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[b]AS IGBO BUSINESS ARE GROWING AND EXPANDING IN IGBOLAND AND ACROSS NIGERIA AND WEST AFRICA, ACCORDING TO LONDON ECONOMIST MAGAZINE http://www.economist.com/node/21541015 AND NEW YORK TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/nollywood-movies.html?hpw wrote that about 30 years ago, According to legend, the first Nollywood movie was made by a small-time electronics trader named Kenneth Nnebue.Other merchants, overwhelmingly members of Nnebue’s ethnic group, the Igbo, followed him into business and controls the movie and film Nollywood in Africa. THE CHINESE AND ASIANS ALSO KNOW THAT THE IGBO TRIBE ARE VIBRANT AND INNOVATIVE BUSINESS PEOPLE.
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African Traders in Guangzhou, China: Routes, Profits, and Reasons

Yang Yang

The traders today mainly come from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Cameroon, Senegal, Kenya, and Tanzania. The majority are identified as Nigerian Igbo, who are mainly Christians from Nigeria・s eastern regions. Compared to their other African counterparts, these Igbo usually stay for longer periods in China and sometimes manage to open multiple shops in China, earning a reputation of being ―very good at business.‖My Igbo friends said that they had to be good at business to survive, ―If you want to know about Igbo, you need to know the history of the Biafran War‖ a Nigerian ethnic war in the late 1960s which resulted in the mass expropriations of Igbo wealth and property. ―We became the poorest ethnic group and we could not enter good entry-level jobs because we were discriminated against. So Igbo had to stand on their own feet and make profits from whatever possible means,‖one trader in Guangzhou said. Here is the story of another trader:
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/PostgraduateForum2011/Econ/YANGYang.pdf
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IGBOS SHOULD WAKE UP AND STOP LISTENING TO DOOM SAYERS AND BAD NEWS FOCASTER ABOUT IGBOLAND. BUSINESS IS GROWING AND BOOMING IN IGBOLAND. REASONABLE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO IGBO DOOM SAYERS AND NIGERIA DOOM SAYERS ABOUT BUSINESS IN IGBOLAND FROM SOME FEW UNINFORMED PEOPLE. GENUINE BUSINESS PEOPLE IN IGBOLAND, NIGERIA AND INTERNATIONALLY SEE IGBOLAND AS A EMERGING FRONTIER FOR INNOVATION AND LOCAL CONTENT STARTUP PLACE. TAKE A LOOK AT THE TYPES OF EMERGING BRANDS, PRODUCTS AND SUSTAINED BUSINESSES IGBO ARE USING TO PUT IGBOLAND AND NIGERIA ON THE MAP BY ENGAGING INTO BUSINESS IN TRANSPORTATION, COMPUTER, ELECTRONICS. ELELCTRICAL, AGRICULTURE, MACHINE TOOL, MOTOR PARTS, PHARMACEUTICALS, OIL AND GAS DISCOVERY ETC. IGBOLAND AND EASTERN REGION IS OPENING UP FOR GRASS ROOT AND GENUINE GROUND UP BUSINESS.
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[b]IGBOS SHOULD GO DOWN TO IGBOLAND AND START INVESTING THEIR MONEY ESPECIALLY IGBOS FROM DIASPORA AND ABROAD BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING BUSINESS SECTORS CONTROLLED AND LEAD BY IGBOS. THESE ARE HOME GROWN BUSINESSES AND MARKET. ALL THESE BUSINESSES WERE CONCIEVED AND DEVELOPED IN IGBOLAND AND IN NIGERIA. IGBO LAND SHOULD BE THE NEW FRONTIER FOR IGBOS FOR BUSINESS EXPANSIO AND BUSINESS STARTUP. IGBO SHOULD LEARN TO BUILD COMPANIES AND BUSINESS FROM GROUND UP AND NOT FROM UP TO DOWN. GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND GOVERNMENT ASSISTED BUSINESS (LEGAL OR ILLEGAL) ARE ALWAYS FULL OF CORRUPTION AND UNSUSTAINABLE, AND IT DAMAGES IGBO BUSINESS LIKE ALL THESE SUBSIDY AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS THAT DESTROYS BUSINES BUT ENRICH ONLY AND FEW AND THE RICH.
IGBO BUSINESS POINTS ACROSS NIGERIA LIKE ALABA INTERNATIONAL MARKET LAGOS, IKEJA COMPUTER MARKET, ASPANDA MARKET, LADIPO MOTOR CAR PARTS, TRADEFAIR MARKET LAGOS, BENIN MARKET, PORTHARCOURT MARKETS, KANO, MAKUDI, JOS, BENIN CITY, KADUNA ETC. SHOULD HAVE EASY LINKS TO IGBOLAND IN A MORE PROFOUND WAY TO HELP THIS LINKAGE EXPAND BUSINESS AND OPPORTUNITY IN IGBOLAND.
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Relax101 on November 26, 2011, 04:16 A

