₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
You're simply a waste of data

So you just realised that? Eeyah!!!

tollyboy5:
If we reasoned like you we would not be having population outburst due to rural urban migration.
There is restructuring going on gradually non of the leaders you voted for has approved it.
Osun state has approved state policing what are others doing?
When they said each state to earn more from tax they generated many of you were against it. You want this socialism way of sharing the big boys money round all the states.
Some were claiming because headquarters were in Lagos. You're not ready for restructuring you're just whining.

Why not approve resource control instead of this fake restructuring u guys are proposing?

Hmmmmm. So can we really blame the South Africans ? Food for thought o

Kalashnikov49:
They are relocating to Computer village ikeja and they will be doing phone and computer business. Una go cry blood

Cry blood keh?
Have you forgotten that the Yorubas are liberal, welcoming and open-economy people?
Yes, we are capitalists and as such, we welcome everyone (anyone who wants to compete) to our land and markets. If you can’t compete, pack your things, it’s that simple. We aren’t xenophobic.
What Nigerians(Easterners and Northerners) are doing now makes one wonder why humans tend to be hypocritical. Some months back, we were roasting the South Africans for this same thing we are doing🤣
Maybe we truly deserved what they were did to us.

Kingosytex:
It's the best thing to do. You can't compete with people who have government backed subsidies. They've taken over Zambia, Nigeria might fall if care is not taken.

The Chinese can afford to sell at any price, they care less about profits or loses as whatever they lose is being reimbursed by their government. The ultimate goal is to capture the market and eliminate competition.

After they eliminate competition, they will now fix their prices. I laugh at people saying that Nigeria should compete. Even USA can't. The USA is only using sanctions to curtail China and protect their citizens. If USA can't compete, do you think that Nigeria stands a chance?
If you think yes, then your ignorance is incurable. Nigeria can't compete even in alternate universe.

The last time I checked the product is made in China irrespective of the retailer so how does the elimination of an inefficient middleman reduce or increase the balance of power between China and Nigeria.

I don't want to hear xenophobia again o. As una dey chase foreigners, don't complain when you are being chased out from other countries.

wellmax:
But we’re the ones shouting Xenophobia.

Let people do their business.

If others do this to us, we will be here shouting foul.

Hypocritical people.

This different a foreigner must register b4 doing business in china Nigeria can’t do business of selling in the country u can only buy u can’t be employed in china as a Nigerian

Can u compete with a producer how na

Just

owobokiri:
I trust the Northerners. Too comfortable in their skin to allow petty tribalism to make them surrender the economy of the country to outsiders.. We all know those who are ready to throw away the baby with the birth water just to get at their real and perceived enemies in this country. It's like cutting your nose just to spite your face..

The South West reactions to the Invasion of the Retail sector in Nigeria by the Chinese, tells you all you need to know as to why Nigeria always come across as a country that is perennially fighting against herself..

They remind you of the biblical scene where two women were dragging the ownership of a young baby before King Solomon, and Solomon told them he would have to divide the baby into two and give a part each to two of them for peace to reign. One was jubilating at this prospect, the other was crying and even surrendered the baby to the other lady so the baby should live...


The fact that a section of Nigeria found the prospect of the Chinese controlling all the process of production through distribution and retailing as a good thing, all while commending the government for hiking import tarrifs so that local productions can kick-start, shows you how petty tribalism can go in debasing ones thinking process...

You will cry blood .
Chinese can come to Yoruba Land, you can go and use the 3rd mainland bridge.

owobokiri:
I trust the Northerners. Too comfortable in their skin to allow petty tribalism to make them surrender the economy of the country to outsiders.. We all know those who are ready to throw away the baby with the birth water just to get at their real and perceived enemies in this country. It's like cutting your nose just to spite your face..

All these epistles and bile all because we refused to let you continue to milk us dry?🤣
So we should, for the sake of one-Nigeria, allow you to chase away those who have come to ease our suffering? You didn’t remember we were brothers and compatriots when you were callously inflating the prices of even the most basic commodities. (including even the fake ones)🤣
Pesin no allow make you dey piss for hin head, you come dey vex dey para🤣
Una go dey alright. As for the Chinese, you are highly welcome to the land of the free!
Welcome to the free market and the economic powerhouse of Nigeria and Africa. Welcome to the land where xenophobia is nonexistent.

franchasng:
Well done Kano people, the North seems to be getting it right of recent.


