₦airaland Forum

gratiaeo: Goat don de talk?

donkey. do you want me to post dity deals of obi and jonathan? i have the full details.

9ja_I_hail: Who is this leper? I am sure you are seeking undue attention.Next time try to use igbos instead of ibos. JACKASS.

who is jackass? me or you? by 2015 we will know.

gratiaeo: Failed operation

for your mind! watch out what will happen next. 1966 history is about to repeat itself. nyamiris. see how gej cornered all the juicy appointment and gave it ibos. peter obi and gej are both criminals.

peter obi and gej must be stopped for forcing a candidate on anambra people. he has connived with jonathan to steal nigeria blind.

peter obi is a criminal. his handwork is showing

my north is setting the pace

nigeria is not a country. i cant wait for my arewa republic. where there is no armrobbery, kidnappers, prost1itutes, molesters, gay marriage etc.

mario you dont finis..am uploading another home video for you oo. let me warn you now, if you say another word on this thread i will cause you heart attack by the video of abia and aba am yet to upload now.

mario; have you finished watching, because am uploading another home video for now now. is like you have overpowered every ibo man on NL with your naughtiness, i will tame for them.

B2 mario: but that osisioma junction is still better than your onitsha main city road upper iweka, it has a garden and a dual carriage road that joined it. Have you been to osisioma or you heard from your folks. My dear aba still have many problems which i must confess but cant be compared with onitsha in terms of beauty, it's far better than onitsha. Travel and confirm it.

why not stop this childishnes? this is why it will be difficult for ibos to rule this country. look young man am not ibo, but i have traveled to the major cities and towns of iboland. when it comes to dirt, filth, rot, bad roads disorganization no other town can win the title except aba. stop defending the indefensible. aba is one place i cannot buy what i can eat because you will see people living like pigs, trading in the garbage. aba has the worst environment, more especially in this rainy season. aba is a no go area both in dry and rainy season, although it triples in the rainy season. let the truth be said aba is a dehumanizing town. gaskyia

dabossman: And the tribal Nairaland war rages on. Let me see if this one will last longer than the 100-page Nigeria vs Uruguay thread. If it doesn't then football must truly unite us. Mukina can you open the Nigeria vs South Africa thread 7 days early? May it can douse this tension. But let me siddon look first. Hhm, madam please serve me a plate of amala and ewedu, plus a plate of isi ewu. Looks like its gonna be a long day.

unite us for where? was it not okechukwu keshi that fielded only ibos in his match? only one hausa, no youroba. this is onething ibos must correct, apart from that ibos are nice and inspiring tribe.

Midastouch1: but you said earlier you were offloading a trailer, since then you have been on Nairaland nonstop

Useless isi ewu pretending to be hausa

You are a disgrace

check my post there was never a time i made such comment. i only said that am in sokoto road, onitsha close to the mosque. i also said that my father owns trailers, we bring foodstuff, tomota, fruits to onitsha, we are taking some to ph tomorow. that was what i said. are you dumb like others? my business on this thread is to counter all the lies of your people. i used to reason like you people until i come to the east and made ibo friends.

Midastouch1: I am not asking you to tell me stories about your self love emeka

Your story is a lie and you are fake


Are you still offloading your fathers trailer because you have been on NL since very early this morning

the joke is on you. i dont have time for sleep-walking

Midastouch1: Fake mallam Emeka

How do you know her?

as a northerner am only here to bust the lies told by yourobas. when i was in the north i was reasoning like you lots until i found myself in the east. i had a different mindset about ibos. they are quite inspiring people i have seen all my life.

Midastouch1: Married to Yoruba man Isi ewu

she is from osun. a youroba muslim. they are more like we in the north.

Midastouch1: try this http://lmgtfy.com/

the picture shown here is the same rusted roofs. though they managed to fade the image to hide the roofs.

Anuoolu: This is interesting. I hope Kalu has seen these documents. Group of noise makers. Obi Develop your states if you are actually pained by this development

most of the people on that list are not even ibos, talk more of being anambra. i wonder when 'agboola' start being ibo.

ilugunboy: I think I have the time to deal with your fvck up today...Pistol abi whatever your last Moniker was...

Apart from Nigeria.....? Where else can you find Igbos as native of that land...., ? None ..., that clearly suggest one thing...Igbos actually just started evolving as humans in the last one century.

