₦airaland Forum

guobe:
If Nigerians have done wrong, please have. Mercy and pity them.
They are on their knees like Desmond, they won't do it again.
A litre of fuel is now equal to a dollar.
Still thinking how we got here.
Please temper justice with mercy for Nigerians.
The suffering is too much for them.
Ejo pity them.

Median price of fuel in the EU is around €2.60

That's more than #4,000.

higgs:
Na wa.You are really full of hatred for Igbos.God help us

Ibos make it a point not to patronise non Ibo businesses.

Why should we all support your useless protest against the Chinese doing lawful business in Lagos ?

IyfeNamikaze:
You've spoken like a typical Nigerian no doubt, only caring the here and now, no longer term views or broader perspective.

If you want to be getting goods directly from the manufacturers who are selling it right here within Nigeria and giving no care about the locals locking up shop, then soon you will not be chanting "highest IGR" "fast growing economy" within the next decade.

The thing here is that I believe that the government has sound economic minds within the administration and they're going to they're going to act for the benefit of Nigeria by listening to these local traders complaints, and when that happens I am sure to see one of your monikers praising the government — As usual for protecting the Nigerian economy, thereby doing a complete summersault on this your current stance on the matter. So I'm not even going to waste much time trying to argue back and forth with you in this. 4

If you were producing these goods here under your brand name , we will support you and also offer protectionist policies to ensure you are still in business.

But you don't produce shishi .

And if you go back in history you will see that it was Alex Ekwenme as head of Shagari's economic team that liberalised imports that benefited his people at the detriment of local industries.

Now that we are import dependent because of Ekwenme's economic policies that targeted SW industrial base why should I pay more for same imported goods made in china when I can patronise a Chinese retailer selling far cheaper ?

Oga, go and secure land in your village so you can start farming.

anonimi:
Was she somewhere managing his Pandora business of hiding stolen money from the taxman

His Panamanian account is under his wife and daughter's name

He left his gay son out

He claims frugality and preaches it but when his wife is spotted with an expensive designer bag, it is her business.

This Giringori is the biggest scam and hypocrite

Kalulu44:
Sometime make una dey reason things well before una post.
For example, you get factory wey dey produce bottle water. I dey come buy from you wholesale to go resale at retail price at my area or unit.
Then you the manufacturer come still carry the product come my domain come dey sell at your wholesale price to my retailers. How do you want me to feel?
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I stay in Igbesa Ogun state just close to the Chinese free trade zone that have over 200 Chinese companies producing different types of comodities, and hundreds of trucks and trailers go out from the zone everyday to go supply their various clients and customers which includes the trade Fair market dealers.
Isn't that ought to be enough for them Chinese, why bring the goods down yourself to this traders domain and start selling at wholesale price.
How do you want the other traders buying from your factory to make their money and come buy from you.

Trash.

I am not going to be paying more just to keep you in business

If I can get it cheaper at the same or better quality and quantity , I will go for that option.

Remember, Lagos is no man's land according to you guys and so the Chinese are more than welcomed .

Spybradd:
No problem
.you are saying it with your own mouth...the universe have its way of doing things to everyone of us.

No be only universe

Better go and secure land in your village for farming.

vr0xen:
you are biased. So if you go through all the process and you have power of attorney for a company to produce for you in China and you find out they are also selling at your back yard the same product you imported from them. Do you ever ask yourself why pharmacies give space??

Trash

Tenses:
The south africa is a different scenario altogether.

The Chinese are manufacturers of these goods , they are in control of the shipping industry, and other logistics. They can afford to sell cheaper or even at a lost to clear out old stocks.

If they are allowed to narrow down into retailing it will plunge more Nigerians into poverty.

Our poverty rate is already alarming.

Government should seize this opportunity and control products prices of these Igbo traders.

So manufacturers should not sell their goods directly ?

Shaketable:
Are you for real? Strangers in their own country? Look all these nonsense being voice by the Yoruba people should stop or they divide this country and so they know they are in their own country.

No be Una dey shout Biafra?

This is just a preview .

Or where you thinking if you get Biafra today you will be allowed to enter Nigeria anyhow as you please ?

Diligence:
Wait-o. Is it true that fg allowed foreigners to establish retail outlets in Nigeria.

Is it the same FG that revoked Ibeto's Cement Licence, to allow Dangote Cement to monopolise Cement Industry during Obasanjo's regime?

Oya, flood the market with foreign rice, open the borders, & remove all tariffs so Other countries can flood Nigerian market & industries with their cheapest goods & services & repatriate the funds & crash the economy & obliterate the GDP.

This should be investigated & stopped immediately b4 I call fg & the trade regulators "crassly stupid"!

What is wrong with foreigners having retail business in Nigeria ?

Is this not one of the cries from your people that South Africans were looting their shops ?

Karleb:
The only issue I have with this is its going to make some people jobless, else, if the Chinese can do it better and cheaper then they should hve the market.

