Constantin:

Gigitte,

you make me feel very bad when I read you. (although i have to accept your viewpoint)

Who says that open- air markets should close down? Of course, they are part of Naija but Naija has to move forward, too, like all the Asian, Arab and Latin American countries do. In Asia (I am not talking abot the highly adavnced countries such as Hong Kong, Japan, Korea or Taiwan but of new emerging markets like Malaysia, Thailand, India, Indonesia, countries on par wth Nigeria) cool and huge malls coexist next to Asian traditional markets and shops! MALLS CREATE EMPLOYMENT AND WEALTH IN A BROADER SENSE, TOO!
Why can´t it be the case for Nigeria, too? Why do you want that The Palms to close down, too? IS THAT A GENERALLY HELD VIEW Have you heard anything about modern marketing methods about wealth creation, principles of modern day market economy Are Europeans still shopping like they did in the 18 th century?
Maybe in US people are complaining about malls but they definitely don´t want to exchange them for our Naija markets,

I am sure you don´t want modern cinemas, spas, fitness clubs, theme parks, hotels, good universities, good health clinics, fast food (even if all of it had a Nigerian flavour), because all that is not originally Nigerian. AM I RIGHT??

I am sure that this is the Nigeria you want to see











Well, I accept it but accept also my viewpoint because I want Nigeria to be like an Asia tiger (without denying its Nigerianness)
















modern shopping culture , more and more people begin to buy such things in malls
























My dear you are such a cutie honey ay with the mind and thoughts of an adult, was so so impressed with all of your comments here where damn right on you got it gurl, gonna be looking out for ur comments on other threads as well, one thing is certain no matter what anyone on here is got to say this is just good riddance to bad rubbish, periood, GO girl i gotcha ack xoxoxoxox

gigitte:

@chuma

spot on spot on!

and can u imagine its people like st.moritz and co that will be sponsoring events in fashion and entertainment and arts industry , how could the naija government allow british american tobacco to come here.

kai instead of people to update our traditional stuff, every thing must be oyinbo. na real wah oh

gigitte:

yeah baby!
i have serious beef with foreign investors who are imperalist in their outlook and refuse to promote a good nigerian image or try and make their business uniquely nigerian. i feel they are out here to make money at the expense of nigerian and nigerians which is altogether disgusting. i strongly feel that we should come up with our own stuff and export it to the west in addition to equally represented views in foreign investorship relations. i don't want another western world in nigeria i want a nigeria that is nigeria -- proud and magnificent, not knock off hollywood, malls and nonsense. scheww

look at MTN for God goodness sake lol, its as if south africa wants to take over, abeg wetin? even british american tobacco that is busy there doing proudly nigerian, they are just here because the nigerian government is taking their crap, their own is even worse than MTN or woolies. i wont even start on oil companies. we should make like chad and give them a real shake down