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Should Ghana Apologize And Pay Reparation To Nigeria?

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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Wisdom, in every country there are laws that foreigners who want to reside there must comply with. That was the essence of the ACO. I believe you are very happy about the way illegal aliens are destroying the environment in G ...
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  • Princess 10 years ago

    Why do people come to this forum writing rubbish? Did it also occur to you the ill treatment charged on Ghanaians by Nigerians back in the 80's? Stop disturbing us with garbage, we have more important issues to worry about in ...
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  • Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

    Thanks, besides nigerians living in Ghana at the time of the aliens compliance order were suckers of our dear country. Their living in droves after Prime Minister Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia gave them the option to register as alie ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    I seriously believe this ignorant person writing this rubbish is a Nigerian if not he will not overlook what Nigerians did to Ghanaian's two times more than what Ghana did to Nigerians with regard to ACO.
    How dump can you be ...
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  • Jingler 10 years ago

    Well said and I wish you could write more to expose the heinous crimes and atrocities being perpetuated in Ghana.A once most peaceful country in Africa. ACO has to be enforced one more time to rid / clean our country of these ...
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  • KK 10 years ago

    In their hurry to leave, they didn't have time to properly sell their businesses at the right prices. Some of them never got buyers and just left these businesses and their immovable properties. Individual Ghanaians took adva ...
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  • Mahmoud 10 years ago

    Thank you very much Mr. KK you have said it all. The so-called Tony Wisdom misrepresented all the facts mentioned in his article just to serve the point he wants to make. He must be poorly educated and unreasonable person t ...
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  • LARYEAH 10 years ago

    THE WRITER IS A FOOL WITH WITH STUPID RAWLINGS BRAIN.

  • TA USA 10 years ago

    Wisdom Tony, Shehu Shagari never drove Ghanaians from Nigeria but Buhari/Idiagbon did. To be candid with you I don't see the rational behind your article. Your article has no bearings to any National Current Affairs or any pr ...
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  • Nana Peace 10 years ago

    Neither you, is intelligent. To justify the past (nigerians) based on the present (modern nigerians) is an indication that you are still searching for what would have prompted Busia to implement that act. For you to attribute ...
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  • Menua Kwadwo 10 years ago

    Do you even know Nigeria had her own ACO on two occasions and a lot of Ghanaians lost their lives at the Badagri border crossing? Are you going to campaign for reparations from Nigeria in this case as well?
    Jeees, I do not k ...
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  • GHANA-BOY 10 years ago

    We should not bother this IDIOT who has nothing good to offer Ghana. He is just displaying his ignorance.

  • KK 10 years ago

    In their hurry to leave, they didn't have time to properly sell their businesses at the right prices. Some of them never got buyers and just left these businesses and their immovable properties. Individual Ghanaians took adva ...
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  • tonywisdom1@gmail.com 10 years ago

    Thank you for saying the TRUTH and I do hope that some ignorant Ghanaians would learn the truth that Busia'a ACO was a very wicked and terrible 'black on black discriminative' policy that ever happen in mama Africa.
    The b ...
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  • Moses 10 years ago

    Hei, Ofui; can you go and live in any Western country or any reasonably organized African country without proper legal documentation? Didn't Nigeria deport Ghanaians in the early eighties, and do you know how many Ghanaians l ...
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  • Foruwaa 10 years ago

    This is not a Ghanaian, he is Nigerian!

  • JOEBOY 10 years ago

    HOW DID THIS "SHIT" GET PUBLISHED? I CALL ON THE EDITOR(S) OF GHANAWEB TO RESIGN.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Ghana should not pay anything to Nigerians affected by the ACO. As you say they retaliaded in kind in 1984. Should Nigeria aslo pay compensation to those Ghanains who were affected? I guess not. For the Germany and the Jews t ...
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  • ALUGU 10 years ago

    I think all the preceding comments have answered this idot of Tony Fool.
    I hope no one will comment further after reading my last comment. There is a lot to say but let's just ignore him. He is probably a Nigerian.

  • June 10 years ago

    Of course he's anago. What right minded Ghanaian would post such trash?

  • Paul 10 years ago

    You are right Kofi,The whole 160 million population of 9ja will forge document and come for the compensation.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    To the extent that only obronis,indians & Lebanese were left unaffected by the order,i say we owe an apology to Nigerians but not reparations.
    Proverbs 14:21 He who despises his neighbour is a sinner,but happy is he who is ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Ghanaians in Nigeria were not Armed-Robbers but most of your people come to Ghana to indulge in this barbaric emprise and we are not going to tolerate that anymore.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Gosh,i'm extremely exasperated for you to claim i'm not Ghanaian just bcoz of my views.Don't be so cynical to think every Ghanaian is programmed to love/hate people purely by thier place of origin.

