Guinea opts out of planned ECOWAS single currency

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  • Lartey 1 week ago

    Ghana must not try .Ecowas using one currency. Nigeria will destroy the banking system with their radical corruption.

  • Umolu 1 week ago

    But Nigeria owns most of the banks in the West Africa subregion including Ghana and the economies are doing fine.

  • Asiedu Groundnut 1 week ago

    That's because they're operating in the local currencies of the said countries. Get your facts right, Nigeria does not own most of banks in West Africa, a little education and research will keep you well informed. Do you know ...
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  • Why respond to that arrogant Zoogerian 1 week ago

    One currency will be good provided all ECOWAS countries adopt it and make sure it's security is strong and counterfeit proof. They should study the Australian dollar how to make it counterfeit proof.

  • AKABENEZER 1 week ago

    Nigeria does NOT own Bank of Ghana, which sets the tone or rules over all the banks in Ghana. A bank from Nigeria can not operate without the leadership of BoG.

  • AKABENEZER 1 week ago

    We cannot become a charity basket for countries with tribal/religious intolerance and corrupt leadership not willing to fix their country. The bad apples from shitty countries will travel to good countries to mess it up. Sta ...
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  • Kwaku 1 week ago

    Akabenrzer, you are ignorant. Go read and research.

  • God will elevate Nigeria 1 week ago

    I will be making a petition to the Federal republic of Nigeria to halt this move because our economic output should serve us alone and not be used to service countries that can not even match some of our states how much more ...
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  • Osabarima 1 week ago

    A country which is a "giant" does not need to announce itself. In Ghana, we do not tie greatness to SIZE and QUANTITY, but SECURITY and QUALITY. In Ghana we say that a real hunter is the one having a game verifiably available ...
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  • AKABENEZER 1 week ago

    Good, cos Ghana needs to get away from the certified nation destroyers. Stop talking about money and talk about per capita income (money vs population)

  • Kb 1 week ago

    Nigeria is one of the poorest in Africa. A few rich people , less middle class and majority absolute poverty. Go and do your research.
    Ghana doesn't need single currency. Our currency is way stronger and we have our own str ...
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  • Osabarima 1 week ago

    You Nigerians have bigger landmass and population but be mindful that it does not make Nigeria " bigger" or "better" in everything in REAL TERMS. As a matter of FACT the population of Nigerians living below poverty line in Ni ...
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  • Great one 1 week ago

    @osabarima perhaps you should Google African countries GDP PPP and feast your eyes, you'll understand why despite all the negative you point to, Nigeria is still ahead of Ghana

    Imagine if these terrorists are eliminated, ...
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  • KOKONTEWURA 1 week ago

    It's like what he said went completely over your head. Nigeria has the highest number of people living in extreme poverty IN THE WORLD. You have a bigger total GDP, because you have a way bigger population than Ghana. Ghana h ...
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  • Great one 1 week ago

    Ghana has no millionaire that can raise 100 million dollars , mention the person

    What is this obsession of Ghanaians with population of Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan have bigger populations than Nigeria yet Nigeria has ...
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  • Ethics 1 week ago

    Which economies are doing fine? Nigerian Economy?

  • Great one 1 week ago

    Remove 4 zeros from Naira today like happened in Ghana and tell me, what can Ghs 1 aka 10,000 cedis buy for you in Ghana and let me tell you what 10,000 naira can buy

    That's how you verify

  • God will elevate Nigeria 1 week ago

    @foolish Lartey how much will tiny Ghana economy contribute to the strengthening of the currency? I blame Nigeria for this initiative because most West African economies is not even close to what Lagos will bring to table. Ye ...
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  • When will Nigerians commonsense 1 week ago

    My village GDP is even larger than that of Lagos.

