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obembet:
This is actually good for economyif you ask me

Lower prices : Direct access from manufacturers/wholesalers can reduce some middlemen and distribution margins.

More competition: Nigerian retailers may have to improve prices, quality and customer service.

Pressure on excessive mark-ups:
Where a product can be sold profitably at a lower price, competitors make it harder to maintain very high margins.

More China-related business activity: [/b]Nigerians who travel to China for sourcing may benefit from easier access and stronger trade links. China has also extended its reduced visa-fee policy for Nigerian applicants through December 31, 2026.

[b]Although Nigerian retailers will lose customers since foreign businesses sell directly to consumers at cheapest

In my conclusion,

More competition means consumers may have more choices and stronger bargaining power. It can put pressure on retailers to reduce excessive mark-ups, improve customer service and offer better value.

It could also increase the number of Nigerians travelling to China for business and sourcing, strengthening trade between both countries.

Competition is not necessarily bad for Nigerian businesses. It can force businesses to become more efficient and competitive instead of blaming government for every increase in price

At the end of the day, the biggest beneficiary should be the Nigerian consumerprovided the government ensures that every business, local or foreign, plays by the same rules.


Obembet opinion

It is good for a developed country with a very strong economy. It is suicidal for a developing country with weak economy to allow this to happen. But I'm tired of explaining economics to some of you here right now. Experience is going to be our best teacher for this one.

floss:
Time will tell if by 20 years time Nigeria doesn't experience the first Chinese governor or minister in Nigeria.... And a region will say it's a way to forster unity between Nigeria and Chinese

Same way a region invited bandits to stop Jonathan's government and today they can't chase them away...

The good thing is that the economical effects will hit on Lagos and it's celebrated IGR first before it starts spreading nationwide. So there's a possibility that people's eyes will clear by that time and those people who think they're spiting a particular ethnicity will be the very same people who will embark on a large protest stop the Chinese incursion into retail businesses.

At least it is good that the Igbo retailers were the first to raise alarm to this, so that when it starts getting serious no one is going to accuse them of conniving with the Chinese to destroy SW economy.


We will all learn Lessons on Economics soon in this country

Kelvinnchucks:
Imagine seeing on a reddit forum, increase in African stores in Europe and the they are discussing why the government is giving so much freedom to black nigerians and they should be restricted.

If whites start travelling here to school we'll start crying they are taking our jobs too. For years we've been convinced we are the saints and the foreigners are the evil ones.

Hope it's now clear we as just as pathetic as they are and we deserve all the racial discrimination we get.

Most of you people are just.. I don't even know what to say but did anyone of you study anything economics in school?

This issue has nothing to do with tribe, race or ethnicity, it's about economy suppression especially when it's about a developed nation and a developing nation.

Nigeria is a developing nation, it's citizens can go into retailing businesses etc in a developed nation and the economy of that nation will not be affected in any way because they're already developed. But when a developed nation which is also a powerhouse in manufacturing goes into a retail businesses in a developing nation, the economy of that developing nation will greatly suffer repression and stagnation.

A kid suckles from the breast of the mother, not the other way around.

oluwaseyi0:
Tribalism aside
Foreigner/ shouldn’t be allowed to own retails ecosystem in a developing nation like Nigeria

We don’t manufacture and now we may be out of distribution too

Ghana that insist foreign business to have minimum starting capital of 1m dollars knows what they are doing

I know some will want to compare it to Nigerian running businesses abroad but the difference is we are a developing nation and can’t afford to compete on open field yet

Same china know what is doing by not allowing USA social media thereby giving room for her own ecosystem to grow

No ooo. We must allow them do whatever business they like in Nigeria, if they want to do retail then they're allowed to do it. Shebi it's when IGR starts tanking that we will all finally begin to take economics seriously in this country.
Those people who think they're using the Chinese to fight the Igbo retailers are going to be the ones to protest on the streets against these Chinese retails in 10 years time when the effects of these Chinese move starts hitting on everybody irrespective of your Ethnicity.

inoki247:
Make una rest jarey....


You people will be shouting monopoly.


Lagos is open to everybody....