  • tonywisdom1@gmail.com 10 years ago

    Thanks for your liberal and common sense views about the above topic. As a pan-Africanist, I was so elated and happy that the good work, efforts and brilliant ideas of African Unity by Dr. Kwameh Nkrumah of the blessed memo ...
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  • MOHAMMED IDDI AMIN DADA 10 years ago

    MASTER,YOU ARE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO CAUSE UNESSARY CONFUTIONS.
    WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING THE EUROPEANS AND THE AMERICANS AND THE ARABS TO PAY AFRICAN WHAT THEY DID TO US?
    WHY WAKE THE DEAD.?WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GAIN FROM THIS.
    I ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Hmm!

  • tonywisdom1@gmail.com 10 years ago

    Yes, yes, yes TRULY WISDOM thank some RUBBISH TRASH called POEMS! Hmmm!

  • LARYEAH 10 years ago

    YOU ARE IMBECILE WITH A PEA-BRAIN. TROKOSI FOOL!

  • HolyGhost 10 years ago

    Busia's ACO was wrong but the nigerians have done the samething not once but twice, so therefore we do not owe them apology.

  • ghana must go 10 years ago

    wisdom i dont think u have heard about "ghana must go era" have u? ghanaians were in similar way or worse treated by nigerians. so shd the compensate ghana?

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Don't you really have smthg to write home about? What is the purpose of this article ? Didn't Nigeria do the same to Ghanaians and other West African nationals? Theirs was seen as the worst and you are talking about compensat ...
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  • Agbedefu 10 years ago

    If you were either among those affected by Nigeria's "Ghana Must Go"
    both in 1983 and 1985 or saw how Ghanaians suffered (many died) you'll not throw this rubbish here as an article to read. If Nigeria saw anything bad in wh ...
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  • Agbedefu 10 years ago

    Correction: The name should read Wisdom not Wilson

  • Otutey 10 years ago

    Hi Tony your analysis was wrong, you have reminded me the brutality of what Ghanaians went through our sister Nigerians, I remember the 1983 atrocity and the brutality that Ghanaians went through the Nigerians. Some of them w ...
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  • Paul 10 years ago

    Hey wisdom nigerians are not liked any where they do,they are known to do illicit business to survive any where they go,they are really messing up in Ghana, acquiring Ghanaian passport and travel with the name of Ghana when t ...
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  • Peter 10 years ago

    The writer of this story is very very stupid indeed.Do u know what Nigerians did to Ghanaians in Nigeria?Make proper investigation b4 writing this selfish article.I dont think u are a proper Ghanaian.

  • Foruwaa 10 years ago

    He is not a Ghanaian! The style of written English says he is Nigerian.

  • Kofi Twentoh 10 years ago

    Sometimes I can not imagine why some people write about subjects which are so painful and touchy with impunity. What does this writer want to tell Ghanaians at all since Nigerian has retaliated in a manner which is even worse ...
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  • Ozoro 10 years ago

    I would say both Ghana and Nigeria need each other and in furtherance of that we should all drop the very unneccessary antagonism. In the spirit of good neighbourliness let us continue in the new found spirit of socio economi ...
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  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    If you were old enough to see how Ghana was at the time,and what the Nigerians were up to you wouldn`t be here saying this today.
    The ACO was the best thing that ever happened to Ghana and all thanks goes to Dr.Busia.
    First ...
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  • Mr Green. 10 years ago

    What do you have to say about the wrong doing by the Europeans for their barbatic act to the Africans? We are still not really free but no one is working seriously on that.The Europeans should pay huge amount to apologize for ...
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  • James B. Otafregya 10 years ago

    Have you forgotten that Nigeria literally retaliated the ACO in the 80's? I had to run for mylife in Ogbomosho.

    So after retaliating what happened in the early 70, do you expect Ghana to compensate them?

    If so, I would ...
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  • Rasta 10 years ago

    It isn,t a matter of the poster of this article being a Ghanaian or a Nigerian.If he claims to be a true pan-Africanist,which am happy for him,then he should first campaign for compensation of Blacks by those uncircumcised eu ...
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  • James B. Otafregya 10 years ago

    You don't even know what and whom you are writing about yet you're distuibing our ears and waste precious web space!

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    He meant "Peter Tosh" NOT (Touch).

  • JH-New York City 10 years ago

    It's silly to suggest payment of reparations.The buttom line is the electorate should learn a lesson not to vote for a prof again.

  • JH-New York City 10 years ago

    Prof Kofi Abrefa Busia and Prof Atta Mill are the most horrible of all the presidents Ghana had,aside the military Juntas. Obviously,asking aliens to leave the country was not and is not the right way to create jobs The hig ...
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  • STEVE 10 years ago

    This writer is either sick or a NIgerian using the identity of GHanaian to write this ill-words about Ghana. Let me tell this idiot that the whole world hate Nigerians from A - Z , you know why? They are interested in either ...
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  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    Top Ashanti Chief Cited In Multiple Visa Fraud Of Over CANADIAN $600,000 ...Part (1) Of Many To Come
    By A ModernGhana Espionage Report
    19 February 2013

    Reliable information chanced upon by your incontrovertible ModernGha ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    Nigerians will have to leave Ghana alone and go to repair their rotten Nigeria.

