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
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