On January 17, 2020, an estimated one-million Ghanaians were reported from Nigeria under some relatively harsh conditions.

The then President of Nigeria, Shehu Shagari had issued an executive order mandating immigrants without proper immigration documents to leave the country or they would be arrested according to the law.This was after 1974 when Nigeria’s oil wells were spitting out some 2.3-million barrels a day and the standard of living improved. While Nigeria was booming, its closest English-speaking neighbor, Ghana, was going through quite the opposite which was a mix of famine and insurgency was precipitated by a crash in the price of cocoa.