People that Develop Lagos should allow the Chinese do the interior....


When Smart Phone came and cheap Data Cafe businesses died, AI came and nail the coffin no more projects, assignments for Cafe even Graphic designer, website designer also have a share non of them protested or start opening thread from one junction to another....

Are we the one writing the code or even the smart phones producer... Make dem adjust too..


The Chinese are in the Cement business in Banking businesses also nobody's protesting...


Same people you call names and tell us how broke they're and they're all omomidaa are the one you want to.be dictating for who they buy from I thought they're poor...

That's true, Smartphones came and cheap data cafe businesses died, AI came and professional graphics designers no longer see much earnings. That's the same way that Chinese retailers will come and local businesses will die. But I for one welcome our Chinese overlords , maybe by 10 years time we will all finally take Economics very seriously in this country, but for now let's buy cheap things.

jojo1415:
They should be allowed here but let them sale to only wholesalers and distributors.

No. They should sale to everyone, we must learn an economic lesson by fire by Force in this country.

budaatum:
That's precisely why I advocate that we Nigerians go learn in China to 'steal' their technology and come implement it in Nigeria. I even suspect they might pay us to learn so we are useful for them when they come here.

What good does it do you to steal a technology that you don't have the capacity and state support to replicate in Nigeria?

PDJT:
- I bet you don't even know the name of the hospital in France where Ahmed Tinubu is currently undergoing the blood transfusion, even though he is your president. Zone B

Bulabu Memorial Hospital

GuestInfinity:
Of course, you will fault your fellow black man who was one of the most loved and respected president in US history. Instead, you'll be celebrating this despicable president called Trump who knows nothing but abuse, coercion, corruption and so on. Just as you celebrate Nigerian presidents like him. Smh

Loved and respected 🤣🤣.... Same man who was going around the globe hawking homosexuality upandan, the same man who droned the hell out of Afghan and Iraqi innocent lives. The same Obama who helped to engineer the election that brought in the disastrous Buhari and his calamitous APC party.

HacheNoire:
Why won’t you hail?

Your ancestors were conquered and it was bound for you to hail!

It’s not of your doing! You inherited it!

Isn't that same for you too? Weren't your ancestors also conquered in a matter of days which is why you're hailing your oppressors at the moment?

buygala:
A child and a charlatan in one

As if the White House na im family property


How would he feel if the Democrats take power and ban all Republican favoring news outlets from the White House?...That's even assuming CNN is Demo leaning sef

CNN is definitely demo leaning, as in.... It is the Top democratic party leaning news outlet, same way FOXnews is for the Republican.

If you like block me, I will keep exposing your lies for here

You claim to have witnessed live something that was and still is an exclusive event.

naptu2:
According to GeneralOuki, this was a highly secret event that nobody knew or saw.

President Buhari receives letters of credence from the ambassador of Saudi Arabia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNndal-mPg?si=k6MEzIlYtdaSVlEw

I LIVED NEAR DODAN BARRACKS! I EVEN KNEW WHAT TIME THE HEAD OF STATE LEFT DODAN BARRACKS TO STATE HOUSE MARINA FOR THE CEREMONY!

Funny kids on the internet.

Oga go and sit down! You weren't within the premises of any of these events, neither were you aware of them happening! You are bringing out state release videos from the internet as evidence that you were witnessing these events happening live. Who are you trying to bamboozle here? I'm not a kid if that's what you think, I witnessed Babangida's time as head of state and even in some occasions dinned with him. My family was quiet connected.

naptu2:
🤣🤣🤣

Kai! Something that they show on the news! Something that I have posted very many videos of? Something that they showed in special programmes at 10pm?

I'm going to use you to entertaim myself this morning.

Herr comes the videos.

Abeg no dey whine yourself, you can go and dig out old videos of those events, but you never witnessed them happening live. I can dig out old 1972 videos of an event in Nigeria, but does that mean I witnessed them happening live? Abeg make I hear word. Entertainment ko

ayusco85:
I was wondering same too. He must be in his 60's or 70's if he truly experienced it and even knows what it was back then.

