₦airaland Forum

The problem with pleading insanity is that you get to be interned in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane and unlike conventional prisons, your stay there isn't based on a court sentence but until the doctors certify one fully fit and rehabilitated.

If you go in those psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane, there's a 100% certain probability that you will go mad within the first year.

Since the court has agreed that you are mad , then they will treat you as a mad person.

Some people who lied and claimed insanity to avoid prison time ended going mad when sentenced to a mental institution for treatment and on average, interned inmates spend more years locked up than if they had gone to prison and did the time.

DmonSlayer10:
Don't allow bigotry becloud your Education...

You will be arrested & sent to Prison for attempting to reffer to any Nigerian as a "stranger" in any part of his country..!!

"Yorubaland" is a part & Parcel of the country which the Igbo protesters are Citizens of...

"Yorubaland" is NOT a part & parcel of China which the Chinese are Citizens of

The Chinese are the "strangers"/foreigners who must abide by the International trade laws binding on the Nationals of foreign countries(the law forbids them to open intinerant shops in the markets of their host countries.

Say No to bigotry so you won't appear like an illiterate.

Funny how you now see indigenes privileges you have been castigating Yorubas over.

owobokiri:
Lol
Just to get at the igbos, some "patristic Nigerians" are now willing to surrender the country's economy to the Chinese! If anyone of you thinks that the coming of the Chinese means the end of igbo domination of retail trade, you are living in a phoolz paradise.
Before the Chinese, the Lebanese and the Indians were invited. What happened?

All of a sudden, it has been accepted as a good deed for the Chinese to produce, wholesale and retail goods in Nigeria, and for them to cart away all earning back to China. All because someone managed to insert the igbos in the middle of the whole protest.

Goes to show you guys that igbo phobia is actually the problem with Nigeria. Many of you will refuse any igbo man as president, even if it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that he can make Nigeria great. . , just to prove your hate filled point.

Why are you not campaigning for beef to be imported from Argentina, Australia or Kenya Why have we been stuck with unhealthy fulani cattles since the 60s?? Your free market vibes can't reach that end? Let's open the borders to import beef too. That will make meat cheap and readily available. What's the problem with that?

It's not working.

We care less about your outdated brick and mortar retail ventures.

I personally welcome our new Chinese business partners .

stanluiz:
Nobody is perfect. Even your people are not saint. If you point a finger at a person, 3 fingers are pointing back at you .

Just like I said. Chinese traders can't outrun us in any market that we have a huge presence in Nigeria. We know what they know. We know all the tricks in buying and selling.

Let the competition start. The sky is big enough to accommodate the bird , pigeon and the eagle.

Las Las. The are free to come to Onitsha main market or Araria market in Aba to test their might and their skill there. The chinkos will be welcome very well.

It's down to pricing.

They will force you to lower prices .

No other option but lowering prices and appealing to Nigerians to patronise you over the Chinese can help you.

You are going against the Chinese who are now outpacing Europe and US/Canada combined production output.

This is China that has now come to dominate the auto industry with EVs and is outperforming leading European tech companies in defense, aerospace , satellites , AI , alternative energy , construction , etc.

Your petty traders don't stand a chance .

princepee:
the Igbos are King in this field...
Even the Chinese can not compit...

The Chinese have overtaken Europe and the US combined industrial output and are outperforming western tech in aerospace, defense, tech, auto industry ,AI and construction and you are here saying you can compete against them on selling their own Chinese made products .

How delusional.

stanluiz:
I hope you know how ruthless Chinese people can be just to achieve their aim. I hope you know how Chinese industries treat their Nigeria workers in their factories. So brutal and dehumanizing.

Anyway, they are welcome. One thing I know is that Chinese can't our run us in the market. The game has started.

Are you any better ?

jchioma:
Traditional institutions should be non partisan , ably representing the interests of the people o

Then why do politicians visit them every campaign season?

EKONGKING:
Never ever trust these people . We south South thought there are our brothers, until there evil tendencies are brought out to open .

You go to South Africa ,Ghana and cry free markets and in your own country ,you want to limit the foreigners from selling .

In the other thread, comments by these people and their volteface for everything is nauseating to say the least .

They must invent a bogeyman as excuse or justification for their actions.

They see an agenda against them everywhere because that's what they have against everyone else.

givedemwotowoto:
So Tinubu losing out makes Obidients toxic?

It's not restricted to Obidients

Send the link to your APC WhatsApp group let them go and out-vote other candidates

I am not part of any political party neither am I part of any political party WhatsApp group.

omojeesu:
Bottom line:
The Chinese are here to exploit and enslave Nigerians - All Nigerians irrespective of their ethnicity with the conniving of our unpatriotic politicians, business men and traditional/religious leaders!
Keep using hate and tribal sentiments to divide yourselves!

