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‘Nigeria must go’ – Onofowokan reveals Nigerians Ghana is asking to leave
A former Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Demola Onofowokan, has explained the ongoing call for Nigerians to leave Ghana.
In recent days Ghanaians have been protesting, asking Nigerians to leave their country.
Onofowokan believes that the call is not for Nigerians as a whole but focuses on the tertiary traders and those who are undesirable to their system and economy.
He added that the call did not start with what is going on now but has been brewing for years and blamed the Tinubu administration’s failure to appoint ambassadors for the crisis.
“There’s a lot to this. The call for Nigerians to leave Ghana is not actually for Nigerians as a whole to leave Ghana.
“I think the focus is on the tertiary traders and people whom I would describe as probably undesirable to their system, to their economy,” he said in an interview on Arise News.
“This has been brewing for years. Yes, we are Ghana’s biggest trading partner in Africa. 60% of ECOWAS trade exchange resides in Nigeria, 40% probably in Lagos.
“We have a very cordial relationship with Ghana, I bet, with some rivalry, especially in sports, but we have more in common than just trading.
“Before independence, we shared the same currency. We had the same airline, and our first set of soldiers, along with Ghanaians who are trained in Teshie.
“Came 1969 during Kofi Busia, Ghana was probably overwhelmed when they said, Nigerians must go. A lot of Nigerians returned, but still a lot of Nigerians remained in Ghana because I saw them there while I served there. They never left that country.
“The current situation of asking Nigerians to leave their country is very economical. Ghana’s economy is struggling, trying to come up the way it was before, but the trade, especially tertiary trade, has been dominated by Nigerians.
“I experienced this when I was there. Many times I had to step up to make sure that this didn’t happen.
“It also has to do with our level of representation. I think if we had an ambassador or High Commissioner on the ground, it probably won’t get to this, because a high commissioner or an ambassador would have made contacts at the highest level, starting from ministerial, like I did, up to the highest level.”
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Man in shock after lady he lodged with in a hotel in Abuja flees with his car and other valuables
A Nigerian man is currently in shock after a young lady identified as Precious Chinyere , whom he took to a hotel in the Asokoro area in the FCT for a romantic getaway allegedly fled with his car and other personal belongings on Thursday, February 5,
The distraught man and Precious had visited the hotel and opted for a short time stay. Things took a different in the evening when the man noticed Precious had left the hotel room without notifying him and took along with her some of his personal belongings including phones and laptop and also his car.
The victim immediately reported the incident to the police.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the FCT police command, SP Josephine Adeh, told LIB that the matter is currently being investigated and that efforts are being made to apprehend the suspect.
The United States Mission in Nigeria has condemned the k!lling of more than 200 civilians in recent attacks on communities in Kwara State.
Recall that terrorists launched de@dly attacks on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday night, k!lling unsuspecting citizens.
It was gathered that the gunmen invaded the villages, opened fire on residents and burned homes.
According to reports, the de@th toll from the unfortunate incident hit 200 on Thursday night.
Reacting, the US Mission Nigeria condemned the k!lling via a post on its official X handle.
The post reads, “The United States condemns the horrific attack in Kwara state in Nigeria, which claimed the lives of more than 160 people, with the de@th toll still unconfirmed and many still unaccounted for.
“We express our deepest condolences to the families of those affected by this senseless violence.
“We welcome President Tinubu’s order to deploy security forces to protect villages in the area and his directive to federal and state officials to provide aid to the community and bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice.”
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“I’ll never settle for a barber, yahoo boy or a poor man” — nail tech’s list of men she says she can’t marry sparks reactions online
A Nigerian nail technician has set social media talking after openly listing the kind of men she says she can never settle for.
In a now-viral post, she stated clearly that she refuses to “settle for less” and went on to mention professions and traits she considers a no-go area.
According to her, she can never settle for a barber, an aza man, a yahoo boy, a mechanic, an actor, a laundry man, a hype man, or a plumber. She also added that she wouldn’t marry a man with a high body count or a poor man.
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