₦airaland Forum

I don't think import of shoes and bags are legal

Eaglefine:
Let them open border for other importation.
My friend that trades on shoes and bags from Cotonu is suffering since two months ago. There's no way to bring back her already bought goods. And her money is hanging for just no cause.

Says someone who does not buy local rice.

carbon1224:
The stone is actually the problem with the Nigerian rice if it’s stone free then it’s okay

This could be in the other way round. With much local industries coming up competition among them will be much and price will surely go down and quality improved without much chemicals and preservatives as it is in foreign rice. Coscharis industries has done a great job https://www.nairaland.com/5413243/automated-coscharis-rice-mill-igbariam , Olam group is doing great in rice expansion so for others too. It will be better soon. As I said earlier the brewing industry did it, music industry did it other sectors can do it.

9jaRealist:
Sadly, that’s UNLIKELY to be the case...

If local rice today was better than it was 10 years ago...
It’s because local producers were COMPETING against foreign rice imports.

By closing the border, the govt has created a CAPTIVE market for local rice...
The problem with captive markets (with we consumers as effectively PRISONERS) is that there’s no competition and no incentive to improve.
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That won't stop for now, Nigerians will still keep buying foreign goods.

This is the major problem we are facing doing business in Nigeria. Greed in profit making and at last the industry will die. Most foreign products come with 5% profit and sold all over the world in millions of bags and cartons thereby increasing turn over and profit, not concentrating on high unit profit.
The same thing is killing Innoson Motors.

maasoap:
Some don't have stones at all. The price is the major factor. Why would they double the price in less than a month? Were they not making profit selling at the old price? Greed is the nature of every business man and woman in Nigeria. No patriotism, no nothing. If the price of imported rice is increasing for the reasons we all knew, must the price of local rice be increased too?

carbon1224:
The stone is actually the problem with the Nigerian rice if it’s stone free then it’s okay

Not the stone alone, the taste is something else and price is now high.

Ashmark:
Not the stone alone, the taste is something else and price is now high.

Healthy rice does not taste as good as processed unhealthy ones.

F3dan:
I ate rice at a local restaurant yesterday and I can tell you my personal experience. The rice taste good but filled with stones, I complained to the owner of the restaurant and she said "it is local rice and she is tired of picking stones from the rice".
The truth is, our local rice producers should put in more effort to ensure stone-free rice and we will be good.

For three two years now, I've been buying local rice and I have never for once seen a single stone in it

Skyfornia:
The border remain closed....Our forefathers ate local rice and lived healthy.

No wahala bro. Infact none of our senators including ur president should travel outside d country 4 medical treatment cause our forefathers used local herbs medicine to cure Dem selves. Ewu

LadySarah:
The natives.the same way alot of fruits not native to igboland has igbo names.

Nne the border will remain closed. Ala adighi nma bu uru ndi nze.

Skyfornia:
The border remain closed....Our forefathers ate local rice and lived healthy.

How? Where did your forefathers get rice from? You that your forefathers ate Amala with gbegiri in the evenings, drank garri and epa without sugar in the afternoon. Mgbo, mgbo, mgbo, mgbo piafukwa go isi there.

carbon1224:
The stone is actually the problem with the Nigerian rice if it’s stone free then it’s okay

Buy the milled stone free local brands.

wacuc0:
This could be in the other way round. With much local industries coming up competition among them will be much and price will surely go down and quality improved without much chemicals and preservatives as it is in foreign rice. Coscharis industries has done a great job https://www.nairaland.com/5413243/automated-coscharis-rice-mill-igbariam , Olam group is doing great in rice expansion so for others too. It will be better soon. As I said earlier the brewing industry did it, music industry did it other sectors can do it.

Exactly!

Will companies be able to give rice as Christmas gift this year?

Stony rice

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Olami112:
We must eat the rice ,
I don't just understand Nigerian
And you will see most of this people rejecting this rice are parent who sent there children to school to study Agriculture science or so.
Instead of them to see this as an opportunity, they kept on rejecting opportunity.

