Rostikol:
Until we START TO LOVE, PREFER, and VALUE NIGERIAN-MADE GOODS AND SERVICES over foreign-made goods and services, FORGET ABOUT THE NAIRA VALUE RISING.

Until we PREFER to buy Nigerian made shoes, slippers, handbags, cars, sandals, clothes, watches, bangles, etc INSTEAD OF foreign made, FORGET ABOUT NAIRA VALUE RISING.

We have to start to see things like the Chinese.

A China man prefers to buy made in China, even if the foreign version from London is of better quality.

Why? Because he's thinking ''why should I enrich Europeans instead of my own Chinese people?''

And so, this makes manufacturing very profitable in China! And the currency very strong! There is more demand for the Chinese yuan than for the dollar!

Why?

Because the people PREFER made in China to imported!

Without that mindset in Nigeria, FORGET ABOUT NAIRA VALUE RISING.

We cannot have a mindset that laughs at a man for wearing 'Aba-made' shoes.

That's a destructive, ignorant, anti-African mindset that will lead us into the abyss.

THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THESE WOMEN WE CALL NIGERIAN WOMEN SPEND ON SO-CALLED BRAZILIAN HAIR ALONE EACH YEAR, IS MORE THAN 2 BILLION DOLLARS.

IMAGINE IF THEY DECOLONISED THEIR MINDSET, AND FAVOURED TRADITIONAL PLAITING AND WEAVING HAIR STYLES OVER IMPORTED PERMS, WIGS, AND FAKE HAIR, ......THAT ALONE WOULD GENERATE EMPLOYMENT FOR 3 MILLION LOCAL HAIR STYLISTS MINIMUM, AND SHORE UP THE NAIRA VALUE.

When do we wise up as a people?

It's not about pointing fingers at govt officials. They make up less than 0.1% of the Nigerian population.

We over-estimate their influence and capacity to alter society.

THIS IS ON US!

Just as we started to prefer Nigerian movies and music over foreign, which made those sectors BLOW to world class proportions, we can accomplish similar by preferring NIGERIAN MADE GOODS AND SERVICES to foreign made.

When we do that, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WILL BLOW.

Rostikol:


OH WOW, so tell us the great secrets of manufacturing, Mr Expert?

Are people not manufacturing and making money in Nigeria today?

If you are in the wrong business, ask around and re-skill or retool yourself instead of being a dinosaur.

DatNiggaDaz:
The blame game has started. This time they are blaming Nigerians for the incompetence of a drug sniffing monkey Tinubu who is in france sniffing

Bigkoko:
For exercising our rights to laugh at clowns, oga Boko dey para....

Anywhere, a Govt that blamed it's predecessor for 8yrs, while deteriorating below the records of the predecessor is nothing new!

The one way go bad would be blaming innocent citizens.....when they're the ones actually using FX to import useless thing'sike Wike vintage wines, Asiwaju health needs, foreign cars when we have local assemblers!

predictor1:
Go and sit down. A government that can't produce and transmit adequate electricity or protect farmers and other citizens from Fulani marauders hardly qualifies to c point fingers at such citizens.

Bigkoko:
Is this comment coming from someone that was gaslighting me just Days ago for calling out the uselessness of Nigeria as presently constituted?

Okpari ooooooooo! After everything breakfast go reach everyone!

Elections truly has consequences! Naira has not even gotten to 1500NGN to a dollar yet!

Just wait until Dangote refinery demand for US crude and the attendant need for USD start pressuring the Naira, una go understand say, economic laws, laws of Nature and Nature's G-d has consequences whenever you break it!

Anyway, anytime person wake naim be he own morning!

mightyhazel:
Beautiful question...


The number 1 citizen is holidaying in far away Europe... He's definitely not doing so with the naira ..'to grow naira'...How many Toyota SUVs was allocated to govt agencies last year alone? These vehicles were paid for in naira and cowries? But paid agents like op will rather blame a Nigerian girl for wearing weavon bought with her hard earned money. Talk about chasing shadows.

If he had at least balanced his argument it would have been considerable.. he was even calling out and mocking some of his perceived opponents,using alternate monikers

Tallesty1:
Very useless lots.

Try exportation and government will ensure that you fail.
Try running a business and both federal, state and local government will tax you out of business.
Let's not even talk about venturing into production.


But the e-diots think the masses are the problem.

predictor1:
No, I wasn't gaslighting. I didn't agree with your opinion about the civil war. I'm not an APC supporter.

Rostikol:


The ones that Nigerian manufacturers have made even with their generators, have you bought?

You can point fingers all day, Mr Professional Blamer, but YOU carry HEAVY blame for the Naira value if you prefer FOREIGN MADE over NIGERIAN MADE.

