Mathew joseph: ok ghana is a coun3 in west africa,you can identify them with their colour,they are black like char coal,their women are ugly too even their men dnt knw hw to dress,u c dem wearing packet shirt nd plain trouser with canvass or trainers 2 go with,and when they want 2 eat they use boiled eggs instead of meat or fish in their soup,and also ghanaians do all forms of jobs like,shoe shiners,tailors that carries their sewing merchines on their heads,puff puff and burns sellers,stewards in hotels etc,ghana galz are also cheap 2 get,coz their cedis is worthless 2 our naira,if u go 2 ghana wit #50k u will be worshiped like their king,ashante nene of kumasi,my guy i hope u kan nw recognise a ghanaian if u c one!

Mathew joseph: ok ghana is a coun3 in west africa,you can identify them with their colour,they are black like char coal,their women are ugly too even their men dnt knw hw to dress,u c dem wearing packet shirt nd plain trouser with canvass or trainers 2 go with,and when they want 2 eat they use boiled eggs instead of meat or fish in their soup,and also ghanaians do all forms of jobs like,shoe shiners,tailors that carries their sewing merchines on their heads,puff puff and burns sellers,stewards in hotels etc,ghana galz are also cheap 2 get,coz their cedis is worthless 2 our naira,if u go 2 ghana wit #50k u will be worshiped like their king,ashante nene of kumasi,my guy i hope u kan nw recognise a ghanaian if u c one!

gboss4sure: We know how to handle ghana when they misbehaves.

ghboy: some Nigerians can really be naive and ignorant. what shows Ghana's econony is crumbling? only problem is power shedding which is ending soon cos
1) the west african gas pipeline will be fixed soon. more gas to power our new thermal plants. besides Ghana will soon finish constructing our our pipeline from our new gas fields meaning should the pipeline damage or should Nigeria not supply us gas we still have gas to power our Tema and Takoradi power plants.
2) the Bui dam will be completed soon. some power from the dam will be supplied later this month.
3) Akosombo dam is also due expansion
Ghana will soon export the excess power to neighbouring countries. you can see us for some
Now back to the economy
1) Cocoa production increases tremendously to increasing world prices
2) more barrels of oil are drilled everyday to reach our maximum barrels per day target
3) we just recorded an all time figure in ounces of gold mined n revenue. add that to the fact that that figure will be beaten this year thanks to increasing gold prices on the world market.
4) Foreign investment coming in because of the stability and big market Ghana now is.
5) wonderful projects on-going.
6) financial stabily in terms of cedi depreciation and keeping inflation in single digits.

Ghana does have its challenges but to say the economy is crumbling is laughable. on what bases are some of you saying that? don't say what you don't know
if Ghana was so crumbling why are my fellow Nigerians trooping in by the day

boron10: Only a foolish Nigerian will go and continue his business in a place where future of the business is not guaranteed

ministergh: You insult a nation because their women would raher have a natural skin than nigeria where 77% of women have heir skin bleached. Check aljazeera on their indepth story on bleaching in nigeria....

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20134514845907984

you can read it below as well:


Nigeria's dangerous skin whitening obsession
Last updated: 6 April 2013

Nigeria has the world's highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for "beauty".

Lagos, Nigeria - After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers her entire face. Soloman, 32, is bleaching her skin. She believes fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

This has been a daily routine for the past 15 years. Now several shades lighter she says her new skin makes her feel more beautiful and confident.

“Bleaching just makes me feel special, like am walking around in a spotlight,” she told Al Jazeera. “I am not seeking to be totally white, I just want to look beautiful. I cannot stop using the lightening agents,” she adds.

Solomon is not alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The reasons for this are varied but most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin".

In many parts of Africa, lighter-skinned women are considered more beautiful and are believed to be more successful and likely to find marriage.

It's not only women though who are obsessed with bleaching their skins. Some men too are involved in the practice.

Conceptions of beauty

Lightening creams are not effectively regulated in Nigeria where even roadside vendors sell tubes and plastic bags of powders and ointments from cardboard boxes stacked along sidewalks in market districts. Many of the tubes are unlabelled as to their actual ingredients.

"An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it. "

- Femi Kut, Nigerian Musician

In a market in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, business is booming for shops selling skin-lightening products. Both local and imported products line the shelves of Rashida Lawal’s cosmetics shop.

"About 90 percent of my clients come asking for skin whitening products," she told Al Jazeera. "I sell it to them and give advice on what product is best for them and how to use them."

She says most of her customers are in a great haste to lighten their skin.

“Taking the color of your skin to different colour has to be gradual. It's not something you decide one day that 'I want to be fair, I want to be like Michael Jackson and you become Michael Jackson all of a sudden'. That is why we have to advise them first before selling it to them” said Lawal.

Rashida and her staff also mix different ointments and creams for customers “depending on the desired level of lightness”.

Famous Nigerian Musician Femi Kuti says the use skin-lightening products have given rise to their own terminology.

“When the bleaching propaganda got so negative, they had to come up with toning. Bleaching sounds too hard, now it’s toning. I don't bleach, they say, I tone!”