  • Poor mam 10 years ago

    You don't know what you are saying,may be you are not a full blood Ghanaian,and you have come to Ghana to write big english and enjoy our blood.Ask about exodus 1and2 for Ghanaians,those days my dont provoke.

  • Kweku Duah 10 years ago

    what kind of pan Africanist are you?. The Nigerians did the same to Ghanaians in 1982-1983 era.Should the Nigeria govt also be made to pay to the Ghanaians who were beaten , robbed, and masacred? A lot of Ghana lost their liv ...
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  • Kwasi Miezan, Western Region 10 years ago

    Though it was an unfortunate action by an ignorant Prime Minister, I don't believe Ghana owes Nigeria anything because they also retaliated.

  • WAS A RETALIATION 10 years ago

    This writer must be young to understand what took place in 1982/83 time frame when Shagari sent Ghanaians packing in Nigeria. Does he realize the number of Ghanaians who lost their lives? The repercussions from the 1969 ACO w ...
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  • ODK 10 years ago

    What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Is Nigeria going to pay restitution? Many Ghanaians lost lives and property during the Ghana Must Go order. The writer should have been fair when writing.
    Please, revis ...
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  • Manzy 10 years ago

    Apologize, i think you are sick in the head, bullshit nigerian who wants them here in Ghana. These criminals? I think they should be sacked again, every nigerian's destination is now Ghana the GIS should refuse them entry int ...
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  • Mohammed Ibrahim 10 years ago

    Nigeria Should also Apologise to Ghana for Deporting,Killing, Raping Ghanaian Girls,Traficking Ghanaian Girls for Prostitutions,For committing Arm Robberies in Ghana.

  • FANTE MAN FROM CAPE COAST 10 years ago

    The Ewe Evil List Updated!!!!!!

    As of year 2013 when science and technology have taken the centre stage in the affairs of mankind, the only technology Ewes have been able to design is to make human beings vanish to the cem ...
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  • Obibini 10 years ago

    You are not a fante man, neither are you proper Ghanaian. I'm not fante or ewe but I wont allow you to create divisions among them. Stop this nonsense cause fantes and ewes are more matured, civilized and clever than this. W ...
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  • Obibini 10 years ago

    I am afraid you are living in a form of Utopia.You have presented rumours as if they were facts.
    No body knows what you aim to achieve by that.

  • Moses 10 years ago

    Can you go and live in somebody's country without the proper documents?
    If a Ghanaian could not go and live in Nigeria without proper documents at that time, why do you think Nigerians could live in Ghana in their millions w ...
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  • botomee 10 years ago

    this is useless, stupid,sensless and backward.

  • Justice, Switzerland 10 years ago

    Obviously this illiterate writer is a Nigerian. Does he remember what Nigerians did to Ghana on two occasions in the 80s? Stupid fool. Ghanaians are busy building their nation. If you have time to make these absurd claims, u ...
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  • Nana Peace 10 years ago

    Give an example of the businesses Busia thought Nigerians were taking away from Ghanaians and I will give you an example of the businesses Nigerians left behind in Ghana. Fool!

  • Kweku Adofo Twum 10 years ago

    Hide your face in shame. Nobody will buy this call for conflict and war. TOFIAKWA!

  • NANA OWUSU 10 years ago

    TONY WISDOM IS A GHANAIAN. BEFORE THIS ARTICLE, SOME NDC PEOPLE HAVING BEEN WRITING TO CONDEMN DR. BUSIA AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE UP TRADITION. THESE NDC AND OLD BOYS OF DR. KWAME NKRUMAH TRADITION JUST WANT TO TARNISH THE IM ...
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  • Benny 10 years ago

    wHY WHY. tHEY ALSO DROVE US AND WE NEVER COLLLECTED ANYTHIG FROM THEIR OVERNMENT

  • COMMENTARY 10 years ago

    When an European was not there these communities lived at peace with one another.
    But those devils who introduced the idea and drew the map in the abscence of those it concerns must be blamed for the fights and killings.
    ...
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  • Omotola Nkechi Amenah 10 years ago

    It is extremely sad to read the intensity with which Ghanaians despise Nigerians. The hatred expressed in the comments is so extreme it is hurtful to read. Yes Ghana did it first because Ghana always do things first. Nigeria ...
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  • FUEL 10 years ago

    The animosity nigerians have towards ghanaians is far bigger. I lived in nigeria n the level of hatred for anythin ghana is simply incredible! I used to tell nigerians I was from liberia! go to www.nairaland.com n c d rubbish ...
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