Afterall, petrol was cheaper when we were importing than now when we have a refinery.

They can return to their villages and start farming.

IyfeNamikaze:
if they're selling cheaper than the indigenous people, the people will benefit on the short term but will suffer job losses, inability to enter the market, wealth building on the long term, the economy as a whole will not benefit anything whatsoever both on the short and long term.

Why do you think that America doesn't allow other EVs companies to set up retail shops in America despite that they sell at a lower rate than Tesla and other auto mobile companies? Why is it that apple are having a monopoly on US markets despite the fact that Huawei, Xiaomi, oppo etc have comparable products and at a cheaper price than the iPhone? Why do you think EU have a market protection laws within the countries in EU?

The import based retail sector has done more damage to local industries already .

Let us get goods directly from the manufactures at a fair and better pricing.

And who cares if you close shop ?

Spybradd:
This is exactly what dangote wants to do: getting his own trucks and distributing his own petroleum products from his refinery direct to filling stations for free (with costs included in purchase,of course) and thereby putting other tanker drivers and their unions out of business!

Again imagine Chinese people selling all local items in retails in Nigeria,is it going to be a good thing for the country?

Petty people think that as long as it affects only a particular people,it's ok!!!!

You just have to shake your head for this Nigeria and her people

Lol

See this one.

Chinese are here and they are not going anywhere .

They will soon displace you from all markets and that's a very good thing .

Spybradd:
Keep talking.
Don't worry,time shall come and you all will eat up all your words squarely.

My friend, I prefer the Chinese to you guys .

Let the Chinese come and displace you entirely from the retail sector.

You can go to Onitsha market where discrimination reigns supreme

Benedict44:
The Chinese setting up warehouse in Nigeria should be condemned by everybody that understands economics.

Instead of them to set up factories to produce the goods here, they are setting up warehouse, which will invariably kill the local economy.

As a buyer, it looks good but if you look at it in the long term, it is very bad. It is not just about igbos. Every tribe has retailers that buys goods overseas and sell in Nigeria. What happens when those people can't compete?
What happens to your brother/sister working in those retail shops? It will affect everyone.

In fact, if you observe our economy, you will notice that since we tilted towards China and abandoned the USA, that is when things began to get worse because Chinese don't build factories unlike USA. They prefer to produce in China and sell in Nigeria.

USA companies will prefer to set up factories in Nigeria due to cheap labour but Chinese will prefer to manufacture in China and sell in Nigeria. We complain of unemployment but fail to understand these things.

Instead of warehouse, let them build factories here, produce it here and sell it cheaper. Everybody wins.

So only Ibos should be allowed to do importation and retail business in Nigeria


Can you tell us why ?

Sheuns:
The Chinese should be restricted to factory establishments only in Nigeria.

You can’t just allow them come to start doing retails and clearing out competitors that don’t have as deep pockets as them.

Na so una do take kill SMEs all in the name of looking for Foreign investments.

To those of you saying it’s good because of it affects a tribe. All I’ll tell you is don’t worry. No Nigerian retailer or wholesaler can compete with the Chinese if this isn’t stopped. Even those of you that sell voile lace, Ankara, and other native fabrics won’t survive this. There’s nothing sold here in Nigeria that’s not coming in from China. They will out sell every one of you and put you out of business.

I will rather prefer the Chinese traders any day of the week.

These your brothers should go to Onitsha market and do their discriminatory business there.

owobokiri:
The Chinese must go home.
Those trying to frame this as the practice of free trade should just zip it. Likewise, those who see this as the ultimate weapon to push certain people off their pedestal in Nigerias retail business, should see the bigger picture. This is above petty politics so let's be guided...

The Chinese mass produce these goods, they then come down here to mass wholesale it, then they retail it. Some are now involved in hawking stuffs like mobile phones and battery across Nigerian cities.
That is outrageously evil..
It has to stop!

If they take the whole business line, where will Nigerians be involved? How do Nigerians in the informal sector survive? Why should the government allow such imperialist move that will result in maximum capital flight? Even in china, they once banned foreigners, especially Nigerians from opening shops. They only lifted that recently with a caveat that there must be Chinese employed and taxes paid!
Mind you, we are talking of shops that wholly sell Chinese products here..

The Nigerian government should move above ethnic sentiments and defend the country. The informal sector/agriculture provide most of the job opportunities for the endless quantity of untrained humans in this country. The Chinese who rarely embrace Nigerians in their countr,y should not be allowed to wrestle that space away from the firm grip of ordinary struggling Nigerians..

Thank you all!

You never fail to disappoint with your bigotry .

Those your Ibo brothers sell goods made in China.

Why should Chinese retailers be banned for selling Chinese goods in Lagos ?

And the same Ibo traders retail goods made in china.

Yeye

lonecatt:
this your question is as useless as asking the US and Europe why they continue to seek development,oga travel and grow from your myopic state of tribal reasoning .gosh

You made no sense with your analogy.

bigpicture001:
Nobody stops anyone from contesting no matter the tribe in the southeast

Not true.

