₦airaland Forum

Hmm. I think it all comes down to the classist nature of black people generally, reason why slavery and colonialism were so successful for Europeans in Africa. A black man thinks that anybody who has something he could not afford but would love to have is superior to him.

When i was a kid, I used to join the bandwagon of people calling some goods "original" and others as "fake". Let me tell those who are still following that bandwagon today about the reality of manufacturing that many people don't realize yet in this part of the world: any manufacturer who can produce a "fake" good can also produce the so called "original". Most of the divergence in product quality that we see are due to the manufacturer trying to minimize costs in the production process by producing a little substandard product that will serve the same purpose as the current one in order to sell at the current competitive market price.

"Made in Nigeria" products are no inferior to "Made in Italy" products, the only difference is that Italian products might have gained the larger portion of the market which a Nigerian firm is competing for and which allows the Italian to maintain high product quality at the fairly competitive market price. This is not to mention the technological advantage that the Italian now has thanks to the numerous tweaks and turns in manufacturing because of a larger balance sheet that enables it to afford it.

So, for a Nigerian firm to gain access into the market, it requires Nigerian consumers to switch allegiance from the Italian made to the locally manufactured goods to help the Nigerian firm build the base for a more competitive and better quality product.

Take for instance, "Made in China" products were associated with inferiority many years ago, but market was still accessible to them thanks to the much cheaper rates they were sold compared to European made. Because of that patronage, Chinese firms were able to build a much bigger balance sheet than their European competitors which translated into improved product quality and still bigger market share because of the fairly competitive prices their products were sold. Today, China produces everything.

If anybody has read about "economies of scale", they will understand why China is dominating the world today.

Hmm

See the mortuary for heaven sake, who cursed Nigeria like this

Some people saying this Marathon should be discontinued because it is always won by a Kenyan or Ethiopian. Events like this are not only for sporting activities, it also helps to bring about social integration in the Africa subcontinent.

The Chinese whom Americans could go to a war against have no problem with racial discrimination in the USA, but it is the African Americans who have been in the country for 400 years that have still been looked down upon. This says a lot about how the world views you about your place of origin.

Every country has its own share of insecurity, so Nigeria is not alone, but things could be better.

He didn't say it like this headline is portraying it, he did say Americans should leave Ukraine as quickly as possible but when pressed further about the fate of Americans who are left behind should the conflict escalate in Ukraine, the USA president replied by saying that "Putin knows he will be crossing the line if American citizens are attacked." But he also mentioned the need not to engage Russia in a military firefight as this could mean a world war.

To those who have ever used these innoson cars, how do they compare to foreign top auto brands like Toyota, Volkswagen, Audi, Benz, Ford and other brands commonly used in Nigeria?

HarunaWest:
Iran manufactured that weapon domestically i.e from start to finish,they made use of their own resources. Iran is not a developed country, but they are almost there. Majority of their people are literate and they are far better than the acclaimed giant of Africa. We still import transistor radios and mobile phones. These are what secondary school students in Asia make. We are in trouble in this country.

I tell you, i just checked the economy of Iran, their GDP has almost doubled from the last time i checked it. Iran's nominal GDP now stands at over $1.13 trillions, compared to Nigeria's, that is more than 2 times our GDP. Despite the USA and Western sanctions, Iran continues to grow its GDP.

Let Nigeria continue to waste its time trying to speak big English grammars like USA or UK, the most advanced economies in the world today are manufacturing powers. We really need to start thinking like those manufacturing powers if we want to build an advanced economy. And Nigeria has all the advantages to turn itself into a manufacturing power if it wants to, we have the market and huge population size that is mostly youths. By now, we should have cut our imports into size and started producing most of what we consume. But alas, we have a leader who is mostly content with cattle rearing and destruction of lives and properties of those who refuse to give their land for such business.

Hmm. Liar Mohamed and social media, I hope someone will treat this man's fvck up one day.

Where are they from, I hope they are not Buhari cousins?

