denzel2009:

So on the Vat reclaim forms they ask you your tribe?

KnowAll:


Going into a tirade of foul language does not help your case or your argument, you are intellectually incapable to comprehend the dynamics of micro and macro economic theory. Even Chancellor of the Exchequer would not dear underestimate the contribution of the 'Yoruba s' to this economy, I leave you to your explicitly diminished aptitude of the aforementioned,  you can continuing wallowing in your convoluted hysteria, I do not have time for teenagers.

Sagamite:

What makes you think they don't research the specific customers when claiming VAT?

denzel2009:

Sagamite, you need to go out more and stop attacking your cretins on NL. 

All they need to do before launching that campaign is to google major Nigerian language. Even wiki lists them as Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba etc

Must everything be scientifically researched?

auwal87:

Big Bad Belle Fools!

No single Hausa in this EFCC Most Wanted List:>>> http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=59

auwal87:

Obasanjo was the biggest Looter compared to IBB and Abacha!

auwal87:

FYI: Most Hausa people visiting UK are business men and professionals (Doctors, Lawyers, etc).

Sagamite:

I am pretty sure people working at such a company and at such a level that is strategic to the profits of the firm will be quite intelligent and not resort to such arbitrariness.

More so, definitely not in UK, where they will even have many Nigerians working in their head office.

It is not Russia or Germany. It is London, mate.

On the other hand, if I don't attack cretins how will I explain to God on Judgement Day about being selfish with my superior Godly intellect?

Sagamite:

Don't be an eediot!

Do most of those look like people wanted for looting national treasury?

You must be deluded if you don't know the latter 2 are mainly responsible for destroying Nigeria economically and socially!

You must be on drugs!

Where do Hausa doctors get £1600 to spend in one go and this is after paying for flight?

How many Hausa lawyers, doctors and other professionals are there?

What businesses are the business men doing?

Utter clunking rubbish!

Tweety121:

@ joecrack and blacklion, I wasn't gloating, just pointing out the difference between the average majority and a powerful minority in terms of Nigerian spending power and countering the wrongful assumptions about 'poor and backward Hausas,' or did you not see the ridicule heaped on us at the suggestion that our spending power could be respected by Westerners?

So it's OK to demean Hausas as poor & illiterate, but to champion them as wealthy and powerful is tasteless?

The truth is politicians and 'business men' of ALL tribes have stolen money from Nigeria and are spending it ostentatiously around the world. I'm not advocating it, I'm just commenting on a thread about retail.

blacklion:

Thanks for the sensible comments. I was not addressing people like you.

Yes, its absolutely true that the elites from all over the country have looted Nigeria blind.

And yes, we all know that the North has its own educated professionals and not all are almajiris or beggars.

My comments are directed at the group of numbskulls who are here celebrating that Nigeria's stolen money is being squandered by elites from their area in London to the extent that UK shop owners now advertise in their native language as if that is anything to celebrate.

denzel2009:

We are still saying the same thing. If they have done it strategically and by careful sampling of customers that regularly patronize them, you and I know they wouldn't have picked Hausa.

denzel2009:

If the so called Hausas are very wealthy, they won't go through with the tedious task of collating receipts from every store and join the long queue at the airport in order to reclaim few quids of VAT.

So any rich Nigerian is a thief ? Just because you are not rich? Don't you want to be rich too? Common man, be fair, not all rich Nigerians are public office holders. We have lots of[b] business men all over the world[/b].

Sagamite:

You still don't get it!

It is not about regular patronisation. It is about significant patronisation.

They have done their research for their summer sales and have found that there are a lot of Hausas that come over and shop at the Oxford Street Debenhams (which is close to the Arab-centric Marble Arch).

That does not mean that there are more Hausas visiting that particular Oxford Street shop than Yorubas or Ibos. I think this point is what you are struggling to comprehend.

