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BennyDGreat:Well, it cannot happen as the Ivorian government is a mere appendage of France, which is a major power bloc in the EU. The Ghanaian president visited the EU many months ago, clamouring for the same thing you mentioned. Unfortunately, due to his mismanagement (appointed over 1000 PAs and built one massive church), the country plunged into a recession as a result of the loans the country took because of anticipated oil sales. Today, Ghana has obtained her 17th IMF bailout. Besides, the sales of cocoa are heavily regulated in both countries compared to Nigeria, Cameroon, Ecuador and Indonesia. Regulation tend to lead to lower prices if the cartel is not the only bloc producing those products. I must say, it is not easy to usurp the chocolate companies in the EU - which is the major consumer and has many companies that process cocoa. The solution, as I have mentioned once here, is to hope/wish/work on Asians to love chocolates. Once that is achieved, you can then invite Asian companies to set up bases or start your companies in Africa and export to Asia. Europeans would not let go of that industry to outsiders, especially as they are the major consumers. A similar thing is brewing in so-called green minerals - lithium, cobalt, bauxite etc. Indonesia is home to many of these minerals needed for wind blades and electric vehicle production. The country's president signed into law mandating extracting companies to process the minerals in Indonesia before export. What happened? The EU sued Indonesia in the WTO court and won. Indonesia has appealed the case. However, while the EU sued, Chinese manufacturers swooped in and set up factories in the country. Korean manufacturers, seeing that the Chinese had gained the upper hand, also did the same. Other countries elsewhere with the same abundance of minerals enacted the same law as Indonesia. Chile, where the citizens are basically descendants from Europe, did the same law, and the EU criticised it. How much more black folks in Ghana? Few weeks ago, Indonesians voted for a new president who is an ally to the outgoing one (who enacted the law), but The Economist Magazine, the mouthpiece of the West, criticised him and supported someone else. However, the koko be say they did not want the president's favourite because of the laws he made ensuring those minerals are processed in Indonesia. This is why I support a strong China. There have to be alternatives. In fact, as I write, US lawmakers are criticising Mexico for accepting investments from China to set up factories in the country with the aim of exporting to the US. The US also criticised Peru and Ecuador for accepting Chinese investments into their ports and bridges. More can be read here: https://www.nairaland.com/7801886/multipolarism-versus-hegemonism-great-power |
Ningishzida:The other poster is correct. People export to the EU, but maybe not branded goods. On the other hand, people export to the US as well. The bold is what important - commercially, scalable and sustainable exports across the value chains in major sectors, not just agriculture or mining. As for your last line, not even chocolate or biscuits that is made in an African country? |
babasolution:It is actually the right thing to do. Japan enjoyed unfettered access to Western markets after the World War, ditto Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and then China. Now, India is poised to enjoy the same. A country cannot become rich by selling to the poor. Teacher A who teaches at Grange Schools would become financially comfortable quickly and solidly than Teacher B who etaches at Atutupoyoyo Secondary School. This is simply because the former caters to a wealthy clientele while the latter does not. Africa being almost abut to Europe should be the base for its manufacturers who want to tap into cheap labour, but where did they go? Southeast Asia. Think am, why should German manufacturers go to Malaysia to produce a product meant for the EU market when Senegal is closer? Why Vietnam, not Kenya? What about South Africa? When labour costs increased in Japan and South Korea, manufacterurss went to neighbouring Southeast Asia to cite factories - notably Thailand and Malaysia and then export to their home countries. Along the way, these countries rose up the manufacturing value chain and their workers gained relevant skills. Imagine Japanese and Korean manufacturers going to cite factories in Africa then export to East Asia? It does not make sense. But that is what Europe is doing by going to produce in Southeast Asia then export to Europe when Africa is closer with massive resources and abundant labour. So, based on geographical reasons and accompanying resources (natural and demographic), it makes sense to depend on Europe for economic growth. Agriculture should be boosted for internal supply. Nigeria can survive on export of raw materialsTo be fair, even if Fulani herdsmen did not exist and there were continuous agricultural activities, we cannot feed ourselves. We would have to import food. On the other hand, Nigeria is too big and populated to depend on export of raw materials. None of the non-oil exports on its own, not as an associated group, generated a billion dollars. So, where do we get much needed foreign earner? That is where oil comes in, but it too is unsustainable. But the government are not seriousAgreed. Our elites are terrible people and very unintelligent at that. |