In your SE, political parties will not consider someone from the untouchable caste getting their ticket because they know very well that, that will spell automatic failure for the party at the polls if they go ahead and give their ticket to an untouchable.

lonecatt:
If you are bold and ambitious you can achieve any feat anywhere in the world.
The question is can a bold and ambitious person from the other side achieve such in the southeast.

Why is it only you guys that are contesting positions in Lagos ?

Are you the boldest and most ambitious people in Nigeria ?

You claim to have developed Lagos and so have automatic right to govern it.

Dangote is the largest investor in Lagos by every metric and he pays the highest tax to the state.

His refinery in Lagos is worth more than your entire state in the SE but Dangote is not claiming that Lagos is no man's land neither has he ever been interested in Lagos politics


It is you with your 2X4 investment shop that developed Lagos and must contest with the indigenes .

Out of 360 tribes in Nigeria who are all represented in Lagos , you are the only ones contesting and dragging positions with Lagos indigenes and Yorubas.

And yes. Lagos is a Yoruba state.

franchasng:
Long overdue...the cultist called Alia needs to be stopped from further destroying the image of the Catholic Church so that he can go and face his cult and corrupt political activities

And the Catholic church involving itself in politics by suspending the governor over a political issue is what to you ?

Catholic church did not see the governor to suspend when he joined partisan politics , picked up governorship form, campaigned and contested for the governorship, got sworn in as governor only for the Catholic church to wake up because thugs in Benue prevented st Obi from coming to Benue to campaign.

owobokiri:
Stop making a living by comparing apples with Oranges.. You want to contest in igbo states??Then Go and live in igboland for donkey years, study in igbo land, invest in igbo land, build mansions in igbo land, marry in igbo land, give out your daughters for marriages to igbo men whom they fall in love with, develop estates in igbo land, build hundreds if not thousands of factories in igbo land etc etc..

When you are done doing so, you can walk gingerly into any political party in any igbo state, and ask for the governorship ticket and no one will ever dare to stop you. That's how it works. Igbos have earned their stripes! We contribute honestly to any environment we find ourselves. We don't sit idly at Owerri or Aba or Umuahia and start wondering why we are not made governors in Gombe or Ekiti..

Shalom!!!

There are indigenes from your SE who have achieved personal upliftment but are barred from even holding ordinary chieftaincy titles because of the circumstances of their birth which placed them under the untouchable caste.

silibaba:
Is Lagos a yoruba land?
Lagos is for every tribe. Anambra is for every tribe. Rivers is for every tribe.

You can go to Anambra so that a gubernatorial candidate can pick you as deputy.

In that same Anambra , there are indigenes who can never be picked or elected into office simply because of their caste.

silibaba:
Is Lagos a yoruba land?
Lagos is for every tribe. Anambra is for every tribe. Rivers is for every tribe.

You can go to Anambra so that a gubernatorial candidate can pick you as deputy.

It's statements like this that added fuel to the pogroms that swept the north.

IF YOU ARE IGBO AND YOU REJECT OBI, YOU BECOME A TRAITOR. IF YOU ARE YORUBA AND YOU QUESTION OBI, YOUR ETHNICITY BECOMES PART OF THE CHARGE.

OP, you said it all with this post which exposes the highly tribal agenda behind the obidient movement.

moscow007:
Mr Hyacinth Alia can now practice his evil cult of a political party in peace.

Mr. Alia can easily be unseated, find a holy Ghost father in Benue and start organizing Adoration Night and it's game over for him.

So you are advocating for the Catholic church in Benue to organise religious gatherings for the purpose of removing the governor .

Do you see how hypocritical you are ?

In one breadth you say the reverend should be defrocked for engaging in partisan politics and in another breath you are advocating that the Catholic church in Benue should organise and mobilize their followers to vote the governor out.

Kalashnikov49:
The Governor of Benue has been told by the Archbishop of Benue.


NEWS UPDATE: Executive Governor of Benue State, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has reportedly been officially suspended from parading himself as a Catholic priest by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Gboko, Most Rev. William Avenya.

The decision aligns with the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, which strictly forbids ordained priests from engaging in active political governance and partisan public office.



https://x.com/Omahh_11/status/2099590846815343022

Nlfpmod

Why did the Bishop of Enugu diocese not suspend Fr Mbaka who was using the pulpit as a campaign ground ?

INEC should be under the Judiciary .

It should be headed by a retired Federal High Court Judge .

State INEC should be headed by a retired State High Court judge .

Since the Judiciary are the ones to both affirm, uphold and swear in an elected official, it's only wise that INEC by under the Judiciary ...

The NJC should be the ones nominating from retired judges names for Senatorial screening .

Bizibi:
another ignorant comment.

How is his comment ignorant,?


You think you will still be allowed to come and go as you please into Nigeria if you get your five state Biafra ?