{"id":204754,"date":"2025-08-15T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-video-shows-ghanaians-destroying-stalls-allegedly-selling-illicit-drugs-not-shops-belonging-to-nigerians-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:13:25","slug":"ghana-video-shows-ghanaians-destroying-stalls-allegedly-selling-illicit-drugs-not-shops-belonging-to-nigerians-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-video-shows-ghanaians-destroying-stalls-allegedly-selling-illicit-drugs-not-shops-belonging-to-nigerians-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Video Shows Ghanaians Destroying Stalls Allegedly Selling Illicit Drugs, Not Shops Belonging to Nigerians in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Video shows Ghanaians destroying stalls allegedly selling illicit drugs, not shops belonging to Nigerians in Ghana<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A video on social media shows residents of a town in Ghana destroying stalls allegedly selling drugs illegally, in April 2025. It does not show recent attacks on Igbo people&#8217;s shops in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/reel\/1685174005474970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> is circulating on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/reel\/758401503307601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> in Nigeria with users claiming that it shows Igbo people&#8217;s shops being destroyed in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">One post, dated 15 July 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/reel\/1283323953143886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>: &#8220;Happening In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video shows Ghanaians destroying stalls allegedly selling illicit drugs, not shops belonging to Nigerians in Ghana IN SHORT: A video on social media shows residents of a town in Ghana destroying stalls allegedly selling drugs illegally, in April 2025. It does not show recent attacks on Igbo people&#8217;s shops in the country. A video is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5128,16303,14754,6614,4508,4509,7921,9926,257,6665,11904,10218,7779,254,11885,8066],"class_list":["post-204754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-belonging","tag-destroying","tag-drugs","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaians","tag-illicit","tag-news","tag-nigerians","tag-selling","tag-shops","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalls","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}