And you cannot blame and finger-point your way out of it.

mightyhazel:
Beautiful question...


Bought with her hard earn money or kpekus


The number 1 citizen is currently holidaying in far away Europe... He's definitely not doing so with the naira ..'to grow naira'...How many Toyota SUVs was allocated to govt agencies last year alone? These vehicles were paid for in naira and cowries? But paid agents like op will rather blame a Nigerian girl for wearing weavon bought with her hard earned money. Talk about chasing shadows.

If he had at least balanced his argument it would have been considerable.. he was even calling out and mocking some of his perceived opponents,using alternate monikers

tctrills:


This post is definitely coming from another government/APC stooge.

Keep blaming Nigerians for the fall of the naira. It's the fault of Nigerians and not the evil ApC gov.

Did the local rice producers tell you that they are having problems selling their local rice? Is Ofada rice not made in Nigeria? Are Nigerians rejecting it?
Did the shoe makers in Aba tell you that Nigerians don't patronize them?

Rostikol:
Here's another example.

Imagine if INNOSON was selling his cars by the SECOND, as in once a car is built, it is sold immediately due to the fact that Nigerians now prioritise indigenous made cars and are rushing for INNOSON vehicles!

Two things will happen.

1) Innoson would quickly grow to become a WORLD CLASS player in the auto industry, competing with the likes of Toyota and Nissan, and

2) More local players will be drawn into vehicle manufacturing, due to the VERY HIGH LOCAL DEMAND FOR NIGERIAN MADE CARS, and we would have several more 'INNOSONS' established in the country, further boosting the economy and creating jobs.

AND WHILE ALL THIS IS OCCURRING, the naira will be witnessing a strong, steady rise in value that is GENUINE, unshakable, and based on indigenous industry and capacity

blacknp:
Other countries with electricity issues found a way to solve their problems with local initiative, not the lazy minded ones like you in the millions blaming others for their own incoherent incompetence.

Or you want to blame Ghanaians or Togolese for you not been able to provide yourselves with basic electricity?

The problem is that you are shameless in pride, just like millions of your type, to blame others for our own ineptitude.

papyjaypaul:


I am not an admirer of this govt but theres a point there. We do not own the dollar and it's foolish for us to be crazy about a currency we do not control. I blame all of us, so it's not about politicians. Why is the exchange rate a news item everyday? Even if you have an angel as President if Nigerians have the attitude that dollar is their savior, they will not succeed with naira. If a foreigner comes to Nigeria and we accept dollar from him, are we not fooling ourselves? We even have schools and companies charging in dollars inside Nigeria. Nigerians are their own problems. Yes, Tinubu and his Bank man have work to do but they are not the only ones to be blamed. we all have a role in it. How do we think we can be living inside Nigeria and be hedging against our own currency and expect any policy to work? If no one is demanding and using the naira it can't work. Why is the naira you have in your account not something you can transfer to that school abroad? Why must you convert it to dollars first? Why the stress? That's part of the govt job to do but in the meantime, tell me your experience when you travel and show them the dollar or pay with the dollar. If it's not Zimbabwe who cannot control their economy, they will tell you to pay them in local currency. Nigerians just like to show off foolishly holding the dollars. The Americans do not carry their currency the way we do. Oya carry dollar go UK make I check something.

Rostikol:


Aba shoe makers said they usually label their shoes ‘Made in Italy’ to sell them!

None of them labels their shoes Made in Aba!

Or Made in Nigeria!

Because nobody will buy it!

Not only for shoes. Handbags, clothes, spare parts, everything.

For spare parts they would label it Made in China. Or even Japan!

Can’t you see you have serious psychological issues as a people?

How can any nation progress with that kind of mindset?

You need to jettison that mentality or you can FORGET about Nigeria moving forward!

Artscollection:
Who let these stinking brain dead dogs out to come and disturb us with their gibberish.

Your lord n saviour is in France wasting our scarce
Resources during what we dont know and your stupid ass is here typing rubbish and defending stupidity

bnanny:

They're government sponsored to blame Nigeria masses for their wickedness. Tinubu is in France wasting the little fx left and these blokes are here blaming Nigeria, too painful to read what they write.
And it's a fact that Nigeria Government officers are the largest hoarders of Dollar. They keep a large percentage of their money in dollar account to protect it against naira depreciation which affects the fall of Nigeria more because they're the 1% who control the 99% of Nigeria wealth, their children's only school abroad, almost all their stuff is imported to oppressed the already oppressed lower class. Dollar for medical checkup abroad, foreign trips, the list can go on and on.
Our politicians should stop paying these morōns to be blaming masses for their mess.

Rostikol:


To hell with Lee Kuan Yew.

Nigeria is Nigeria, not tiny Singapore.

