A REFLECTION ON NIGERIA/GHANA TRADE RELATIONS AND LABOUR MIGRATION

Abstract

The unfavorable national migration policies existing in Nigeria and Ghana have become extremely detrimental to transnational labour migration and trade relations between both countries. Historical analytical research design is used to analyze the migration policies of Nigeria and Ghana in conjunction with the provisions of ECOWAS free movement protocol. It was found however that Nigeria and Ghana encountered among other issues, two major challenges that transcribed national policies against transnational cooperation which has contributed to persistent economic integration and development crisis in West Africa; they include poor management of national resources for the benefit of their economies, which resulted to the second factor which is the use of labour migrants as patsy to conceal the poor managerial skills and corruptions of the governments.