Igbo comapnies are waxing strong ,those so called traders or petty traders as he called them its better to have them than to have almajiros running around or alayes and agberos doing nothing with their life. kudos to them for making onitsha the biggest market in the world and Aba the only place that manufactures every single thing we use from boxers,singlet ,sandals, shoes,suits etc call it aba made all we want but they are selling and will get there one day,at least they have started exporting their products to togo,ghana and benin plus cameroun thats a good start for now.

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Topic: Igbo Owned Companies (Read 1679 views)
bashr8
Igbo Owned Comapanies Ezeuche take note
« on: November 26, 2011, 04:11 AM »

[b]you obviously dont know what is going on in nigeria , igbos remain the major players in nigerian buisness setting both formal and informal economy , even in lagos ,name any non igbo you think have a succesful company and i will name 3 igbos that run a similar company and am talking about home grown companies spread accross nigeria and west africa and not mushroom companies stuck only in lagos or foreign companies setting up branches in nigeria.


RAPIDO COMPANIES ( own ABC transport and other consolidations now spread throughout west africa and currently central africa)
transcorp int ( am sure you know about it ,own major hotels in nigeria including transcorp hilton)
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anabel( the only home grown nigerian company manufactiuring mobile phones right here in nigeria)
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Emzor Pharmaceuticals

Ibeto Industries( we all know his story but he is waxing stronger now)

Capital Oil

chrome oil and ehc energy

mtn nigeria

slok group(shipping)
Â

visa phone
chi limited (chivita juice)

FAN (icecreams)

consolidated breweries

ANAMCO

ogbuawa(motorcycles)

Autostar

Coscharis Motors

Linkserve Ltd

Fidelity Bank

Diamond Bank

aba textiles(the only surviving nigerian textile industry left)

Sun Newspaper

Champion Newspapers

ThisDay news paper

Zinox computers

Eko Hospital

innoson

orange drugs


juhel pharmaceuticals

numerous private universities


ovium pc and tablets(recently won an arward for best african innorvation ,i don forget)

GENESIS popular in the east especially ph and enugu,own cinemas just like silver bird)
Global motors - Anumudu
lets not go into how many hotels accross nigeria owned by igbos basically all the hotels in the south east, majority in abuja,lagos ,ph, asaba,kano ,kaduna etc.

even with the death of ekenedilichukwu his company remains number one in the nigerian transport industry , even with trains coming it wont change anything just as it has not changed anything in us ,uk,china etc.
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ABC transport,Orange drug,Delta soap,Diamönd bank,Zinox computers are Imo brands, Roban stores,Rainbownet are Enugu brands, UBA,Zenith bank are Delta igbo brands, Arik air,Wakanow are Rives igbo brands,Ovim tablet phones&Softwares are Abia brands.its like saying Nolly wood is dominated by Enugu&Imo igbos because most of our top superstars are from Enugu&Imo or say super eagles&falcons is dominate by Abia&Imo igbos finally,whatever they are,they represent Ndiigbo&Nigeria at large.

ezeuche and bashr8 thanks for your contribution both of you where identify in this article kudos

GENESIS CINEMA


http://www.genesisdeluxecinemas.com/ContactUs.html

If only igbo's will invst more back home than they are doin in lagos,abuja and ph

Igbos are ontop of the situation..

