Area4Area:
Why are you shouting? I told you already that the Nigerian government is trying to sought the land ports for now, make your personal investigation to know if only smugglers use land ports.

The land ports and borders remain shut for now

Area4Area:
Your links to your last paragraph, why are you so interested in the Nigerian market yet you hate Nigeria and Nigerians so much? Tell me the secret

Blue3k:


Stop talking nonsense. What contraband did they import. Reread the article slowly. The textile mills are down because the business environment bad for it.



Read the article if you want to know details on agreement. If you're not interested in fulfilling agreement just admit your government corrupt liars. You improvishing yourself isnt sending anyone a message. Your domestic companies are threating to leave and FDI still pitifully low compared to previous years.



Lol who's suffering you food prices jumped 50%. Nigerian can be a funny bunch. You really showed them by hurting your business.

Japhet31:


Why will they come and start any company here... a country where hordes of other companies are running away? the roads are a bad, consistent power is almost non-existent, clearing your goods cost almost the cost of purchase and shipping? It'd be better the government fixes these ills at first. if despite the enabling environment, they still refuse to site their production facilities here, then it becomes a matter of economic sabotage and should be fought to a standstill.

My main fear is that three to four years is too short a time for anyone to start a company and expect to attain profitability. Whoever risks it to borrow and begin local production of these same banned goods now, the same person may not find the environment so encouraging after this current dispensation ends.

isthatso:


if you had a brain and somebody is telling you he is losing 3 trillion naira from imported textiles, when we had a thriving textile industry in the north and our youths are now jobless, you will figure out that this is an opportunity to revive our textile industry and put our youths to work.

your youth are unemployed because the jobs from all the closed textile mills in Nigeria have been exported abroad and you are there saying they should open border? if the business in legitimate why dont they use the sea port?


......but maybe you dont

lexy2014:


Is it only smugglers that use d land borders? Do smugglers not also use air and sea ports?

ornicus:



https://www.nairaland.com/5495036/dahiru-mangal-smuggling-destruction-nigerian
this sums it up nicely. what OBJ should have done

you mean more about how you importers have destroyed different industries in this country?

you think industry is about buying things that can easily be made in this country?
economic saboteur, constantly conniving with foreigners to destroy your home country - while constantly wailing about no jobs and no economy



all most of us know is importing. TRADING. which is why all these so called entrepreneurs ideas are always buying and selling ie import and sell at a high price.

why is Boko Haram, Religious Fanaticism, and Drug abuse thriving in the north ? because an idle mind is the devils workshop. a few traders getting stupendously rich at the expense of jobs in textile factories.
if we revive our textile industries , there is a knock down effect

direct jobs for workers
jobs for suppliers of raw materials
jobs for people maintaining the plants

but rather than that - lets have the tried and tested logobenz Bleep everybody else while i get mine way - direct importation , ensuring chinese in a country millions of miles away get the jobs

self serving economic traitor is what you are

vaxx2:
I don't hate Nigeria and Nigerians. how can I hate my fatherland ? I just hate the idealogy of the policy makers. and to your links. i am pretty sure you know the reasons the land border was closed . benin and other neighbouring countries are not allowed.

Area4Area:
Your fatherland indeed, you think I've forgotten your post where you wrote "GHANA FIRST".
I'm a proud Nigerian and would defend her just as you're doing same for Ghana so stop the lies.

Land borders remain shut for now till those leeching countries sought themselves out.

leokid866:

How are you still so dumb.....did I claim redemption camp is in lagos? Please contemplate on your stupidity while your guy feeds you.....ps don't forget your rent will soon be due.

Agboriotejoye:


Don't be an ignoramus. A simple research of what killed the textile industries among which is primarily power is what you should have done before accusing middlemen who have a market to service of killing their producer as if that is possible

Area4Area:
Your ministers are all over Abuja like homeless destitutes begging and crying everywhere, how many Nigerian ministers have you seen or heard is in Accra begging since the closure?
I guess the Nigerian government should just ban any direct any direct flight between Nigeria and Ghana for now

Agboriotejoye:


You lots are just ignorant. The man mentioned that Nigerian textile industries are dead which is common knowledge and they have to import from West African countries while exporting some raw materials like cotton, tye and dye etc and you think the business is illegitimate. Na wa for you o

Enemyofpeace:
are they not human beans? They are human beans like the rest of us now

vaxx2:
I am a national of both country, and Ghana being my motherland is my sweetheart.