For some ignorant Nigerians, they won't understand the harm Chinese people being sponsored by Chinese government are doing to Nigeria's economy if they are allowed to continue with this their recent madness.


You will spend time and resources to study local market demand in Nigeria then fly to China to source for the products and take the pains of investing in an unknown product and business model, you suffer the initial losses, bear the financial losses and take the labor of convincing Nigerians to accept the products you went to produce in China.


The moment Chinese notice that you have started ordering this product in large quantity, they will understand that its moving in Nigerian local market, next the same Chinese supplier or manufacturer supplying this product to you to take to your country will use their capital, Chinese government support, manufacturer price advantages and more to bring the products into Nigerian local market and start retailing it directly to local Nigerian consumers at a cheaper price and Nigerians are celebrating this trade malpractice?




Chinese are the factory of the world as at now, they should focus on producing and manufacturing and not engage in trade malpractices to undermine local retailers and importers. The Nigerian government must stop them! No working nation will accept that.


Chinese investors are welcomed, they should invest in manufacturing, raw material processing and other large scale businesses. Government should restrict their practices and put a cap on the kind of trades and businesses they must engage in.



Before you can register a company to operate in China, you must incorporate a local Chinese and you have restrictions and things you cannot venture into, and you must tell them your cap plus you must not play with your tax filing but these Chinese will come into Nigeria and sell things at reduced prices because they don't pay tax to Nigerian government and sometimes they snuggle in their commodities to evade paying customs duties, which are some of the malpractices they practice in Nigeria to cut operating cost that further make their price lesser than local Nigerian importers.


If they want to offer cheap price products to local markets in different countries, let them use online stores like design their own cheap article websites like they are doing with temu, that one is their business, but they must stay away from Nigerian local markets. Shebi their government and wholesale platforms and institutions are backing their temu to sell cheap items to the rest of the world, let them continue that through online stores.



I know what I went through incorporating my company in Shenzhen China, Chinese must not be allowed to have it easy pissy here if not they will destroy our local economy powered by local trading aka buying and selling. To be forewarned is to be fore armed!!

You claim to be doing business but I'm certain you have no real concern engaging in business if not for the boy system that the Nigerian government has allowed to exploit the space unregulated for so long.

You are not the manufacturer you don't have the design patents, I know for a fact that not a single retailer of any product in the Nigerian market has the intellectual property otherwise they'll be able to restrict unregulated duplication of that product and supply into the Nigerian marketplace.

The reality is that individuals were travelling to China and shipping large volumes of sub par products into the Nigerian space and same people are now complaining of being cut out by the manufacturer, the product has not changed,if only gotten better, the transfer of disposable income from Nigerian consumer to the Chinese manufacturer has not changed, what has changed is the elimination of the middleman who doesn't had much value.

The Nigerian consumer gains because he gets better value for money.

It is impossible for any foreign individual or entity to register a business in Nigeria under CAC without a Nigerian being a partner or on the board I know this for a fact.

Amotolongbo:
Yoruba isn’t in competition with anyone.

Please tell them!
As long as you are not bringing us fake and not overcharging us, we have the money to keep you in business.
The SW are the real money na water. Everybody is welcomed here!

Factcheck0001:
do u believe south Africans are xenophobic?

Isn't this same thing u are trying to do to Chinese that they too are trying to do to your brothers there?

So with all these your analysis, do u believe south Africans are xenophobic?

Chinese are bringing Chinese products into Nigeria to sell and hawk, Nigerians that have shops in China can NEVER bring in Nigerian products to be sold in China. You need an i.port licence and that is given.to only few Chinese. They can only sell Chinese products. That is the difference. Each way, we are selling their products. Here or there. They are the ones making Real money. You are just making some cash through the mark ups..

South Africans were basically xenophobic. They blamed the foreigners for everything wrong in their country; drugs, crimes, robbery, prostitution, and of course job losses. Nigerian shops there mainly sell South African goods. Again, no one has said that Africans shouldn't compete in the retail sector in Nigeria. What we have said is that the biggest producer on earth should be the biggest retailer in our land.

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If you check very well, they are Igbos. That's what they planned in lagos but it's not possible

lookinggood:
Please o allow the Chinese to sell phones because we need the price to come down.

Must we strogle to buy phones?

Don’t mind them. So because an Igbo man must chop, we Nigerians must keep buying fake products at exorbitant prices.
It’s now they are remembering that we are brothers and compatriots🤣🤣

franchasng:
The issue most of you supporting this Chinese trade malpractice of using almost zero taxed goods and Chinese government backed export products to invade your local trading business sector is lack of understanding and sheer ignorance.