What kind of proposal be this, be ready to shop more of that slaps during your marriage lady. This is a blatant act of incivility, some people don't know what is off limits in this their romantic thing, try that with a White lady and watch her call police on you even after the proposal.

Forget about it, you are not hiding behind anything, nothing acquired in this world is natural about you, your name was given to you by someone: your parent. So you can change that if you feel it is constituting a cultural barrier for you in your new environment. You don't have to bear an English name to make your name pronounceable to an English man. What of changing your name to "Tope"? You will be surprised how a Briton will pronounce "Tope" even better than a Yoruba guy.

I thought you guys are fond of helping women on social media.

joyandfaith:
Innocent persons can be killed in the process. Police should do their work.

Not like people caught red-handed with a human head in their hands.

When i mentioned immediate public lynching for people engaging in this dastardly act of ritual killing on Twitter, many people reported my tweet as violating the Twitter policy and I had to take down the tweet. You cannot control a black man just by mere offering a word of advice, you need to use some measure of force and this ritual killing would become a new normal except the people (not only law enforcement) took a strong stand against it. If you had killed someone before in the name of amassing illusory wealths through human sacrifice, then there is nothing bad if your life is taken away from you too. Eye 4 eye treatment is the solution to this evil and archaic practice of ritual killing.

That Uganda president, what is he called again, Muisevieni or what, is a beast of human.

The north never liked this lady for not wearing hijab like other women

Initial exposure is understandable, because you used that for announcement. But this constant exposure doesn't make you look a decent mother-to-be.

What right do you think you have to be the only man your girlfriend is seeing

When naira still had value. When i would take 50 Kobo to Mama Mulikat buka, eat belleful and still collect change.

It is a suicide mission engaging an army in a firefight with pump actions. Someone should tell these young men wasting their lives that which is the truth. The army carries all the sophisticated weapons: automatic rifles, AK-47, RPGs, rocket launcher, bulletproof vest, armoured vehicle, etc, and you want to fight them using a gun that cannot fire more than one bullet at a go. It is just a simply suicide. I am tired of seeing young men's lives being cut short rampantly in this country. If you want to engage in a struggle, at least be prepared for it.

Sad

Living in boys quarters does not qualify you to be a president. We need a visionary leader, someone with ideas and will to translate the ideas into reality for the people.

All this publicity stunt of humility should have no place in Nigeria political discourse in this era. Nigerians should be wiser by now. This is how they packaged Buhari to us as an anti-corruption crusader, but look at him today: corruption, impunity and criminality are worse under his government.

Nigerians should realize the fact about leadership. Being a good man does not mean that you will be a good leader. Someone with ideas and creativity in transforming the ideas into the betterment of lives of average citizens will outperform you even though they are not so good as a person.

Leadership is all about having the foresight to identify the pain points of the people and the courage to address them swiftly, then creating opportunities by leveraging on their strengths.

Nigeria is in dire need of a pragmatic leader who will galvanize efforts to encourage people to start using their hands instead of their mouths to create wealths.

What is the price of an accommodation in that estate?

Truthful politician in a corrupt system, what an awkward combination

The world cup hero deserves it, Messi has long passed his prime. Now is the time of Mbappe

Naija, naija, naija, never introduce a fraudulent thing to Nigerians, everybody will think it is normal in a short time soon. Nigerians just too like fraud and backdoor means

They should stop calling this thing pure water, satchet water is the right name. the water fetched from a tap inside your house is better than this so called "pure water"

If it was a Yoruba man, Igbos will be so quick in attacking the person and calling a coward

These northerners and the talk of unity is nauseating these days, what has the unity brought to this country, chaos, corruption, impunity, more division, poverty, insecurity, etc.

These people should be more focused on how to fix the system instead of this talk of indivisibility of the country.

If this super cop or super criminal has a lot of dirty revelations that will implicate more people, they will arrange his death so that he dies in USA custody, by poisoning him