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Chinese workers also doing manual labour in Nigeria http://amazingviewpoints..com/2015/02/chinese-labourers-in-nigeria.html?m=1

ckenneths:
Chinese workers also doing manual labour in Nigeria http://amazingviewpoints..com/2015/02/chinese-labourers-in-nigeria.html?m=1

Where's that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Ff4X7naL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLP4srATZyk?t=12m28s

Japan’s Nigerians pay price for prosperity

Facing apathy within and racism without, a disunited community struggles to thrive on society's periphery

BY DREUX RICHARD
JUL 19, 2011
The Nigerian Union in Japan is the central civic organization for immigrants from Africa’s most populous nation. It has foundered twice in 21 years and its current incarnation is less than a year old. Its mixed history is a reflection of the social and economic turmoil Japan’s Nigerian community has endured over the past two decades.

Members have been factory laborers, globe-trotting entrepreneurs and nightlife industry pioneers. They’ve also been blamed for some of Tokyo’s most publicized crime problems, notably a series of drink-spiking and bill-padding incidents that led the U.S. Embassy to issue a warning in 2009 against visiting Roppongi. With the exception of those incidents, their history has hardly been written about.

Union president Honorable Okeke Christian Kevin knows he has inherited an image problem that verges on unfixable, but which must be addressed if he wants to increase his constituents’ social mobility. To that end, the Nigerian Union has held two fundraisers to benefit tsunami victims, hoping to portray Tokyo’s Nigerians as socially conscious immigrants invested in the welfare of their adopted home. The second occurred during several months of reporting I dedicated to the Nigerian community.

There are reasons to hope. Okeke’s speech at the second fundraiser revealed a gifted leader who possesses a critical awareness of the issues his community is struggling with and speaks candidly about them. This includes condemning Nigerians engaged in illegal activity, but also criticizing outdated “adult entertainment” laws that effectively criminalize all nightlife establishments in Japan and make Nigerian business owners vulnerable to profiling at the whim of police.

Continued: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/07/19/community/japans-nigerians-pay-price-for-prosperity/#.VSlDXhPF9uo

Japan’s Nigerians see symbol of change in masquerade

As Japanese business looks again at Africa, expatriate troupes share cultural treasures with their adopted land

BY DREUX RICHARD
JUN 11, 2013
Anyone wandering the back streets near Omiya Station at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, might have passed a particular office building, unremarkable except for two African men standing on a 2nd floor balcony, rope in hand, lowering a car-sized Ugo (eagle) costume down to the parking lot. One of them was Tony Ikeotuonye, chairman of the Anambra State Union, one of Japan’s two largest Nigerian immigrant civic associations. He had slept lightly and awoken at 6 to begin loading costumes into a Nippon Rent-a-Truck, a process culminating in the curious scene that greeted passersby that morning in Saitama.

This was the unglamorous prelude to an African masquerade performance more than two years in the making. Ikeotuonye and the costumes were expected in Yokohama by 10 at Africa Fair, the public face of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). They were to take the stage at noon, and theirs would be the sole scheduled event representing the diaspora that links Japan to Africa.

For Ikeotuonye, it was gratifying to find himself only 70 km and a few hours away from showtime. The idea of establishing a masquerade troupe in Japan had initially provoked a great deal of skepticism among his constituents. Since then, much time and money had been spent, and odds defied, to make this ambitious aspiration a reality.

The potentially momentous economic developments TICAD invoked also provided the Africa Fair performance — and its participants — with a sharpened sense of occasion. Rapidly rising GDPs meant that many investors again regarded Africa as an emerging market. Breakneck Chinese investment had stirred Japanese insecurities. Yet Japan’s trade aspirations mingled with enduring uneasiness about a continent troubled by weak institutions, its culture and customs utterly remote to most Japanese.

Continued: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/11/issues/japans-nigerians-see-symbol-of-change-in-masquerade/#.VSlDXRPF9up

JJ at Climax, his new club in Shinjuku's Kabuki-cho.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2011/07/19/community/japans-nigerians-pay-price-for-prosperity/

Ideyontop:
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Indeed.

There's this IGBO spirit that is unique.

