The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday said he would embark on a ‘legislative diplomacy’ visit to Ghana over maltreatment of Nigerians in the country. Nigerians in the West African country have accused Ghanaian authorities of locking up their shops and subjecting them to other forms of hostilities. In a video that circulated
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The Federal Government has listed some of the maltreatments Ghana has meted out on Nigeria and its citizens and vowed that it would no longer tolerate ‘offences’ by the country. Nigerian traders in Ghana recently accused Ghanaian authorities of illegally closing their shops. The event came after a Ghanaian also not long ago, pulled down
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Nnaji says Nigerian traders in Accra were locked up by Ghanaian authorities who demanded cash payment of one million dollars from them. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of Nigerian Traders Union in Ghana, on Saturday decried Ghanaian authorities’ closure of shops owned by Nigerians doing business in the country. Nnaji, who made this known in a
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Fear has gripped Ghanaians after the country’s minister of health tested positive for coronavirus. Ghana’s Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has tested positive for coronavirus and is currently recovering at a hospital. Accra-based Citi FM reported that the Minister has been receiving treatment at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra over the
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Three other African countries, Kenya, Ghana, and Gabon, on Friday, reported their first confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus. In East Africa, Kenya reported one case on Friday, while in West Africa, Ghana reported two cases just as Gabon said it had logged one case. This, however, raised the total number of African
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Although flight services have since resumed this week, the dust raised by last week’s disruptions is yet to settle. Just yesterday, a score of passengers arrived Lagos from Accra, Ghana, where they had been ferried and allegedly abandoned by British Airways since last week. The travelers, who could not make it to Lagos by road
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