Ghana, Nigeria Economic Ties To Be Stepped Up – Bawumia

The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has hinted that Ghana and her fellow West African Nation, Nigeria, will soon embark on a major economic development agenda that will further deepen the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Addressing a brief ceremony in his conference room at the Flagstaff House when the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye and a Nigerian Senate Delegation led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to pay a courtesy call on him, the Vice President said Ghana and Nigeria are at the same cross roads when it comes to moving their economies beyond aid and dependence on the developed world.

He emphasized that the two countries have a unique opportunity now to cooperate with each other to ensure that both countries lift their raw material production economies to industrialized economies that would meet the expectations of its peoples, particularly the youth.

“Our path to economic development are relatively similar. We all have quite significant endowments of natural resources. We are all also of the view that we have to move our economies beyond dependency.

“When we look at Nigeria, you are trying to build an economy that is independent and so are we and that is what we refer to as Ghana beyond aid and Africa beyond aid, so the more we can trade among ourselves and invest in each other, the better it is for our people,” Dr. Bawumia said.

The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has hinted that Ghana and her fellow West African Nation, Nigeria, will soon embark on a major economic development agenda that will further deepen the bilateral relations between the two countries.

Addressing a brief ceremony in his conference room at the Flagstaff House when the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye and a Nigerian Senate Delegation led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to pay a courtesy call on him, the Vice President said Ghana and Nigeria are at the same cross roads when it comes to moving their economies beyond aid and dependence on the developed world.

He emphasized that the two countries have a unique opportunity now to cooperate with each other to ensure that both countries lift their raw material production economies to industrialized economies that would meet the expectations of its peoples, particularly the youth.

“Our path to economic development are relatively similar. We all have quite significant endowments of natural resources. We are all also of the view that we have to move our economies beyond dependency.

“When we look at Nigeria, you are trying to build an economy that is independent and so are we and that is what we refer to as Ghana beyond aid and Africa beyond aid, so the more we can trade among ourselves and invest in each other, the better it is for our people,” Dr. Bawumia said.