Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo Meets Buhari In Aso Rock

 

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his Ghanaian partner, Nana Akufo-Addo, met on Sunday in Aso Rock. 

Buhari Sallau, Personal Assistant to the Nigerian president on Broadcast Media, made this known. 

The PUNCH assembled that Akufo-Addo prior tended to his kinsmen in a cross country broadcast on Sunday. 

"President @MBuhari gets in crowd Ghanian President H.E. @NAkufoAddo in State House on twentieth Sep 2020," the presidential helper tweeted joining pictures of the two presidents. 

Subtleties of the gathering are obscure as of the hour of recording this report. 

Nonetheless, numerous shops having a place with Nigerian dealers were as of late shut in Ghana following a $1m demand forced on them by the administration of the West African nation. 

Nigeria and Ghana had additionally over the most recent couple of months occupied with a conciliatory line, following various issues, remembering the seizure and destruction of a structure for the Nigerian Embassy in Accra. 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had a month ago met with the Speaker of Ghana's parliament on the destiny of Nigerians while on what he called "administrative tact" excursion to the nation. 

Likewise, issues emerging from the $1m demand forced by the Ghanian experts on merchants from Nigeria was essential for the plan when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo held a gathering with delegates of the Nigerian people group in the West African nation on September 15. 

The Nigerian government, through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on August 28, recorded a few outrages submitted by the Ghanaian specialists, cautioning that the legislature would no longer endure such animosity. 

Mohammed discussed the seizure of the "Nigerian Mission's property situated at No. 10, Barnes Road, Accra, which has been utilized as political premises by the Nigerian Government for just about 50 years; the destruction of the Nigerian Mission's property situated at No. 19/21 Julius Nyerere Street, East Ridge, Accra, which establishes another genuine break of the Vienna Convention." 

The Nigerian government likewise said "shops having a place with Nigerians; more than 300 Nigerian shops were secured for four months Kumasi in 2018; more than 600 Nigerian shops were secured 2019 and as of now, more than 250 Nigerians' shops have been bolted". 

Another significant territory of erosion is the residency grant necessity, for which "Ghana Immigration Service has set tremendous expenses far higher than the expenses charged by the Nigerian Immigration Service." 

In a normal round of exchanging fault, the Ghanaian government on August 30, 2020, reacted to the charges, while blaming the Nigerian government for being the assailant. 

In an announcement, the Ghanaian Minister of Information, Oppong Nkrumah, an individual from the parliament, expressed that Nigeria originally made a stride of closing its outskirts against other West African nations.