Ningishzida: A country's citizen can only become exporters if the international market are not hindering the countrh from exporting their processed items. They might disagree on any other matter but when it comes to suppressing all the countries where the Negroes exist on earth, they will always unite to suppress the Negroes.That is true. China was not a major exporter until the West led by the US approved her membership into the WTO. The solution is to target other markets, notably China, Southeast Asia, Brazil/South America and India. Also, could it be that those charges are aimed at products from Nigeria rather than the entire African continent? I ask, because it could be different from Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Egypt etc. Also to be fair, the US does not charge duty on goods from selected African countries under the AGOA agreement. The same applies to China for agricultural products (processed or raw) from the continent. The world as it stands today are controlled by the Caucasians followed by the Arabs, and then the Asians. All these three groups of people are united because they managed to single out the Negro race as being the greatest threat to their survival.I beg to disagree with Arabs coming in as second. Obviously, the white man is number one, but the number two has to be East Asians. Note: I am specific as South Asians, Central Asians and Southeast Asians are different. East Asians here are Chinese, South Koreans and Japanese. However, I wonder how we constitute the greatest threat to their survival. Unless our leaders start signing trade deals that will enable citizens of Nigeria export processed items to Europe or even Asia, Nigeria will continue to be import dependent and any private citizen that decide to venture into the business of exporting processed items will find themselves fighting an uphill battle that they can never survive on their own.Good thing you mentioned our political elites. The ball is in their court. Alternatively, we trade amongst ourselves even though poor people trading amongst themselves does not translate to wealth. The aim should be to provide a safe environment for foreign investors to set up factories and export to major regions. An example was when Ethiopia revamped trade rules attracting investors who produced and exported to the US under AGOA rules. However, due to the civil unrest and clampdown on dissidents, the US removed Ethiopia from the revised list and investors fled. |
ferhyntorlah:Na strong man him be. He has his issues, but he has been consistent in the fight against travel fraudsters. |
Chrisrare:Nairalanders with their mouth.... ![]() |
MrBrownJay1:To add, research actually shows that lesbian relationships suffer emotional abuse and domestic violence just as, if not more than, heterosexual relationships. Ndi homosexuals are humans too. Welcome back MRBrownJ |
Bluntemperor:Who supported Buhari to become president in 2015? Who promised to "continue from where Buhari stopped"? Thank God Tinubu's incompetence is exposed in full glare. No excuses or lies as previous. |
folake4u:Seriously, you are right. I find it odd to put up a false image of myself online. Good a thing some persons know me outside Nairaland. That puts me in check. |
The mistake was having a child with a man who had not married her, traditionally or religiously. Another mistake from the man is having a child with a woman you are not yet married to because the bride price expenses are too high. Why not tackle A before H? Why not trash out the bride price (a stoopid concept on its own) issue FIRST before having a child with the woman? Then, the final mistake is having sex with your sister-in-law. Just as you don't sheet where eat (having sex with suppliers/clients/work colleagues), you don't have sexual relationships with your in-laws. You respect boundaries. May I ask, which ethnic group(s) are the individuals members of? Life is hard; some people just make theirs harder. Na the innocent pikin I pity. |
Satazaa:Such is life, honestly, The way to checkmate this is to marry a woman who genuinely likes you. |
Eriokanmi:Interesting. |
Yashita:Finish! I was not trained to be responsible for another person's irresponsibility. I am not good at thinking for others. Everyone has a brain. It should be used just as I use mine. |
As I have written here: Gerrard59: Gerrard59:Everything is economics. As black Africans, we are too poor, and very poor to be arrogant at the same time. That is my annoyance with Nigerian netizens - poor yet proudly arrogant and terribly ignorant. Effects of inhaling generator fumes and sweating at the same time. Bad combo. With the support for the seizure of private businesses and socialist policies, the poverty will soar. The future get as e. |
ednut1:Poverty is bad. ![]() Those pictures are a perfect snapshot that Africa is poor. Where is MT who was doing Agbado analysis about how Africans are richer than Europeans? ![]() |
rspy:This is something many Nigerians have yet to mentally process. What makes us different from the likes of Haiti, DRC and Central African Republic? Na why I don't engage in the Internet bants Nigerians have with other Africans, especially Ghanaians, Kenyans and South Africans. The indiscriminate killings in Nigeria cannot continue unabated in those countries. |
WantsandMore:Fair assessment. But with a poor economy, terrible living standards and absence of infrastructure, other places like Malaysia and China would be adjudged to be civilised. |
Putinofrussia:I beg to disagree. GDP by PPP is even a balanced metric for assessing an economy than nominal GDP. HDIs are better metrics to judge how the living standards of a country is rather than GDP per capita, which just says everyone is wealthy because the population is small and wealth is huge. Another example of that anomaly is Namibia. Where per capita comes in is when the HDI has been adjudged to be high. That is where Barbados and Bahamas surpass their African counterparts - high per capita income and high HDIs. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea have some of the highest per capita incomes in the continent, but have terribly high poverty rates and abysmally low HDIs. As "poor" Nigeria might be, it is better off than those countries with high per capita incomes. |
Putinofrussia:GDP per capita: GDP divided by the total number of citizens. A misleading way to assess how wealthy a country is. If so, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea should be very wealthy by global standards. |
Asswipemod:So, what do you say about the Igbo chief who said the LASG should invite ESN to Lagos (which is wrong on its own) and has been jailed ever since. But there has been no condemnation towards the Islamic cleric who threatened the president's wife? What you are doing is typical gaslighting. |