He's lying Nobody except for highly placed individuals in the government could have witnessed these ambassadorial welcoming by heads of state. It is a highly exclusive state ritual, to even claim to have witnessed series of them under 3 different governments is a very gigantic lie.

naptu2:
I often watched as the head of state (Shagari, Buhari, Babangida) went to State House Marina (the police would close down Cable Street) and new ambassadors would arrive, one after the other and submit their letters of credence to the head of state. Then they would sit and talk with the head of state, take photographs and then inspect the guard of honour on the State House lawn.

This quote here is a lie.

First, these events were not a public event so there's no way you could have "often watched" these heads of States perform these duties, secondly you've got to be within the government or close to it to even witness any of it. The welcoming/ receiving of ambassadors is not a public event that everyday citizens could attend or witness in person. Instead, it is an exclusive, highly secured, and heavily choreographed state ritual. So to even witness it under 3 separate governments, you've got to be either in the camps if Theophilus Danjuma or Abacha, even I whose family was quiet close to the Babangida govt never witnessed any of it. So you're lying here.

SalamRushdie:
How come you have experienced everything, I just hope you are not making up all these experiences, are you a time traveler

You dey mind that guy and his lamba?

Ambassadorial welcoming are a highly exclusive state ritual that only those highly placed within the government can witness. To even claim to have witnessed multiple of it under 3 different governments is a fat lie 🤣. Na mumu he fit deceive with those lies.

Babtunz:
Itel. Even if their best model sells for #500, I won’t touch it with a five ft pole

Na only people wey don use itel go fit understand where you're coming from.

Yemike:
Infinix and Tecno.
Tried using it 5 times in the past and I regretted that decision. The last one Tecno i used, I changed the screen and battery twice each, charging port and power button thrice each.
It's like I've developed a phobia for those brands.

I know that they're the same company with itel but I'll prefer itel cuz at least I know from onset I'm settling for mediocrity.

If you think you suffered at the hands of infinix and Tecno wait till you experience itel 🤣, na for inside hell fire them dey produce itel phones, nothing anybody wan tell me 🫤.

MEGAWATCH:
For over 20 years? Waooooo!


This man must be a close associate of Tinubu.


How can he be running for more than 20 years from the Americans without being caught?

😎😎😎😎

By leaving no digital footprint, so he's completely off the radar.

IkeOnyia:
It is possible to leave 10 billion naira in the bank account of Anambra state while accumulating undeclared hundreds of billion in debt. Peter Obi is a fraudster. I challenge him to call Senator Victor Umeh a liar in his face since they are now in the same party.

He has told you people to bring out the evidence that he accumulated those debts. Ofcouse victor umeh was lying, he was playing politics with those statements against Obi because they were in different party at the time.

Fenomenal124:
It can only happen only in Africa.

Because Russia is in Africa abi na?

nickxtra:
Gringory don hammer. Congrats tp Obi

You people's brains don fry on top politics, this university has nothing to do with Obi.

everyday:
That would have been awesome

it would make typing a lot more easier. Imagine chatting on WhatsApp or Facebook with that T9 keyboard 🙄, they didn't think this one through well enough.

Kobojunkie:
Completely wiped a community/colony/cult out of existence, yet thousands of women and children at least survived the so-called wipe? Nigerians need to be aware that these attempts to twist and change history greatly work against them. 😒😒

https://dailytrust.com/satiru-a-community-frozen-by-a-curse/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAXiwO-IQ8&t=909s

I don't think you are a lover of facts.

Read carefully where it talks about killing civilians and women, going house to house to Kill people.

You can continue denying facts as much as you can but that just says a lot about you and reinforce my initial impression about you on this site.

2000 people were killed within a few hours, those who survived were the ones lucky enough to escape with their lives. The settlement is desolated till this very day and you think that's not enough to fit the definition of total wipe out? Even the British commissioner in Ghana/ Gold coast had to rise rukus due to the wanton killing and yet here's a Nigerian trying to deny that such a thing happened? I don't even know what to say at this point, colonial mentality is still strong sadly.

