Acidosis:


There's no vast patronage anywhere. 9 out of 10 Nigerians don't use Samsung phones. In fact, majority of the users got fairly used products from UK/US and computer village.

Don't mind them. We just have this bogus, inflated view of our country. They think it's just about population. Nigerians find it difficult to accept that we are a poor country.

poseidon12:


Tantalum in Congo, and Senegal? First, Congo and Senegal are not Nigeria. Second, he said 400 components.

lame excuse.... how many of the components does Korea have ... do you even know the components used and how many minerals are found in Nigeria ?? Go figure...

tdayof:
This news sound so fake. Samsung gains nothing by setting up a manufacturing firm here in Nigeria.

Being in the telecommunication manufacturing sector, I can tell you Nigeria produces components which are also be in used to produce mobile phones. Your fact about Nigeria producing none is a bogus claim and nothing but false.

It's either this story is fake or Samsung Samsung CEO is not informed.

80% of the South African market share can be smaller than 5% of the Nigerian market share.

Which companies are producing which components for mobile phones in Nigeria? Who are they selling to?

lol why do you nigerians always take things personally
its hillarious...

Lafiyasabiat:
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Samsung Electronics Africa, Mr. Sung Yoon, on Thursday disclosed that manufacturing a mobile phone required about 400 different components, none of which is available in Nigeria.


Speaking during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, he stated that another reasons Samsung Electronics could not establish a manufacturing plant in Nigeria is because the company’s market share in the country is not big enough.

Yoon pointed out that though Samsung was the leading consumer electronics company in Nigeria, its share of the Nigerian market is smaller to South Africa’s.

He said that the company’s smartphones market size in South Africa is 80 per cent, but is lower in Nigeria...

Source: https://newsworth.ng/nigeria-none-400-components-needed-manufacture-mobile-phone-samsung-ceo/

Trash
Without doing any research on top my head I can day we have silicon

talk2ekpa:
What an insult Mr. Sung Yoon. So, human resources and capital is not part of components needed for manufacturing a mobile phone abi, or Nigeria does not have that too...

You need skilled human resources and of course we don't have that.

its the sad truth, we lack the skills and incentives to become a manufacturing powerhouse right now

hostkobo:


It is nice to be patriotic, however patriotism cannot be in a vacuum.

How many of you can name 20-electronic components needed in the manufacture of a mobile phone?

Ok, forget mobile phones. How about small FM radios?

is there any company in Nigeria that MANUFACTURES FM-radios. I said MANUFACTURE, not assemble. Assemble is when you buy all the parts from Japan and China, ship them in, and somewhere in Nigeria, you couple it together the same way some computer desktops are done.

Is there any company in Nigeria that manufactures industry standard electronic components such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, transistors, logic gates/circuits, etc. By industry standard, I mean industry standard that can be exported out of Nigeria.

If the above answer is NO, is there any manufacturing company in Nigeria that is provided with 24hour electricity?

Even if the CEO was a selfish person, we have given him more reasons to be selfish. If Nigeria could have 24-hours uninterrupted electricity, I bet you thousands of international companies will relocate. Nigeria is just a small picture, consider Africa

regards
HK

A clarification is in order here. The manufacturers of gadgets don't necessarily have to manufacture their components. Almost all the big name manufacturers have to buy their components from other sources. They have to design their gadgets though.

Basically, he is saying you need us more than we need you. We are not going to bother setting up a manufacturing plant in your country when you will buy our phones regardless.

He says they can't manufacture their products in Nigeria because the 400 or so materials needed for the manufacture of mobile phones are not available in the country. My question to him are those materials available in his native country of South Korea or the United States or any other country for that matter? It is a very lame excuse.

If we had our own local manufacturing industry for mobile phones, I would say the government slap a high tariff on mobile phones and you will see the likes of Samsung coming to their senses.

galadima77:

Only Lord knows the quantity of tantalum that found their way to these guys/companies via the back door, no thanks to the artisanal and illegal miners. Please note that Nigeria also has occurances of this mineral in significant quantities. I'm a geologist and from Niger state so it's what I've encountered here in Niger. Thus the poo that guy is spewing may have other reasons but the non-availability of the over 400 components' raw material is a fat lie!!!

the guy below has valid points too

I thought the article said 400 components, not raw materials for the 400 components. To manufacture their handsets, Samsung or any other company do not have to manufacture the components. They buy the components from the components manufacturers.

teamsynergy:


how many of the components does south Korea have?

