₦airaland Forum

samorobo:
Lol we don't even go to Ghana line that...their govt came up recently with an official record on that and it turns out Nigerians are not much as they've been screaming...if it SA I will understand, she has the infastructures and a stable business climate to run and grow world class businesses but Kenya and ghaana...oh please

unofficial record put Nigeria at 7 million to 5 million . According to me, i put the figure slightly between 4 to 5 million . Nigerians are more in Ghana than Any country in the world.

samorobo:
You wish..we would rather try our fate in SA suffering xenophobic attack or better still take it to the Mediterranean sea than flock to your poultry...your infastructure is uninspiring and you know that....

That would be what we call running from frying pan to fire

You abuisevely throw the word infrastructure around, what do you think whenever you mention that word?

Electricity, water, well paved road , internet connection, transportation are all part of infrastructure, so what has Nigeria gotten better than GHANA in all this? or what is Ghana seriously lacking than its neighbour in sub Saharan

samorobo:
Lol this recession you and petrodola have been going about NL screaming is so funny...if you guys wants your goods here simply use the seaport and cargo airport then you pay every duties required...

When rice harvest is about to improve and return rice to 9,000 naira per bag next month, you are here crying recession and supporting smuggling

let cross our hands and put it on desk. if miracle really exist, Nigeria inflation will be stable next month....

Abohboy:
When did I mention in the millennium I just said companies had left stop changing my word in fact people are petitioning to have the border closed till 2021 just ebcuase more and more companies have been coming back when I said Unilever they have been here but they used to make butter and milk in Ghana and export it to Nigeria but now they make their butter, margarine and milk here in Nigeria

You were talking as if they are coming based on the border closure which I am changing your narrative, that it wasn't so, unlever never left Nigeria for once, they only increase their production elsewhere in which they still maintain up till date, Nigeria poor electricity infrastructure is the reason behind that, Bata was kicked out of buisness by other competitive, it wasn't so much a big deal. the Nigeria border closure has never attract anything of significant apart from what is cooked in the custom service department .

If Nigeria had the border close till December, Nigeria growth will be frustrated and shrinked further ( It is already growing just above 1 . 94 percent since June and had experience a sudden jump in inflation) so hyper inflation at this minute is easily predicated. let's wait till last quater of the year and see what Nigeria buisness statistics will have to say.


Nigeria was able to close the border cus Nigeria crucial product (oil) had never been affected .

Abohboy:
Bata has come back five paper milling companies came back as well, Unilever came back in 2018 and now Dunlop is coming again as well

Beta had left way back since 80s not part of those who left in the millennium, unilever never left ( they are always listed on Nigeria stock exchange) ..I will be happy seeing dunlop coming back, but now with many branches ....

GODMALE:
these African countries you mention, their population combined is just like the population of northern Nigeria online.

You call Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia progressives? Progressive as how? Just because you see many Nigerians always bad mouthing the country doesn't mean these worthless countries you mention are better than us.

Ghana that their president and ministers are saying they won't survive without Nigeria
Kenya that is one city country and most of it are slums
Rwanda that 50% don't have access to electricity

I blame Nigerians that always insult their country even in presence of foreigners that's people from unknown countries like kenya, Ghana can talk bad about Nigeria.

let me compound your problem since you guys are very stupid and cultivate unneccasry arrogance.

Ghana will not even survive without benin and Niger, Ghana will not even survive without ecowas. This a basic logic to let you know Ghana can't do it alone , Development is a collective effort of individual achievement, Ghana industrialisation mean she needs more than her current existing market , having Nigeria, Somalia or even Burundi will not be a bad idea . this is what almighty China realised a long time, she can't even survive without africa.

That statement isn't meant to hype Nigeria ego, but to trainned Nigerians mind to be responsible for African future development.

Abohboy:
Unless you're buying banks in Nigeria itself I don't know why your so happy come to think of it has any Kenyan banking company made it onto the London stock exchange if they have please inform me because gtbank has been there since 2010 and zenith bank since 2012 gtbank already has 4 branches in kenya and has branches in Uganda, Tanzania,Rwanda and the whole of West Africa please we are not your mate

Nigeria has been looted so badly before yet you are behind us we have only had 5 years of good leadership in those 5 years we have gone up by 45 places in ease of doing business we have started our rail modernization program we have started the construction of 20 million housing units by 2030 we have started to diversify our economy away from oil and into technology, manufacturing, mining and agriculture we just signed a deal with a Canadian company to start mining gold here in Nigeria according to Bloomberg were about to experience a mining rush like no other

