₦airaland Forum

IyfeNamikaze:
This is not going to improve any economy, it is going to kill it! My goodness we're poorly educated in this country sha. There's not one single country that wants to grow its economy that would allow a foreign country to establish a retail warehouse within their borders. This is simple basic economic knowledge, exactly how textile died in Nigeria.

You're looking at it from a tribalistic point of view.

why do you think the Nigerian textile business collapsed.

Mrexcell:
Who are they expecting to drive the chinese retail traders for them is it the lagos state govt that has been looking for ways to get rid of them in lagos? Let the igbo traders just reinvent and restructure their business to keep up with the changing business environment.

Nobody will drive Chinese out of Yoruba land. They have rights to do any legal business that they want .

We don't do Nzogbu Nzogbu here

I don't support this. The competition is good for the consumers. Nigerians, especially Igbos, also trade in China.

Kalulu44:
After reading majority comments, I just can't help but shake my head.
This tribalism thing has really eating deep into our fabrics especially from Igbo and Yorubas.
Anything that will bring one tribe down is giving joy to the other tribe vice versa.
Honestly as an Igbo man born and brought up in the West. I hardly put mouth into this two tribes matters.
Cus I have good and jolly good friends from both sides of the divides.
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Now to this Chinese issue, one tribe is happy that the Chinese wants to deprive the other tribe from making money and feel the Chinese are right with what they're doing. But I disagree.
I live in Igbesa Ogun state close to the Chinese free trade zone that has over 200 companies inside the zone producing different types of products you can think of that human beings uses.
Everyday, we watch over 100 trucks and trailers carrying goods to go supply customers outside the state which includes this trade Fair traders.
The Chinese are supplying this traders at wholesale prices, and this traders will still pay transportation to bring the goods to them.
With this, they have certain amount they'll sell the goods to retailers.
Then you as the Chinese companies supplying this traders now decided to bring the goods yourself to their domain and sell at your company's price against the traders retail price.
How does this make sense?
Pls guys let's leave tribal sentiment at times and think about most of the things properly, thanks.

Anything to benefit the end users is a welcome development.
You’re only sobered because your tribes men will be affected.
You’re not happy that the end users are getting quality product at cheaper prices.
Explain greed and selfishness again let me understand better.
Besides that as someone who live close to alaba international market how is it tribal sentiment that we have been buying fake brand new tvs from Alaba over the years and Chinese retailers are giving us original products at more discount?
You’re not concerned about the people, you’re are being sentimental about your tribesmen.

madridguy:
Mr Kalu,

Ghanians protested against your brothers doing business in their country few months ago, for the same thing. You guys were calling them names but now you're changing your tongue. Allow the Chinese to breath and let consumers buy from anyone they want.

Are my brothers producing the said items in Ghana. Or you didn't read where I said it's this Chinese that are supplying my brothers the goods and still come to their domain to sell same goods at their company price. How do they want my brothers who also bought from them at their company's price to sell their own.

Orlandoo:
My comment is meant for people who do business, not for Omonile.

Yeah I’m omonile who does business.
The likes of otedola and alakija are lagosians(Omonile) who also do big business in Nigeria.
Businesses are not just by selling spare parts or electronics. Incase you don’t know that.

Government and security agents should watch out for attack, sabotage, looting that may happen in the Chinese shops after this protest, these people hate competition and co-existence of other tribes where they are popular and influential. Chinese people are here to stay in Lagos

Mynd44:
When the local South Africans said this, you tagged it xenophobia. You see how things are from the other perspective now?

You’re a mod. Pls tagged where you ever saw me speak for or against what the South Africans were doing.

Ishilove:
If the Chinese are selling it cheaper, then it means the goods can be sold at lower prices, but the traders choose to sell higher. It's a free market, not a monopoly. If they want to compete with the Chinese then they should lower their prices.