'congo and Senegal are closer to Nigeria than Korea ....v

read between the lines ....Nissan and most car producing company import their ore from Australia ... bottom line is Samsung can set up your company anywhere and bring In the materials needed....
it's just like saying, cos u dont av fossil fuel, u cant have cars....

comprehende?....


it's very simple

Nissan and other car manufacturers do not import or need to import iron ore for their flat steel requirements. There are steel companies that do that. Nissan then buys from them. That way Nissan can concentrate on designing good cars.

poseidon12:


I thought the article said 400 components, not raw materials for the 400 components. To manufacture their handsets, Samsung or any other company do not have to manufacture the components. They buy the components from the components manufacturers.

They expect Samsung to open a silicon mining firm in Nigeria, revive Ajaokuta steel firm, launch an iron ore and aluminum industry, revive PHCN etc.. All in the name of manufacturing phones in the damn country.

If global companies reason in that manner, none will survive the first year of business operations.

The way Nigerians reason baffles me a lot. It is clear we don't even have the human resources. So I guess Samsung will end up building new schools in the name of producing phones in the damn country where minimum wage stands at #18,000. Phones that majority can't even afford the screen.


Anyone that picks offence on seeing this glaring facts about Nigeria should have his/her head checked. Let me remind us all that Nigeria has one of the worst power supply/generation in the whole world.

Tecno and Infinix sef never consider manufacturing in the country Best they can do is exactly what they've been doing -- produce the phones in China, ship it down to Nigeria, and get some dancers, print some blue Tecno shirts, get some choreographers and speakers in Ikeja When it comes to hiring dancers, street marketers and disturbing the whole computer village with noise, we are very good!

XXLDICK:

Which component does Nigeria produce?

We have rubber, silicon, gold, copper etc

poseidon12:


Nissan and other car manufacturers do not import or need to import iron ore for their flat steel requirements. There are steel companies that do that. Nissan then buys from them. That way Nissan can concentrate on designing good cars.

will Nissan now say cos their country don't have steel, car production is impossible??... Nigeria can host any production company if the gov't is ready....


most cement factories set up their metal recycling companies to cater for their metal requirements I cement production .....


though am not really interested in phone manufacturing companies, cos of their poor toxic waste disposal. we have enough probs already...
still the man was wrong to say we do av any of the components ... that's fallacy.... check the list of components required and cross check with minerals found in nigeria

Acidosis:



They expect Samsung to open a silicon mining firm in Nigeria, revive Ajaokuta steel firm, launch an iron ore and aluminum industry, revive PHCN etc.. All in the name of manufacturing phones in the country.

If global companies reason in that manner, none will survive the first year of business operations.

The way Nigerians reason baffles me a lot. It is clear we don't even have the human resources. So I guess Samsung will end up building new schools in the name of producing phones in the damn country where minimum wage stands at #18,000. Phones that majority can't even afford.


Anyone that picks offence on seeing this glaring facts about Nigeria should have his/her head checked. Let me remind us all that Nigeria has one of the worst power supply/generation in the whole world.

Yep. The way we think is exactly why we have not made progress as a country.

fashrola:


We have rubber, silicon, gold, copper etc

I was expecting you to mention something like camera sensor, processor, display, battery... not natural resources.

GavelSlam:


What is its percentage of the Nigerian market?

How many units sold here?

80% of 100 is 80.

20% of 1000 is 200.

Maybe he is talking about performance of their entire budget and not from the population perspective

Acidosis:



They expect Samsung to open a silicon mining firm in Nigeria, revive Ajaokuta steel firm, launch an iron ore and aluminum industry, revive PHCN etc.. All in the name of manufacturing phones in the damn country.

If global companies reason in that manner, none will survive the first year of business operations.

The way Nigerians reason baffles me a lot. It is clear we don't even have the human resources. So I guess Samsung will end up building new schools in the name of producing phones in the damn country where minimum wage stands at #18,000. Phones that majority can't even afford the screen.


Anyone that picks offence on seeing this glaring facts about Nigeria should have his/her head checked. Let me remind us all that Nigeria has one of the worst power supply/generation in the whole world.

Tecno and Infinix sef never consider manufacturing in the country Best they can do is exactly what they've been doing -- produce the phones in China, ship it down to Nigeria, and get some dancers, print some blue Tecno shirts, get some choreographers and speakers in Ikeja When it comes to hiring dancers, street marketers and disturbing the whole computer village with noise, we are very good!

u may have a point .... however, you dont need stable electricity as u can set up your own ipp... how do pharm companies, cement factories and other production. companies? Even RCCG generates it's own electricity...

go to the north and see illegal mining on full scale.. that's major problem here. most people in govt benefit from this and will never support setting up companies that mines and defines this resources ....


corruption remains own major prob......

and China actually offer safe haven for most production companies .. foxconn has over 1million workers and produces most of apple components ..

there is cheap labour and so many solid mineral refining companies

fashrola:


We have rubber, silicon, gold, copper etc

These are raw materials for some of the components. They are not the components. You need companies, different from the phone manufacturers, to use these raw materials to produce the components needed to manufacture the phones. These components include the memory chips (ram and rom), storage cards, the screens etc; just to give you an idea what they mean by components.
For example, the silicon you mentioned is used to make transistor. Then the transistors are used to make integrated circuits. Then the integrated circuits are used to make the memory chips and cards.
There are no such companies in Nigeria right now. We need to invest massively in technical education.

