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| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Rubyjade: 5:27pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
While the concern about protecting local businesses is understandable, banning Chinese citizens—or any foreign nationals—from engaging in small and medium-scale trading may not be the most balanced or effective solution. 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s economy thrives on openness and competition, and policies that are overly restrictive or discriminatory could send the wrong signal to the international community, potentially discouraging foreign investment as a whole. Instead of outright bans, the government can: Strengthen and enforce local content policies, ensuring Nigerians have priority access to certain sectors or trade spaces. Offer grants, tax incentives, and business development support specifically tailored to Nigerian SMEs so they can scale and compete effectively. Regulate fairly to ensure foreign traders operate within the rules—such as licensing, taxes, and community engagement—but not exclude them purely based on nationality. Many Chinese businesses bring employment, infrastructure development, and supply chain improvements—especially in manufacturing and logistics. Shifting them away from trading into only “large-scale” business by force could hurt informal economies and even result in job losses among the Nigerians they currently employ. The real issue isn’t just competition from foreigners—it’s the need to empower and protect local businesses with smart, enforceable, and fair trade policies that build Nigerian capacity, not fear. franchasng: |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Rubyjade: 5:27pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
While the concern about protecting local businesses is understandable, banning Chinese citizens—or any foreign nationals—from engaging in small and medium-scale trading may not be the most balanced or effective solution. 🇳🇬 Nigeria’s economy thrives on openness and competition, and policies that are overly restrictive or discriminatory could send the wrong signal to the international community, potentially discouraging foreign investment as a whole. Instead of outright bans, the government can: Strengthen and enforce local content policies, ensuring Nigerians have priority access to certain sectors or trade spaces. Offer grants, tax incentives, and business development support specifically tailored to Nigerian SMEs so they can scale and compete effectively. Regulate fairly to ensure foreign traders operate within the rules—such as licensing, taxes, and community engagement—but not exclude them purely based on nationality. Many Chinese businesses bring employment, infrastructure development, and supply chain improvements—especially in manufacturing and logistics. Shifting them away from trading into only “large-scale” business by force could hurt informal economies and even result in job losses among the Nigerians they currently employ. The real issue isn’t just competition from foreigners—it’s the need to empower and protect local businesses with smart, enforceable, and fair trade policies that build Nigerian capacity, not fear. franchasng: |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 5:29pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
JaceBlaze:WHY IS GHANA A MODEL FOR YOU? U THINK AFROPHOBIA WILL TAKE ANY OF US ANYWHERE? DO U REALLY BELIEVE SO? |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 5:33pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
JaceBlaze:IN THE WHOLE WEST AFRICA, ONLY GHANA AND U THINK THAT IS THE BEST MODEL? ASK YOURSELF IF GHANIANS ARE TRADING RIGHT ACROSS THE WHOLE WEST AFRICA UNDISTURBBED THEY ARE ALL OVER OTHER WEST AFRICA COUNTRIES. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 5:36pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
JaceBlaze:SEE THEY EVEN CREATED A WHOLE VILLAGE IN GAMBIA NO NOISE, NO XENOPHOBIA, NO AFROPHOBIA. A WHOLE VILLAGE IN ANOTHER MAN COUNTRY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qIYgR3AEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WGQeRA0DNo |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 5:40pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
WHILE THEY CREATED A WHOLE KINGDOM/VILLAGE/TOWN IN GAMBIA, THIS IS THEM IN THE 1950s, SPEWING XENOPHOBIA AND NIGERIA MUST GO, WHICH THEY DID TWICE, WHICH CAUSED A RETALIATION FROM US IN THE 1980s WEN WE DID GHANA MUST GO. OTHERWISE, NIGERIANS WONT DO SUCH EVER. LISTEN TO THE GHANA GIRL HERE SPEWING RAAW XENOPHOBIA AS FAR BACK AS 1950. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840XWjnt9wc |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by SuperEagles: 5:59pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
Is opay a small biz ? Watcharena: |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Josbreed: 6:04pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
Watcharena:Opayy is not a Small/medium business. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by FuckYeyeMods: 6:08pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
Watcharena:Is Opay small business. Are you using Glo.. ? If government stand up to protect GLO Network to become bigger than its competitors, would that be a bad idea? |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Watcharena: 6:13pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
FuckYeyeMods:it all depend on how the government is doing it,glo services are not good,they have the funds to make it better but they're using it for advert instead of delivering better services |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Nnamdipapa(m): 6:55pm On Aug 03, 2025*. Modified: 8:01pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
With due respect, Africans are not smart, and the reason we are where we are today. This will discourage the inflow of capital into the country. Why not enact strict laws involving capital requirements for small businesses and make it a requirement for them to hire at least two locals? We are just too tribalistic. Look at the Western world, they are always seeking people to start businesses in their countries, albeit with legal immigration documents. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by omooba969(m): 7:33pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