Apple is one of the biggest pushers of the US economy, it is currently the most profitable company in the world, the cost of an iPhone is at least 10x higher than the cost of production of that phone, even though the Chinese brands are more cheaper than the iPhone, the US does not allow retailers of these other phone companies in their country, the ones that managed to break in are under heavy taxes, this is done to protect the American product (even though iPhones are not produced in the US) . This is a country that understands macro economy. Same thing happens in EVs and auto mobile.

But when you come to this country, Nigerians would rather see the SMEs killed off and the people made poorer just so they can buy cheaper products, tomorrow they will say "Nigerians are getting poorer, no job, the economy is dying... "Etc without knowing that these are the things that brings about such hard economic situations.

My advice, find you an economics textbook and read, at least SS2 economics textbook or a university level economics textbook. It will help you understand why this Chinese move is an economic killer that no serious country would entertain.

I am not being tribalistic bro, I am part of people that jubilated when Tinubu open border against Rice farmers because they are already turning Nigerians to something else due to their greediness.

Mrexcell:
This is not supposed to be tribalised those chinese retail traders can also go into businesses that yorubas dominate in future. A reasonable govt is supposed to intervene to regulate the business environment so that the chinese won't take away businesses and jobs of law abiding hard working nigerians, nigeria is not a banana republic where anything goes.

Mynd44:
And we insult the South Africans

The south Africans have rights to protest the same way these trader are protesting but they do not have the rights to beat up and maim and kill foreigners..it was the killing of foreig fellow Africans,not only Nigerians,that got people angry and if these igbo traders or other traders elsewhere in Africa resort to looting Chinese store in their countries or start beating and killing them, everyone will rise against it,the Chinese people and government will surely rise against it,the world will rise against it...so it's horrible that you,a mod on this forum will choose to tow this petty tribal line!
This is shameful...just look at them,Madridguy,etc
Seun we are highly disappointed

Estello:
Igbo traders in Lagos staged a protest today in the market to stop Chinese people from selling their products as retailers just like them in market!!!!

Igbos continue to protest at the trade fair market demanding that Chinese people leave.

They claim Chinese people sell their products much cheaper than they do and this is making them poor. Igbos want to continue exploiting Nigerians by selling their goods at higher prices. https://t.co/7RHcQwrBB5 pic.twitter.com/hi0goSknfP

— Nononsense (@NoNonsensezone) September 14, 2026

Igbo traders in Lagos staged a protest today in the market to stop Chinese people from selling their products as retailers just like them in market!!!! pic.twitter.com/e9C5oXqb1r

— Chief Ikukuoma (@IkukuomaC) September 14, 2026

BREAKING NEWS: Igbo traders are protesting against Chinese vendors, demanding that they leave Nigerian markets because they sell goods at lower prices.

For years, Igbo traders have been selling their products at inflated, unreasonable prices, contributing to rising inflation. pic.twitter.com/bm24ue1gZq

— Nononsense (@NoNonsensezone) September 14, 2026

jojo1415:
China people sef....their own don too much for Nigeria.

Jakpon:
Imagine ibo people demanding that the Chinese should leave Yoruba land. Arifin Ile Igbe

Egoat:
Where is Sanwo Olu when you need him?
Get these haggard looking fellows arrested for constituting nuisance.

obembet:
Really? And yet you dey complain about south Africa?

You import from China and sell 35k..
A Chinese brings same stuff down and sells for 5-10k..Why that huge difference?
Its not even that alone, they sell fake and Chinese brings the original

Jakpon:
Go where? The Ibos are the ones that needs to go.

Ibo traders sell at inflated prices while the original Chinese producers sell at pocket friendly factory prices.

Talking about factories, the Chinese set up their Manufacuring Facilities here in Yorubaland, employ Yoruba skilled and unskilled workers, pay taxes and royalties to Yoruba Governors. Engage in CSR projects etc.

Despite the excesses of the Chinese which can be managed through effective legislation, they still add value to the socio-economic sector of Yorubaland

SeriouslySense:
The Chinese are abusing economics. But its may seem they are more desperate now.