Kobojunkie:
WOW... another person attempting to rewrite history! Whatdathunkit! 😒😒😒

My dear I hate to tell you this but I doubt you read that AI response you just screenshot because nothing that was said there refuted what I just wrote. The AI response in fact is glossing over the full details of those "wars", maybe ask it about the massacres that happened in Burmi and Satiru and see how it responds.

The information I've provided concerning the activities of the British empire in Nigeria are documented facts, I have books and journals on these very topics sitting right there In my library. I have books on Lugard 's journals and correspondence with the Attahiru before the clash began.
I can furnish you with digital links where you can go and read more in-depth about these things if you so please. You're not talking to some average nairalander, I'm well educated and well researched on the colonial conquest in Nigeria

But let me use the tools you're familiar with to educate you a bit on this subject . Below are AI response based on the questions I asked on this very topic.

try to read even further on this things. It's sad how Nigerian always views the British colonial times with rose tinted glasses, we're the only colonised people with this mentality.

everyday:
I recently bought the itel it9320 feature smartphone from airtel,it runs a customize android 12 go version. It comes pre~installed with whatsapp and tiktok which works perfect,The opera mini that came pre~installed is crap so i had to delete the app and install via browser which works great.I am currently typing this with my it9320.It also comes pre~installed with facebook with messenger.Battery life is decent.I bought it for 30,000 naira

I would have really loved it if it came with QWERTY keyboard instead of this T9

obinna58:
Usage cuts might differ

Who no come no go know 😂

[quote author=Kobojunkie post=140630067]Evils they perpetrated?

Next time someone mentions reparations point them to this excellent video by historian Thomas Fitzgerald.

Obviously he can't tackle the whole history of slavery in 3 minutes but he puts African slavery into perspective. pic.twitter.com/G5zj2fDACr

— Robbie (@Robbie_Reasons) September 13, 2026

they perpetrated here in Nigeria. I'm talking about Nigeria not the Benin republic, Dahomey never raided the Benin empire as this white guy wrongly claimed.

In 1903 the British massacred hundreds of people in Sokoto in a bid to depose Sultan Attahiru just because he wouldn't trade with them, it was never about ending slavery as these Europeans love to claim, most of their wars if not all of them in the Niger Area as this place was called in those days was about trading rights. Attahiru had to flee to Burmi and in June 1903 the British stormed Burmi and killed thousands of people there including the Sultan himself. And English envoy who inspected the scenes described the wanton carnage he witnessed there as being "hard to fathom", according to him, British soldiers were going around inspecting the corpses for jewelry to steal, they even mutilated corpses just to retrieve the jewels or ornaments on them.

Then in 1906 the British completely wiped out a community out of existence. The community was Sattiru, the British killed every living thing that existed in that place, a complete genocide and up till this very moment that place has been desolate. According to the journals, the British soldiers were gleefully killing everything that moves, one was quoted to describe the killing spree as " so much killing, much fun" .

There were other massacres in the north, one in Bida around 1890s and guess the one who led all these northern invasion? That fascist, hate filled degenerate, Frederick Lugard, a man who constantly wrote ill nonsense about the natives and their push to be educated.

Then we go to Benin empire where the British bombarded the city for a whole day living scores of dead people littered all over the streets of Benin. And then they deposed the Oba of Benin, leading to the downfall and End to the Benin empire, looted all their artifacts and cultural relics. The famous Benin mask ( FESTAC logo) was among the things they looted.

How about in the Ìgbo lands where they were burning down Villages that will not agree to be subservient to the British crown. They killed lots of people in the process, executed women and young men and destroyed farmlands. The Igbos fought them bravely and gallantly for 20+ years but the British firepower was too much to surmount.

They also bombarded the Yorubas for a full day, killed lots of people just because they wouldn't be granted trading rights.

Lots of other minority groups in the region also faced the evils of the British crown in during their colonial conquest.

And even after the colonial wars were over and the entire Niger Area was now under the British command they still were despicable towards the locals, British officials were known to execute the locals for whatever flimsy reasons. The CEO of the Royal Niger Company, George Goldie Tuabman, the first to name this country As Nigeria and the one who drafted the colonial conquest and the Amalgamation plans has lots of blood in his hands, he was responsible for hundreds of deaths during his time in this region.