Manufacturing many companies have started to move to Nigeria especially because of the border closure already Unilever, Dunlop, Bata, have already started planning on building factories in Nigeria the textile sector is coming up very quickly the government has placed a ban on Importing textiles for schools, hospitals, military and the government itself all uniforms must be made in Nigeria and the government has helped to grow the cotton industry soon

Nigeria will be a progressive company we have been stabbed, raped and beaten but slowly we are recovering and getting back on our feat and what surprises me the most is how you have not passed us yet when we have giving you other 30 years, for 30 years we have been stuck in a cycle of looting and corruption it is only since 2015 that anything good has happened for Nigeria to be honest

Nigeria we will be fine

Tell me which manufacturing company have move back to Nigeria since the border closure. let me learn what i don't know.

Area4Area:
Then tell your government to do the needful and stop Nigerian goods free entering Ghana, stop the wailing and start blaming your government

See economy is not managed by emotions rather by critical thinking, David in the bible didn't matched Goliath one and one, he brought him down stastically.... Diplomatic means is the first weapon of 21st century...

President Akufo-Addo has stated strongly that the inability of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to integrate fully is simply due to the lack of leadership.

Addressing attendees of the 2019 International Conference of the Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, at the Mensvic Hotel under the theme, “Economic Integration of West Africa: Challenges and Prospects,”the President said the ECOWAS region cannot make the bold and urgent changes so required without appropriate united leadership.

“Our problem over the years I suggest has been leadership. The implementation of plans to bring progress and prosperity to the 350 million citizens of ECOWAS has been left to well meaning technocrats and bureaucrats. However well meaning they may be, our region cannot make the bold transforming changes it needs to make without visionary, political leadership. We need leadership that is focused on the region and not on individual countries” President Akufo Addo indicated.

The EU Verses ECOWAS

In a comparative analysis with the integration success that the European Union (EU) has achieved as compared to ECOWAS, President Akufo Addo noted that “the European Union took off because the political leadership of France and Germany decided to make it work” .

“Today, however, while the EU is central to the life of Europeans, ECOWAS is still somewhat peripheral to the lifes of most West Africans and it is not for the lack of plans or even rules and regulations, it is simply that the political will to make integration real has been less evident than Europe” the President noted. “Once the political will is evident, we can then work together to make ECOWAS a true regional community”.

President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice

In his introductory remarks, President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, noted that ECOWAS over the years has recorded a lot of achievements as the leading Regional Economic Community (REC) in Africa.

“Since the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 1975, we have achieved great milestones but a lot still remains to be done. This conference therefore offers us a great opportunity to interrogate the challenges and prospects of our integration process” Justice Edward Amoako Asante said.

He further observed that “by the quality of the participants ard having had the privilege of having a preview of the high quality of the presentations to be made here in the next three days, I am confident that this conference will be very fruitful and that the outcome of the conference will be useful in charting the course of the ECOWAS economic integration agenda in the years ahead”.


The ECOWAS Court of Justice

The ECOWAS Court of Justice is the judicial organ of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and is charged with resolving disputes related to the Community’s treaty, protocols and conventions. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has competence to hear individual complaints of alleged human rights violations. Founded on May 28, 1975, under the Treaty of Lagos for the purpose of promoting economic integration across the region, ECOWAS comprises 15 West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

The ECOWAS Court of Justice was created pursuant to the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States of 1993, and is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. In addition to providing advisory opinions on the meaning of Community law, the Court has jurisdiction to examine cases involving: an alleged failure by a Member State to comply with Community law, a dispute relating to the interpretation and application of Community acts, dispute between Community institutions and their officials, Community liability, human rights violations, and the legality of Community laws and policies. The Court’s decisions on human rights matters interpret the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, considered by Article 1(h) of Protocol A/SP1/12/01 to contain “constitutional principles shared by all Member States” as legally binding on ECOWAS Member States.

Source: starrfm.com.gh

Multiplier7:
Lol...Recession kee


My dear, is Ghana that should be praying for that. Pray your country don't enter recession before this Christmas. Nigeria is bigger than that.

Ehee...Have you read Ghanaweb recently? Your people are wailing that Nigerians have taken over there businesses o

GUTA is the most hit. Upon Nana Akuffo Ado's ( sorry if I make a mistake in spelling, the name sound weird) change of laws to suit them, yet they are still wailing.

