jomonic:
My opinion is that textile businesses would have evolved without the ban in the first place. Textile importers are best positioned to set up cottage textile industries. This is what happened with motor cycles and other vehicles. There won't be Innosson today if there was a ban on motor cycle importation.

MusaIbrahim1:





You guys keep trying to justify every idiotic move by the daullardiho... Who told you that the ban was never enforced and had no impact? Even if a banned product is smuggled inside a country, the price will always be higher than the local made ones, therefore the competition effect won't be much BUT now foreign and local products will be selling at the same price... Now tell me who is going to buy the locally produced ones?

obailala:

I can see you are very good at memorising your economics texbooks. But I can assure you that your texbook did not factor in the effect of corruption in its analysis. Goodnight

obailala:
The truth is that the ban was never enforced. The ban did not stop or even reduce the importation of textiles all. It was just an avenue for the ever corrupt customs officials to make so much money in the form of bribes; moneys which should have accrued to the government as duties. With the lifting of the ban, at least a chunk of those moneys received by the customs guys would get to the government.... and this govt is in desperate need of revenue.

anonimi:



Why are you being needlessly TRIBALISTIC

Are there no furniture and textile manufacturers in other parts of the country?

No wonder we have a Dullard ruining us for the next four years

anonimi:







Stop spreading LIES please =>

sapientia:
eyaaaa...
what happens to our local companies..
They sure cant compete..
Maybe Nigeria have diversified her economy to import duties and no more oil...
Only the masses will suffer

lomprico:

and foreign textiles still floods our markets nation wide. Abegii this was just film trick, was it finally burned?
Companies like bedmate, lifemate where thriving on imported furnitures, which they sell freely, there is a street in DLine port harcourt where tgey sell both home n office furnitures, all imported mostly from china. So bro there was no enforcing of that policy.

Maxymilliano:
Lifting of ban on textile, others will be tragic for local industries, what the government should focus on is how to revive the wobbling industries ...

anonimi:


EVERY country bans or at least has high tariffs to discourage imports and encourage local growth.

That includes USA, European countries, China, South Korea etc. and they are usually having trade WARS against each other on these matter of PROTECTIVE measures!

Please get your facts right before MISLEADING others.
Thanks.

anonimi:


EVERY country bans or at least has high tariffs to discourage imports and encourage local growth.

That includes USA, European countries, China, South Korea etc. and they are usually having trade WARS against each other on these matter of PROTECTIVE measures!

Please get your facts right before MISLEADING others.
Thanks.

TheFreeOne:
Can this be true Are we in reverse gear

obailala:
The truth is that the ban was never enforced. The ban did not stop or even reduce the importation of textiles all. It was just an avenue for the ever corrupt customs officials to make so much money in the form of bribes; moneys which should have accrued to the government as duties. With the lifting of the ban, at least a chunk of those moneys received by the customs guys would get to the government.... and this govt is in desperate need of revenue.

shigoslim:
























Trash it's clearly shows that u lack common basis economic analysis. If your government is desperately in need of revenue, lifting ban on importation is it the best solution to income generator ? If importation is higher than exportation what do u think it will result to ? Don't you think it's will definitely befall government revenue or income generation. We are talking of how government will boost our economy through diversification . If government encourage small scale industry and we start exporting to other country who will benefit most? Is'nt not Nigeria government....... Must we rely on importation ? Another setback forward change indeed Nigeria has enter one chance

lagdmark:
For this single action, I love buhari. As an importer based in germany My containers can now be fully loaded again with these items without fear. Sai baba!!!.

sirdave:
This is indeed a sad day for us in this country. It should indeed be declared a day of mourning. How can a government who claim to be responsible be toying with the future of her citizens. It appears that we have finally entered one chance bus. Nigeria from this has become a dumping ground.
JEJ rejected this when he was asked to embrace it. Now the change agents whom themselves are not changed brought it back.
May God save us from this confused changers.

awejulius:
haaa this man with tribalism. because of seized textile in the north. Buari failed at last.

lomprico:

and foreign textiles still floods our markets nation wide. Abegii this was just film trick, was it finally burned?
Companies like bedmate, lifemate where thriving on imported furnitures, which they sell freely, there is a street in DLine port harcourt where tgey sell both home n office furnitures, all imported mostly from china. So bro there was no enforcing of that policy.

anonimi:


EVERY country bans or at least has high tariffs to discourage imports and encourage local growth.

That includes USA, European countries, China, South Korea etc. and they are usually having trade WARS against each other on these matter of PROTECTIVE measures!

Please get your facts right before MISLEADING others.
Thanks.

major466:

The US government has one of the best securities and border patrols in the world, yet contrabands like hard drugs still find their way into the country.
Indonesia and Malasia have the strictest form of purnishment for hard drugs peddlers. But as we speak, drug peddlers are swinddling large kilos of cocain into these countries despite the hash laws.
No system is perfect. People will still find ways to smuggle contrabands into a country. This is the evil part of human nature mankind have to deal with.

MizMyColi:


What proof do you have that it was never enforced?
Are we now going to play oblivious to the fact that this could impede and discourage local manufacturers?

If the picture you paint is truly so, don't you think local textile manufacturers would have cried out?
The ban discouraged importation to a large extent as evidenced by the boom we now see in that industry.

Ask Oshodi Textile Dealers.



So, this government sees no need to protect the local industries, because they want to create revenue?
My question goes thus..."at what cost?"

Finally, a government that decides before it thinks has arrived.

Smartestelvis:
u r obviously more a dullard dan buhari,go back to sec school n get back to me

Says a smart Elvis who can't get his spellings correct.

You should be taking your own advice bro.
Good Morning

onatisi:
na auto reverse gear .we warned nigerians ,nobody listened

lomprico:
So bedmate n lifemate furnitures are smugglers?