That is why we are called IGBO (DEVELOPER, CONTRUCTER & PEACE SETTER

Igbos, other Africans making it big in China

HONG KONG (AFP) – From a windowless room in a dilapidated Hong Kong high-rise, Ali Diallo sells Chinese electronics to retailers across Africa. The modest surroundings belie the multi-million dollar business the West African trader has built in the five years since he moved to the city.
The 39-year-old from Guinea is part of a growing number of African entrepreneurs thriving in southern China, as trade between the world’s second-largest economy and fastest-growing continent soars.
Sitting in a small room cluttered with cardboard boxes destined for Nigeria, Diallo welcomes the latest delivery of Chinese-made mobile phones to his office in Chungking Mansions — a bustling labyrinth better known for budget hotels and no-frills restaurants.
The building is also the go-to place in Hong Kong for African buyers in search of cheap electronics, with phones selling from around $8 each.
“In China there are opportunities for people who can start from scratch and build up their own business. Obviously not in one day but through hard work and networking you can do it,” says the trader, whose company sees an annual turnover of $11 million a year through the sale of phones and tablets alone.
Trade between China and Africa hit new highs of nearly $200 billion last year, according to official Chinese data, driven by Chinese industry’s appetite for African raw materials.

Continued: http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/20/igbos-other-africans-making-it-big-in-china/

Diaspora Nigerians contribute over 70% in growing China economy

By Vera Anyagafu, Prisca Sam-Duru & Njoku Saintjerry (Beijing)
Coordinator of Good Governance Initiative (GGI) and CEO, Blue Diamond Logistics, China, Mr. Festus Uzoma Mbisiogu has disclosed that Nigerian businessmen in China contribute over 70 per cent of China’s growing economy.

economyHe also said that the Nigerian businessmen in China are the backbone of the Nation’s foreign policy with China.
Mbisiogu said this during a town hall meeting with Nigerian business community in Beijing China, urging all responsible Nigerian authorities, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ensure that the efforts made to establish a new consulate in Guangzhou to satisfy the increasing number of Nigerian-China based businessmen and women in China was not futile.

He applauded the efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan in ensuring that Nigerian-China based businessmen go about their various businesses in China in a much suitable environment. He pointed out that the building of a new consulate in Guangzhou, China has eliminated all the hurdles of having to travel as far as Beijing to process as little as business registration, thereby, dampening business progression.
He said “Before the establishment of the consulate in Guangzhou there was a long gap between Nigerians in China and their home country. The connectivity between Guangzhou and Beijing, where the Nigeria embassy was first situated was such a herculean experience.
“In many situations, we would commute about 21 hours journey by train from Guangzhou to Beijing and or 3 hours by flight, just to get embassy authorities consents for cases ranging from business registrations to minor consular services.”
He also acknowledged the fact that the establishment of the new consulate in Guangzhou, has enabled better business transaction between Nigerians and the Chinese.

Continued: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/diaspora-nigerians-contribute-70-growing-china-economy/#sthash.vSqljHcn.dpuf

REINVENTING THE IGBO SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY

EMEKA OSONDU GOES BACK IN TIME TO LOOK AT THE ONCE MORIBUND SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY AMONG THE IGBOS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND CONCLUDES WITH THE RECENT RECOGNITION OF SOME IGBO INDUSTRIALISTS IN ENUGU THE ONCE COMATOSE SPIRIT IS STRONGLY BEING REINVENTED


The numerous exploits by Igbo indigenes in nation building since the pre-independence and post independence era in Nigeria are clear testimonies that the people are indeed ingenious and great entrepreneurs. And in fact, there are no tribe in Nigeria where you go without seeing an Igbo indigene engaged in one type of business or another and contributing effectively to the growth of the economy. But the tide suddenly changed for the Igbo entrepreneurs at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970. Although the war ended on a “no-victor, no vanquished” note, the Igbo as a tribe was displaced in the Nigerian equation, economically and politically, just as the psyche was reduced to the rubble for losing the war.


Then began the automatic decline in their fortunes, especially as those of them that had huge amount of money in the banks before the outbreak of the war were give only twenty pounds after the war. And with such paltry sum, they gradually went back to begin new businesses to eke out a living, since there was no alternative. Surprisingly today, many years after, succeeding generation of the Igbo were able to scale through the hurdle and have made their marks felt in different fields of endeavour, especially in the areas of commerce and industry.

Continued: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/reinventing-the-igbo-spirit-of-industry/131527/

[size=14pt]Weaving the world together - The Economist[/size]



Chike Obidigbo, for example, runs a factory in Enugu, Nigeria, making soap and other household goods. He needs machines to churn palm oil and chemicals into soap, stamp it into bars and package it in plastic. He buys Chinese equipment, he says, because although it is not as good as European stuff, it is much cheaper. But it is difficult for a Nigerian firm to do business in China. Mr Obidigbo does not speak Chinese, and he cannot fly halfway around the world every time he wants to buy a new soap machine. Worse, if something goes wrong neither the Chinese government nor the Nigerian one is likely to be much help.