Upon they told Nigerians doing business in your country not to deal on retail, that they should leave that for Ghanians but only deal on wholesale, yet they are still wailing.

What's going on? Please I don't want Nigeria to colonize Ghana again o. But it seems you guys are ungrateful. Ghanians doing business here are free, they move about freely here, nobody send them (even Kweku in my area frying doughnut) and they are free doing their businesses. Why can't Ghana do same?

Ka unu abukwu ogbenye buru amusu? ( Or are you people poor and also a witch at the same time?)

I heard your minister saying that Nigerians are hood at what they do. That's why

Stop typing nonsense. read news instead, how those ghanaweb comment amount to anything of seriousness.

if you have taken your time to study the minister statement and. not just the heading, you will realised it is more of diplomatic consultation rather than hyping Nigeria ego. Nigeria will be the market of industrialized Ghana. it is just as simple and this is because of population, nothing more . Ghana will not produce and consume it all alone . she must dump it somewhere, and Nigeria been over 200 million is a good option. nothing tie that statement with present economy impact but illiteracy will not allow to see.

Multiplier7:
Somebody with warp thinking calling another a warp thinking.

This thing is very simple. The Nigerian minister explained that no country is targeted. That the closure is to kill smuggling.

Now to tell you how daft you are, Nigeria is not sharing border with Ghana. Ghana shares borders with Togo and the rest. But one will wonder why Ghana is wailing more, even more than Benin Republic, Niger Republic and even Cameroon that shares immediate borders with Nigeria.

If Ghana wants to reciprocate, wow good idea if you ask me. But then there is a problem. The reciprocation advice is just coming from a local man like you who knew NOTHING about economics. I wish it was one of your TOP ministers that said this. Lol Then we would have continued from there.

But they KNOW BETTER. Closing a border just to punish one that does not share border with you and has a giant economy 20 times your economy is like shooting one on his own foot.

Your Minister knows better. He came out with the real truth. But because of nonsense pride you will not accept the truth. Go to Ghanaweb, study what your own people are saying and then you can come back and argue.

Don't make a case were there Is none. How funny, if you close Nigerian banks in Ghana who have employed millions of people, it will Crimple your economy. Don't even talk of closing Ghana border lol...Closing border for who, to Who?

What a nuisance, You write so much but yet very stupid and incorrect . How is 390 billion dollar equal to 20 times of 65 billion ? why am I even asking ? Your education system is warped, so unneccasry and stupid figure is allowed to be thrown abnormally?

Another stupid excuse from you, You uninteligently asking why Ghana is seeking for the open of the border since Ghana and Nigeria are not sharing the same boader nor is it target at Ghana ? very insane reasoning and abnormal thought, Ghana and Nigeria share the same ecowas state, Ghana is the largest importer of Nigeria product in west africa sub region , Ghana is the largest importer of Nigeria oil and gas also as well in the sub region, and you stupidly ask this insane question. what system of education produce you? very poor if you ask me.


The idiot even say, closing Nigeria bank in Ghana will cripple Ghana economy? I am not going to lecture you on that , i reserve it for my own self

And the last rebuttal, from you, turning the game personally to me as if you are nobody in Nigeria,Nigeria goverment in person don't even know about your existence talkless of your defence, look, if you want to make a productive of yourself and made yourself available to defence of Nigeria when attack by its neighbour, write a letter under your name and published it and let's see who really care about your existence. stupid idiot, telling a moniker is not a minister. so if I am, we you have the privilege to chart me?

Area4Area:
Reciprocate this good favour Nigeria made and let's see how Ghana would survive this one.
A country whose capital budget is 73.9% from foreign aid, the monthly allocation to Akwa Ibom or Rivers states can cover that.

We are daring you guys, our goods still enter Ghana and you don't have the balls to stop it, stop it and you all perish, your ministers know better anyway

You always amazed me with your warped thinking, The whole north eastern Nigeria is on benovelent of world food program and support ( Can you put that help in dollars). Do you know how much hunger will have ravaged Nigeria without external support program ?

Ghana economy budget is not on foreing aid, wherever you cook your lie( proof it by posting the 2019 budget, 2020 is not out yet) Have you read buhari budget and see what aid is projected to contribute?


Akwa ibom and river are simply impractical without oil. only lagos proves a challenge here. now that the oil price has slumped further, rivers and akwa ibom will count their lost including Nigeria as a whole ( Already Nigeria inflation had rise further. so let's see what we happen by the end of the year......