The Chinese government usually invest behind any trending market, so if artificial intelligence in trending today, their government will back it up, if manufacturing solar cars is trending another day, the Chinese government will back that sector and it means it may have to neglect the other sectors.

So it seems the Chinese government has neglected these producers, and the producers have entered into the retailing market.

owobokiri:
The Chinese must go home.
Those trying to frame this as the practice of free trade should just zip it. Likewise, those who see this as the ultimate weapon to push certain people off their pedestal in Nigerias retail business, should see the bigger picture. This is above petty politics so let's be guided...

The Chinese mass produce these goods, they then come down here to mass wholesale it, then they retail it. Some are now involved in hawking stuffs like mobile phones and battery across Nigerian cities.
That is outrageously evil..
It has to stop!

If they take the whole business line, where will Nigerians be involved? How do Nigerians in the informal sector survive? Why should the government allow such imperialist move that will result in maximum capital flight? Even in china, they once banned foreigners, especially Nigerians from opening shops. They only lifted that recently with a caveat that there must be Chinese employed and taxes paid!
Mind you, we are talking of shops that wholly sell Chinese products here..

The Nigerian government should move above ethnic sentiments and defend the country. The informal sector/agriculture provide most of the job opportunities for the endless quantity of untrained humans in this country. The Chinese who rarely embrace Nigerians in their countr,y should not be allowed to wrestle that space away from the firm grip of ordinary struggling Nigerians..

Thank you all!

Mynd44:
And we insult the South Africans

Sheuns:
The Chinese should be restricted to factory establishments only in Nigeria.

You can’t just allow them come to start doing retails and clearing out competitors that don’t have as deep pockets as them.

Na so una do take kill SMEs all in the name of looking for Foreign investments.

madridguy:
Why are they protesting? I think they've been boasting of being astute in business? How come they're now afraid of competition

Cyberterror:
They are strangers in Yoruba land protesting against other strangers doing their legitimate businesses in Yoruba land. Which kind of greed is this?

Wow, Our Biafra brothers that have been disturbing us online and offline that they no longer want to be part of Nigeria are suddenly claiming to be Nigerians when the Chinese is involved, no be juju be that?...


Nigeria is a free market, if you cannot stand the heat, leave the kitchen. You all claim to be good in business yet you are afraid of competition...

If the Nigerian government decides to enforce price control on goods and services, NO Igbo business will survive...#FACT...

erniok:
why do you think the Nigerian textile business collapsed.

Chinese textiles oversaturated the market, knocking out the local market.

I am very much ashamed of the people doing this nonsense. If you do this in your country, please don't complain when others do it in their own country

Nefort:
Because Yoruba land is also an Igbo man's country. So Igbos are more entitled to the land than a Chinese. Nobody needs to explain it to you.

Chukwudi save your explanation for yourself... nobody wan hear

IyfeNamikaze:
Apple is one of the biggest pushers of the US economy, it is currently the most profitable company in the world, the cost of an iPhone is at least 10x higher than the cost of production of that phone, even though the Chinese brands are more cheaper than the iPhone, the US does not allow retailers of these other phone companies in their country, the ones that managed to break in are under heavy taxes, this is done to protect the American product (even though iPhones are not produced in the US) . This is a country that understands macro economy. Same thing happens in EVs and auto mobile.

But when you come to this country, Nigerians would rather see the SMEs killed off and the people made poorer just so they can buy cheaper products, tomorrow they will say "Nigerians are getting poorer, no job, the economy is dying... "Etc without knowing that these are the things that brings about such hard economic situations.

My advice, find you an economics textbook and read, at least SS2 economics textbook or a university level economics textbook. It will help you understand why this Chinese move is an economic killer that no serious country would entertain.

Unless the protesting traders are the manufacturers and producers of these goods will their protest make sense. If they are simply large scale importers same as the Chinese, then my submission still stands.

Nefort:
Because Yoruba land is also an Igbo man's country. So Igbos are more entitled to the land than a Chinese. Nobody needs to explain it to you.

