Rossphinki:
If you look around, those local industries/products which WE are willing to patronise, ARE ALL THRIVING, and employ thousands, and millions of Nigerians:

These are:

Cement
Building materials
Fast food/Eateries
Music
Film
Beer
Home grown food products like cassava, tomatoes, onions, tatashe etc.


The industries which are NOT thriving, are the industries in which we prefer FOREIGN MADE over local.

Those industries are listed in the first post.

So the truth is, the MORE and wider range of locally made goods WE are willing to patronise, the more production of such goods will ensue, and the more employment will be generated.

iamadonis2:


Well, in all fairness to OP, before an industry can thrive it needs patronage. More like if you take 100k and commit to a new business, before you can make a profit you need patronage of a few Nigerians.

Before you can make a killing in that business, you need a much larger customer base first.

capitalzero:
How many people patronizing foreign goods? Majority of nigerians are living below poverty line.
They cannot even afford local goods.
I think you should blame the politicians, corrupt civil servants and business moguls who patronize foreign goods instead of locally produced items.

Rossphinki:


There are tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians who buy Italian shoes and shun locally made shoes.

In fact, Aba shoe manufacturers often label their shoes 'Made in Italy', just to get Nigerians to buy them.

Local sportswear manufacturers label their clothes 'Nike', 'Adidas', all fake names, just to attract custom from Nigerian buyers.

That shows you how debased our mentality is as a people.

It is an anti-industrialisation, pro-import mentality.

This is NOT about politicians alone.

Millions of ordinary Nigerians buy foreign-made cars, instead of local brands like Innoson or Nord, not just ''business moguls'', and ''corrupt politicians''.

We ALL are responsible for this.

Stop dodging from the responsibility of many ordinary Nigerians for our predicament.

We need a MINDSET revolution in this country.

And we don't need to wait for ''our leaders'', to effect that.

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capitalzero:



Politicians and leaders should by examples. In addition, can local producers can match local demands? Rice is a case study.
If local items are easily available, most people would buy them. Did anybody force you to buy dangote products-sugar, indomie, cement etc?

Rossphinki:


Get real.

Are you saying that the the reason Nigerians buy Italian shoes is because local shoe manufacturers cannot meet local demand for shoes?

Are you serious?

Go and ask Aba shoe manufacturers if they have a problem meeting local demand for shoes.

They will tell you that have EXCESS CAPACITY which they cannot use, because of low patronage.

A simple mindset change among Nigerians can create WHOLE NEW INDUSTRIES virtually overnight.

Take Jeans for instance.

On any given day, not less than 30 million Nigerians are wearing a pair of Jeans.

The Jeans are all imported. Foreign material.

Now imagine for a second that Jeans went OUT OF FASHION in Nigeria, and some traditional tie and dye blue material trousers became commonly sought, due to its lighter material, and local origin.

Oh wait a minute.. All of a sudden, a whole new industry is born. Millions of young Nigerians now crazily seek these locally made tie and dye trousers. If you are seen in jeans, people laugh at you. Due to high demand, huge factories are opening up everywhere to produce these new trousers. Tie and dye specialists are suddenly in high demand, and are attracting huge salaries for their skills. In under a year, 2 million new jobs are created, in just this industry alone, with every sign pointing to increased demand, leading to more people setting up textile factories.

Another example

On any given day, not less than 20 million women in Nigeria have on 'Brazilian hair'.

But what if that style went out of fashion, and is replaced by a rise in demand for traditional hair braiding? And traditional braided wigs?

Oh wait a minute!

Suddenly we have a huge and stunning rise in demand for girls who can braid hair, and make traditional braid wigs!

Suddenly, people start opening large hairdressing centres everywhere to cater for the high demand.

Suddenly hair braiding skills attract a premium, and anyone with experience in it can get a high paying job right away.

The millions of dollars spent on capital flight to Brazil, for 'Brazilian hair' ever month, is suddenly being spent IN NIGERIA, paying indigenes for their braiding skills instead!

I could go on with more examples.

But I'm sure you get the picture.

We are FOOLISH when we sit around and demand that the government should create more jobs.

HOW?

What jobs can they create?

Jobs are created based on demand and supply, not by a politician sitting in an office and saying 'I want to create jobs'.

You cannot create jobs from thin air.

WE the people, must develop strong local demand for locally made goods.

Once THAT happens, employment rate will shoot up to stratospheric levels.

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capitalzero:


You are myopic in your view and you lack general understanding of economy. You are so fixated on dress and wears. What is percentage of imported clothes and shoe is our GDP and forex.

Can you pls list things we can produce in Nigeria and their contributions to GDP?

Are you aware that some manufacturers are relocating to nearby countries?
Cements and rice are locally produced, can justify why their costs are increasing with worsening of naira?

If power sector is not fixed, there would not be much difference in prices of imported and local produced items with the same standard?

Ask politicians to stop importing cars, furnitures and other luxurious items?

There are even some items we have to import them because we don't have capacity to produce them locally -drugs, vaccines, electronics etc.

Rossphinki:


It is YOU that lacks understanding of Economics. I majored in the subject, so kindly ditch such comments.

Fixated I am not, but you are naive if you don't understand the importance of patronage of the local textile industry over foreign imports, and the massive dent in unemployment that could make.




There is nothing we ''cannot'' produce in Nigeria.

So providing you with 'a list' is unnecessary. The ones that we produce, do YOU buy?

When last did you buy Nigerian made shoes?



Inflation is caused by demand outstripping supply. If locally made cement and rice are expensive, it simply means there is lack of competition in the sectors. The more people move into cement and rice manufacturing/processing, the more prices will fall due to increased competition.



Stop blaming ''power sector''. INNOSON is manufacturing vehicles with this same power sector. But if YOU prefer to buy Honda Accord than Innoson, he cannot expand his business, and create more employment. And other local manufacturers will be discouraged from entering the car manufacturing sector. It has nothing to do with ''power sector''.



TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

How many politicians are in Nigeria in total?

Are they even up to 5,000?

All the millions of imported cars you see on the streets, are they owned by politicians?

All the Italian furniture and marble we import, do 95% of them not go to private Nigerian citizens?

''Politicians'' and ''our leaders'' are your perennial excuse for EVERYTHING.

Nothing is ever your fault.



We produce pharmaceuticals in Nigeria aplenty. We have electronics firms. Zinox Computers is a local computer/tablet/Ipad manufacturer.

You are WRONG that we lack capacity to manufacture these things, and it is that inferior mentality that makes people like YOU see an electronic product made in NIGERIA, and roll your eyes, and head for the Hewlett Packard.

And when you are challenged to change your mentality, you start looking to blame ''politicians' and ''power sector''.

Brimstone77:
This op is high on some white solid substances....


87%of nigeria can't even afford a local produce let alone foreign products,so what are you saying..


Even some foreign products are more affordable than our local produce eg innosson cars and Toyota cars, this is do to the hard policies and difficulties the manufacturing industries face in Nigeria, you provide your self with all the resources you need, no power supply, no water, even easy transportation of goods na war...so who's to be blamed?? The masses or your corrupt political elites?....Biko you politicians should stop taking us for fools..