Maybe all local markets should be changed to first world grocery stores.

Truly the Nigerian markets are very very dirty.

spongeback: A market is a place where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods and services in exchange for money.
Nobody says it has to be clean for services to be rendered

Unfortunately that's the mentality of our leaders, who themselves are represtatives of the typical Nigerian mind!!! Until you get salmonella or typhoid that is!!!!

babe_online: Maybe all local markets should be changed to first world grocery stores.

Truly the Nigerian markets are very very dirty.

Who will change it? The owners? Lol they will only care when we stop patronizing them.. Till then, it will remain the same

pekelepekele: [color=#006600]Its only when it is raining that most market becomes dirty because of all the pure water nylon , plastic bottles and others that the flood will be carrying about but if not for that i trust our iya loja and iyalaje they are very neat people .

They always pay some people to sweep the whole market every morning .

i guess most people arent aware.

speedyboi:


And they start the blaming again!
The truth of the matter is...Nigerians are not civilized!

there's nothing to blame.

trash heaps on the outskirts of the market or anywhere, will make it look dirty.

its another thing altogether to claim the market is dirty- do you buy dirty things from them?

pDude:


No it is very clean.

Is that onions between railway lines?

are the onions dirty, or is your grouse that they're on the ground?

two different things entirely, and when Fashola clears the street traders you folks are the same ones who will start complaining.

miky:

Who will change it? The owners? Lol they will only care when we stop patronizing them.. Till then, it will remain the same

The government.

The markets are very dirty and disgusting.

Afam4eva: What really worries me is the bananas i see in Lagos everyday. I don't know how people can confidently be selling bananas that look like something sacrificed to obatala. Those bananas are very far from edible.

I swear, those bananas have more black than green on them

tpia@:


are the onions dirty, or is your grouse that they're on the ground?

two different things entirely, and when Fashola clears the street traders you folks are the same ones who will start complaining.

Not at all

I am just surprised that anyone will sell on railway lines. That's like selling on subway train lines.

babe_online:
The government.

The markets are very dirty and disgusting.

whats mentality with of our people and wanting governments to do everything.. so you want the government to organize and clean market fronts, when the owners are busy doing nothing... we are cursed in that country for real

what happened to government hands out of private venture.. you want nigeria to be like the usa, but you realize the government doesnt do everything except for regulations...

This is because people have failed to see anything bad in buying and selling in a dirty market! They are not informed!

miky:

whats mentality with of our people and wanting governments to do everything.. so you want the government to organize and clean market fronts, when the owners are busy doing nothing... we are cursed in that country for real

what happened to government hands out of private venture.. you want nigeria to be like the usa, but you realize the government doesnt do everything except for regulations...

All I am saying is that they can make the stores look like...Walmart, for example

babe_online:
All I am saying is that they can make the stores look like...Walmart, for example

they can standardize the markets to ensure each seller has a raised stall [although i wonder where that would leave the petty traders who cant afford one], but i dont know if walmart can be the standard, since this is nigeria, not overseas.

pDude:

Not at all

I am just surprised that anyone will sell on railway lines. That's like selling on subway train lines.

they're not supposed to, customers have to avoid encouraging it also.

berem: Because buying food stuff from a dirty market environment is cheaper.

yes, on the short term. Consider health on the long run

optimus-prime1:
Pleeeaazzzzze...
Have Y'all gone to Farmers market@ Maitama Abuja??
Now thats a Posh Market for Posh people, but then again everybody likes Cheap things, even *YOU!*
so instead of Farmers market@Maitama, one prefares going to Nyanya Market or Karu Market becuz of affordable prices.
Logic: Whoever said husslin' for cheap stuff is tidy or comes neat?
Layman terms: Abi you go wear white suit climb tree?
Haba, Africans be husslers- point blank the End.

is there any harm in hussling for cheap stuff and still keeping clean ?

@topic

Poor sanitation, especially where organic food is sold. It's very difficult for the traders to keep the place neat.

Next question: How can we help keep our markets clean?

what exactly do you mean by clean?

if you feel the markets are dirty, then go clear the mud whenever it rains.

miky:

whats mentality with of our people and wanting governments to do everything.. so you want the government to organize and clean market fronts, when the owners are busy doing nothing... we are cursed in that country for real

what happened to government hands out of private venture.. you want nigeria to be like the usa, but you realize the government doesnt do everything except for regulations...

On then contrary most markets I know do have the sellers clean around their stalls .
The problem is with central disposal of waste, which is the responsibility of the govt.
If you notice, the large refuse disposals around the market areas are always overflowing because of the tremendous amt of waste generated which is not promptly cleared.
Again the sellers do pay tax and should get better infrastructure like tarred /cemented markets.

Fhemmmy: Cos me and you that goes there to buy are dirty, cos the people selling to me and you are dirty.

everybodi is dirty and we enjoy eating dirty

Atleast the foodstuffs and the things we buy there are not dirty.

degurl: @tipia, it depends on the location of the op.

When it rains, you dare not go to market Mararaba/Karu except you have a rubber boot to wear.

Got duped @ d market yesterday.......

Is it only markets that are dirty?

spongeback: A market is a place where buyers and sellers meet to exchange goods and services in exchange for money.
Nobody says it has to be clean for services to be rendered

gbam