What Debenhams have probably found is that the fewer Hausas (who normally show up in the Summer) spend far more on average than the everyday UK-based Southerners or Tourist Southerners.

I gave you a Customer Set examples to help you comprehend it.

If I am making, for example, a profit of £1500 per customer from one set of 20 customers at the same cost as the £40 profit per customer I am making from the other set of 300 customers, the 20 customers will be more important to me.

That is why they chose Hausa.

Do you get it?

Mate, 17.5% or 20% tax on £10,000 is significant enough money. You can only sensible assume they did not only shop in Debenhams when they were in the UK, and if they are spending over £1000 per shopping in Debenhams you can imagine how much they spend throughout.

What is tedious about waiting 5 mins to collect receipts to get £2000+/- back?

denzel2009:

Common Sagamite you can't reclaim VAT on goods in excess of £600. And they have to physically check the goods sef at the airport.

denzel2009:

and I thought you already told told us they conducted a special research.

reindeer:

I think the shop owners may just be misinformed. Igbo or Yoruba would have been better.I have met very few hausas in the UK. . .very few.

Sagamite:

Hmm!

I no no that!

Is that for individual item that cost over £600 or any group of items over £600?

I don't get this point.

Sagamite:

Hmm!

I no no that!

Is that for individual item that cost over £600 or any group of items over £600?

I don't get this point.

Eziachi:

Well, while you may think like a Nigeria, where tribal sentiments determines things, this shop doesn't as they use hard fact a available to them. While many Igbos/Yorubas may be in London but[b] they don't shop in Oxford street[/b], including the rich, but sunday markets all around London. While Hausa visitors  just like few of them that live in the U.K probably new nothing about cheap Sunday markets.

Well, while you may think like a Nigeria, where tribal sentiments determines things, this shop doesn't as they use hard fact a available to them. While many Igbos/Yorubas may be in London but they don't shop in Oxford street, including the rich, but sunday markets all around London. While Hausa visitors just like few of them that live in the U.K probably new nothing about cheap Sunday markets.

denzel2009:

Wheeew!!! getting sagamite to say I no know: PRICELESS  

ola olabiy:

You are NOW a man.


Now, I can say you are brilliant and intelligent.

Didn't expect you to say so.
Keep it up.

Eziachi:

Well, while you may think like a Nigeria, where tribal sentiments determines things, this shop doesn't as they use hard fact a available to them. While many Igbos/Yorubas may be in London but they don't shop in Oxford street, including the rich, but sunday markets all around London. While Hausa visitors  just like few of them that live in the U.K probably new nothing about cheap Sunday markets.

Sagamite:

I will report to Seun for advertising for Mastercard on NL without paying.  

I  am always open to learning.  

kbdrim:

Northerners dont do security jobs, sweeping of streets, washing toilet in UK, they come to study or joy their lives cos they got class, get ova it southerners

kbdrim:

Northerners dont do security jobs, sweeping of streets, washing toilet in UK, they come to study or joy their lives cos they got class, get ova it southerners

denzel2009:

Big lie Mr Eziachi

auwal87:

So any rich Nigerian is a thief ? Just because you are not rich? Don't you want to be rich too? Common man, be fair, not all rich Nigerians are public office holders. We have lots of business men all over the world.

blacklion:

Pls name them. I challenge you to name just 10 prominent nationally known businessmen of Hausa-Fulani extraction who -

1. never made any money whatsoever from Nigerian government contract

2. never benefitted from Nigerian government-approved import duty waiver or other government business concession

3. never participated in politics or held political post in Nigeria

4.  never benefitted from Nigerian Customs Service illegal seizure of imported goods or illegal customs duty waivers

When you have finished that one, then please name 10 Hausa-Fulani lawyers who became SAN or had successful corporate practice; also name ten prominent northern medical practitioners who have money to squander on Oxford Street etc.

ezeagu:

That's because they are the ones making their Hausa brothers at home the people dominating those jobs in Nigeria. There is absolutely nothing to brag about.