“They think bleaching is gege,” he told Al Jazeera, using a Nigerian term for cool.

Femi attributes skin bleaching to a feeling that foreign products and images must, by definition, be good.

“An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it,” he laments.

Dangerous consequences

Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys as well as severe skin conditions.

Hardcore bleachers use illegal ointments containing toxins like mercury, a metal that blocks production of melanin, which gives the skin its colour, but can also be toxic.

Ayobode Williams, a medical doctor, says the skin bleaching agents have both internal and external effects on those who use them.

“Systemically it causes things like kidney failure because of the mercury in some of the products and it also causes eczema, skin pigmentation among a host of other infections,” he told Al Jazeera.

Dr Williams warned that sustained use of bleaching agents could cause even cancer.

Yet few seem to pay attention to these dangers. For those who bleach, staying black is not beautiful at all.

Sam xiu lee: I like mr dangote,but this cement issues is against the laws in economics,they claim they have surplus yet the price didn't come down,they claimed that they have capacity to supply the Nigerian market and export the product,they didn't,am really confused cos I can see that,this same situation might play out if and when we have more refineries,either private or govt owned,if the cement from Ghana is cheaper abeg they should let it in.
btw when did Ghana start cement production?

ministergh: You insult a nation because their women would raher have a natural skin than nigeria where 77% of women have heir skin bleached. Check aljazeera on their indepth story on bleaching in nigeria....

http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20134514845907984

you can read it below as well:


Nigeria's dangerous skin whitening obsession
Last updated: 6 April 2013

Nigeria has the world's highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for "beauty".

Lagos, Nigeria - After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers her entire face. Soloman, 32, is bleaching her skin. She believes fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

This has been a daily routine for the past 15 years. Now several shades lighter she says her new skin makes her feel more beautiful and confident.

“Bleaching just makes me feel special, like am walking around in a spotlight,” she told Al Jazeera. “I am not seeking to be totally white, I just want to look beautiful. I cannot stop using the lightening agents,” she adds.

Solomon is not alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The reasons for this are varied but most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin".

In many parts of Africa, lighter-skinned women are considered more beautiful and are believed to be more successful and likely to find marriage.

It's not only women though who are obsessed with bleaching their skins. Some men too are involved in the practice.

Conceptions of beauty

Lightening creams are not effectively regulated in Nigeria where even roadside vendors sell tubes and plastic bags of powders and ointments from cardboard boxes stacked along sidewalks in market districts. Many of the tubes are unlabelled as to their actual ingredients.

"An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it. "

- Femi Kut, Nigerian Musician

In a market in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, business is booming for shops selling skin-lightening products. Both local and imported products line the shelves of Rashida Lawal’s cosmetics shop.

"About 90 percent of my clients come asking for skin whitening products," she told Al Jazeera. "I sell it to them and give advice on what product is best for them and how to use them."

She says most of her customers are in a great haste to lighten their skin.

“Taking the color of your skin to different colour has to be gradual. It's not something you decide one day that 'I want to be fair, I want to be like Michael Jackson and you become Michael Jackson all of a sudden'. That is why we have to advise them first before selling it to them” said Lawal.

Rashida and her staff also mix different ointments and creams for customers “depending on the desired level of lightness”.

Famous Nigerian Musician Femi Kuti says the use skin-lightening products have given rise to their own terminology.

“When the bleaching propaganda got so negative, they had to come up with toning. Bleaching sounds too hard, now it’s toning. I don't bleach, they say, I tone!”

“They think bleaching is gege,” he told Al Jazeera, using a Nigerian term for cool.

Femi attributes skin bleaching to a feeling that foreign products and images must, by definition, be good.

“An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it,” he laments.

Dangerous consequences

Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys as well as severe skin conditions.

Hardcore bleachers use illegal ointments containing toxins like mercury, a metal that blocks production of melanin, which gives the skin its colour, but can also be toxic.

Ayobode Williams, a medical doctor, says the skin bleaching agents have both internal and external effects on those who use them.

“Systemically it causes things like kidney failure because of the mercury in some of the products and it also causes eczema, skin pigmentation among a host of other infections,” he told Al Jazeera.

Dr Williams warned that sustained use of bleaching agents could cause even cancer.

Yet few seem to pay attention to these dangers. For those who bleach, staying black is not beautiful at all.

ministergh: You insult a nation because their women would rather have a natural skin than nigeria where 77% of women have heir skin bleached.

lond07:

Please what is the meaning of this slang - Mtseeeeew. I googled but no result!!!

ghboy: some Nigerians can really be naive and ignorant. what shows Ghana's econony is crumbling? only problem is power shedding which is ending soon cos
1) the west african gas pipeline will be fixed soon. more gas to power our new thermal plants. besides Ghana will soon finish constructing our our pipeline from our new gas fields meaning should the pipeline damage or should Nigeria not supply us gas we still have gas to power our Tema and Takoradi power plants.
2) the Bui dam will be completed soon. some power from the dam will be supplied later this month.
3) Akosombo dam is also due expansion
Ghana will soon export the excess power to neighbouring countries. you can see us for some
Now back to the economy
1) Cocoa production increases tremendously to increasing world prices
2) more barrels of oil are drilled everyday to reach our maximum barrels per day target
3) we just recorded an all time figure in ounces of gold mined n revenue. add that to the fact that that figure will be beaten this year thanks to increasing gold prices on the world market.
4) Foreign investment coming in because of the stability and big market Ghana now is.
5) wonderful projects on-going.
6) financial stabily in terms of cedi depreciation and keeping inflation in single digits.