I have told you Ghana is not two eyes blind. action will be taken when it is the right time, as of now, diplomacy is the next practical option.

Area4Area:
Watch your fingers and thoughts before posting, I won't tolerate the insult next time

i insult more stupid people..... don't say rubbish if you can't tolerate insult. Nigeria is already insulting ecowas with its immature and archaic policy.


The least you can do is to report me , you have done it before.....

mfm04622:
I am Nigerian. I posted a picture of the first Toyota brand bus they assembled in Nigeria. On another answer.

There is no toyota assembly plant in Nigeria. what you posted was 2017 news and the development was halted . only Elizade can give a better explanation on that.

Area4Area:
Stop the asslicking, stop the diplomacy and let's feel your wrath.
You guys should be competing with the likes of Rivers, Kano, Ogun, Anambra, FCT or Abia states and not your mate Nigeria

Even Nigeria abike dabire had to asslick Ghana goverment when shops are been locked. Nigeria minister of trade too had to fly to Ghana to beg. if diplomacy is asskicking in Nigeria education' system then so be it. no time to lecture you on that.

Area4Area:
You'd hear the full report by early next year, I only pray this closure continues.
Continue reeling figures while your ministers are busy asslicking their Nigerian counterparts.

Imagine Benin republic's GDP is 20% aided by smuggling into Nigeria, that of Ghana would be close to 10% of your GDP.
We've clipped your wings already and that's why kasepreko is already losing $1 million monthly because of the closure.

Your growth rate will be known by early next year when the Bank of Ghana releases the true economic data for the 4th quarter of 2019

You are idiot permit to say that.... How can Nigeria aided Ghana GDP with 10 percent. Is that the way they throw figures around in Nigeria economy dialogue without factoring numbers and supporting evidence?

You want Ghana economy to be Nigeria dependable, but unfortunately, it is not, Ghana crucial commodity ( Gold , cocoa and oil) are not exported within ecowas , they are traded within Europe and Asia. this are the commodity that can have negative effect on Ghana economy if not exported. Ghana is not benin republic neither is it Niger. it even export more than Nigeria per head.

Already, the next year growth rate had been known, it is going to grow by 5.7 percent ( IMF projected) and that will make Ghana the second fastest growing economy in africa just behind Senegal and ivory coast . . you need to stop hating and read more breaking news.

You stupidly don't know Kaseperoko is a multi million company, Togo, ivory coast and Senegal can make up the lost. the manager already indicate.

Area4Area:
What is Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, and Niger waiting for, Nigerians want you guys to reciprocate and not ranting online

I have told you reciprocation is the simple thing, it will hit you when not expected. just let the border remain close, after all diplomacy measure have been exhausted.....

Area4Area:
We've gone through one recently and survived without your help, face your ministers and your economy that is about to go into recession because of your over reliance on the 201 million Nigerian market

How is Ghana economy about to go into reccession? are you normal? even in 2016 which is deem as worst year, the economy become very resilient, talk less of now when the economy is growing by 7 percent. Nigeria can't buy Ghana crucial commodity, it is too poor for that...

I know moderator will not pushed this BEAUTIFUL thread into front page....lol.....

Seun osewa, your moderator are using your platform to promote hatred between ecowas citizens and you are there watching.....

You better act fast before some aggrieved member report this platform to international media by writing against you and your platform before it is too late . only BBC news channel alone can do more than damage to your reputation. your platform should encourage unity not division....

Area4Area:
We all agree that Ghana is the Dubai and Hong Kong of Africa but can you give us two or three reasons why your ministers are going about begging and lamenting over the closure?

It is simply a diplomatic measure not to cause additional suffering for both nation but in the spirit of diplomacy, there is what is called reciprocation and some Ghanaians are already pushing for it.. Ghana or even benin can easily retaliate, it is so simple . benin/ Togo can simply imposed a ban on goods being exported from Nigeria by air . Ghana may also close down Nigerian banks and other businesses operating within. it is just so simple to reciprocate. Ghana is not just interested to be blind foolishly.....

Nigeria is so fortunate that Ghana is not under a conservative leader like Jerry rawlings who is also like buhari in thinking..... Only obasonjo knows better during the military regime. Any historian should learn what went wrong between the two nation then...

pacretus:
are you craazy. Ghana exports coconut to Nigeria. Citation needed.

I love the way you portray GH, but Seperate lies from facts so you won t appear st upid.

You are mad.... why dont you do a proper research before you quote me. Ghana behind Tanzania are the largest producer of coconut in africa ......