Yet Mr Obidigbo's firm, Hardis and Dromedas, manages quite well with the help of middlemen in the African diaspora. When he wants to inspect a machine he has seen on the internet, he asks an agent from his tribe, the Igbo, who lives in China to go and look at it. He has met several such people at trade fairs. “When you hear people speaking Igbo outside Nigeria, you must go and greet them,” he laughs.

He trusts them partly because they are his ethnic kin, but mostly because an Igbo middleman in Guangdong needs to maintain a good reputation. If a middleman cheats one Igbo, all the others who buy machinery in Guangdong will soon know about it. News travels fast on the diaspora grapevine.

Thanks in part to Mr Obidigbo's diaspora connections, Hardis and Dromedas is thriving. It employs 300 workers and sells about 300m naira-worth ($2m) of products each year. And it is just one of many African firms that use migrants as their eyes and ears in distant lands. The number of Africans living in China has exploded from hardly any two decades ago to tens of thousands today. One area of Guangzhou is now home to so many African traders that the locals call it Qiao-ke-li Cheng (Chocolate City).

Continued: http://www.economist.com/node/21538700

[size=14pt]US,China, South Korea Woo Igbo Entrepreneurs In Lagos[/size]

The governments of the United States, China and South Korea today in Lagos canvassed Igbo business men and women to do business with their respective countries.
The foreign countries representatives who laboured to convince the traders assured them of fair treatment and unmatched support services in the course of transacting businesses.

They made the call at the 2015 South East Business Investment Summit held at the National Theatre in Lagos. The summit was organized by the Imo State Government Liaison Office Lagos.

The theme of this year’s summit is “Building Wealth Through Sustainable Business Development and Best Trading Practices”.

Brian McCleary, Commercial Counselor at the US Mission to Nigeria who represented the United States at the summit informed the hundreds of Igbo traders of enormous opportunities to explored in America adding that the doors of the Government of America were always open to support genuine business in Nigeria.

In the same vein, Liu Kan, the Consul-General of China boasted of the growth of China in recent decades. He stressed that the China remained the best economic world power to do business with. Kan urged the businessmen to visit China embassy to find out the support services available.

The chairman of the occasion, Prof Pat Utomi charged the businessmen to place huge premium on learning. He observed that the global business environment is fast changing adding that constant learning is key to survival in the global business arena.

Also buttressing the points made by the chairman, the guest speaker, Dr. Cosmas Maduka told the business people to always have delayed gratification in order for their business to grow.

He told a story of how he grew a conglomerate with just to N200 in 1976 to an empire worth N50billion in shareholders’capital today.

According to the founder of Coscharis Group of Companies, integrity and vision are part of his secret of success.

http://www.completenewsng.com/uschina-south-korea-woo-igbo-entrepteneurs-lagos/

[size=14pt]2014 Igbo Person of the Year emerges in China[/size]



Festus Mbisiogu has emerged the 2014 Igbo Person of the Year. A China-based businessman, Mbisiogu clenched the award, defeating 10 other distinguished Igbo indigenes slated for the prestigious award.

The Igbo Person of the Year Award, a thought seed of Igbo Amaka, an Igbo socio-cultural organization committed to promoting excellence in the nation’s interest in concert with various Pan Igbo organisations, is conceptualised to stimulate the spirit of industry and to acknowledge sterling achievements by Igbo sons and daughters across the globe.

A native of Ideato South in Imo State, Mbisiogu got the honour in recognition of his pivotal role in the establishment of the Nigerian Consulate in the city of Gwanzhou, China, which has the largest population of Nigerians resident in China. More importantly, the Assessment/Advisory Board for the awards also considered his far reaching measures towards providing portable water in his place, Ideato South, Imo State.
The Tusk presentation ceremony of the 2014 Igbo Person of the Year Award is scheduled to hold on January 23, 2015, at Golden Gate Restaurant, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

Continued: http://newtelegraphonline.com/2014-igbo-person-of-the-year-emerges-in-china/

Mariory:


Nope. It's not on the front page because after 2 posts you've turned it into an Igbo thread because Nigerians (who happen to be Igbo) are featured in the video. That basically killed any incentive for further discussion outside of your nairaland click. You know yourselves.

Well this is awkward.

**grins** ezeagu well done.

OperationIgrigi:
**grins** ezeagu well done.

Thumbs up.

quickly, I'll answer you here.

Where are you, quickly?

The second coming of igbos loading! !!!

kettykin:
The second coming of igbos loading! !!!

Hia!

Ndigbo on the move! I'm so proud of my people!!

great thread ezeagu, its the same story everywhere.
Haters can go and ....

Thanks.