Yes they may seem to be offering cheaper products for now but at the long run they will run down Nigeria's economy by destroying the local trading sector that employs majority of Nigerians. If you still believe that its only Igbos that do trading business in Nigeria in 2026, then you have no reason to own a mobile phone or to even coexist with other people in this time and era.


Chinese government gave a certain percentage incentive to all Chinese manufacturers producing solar products like solar panels, etc as a way of helping them to export more solar power products outside China to penetrate foreign markets and outcompete solar product manufacturing companies in their destination or target countries. They used this government incentives and more to dominate solar power business and market around the world which even affected Elon Musk backup battery biz in some markets. That is how Chinese government have been pushing out foreign trade policies that are unethical and dangerous to different countries local markets just to ensure Chinese products and people dominate and take over global trade, and many countries are pushing back through government policies to restrict their activities but here in Nigeria you guys are cheering them on out of hatred for your fellow citizens.


Don't feed the monster that will come back to devour you later, starve the monster to extinction at the beginning. Don't feed and shelter the monster just because you believe it will attack only your neighbor that always move around at night, one day night will catch up with you or your loved ones, Nigerians think with your brains please.



The few civilized countries I have been to, none of them will allow you a foreigner to engage in certain businesses that is exclusive to their local entrepreneurs, their governments protect those small scale businesses because they are the engine that powers every country, not the multinational companies like most of you believe. Small scale businesses like local trading outfits in Nigeria are the highest employer of Nigerians, now ask yourself what would happen to them should Chinese run them down with price advantage? This is why Trump increased import taxes on China imported goods into America, he did it to protect American businesses and to save American peoples jobs!!

I've lived in Europe for near 3 decades now and I don't know of any business that is exclusively the remit of the indigenous people as a consequence of law.
There are many Chinese retail storefronts here selling cheap electronics etc, it's increasingly becoming an Indian and Pakistani dominated trade selling mobile consumer electronics and also having a mobile repair shop front.

franchasng:
You sound knowledgeable at least and reason I am responding to you.


Whatever I wrote or write is not based on hearsay but based on real life personal experience.


By the grace of God, I run business on the both sides of the countries in discussion; China and Nigeria. I own an incorporated company in China and I also run a small business or firm in Nigeria. We provide products (tangible items) and services that you cannot hold. Haven worked with Chinese manufacturers and business owners for over 9 years now, I can boldly tell you that Chinese people can make or mar you. They engage in a lot of unhealthy trade practices when dealing with foreigners or when operating outside China and most times they are backed by Chinese government institutions through several ways. These guys have used these unhealthy business ethics to outsmart many nations and overrun many nation's economy such that its now China that control most nations' local economy, its dangerous.


China as we all know today is the factory of the world; every nation goes to China to produce what they need cos of low production cost resulting from several issues ranging from cheap labor, infrastructural support, hyper automation and mass production which many countries can hardly catch up with as at today. Chinese government haven't amassed so much wealth from mass production and manufacturing not minding the environmental pollution and the rest, is now using their enormous capital base to sponsor Chinese citizens to go around the world dominating local trades. Knowing all these and more, it will be inimical to Nigeria and Nigerians to welcome Chinese merchants into Nigeria's local buying and selling aka retail business when you already know the enormous advantage they have over you.


I can boldly tell you that most of them evade paying tax in Nigeria through so many unethical means I wouldn't want to start revealing here. They engage in smuggling in their commodities through our porous borders which further helps them to cut cost and have more price advantage over local Nigerian importers and traders.


They exploit our people they employ knowing that our people have no option or who to complain to.


Nigerian government needs to wake up and start full-time regulation of Chinese trading and retail operations in Nigeria.



They have the capital base and expertise and technical know-how to engage in local manufacturing and production and high capital net businesses like the shop rite models and the likes, not invading our local markets to take over our local trading, it wont end well for Nigeria even though we may be celebrating it now out of ignorance and hatred for one another.


There are businesses you cannot do in China as a foreigner talk more as a Nigerian, why then must Chinese be allowed to do anything and any business they like in Nigeria?

Abeg go and compete

anonimi:
Did China become an economic powerhouse in five decades, by opening up their markets to foreign traders

Actually yes evidently you don't know how China became a country that had double digit inflation for more than 2 decades.
China opened up and ended protectionism and that is what lead to that rapid phase of growth.