Anything "spare parts" both old and new are controlled by Igbos.

Anything "cloths & shoes" both forign and locally made are Igbos stock in trade.
....infacts Igbos control naija economy.FACT.

#waiting for other of our brothers to counter this claim and list their own success stories#

achi4u: ...waiting for other of our brothers to counter this claim and list their own success stories#

Too much to be listed(uncountable). nairaland is going to crash if we start.

Nigeria is most destructive and dream killing of a nation.

i blv its better for igbos to look home ward when building a business.

but in a country like nigeria where gov see igbo's as their worst enemy and ready to destroy anything belonging to igbos.
the strategy of home investment is better but more vulnerable to destroy us when gov target us.

example: when OBJ was on seat, he make sure he destroy economy in eastern Nigeria.
why?
because core-north and southwest sees igbo's as their worst nightmare and arc-enemy.

how?
Obj closed down Onne-port where major goods imported by igbos comes from, and set up custom checking points from lagos down to onicha-asaba Niger bridge just to check mate igbo business men. this hatred was too bad that Obj(Yoruba man) cares less that most goods are coming into Nigeria via Benin-Togo another country.
Nigeria lost more than $10b to Benin-Togo cuz of that but do you know its better for these guys than to allow igbo man hard work bear fruit.


why did Nigerian government refuse to build international air-port in the east?
why did they refuse to build port's in eastern Nigeria?
why did they refuse federal presence in the east to develop it like other region?
we can go on and on

these are calculated actions not co-incidence.

setting up business outside igbo land has made it difficult for our enemies.
you can't burn down igbos business without hurting other tribes in the process.
unlike during IBB where they set up Onicha and Ariaria on fire and hit igbos alone.

this days when they set balogun mkt on fire 20% yorubas will be affected too which may not recover but 80% igbos involve will recover in less than a year.
when they set sabon gari mkt on fire do you know 35% hausa/fulani's will be affected which may not recover while 63% igbo affected will recover in short time.

my point is this "if we ended up bringing back all our business home, i tell you one strike alone will cripple us".
but i 9ja voice strictly stand on bringing back all manufacturing company own by igbos back home, small scale excluded.

9ja voice: example: when OBJ was on seat, he make sure he destroy economy in eastern Nigeria.
why?
because core-north and southwest sees igbo's as their worst nightmare and arc-enemy ...

That's what you think

^^^
You don't need to reply that my friend(achi4u)

geeez: Globacom

Airtel

Oando

Conoil

Honeywell Oil

First Bank

GTbank

FCMB

Sterling Bank

Wema Bank

Global Fleet

Nicon Group

Punch Newspapers

Tribune Newspapers

The Nation

Elephant Cement

Abiola Farms

Summit oil international ltd

Africa Ocean lines

Lister Oil

Bi Courtney

African Petroleum

Zenon Oil

Eleganza Group

Elizade Motors

Aiico Insurance

Xerox Nigeria

Cadbury

Guinness

Note that I'm yet to include companies solely owned by Fernandez and Harry Akande and Obasanjo and a host of other Yoruba people

List more of yours and I'll be back

Go ask people in USA, and Europe. It is the middle class that is the engine of the economy and not big corporation.

Government that go about killing the middle class and small businesses and denying them the competitive ability is evil.

Ngwakwe:

Go ask people in USA, and Europe. It is the middle class that is the engine of the economy and not big corporation.

Government that go about killing the middle class and small businesses and denying them the competitive ability is evil.

If you want me to list the middle class Yoruba companies, the NL server go crash

geeez:

If you want me to list the middle class Yoruba companies, the NL server go crash

We are on the same page, that is what I want to see. Not only from one tribe as per say.