While the Yorubas and Hausa were already prospering .....and their kids attending the best institutions the world over...the Ibos as early as 1920 were still very backward ..

which mean you guys has been stagnant. what matter is today and not yesteryears. if american has been eulogising on the past glory they wouldnt be where they are today. the last we checked this the present state of youoroba state capitals.

IGBO-SON:
^^^Midastouch, you have any pics/videos of Ibadan GRA?

which ibadan? the last we checked below is the CBD of ibadam, the regional capital of yourobaland. does it not look like where America tested nuclear weapon? its not funny

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obitwo: You? Who?


A breath of fresh air seemed to have hit Ibadan city with the opening of Shoprite retail store on Thursday, June 27. Shoprite, located beside the famous Cocoa House, the city’s tallest structure, in Dugbe, attracted thousands of residents on its opening day on June 28.

The size of the crowd that thronged the mall made it the biggest attraction in the city. Various jokes also hit the social media about the crowd of people that greeted the store on its opening day. A famous joke says 102,000 people visited the store on that day, with only about N35,000 made from sales. Many, the inventors of the jokes claimed, were at the store to window shop and take pictures.

However, the situation had not changed much after one week. There was a large crowd of people milling in and out of the mall, filling up all the spaces within the store.

But so were the cash points; shoppers queued up at the 17 main cash points and the additional two points at the kiosk section, giving the cashiers no moment of rest on the job. Business owners, civil servants, students and even school pupils in uniforms made up the crowd, buying notebooks and other school items.

But in general, youths and middle-aged persons seemed to make up the bulk of people at the store, Saturday PUNCH observed.

A student, Mr. Wale Olusola, who was at the mall on the day it opened, said there was “mad human traffic” within and around the mall. He said, “We had to move slowly because there were so many people coming in and going out. It was like forming queues all over the place. People also had to be vigilant so that their phones and wallets didn’t get stolen by pick-pockets in the crowd.”

A businessman, Mr. Biodun Azeez, described the opening of the mall as a “good thing”, saying he was happy with the development.

He said, “I’ve been here twice in three days and I always buy things. There is always something to buy because it’s hard to resist the lure of the goods here. It’s like they are all shouting ‘come buy me’. And you don’t need to haggle over the price, which is sometimes frustrating.”

Another shopper, Mrs. Olumide Abulude, described the mall as a ‘one-stop shop’ and a new feature in the city.

“You don’t even need to visit an open market like Agbeni because you can get everything here. Their prices are also reasonable. You can get groceries, meat and even locust beans here,” she said, adding that people generally have a wrong notion about the city.

“The truth is that Ibadan is up there and its people know how to enjoy life. You can see the crowd here and the number of people buying and buying things< Abulude added.

However, a shopper, Mr. Adewale Mayowa, said the crowd had been split between the real buyers and the window shoppers.

He said, “There are indeed, a large number of real shoppers, but there are also some who only come to see, take photos or buy something small like sausage.”

Shoprite is located within a merged stuctuer comprising the Cocoa Mall and the Heritage Mall.

The Heritage Mall, which occupies the old Sketch House, was financed by O’dua Investment Company at the cost of about N1.4bn, while the Cocoa Mall, which is an extension of Cocoa House, is being done in conjunction with a private developer, Topservices Limited.

Even though the malls were yet to be completed, as construction work was still ongoing, when Saturday PUNCH visited the place, residents were already excited about the prospect of having arguably the biggest mall in South-West Nigeria.

Aside from Shoprite, others like PEP, Mr. Price, Cash and Carry, Filmhouse Cinema, and Lifemate Furniture have begun operations, while other spaces are being prepared.

But with the addition of the shopping malls and Shoprite to the scores of other stores in Ibadan, the shopping culture of the residents will arguably experience a major change. Many already suspect that open markets like Agbeni and Aleshinloye might suffer now that people can get most of the products under a roof, without having to move from stall to stall, in the sun.

But a trader at Agbeni market, who identified herself as Alhaja Risikat, debunked the fears.

She said, “There will always be people who prefer to come to us; so I don’t think it is ever going to affect us. We used to have Kingsway and UTC in Ibadan and there were still other markets then, so it won’t make any difference at all.”

Similarly, the managements of some other big stores in the city have also said they are not threatened by Shoprite’s arrival.

The expatriate owner of Trolleys, a store a few blocks away from Shoprite, Mr. George Kay, described the situation as “give and take.”