Oshigun:
Only mumu like you will seek to bring age discrimination against someone who has conquered the robotic world at 26. Are you listening to yourself to know how dumb you sound? Where was he at the age of those girls to now be dominant over Professors and industry giants who are 60 years old and above with 3 decades and more of experience in robotics?

As for your claim Nigeria is poor, I ask you to tell me who we are poor in comparison to? Ghanaians? You need to look around you. Nigeria definitely has issues but we are not your mates anywhere you encounter us in the world, in any field of endeavour, be it UK, USA, Germany or the African continent as a whole.

This is beefing and uneducated approach to read your flaws .... once you have what it takes to beat Ghana in any human endeavour apart from population quote me... till then....

Oshigun:
Dullard. It is so 'common' for every African and yet Howard itself is in awe and adjudged it a record in its history? Musical talent too is common ba when Nigerians rule the roost by far for male and female talent originating from Africa? Envy of Nigerians will not kill you bad belle Ghanaians. As for that school-standard Robotic award you pointed to, come back and talk when Ghana produces the sort of talent below at the end that matters. I.e the deliverance of results and not research endeavour/potential end that may go nowhere and often goes nowhere.



https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/10/10/26-year-old-nigerian-silas-adekunle-is-worlds-highest-paid-robotics-engineer/

How myopic is this thought ((((( You saw a pool of youg girls winning 2019 robotic competition, you still open up a mouth wirh a 26 years old boy.


Anyway Ghana is having A NASA repressentive on the field of robot ashittey trebi. just came up with any Nigerians record with such name , then let's have a clue. i am not interested in digging or dick measurement. I am just here to let you know you are from a poor country

Oshigun:
Simplistic analysis based on nothing but a partisan take on issues. Economics and commerce 101, for the educated, means Nigeria is by far the best home of investment for FDI (foreign direct investment) if she does not have serious challenges profit-seeking businesses are put off by. First is Power supply. Then issues like security and transport will influence thinking too. These are the sort of issues obliterating Nigeria's vast advantages over others.

With her huge market, population and skilled human resources you guys can never match Nigeria if she was operating optimally. We would be to Africa what the USA is to North America. You think many of the companies shunning Nigeria don't do it with heavy hearts?

They know Nigeria is the much better and , by far, more profitable destination for ROI (return on investment) if the nation was not bedevilled with problems effective leadership can resolve. Naturally, business are driven by the concept of making profit so they therefore take decisions of the head and not the heart. This is where Ghana profits. Nigeria's problems are surmountable and a lot more can be achieved , growth-wise, if we sort ourselves out whereas Ghana has limitations that means you are already operating at near optimal and it cannot get much better for you.

work on your challenges , You don't need to have a knolwedge in advance economics to know Nigeria edge Ghana in market index ( The population of course speak for itself) market potential for business in Nigeria slightly edges out Ghana’s market but where Ghana does not have in market size, Ghana makes up for in long-term indicators. Better governance, higher social development, and business ease are segments in which Ghana significantly outperforms Nigeria. This is my drift , Nigeria is yet to get there.. ..

When you also look at ithe infrastructure that enables businesses to produce goods and the ease of moving these goods . A weighted average of the IIAG’s Infrastructure score and World Bank’s Logistics Performace Index gives Ghana a edge ahead Nigeria

Ghana gets the slight edge over Nigeria when graded over the entire infrastructural development....

Area4Area:
You didn't touch or maybe you didn't understand, anyway why are Ghanaian ministers crying and lamenting since the closure since Ghana is not as affected as Nigeria, why is our officials not crying if we are to be more affected than Ghana from your assertion?

what did I not touch ? You ask a childish question and I enlight you. any problem about that. You don't invest solenly into an economy simply because of its size, if not Ghana will not be taking in high foreing direct investment. Ghana as of 2018 received more FDI than Nigeria . south africa , a nation slightly a quater of Nigeria received more FDI than Nigeria despite its poor economy growth.

Govermance is the main pillar, work on your poor governance

Oshigun:
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Please shut it. What pride or arrogance? But for myopic leadership, Nigerians are not your mates. Can you or any other group of Africans do what is revealed below? Ghana, for the West, is the perfect African nation because it is full of docile, gullible and easily manipulated Africans who worship white skin - the sort 'obroni' (white man) has always preferred since the days of slave trade.

