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BlueRayDick:
I don't think the Chinese would voluntarily the gold they recently struck with this retail business sha. Nigerian government's leaning towards China at the Macro level sef suggests that the Chinese wholesalers would voluntarily let go.

While reacting to the Tradefair protest , the Police Area commander actually referred to the traders who protested as " Few miscreants and disgruntled fellows".....That one alone don show say the Traders do not enjoy the sympathy of government.

My advise is for those who can to diversify and move into business line wey the Chinese never put eye to drag retailing with them.

Never put eye?

Those guys don full everywhere. Infact, the way they are buying up everywhere is worrisome

I was somewhere in Edo and the locals were telling me that the forest reserves they have are being sold to the Chinese...

The worst part? They aren't doing anything yet. Just buy and keep

Ogun state don almost finish as Chinese don buy land everywhere.

The next 20 to 30 years would be interesting in Africa

izzou:
The market sellers/Union should go into partnership with the Chinese.

Buy up all their stock, and then retail.

If na by protest, ko le work

The Chinese have little incentive to do this. It'd pay them to sell at close to the traders' price and use whatever difference they'd have sold to traders to market direct to end users.

If the government doesn't enact a protectionist policy, the traders would lose, it's inevitable.

izzou:
Never put eye?

Those guys don full everywhere. Infact, the way they are buying up everywhere is worrisome

I was somewhere in Edo and the locals were telling me that the forest reserves they have are being sold to the Chinese...

The worst part? They aren't doing anything yet. Just buy and keep

Ogun state don almost finish as Chinese don buy land everywhere.

The next 20 to 30 years would be interesting in Africa

Very.

China's dominance is inevitable, best bet is to find ways to align with whatever opportunities come up.

GloriousGbola:
The issue is that the traders by themselves have created a chain when they add zero value to the customer.

It is not as if they give aftersales support or warranty or guarantee. Add that to the toxicity most of them show

I was looking for a special switch and I went to chint store in ogba. I opened everything I could put my hands on. I was not challenged. A day before I had been in alaba and when I opened the packet of one of the items to inspect the seller immediately became rude and hostile. You can't open it. I will pay for the one I opened. I say you can't open it

Dodgy hustlers overpricing suspect items.

The onus is to accept that the trading hustle is dead and move on to something that actually creates value. The reason they are easily replaced is they are not providing any value at all for the customer.

Hostile, aggressive, greedy, rude and very entitled sellers

Theflint1:
The Chinese have little incentive to do this. It'd pay them to sell at close to the traders' price and use whatever difference they'd have sold to traders to market direct to end users.

If the government doesn't enact a protectionist policy, the traders would lose, it's inevitable.

What are they protecting? trading is not an industry. all these years that there has been no competition, have these traders shown any economy or industry boosting ?

izzou:
Never put eye?

Those guys don full everywhere. Infact, the way they are buying up everywhere is worrisome

I was somewhere in Edo and the locals were telling me that the forest reserves they have are being sold to the Chinese...

The worst part? They aren't doing anything yet. Just buy and keep

Ogun state don almost finish as Chinese don buy land everywhere.

The next 20 to 30 years would be interesting in Africa

I like them sha unlike those indians

izzou:
Never put eye?

Those guys don full everywhere. Infact, the way they are buying up everywhere is worrisome

I was somewhere in Edo and the locals were telling me that the forest reserves they have are being sold to the Chinese...

The worst part? They aren't doing anything yet. Just buy and keep

Ogun state don almost finish as Chinese don buy land everywhere.

The next 20 to 30 years would be interesting in Africa

China is moving aggressively in trade all over the whole world even against western nation that have leverage

Africa na small fry. We cannot produce, we have needs that looks like China can fulfill, we cannot afford to buy competing products from other western nation that might be more ethical

Africa na easy piece for China

GloriousGbola:
What are they protecting? trading is not an industry. all these years that there has been no competition, have these traders shown any economy or industry boosting ?

The Ghanian and South African governments have and continue to do these things, with the boogey man being Nigeria.

It's something the government can do if they want to.

Spy360:
Did Peter Obi leave any debt? Question

Here is what President GEJ has to say...

This is Goodluck Jonathan Testifying that at when Peter Obi was leaving office, Anambra state was not owing anybody.