He said, “It is true that Shoprite brings a lot of traffic to this place, but in that process, it is also opening the place up. So some people coming here for the first time will notice our store too and visit. “Sometimes, people who have been in traffic for long would stop by our place and not even get to Shoprite. And there is nothing they have that I don’t have, but there are things I have that they don’t have.

“But on the other hand, the traffic here at the weekend was so bad that the entrance to my shop was blocked. People coming to my store were hindered by the traffic situation. So there is the benefit angle and there is the damage angle too; but no fear from me.”

Also at Foodco in Bodija, which offers a variety of services and products, an official who did not give his name, said, “The sky is large for every bird to fly.”

The source also said nothing had changed at Foodco since the opening of Shoprite in Ibadan.

He said, “There is a big population in Ibadan and we have our loyal customers. Since they came, there has been no difference in our sales, so the sky is large enough. People may go there (Shoprite) and check what is happening there, but our customers know what we also offer.”

A representative of Zooma store, also at Bodija, who spoke to our correspondent, described the population of Ibadan as a huge factor to consider.

She said, “When you consider the population of Ibadan, it’s enough to go round. However, I don’t think their (Shoprite) coming to Ibadan will affect standard stores. I think it’s the open markets that will be affected. Since they opened, business has been the same here.”

At Challenge, a PEP store, which opened in December 2012, has been popular with residents around there.

An official of the store, who spoke in confidence, also said the store had nothing to worry about.

The source said, “We are not threatened at all because we have the cheapest prices in town and our customers know that; that’s what works for us.”

Meanwhile, an official of Shoprite, who spoke under condition of anonymity because he said he was not authorised to speak to journalists, said business has been good at the store.

However, when asked about sales figures, the official said employees were not allowed to discuss sales. He, however, noted that the store was worthy of the attention it had got in the city.

The source said, “Well, business has been good but we don’t ever discuss our sales. People have been coming to buy variety of things; bread has been doing well and people even come for locust beans.

“When you compare the kind of investment we have put in the place, you will know that it’s worth it. We offer our customers aesthetics and the very best.”

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here is the latest news as of few days back:



The first day it opened it was like a tourist site, but the Ibadan people have since found their way back to their local markets…lol. Barely a month after the grand opening of Shoprite at Heritage Cocoa Mall, on Oba Adebimpe Road, Dugbe, Ibadan, Oyo State, the retail store has been hit with low patronage. The number of Ibadan people who go there to buy things have reduced drastically. Some residents blame it on the prices of goods at shoprite. While some say it’s cheaper to buy some goods from their local markets than from shoprite, others say though it’s cheaper to buy from shoprite than the stores in their neighborhood, the difference isn’t much and the transport fare to go to shoprite and back isn’t worth it, so they stick to shops in their area.

The most patronized commodity at shoprite Ibadan is the freshly baked bread, everything else na manage…:-) Though people go there a lot on the weekends…just to look around.

http://9jaolofofo.com.ng/low-patronage-hits-newly-opened-ibadan-shoprite/

obitwo: Why will a Shoprite open in Ibadan ahead of Onitsha and they are now even contemplating building another or why will an international franchise like KFC open in Ibadan and have no outlet in the SE?

Why would Slot, owned by an Igbo man open in Ibadan ahead of any city in the SE. Not even sure they have one there now sef.

Even if you don't believe the GDP stats, you can't at least fault the business planning logic of a KFC

the last we checked shoprite was recording low sale in the same ibadam. it can only mean onething- poverty. next thing we hear is that they have folded in ibadam, its not funny




The first day it opened it was like a tourist site, but the Ibadan people have since found their way back to their local markets…lol. Barely a month after the grand opening of Shoprite at Heritage Cocoa Mall, on Oba Adebimpe Road, Dugbe, Ibadan, Oyo State, the retail store has been hit with low patronage. The number of Ibadan people who go there to buy things have reduced drastically. Some residents blame it on the prices of goods at shoprite. While some say it’s cheaper to buy some goods from their local markets than from shoprite, others say though it’s cheaper to buy from shoprite than the stores in their neighborhood, the difference isn’t much and the transport fare to go to shoprite and back isn’t worth it, so they stick to shops in their area.

The most patronized commodity at shoprite Ibadan is the freshly baked bread, everything else na manage…:-) Though people go there a lot on the weekends…just to look around.

http://9jaolofofo.com.ng/low-patronage-hits-newly-opened-ibadan-shoprite/