₦airaland Forum

EVarn:
unrivaled indeed,shoprite isnt even a top notch supermarket in nigeria.catfish.

EVarn:
but,wait a minute.seriously,who taught your pilots how to fly aircrafts?,the aircrafts arent even in proper formation!....SAAF is not fit to strike sao tome and principe,talk less of a gaint like nigeria

EVarn:
we have many retailers in nigeria,though most of them havent expanded much outside the country,but they are very very big in nigeria.

EVarn:
funny dude.most of your actors act for foreign movies,and you're proud of it?

EVarn:
does SA even have an indigenous entertainment organisation{like nollywood}?

craziebone:
Nollywood stories are told in a quality way. That they are made cheaper doesn't in anyway mean reduce the work it does. Itis cheaper because there is almost no cinema culture in all of Africa. Apart from a few countries, you will not find cinema culture anywhere else. The only option left for film makers in Nollywood is to make these vidoes into home videos and take to people so they can watch it together with their families in the sitting room since they can't come out to watch in cinemas. They are onlyu being innovative.

Just for the record, this venda movie you mentioned, is not known anywhere and among anyone apart from a few people in few places. So tell me...what is the use of a movie winning an oscar when most people don't even know it?

The truth which i want you SAns to know is...when it comes to Entertainment, you just have to give up the arguement because you will never win it against the Nigerians. Your Multichoice don't even show your movies! DSTV has three Africa Magic channels and if you call all three of the Nigeria Magic, you will be forgiven. You can say that each of these channels stand for the three largest ethnic nationalities in Nigeria- Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. This is because there is an Africa Magic Yoruba, Hausa and the other Africa Magic which shows movies in English is dominated more by Igbo.

all4naija:
Are you trying to say we can't deal squarely with your overrated and acclaimed Africa largest retailer,Shoprite? Please, you are not telling the truth about that retailer. It doesn't have up to 2000 shops in South Africa in the first place. I have visited the website and the outlets are not in thousands.

Bwahaha... Nigeria has retailers, like Silverbird,etc which are large but might not be larger than some Shoprite stores. The size you are talking about came when they started entering the Nigerian market. Please, give the credit to Nigerians for saving it from being a local retailer in Townships to entering the largest economy in Africa. We are feeding you without you knowing it. You will thank me for that one day!

Nobleval:
dude I don't have time for you now. Go back to your Township. It must be smelling really bad over there.

all4naija:
Are you serious? Nigeria have more retail outlets better than Shoprites. In fact, if your overrated shops fold up we will bring in Wall Marts and other developed nations retailers. Nigeria is to big for petty Shoprites though. We aren't talking about Townships here but the richest nation in Africa. Can you beat that?! Jeez!

all4naija:
You should look at the turnover and profits of the 23 shops and compare them with the ones in South Africa. You would definitely know that Nigeria is the true GIANT. Not only that we consume the finest wines more than your people.

all4naija:
Don't brag too much or else we will boycott Shoprites. And, that means hunger for South Africans. Bwahaha... I love Nigeria. It is really the USA of Africa.

Nobleval:
Nigerian wannabe
What are you doing on Nairaland @ this time?

Nobleval:
and SA is not "under poverty?"

all4naija:
Oh, please! Thanks to Nigeria for give your shopping and retailers the opportunity to shine in Africa.

Go Nigeria, the true GIANT of Africa.

all4naija:
Your country is serving your Russian master in G20 without having any voice to speak in any agenda. What is worst than that ? All in the name of being in an economic group. Please, Nigeria doesn't need developing nations to succeed.

all4naija:
SA shopping is already saturated by Townships money. The money from the people living in the ghetto cannot make up for huge profit like Shoprites is making from Nigeria. Within a very short period of time it has succeeded in making more profit in Nigeria than South Africa in relative term.

all4naija:
G20 is supposed to have Nigeria as the only African nation in their midst due to the huge GDP but they decide to go with South Africa. Possibly, Thambo Mbeki lobbies to be a member based on China's invitation. However, G20 is not so much relevant to Nigeria like the developed nations. When you see South Africa with its meager GDP in such an economic block you would know something is wrong somewhere.

