Depriest2020:
Igbo's travel a lot, but sometimes it seem to me they ain't innovative enough, this 4×4 shops is outdated, they should be building shopping malls and plazas like the Igbo's here in Dei-Dei Abuja are building. That shop there cannot contain good's of more than 5m. The whole of that building is one person's showroom here in Dei-Dei.

Plazas in Onitsha

Depriest2020:
Igbo's travel a lot, but sometimes it seem to me they ain't innovative enough, this 4×4 shops is outdated, they should be building shopping malls and plazas like the Igbo's here in Dei-Dei Abuja are building. That shop there cannot contain good's of more than 5m. The whole of that building is one person's showroom here in Dei-Dei.

Oga I understand your point and concerns, but it's obvious you're not an Igbo man and you're not a business man, otherwise you would have known that one of those shops can contain goods worth 500 million to 1 billion depending on the goods the person is selling. I can tell you what to stock in any of those shops that can contain goods worth about 15 billion Naira.

If you go to even Cemetery Aba, you will see someone occupying a 2 by 4 mitre shop but in a day he makes sales not less than 3 to 5 million.

post=124139448:

Plazas in Onitsha

You're confusing outlets to plazas and malls.

Dubetex96:
This is very commendable our people in Lagos should start relocating I know it won't be that easy but a stich in time save nine

Why can't you donate money and volunteer yourself to help your people in Lagos carry their loads instead of talking theory? Evenn though it is commendable to build new shops, but how many of the traders selling vegetables, onions and okpa can afford paying for this kind of shops. Shop owners at the last floor will hardly get patronage because people especially old ones don't like climbing stair case to patronize.

Government should have created more spaces that people can also occupy with mere tents. As government try to beautify state through a befitting modern markets, they should always have plan B for the down poor traders in the society who only brings from farms to market. They should have modern tents equivalent that poor traders can afford. Not everybody will understand what some poor among them are passing through as they find it difficult to get kinds of patronage they used to get before.

post=124139231:

Plazas are currently treading in Anambra state

Better.

Jokes of the century

Them go soon dirty am

Ebubu7:
to rest of Nigeria of course. Trains are not efficient so buses will do. Anambra no dey California level yet California dey bring more manufacturer deals

Stop confusing yourself

post=124137898:
The Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Onyekachi Ibezim has commissioned F.C Complex comprising over two hundred shops in Obosi market in Idemili north local government

https://.com.ng/2023/07/01/anambra-state-deputy-governor-ibezim-commissions-plaza-commends-ezenkwu-for-investing-home/

I hope they realise it is not just about building shops, part of it is, do they have the market base to supply to. Lagos is such positioned that nearly all industries bosses are positioned (finance, oil, gas, production, etc). And these are the real market force that buys these product.

Dubetex96:
This is very commendable our people in Lagos should start relocating I know it won't be that easy but a stich in time save nine

dey won't listen. Lagos no be Anambra. If you know you know.

Lanretoye:
okay only your people in lagos can afford to establish back home,it shows how miserable those living there are.so those ones already making it in lagos should relocate back and be like the ones there.the stipends they send home from Lagos to u is not enough abi.

Oga innoson,ibeto,chicason,Ifeanyi ubah and others made all their money in Nnewi

As good as this is but ….,.Ours is a buying and selling economy. We really need to be a producing nation like the Chinese started and export to the world. Come to Lagos and see how people build shops in font of their residential houses unscrupulously. We need visionary leaders that will make Nigerians start believing in themselves to make it happen.

Depriest2020:

You're confusing outlets to plazas and malls.

What I posted are plazas, there are malls all over east
1, Onitsha mall
2, Enugu mall
3, Spar mall in Enugu
4 Owerri Mall
There are malls in Abakaliki, Umuahia and Asaba

djseanjohn77:



I hope they realise it is not just about building shops, part of it is, do they have the market base to supply to. Lagos is such positioned that nearly all industries bosses are positioned (finance, oil, gas, production, etc). And these are the real market force that buys these product.

Anambra host the biggest market in West Africa Onitsha main market and other 42 standard markets across the state and it's still counting, Anambra markets supply goods to Southeast, Southsouth, middle belt including Abuja, far north and some neighboring countries

MXrep:

Nobody is leaving Lagos. Only Lagos money is leaving Lagos

No be lie bro....the money is what is leaving Lagos

Anambra should maximise its comparative advantage at all cost.

Many people don't know that whenever Lagos importers fail to import, their first source of supply is Onitsha and Aba.

For every importer in Lagos, there are 3 in Onitsha and Aba. That's why the government Agency said 60% of Nigeria importers are in Onitsha. It shows the strength of purchasing power in the State.

SmartPolician:


There's too much money in Lagos and it keeps pouring in because companies are pouring in every day. Lagos is by far the most popular Nigerian state and investors from around the world keep moving into Lagos. Lagos is a reflection of Nigerian spirit and hard work!

until recently

Ebubu7:


All these two by two shops when what you need is a free trade zone.

