PapaBrowne:


I get your point very well. But I can tell you categorically why Igbos tend to trade certain goods better than others. Let me ask you a question, would an Igbo man be more successful at selling suya than a Hausa man? The answer is no and the reason is networks. Networks are built over decades and certain tribes have built better comparative advantages in certain fields than other tribes and vice versa. Igbos have a network of importers that span the globe and so are first in line to get the best goods at the best prices when it comes to imports. There are also other factors of collaboration that Ibos deploy as well as the mentorship system that are all cultural anecdotes that would always make the Ibo man thrive in business.
Also if you look at the Hausa man, they control the food trade because they have a massive network of farmers that only them can reach hence they can provide prices of foodstuffs that no other tribe an effectively provide.

shallysgirl:
Nobody mentioned yoruba. The author is yoruba.

IkpuMmadu:


Which one do Yoruba control ?

Now let me give you an instance...it's cultural


Have you ever tried buying something from a Yoruba woman or man first thing is that he will sit down non challan copy and ask you kilo fera, then ask you how many then ask you hope you have change ...doing it as if she is doing you a favour and she would be lazy to even go and look for change....if you bergain wrongly....they would bad mouth you ....calling you alaroro and what's not


Now as a customer....would you go back to her again ?


That's client service


Have you asked why most firms employ Igbo as marketers ...and you know marketers are the Brian of firms and they claim higher

profmiganigal:
If you visit any land and there is no Igbo man....leave that place and go....is evil and not fertile

There must be an agbala there.

profmiganigal:
If you visit any land and there is no Igbo man....leave that place and go....is evil and not fertile

There must be an agbala there.

deedeedee1:

Yes ooo. Sambisa forest is very fertile

giftq:

What of the Yorubas that prosper on the basis of SS crude oil?

profmiganigal:


Igbos cant be there.....is only animals trained by north and arewa youths are carrying out operation there....not forgetting buhari their grand patron

Humans cant co-habit with animals....jackals and hyenas

deedeedee1:

Abia state gov said so himself

kingcypress:

Mr pig, we are debating on SE not SS. How many time do u want the SE to reject u bfor u undastnd dat no one want to asociate wit d pigs from potor-potor land.

giftq:

Be consistent in your principles.
Yoruba depends heavily upon SS crude oil, so we must criticize Yoruba for not being successful based on their region alone.

IkpuMmadu:


Which one do Yoruba control ?

Now let me give you an instance...it's cultural


Have you ever tried buying something from a Yoruba woman or man first thing is that he will sit down non challan copy and ask you kilo fera, then ask you how many then ask you hope you have change ...doing it as if she is doing you a favour and she would be lazy to even go and look for change....if you bergain wrongly....they would bad mouth you ....calling you alaroro and what's not


Now as a customer....would you go back to her again ?


That's client service


Have you asked why most firms employ Igbo as marketers ...and you know marketers are the Brian of firms and they claim higher

deedeedee1:

Do Igbos not depend on crude oil?

ODVanguard:


Guy, you can only bamboozle your fellow folks but sorry to burst your bubble, coz this subject matter has already been settled on the following thread that Yorubas are at the driver's seat of Nigeria's entrepreneurship, industrial and economic landscape.

https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe

Your people even opened a counter thread that couldn't even match-up.

https://www.nairaland.com/3926379/igbos-most-industrious-innovative-richest

Abeg compare and constrast both threads and you will objectively surrender.

The world doesn't start and end in your people's archaic and obsolete 2x2 mode of trading. Yorubas are more innovative and versatile in their approach to doing business, therefore we don't have to become nomads going about opening shops all over the place and call that entrepreneurship.

Name the industry. Is it Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, I.T, Insurance, Banking, just name the area of entrepreneurship or business ownership in this country and we come tops, just that we don't make noise about it like y'all are known for. Even in the area of hotel ownership, we have facts to prove that we own more in our region than yours or any other for that matter. And I have data to prove this, no be mouth. We don't just make noise or wild assumptions like you all are fond of doing, we back it with verifiable data.

deedeedee1:

All what you wrote is pure gibberish!
Most firms employ ibos as marketers? Why do you ebowls like lying?
And yes i have bought stuffs from Yoruba women and i have not experienced the bullshiit you wrote.

Bloody ebowl liar!

giftq:

Be consistent in your principles.
Yoruba depends heavily upon SS crude oil, so we must criticize Yoruba for not being successful based on their region alone.

rlauncher:


Big lie!

The Southwest contribution to the federation by far surpasses the pittances it get from the Federation.

We don't need you people's oil money at all. That is why we have always champion the calls for fiscal federation.