Estello:
Igbo traders in Lagos staged a protest today in the market to stop Chinese people from selling their products as retailers just like them in market!!!!

Igbos continue to protest at the trade fair market demanding that Chinese people leave.

They claim Chinese people sell their products much cheaper than they do and this is making them poor. Igbos want to continue exploiting Nigerians by selling their goods at higher prices. https://t.co/7RHcQwrBB5 pic.twitter.com/hi0goSknfP

— Nononsense (@NoNonsensezone) September 14, 2026

Igbo traders in Lagos staged a protest today in the market to stop Chinese people from selling their products as retailers just like them in market!!!! pic.twitter.com/e9C5oXqb1r

— Chief Ikukuoma (@IkukuomaC) September 14, 2026

BREAKING NEWS: Igbo traders are protesting against Chinese vendors, demanding that they leave Nigerian markets because they sell goods at lower prices.

For years, Igbo traders have been selling their products at inflated, unreasonable prices, contributing to rising inflation. pic.twitter.com/bm24ue1gZq

— Nononsense (@NoNonsensezone) September 14, 2026

jojo1415:
China people sef....their own don too much for Nigeria.

Jakpon:
Imagine ibo people demanding that the Chinese should leave Yoruba land. Arifin Ile Igbe

Egoat:
Where is Sanwo Olu when you need him?
Get these haggard looking fellows arrested for constituting nuisance.

obembet:
Really? And yet you dey complain about south Africa?

You import from China and sell 35k..
A Chinese brings same stuff down and sells for 5-10k..Why that huge difference?
Its not even that alone, they sell fake and Chinese brings the original

Jakpon:
Go where? The Ibos are the ones that needs to go.

Ibo traders sell at inflated prices while the original Chinese producers sell at pocket friendly factory prices.

Talking about factories, the Chinese set up their Manufacuring Facilities here in Yorubaland, employ Yoruba skilled and unskilled workers, pay taxes and royalties to Yoruba Governors. Engage in CSR projects etc.

Despite the excesses of the Chinese which can be managed through effective legislation, they still add value to the socio-economic sector of Yorubaland

SeriouslySense:
The Chinese are abusing economics. But its may seem they are more desperate now.

The Chinese government usually invest behind any trending market, so if artificial intelligence in trending today, their government will back it up, if manufacturing solar cars is trending another day, the Chinese government will back that sector and it means it may have to neglect the other sectors.

So it seems the Chinese government has neglected these producers, and the producers have entered into the retailing market.

owobokiri:
The Chinese must go home.
Those trying to frame this as the practice of free trade should just zip it. Likewise, those who see this as the ultimate weapon to push certain people off their pedestal in Nigerias retail business, should see the bigger picture. This is above petty politics so let's be guided...

The Chinese mass produce these goods, they then come down here to mass wholesale it, then they retail it. Some are now involved in hawking stuffs like mobile phones and battery across Nigerian cities.
That is outrageously evil..
It has to stop!

If they take the whole business line, where will Nigerians be involved? How do Nigerians in the informal sector survive? Why should the government allow such imperialist move that will result in maximum capital flight? Even in china, they once banned foreigners, especially Nigerians from opening shops. They only lifted that recently with a caveat that there must be Chinese employed and taxes paid!
Mind you, we are talking of shops that wholly sell Chinese products here..

The Nigerian government should move above ethnic sentiments and defend the country. The informal sector/agriculture provide most of the job opportunities for the endless quantity of untrained humans in this country. The Chinese who rarely embrace Nigerians in their countr,y should not be allowed to wrestle that space away from the firm grip of ordinary struggling Nigerians..

Thank you all!

Mynd44:
And we insult the South Africans

Sheuns:
The Chinese should be restricted to factory establishments only in Nigeria.

You can’t just allow them come to start doing retails and clearing out competitors that don’t have as deep pockets as them.