  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 1 week ago

    Not only that Nigerians will make the value of the Eco useless Nigerians will print billions of fake Eco and dumps into the system
    We all know that Nigerians are criminals

  • Please save me my fellow Ghanaians,i'm a 28 years old Ghanaian lady that was scammed by some Nigerians, i'm currently serving a 2 years jail term in a Nigerian prison,i can be reached on WhatsApp via +2348140725576 to explain what happened 1 week ago

    it all started few years ago when i received a Facebook message that a travel agency in Lagos Nigeria was recruiting Ghanaians and Nigerians for jobs in Canada, i sold everything i had and borrowed money from a lot of people ...
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  • L€ARN A MONEY-MAKING SKILL THAT GUARANTEES DAILY CASH FLOW FOR YOU- LEARN HOW 1 week ago

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  • Obuo 1 week ago

    Ghana should opt out too. Not sure this is well thought through

  • Asiedu Groundnut 1 week ago

    France is working through the corrupt Nigerian government to capture the useless Ecowas through this scheme. Ecowas money to be printed in a foreign country? Such clueless stupidity

  • Great one 1 week ago

    Why should Nigerian students in Ghana be paying school fees in dollars, this is shameful and unfortunate so this new currency will address such things and a Ghanaian going to Nigeria to buy goods does not need to change curre ...
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  • Is this news worth reporting 1 week ago

    How is the Guinean franc going to do vis a vis the ECO? Totally useless.

  • Test2 1 week ago

    WHAT IS THE USE OF THE ECOWAS
    THEIR YOUTH ARE STILL STRUGGLING NO MEANINGFUL JOBS OKADA AND PRAGA FOR COLLECTING GARBAGE IN RICH PEOPLE AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS MANSIONS WILL BE WAITING FOR GRADUATES IN THESE.CORRUPT WES ...
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  • KO 1 week ago

    They shall not cleave one to another. Thank you.

  • Osabarima 1 week ago

    As usual, colonial hands are at work using weak- minded African leaders who lack the sense of using the wisdom history has taught us to guide and protect Africa's INTEREST. If Nigeria, the local colonial agent is in it, let ...
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  • Jayjay 1 week ago

    It's unimaginable how you're able to write. You're so lazy and unable to study to understand what's in common currency. Since you're lazy, I won't even try to educate you.

    Sorry about your laziness. Go and Google and read ...
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  • Kubi 1 week ago

    Guinea is a vessel state for France. Guinea's president wife is a French spy and the president is French puppet.
    We will not allow him to thawt the ECO agenda, because a single currency is the surest bet for west African eco ...
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  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 1 week ago

    France thought that Africans are stupid to be used for the second time is absolutely nonsense
    Colonial currency will no longer be used in Africa
    Let Africa leaders champion their own currency and monetary p ...
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  • No hope in Africa 1 week ago

    And eco was postponed

  • Nelly 1 week ago

    So sad, how Ghanaians hate Nigeria without any reason, Nigeria is not only country in the ECOWAS but they just pick on Nigeria as if they fought war before, there is no different between Ghanaians and South Africa, Infact Nig ...
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  • Are you retarded 1 week ago

    Who wants and armed robber, ritual killer, a kidnapper and a scammer in his house or neighborhood? Nigerian criminality is well known globally. You brought scamming into the World, and the lazy Ghanaian youth pick up the bad ...
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  • James Kofi 1 week ago

    Nigerians will flood Ghana with counterfeit Eco to destroy our economy.

  • Great one 1 week ago

    @james Kofi, when I visited Ghana many years ago, the ADB at Hollywood Madina issued fake currency to me, I only found out when I went to make payment at the ecobank still in Madina, until then, I never knew that a bank could ...
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  • Umolu 1 week ago

    What is this noise all about?
    Is the Lagos State economy alone not bigger than the Ghana economy?

  • Bitter truth 1 week ago

    @Umolu a typical senseless zoo Nigerian criminal..no wonder the zoo Nigeria is totally useless..Nigeria has a bigger economy because of huge criminal population and nothing else..for example India has a higher GDP than Canada ...
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  • Bitter truth 1 week ago

    Ghana has to opt out this useless Ecowas currency..anything that involves zoo Nigerians will become a waste of time..because their naira is useless, they want to use This ECO currency as a cover up for their failures.. France ...
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  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 1 week ago

    Technically the French government supposed to withdraw the CFA and pay the all CFA holders in Euro but France refused to fo that now hijacked west African eco that will not work
    21st century to accept another co ...
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  • COD 1 week ago

    Is Guinea`s individualistic move influenced by France to derail such a powerful economic enterprise?