Favor99:In the initial post, I didn't see where it was stated that the lad is biracial. If biracial, then the case is different. Most times, biracial folks marry a member of the dominant race, not the minority race. As for your first statement, I cannot say as there is no data. But I have watched a video on Twitter where a black lad in France with his white girlfriend was yelling at another black lady (obviously a new migrant) to "go back to her country". The white girl looked surprised when she heard that statement. Na only African Americans I fit "understand" that statement from. Everyone else went to the developed world WILLINGLY. |
anonimi:While we share blame for not doing our part to develop, I believe in the chess of development and geopolitics, certain actors bar us from actualising our potentials. This has been discussed in detail here: https://www.nairaland.com/7801886/multipolarism-versus-hegemonism-great-power But the larger portion of blame lies on us, especially in this century, where there are many concepts to learn and copy from. However, as Pansophis.t said, it is one thing to be wealthy, but another thing for that wealth to be at the whims of another person. This means should you go against the person's wishes, the wealth is reduced to rumbles. OTOH, the person can actually prevent you from being wealthy in the first place. |
Phenmeson:Terrible! Terrible!! Terrible!!! I am curious, did he just label you a c*nt for no reason at all? What initiated the slur? OTOH, I find it hilarious when blacks who are naturalised citizens of European countries label those from Africa with slurs. Except for African Americans, the rest of blacks outside in the developed world went willingly as migrants. I can understand "go back to your country" from an African American, not a descendant of black Africa. Person wey him papa enter the country just after the World War. Another reason why I no dey take all this black solidarity movements seriously. But I grab the benefits tho Sha, the good thing is, unlike the US, native Europeans will put such people into their rightful place. No be humans dem be? Humans are tribal. ![]() |
sukkot:They blew in Nigeria, their dominant society. Be like say to blow for Nigeria sure pass o |
DaddFreeze na amebo man ![]() |
pansophist:I understand your points, but my issues with such places are safety and rule of law. I adore a rule-based society where inhabitants obey the rules (legal and social), which corresponds to a safe place to reside. There aren't many such places these days, and very few exist in the West. Indian elites complain about how they cannot wear Rolexes in the streets of London. But such cannot happen in Singapore or Tokyo. However, the latter two have few black people compared to London. For that reason, I would rather live in those Asian cities over London. But Thailand is good tho and safer compared to anywhere in SA and Brazil. Sha, humans are different. My boring lifestyle aligns with a safe place. |
pansophist:I have never liked GDP per capita. It is an unbalanced way to measure a country's wealth. PPP and HDI are better metrics to assess how wealthy a country is and the standard of living. Equatorial Guinea and Gabon have high GDP per capita, but are notoriously poor. Botswana and Namibia also have relatively high GDP per capita, but have chronically high unemployment. So yes, China is wealthy and considering the population has been managed over the last 25 years with massive investments in education, infrastructure and continuous training, the wealth would penetrate through the society. Countries like Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg have managed to use their wealth judiciously. |
natedroid:You don't need a soothsayer to tell you otherwise. Black Africa is decades behind civilisation. It is one of the reasons black people who aren't from countries in black Africa don't want to associate with the continent. No one likes to associate with poor people. |
pansophist:Including the UK. And yes to changes, Vanuatu also lost visa-free access to some countries in the EU. The target should be a first world country. In the Caribbean, Grenada (CBI) or if OP finds himself in the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Panama or Barbados at a very young age. |
Opinedecandid:That should be fellow ECOWAS countries. The rest of the continent requires foreigners to have a residency permit as embassies will request for that before attending to your applications. Nigerians who had difficulties obtaining student visa to Germany in Nigeria experienced the same when they went to Ghana, Togo and Gambia to apply from there. Those are ECOWAS countries, how much more those in Southern Africa? I won't lie, though; having just the Nigerian passport in this day and age is quite restrictive, especially if one has global ambitions (career, business and leisure). |
austino677:Those countries don't like Nigerian passport holders. They are either wary, scared, antsy or envious of Nigerian passport holders. Apart from South Africa, jobs outside remote tech roles are scarce, and labour rules favour the natives. Namibia, for instance, makes it very hard to recruit foreigners for jobs Namibians can do. Companies are questioned and scrutinised when they approach the immigration/labour office for visas to employ foreigners. The question is: why not Namibians? The same applies to Botswana. However, if you are a remote worker, Namibia is good because it is safe, seemingly functional and has 24/7 electricity and good roads (one of the best in the continent). |
Love800:Yes. The company arranges the visa and sends to the immigration bureau satisfying all requirements to employ a foreigner who resides outside the country. Once that is completed, you get notified to apply for a work visa at the country's embassy in Nigeria with the documents the company or immigration authorities has sent to you. No agent secures a work visa for any applicant. |
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