₦airaland Forum

motymop:
buying directly from China does not mean you are buying from manufacturer, you are still buying from middleman

the average trader who buys from china at 1500 and sell to nigerian at 10k does that because they are not buying in volume, they are retailer

the funniest stuff is that you are crying loud online, which means nothing to the average trader

at the end of the day, the real decision will be taken at the union level and when the decision is taken, there is nothing you can do

That one is your headache.

We will buy from who will give us a better price

BATified2023:
guy u can rant and wail all you want but the reality is that Chinese are here to stay and we are comfortable with their price.

Any other thing is story

yeah, you dont own shop and you are not part of their union

the traders through their union can decide to move the Chinese out or tell them to stop selling to retail

at the end of the day, you will still go buy from the retail you think that is cheating you

motymop:
buying directly from China does not mean you are buying from manufacturer, you are still buying from middleman

the average trader who buys from china at 1500 and sell to nigerian at 10k does that because they are not buying in volume, they are retailer

the funniest stuff is that you are crying loud online, which means nothing to the average trader

at the end of the day, the real decision will be taken at the union level and when the decision is taken, there is nothing you can do

who cares if u have money to buy in volume or not, all we care about is that we want to buy directly from Chinese n not a greedy middle man who will make money from us n still rob it on our face that we are lazy.

Which union?

U will go n do union in your village n not here, u are a stranger n can't dictate what another stranger will do.

U better go to twitter n see china must stay protest, many of your brothers went to destroy their shops n the police have already arrested like 8 of them.

It's like u think it's a joke, if u ain't comfortable with the Chinese traders go back to your village n sell to your people at exorbitant prices

FSBoperator:
When and where did you pull this edict from ?

Are you telling us that the Chinese retailers are working directly for every product company ?

Nothing stops Chinese businessmen and women to open retail shop as long as they have met all the criteria set by Nigerian immigration and trade and investment board.

Oga, too much APC, Iran and tribalism is clearly taking its toll on you.

If you understood the issue, you’d not have made such a comment

We are talking about unfair trade practices that affect all Nigerian importers, who sell Chinese/Asian manufactured goods in various retail markets across the country. It has to do with Chinese manufacturers, who make importers purchase at high rates in Chinese factories to sell in Nigeria, while the same Chinese manufacturers, seeing that their products move in the market, seize the opportunity to bring in their own staff and flooding the markets with the same goods at far lower prices, therefore putting Nigerians out of jobs. Oga, Nigerians take the risk a lot of times, importing unknown products into the market to advertise. Manufacturers notice the rapidity of sales and plan how to bypass those who made the effort.

Many years ago Asians used to have well spelt out trade agreements with Nigerian importers. They put an end to that. Now the same products are found in the market, manufactured by the same factories, but with other brand names, taking advantage of OEM as the manufacturers.

Oga, the Chinese retailers that you see in the streets are direct representatives of factories in their home country. They are not looking for jobs. Go to trade fair, Alaba and Lagos Island markets to see for yasef. The same happens in the SE and NW.

So oga, no one is talking about immigration or your imaginary edict. We are talking of protection for Nigerians. We are talking out of personal experiences and not what APC wants us to pretend to say, as they tell you people.

The same people like you get angry that Nigerians in South Africa had their shops locked up by South Africans, who felt that their government did not do enough to protect the jobs of the citizens.

Tell your leaders who have political power to look at protecting Nigerian traders and effectively ensuring that jobs are not lost, in this APC hardship afflicted country.

motymop:
yeah, you dont own shop and you are not part of their union

the traders through their union can decide to move the Chinese out or tell them to stop selling to retail

at the end of the day, you will still go buy from the retail you think that is cheating you

That is when they will face the full wrath of the FG .

That complex is owned by the Federal govt and is only under lease to the private concessionaires and even at that every market is directly under the control of the state and local govt authority.

Any attempt to chase away , intimidate, terrorise any other occupant of that market by the market union will see to full hammer of the law on their heads.


Let them try it and see.

FSBoperator:
Abeg close mouth.

We are practicing a free market economy.

We will not deport Chinese businessmen so that you can continue your cartel monopoly extortion racket on us

Has it even crossed your mind that if Nigeria prevents Chinese from doing business here that the Chinese can do same to your people doing business in China ?


We are in a free market economy and this is just the begining of your woes as these Chinese guys will soon replicate Temu or Alibaba digital market in Nigeria to showcase, sell and deliver their goods through the internet.