Soludo must be a very madman. pic.twitter.com/PJybpf0yfc

— Akwa Ibom 1st Son (@ukocarter) September 15, 2026

Nigeria has a Debt Management Office which publishes States Foreign and Domestic debts monthly

In the era of AI, it's simply lazy to rely on the words of his zoologist friend than ask AI to tell you what the accountants at the DMO reported as Anambra debt in any specific month

Theflint1:
The Ghanian and South African governments have and continue to do these things, with the boogey man being Nigeria.

It's something the government can do if they want to.

I remember the Ghanaian government making laws that there are some particular trade/business foreigners cannot engage in without a Ghanaian being involved as part of management/ownership of the business.

I doubt we have anybody in Nigerian government that will think along this line. Even if somebody wants to sponsor a bill along that line, I can assure you that with few millions in Ghana-must-go bags shared by foreigners, that bill will die natural death

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8748901/peter-obi-record-public-debt



if spy could read he would be very upset right now - or not since we know his game -try to lamba his fake messiah in on the votes of magas

Obi is a packaged scam. Anyone still supporting him must be a wicked soul.

raumdeuter:
Directly from the govt of Anambra

https://www.nairaland.com/8748901/peter-obi-record-public-debt

Anyone that could lie with trivial things like shoes and watches, can lie about anything.

Ibime:
Nigeria has a Debt Management Office which publishes States Foreign and Domestic debts monthly

In the era of AI, it's simply lazy to rely on the words of his zoologist friend than ask AI to tell you what the accountants at the DMO reported as Anambra debt in any specific month

So what's the result of your AI search. Educate me

raumdeuter:
Say Mr I have 2 watches wife actually carried a 250m handbag?

Its always the hypocrisy and in your case bigotry

If na Tinubu wife carry 250m purse what will you say?

Obi owns companies, what does Tinubu do for a leaving about from being a drug bagman?

GloriousGbola:
https://www.google.com/search?q=aisha+Buhari+watxh&client=ms-android-xiaomi-terr1-rso2&ie=UTF-8

What do you have to say about the alleged expensive watches etc of aisha Buhari?

State funded

What will be the fate of displaced traders by the Chinese? I hope in the process of solving a problem we don't end up with much bigger problem down the road.
People saying that the traders should pivot into production in an environment that is prohibitively expensive to be a producer are not being realistic. Where is the conducive environment to compete globally and still be profitable with our double-digits lending rates, epileptic power supply, broken supply chains, and huge infrastructure gap and unskilled population?
I wish us well if we end up pushing more people out of their businesses and expect to live in peace.

Spy360:
State funded

Spy360 tells us a private citizen with no source of income should not be questioned about expensive baubles, but holds a different standard for wives of apc members

The hypocrisy and duplicity is on steroids

GloriousGbola:
Spy360 tells us a private citizen with no source of income should not be questioned about expensive baubles, but holds a different standard for wives of apc members

The hypocrisy and duplicity is on steroids

She's wife to a business man who was a dollar multimillionaire before he ever won any election.

That money won't simply vanish into thin air because he became a politician some 19 years ago.

Spy360:
State funded

I'm surprised he's asking those sort of questions. What was Buhari's net worth before his latest presidential stint? How do you go from that relative modesty to what became of his family during his presidency?

Theflint1:
She's wife to a business man who was a dollar multimillionaire before he ever won any election.

That money won't simply vanish into thin air because he became a politician some 19 years ago.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/alleged-n250m-hermes-bag-peter-obi-explains-source-of-wifes-money/

The handbag has triggered renewed discussions about the former Anambra State governor’s public image of prudence, particularly given his reputation for advocating prudent management of public resources.

Obi, however, said he does not concern himself with how his wife spends her personal money, provided her lifestyle does not interfere with his handling of public funds.

He also recalled that his wife was more sophisticated in her fashion choices before he became governor of Anambra State.

“My wife has her own business and her own money, so what is my business if she buys expensive items with her money?

Maybe you can tell us what her business is.

Her Wikipedia article is not saying.

Theflint1:
I'm surprised he's asking those sort of questions. What was Buhari's net worth before his latest presidential stint? How do you go from that relative modesty to what became of his family during his presidency?

Say no to hypocrisy. You can do it.

Peter Obi cannot be the only one saying the truth in Anambra. His successor Obiano said he left debts, the current Gov Soludo is also saying the same thing with facts .
He didn’t sue them, he’s suing Deji Adeyanju.
You can only insult me, but we will state it as it is. pic.twitter.com/t2kPwcOX8T

— Somto Onuchukwu (@chosensomto) September 16, 2026

Not everyone is swallowing the LAMBA of messiah obi

Theflint1:
I'm surprised he's asking those sort of questions. What was Buhari's net worth before his latest presidential stint? How do you go from that relative modesty to what became of his family during his presidency?

