SUFFERING AND SMILING : Nigeria Is The Second
Highest Consumer Of Champagne In The World,
Behind France
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We dey pop champagne, pop pop pop pop, pop
champagne – Cristal, Dom Pérignon and Moet et
Chandon rosé! Nigerians love merriment and
popping champagne, the ubiquitous French drink.
According to UK’s “The Guardian” newspaper,
Nigeria is the second highest in the world, second
ONLY to France!
At all the celebrity parties in Lagos, they always
have champagne. And it has to be the finest,
because these are the things that are important
symbols here” says Genevieve magazine editor.
At every elite event, the champagne has to be
flowing, and how much champagne there is at
your party determines whether you are bigger
than the next celebrity.
Sales of fizz in Nigeria hit $50m+ each year and IS
rising! Nigerians spent 8billion naira on
champagne alone in 2011!
We are even ahead of rapid growth nations Brazil
and China, and established markets such as the
US and Australia.
And the worrying part is it doesn’t even end here.
Nigerians’ love of big spending has attracted
growing attention in recent months. Last year
figures revealed that Nigerian tourists in the UK
are the fourth biggest foreign spenders, ringing
up an average £500 (N115,000) in each shop
where they make purchases – four times what
the average UK shopper spends.
Someone just had to say that:
Nigerians’ unhealthy enthusiasm for anything
foreign or imported is a plague that continues to
pull the country back into this sort of wasteful
expenditure, … these figures reveal the profligacy
that is offensive, if not obscene.”
Or what do you think?
Should this ‘wasteful’ spending continue or should
we make it stop?!