IkpuMmadu:



Am not here to measure a dickk with you Oga....just stating my experience and contributing discourse....I don't doubt that Yoruba is the richest tribe in the Galaxy ...the streets are paced with diamonds and their houses roofed with gold and platinum


Are you happy now


I no get this time abeg

ODVanguard:


Guy, you can only bamboozle your fellow folks but sorry to burst your bubble, coz this subject matter has already been settled on the following thread that Yorubas are at the driver's seat of Nigeria's entrepreneurship, industrial and economic landscape.

https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe

Your people even opened a counter thread that couldn't even match-up.

https://www.nairaland.com/3926379/igbos-most-industrious-innovative-richest

Abeg compare and constrast both threads and you will objectively surrender.

The world doesn't start and end in your people's archaic and obsolete 2x2 mode of trading. Yorubas are more innovative and versatile in their approach to doing business, therefore we don't have to become nomads going about opening shops all over the place and call that entrepreneurship.

Name the industry. Is it Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, I.T, Insurance, Banking, just name the area of entrepreneurship or business ownership in this country and we come tops, just that we don't make noise about it like y'all are known for. Even in the area of hotel ownership, we have facts to prove that we own more in our region than yours or any other for that matter. And I have data to prove this, no be mouth. We don't just make noise or wild assumptions like you all are fond of doing, we back it with verifiable data.

rlauncher:


Thanks brother.

They are always boasting that they are the most enterprising people I Nigeria, argument that are not based on facts.

Just because you are more visible on the streets does not make you the most enterprising.

rlauncher:


Igbos set up your kind of business beside you not playing fair like undercutting the prices below cost price level or faking/ adulteration of products with the hope of forcing you out of business, only to return to normal practices and prices when you are gone.They don't care if they sell vulture parts in their soup to you as chickens, so long as they make their money. We all know this.

Most of us Yorubas are either victims or witnesses to these kinds of evil schemes by a lot of Igbo's, but not anymore. We now owns the best electronic shops and Malls in town.

ODVanguard:


Yinmu. You are a typical hypocrite. You clearly stated derisively in that post I quoted that, 'Which one do Yoruba control', and when I confronted you with a response that rubbished your chest-beating you begin backslide. Those days of empty igbo chest-beating on this forum are over. Best believe that some of us are fully on-ground and well-equipped with more than enough facts to burst your lies. Real talk.

giftq:

Be consistent in your principles.
Yoruba depends heavily upon SS crude oil, so we must criticize Yoruba for not being successful based on their region alone.

kingcypress:

Pigy piggy, sit down, open ur brainwashed skull and learn, even if this will b d first n d last time u'l learn wit an open mind. Now to d topic, u pigs claimed u ar d "world developers" dat failed to develop d potor-poto land. U claimed u av 'developed' almost all d states in Nigeria witout mentionin d land of red-mud. Base on dat u cn c dat most states/regions ar independent except d igbo/ibo land (poto-poto). Why cnt u pple stay back at ur baren red-mud land. Stop seein d simplicity of other regions as stupidity. So, pigs equate friendlines to foolishnes. Dats y u wil 4eva remain backward. Generation of hate, stop blaming others for ur misfortune. Lastly we in South-SOUTH are not PIGS, so pls stop asociatin urselves wit u, its nt by force. God bless Nigeria

ODVanguard:


Yinmu. You are a typical hypocrite. You clearly stated derisively in that post I quoted that, 'Which one do Yoruba control', and when I confronted you with a response that rubbished your chest-beating you begin backslide. Those days of empty igbo chest-beating on this forum are over. Best believe that some of us are fully on-ground and well-equipped with more than enough facts to burst your lies. Real talk.

Malawian:

Ofcourse i had to reduce my prices for services done because that was the only way to obtain market share. If you undertand that it took me more than 5 months to save 100k then, then you will understand the sacrifice i made (I suppose that is the issue - Sacrifice). But, it still does not explain other stuff. While the Yoruba guy was selling tickets for 120 per hour, I reduced mine to 100 per hour. under two years, he folded.

The Igbo guy further down the street never reduced his own, it was still 120 all through. I have since increased it back to 120 but understand something, the new guy reduced and kept his at 100, yet i dont really feel the pinch from him, his cafe is smaller than mine anyways and so he cant cater for everyone. The New Igbo guy's cafe is closer to mine than mine was closer to the Yoruba's. Maybe he didnt have the stomach for conpetition, but i dont really think it is just that, there is something else at play. Even on very bad days here, i still meet target.

BTW, by the special grace of God, i make 100k plus every month now.