Raumdeuter is pretending to sleep and wants me to wake him up

GloriousGbola:
Spy360 tells us a private citizen with no source of income should not be questioned about expensive baubles, but holds a different standard for wives of apc members

The hypocrisy and duplicity is on steroids

You be mm?

Tell me that PO can't afford that bag for his wife.

I never said Tinubu can't afford that for his wife. He can because he was a drug lord.

Every thing has an explanation

Spy360:
So what's the result of your AI search. Educate me

Type in Google Anambra debt in Dec 2013 or March 2014 and use AI mode, it will direct you to the DMO

Spy360:
Obi owns companies, what does Tinubu do for a leaving about from being a drug bagman?

Tinubu worked as a treasurer in ExxonMobil

How come Obi never filled the name of his companies he worked into his INEC form

Amoto94:
What will be the fate of displaced traders by the Chinese? I hope in the process of solving a problem we don't end up with much bigger problem down the road.
People saying that the traders should pivot into production in an environment that is prohibitively expensive to be a producer are not being realistic. Where is the conducive environment to compete globally and still be profitable with our double-digits lending rates, epileptic power supply, broken supply chains, and huge infrastructure gap and unskilled population?
I wish us well if we end up pushing more people out of their businesses and expect to live in peace.

As an end customer will you rather pay high for the Nigerian traders goods or Chinese traders goods? Probably same quality

Do you think govt should chase out the cheaper seller

GloriousGbola:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/alleged-n250m-hermes-bag-peter-obi-explains-source-of-wifes-money/






Maybe you can tell us what her business is.

Her Wikipedia article is not saying.

Her business is being a rich man's wife.

She's not the first rich man's wife that is pretend busy meanwhile it's husband's money that is still keeping her afloat, or maybe you expect Peter Obi to come out and say "my wife pretends to be busy, but the bulk of her lifestyle, na me dey run am".

Spy360:
Ramdeuter is pretending to sleep and wants me to wake him up

Theflint1:
I'm surprised he's asking those sort of questions. What was Buhari's net worth before his latest presidential stint? How do you go from that relative modesty to what became of his family during his presidency?

Buhari was a former governor Minister and President, a Military General that gets a lifetime benefit

Obi was the one who preached prednce to us, but his own wife was sporte with a 250m purse

Theflint1:
Her business is being a rich man's wife.

She's not the first rich man's wife that is pretend busy meanwhile it's husband's money that is still keeping her afloat, or maybe you expect Peter Obi to come out and say "my wife pretends to be busy, but the bulk of her lifestyle, na me dey run am".

The same Obi that asks us openly I have only 2 watches and 5 shirts from Marks and SPencer

What do I need expensive this and that for? What do I need a house abroad for,

Only for his wife to be carrying a purse that will buy a house in a highbrow area in Nigeria and he was there with her

Charity begins at home, hypocrisy begins outside

GloriousGbola:
Say no to hypocrisy. You can do it.

Peter Obi cannot be the only one saying the truth in Anambra. His successor Obiano said he left debts, the current Gov Soludo is also saying the same thing with facts .
He didn’t sue them, he’s suing Deji Adeyanju.
You can only insult me, but we will state it as it is. pic.twitter.com/t2kPwcOX8T

— Somto Onuchukwu (@chosensomto) September 16, 2026

Not everyone is swallowing the LAMBA of messiah obi

So which is it, 185 Billion (Obiano), 153 Million USD (Soludo), or 15 Billion (Obiano again)?

"Peter Obi left ₦35 Billion and issued cheques worth ₦15 Billion to be debited after he left
Peter Obi left ₦9 billion in cash and ₦25.6 billion in bonds and shares in other banks."

"He also issued cheques worth over ₦15 billion before he left, waiting for me to be sworn… pic.twitter.com/xkzLLN1aWW

— Mayor Of Calabar (@Uno_009) September 15, 2026

raumdeuter:
The same Obi that asks us openly I have only 2 watches and 5 shirts from Marks and SPencer

What do I need expensive this and that for? What do I need a house abroad for,

Only for his wife to be carrying a purse that will buy a house in a highbrow area in Nigeria and he was there with her

Charity begins at home, hypocrisy begins outside

Peter Obi lives simply on Peter Obi's money.

Peter Obi's wife lives lavishly on Peter Obi's money.