You guys thought this day will never come , now it is here.

Just wait for Chinese EVs to start becoming a thing here and see an end to your other spare parts market ventures .


I even foresee these Chinese digital stores being embraced because of how easy it will be for state govts for collect VAT.

You guys never bothered to evolve now the Chinese will chase you back to your village

What else should we expect from an Islamic radicalist, clothed in ethnic garments to demonize others. Primate whoever, I believe that you are foreseeing more hardship with APC for yourself.

Common sense should have told you that your Yoruba people control huge chunks of the retail markets in Trade fair and that protest includes Yoruba people who carry on their trade in that area. Commonsense should have told you that a huge chunk of importers are Yoruba people.

Anyway, it is good to note that the people that you castigate, actually make life easy for you by bringing daily needs that you need to run your life with.

Imagine how APC has so made many of you lose whatever is left of your small senses. You practice free trade, yet your citizens lose their jobs to unfair competition to foreigners. You think that Donald Trump is stupid in protecting American industries and economy with his tariff plans.

Tell us the day that has come. Tell us how you purchase goods at cheaper rates. Give examples, at least since APC assumed leadership since 2015.

Tell us how you purchase cheaper with Alibaba or Temu. That’s how some of you disgrace yourselves with your very poor knowledge. With Jumia, Jiji and OLX, tell us how prices dropped to favour you and how prices will drop to favour you with Alibaba and Temu. Maybe you are the manufacturer that will post your products at very cheap rates there, importing them for free.

We are talking of protecting Nigerian jobs in this APC hardship economy and this one bewitched by APC is talking about deportation.

BATified2023:
who cares if u have money to buy in volume or not, all we care about is that we want to buy directly from Chinese n not a greedy middle man who will make money from us n still rob it on our face that we are lazy.

Which union?

U will go n do union in your village n not here, u are a stranger n can't dictate what another stranger will do.

U better go to twitter n see china must stay protest, many of your brothers went to destroy their shops n the police have already arrested like 8 of them.

It's like u think it's a joke, if u ain't comfortable with the Chinese traders go back to your village n sell to your people at exorbitant prices

What is our concern with that?

It pains you deeply that the same people surround you completely. Your gadgets, your house, your clothes, shoes, kitchen equipments, everything sold to you by the same people. Added to that, they are your landlords too. They sell drugs to you that save your life.

Why not simply clap for them. Praise them, so that they can do more to help you.

FSBoperator:
That is when they will face the full wrath of the FG .

That complex is owned by the Federal govt and is only under lease to the private concessionaires and even at that every market is directly under the control of the state and local govt authority.

Any attempt to chase away , intimidate, terrorise any other occupant of that market by the market union will see to full hammer of the law on their heads.


Let them try it and see.

You are speaking lot of grammar that makes no logical sense..stop being emotional,you are a man for God sake

Always look at the bigger picture

The shop can be owned by any entity but rules of trading are set up by the unions

Yes, they can remove any foreign entity from the complex and can close their shop down

They can also sue the federal govt as a union for undermining trade

You also fail to realize that for govt it is all about votes, they can vote in a local govt chairman or a rep in both federal or state to fight for their interest

BATified2023:
who send u to act as middle man?

We don't need any middle man who will sell at exorbitant prices, leave those Chinese traders.....we are comfortable with them

Who send you to buy from middle man? If to say common sense go allow you, you for know say the same Chinese are middle men too.

APC no dey let person think straight. Wake up!

motymop:
yeah, you dont own shop and you are not part of their union

the traders through their union can decide to move the Chinese out or tell them to stop selling to retail

at the end of the day, you will still go buy from the retail you think that is cheating you

@Emboldened:

No Union or trader possess such power.

Meanwhile, it is even a crime for any individual or union to do price fixing. Sadly, government do not enforce our laws on Consumer Protection.

ElevationD:
Oga, too much APC, Iran and tribalism is clearly taking its toll on you.

If you understood the issue, you’d not have made such a comment

We are talking about unfair trade practices that affect all Nigerian importers, who sell Chinese/Asian manufactured goods in various retail markets across the country. It has to do with Chinese manufacturers, who make importers purchase at high rates in Chinese factories to sell in Nigeria, while the same Chinese manufacturers, seeing that their products move in the market, seize the opportunity to bring in their own staff and flooding the markets with the same goods at far lower prices, therefore putting Nigerians out of jobs. Oga, Nigerians take the risk a lot of times, importing unknown products into the market to advertise. Manufacturers notice the rapidity of sales and plan how to bypass those who made the effort.