But he was not the only one, Wallace also committed lots of atrocious acts against humanity here. You might be familiar with the Aba Women riots, guess what? It was never a riot but a demonstration by the Aba women against unfair taxes by the British. The were just armed with Leaves and Palm trees branches fighting for their rights as every normal human being would, and yet the British gunned down about 100 of them for daring to fight for their rights. 3 of them were shot in point blank range by a British official and not a single person answered for that crime.

There are whole lots of other atrocities commited by the British that I can't mention here due to time and space to type them. But I encourage you to read a bit about they activities here during those days.

So yes again! Evils they perpetrated here in Nigeria.

[quote author=Kobojunkie post=140630067]Evils they perpetrated?

Next time someone mentions reparations point them to this excellent video by historian Thomas Fitzgerald.

Obviously he can't tackle the whole history of slavery in 3 minutes but he puts African slavery into perspective. pic.twitter.com/G5zj2fDACr

— Robbie (@Robbie_Reasons) September 13, 2026

! Evils they perpetrated here in Nigeria. I'm talking about Nigeria not the Benin republic, Dahomey never raided the Benin empire as this white guy wrongly claimed.

In 1903 the British massacred hundreds of people in Sokoto in a bid to depose Sultan Attahiru just because he wouldn't trade with them, it was never about ending slavery as these Europeans love to claim, most of their wars if not all of them in the Niger Area as this place was called in those days was about trading rights. Attahiru had to flee to Burmi and in June 1903 the British stormed Burmi and killed thousands of people there including the Sultan himself. And English envoy who inspected the scenes described the wanton carnage he witnessed there as being "hard to fathom", according to him, British soldiers were going around inspecting the corpses for jewelry to steal, they even mutilated corpses just to retrieve the jewels or ornaments on them.

Then in 1906 the British completely wiped out a community out of existence. The community was Sattiru, the British killed every living thing that existed in that place, a complete genocide and up till this very moment that place has been desolate. According to the journals, the British soldiers were gleefully killing everything that moves, one was quoted to describe the killing spree as " so much killing, much fun" .

There were other massacres in the north, one in Bida around 1890s and guess the one who led all these northern invasion? That fascist, hate filled degenerate, Frederick Lugard, a man who constantly wrote ill nonsense about the natives and their push to be educated.

Then we go to Benin empire where the British bombarded the city for a whole day living scores of dead people littered all over the streets of Benin. And then they deposed the Oba of Benin, leading to the downfall and End to the Benin empire, looted all their artifacts and cultural relics. The famous Benin mask ( FESTAC logo) was among the things they looted.

How about in the Ìgbo lands where they were burning down Villages that will not agree to be subservient to the British crown. They killed lots of people in the process, executed women and young men and destroyed farmlands. The Igbos fought them bravely and gallantly for 20+ years but the British firepower was too much to surmount.

They also bombarded the Yorubas for a full day, killed lots of people just because they wouldn't be granted trading rights.

Lots of other minority groups in the region also faced the evils of the British crown in during their colonial conquest.

And even after the colonial wars were over and the entire Niger Area was now under the British command they still were despicable towards the locals, British officials were known to execute the locals for whatever flimsy reasons. The CEO of the Royal Niger Company, George Goldie Tuabman, the first to name this country As Nigeria and the one who drafted the colonial conquest and the Amalgamation plans has lots of blood in his hands, he was responsible for hundreds of deaths during his time in this region.

But he was not the only one, Wallace also committed lots of atrocious acts against humanity here. You might be familiar with the Aba Women riots, guess what? It was never a riot but a demonstration by the Aba women against unfair taxes by the British. The were just armed with Leaves and Palm trees branches fighting for their rights as every normal human being would, and yet the British gunned down about 100 of them for daring to fight for their rights. 3 of them were shot in point blank range by a British official and not a single person answered for that crime.

There are whole lots of other atrocities commited by the British that I can't mention here due to time and space to type them. But I encourage you to read a bit about they activities here during those days.

So yes again! Evils they perpetrated here in Nigeria.

[quote author=Wickedfacts post=140634078][/quote]We're talking about two different phones here.... Unfortunately.