Build independent power plant next to it, 247 energy, police station nearby. Water plant, housing estate, then go invite manufacturers.


All these 4 by 4 is so 1760

Free Trade Zone is pretty much an area where foreigners lease local land to set up their factories ... free from the laws of the country .... and exploit cheap local labour. Is that what you're asking for? ... for foreigners to come and use us like slaves?

@ topic.... are these shops affordable to the ordinary "market people"? ... and is it in these shops people would he selling fish and bush meat and vegetables and fruits? I would like two see the toilets and after a year how well it was kept.

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Igbos are in everywhere in the world doing business not just Lagos or western states, go to other African countries you will see them in thousands doing business, the numbers of Igbos in China are unimaginable.

Go back to your unliveable region and do your business.
You're constituting nuisance here, we don't need your shops

mrvitalis:

We are not leaving Lagos... If we leave who go milk una dry na

But the Koko is our profit we reinvested in Lagos is now coming back to the east

And we would keep voting who we like in Lagos

Dey deceive yourself.
The little investment you have here will be destroyed one day and you will go back empty handed to your poverty stricken region.
We don't need you.
Be warned.

donbachi:
State should build factories

you decide mind them? Nice one from you there

Ebubu7:
All these two by two shops when what you need is a free trade zone.

Build independent power plant next to it, 247 energy, police station nearby. Water plant, housing estate, then go invite manufacturers.


All these 4 by 4 is so 1760

Aba has an independent power plant by Bath Nnaji. Free trade zone is good but usually by states that lack indigenous investors thus rely more on foreign investors. Anambra is blessed by an indigenous economy both in Manufacturing and trade and same applies to most Eastern states. Free trade zone can't be a priority to them.

If indigenes and citizens can drive same economy why should I give undue concessions to foreigners who will repatriate their profits abroad? Money made in the state circulate back to the state unlike foreign investors

JASONjnr:
Even if S/E get a warf or a sea port... They will never leave Lagos state.



Open hundreds 9f shops for them, soon as Emeka shop booms and he starts making money, he'd want to have a branch at Ikeja.

yes na, that's more money for Emeka. You guys don't even know how to have a shop in your own place talkless of coming down to the easy to own one. Lazy set of people

Dubetex96:
This is very commendable our people in Lagos should start relocating I know it won't be that easy but a stich in time save nine

Where will their patrons come from? The landscape is too narrow and constricted to contain them. The Igbo should learn to behave as Romans while in Rome and stop maligning their benevolent hosts. Nigeria belongs to us all, but the boasting and chest beating should be done away with. No one wants the Igbo to leave, but they should learn decorum.

georgeakins:


Dey deceive yourself.
The little investment you have here will be destroyed one day and you will go back empty handed to your poverty stricken region.
We don't need you.
Be warned.

Destroyed by who?

Okealaaye:

Where will their patrons come from?

what do you mean by that ?

Commission a factory and I would say kudos.

Shops? Their economic ricochet effects on a State or The Country is very minimal .

JASONjnr:
Even if S/E get a warf or a sea port... They will never leave Lagos state.



Open hundreds 9f shops for them, soon as Emeka shop booms and he starts making money, he'd want to have a branch at Ikeja.

Oga what's wrong with having a branch.. u hav a low mentality

Dubetex96:


what do you mean by that ?

Will a spare parts seller buy from another? How many are the Igbo that their number would be enough to satisfy the countless traders domiciled in the shops and the in-traffic hawkers?

PHIPEX:
Aba has an independent power plant by Bat Nnaji. Free trade zone is good but usually by states that lack indigenous investors thus rely more on foreign investors. Anambra is blessed by an indigenous economy both in Manufacturing and trade and same applies to most Eastern states. Free trade zone can't be a priority to them.

If indigenes and citizens can drive same economy why should I give undue concessions to foreigners who will repatriate their profits abroad? Money made in the state circulate back to the state unlike foreign investors

Yet Lagos has free trade zones

Originalsly:


Free Trade Zone is pretty much an area where foreigners lease local land to set up their factories ... free from the laws of the country .... and exploit cheap local labour. Is that what you're asking for? ... for foreigners to come and use us like slaves?

@ topic.... are these shops affordable to the ordinary "market people"? ... and is it in these shops people would he selling fish and bush meat and vegetables and fruits? I would like two see the toilets and after a year how well it was kept.

Lagos has free trade zones. You get sense pass Lagos? Or you get money pass them? You no like free trade zones but your people dey go that Lagos to work in the free trade zones.

Hoilgbegiri:
Money must be made I like these guys walahi 😂

I hope ronu people will not wail in 5 years time when other tribes ronu back to base

We can't wait for you guys to exit. Before the infiltration of the uncultured into our environ, our people where doing great and fending of cocoa, the first TV station was started by our late sage Awo, we have the odua group that was achieving greatness in the business sphere, we had/have 3 of the best universities and they still remain top best till now, ife, Lagos and university of ibadan, we where doing great and thriving of cocoa which was our main source of livelihood, so if your leave with your uncultured self, we will recover our omoluabis status and still do great.