Na so una do take kill SMEs all in the name of looking for Foreign investments.

madridguy:
Why are they protesting? I think they've been boasting of being astute in business? How come they're now afraid of competition

Cyberterror:
They are strangers in Yoruba land protesting against other strangers doing their legitimate businesses in Yoruba land. Which kind of greed is this?

Wow, Our Biafra brothers that have been disturbing us online and offline that they no longer want to be part of Nigeria are suddenly claiming to be Nigerians when the Chinese is involved, no be juju be that?...


Nigeria is a free market, if you cannot stand the heat, leave the kitchen. You all claim to be good in business yet you are afraid of competition...

If the Nigerian government decides to enforce price control on goods and services, NO Igbo business will survive...#FACT...

They are afraid because the Chinese people will expose their outrageous price they have charging people. We are not in south Africa so chinese must continue.

Ishilove:
If the Chinese are selling it cheaper, then it means the goods can be sold at lower prices, but the traders choose to sell higher. It's a free market, not a monopoly. If they want to compete with the Chinese then they should lower their prices.

na dem wey do themselves

they are not adding any value whatsoever - they are just greedy middlemen selling cheap goods at 300% markup with no aftermarket support.

long overdue

And the same Ibo traders retail goods made in china.

Yeye

tollyboy5:
The Chinese retailers will help us avoid fake products!
Go to Alaba and many places. Fake tvs everywhere.
That is what the Chinese retailers will stop. Lagosians can enjoy the value of their money after years of fake products patronage.
Those that can’t stand competition should close down.
This is Lagos!

Where do you think the fake products come from?

You guys have no idea what you’re supporting.

That's rubbish; they should compete if they can. Nigerians want cheaper prices. The traders at Trade fair also import from China and not like they produce it locally. Let the Chinese be!

GloriousGbola:
na dem wey do themselves

they are not adding any value whatsoever - they are just greedy middlemen selling cheap goods at 300% markup with no aftermarket support.

long overdue

The people quoting me to support the protest are probably relatives of these traders who have been ripping the end users off for so many years. In a free market where there is a price war, the ones who profit the most are the consumers. If the traders insist on selling at exploitative rates then the Chinese entering the market to beat the prices down is long overdue.

owobokiri:
The Chinese must go home.
Those trying to frame this as the practice of free trade should just zip it. Likewise, those who see this as the ultimate weapon to push certain people off their pedestal in Nigerias retail business, should see the bigger picture. This is above petty politics so let's be guided...

The Chinese mass produce these goods, they then come down here to mass wholesale it, then they retail it. Some are now involved in hawking stuffs like mobile phones and battery across Nigerian cities.
That is outrageously evil..
It has to stop!

If they take the whole business line, where will Nigerians be involved? How do Nigerians in the informal sector survive? Why should the government allow such imperialist move that will result in maximum capital flight? Even in china, they once banned foreigners, especially Nigerians from opening shops. They only lifted that recently with a caveat that there must be Chinese employed and taxes paid!
Mind you, we are talking of shops that wholly sell Chinese products here..

The Nigerian government should move above ethnic sentiments and defend the country. The informal sector/agriculture provide most of the job opportunities for the endless quantity of untrained humans in this country. The Chinese who rarely embrace Nigerians in their countr,y should not be allowed to wrestle that space away from the firm grip of ordinary struggling Nigerians..

Thank you all!

You never fail to disappoint with your bigotry .

Those your Ibo brothers sell goods made in China.

Why should Chinese retailers be banned for selling Chinese goods in Lagos ?

Nonsensical atavism!

This is exactly what dangote wants to do: getting his own trucks and distributing his own petroleum products from his refinery direct to filling stations for free (with costs included in purchase,of course) and thereby putting other tanker drivers and their unions out of business!

Again imagine Chinese people selling all local items in retails in Nigeria,is it going to be a good thing for the country?

Petty people think that as long as it affects only a particular people,it's ok!!!!