Many years ago Asians used to have well spelt out trade agreements with Nigerian importers. They put an end to that. Now the same products are found in the market, manufactured by the same factories, but with other brand names, taking advantage of OEM as the manufacturers.

Oga, the Chinese retailers that you see in the streets are direct representatives of factories in their home country. They are not looking for jobs. Go to trade fair, Alaba and Lagos Island markets to see for yasef. The same happens in the SE and NW.

So oga, no one is talking about immigration or your imaginary edict. We are talking of protection for Nigerians. We are talking out of personal experiences and not what APC wants us to pretend to say, as they tell you people.

The same people like you get angry that Nigerians in South Africa had their shops locked up by South Africans, who felt that their government did not do enough to protect the jobs of the citizens.

Tell your leaders who have political power to look at protecting Nigerian traders and effectively ensuring that jobs are not lost, in this APC hardship afflicted country.

Don't care .

As long as the goods are made in china and the Chinese are selling it cheaper than you can ever do , I will be supporting the Chinese.


And that rubbish lie that foreigners are barred from retail business is pure rubbish


ShopRite is a clear example that foreign companies and individuals are free to trade in Nigeria.

John Holt, Leventis, UTC were all foreign owned firms that had stores across Nigeria.

So stop that your lie that Chinese are not allowed to trade directly with the local population.

Also if the Chinese can source the goods from source at a cheaper price, and sell to us at much lower margins than you guys, that simply means they are better at doing business than you.

As the Americans will say: Nothing personal, it's just business.


And finally, you can label me the Yoruba Muslim meme I created.

E no change anything that the Chinese are here to stay .


You can go and report Nigerian govt and China to your daddy Trump.

ElevationD:
Who send you to buy from middle man? If to say common sense go allow you, you for know say the same Chinese are middle men too.

APC no dey let person think straight. Wake up!

A middle man that provides a better pricing is a better alternative.

No amount of emotional blackmail and false calls to patriotism will see any one preferring to pay more for the same goods and quantity from you than they will pay when buying from the Chinese.

Shey you say you Sabi business ?

Chinese are here to teach you real business.

TonyeBarcanista:
The protest by some Nigerian traders in Lagos against Chinese retailers should force us to confront an uncomfortable reality: many Nigerians patronise Chinese-owned shops because they are often cheaper.

Yes, Nigerian traders deserve a fair business environment. But we must also be honest about the other side of this issue.

For over five decades, successive governments have left the Nigerian consumer at the mercy of traders and distributors, some of whom pursue extraordinarily high profit margins simply because weak competition allows them to. In some markets, trader associations even fix prices and prevent their members from selling below an agreed price.

A trader is entitled to make a profit. He is not entitled to organise a cartel that leaves the consumer with no reasonable alternative.

So when a consumer sees the same or similar product substantially cheaper in a Chinese-owned shop, why should anyone be surprised when he goes there?

The answer cannot simply be to protest against the Chinese trader because he offers a cheaper alternative. Neither should foreign businesses be allowed to compete through practices that Nigerian businesses are not permitted to use. There must be one set of rules for everyone.

Government must be bold enough to enforce our competition laws. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act already prohibits price-fixing and provides criminal penalties for certain price-fixing conduct. Government must enforce these laws against cartels and other exploitative practices and, where necessary, introduce targeted measures to protect consumers in essential markets where they are particularly vulnerable. But regulation alone is not the answer.

Government must also make Nigerian businesses genuinely competitive. That means fixing power so a trader does not spend half his profit on diesel, fixing logistics so moving goods from Lagos to Kano does not double the price, and giving manufacturers single-digit loans, tax holidays and industrial power instead of speeches.

Foreign companies should likewise be encouraged to do what many successful economies actively encourage - establish factories here, create jobs here, transfer technology and build local supply chains, instead of simply importing finished products to sell to us.

The country should not protect Nigerian traders from competition. The country should protect Nigerian businesses from unfair competition and Nigerian consumers from exploitation.

Nigeria under a CDA Government shall be a country where Nigerian and foreign businesses are free to compete fairly, where government enforces the rules without fear or favour, where production is rewarded over rent-seeking, and where the Nigerian consumer finally has the freedom to buy quality goods at a fair price.