Of course Ghana is a Nation white folks would praise because it if full of their own 'sort' of black people/African. Match that with Nigeria's own self-created problems (inadequate power supply, insecurity, poor transport infrastructure) and it soon becomes clears issue are about Nigeria squandering her vast natural endowment (human and material) and not Ghana possessing any special talent to attract Toyota, Google et al ahead of Nigeria. We can deal with our own problems but you will not be able to neutralise how Nigeria are much more naturally talented than you to the extent that you will be nowhere near us once we begin to get political leadership right.


https://urbanintellectuals.com/black-girl-magic-43-nigerian-graduates-break-records-howard-university/

Lol.. what a flimsy achievement? and spare me your doom


When Ghanaian are winning world robbotic competition which include America,, Japan , China and South Korea. you are showing me what is common for every African student to achieved in American colledge

Area4Area:
Assuming every Ghanaian earns $500 per month and every Nigerian earns $450 per month in a population of 28million to 201million, tell us which collective purchasing power is greater here.
If every Nigerian and Ghanaian is to buy a pair of flip flop and a company is to supply it but to supply just one country, pray tell which country any company chosen to supply would choose first.

I have flawed this your baseless analogy earlier before...... investing in an economy are based on many factors ( long time planing or short time planning) for a key...


In the short run of a buisness, Nigeria has the market edge therefore the investors will equip its money but on a long time of a deal , Ghana fares better in long-term pillars such as business ease, social development, and most especially in good governance cus this are what makes buisness last longer ( reasons Toyota is jumping a bigger market like Nigeria to establish in Ghana. it is about long time planning and effect .

Nigeria only make sense if you want to recover your capital quick but to enjoy your investment for the future, then Ghana edge highly. some investors are even wise, they start in Nigeria, makes their money and relocate to Ghana for a better enviroment

Area4Area:
Your government officials have been crying since

if diplomacy is what you called crying, then expect more of it...cus That is what is Ghana using to achieved its major development, that is how she was able to sugar talk africa continent to host the free africa trade continent secretariat, that is how she was able to convince Toyota and Volkswagen to open up in her base, that is how she convinced Google to open A1 laboratory ( The only Google research center in africa) in Accra.


Good Governance is about diplomacy not unneccasry pride or arrogance.

Austine1212:
South Africa does not need nigeria. The only thing we get from you is oil,, which we can get from Angola

We developed your telecommunications, PayTv, electricity, oil refinery sector. SOUTH AFRICAN companies employ millions of nigeriana.

Nigeria is underdeveloped, thats why they flock to south africa in their hundreds of thousanda

That is what i keep telling this guys...who ever lie to them that Nigeria is a rich country?.... ( A notorious population of 200 million with a claimed GDP of 390 billion dollar
making less than 55 billion dollar revenue) By all metrics, it will be a poor country by norminal standard and will automatically owns the largest poor citizens per head in the world . The revenue to GDP is just dammed small. How can such a goverment financed a sustainable development without borrowing heavily or rely on external donor for self relief....

Thegoodone13:
Your analysis is poor. You are telling me that a country with over 200m in population should depends on 150m population. And who tells you that South African is part of ECOWAS?. You said Nigeria is poor. Which county is Richer than Nigeria among the ECOWAS country? We don't need them .They are the one need us.

You show up a poor understanding of basic economics .... A 200 million population will need a much more bigger population to offload its marke if it fully become an industrialized state cus a Labour force in that sector will produce more than what 200 million can consume... You uninteligently don't know south Africa as a member of african continent is the highest investor in ecowas sub region not Nigeria with its 390 billion GDP and 200 million poor population and South Africa is like 3000 kilometre away..... south africa is not a member of ecowas but she is taking more income back home than Nigeria with its giant population, that is my drift.

In terms of wealth, GDP per capital confirm cape Verde and Ghana are slightly richer than Nigeria. now you have learn some lesson....

Mariory:
Stop disgracing yourself. GDP(PPP) of the whole of ECOWAS excluding Nigeria and including your stinking Ghana is much less than that of Nigeria(PPP). Who are you going to sell to if not Nigerians?

I challenge you to engage your 2 brain and cells dispute this.

stubborn olodo....

drakeli:
GDP per capital is by dividing a country's gross domestic product gdp by its total population. The population of Ghana is way too small compared to Nigeria hence a little difference between their per capital. Compared to Nigeria, both Ghana’s gdp and population are smaller. Ghana having a slight higher per capital does not make the country as an entity a bigger economy or a country with a bigger purchasing power.

No one is taking about the size of GDP here but the size of cash averagely available to individual of each citizens and what an average individual can buy