Tag Archives: NIGERIA

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene looks at the fraught relationship between Ghana and Nigeria, which underlies the current tensions over the closure of some Nigerian-owned shops in Ghana. We see them as too loud, and abrasive and chaotic and we believe they think …

NIGERIA – Dubai-bound passenger with 2,886 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card carefully concealed in a noodles has been intercepted by operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) command and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).   The Kano passenger identified …

President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr. Joseph Obeng has raised concerns on the need for government to be circumspect with the proposed Friendship Act with Nigeria so Ghanaians are not disadvantaged. The GUTA boss is however, questioning the rationale behind Ghana relaxing its trade laws to …

The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabialamila, is at the head of high powered Nigerian delegation in the country for a two-day visit to the Parliament of Ghana. He was met on arrival by his Ghanaian counterpart, Prof. Aaron Michael Oquaye. The two are expected …

Nigeria has criticised what it calls the “incessant harassment of its citizens in Ghana and the progressive acts of hostility towards the country by Ghanaian authorities”. The statement from Information Minister Lai Mohammed says Nigerians in Ghana are “being made… objects of ridicule”. Report He lists a number of issues …

A couple of suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) reportedly clashed with some Policemen on Saturday morning, August 22, at Idiroko road in Ogun State. It was gathered that some Policemen had tried to stop the young men who were driving Benz at a checkpoint but the men ignored them and …

The army officers that seized control in Mali have announced that land and air borders will be reopened on Friday. The borders were closed after a coup this week. The coup leaders have also said they are in contact with opposition groups about starting the process of appointing a transitional …

A Nigerian oil mogul and the Chief Executive Officer of Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited, Abdulrahman Bashir, has been sentenced to 10 months imprisonment in the United Kingdom. In February, Justice Butcher of England and Wales High Court ruled that Mr Bashir be imprisoned for breaching multiple orders of the …

Over a hundred Nigerian traders in Ghana on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, massed up at the Nigerian High Commission in Accra over the closure of their shops. Shops of foreigners operating in the retail sector in Ghana had been closed down by the Presidential Committee on Retail Trade under the …

Ghana Union of Traders Association locks shops of Nigerians engaged in retail business Nigeria is to take “urgent steps” following a viral video showing the forced closure of shops belonging to Nigerian traders in Ghana. It comes just months after a major diplomatic row in which a building in the …