Stop saying thrash. Wait there till Tecno does the needful

Samsung that is a huge lie!

This news came from where again?


Why would there be interest in manufacturing in Nigeria to begin with?

The CEO of Samsung just lied.!� .how can he say as big as Nigeria and all their abundant raw material we have none! It a lie.we should have more than half if he is not aware.rubber,copper, lead,etc

poseidon12:


I thought the article said 400 components, not raw materials for the 400 components. To manufacture their handsets, Samsung or any other company do not have to manufacture the components. They buy the components from the components manufacturers.

so u can't buy the components from wherever and assemble in ur choice area? keep hating your country and see how that helps u grow!!

erico2k2:

Trash
Without doing any research on top my head I can say we have silicon

Bros Silicon is not a component, it is a raw material used to make some of the electronic components. Even if we have silicon as you say,you don't expect them to harvest the silicon, export it to china to be manufacture the component.

Even if silicon is a "component" .. Its 1 out of 400, doesn't still make any business sense to manufacture in Nigeria just because one component is available

yes Nigeria does have nothing to manufacture a phone,

Poor Governance , leaders once they invest billions of dollars in a factory the politicians will start blackmailing them for millions or threaten to shut the business

Multiple tax system and corrupt FIRS officials swooping down and sealing of the business

poor infrastructure and bad roads - No meaningful , cheap or reliable source of electricity, poor road network, . by the time new phones are loaded onto a lorry and transported across the country, most of the components will have been shaken so much that they are likely to be faulty by the time it reaches the consumer.

Robbery - the factory and its adjoining roads will be a magnet for armed robbers, apart from oil pipes it will will be the next high net value production point.

Now these are the real reasons why it can't be manufactured in Nigeria

thebigkendo:


Bros Silicon is not a component, it is a raw material used to make some of the electronic components. Even if we have silicon as you say,you don't expect them to harvest the silicon, export it to china to be manufacture the component.

Even if silicon is a "component" .. Its 1 out of 400, doesn't still make any business sense to manufacture in Nigeria just because one component is available

Plz read my reply again also Google what silicon is too.it's sand . It's the major raw materia used in all electronics . It's the base for all PCBs

GavelSlam:


What is its percentage of the Nigerian market?

How many units sold here?

80% of 100 is 80.

20% of 1000 is 200.

Oga, go rest! How many Nigerians buy brand new Samsung phones? We merely buy fairly used and UK used and of course stolen phones.

erico2k2:

It's the major raw material used in all electronics . It's the base for all PCBs

Keyword raw material not Components.. We have crude oil in Nigeria but refined product is still scarce, same thing applies here. Bros let us leave sentiment asides if you are Samsung as a business would you invest in Manufaturing Nigeria when you have many better alternative?

Read part of my initial statement again

Bros Silicon is not a component, it is a raw material used to make some of the electronic components. Even if we have silicon as you say,you don't expect them to harvest the silicon, export it to china to be manufacture the component.

Find below some components required for a BASIC phone not smart phone with plenty sensor oh, do we have any company presently manufacturing any of the basic component in Nigeria? With the plenty Silicon we have.

teamsynergy:
that's a lame excuse.... tantalum is in Congo and has been discovered in commercial quantity in Senegal ....so.... it our gov't policies that are very weak... they can set up a plant here and have their own ipp

they are investing in sex dolls at the moment to calm our nigerian brothers so that they can vote wisely. calm down

Lafiyasabiat:
The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Samsung Electronics Africa, Mr. Sung Yoon, on Thursday disclosed that manufacturing a mobile phone required about 400 different components, none of which is available in Nigeria.


Speaking during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, he stated that another reasons Samsung Electronics could not establish a manufacturing plant in Nigeria is because the company’s market share in the country is not big enough.

Yoon pointed out that though Samsung was the leading consumer electronics company in Nigeria, its share of the Nigerian market is smaller to South Africa’s.

He said that the company’s smartphones market size in South Africa is 80 per cent, but is lower in Nigeria...

Source: https://newsworth.ng/nigeria-none-400-components-needed-manufacture-mobile-phone-samsung-ceo/

A waste shitty hole naturally would not have any of the components for producing smartphones.


IF THEY CAN'T PRODUCE TOOTHPICK, IS IT SMARTPHONE THAT THEY WILL MANUFACTURE? ??