts but the response of the whole country, including and especially their leaders, has been very dissapointing. It's like deep down majority of SAfricans agree the reasoning (maybe not the methods) of these people behind these acts. Otherwise it would have been stemmed way before now. The initial response was painfully slow.

I even saw one white SA idiot in a youtube video stating all sorts of stupid facts about nigerians to back his backyard wannabe anthropologist views. That guy was so annoying. The link is somewhere in this thread.

But this is an african disease in general. Us nigerians shouldn't be too quick to judge. Our "ghana must go" movement in the 80s was just as disgraceful. Eventhough that was mostly non-violent. Maybe most of you are too young to remember this but Ghana was perhaps the most instrumental ally in our quest for independence from the British. After Ghana gained independence, they automatically became the spiritual home of all the other sub-saharan african activists fighting for independence themselves. Infact, the Nigerian independence movement was once headquartered in Ghana. This was in the late 50s. I myself went to secondary school in Ghana, where Kenneth Kaunde, later to be president of Zambia was my senior, and Robert Mugabe ( yes the same one) was my english teacher at one time.

When Ghana's economy turned south as a result of coup after coup in the 70s, and a lot of ghanaians were coming to Nigeria, what was our reaction?, the same. Non-violent but same ideology none-the-less. Now that they are on the rise, look at the number of nigerians living and travelling to europe through their country. Sometimes even using ghanaian passports.

The lesson is this: South Africans are a disgrace!, lol, All of them.