Chubhie:
To imagine that customs went to town celebrating that they made 3 billion daily by shutting the border. Why not get smart scanners and search for arms and rice instead of shutting down the whole economy of West Africa?

This crude approach have no place in a modern society. This is counter productive both in the short, medium and long terms.

SarkinYarki:


If my house was on the market for rent it will be about 8 million per annum and you wouldn't still be able to afford it ..well I hope to move to Bourdillon next year and when then I will out this on rent but it will still be out of your league you ogun state dweller . I am sure if I commit 20m to look for property in that your camp I will buy 6 ..I will look into that as a matter of fact .Shalom ..now go meet your mum in the kitchen she has served you foreign par boiled rice for lunch

isthatso:


Like I have said, the issue is: what sort of country are we that we are not enraged that we are importing $10b of textiles when we have dormant factories and unemployed youth? Everything else is a sideshow.

Area4Area:
Is it your suffering? You just go about spewing figures anyhow and if we ask for source or link, you'd run.

BUSINESSARENAA:
I once said that the closure of these borders is not a properly thought idea, but some ignorant entities were ranting up and down.

Rice is not the only commodity that passes through a border. There are a lot of genuine business that passes through the land border.

If you are importing or exporting to some of the west African countries, it's easier and more cost effective to use the land boarders than the sea port.

Imagine a man exporting textiles to Ghana from Kano, how possibly will he do that through the sea port in APAPA?

I am totally against rice smuggling but the government should have come up with smarter ideas to deal with this issue, and not shutting down the whole boarder.

Presently I have about two trailers of hides and skin from Mali parked at the boarder incurring bills, with high possibility of spoiling within the shortest period of time because of its present condition.

How do I import from Mali to Nigeria through the seaport?

It is only those that does not understand what happens at the land boarders that are jumping up and down.

Once again I reiterate my stance against smuggling rice through the boarders, but we have to be more tactical in handling certain issues as regards to our economy.


This boarder issue in Nigeria is like a fly perching on a man's scrotal sack, you have to apply wisdom in dealing with it, if not you may end up hurting yourself terribly bad if you hit it with great force.

MUMUdom:
The same way your ministers and officials were in Ghana begging and crying when shops belonging to nigerian traders were shut. Even on nairaland, it was a huge matter. For days, you Nigerians were talking about it.

Or you have forgotten how your foreign minister one Onyema or whatever shitty name, was in Accr@, begging for Ghana to open nigerian shops? They will soon be here again because starting from tomorrow, GUTA is closing shops of all Nigerians in Ghana I guess this time your president will come himself to beg

Blue3k:


No that's why im laughing at your expense. Here's a source link. Admittedly I being hyperbolic but you get point. Real food inflation around 11%.

https://nairametrics.com/2019/11/03/nipc-to-generate-n1-46-billion-from-its-activities-in-2020/amp/

ornicus:


go and suck on atikus deek while adults are talking.foolish child.
why does every industry or factory have back up generators?
how is it power issues have not killed them?
you were forming knowledge about generators yesterday.
are you so daft and ignorant that you do not know that every industry will simply buy a generator, and pass cost of diesel etal to consumers?
have you ever worked at all, or do you just spend all your time looking for crumbs from politicians

ediat. get off my mentions useless beaf trained troll

AlphaStyles:
who told u NIGERIA is the one saving Africa?

Agboriotejoye:

Ode. Igbo are the biggest importers in Nigeria. How does border closure favour them

Just30:
in Ghana we dont run nonsense policies of closing borders

it solves no problem

we tackle the problem head-on

Agboriotejoye:


Hahahaha
This mumu thinks using generators to power industries is efficient.
You see ya life? Pass it on to consumers okwaya? As if the consumers are so stupid to buy at exorbitant prices. Go to kd and Kano and tell them the textile industries died because they didn't know how to pass it on to customers if knife will not fall on you. Oponu ayirada.
Since your theory works dat way, how come Nigeria has become a low productivity nation. Sugomu. Arindin awatolenu

engrchykae:
whose job is that?

Area4Area:
Go to any rural area good at rice cultivation and see the smiles on their faces, even in the urban areas sef, youths are seriously getting involved in poultry business

destinie2019:


It doesn't take nuclear weapons to destroy a nation. It just takes ignorance. Ignorance in the leadership. And a band of ignorants acting as the supporters club, loudly drowning out the voice of reason.

SarkinYarki:


Says a man that still depends on family member to survive day to day