OUT of the over 200 projects registered in
Ghana last year, Nigeria has 42 with a value of almost $200 million,
placing it next to China, which has 56, as the countries with the
highest number of investments in the country.
This fact was revealed when President Goodluck Jonathan hosted Ghana’s
outgoing High Commissioner to Nigeria, Alhaji Baba Kamara, at the
Presidential Villa on Monday.
Jonathan noted that bilateral
relations between Nigeria and Ghana had been further strengthened in
many areas during Alhaji Kamara’s four-year tenure and expressed the
hope that the outgoing High Commissioner’s successor will continue his
good work.
“We must continue to build and strengthen the
cordial relations between us. We are the same people and colonial
boundaries must not be allowed to keep us apart,” he said.
While also receiving the outgoing Namibian High Commissioner to Nigeria,
Mrs Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, the president called on African leaders to
take more concrete steps towards fulfilling their often declared
commitment to improving trade and economic relations among African
countries.
He remarked that with the right political will and
commitment, African leaders could overcome all obstacles to
intra-African trade such as poor transportation links and achieve a
significant boost in continental economic interaction for the benefit of
their countries and peoples.
He pledged Nigeria’s commitment
to continue to spearhead and support efforts aimed at promoting regional
and continental economic integration, saying that existing cordial
political relations between most African countries will be further
enhanced by greater trade and economic relations amongst them.
The president commended Mrs. Ashipala-Musavyi for working diligently to
boost bilateral relations between Nigeria and Namibia during her tenure
as High Commissioner in Abuja and wished her success at her new post in
the Namibian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Source: Tribune