Go Nigeria, the true GIANT of Africa.

craziebone:
this "dumbest" poster, as you call him, know what happens around the world and i know that SA is just being reluctantly added to the BRICs. It is "BRIC" not "BRICS"! Fact is, SA doesn't look like the BRIC countries. This is something that can be verified independently. SA has a low growth rate to be included in the grouping coined by the Goldman Sachs's economist. They don't even have the population like the others, and this means they economy may have peaked already. The other people's economy have not reached it's peak yet and there is still a very big room for growth. SA was reluctantly included in the BRICs just for regional representation and this was at the time it was official that they are the largest economy on the continent.

craziebone:
to those who think they have any reason at all or that they are a moral authority to look down on Nollywood, i want you to listen to Zarch Orji speak to you when he spoke on the now defunct BBC Africa Have Your Say programme.

"we don't want to win an Oscar...we just want to make movies a people can relate to; we want to make movies people would watch and see themselves in it....we want to tell our stories ourselves..." until Nollywood came out, Africa's stories were told by other people. The reason no one sees you people as monkeys anymore is because of Nollywood.

A movie industry tells a story, exports a culture and benefits those in it. We can see all of these in Nollywood but can't say the same for your movies, if you actually have one at all.

Nollywood tells a story a people can watch and relate to. It exports a culture that has taken over the whole of the continent and even in the carribean. There is what i call cultural imperialism going on on the continent today. Nigerian accent is immitated by everyone around the continent. Our dress sense and traditional attire are admired and worn all across the continent. Our actors and actresses are known all over. They are a cultural icon! We cannot say the same for your oscar actors and actresses. Our actors and actresses are richer than your oscar comedians!

Nollywood inspires ans sets up other movie industries across the continent, most notably, the movie industry in Ghana as well as other countries like Kenya, Seria Leone etc. What have your's done?

EVarn:
fund boko haram?,LOL,what are MTN,DStv,Multichoice,shoprite etc still doing here then?,infact shoprite is opening up new outlets everyday in nigeria.these companies remit money back home to feed you.ignorance is not bliss.

EVarn:
i could take the risk.business is all about risk.

EVarn:
No.but there arent drug cartels here.at least not anymore than their is in any other country of the world.as for terrorist,in nigeria terrorist activities is a segregated problem.so it doest really affect the nations economy as a whole.

craziebone:
talking about influence and organizations, we are in OPEC and OPEC is more influential than the G-20, fact!

Just for the record, the grouping is actually called BRIC. Its just that some people are reluctantly adding the 's' to it just to represent another part of the world.

Fyi, south africa is the odd one out of the group. All the others have a population over 100 million, they have an economy with over 6percent annual growth. South africa has NON of these features and this means they don't have a place in the group. Nigeria looks more like members the BRIC grouping than SA.

If you talk so much about BRICs, then i encourage you to read up on MINTs

EVarn:
funny dude.*flutters eyelashes at him*,i kinda like you.but you've got no common sense.how is islamic separatists or drug related violence a criteria for ascertaining economic boisterious-ness?.clown.

EVarn:
LOL.see this mumu,you guys havent even seen money to feed your people,you're talking about imaginary spy satellites.seriously,how do some governments even reason like sudanese goats?

EVarn:
yeah brov,i know about MINT- Mexico Indonesia Nigeria and Turkey,its not yet an established or official organisation,but its a splendid combination anyway,we dont need to join the BRICS as all of the BRICS countries are either facing:
*economic recession
*economic sanctions
*stagnated economy
*declining economic growth.

EVarn:
south africans are also here selling pap.

vandalZA:
talking of studio 90% of Nigerian hip hop and R&B music videos are shot in south Africa........you should notice that all the cars in the video are south African........how do I know that? The registrations of the number plates of the cars is written GP which stands for Gauteng Province!!!

vandalZA:
they didn't comment on all the facts of Oscars, grammies,and annual budgets........lolest I don't know why...