In Nigeria, a big change in consumer tastes can transform the entire economy, simply due to the massive size of the market.

Take the women's hair care industry for instance.

A SIMPLE DECISION by Nigerian women to favour plaits and weaves over imported BRAZILIAN HAIR AND PERMS could create 3 to 5 million new jobs and reduce capital flight to the tune of billions of dollars a year.

You don't need Lee Kuan Yew to tell you that.

So many more similar examples.

Nollywood employs over 1 million Nigerians today, because Nigerians OF THEIR OWN VOLITION chose to patronise Nigerian movies over foreign.

We didn't care about the 'quality' of the films compared to JAMES BOND films.

IT WAS NOT GOVERNMENT THAT MADE US DO IT.

......Made us create those 1 MILLION NEW JOBS.

WE did it.

And guess what happened?

THEIR QUALITY IMPROVED OVER TIME.

Same as the music industry.

What is YOUR alternative to such proactive citizen action?

Sitting down in inertia, importing everything whIle blaming the govt as the economy tanks?

We're more powerful than the govt.

We just don't realise it.

Artscollection:


I feel so pained knowing that people could stoop so low just to earn peanuts.

a4cube:
The politicians in UK or US drive cars made or assembled in their country. That is leadership by example. If the president today car move around on Nigeria made car, their is no way the legislooters will deman a foreign brand and believe me the masses will key it.

So you guys know where the problem is, stop blaming the masses that are following the steps of their leaders.

Rostikol:


The ones that Nigerian manufacturers have made even with their generators, have you bought?

You can point fingers all day, Mr Professional Blamer, but YOU carry HEAVY blame for the Naira value if you prefer FOREIGN MADE over NIGERIAN MADE.

And you cannot blame and finger-point your way out of it.

tctrills:


I am sure you have never been to Aba but you feel very comfortable writing what you don't know.
I have been to Aba, and I have seen traders from all over Nigeria and other African countries buying made in Aba shoes.

Now let's talk about the labeling. Did you know that in the 80s and 90s, Chinese and Taiwan products also carried European and American labeling?

Rostikol:


My brother, the other day I was checking out the Jamaican economy... If you see all the different things they do with cassava in that place, you will weep for this country!

From cassava chips, to cassava flakes for breakfast, to cassava soap, to cassava oil, to cassava extracts for medicinal purposes, to all sorts of things.

Well branded and packaged!

In industrial quantities!

A small island of 3 million people.

Our own is just to use cassava to soak garri and make eba.

Or sprinkle on beans. Finish!

And then be complaining about naira value.

In fact we have problems as a people.

Rostikol:
Until we START TO LOVE, PREFER, and VALUE NIGERIAN-MADE GOODS AND SERVICES over foreign-made goods and services, FORGET ABOUT THE NAIRA VALUE RISING.

Until we PREFER to buy Nigerian made shoes, slippers, handbags, cars, sandals, clothes, watches, bangles, etc INSTEAD OF foreign made, FORGET ABOUT NAIRA VALUE RISING.

We have to start to see things like the Chinese.

A China man prefers to buy made in China, even if the foreign version from London is of better quality.

Why? Because he's thinking ''why should I enrich Europeans instead of my own Chinese people?''

And so, this makes manufacturing very profitable in China! And the currency very strong! There is more demand for the Chinese yuan than for the dollar!

Why?

Because the people PREFER made in China to imported!

Without that mindset in Nigeria, FORGET ABOUT NAIRA VALUE RISING.

We cannot have a mindset that laughs at a man for wearing 'Aba-made' shoes.

That's a destructive, ignorant, anti-African mindset that will lead us into the abyss.

THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THESE WOMEN WE CALL NIGERIAN WOMEN SPEND ON SO-CALLED BRAZILIAN HAIR ALONE EACH YEAR, IS MORE THAN 2 BILLION DOLLARS.

IMAGINE IF THEY DECOLONISED THEIR MINDSET, AND FAVOURED TRADITIONAL PLAITING AND WEAVING HAIR STYLES OVER IMPORTED PERMS, WIGS, AND FAKE HAIR, ......THAT ALONE WOULD GENERATE EMPLOYMENT FOR 3 MILLION LOCAL HAIR STYLISTS MINIMUM, AND SHORE UP THE NAIRA VALUE.

When do we wise up as a people?

It's not about pointing fingers at govt officials. They make up less than 0.1% of the Nigerian population.

We over-estimate their influence and capacity to alter society.

THIS IS ON US!

Just as we started to prefer Nigerian movies and music over foreign, which made those sectors BLOW to world class proportions, we can accomplish similar by preferring NIGERIAN MADE GOODS AND SERVICES to foreign made.

When we do that, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WILL BLOW.