@OP, lovely.
Ogbuawa motorcycles brings back good memories. . . Lol. ABS used to run his products adverts like mad, got so much we renamed the station to "ogbuawa broadcasting service" OBS.

Globacom

Airtel________ Bharti Airtel Limited(INDIA)

Oando

Conoil

Honeywell Oil

First Bank

GTbank

FCMB

Sterling Bank

Wema Bank

Global Fleet

Nicon Group

Punch Newspapers

Tribune Newspapers

The Nation

Elephant Cement( Wapco France)

Abiola Farms

Summit oil international ltd

Africa Ocean lines(Raymond Dopkesi) Edo state

Lister Oil

Bi Courtney

African Petroleum

Zenon Oil

Eleganza Group

Elizade Motors

Aiico Insurance

Xerox Nigeria (http://www.xerox.com/about-xerox/country-select/xxxx.html?mode=home&LOB=CORP)

Cadbury(Kraft Foods INc USA)

Guinness(Irish)am a shareholder as well

Note that I'm yet to include companies solely owned by Fernandez and Harry Akande and Obasanjo and a host of other Yoruba people

List more of yours and I'll be back
[/b][/quote] some of the companies listed above are same, its like listing Dangote group and at the same time listed Dangote transport. Guiness(Irish) Elephant Cement(Wapco_ France) Airtel(India) African ocean line(Dokpesi) Edo State.

9ja voice: Nigeria is most destructive and dream killing of a nation.

i blv its better for igbos to look home ward when building a business.

but in a country like nigeria where gov see igbo's as their worst enemy and ready to destroy anything belonging to igbos.
the strategy of home investment is better but more vulnerable to destroy us when gov target us.

^^^Igbo industrialists and business men don't invest in places like Abuja and Lagos out of self-hate or b'cos they love these places more than their homeland; it's b'cos (as i've stated many times b/4) the powers that be.....the owners of Nigeria have centred almost everything in Lagos and Abuja, with cities like Kaduna/Kano/Zaria/Port Harcourt coming a close second in preference (Port Harcourt only featuring b'cos of the oil industry, and not for any noble reason like trying to balance things); so Igbo owned businesses have to locate at these places to have close contact with the central gov't (which is the main patron of business in Nigeria), or to make contact with the outside world via seaports and int'l airports; it's been set up in a way that 'Nigeria' sells itself to the world as a destination to come and do business, and when investors arrive they are made to see Lagos and Abuja as 'Nigeria' and the base from which you can spread your tentacles if you so desire......this has given these cities an advantage in terms of real estate, hospitality industry, worldwide recognition, etc.

Things are only changing a bit now with Presidents Yar'adua and Jonathans efforts to open up other regions/zones (that have been criminally left to 'rot') with the approval of new int'l gateways like the deep sea port at Ibaka, dredging of the River Niger and Enugu int'l airport.

That's why i say as a people, we should be interested in who occupies Aso Rock Villa.....esp' if the country isn't restructured, and things remain as they are, with a powerful all controlling centre.

How many of the so called yoruba companies were actually stolen from foreign owners during awolowo indigenisation degree as d finance minister. Besides, listing companies owned by yoruba politicians like a abiola is quite lame, how many listed igbo companies are owned by politicians. We are talking about enterprenuership not looting of public funds.

Seriously whoever started this thread must have been really jobless. Piggybacking on the success of others and coming here to claim tribal solidarity to oppress other tribes. Really lame. Go out there and make your own money, leave these people you're quoting and listing alone.

duni04: Seriously whoever started this thread must have been really jobless. Piggybacking on the success of others and coming here to claim tribal solidarity to oppress other tribes. Really lame. Go out there and make your own money, leave these people you're quoting and listing alone.

how is it tribal solidarity, tell me what wrong with it?

All the igbos need to learn is how to develop the communities collectively as their businesses develops.They have to set aside their portions of their earning to be juduciously put back in the communities.