You just have to shake your head for this Nigeria and her people

tollyboy5:
Anything to benefit the end users is a welcome development.
You’re only sobered because your tribes men will be affected.
You’re not happy that the end users are getting quality product at cheaper prices.
Explain greed and selfishness again let me understand better.
Besides that as someone who live close to alaba international market how is it tribal sentiment that we have been buying fake brand new tvs from Alaba over the years and Chinese retailers are giving us original products at more discount?
You’re not concerned about the people, you’re are being sentimental about your tribesmen.

There you lied, Who's not concern about the people. In your logic, the Chinese should eat their cake and still have it.
If they know they can go out and sell the goods themselves, why the need for them to advertise for wholesalers to come their companies and buy from them.
If they love the masses and wants to sell things cheaper, they should stop supplying and distributing to wholesalers and go market the goods themselves. In that way everyone including me will be happy. But you want to be gaining from the wholesalers and retailers at the expense of your distributor, how those that makes sense.
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Talking of Alaba Int'l market. You're not a kid, I am not a kid. If you and I want to buy quality products, we know where to get it. There's Samsung, LG and co Shops all over the states. But you and I choose to go to Alaba bcus we are looking for something cheaper. And when you're looking for something cheaper, you're at the risk of being scammed.
Or are my brothers behind oluwole fake visas, certificates, company's identity, birth and death certificates and all.
While they're genuine other places to get this stuffs, still people patronize the oluwole guys.
So my friend don't blame the people scamming people, rather the blame should be on the victims of the scam.
We all have our eyes and mind open before this scamming takes place.
No tribes is excused from bad eggs, so trying to make it solely my brothers is a no no.
As for the Chinese own, you're only jubilating and rejoicing bcus it affects the people you love to hate, but in truth what they the Chinese are doing is not good.

Femmyfamous4u:
That's rubbish; they should compete of they can. Nigerians want cheaper prices. The traders at Trade fair also in port from China and not like they produce it locally. Let the Chinese be!

Don't mind them. They want to continue exploiting consumers with their cut throat prices.

Sheuns:
The Chinese should be restricted to factory establishments only in Nigeria.

You can’t just allow them come to start doing retails and clearing out competitors that don’t have as deep pockets as them.

Na so una do take kill SMEs all in the name of looking for Foreign investments.

To those of you saying it’s good because of it affects a tribe. All I’ll tell you is don’t worry. No Nigerian retailer or wholesaler can compete with the Chinese if this isn’t stopped. Even those of you that sell voile lace, Ankara, and other native fabrics won’t survive this. There’s nothing sold here in Nigeria that’s not coming in from China. They will out sell every one of you and put you out of business.

I will rather prefer the Chinese traders any day of the week.

These your brothers should go to Onitsha market and do their discriminatory business there.

FSBoperator:
You never fail to disappoint with your bigotry .

Those your Ibo brothers sell goods made in China.

Why should Chinese retailers be banned for selling Chinese goods in Lagos ?

Keep talking.
Don't worry,time shall come and you all will eat up all your words squarely.

Benedict44:
The Chinese setting up warehouse in Nigeria should be condemned by everybody that understands economics.

Instead of them to set up factories to produce the goods here, they are setting up warehouse, which will invariably kill the local economy.

As a buyer, it looks good but if you look at it in the long term, it is very bad. It is not just about igbos. Every tribe has retailers that buys goods overseas and sell in Nigeria. What happens when those people can't compete?
What happens to your brother/sister working in those retail shops? It will affect everyone.

In fact, if you observe our economy, you will notice that since we tilted towards China and abandoned the USA, that is when things began to get worse because Chinese don't build factories unlike USA. They prefer to produce in China and sell in Nigeria.

USA companies will prefer to set up factories in Nigeria due to cheap labour but Chinese will prefer to manufacture in China and sell in Nigeria. We complain of unemployment but fail to understand these things.

Instead of warehouse, let them build factories here, produce it here and sell it cheaper. Everybody wins.

So only Ibos should be allowed to do importation and retail business in Nigeria


Can you tell us why ?