Ghana does have its challenges but to say the economy is crumbling is laughable. on what bases are some of you saying that? don't say what you don't know
if Ghana was so crumbling why are my fellow Nigerians trooping in by the day

360command: tell Al jazeera to go to cote d'ivoire or mali where they would see bleeching at its peak. We bleech but we don't too bleech as the ivorians

360command: tell Al jazeera to go to cote d'ivoire or mali where they would see bleeching at its peak. We bleech but I know we don't too bleech as the ivorians

Fuelish: the fact of d matter is that d average nigerian thinks being dark is ugly.

Mathew joseph: ok ghana is a coun3 in west africa,you can identify them with their colour,they are black like char coal,their women are ugly too even their men dnt knw hw to dress,u c dem wearing packet shirt nd plain trouser with canvass or trainers 2 go with,and when they want 2 eat they use boiled eggs instead of meat or fish in their soup,and also ghanaians do all forms of jobs like,shoe shiners,tailors that carries their sewing merchines on their heads,puff puff and burns sellers,stewards in hotels etc,ghana galz are also cheap 2 get,coz their cedis is worthless 2 our naira,if u go 2 ghana wit #50k u will be worshiped like their king,ashante nene of kumasi,my guy i hope u kan nw recognise a ghanaian if u c one!

Inik: The Ghanaian economy must have been affected negatively by the closure of the shops. I hope both sides have learnt their lessons

Mathew joseph: ok ghana is a coun3 in west africa,you can identify them with their colour,they are black like char coal,their women are ugly too even their men dnt knw hw to dress,u c dem wearing packet shirt nd plain trouser with canvass or trainers 2 go with,and when they want 2 eat they use boiled eggs instead of meat or fish in their soup,and also ghanaians do all forms of jobs like,shoe shiners,tailors that carries their sewing merchines on their heads,puff puff and burns sellers,stewards in hotels etc,ghana galz are also cheap 2 get,coz their cedis is worthless 2 our naira,if u go 2 ghana wit #50k u will be worshiped like their king,ashante nene of kumasi,my guy i hope u kan nw recognise a ghanaian if u c one!

Mathew joseph: ok ghana is a coun3 in west africa,you can identify them with their colour,they are black like char coal,their women are ugly too even their men dnt knw hw to dress,u c dem wearing packet shirt nd plain trouser with canvass or trainers 2 go with,and when they want 2 eat they use boiled eggs instead of meat or fish in their soup,and also ghanaians do all forms of jobs like,shoe shiners,tailors that carries their sewing merchines on their heads,puff puff and burns sellers,stewards in hotels etc,ghana galz are also cheap 2 get,coz their cedis is worthless 2 our naira,if u go 2 ghana wit #50k u will be worshiped like their king,ashante nene of kumasi,my guy i hope u kan nw recognise a ghanaian if u c one!

ministergh: Mr.he.goat.... Tell Nigerian men and women both old and young to stop bleaching their skin. 77% of a whole country's women bleached minus the men...that is pathetic yet you are not wise enough and call a people proud of their race and color names. an animal called Joseph and Matthew at the same time ...be wise Matthew Joseph or Joseph Matthew...which ever comes first. visit http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20134514845907984 and advice your mother who can almost be compared to Micheal Jackson.

ministergh: and that is very s**pid

Cusubaba: Black is beautiful but Ghanaians made it ugly. Ghanaians are not black but charcoal. John Mickel Obi, Yaya Toure, and Didier Drogba are black in nature but handsome. While Micheal Essien, Agyma Bedu, Fatau Dauda, Sule Muntale, and Ghana former president John Kuffor are Chalcoal Ape.

Cusubaba: Black is beautiful but Ghanaians made it ugly. Ghanaians are not black but charcoal. John Mickel Obi, Yaya Toure, and Didier Drogba are black in nature but handsome. While Micheal Essien, Agyma Bedu, Fatau Dauda, Sule Muntale, and Ghana former president John Kuffor are Chalcoal Ape.

sunny-p:
na who and who unit inside unted nation nor b there niaja and ghana dey...

360command: grow up. Italy used to be like that but today they play a key role in EU. Wat is past is past. Do u u want to keep living on that dream? U such a looser if u kip having this at your back of your big head.

360command: grow up. Italy used to be like that but today they play a key role in EU. Wat is past is past. Do u u want to keep living on that dream? U such a looser if u kip having this at your back of your big head.