Isn't Xerox Nigeria an arm of Xerox Corp.?

Xerox H.S (Nigeria) Limited came into being on 1st of January, 1996, [size=14pt]as a result of the need for Xerox to maximize local market opportunities and become more responsive to customer requirement.[/size] Prior to this, Xerox business has been managed by Rank Xerox (Nigeria) Limited for over twenty- two (22) years.

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^Igbo industrialists and business men don't invest in places like Abuja and Lagos out of self-hate or b'cos they love these places more than their homeland; it's b'cos (as i've stated many times b/4) the powers that be.....the owners of Nigeria have centred almost everything in Lagos and Abuja, with cities like Kaduna/Kano/Zaria/Port Harcourt coming a close second in preference (Port Harcourt only featuring b'cos of the oil industry, and not for any noble reason like trying to balance things); so Igbo owned businesses have to locate at these places to have close contact with the central gov't (which is the main patron of business in Nigeria), or to make contact with the outside world via seaports and int'l airports; it's been set up in a way that 'Nigeria' sells itself to the world as a destination to come and do business, and when investors arrive they are made to see Lagos and Abuja as 'Nigeria' and the base from which you can spread your tentacles if you so desire......this has given these cities an advantage in terms of real estate, hospitality industry, worldwide recognition, etc.

Things are only changing a bit now with Presidents Yar'adua and Jonathans efforts to open up other regions/zones (that have been criminally left to 'rot') with the approval of new int'l gateways like the deep sea port at Ibaka, dredging of the River Niger and Enugu int'l airport.

That's why i say as a people, we should be interested in who occupies Aso Rock Villa.....esp' if the country isn't restructured, and things remain as they are, with a powerful all controlling centre.

Thank you. The bolded part had been my reason for advocating that we should always try as much as possible channel our industries back to east.Waiting for Nigeria Govt to develop our cities like they do to other regions then we have to wait till eternity.Nigeria Govt had been very unfair to igbos tribe God in heaven sees that hence he Bless igbos with special skills not to wait on Nigeria govt.This Nigeria is not truly our country until there is true senses of belonging or a set up for true restructuring and reconstructing of Nigeria.

The only Govt on earth that killed talent's on it citizens just because they are from certain ethnicity.

lol @ ibo and their empty chest beating. Of what good are your mushroom businesses if they are based in Yoruba land and paying taxes in Yoruba land to develop Yorubaland...


The joke is always on you losers...

Chai all I see on this page is ignorance. Otinkpu's!!! Beating other peoples drum.

Where is your own?

Eko Ile: lol @ ibo and their empty chest beating. Of what good are your mushroom businesses if they are based in Yoruba land and paying taxes in Yoruba land to develop Yorubaland...


The joke is always on you losers...

YORUBA'S ARE ALREADY HYBRID OF GORILLA AND ODUDU FOSSILS . LAGOS WAS BUILT BY ALL NIGERIA ETHNIC COMBINE , LAGOS STATE DON'T BELONG TO YORUBA'S .WE WILL LET YOU HAVE LAGOS BACK WHEN ALL NIGERIA COMBINE AND BURN IT DOWN TO ASHES ,THEN YOU CAN HAVE IT

^^^^^^^ as messed up as ibo people are, I hope they don't associate with ret,.arded comedians like you...

Hmmmm....we've seen a list of companies run by Yorubas and Igbos....now what's the next step??

Eko Ile: ^^^^^^^ as messed up as ibo people are, I hope they don't associate with ret,.arded comedians like you...

Mugu, first off you need to plaster/cover those tiger mark holes in your face with dangote cement before you can talk rubbish.

As long as you are still having those horrible tiger marks on your face you are subhuman. To prove to you that yorrobber people are subhuman beings, OBJ is the ugliest president Nigeria has ever produced, a gorrilla looks 10 times better than OBJ. Taye Taiwo is another example. No African footballer is as ugly as that appee. No wonder most yorrobber people enjoy shitting in nylon bags because they are appeess.