So why do we have to study Agriculture in higher institution?
Sorry oh, is it a curse for Nigerian to always reject our own things
It is a curse for us not to appreciate our own
Anyone who did this for us is really bad person

It is called CHOICE.

Free human beings have a choice to buy or not to buy what they want..

They have the choice to consume or not to consume.

Most people who live in free countries decide on what to spend their money on.

Nigerians are no exception.

An average Nigerian just want a reasonable quality.

Many Nigerians will chose a "Tokunbo" phone charger at higher cost over some cheaper brand new ones in the market at a lower cost.

You don't force consumption on people.

The efforts being made on closing this and that borders should be directed at improving quality through regulations.

Rice is not the only crop they study in agriculture faculties in schools.

Rice is just one out of the several crops and animals.

When you use words like "must" for things that should ordinarily be something human beings use their own money to buy, then you are suggesting a North Korean/Cuban scenario.

They can go and buy foreign rice then but not in Nigeria


fools that have been eating Nigerian rice rebagged in foreign packages thinking they are sophisticated

unpatrotic sellouts

My dad lives in Cotonou, the border closure will hurt Nigerian traders more than our west African brethren, over 85% of motor spare parts, electronics and electrical items sold in west Africa are sourced from Nigerian markets, let our leaders think about that too.

Nigeria's leaders don't understand Nigeria's (non-oil economy). By simply "shutting our land borders", they'll be giving China an advantage over Nigeria in West Africa - with respect to trade.

Some are so dense, they won't understand this - even if you explain it to them.


Even the Oil Economy, dem no sabi. The Trans-siberian Pipeline project gave Russia a huge diplomatic advantage in Europe. It never occurred to Nigeria to build Pipelines all the way to Senegal & use Cheap Oil as a soft Power in West Africa. We left our EEZ for France to exploit.

My dad lives in Cotonou, the border closure will hurt Nigerian traders more than our west African brethren, over 85% of motor spare parts, electronics and electrical items sold in west Africa are sourced from Nigerian markets, let our leaders think about that too.

Mazi Frank Ifeanyi
The ASPMDA market is d spare parts hub 4 West African countries, Oshodi market is textile hub 4 Benin republic. Many plastic and household manufacturing firms in Lagos, Ogun &Ibadan serves these West African countries. These border closure will cost Nigeria alot. These West African countries are already sourcing for goods directly from Chinese, what happens to ASPMDA? The Chinese are opening textiles outlets in Benin republic, what happens to Oshodi small and medium scale biz dealing on textiles?

Oshodi textile dealers are complaining on daily basis because some of them took loans to service their businesses and they are still taxed by the state and local govt. The ASPMDA spare parts dealers are complaining bitterly. Should I talk of ladipo too?

9jaRealist:
But the land borders remaining closed does not mean foreign rice imports are prohibited...
It merely means that the RICHER rent-seekers who can import via sea will enjoy the MONOPOLY to import (while small traders lose out).
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No one is losing out. The rent seekers can be heavily taxed thereby resulted in high priced foreign rice, while the small traders can go to local rice which is not heavily taxed and where they can be easily accommodated accordingly

I just dey Laugh

DEBJOCH1:
GOD BLESS BUBU FOR CLOSING THE BORDER, LET THE BORDER REMAIN SHUT DOWN TILL ALL OUR COLLECTIVE SENSE RETURN. LOCAL RICE COMES IN GRADES AND MOST NIGERIAN RICE ARE BEING RE-BAGGED AND CALLED FOREIGN RICE. IF HUNGER WISH TO KILL US ALL, LET IT KILL US TILL WE GET THINGS DONE THE RIGHT WAY, NIGERIA IS NOT A DUMPING GROUND FOR ANY COUNTRY TO COME HERE AND DUMP REFUSE IN THE NAME OF IMPORTED FOOD AND ITEMS.