That is the Nigeria CDA stands for.

Let's Work To Make Nigeria Work.

Tamunotonye Samuel Solomon Inioribo
Founder & National Chairman
Citizens Democratic Alliance


Photo: Image from the protest by traders at Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. (Faces blurred for neutrality)

You don't mention about government stopping extortion of the trader's by all kinds of extortionists in the market and on the road? How can the traders recover money extort from them? If not by adding it on the item they sell.

TonyeBarcanista:
The protest by some Nigerian traders in Lagos against Chinese retailers should force us to confront an uncomfortable reality: many Nigerians patronise Chinese-owned shops because they are often cheaper.

Yes, Nigerian traders deserve a fair business environment. But we must also be honest about the other side of this issue.

For over five decades, successive governments have left the Nigerian consumer at the mercy of traders and distributors, some of whom pursue extraordinarily high profit margins simply because weak competition allows them to. In some markets, trader associations even fix prices and prevent their members from selling below an agreed price.

A trader is entitled to make a profit. He is not entitled to organise a cartel that leaves the consumer with no reasonable alternative.

So when a consumer sees the same or similar product substantially cheaper in a Chinese-owned shop, why should anyone be surprised when he goes there?

The answer cannot simply be to protest against the Chinese trader because he offers a cheaper alternative. Neither should foreign businesses be allowed to compete through practices that Nigerian businesses are not permitted to use. There must be one set of rules for everyone.

Government must be bold enough to enforce our competition laws. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act already prohibits price-fixing and provides criminal penalties for certain price-fixing conduct. Government must enforce these laws against cartels and other exploitative practices and, where necessary, introduce targeted measures to protect consumers in essential markets where they are particularly vulnerable. But regulation alone is not the answer.

Government must also make Nigerian businesses genuinely competitive. That means fixing power so a trader does not spend half his profit on diesel, fixing logistics so moving goods from Lagos to Kano does not double the price, and giving manufacturers single-digit loans, tax holidays and industrial power instead of speeches.

Foreign companies should likewise be encouraged to do what many successful economies actively encourage - establish factories here, create jobs here, transfer technology and build local supply chains, instead of simply importing finished products to sell to us.

The country should not protect Nigerian traders from competition. The country should protect Nigerian businesses from unfair competition and Nigerian consumers from exploitation.

Nigeria under a CDA Government shall be a country where Nigerian and foreign businesses are free to compete fairly, where government enforces the rules without fear or favour, where production is rewarded over rent-seeking, and where the Nigerian consumer finally has the freedom to buy quality goods at a fair price.

That is the Nigeria CDA stands for.

Let's Work To Make Nigeria Work.

Tamunotonye Samuel Solomon Inioribo
Founder & National Chairman
Citizens Democratic Alliance


Photo: Image from the protest by traders at Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. (Faces blurred for neutrality)

Tonye please don't hide behind a finger the supposed "traders" are of a peculiar grouping they made this clear with their protests statements rendered in a certain language.

These same traders don't manufacture the products they sell in Nigeria they are sourcing them from the same Chinese manufacturers who have now decided to establish their own consumer retail distribution sidestepping the local traders who had been price gouging for decades.

motymop:
You are speaking lot of grammar that makes no logical sense..stop being emotional,you are a man for God sake

Always look at the bigger picture

The shop can be owned by any entity but rules of trading are set up by the unions

Yes, they can remove any foreign entity from the complex and can close their shop down

They can also sue the federal govt as a union for undermining trade

You also fail to realize that for govt it is all about votes, they can vote in a local govt chairman or a rep in both federal or state to fight for their interest

Any attempt to force the Chinese retailers out of the market will see to that your market union being disbanded.

This is Lagos and not Onitsha were every rubbish is allowed.

And you saying you will vote people into power who will promote abd protect your extortionist cartel and go after your competitors shows the kind of desperation and lengths you will go to maintain your racket.

obama30:
You don't mention about government stopping extortion of the trader's by all kinds of extortionists in the market and on the road? How can the traders recover money extort from them? If not by adding it on the item they sell.

Another excuse don drop.

FSBoperator:
A middle man that provides a better pricing is a better alternative.

No amount of emotional blackmail and false calls to patriotism will see any one preferring to pay more for the same goods and quantity from you than they will pay when buying from the Chinese.

Shey you say you Sabi business ?

Chinese are here to teach you real business.