There is no absolute protectionism a government must adjust their trade duties accordingly to strengths and global realities

Basicend:
It will create massive unemployment and funds repatriation to China.

Ain't you tired of China milking almost all the little free funds you have left.

Chinese govt is too desperate. They know the right process but like cutting corners with everything.

In international trade, there should be adherence to the required supply chain process.

It'll not create any unemployment instead, it'll help bring down cost of goods in the markets! Meanwhile, the greedy Nigerian traders don't care about the plight of civil servants when they inflate the costs of goods so, why should the rest of us suffer hardship just to have them continue swindling us?

Basicend:
It will create massive unemployment and funds repatriation to China.

Ain't you tired of China milking almost all the little free funds you have left.

Chinese govt is too desperate. They know the right process but like cutting corners with everything.

In international trade, there should be adherence to the required supply chain process.

What is the employment that the local trade provides.

owobokiri:
Chinese are bringing Chinese products into Nigeria to sell and hawk, Nigerians that have shops in China can NEVER bring in Nigerian products to be sold in China. You need an i.port licence and that is given.to only few Chinese. They can only sell Chinese products. That is the difference. Each way, we are selling their products. Here or there. They are the ones making Real money. You are just making some cash through the mark ups..

South Africans were basically xenophobic. They blamed the foreigners for everything wrong in their country; drugs, crimes, robbery, prostitution, and of course job losses. Nigerian shops there mainly sell South African goods. Again, no one has said that Africans shouldn't compete in the retail sector in Nigeria. What we have said is that the biggest producer on earth should be the biggest retailer in our land.

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Abeg one question the products that the Nigerian traders are bringing to Nigeria from where did they get them.

Do you guys even reason before posting

Mrexcell:
Why not approve resource control instead of this fake restructuring u guys are proposing?

Just imagine. They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step, you block road and say, fly instead don't take step.
It just shows you're not ready yet 😁

Watch how people drag igbos into this without even watching the evidence.

Afrojuju2017:
Abeg go and compete

Give me low or zero interest loan na


If you can give me $500,000 to $1,000,000 loan at 5% interest with a 6 months moratorium and watch if I won't join Dangote in 2 years time


And for your information, many Nigerian big business players and brand owners are not complaining oh cos they have the capital chest to compete with even Chinese government like you said lol, na we mid-level and the lower level entrepreneurs that are complaining sha, make una beg Naija government to help us before Chinko run us out of business, if not we go join Agbero Chairman people to de chase una around for owo mi da oh

Afrojuju2017:
Abeg one question the products that the Nigerian traders are bringing to Nigeria from where did they get them.

Do you guys even reason before posting

Oga,
Stop defending the Chinese the Lebanese and the Indians.
Go and produce those products as a Nigerian or go and import them as a Nigerian.
That's where we are.
No one is protesting against the Liberians or the Ghanaians here.
Them no bend your hands. You are the sophisticated one! The most educated tribe in Africa, right? Why are you there watching as you're being trounced in your backyard, so much so you have to invite some Asian mercenaries!?
Get busy.
We are trying to protect all jobs for evevryone .
If an igbo is not doing it well, let a yoruba do it.
How about that?

That's not a native Hausa speaker...... that's an Easterner that lives in Kano.

A foreigner kicking out a Foreigner......

Factcheck0001:
we all know it is your brothers selling fufu as phone in kano that did this.

Now this is gradually becoming a problem that d government should look into, any market where Chinese people are chased should be locked down indefinitely

Every citizen have the right to do business anywhere, the same right u people have as strangers in kano is d same right Chinese traders have in kano

This shows that black people are there own problem. We don't produce any of these phones in Nigeria, we depend on these Asian countries for cheaper phones to sell them at exorbitant prices to our fellow Nigerians in the name of doing business. If the Chinese can bring these phones to our door steps and sell them cheaper, what is wrong with it? Seriously, Africans are not ready for progress.

Factcheck0001:
we all know it is your brothers selling fufu as phone in kano that did this.

Now this is gradually becoming a problem that d government should look into, any market where Chinese people are chased should be locked down indefinitely

Every citizen have the right to do business anywhere, the same right u people have as strangers in kano is d same right Chinese traders have in kano

You said ‘every citizen’, are Chinese naturalized citizens in Nigeria?

Kalashnikov49:
They are relocating to Computer village ikeja and they will be doing phone and computer business. Una go cry blood

So yorubas no dey phone business..U guys don't reason things at all.

I told u guys this Chinese wahala will affect every tribe.Last last na Tinubu head him go land