Closing all land borders is so injurious for Nigeria's economy.
Is there an experiment to see how much Nigerians can endure?
What happens to SMEs who depend on bi-lateral relationship with neighboring countries for growth and continuity?
What is the contingency plan for them? Any?

carbon1224:
The stone is actually the problem with the Nigerian rice if it’s stone free then it’s okay

foreign rice sweet nd neat my bro

MetaPhysical:
Take that rice across border, rebag it into sacks in chinese lettering, bring it back in and double the price.....sit down watch as we go rush am.

I love Nigeria

with stone still inside? are you not seeing the complaint from people?

tomakint:
The madness in the land is unparallel at least this i can confirm almost every time. What is the point of closing border to a neater, stone-free and better parboiled foreign rice when your have not perfected the art of producing quality rice and in larger volume only for a useless and lying government to just rush and close up the borders in their usual mumu way of saying "we want to encourage local patronage of our local rice production" when our annual consumption rates of over 7 million metric tonnes far supercedes our annual production rates of about 4.7 million metric tonnes. The question is, who still practise "protectionism policy in this modern age"?

Necessity is the mother of invention. Imagine if someone has the cash to invest in cleaning the rice for the market.

SniperSmurf:
That's a major problem though.

Pick the stone and eat the rice. By the way, not all local rice have stones. Infact you wont differentiate some from foreign rice.

F3dan:
I ate rice at a local restaurant yesterday and I can tell you my personal experience. The rice taste good but filled with stones, I complained to the owner of the restaurant and she said "it is local rice and she is tired of picking stones from the rice".
The truth is, our local rice producers should put in more effort to ensure stone-free rice and we will be good.

The stupid woman should wash the rice and not pick it, how many years does she want to spend picking stone in rice?

tomakint:
The madness in the land is unparallel at least this i can confirm almost every time. What is the point of closing border to a neater, stone-free and better parboiled foreign rice when your have not perfected the art of producing quality rice and in larger volume only for a useless and lying government to just rush and close up the borders in their usual mumu way of saying "we want to encourage local patronage of our local rice production" when our annual consumption rates of over 7 million metric tonnes far supercedes our annual production rates of about 4.7 million metric tonnes. The question is, who still practise "protectionism policy in this modern age"?

Eat the stony rice like that. If you don't have what you like, try to like what you have.

backnbeta:
The Millers should be more conscious of the effect of poorly processed rice, bi ko! Because we want to eat naija to grow the economy, we must now eat stone and dust particles?
Someone needs to watch over the consumers here, please! Besides, the local rice seem to be unreasonably priced compared to the stone-free foreign rice

Thanks to Igbemo rice from Ekiti, that's what I've been eating long before the border closure

you mean igbemo rice in Ekiti is stone-free?

Aonkuuse:
And these people that are rejecting local rice are the ones that will be insulting government everyday for not establishing Industries for them as if, if government does that they will patronize it. Most of packaged rice here is free of stones I don't know where the complaint is from. All my life I've been eating local rice but I think I'm okay with that

what is your gain in all this lies.

It's a matter of time. They would still appreciate our local rice once the FG won't bow to pressure.

amaechi1:
Will you say same to Uncle Trump and Australian president when they closed their border to drowning immigrants? As if your stomach will announce to the whole world that you have eaten the so called "foreign rice"

You have chosen an inappropriate example for justification.

Trump's border closure would have been recommended for "illegal" cross-border cow herders instead.

But as you can see, the illegal herders keep trooping in unhindered.

What else is the essence of sending your children to school when there are graduates from top European and American universities that we can employ?
Is that the rhetoric we pass around in Nigeria, while hoping for a better nation?
Rather than complain, move into the rice value chain and make it better, please.
Enough of these Lamentations.

tomakint:
The madness in the land is unparallel at least this i can confirm almost every time. What is the point of closing border to a neater, stone-free and better parboiled foreign rice when your have not perfected the art of producing quality rice and in larger volume only for a useless and lying government to just rush and close up the borders in their usual mumu way of saying "we want to encourage local patronage of our local rice production" when our annual consumption rates of over 7 million metric tonnes far supercedes our annual production rates of about 4.7 million metric tonnes. The question is, who still practise "protectionism policy in this modern age"?