Show us the better prices. Show us how the prices of phones imported from China, sold by the Chinese and your so called middlemen have reduced. Show us how the prices of those your okrika clothes have reduced, even with your Chinese as the retailers.

Since we are businessmen, let us face our businesses, while you face APC and whatever reward that you all receive from the poverty inducing party. The Chinese are here to teach your own people business too!

By the way, that phone in your hand, who sold it to you? Even if you cannot identify the middleman, can you pretend that it was not imported by a middleman?

TonyeBarcanista:
The protest by some Nigerian traders in Lagos against Chinese retailers should force us to confront an uncomfortable reality: many Nigerians patronise Chinese-owned shops because they are often cheaper.

Yes, Nigerian traders deserve a fair business environment. But we must also be honest about the other side of this issue.

For over five decades, successive governments have left the Nigerian consumer at the mercy of traders and distributors, some of whom pursue extraordinarily high profit margins simply because weak competition allows them to. In some markets, trader associations even fix prices and prevent their members from selling below an agreed price.

A trader is entitled to make a profit. He is not entitled to organise a cartel that leaves the consumer with no reasonable alternative.

So when a consumer sees the same or similar product substantially cheaper in a Chinese-owned shop, why should anyone be surprised when he goes there?

The answer cannot simply be to protest against the Chinese trader because he offers a cheaper alternative. Neither should foreign businesses be allowed to compete through practices that Nigerian businesses are not permitted to use. There must be one set of rules for everyone.

Government must be bold enough to enforce our competition laws. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act already prohibits price-fixing and provides criminal penalties for certain price-fixing conduct. Government must enforce these laws against cartels and other exploitative practices and, where necessary, introduce targeted measures to protect consumers in essential markets where they are particularly vulnerable. But regulation alone is not the answer.

Government must also make Nigerian businesses genuinely competitive. That means fixing power so a trader does not spend half his profit on diesel, fixing logistics so moving goods from Lagos to Kano does not double the price, and giving manufacturers single-digit loans, tax holidays and industrial power instead of speeches.

Foreign companies should likewise be encouraged to do what many successful economies actively encourage - establish factories here, create jobs here, transfer technology and build local supply chains, instead of simply importing finished products to sell to us.

The country should not protect Nigerian traders from competition. The country should protect Nigerian businesses from unfair competition and Nigerian consumers from exploitation.

Nigeria under a CDA Government shall be a country where Nigerian and foreign businesses are free to compete fairly, where government enforces the rules without fear or favour, where production is rewarded over rent-seeking, and where the Nigerian consumer finally has the freedom to buy quality goods at a fair price.

That is the Nigeria CDA stands for.

Let's Work To Make Nigeria Work.

Tamunotonye Samuel Solomon Inioribo
Founder & National Chairman
Citizens Democratic Alliance


Photo: Image from the protest by traders at Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. (Faces blurred for neutrality)

The protest makes no sense

TonyeBarcanista:
The protest by some Nigerian traders in Lagos against Chinese retailers should force us to confront an uncomfortable reality: many Nigerians patronise Chinese-owned shops because they are often cheaper.

Yes, Nigerian traders deserve a fair business environment. But we must also be honest about the other side of this issue.

For over five decades, successive governments have left the Nigerian consumer at the mercy of traders and distributors, some of whom pursue extraordinarily high profit margins simply because weak competition allows them to. In some markets, trader associations even fix prices and prevent their members from selling below an agreed price.

A trader is entitled to make a profit. He is not entitled to organise a cartel that leaves the consumer with no reasonable alternative.

So when a consumer sees the same or similar product substantially cheaper in a Chinese-owned shop, why should anyone be surprised when he goes there?

The answer cannot simply be to protest against the Chinese trader because he offers a cheaper alternative. Neither should foreign businesses be allowed to compete through practices that Nigerian businesses are not permitted to use. There must be one set of rules for everyone.

Government must be bold enough to enforce our competition laws. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act already prohibits price-fixing and provides criminal penalties for certain price-fixing conduct. Government must enforce these laws against cartels and other exploitative practices and, where necessary, introduce targeted measures to protect consumers in essential markets where they are particularly vulnerable. But regulation alone is not the answer.

Government must also make Nigerian businesses genuinely competitive. That means fixing power so a trader does not spend half his profit on diesel, fixing logistics so moving goods from Lagos to Kano does not double the price, and giving manufacturers single-digit loans, tax holidays and industrial power instead of speeches.