Why are we do dumb?
We haven't seen anything yet!

Rubbish .

obama30:
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Your money stays in Nigeria, while Chinese goes with your money. Trade war is not about tribe is about protecting economy, and Jobs. Do you think a foreigners can just own shop/super markets to sell directly to consumers in Europe? No is not allowed here, not even in China. China doesn't even give residents permit to do local business unless you buy and export. Nigeria will take it as tribal issues while foreigners smiling home with Nigerians economy.

Rubbish

So I should pay more to you guys for the same product over what exactly ?

This argument is useless .

givedemwotowoto:
You need only about 1,000 to 1,500 respondents (less than 0.0004% of the voting population) to achieve a statistical 95% confidence level with a ± 3% margin of error.

And your sample population is from Rufai Oseni's toxic obidient followers on X.

obama30:
Even the agberos that use to collect money from their fellow Nigeria, cannot go and collect from chinese.so they will go into crime and blame is to those that Chinese takes over their job in Nigeria. You can't force people to remain as one country and invite foreigners to take over their job. Even UK is about to divide because of wrong policy of England that's affecting other
regions citizens.

That's a good thing then.

Sleekfingers:
For now . The Chinese are more useful than those our greedy brothers.
I will rather patronise the Chinese than those greedy people. The Chinese are here to stay. Better get use to it .

But if our greedy brothers can be selling at reasonable prices, maybe things might change . For now. I support the Chinese.

As a matter of fact , Lagos should open several Chinese villages.

The Chinese will force them to be more competitive and sell at reasonable price .

But I know most will use this as an excuse to venture into crime and tell the judge that it was Chinese competition that destroyed Gus business hence why they chose to go into crime.

Jakumo:
This is a sound analysis. There is an element of "white man worship" in all the knee-jerk responses favoring the Chinese in this discussion.

The Chinese in Ghana has DESTROYED the poultry business there because they feed their chickens with toxic growth hormones to accelerate their maturity, before selling the poisoned chickens to Ghanaians at prices that cannot be matched by Ghanaian poultry farms who do NOT add those deadly chemicals to their chicken feed. That is but one example of how the Chinese use unethical business practices to monopolize and RUIN economies of developing countries worldwide.

Your unwholesome trade practices with zero customer relations is well documented

We have tried you guys since the 1980s and nothing good has come of it

Let the Chinese take over .

At least they are not selling at an over inflated price.

LZAA:
What's even amusing is that no SERIOUS IGBO TRADER is in that "protest"
Innoson deals with the Chinese
Same as Coscharis and other Igbo Businesses and Businessmen
Oh and here is a fun fact for Y'ALL because you don't know this
Igbo traders and Chinese traders are largely responsible for the commerce in Lagos and almost all of Nigeria
But just going by the comments alone i have a greater chance of convincing a cat that's it's a Lion than seeing any sensible posts here
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The Chinese can import their goods without going through CBN to access FX.

You guys can't and so your ventures place a heavy toll on FX reserves and naira value.

The Chinese are also known to o into production and construction, thereby investing their profits into other sectors thereby promoting growth. Your Ibo traders don't diversify and their profits goes mainly into completing their village house and burial ceremonies.

Chinese small businesses are always a net gain to any economy because of how they studiously grow their business and invest into other sectors.

Obapluto:
dey play. It's going to be Red by November

Even Trump knows the Democrats are regaining majority for both houses.

Texas is also flipping blue .


Republicans may not smell WH and control of Congress in the next 30ys.

omoredia:
You will soon understand. So US that doesn't allow Chinese cars doesn't know what it is doing?

Another arrant rubbish.

Canadians are allowing Chinese cars that are far better than that crap Tesla is building.

Kobojunkie:
Simple! When an Igbo man buys from China and then sells in Nigeria, the profits remain in Nigeria, where the Igbo man uses the money to build for himself lavish properties, employing local Nigerians to build his luxury property. That is the Nigerian economy being boosted by the man's activities.😒😒

When a Chinese man sells goods in Nigeria, the likelihood is extremely high that he sends the profits back to China, with almost nothing of it remaining in Nigeria except that which supports his ability to sell even more. 😒😒

Arrant nonsense

I am not going to continue being exploited so you guys can make money at my expense

The Chinese are more than welcome to stay.

If I was governor, I will even give them tax breaks and land along the Coastal highway to build a modern shopping mall.

Mccullum:
Trading legitimately is not slavery, don't mix it up, so those Nigerians doing businesses in Ghana and South Africa are enslaving the citizens of those countries? Because I cannot understand how Chinese traders became slaves traders to you.

I tire oh

They cry that Ghanians kicked them out from their markets and here there are now demanding Chinese be kicked out so they can continue exploiting us to the fullest.

doncartel:
The Chinese people are now trying to frustrate our business activities after we have been excluded from Nigerian government activities. We should now explore other countries so that we can boycott everything about China and handle them the way we handle our other enemies.