musicwriter:If you're that conversant with the said 'law of economics', you would understand that there's a huge gap between theory and practice. What competition or type of economics do you want to achieve with a depressed or dissatisfied citizenry? You should know that the Tanzanian authority are responding to the concerns of their people, as they would be an irresponsible government if practical steps are not taken to address these concerns. Also, bear in mind that Tanzania is a holiday destination, a huge part of their economy, therefore presents a huge opportunity for the locals to engage in local businesses to sustain the tourism sector. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 7:34pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
I LET THE GHANIAN EXPLAIN HOW THEY USED XENOPHOBIA TO CHASE NIGEIANS AWAY AND TOOK THEIR PROPERTIS, WITH THEIR ALIEN COMPLIANCE ORDER. JUST FOR THOSE WHO THINK GHANA MODEL IS THE BEST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64PmJ8Txac |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 7:40pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by OlawaleBammie: 7:44pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
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| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 7:47pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
OFCOURSE THE RETALIATION IS USUALLY WORST, WHEN IT EVENTUALLY ARRIVES. GHANA MUST GO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwSASddyQ8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJdju88fnc |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by BangaRice: 7:54pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
franchasng:why? |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Conservarmy: 8:16pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
We need this in Yorubaland most especially in Lagos state. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by musicwriter(m): 8:53pm On Aug 03, 2025*. Modified: 9:10pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
omooba969:Yes, I am conversant with the law of economics, and it's not that I don't understand your point. But you seem to believe that Tanzanian will prosper because of this law. And that's where I disagree with you. Yes. the citizens can get employed but the government should get ready for the retardation of the economy, including that very sector. You can't get everything you want in economics. You always lose something to get another- what Adam Smith calls opportunity cost. By the way, if you think this law is so good; why do you think that other countries around the world are not enacting the same law? |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Exceed15: 9:03pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
Even when foreigners are better in that business |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by jaszplus12(m): 10:16pm On Aug 03, 2025 |
OlawaleBammie:This is what a lot of Nigeria people going to other nations don't want to hear. If your country doesn't protect you by staving off other nationals from the basic and grassroots business how will you feel? Abandoned? Right? |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Hotice085: 2:36am On Aug 04, 2025 |
NothingDoMe:What stupid competition? You travel all the way to a village in Tanzania just to go and be selling fish with the local village woman abi? Why must you go to struggling African country and be competing with them instead of investing? Better stop this nonsense talk of competition, compete at higher level not grass root level |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Cromagnon: 8:02am On Aug 04, 2025 |
franchasng: So that you will come and ban them after they've free set it up You think you're wise You're just displaying your foolishity They should be banned from opening small and medium scale trading businesses in Nigeria. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Cromagnon: 8:02am On Aug 04, 2025 |
dominique:they don't care. Govt just makes policy based on ego and cheap votes |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by OlawaleBammie: 12:00pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
jaszplus12:If I should become a leader today one of my top priorities is security, and job security is part of it. That is the reason my locals voted me in. There are some jobs I will predominantly leave for the locals alone to operate, so a foreigner who is coming will know what he's coming to do and the kind of jobs and business available for him. You don't just come in and put pressure on the paltry resource I am using to sustain existence of my locality Before we even admit you in, there must be clear purpose of ur visit, and it's either for pleasure(source of income for us) or bigger business (source of income and jobs for the locals) |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 12:55pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
OlawaleBammie:WHILE U ARE CELEBRATING BACKWARDNESS, KENYA IS ABOUT TO EXPEL TAZANIA DOING SAME BUSINESS IN KENYA. cc samantha125 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUtqIp7YDCk |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 12:58pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
U CANNOT EXPECT TO WORK IN OTHER AFRICA COUNTRIES AND THEN BAN THEM FROM WORKING IN YOUR COUNTRY. THE ONLY THING THAT NEEDS TO BE BANNED IS CRIME. WORK IS DESIRABLE IN MY HONEST OPINION. IF U CAN WORK AND SURVIVE WITH US WITHOUT INVOLVING YOURSELF IN CRIME, U ARE WELCOME. COME WITH YOUR OWN BUSINESS. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 1:03pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
OlawaleBammie:YOUR SISTER IS IN UK DENYING NIEGRIA AFTER ONLY ENTERING THE UK AT AGE 16. U ARE YEAR DREAMING OF BANNING PEOPLE WORKING FOR THEIR DAILY BREAD.
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| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 1:05pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
THEY WANT TO BE PRIME MINISTER IN OTHER PEOPLE COUNTRY BUT ARE XENOPHOBES.
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| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Stolen: 1:06pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
THE WORST THING I CAN SAY TO THEM IS IWANTMYOWN COUNTRY. I GET BANNED STRAIGHT AWAY HERE. |
| Re: Tanzania Bans Foreign Nationals From Running Small Businesses by Santalpharay: 2:26pm On Aug 04, 2025 |
aribisala0:An apple does not fall far away from the tree. Competition is a taboo to the lazy ones. No Tanzania is not a stadium.🤣🤣 |
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