Foreign companies should likewise be encouraged to do what many successful economies actively encourage - establish factories here, create jobs here, transfer technology and build local supply chains, instead of simply importing finished products to sell to us.

The country should not protect Nigerian traders from competition. The country should protect Nigerian businesses from unfair competition and Nigerian consumers from exploitation.

Nigeria under a CDA Government shall be a country where Nigerian and foreign businesses are free to compete fairly, where government enforces the rules without fear or favour, where production is rewarded over rent-seeking, and where the Nigerian consumer finally has the freedom to buy quality goods at a fair price.

That is the Nigeria CDA stands for.

Let's Work To Make Nigeria Work.

Tamunotonye Samuel Solomon Inioribo
Founder & National Chairman
Citizens Democratic Alliance


Photo: Image from the protest by traders at Trade Fair Complex, Lagos. (Faces blurred for neutrality)

"Foreign companies should likewise be encouraged to do what many successful economies actively encourage - establish factories here, create jobs here, transfer technology and build local supply chains, instead of simply importing finished products to sell to us."
Why? Did you open your shop so that customers can patronise your neighbour's shop?

Armaggedon:
You think you're fighting the Igbos but Igbos will somehow find away out of the problems for themselves while the ultimate loser will be you. Those businesses you see that you call trade have other businesses that rely on them. When you allow a Chinese who borrowed from China with 3 percent interest rate to compete with a Nigerian who borrowed in an incredibly weak currently with 30 percent interest rate, it not competition, you're killing your economy. Commodity prices will be determined in China, profits will be taken back to China and it'll spread to other sectors, not just retail.
If this is the usual post to get at Igbos, Igbo will find a way out. The ultimate losers are the ordinary Nigerians.

From time immemorial, they have always " had other businesses". The launch of BAKASSI boys circa 1998 revealed their " other businesses" at Eziukwu market. Those were the days of traders carrying cash from the east to Idumota. Robbery today, robbery tomorrow and the perpetrators were? You should know the answer.

Contact your uncles for fuller details.

ElevationD:
Show us the better prices. Show us how the prices of phones imported from China, sold by the Chinese and your so called middlemen have reduced. Show us how the prices of those your okrika clothes have reduced, even with your Chinese as the retailers.

Since we are businessmen, let us face our businesses, while you face APC and whatever reward that you all receive from the poverty inducing party. The Chinese are here to teach your own people business too!

By the way, that phone in your hand, who sold it to you? Even if you cannot identify the middleman, can you pretend that it was not imported by a middleman?

My friend, it is your brothers that were protesting against the Chinese retailers having shops and warehouses in the Trade fair complex

Nah their cry make me know say there are Chinese retailers operating shops in that complex and are outselling your brothers.

As I said, your false call to patriotism just as you did with trying to get Nigerian govt to shut down MTN because the SA people wanted your drug dealers out is not and will never work on me.

You are free to relocate to Onitsha and impose strict register on who can operate a shop in that your markets.

FSBoperator:
Any attempt to force the Chinese retailers out of the market will see to that your market union being disbanded.

This is Lagos and not Onitsha were every rubbish is allowed.

And you saying you will vote people into power who will promote abd protect your extortionist cartel and go after your competitors shows the kind of desperation and lengths you will go to maintain your racket.

Owner of Lagos. Na your house you kuku dey stay make mouth. No be only disbanded, na unbanded.

We know that you are from one village in Osun state.

You want Nigerians to relocate out of Yoruba areas, while your people travel to Europe to become Europeans. Fa fa fa fa fawol.

Life goes on







Either Chinese or Igbo

It’s understandable that the Igbo dominate many of these markets and are major stakeholders in the importation and selling of goods there. However, despite their dominance, there are still many other importers and businessmen from different ethnic backgrounds operating in these markets.
My question is: why not work alongside these minority importers and encourage them to participate in the protest as well? Doing so would make it clearer that the concerns being raised are shared by businessmen across different ethnic groups, rather than being perceived as an exclusively Igbo movement.
Must other businessmen always be sidelined or looked down upon simply because they are fewer in number or may not be as financially powerful?
Imagine if significant numbers of minority importers from other ethnic groups had joined the protest. The public perception could have been very different, and the message might have been seen more broadly as a collective concern of Nigerian businesses rather than one associated primarily with a particular ethnic group.

ElevationD:
If other nationals, including Asians can demand that Nigerians should be deported from their countries, Nigerians have the right to protest such unfair competition by the Chinese and Indians.