Misanthrope

obama30:
Those that sees the damages Chinese influence in the local market will cause to Nigeria economy, should start planning a way to escape the incoming hardship it will cause. Many Nigerian will later understand the bad side of the Chinese inside local market, when the money that suppose to stay in Nigerians bank transfer to China bank to stay. China produce law materials, produce a products with the law materials, and come to Nigeria and sell to consumers and go with your money. So what exactly do Nigerians benefit?

And which goods are they peddling if not Chinese made goods

Abeg rest.

Why should you insert yourself as middlemen between us and the Chinese ?

Bigkoko:
Firstly, unlike you, we are in direct communication with the oil cartel in London over an unrelated matter.

You, a Nigerian using a phone charged with"I pass my neighbor" Gen assume to know or speak for the Celtics...... rather than their own leaders......

Nnnaaaa who be your supplier? Hahahahahahahaha

Have you returned Tunz money ?

showboy2301:
Good evening sir, hope you are doing great. Please are you madt?

Lolz

flokii:
Will they even allow them open their business?.. the answer is NO.
Everyone knows the fact that they are very hostile to people from other parts of the country talk more of foreigners.

The foreigners are very smart.. most of them chose Lagos, Ogun, Kano to site their businesses before they have done their homework to know the areas suitable for investors in Nigeria. Those Lebanese are so much on Kano, I doubt if you'd see any single one in the South East.
It's why we are calling the hypocrite Obi out.. he should face his South East region and push for an end to forceful lockdowns, sit at home etc. before coming out to chook mouth in affairs of other regions doing better than his home region.

SE is just too hostile for business especially for non indigenes.

There was this joint I used to patronise when I was in Imo that was owned by a Yoruba guy.

Do you know that you can hardly find any Ibo person at his place .

The joint was catering mostly for non indigenes.

Akir2025:
So the Protest must be Done eve by one Nigerian before the know Consequences of such Situations..The can't Think Logically to know it's Wrong .

How is it wrong for Chinese to open shops in Nigeria ?

If you can say this about the Chinese , you hold same views for other Nigerians

Is this not how it is explicitly a law in markets in SE not to have non indigenes as market leaders ?

Abeg, we are with the Chinese .

flokii:
Imagine.. yet Yorubas don't do that. It's the reason they are getting people to patronize their businesses.

I'm still saying it that if Yorubas decide to be half as tribalistic as Ibo people in every sphere of life, those guys will be the poorest in Nigeria. Yet they don't appreciate Yoruba benevolence.

Just imagine if every Yoruba goes around looking for Yoruba shops to buy things in Lagos, who will then patronize the Ibo traders?. Won't they eventually pack their things and leave?
Yorubas are the best abeg.. but our people too should wake up.

What the Ibos are doing is a model to promote Ibo. but you see Yorubas, it's to be antagonizing one another, pull him down syndrome that our people know. God will help Yoruba race to have sense.

If this was Onitsha market, I am sure they would have set the Chinese businesses up by placing human bones and skulls on their premises and then start claiming the Chinese were into human organ harvesting.

omoredia:
People have the right to protest. See Chinese woman there cos she knows they are now the masters

Protest what exactly ?

You are openly infringing on the right to do lawful business by Chinese retailers who have registered their company with CAC and are paying taxes to that effect.

So Chinese should be chased away and barred from operating retail business in Nigeria because they are foreigners.

Where in Nigeria law is it prohibited for foreign nationals to operate business outfit in Nigeria ?

Emary:
It's not a good thing for foreigners to come price out our citizens in our own markets. Can we do the same in China? The same Chinese are mining our resources at ridiculous rates, and we already owe them so much in borrowed loans over the last 10yrs. It's not a tribal thing here, even if the protest is led by the Igbos. It's a gradual colonisation.

This is how you tried exploiting patriotism to get other Nigerians to join in your hate campaign against SA because those ones wanted to kick you out of their country because of your drug dealings there.

I warned that it was senseless to shut down SA owned businesss like MTN and DSTV that contribute very sizeable chunk to our economy and pay huge taxes over the fate of sins drug dealers in SA.

I will be siding with the Chinese as they are selling same Chinese products at a bargain price over your own exploitative prices

flokii:
It's their modus operandi.. it's what they did to Yoruba-owned stores in the area where I grew up till they were discovered. Funny thing is, they will never rob stores owned by their own people but will rob all the Yoruba stores leaving none behind.

The Chinese are here to stay, whoever isn't happy should leave Lagos.

And they always prioritise their own over any other tribe

If there is no Ibo businessman near them , they don't mind going across the state to patronise their own.

That's how one of them thinking I am Ibo told me why I was patronising a non Ibo business that Ibos have shops in the market that sell same product I was looking to buy