Before now, it was the Indians in the garment and plastic industries. Now it is the Chinese, Cambodians, Taiwanese and Vietnamese , who manufacture the products in their countries, make the prices high for Nigerian importers there and then ship their own containers to Nigeria, to sell directly in the Nigerian retail market. Most Nigerians are not aware that a lot of the used clothes and shoes that they purchase are not only from China, but from Cambodia and Vietnam.

Sadly, while the Chinese are increasing their presence here, establishing Chinese towns and factories, our citizens are busy playing local xenophobia politics and destroying themselves. Infact, the same Chinese now parade the streets of Lagos with their wares, selling directly on the streets.

Imagine o. Just some months back, I was everywhere on Facebook, TikTok and twitter cursing and cussing out the South Africans, calling them all sort of names over how our brothers (Igbos) were being treated in the country. Fast forward to today, September 2026, these same Igbo people are doing just the exact same thing to foreign nationals. So how are we any different from those people we called Xenophobes just couple of months back? Make Una dey use una head na. So what if tomorrow, China decides to return this energy and chase away every Nigerian doing retail businesses in their country?
What the Igbos are ultimately telling us is that those who want to be selling cheap things to us should be sent away while we keep buying the “cheap” things at exorbitant prices from the Igbos. So na only Igbo sabi find money? The market is big to accommodate everybody. Anyone who can’t survive should wither off and leave!
How you go even come pesin land still come get the effrontery to ask that other people must go? Where is this audacity coming from?

[quote author=ElevationD post=140654746]If other nationals, including Asians can demand that Nigerians should be deported from their countries, Nigerians have the right to protest such unfair competition by the Chinese and Indians.

Before now, it was the Indians in the garment and plastic industries.

Now it is the Chinese, Cambodians, Taiwanese and Vietnamese , who manufacture the products in their countries, make the prices high for Nigerian importers there

and then ship their own containers to Nigeria, to sell directly in the Nigerian retail market. Most Nigerians are not aware that a lot of the used clothes and shoes that they purchase are not only from China, but from Cambodia and Vietnam.

One thing you said i dont agree with, lets call a spade a spade, Nigerians importer paved way for the chinese to come stand as saviour

Let me narrate, chidi will go to china find a manufacturer nd demand for the lowest quality of a trending market in Nigeria import it into Nigeria nd sell at wider profit margin to cost price or

Chidi import from china a product he shouldnt sell more than 2k each he brings it to Nigeria nd sell for 5k thanks to trade association cartel or trader gang up they enforce the price

And thats what the Op is talking about ... The chinese sees this things they see how naija dey do naija wayo ! What you bought from dem at 2k you take to your people @ 5k ..the chinese know the game

Joining the game to expliot consumers wont be viable, So the chinese have to becum " Messiah" trying to connect directly to final consumers. Lesser price wil boost sales n bring me

Truth be told Nigerian traders are greed baxters

ElevationD:
Owner of Lagos. Na your house you kuku dey stay make mouth. No be only disbanded, na unbanded.

We know that you are from one village in Osun state.

You want Nigerians to relocate out of Yoruba areas, while your people travel to Europe to become Europeans. Fa fa fa fa fawol.

The Chinese will soon invest in mega warehouses and distribution networks and digital stores .

They will open their warehouses across the 5 working geopolitical zones and sell to retailers at a good price and directly to consumers.

The first mega warehouse will soon be commissioned along the Coastal highway Lagos -Ogun corridor and will serve all coastal states.

Another one will pop up in PH, then Abuja, then Kano and later Gombe to serve the other geopolical regions.

They won't be opening one in your region for fact that it might get raided by a mob .

Any protester caught disturbing public peace should be arrested and deported back to his village.

FSBoperator:
My friend, it is your brothers that were protesting against the Chinese retailers having shops and warehouses in the Trade fair complex

Nah their cry make me know say there are Chinese retailers operating shops in that complex and are outselling your brothers.

As I said, your false call to patriotism just as you did with trying to get Nigerian govt to shut down MTN because the SA people wanted your drug dealers out is not and will never work on me.

You are free to relocate to Onitsha and impose strict register on who can operate a shop in that your markets.

How can we leave our houses where we are landlords to your people and relocate to Onitsha? Una want to thief house wey una no build?

Since you did not know that the Chinese are in Trade fair, why shooook your mouth into what you knew nothing about in the first place?