Is there another material that they use to make them, so that they cost such huge amounts of money?
I MEAN, THE CAPITAL FLIGHT IS UNBELIEVABLE.
DOLLARS that should be used to boost THIS economy are being wasted on something as stupid as $10 leather bags from Europe costing $150,000 each simply because some European's "designer" name is stamped on the bag?
WHY WOULD PETER OBI TOLERATE THIS INSANE LEVEL OF CAPITAL FLIGHT FROM HIS OWN HOUSE??
And then have the AUDACITY to go round the country preaching "from consumption to production"?
Nigerians are special breed of humans. How much is fuel price? How much is minimum wage? The president traveled to Europe. This hand bag is just a distraction. The killings in the country is not important, it's the cost of a billionaire's wife hand bag that is the main problem of the country.
"Hey! Look over there! Don't look at our $150,000 handbags...Look at the fuel price and minimum wage and people unalived. Don't look at us...! You must really be a SPECIAL BREED OF HUMANS to ignore all your problems to focus on my jobless wife's $150,000 designer handbags."
FSBoperator: Gabriella Investments Limited (named after Obi's then 17y old daughter) was incorporated on November 17, 2010, in the British Virgin Islands, and was later renamed PMGG Investments Limited in February 2017.
PMGG stands for Peter Margaret Gabrielle Giringori Gregory.
A trust called The Gabriella Settlement was also created in the BVI to hold family assets.
Giringori was governor of Anambra when these accounts were opened.
BATified2023: they are only defending him cos he's their brother.
If not for tribalism they won't b supporting obi, imagine despite all obi glaring failures they still see him as the best n these same people will accuse others of tribalism whereas they are the ones following obi cos he's their brother
Look, this has gone beyond a joking matter.
If his wife is already spending this kind of GIGANTIC AMOUNT OF MONEY on mere handbags 👜, I seriously pity this country if she and her husband SMELL Aso Rock.
THEY WILL LOOT THIS COUNTRY SENSELESS.
Do you know you can build 4 MANSIONS with that money this woman used to buy one handbag?
I mean, the sheer insensitivity of these people is just mind-boggling.
THIS IS THE WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND THEY WANT TO GIVE THE KEYS TO ASO ROCK?
Validated: Even if it true, did she borrow your family money to buy it? Do you know if it is gift from the maker as a brand ambassador? Stop living in poverty, wealth is first made in the mind before it flows to your bank.
WHY THE HELL IS THE WIFE OF A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WHOSE LOUD MANTRA IS FRUGALITY AND AN END TO WASTEFUL SPENDING AND OSTENTATION.....WHY TF IS HIS WIFE GOING AROUND WITH $150,000 HANDBAGS?
Kobojunkie: Simple! When an Igbo man buys from China and then sells in Nigeria, the profits remain in Nigeria, where the Igbo man uses the money to build for himself lavish properties, employing local Nigerians to build his luxury property. That is the Nigerian economy being boosted by the man's activities. It is relatively the same when people across West Africa buy and sell within the economic zone. The bulk of the profit remains within West Africa and, in turn, helps keep the economy running.😒😒
Now, when a Chinese man sells goods in Nigeria, the likelihood is extremely high that he sends the profits back to China, with almost nothing of it remaining in Nigeria except that which supports his ability to sell even more. 😒😒
Absolute garbage.
You impoverish Nigerians by charging exorbitant amounts for cheap Chinese products.
That the money goes into your building a mansion in your village does nothing for the average Nigerians you over-charge daily across the nation.
They will prefer to keep their money in their own pockets, not enrich you for your village mansion.
Chinese are welcome here.
Use your brain and find a better way to make money than exploiting Nigerians, okay?
obama30: Those that sees the damages Chinese influence in the local market will cause to Nigeria economy, should start planning a way to escape the incoming hardship it will cause. Many Nigerian will later understand the bad side of the Chinese inside local market, when the money that suppose to stay in Nigerians bank transfer to China bank to stay. China produce law materials, produce a products with the law materials, and come to Nigeria and sell to consumers and go with your money. So what exactly do Nigerians benefit?
What do Nigerians benefit when the Igbo man buys goods from the same China and sells exorbitantly to Nigerians?
Ebubu6: You are wrong. The ultimate winners are the common Nigerians who will be able to afford cheap goods and services offered by Chinese men.
The affected middle men should go and look for another idea to fuse into their business and out-compete the Chinese.
They should merge and pull higher finances to buy in larger scale and dethrone the Chinese.
Please allow Nigerians enjoy cheap goods once, the country is too expensive enough. Ordinary Nigerians are more in number, in short in millions, than the Chinese.
EXACTLY.
NIGERIANS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY HIGHER PRICES THAN THEY SHOULD JUST BECAUSE EMEKA WANTS A BIGGER MANSION IN HIS VILLAGE.
Inosky: You think Chinese business men/women love you more, until they destroy the Nigerian SMEs business and go back to their country while you and your people remain poor. Think why Europe is trying to regulate their cheap electric cars in European markets over their own. Every reasonable government will try to protect their own, and homegrown products. Just like Dangote said: it's only Africans that develop Africa. If a Nigerian make money he uses it to develop Nigeria, same can't be said of Chinese in Nigeria. There should be higher taxes for foreigners doing retail business in Nigeria, that's if Government not banning them completely, to protect Nigeria Small Scale Businesses. Think!
It's "Nigerian businesses" you care about now, abi?
omoredia: For Dangote to be this vocal all of a sudden it a big cause for concern. The Nigeria I know the big man will never call the masses to come and eat.
No worries.
Just ignore him and let others take up his offer, okay?
Dahomeywarrior1: Shut your hole, was Iran fighting a war when ApC took fuel from 85 naira to 1400 ?
SHUT UP AND USE YOUR BRAIN.
ENDING FUEL SUBSIDIES WAS A NECESSARY STEP TO PREVENT NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY.
THE IRAN WAR EFFECT IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCE THAT IS LEADING TO HIGH GLOBAL OIL PRICES.
NIGERIA IS NOT IMMUNE JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE OIL. BRITAIN, AMERICA, CANADA HAVE OIL, BUT FUEL PRICE IS RISING FAST THERE TOO.
IF YOU SUPPORT THE ILLEGAL INVASION AND SLAUGHTER OF IRANIANS AND PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS BY THE USA AND ISRAEL, YOU DESERVE NOTHING GOOD IN YOUR LIFE. SO QUIT COMPLAINING.
THE IDEA YOU PEOPLE HAVE THAT YOU CAN CHEER ON THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CHILDREN IN GAZA AND IRAN, WHILE DEMANDING A GOOD LIFE FOR YOURSELVES, SHOWS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT KARMA.
YOU WILL LEARN.
THE FUEL WILL REACH N5,000 A LITRE.
GO AND CONTINUE WORSHIPPING WAR CRIMINALS, TRUMP AND NETANYAHU.
truthera: I came across this featured thread "UK Leaders Sign Agreement To Break The United Kingdom (Video)" in which Scotish leaders came together to declare the intention of their people to break up the United Kingdom, below is an except of the post below...
I am forced to ask why can't Nigerians see the root of their problem and do something about it? I've made the argument consistently on several platforms including here on Nairaland that Nigeria in it's current format is a hopeless cause that should be dissolved or decentralized, that Nigerians will be wasting their time and future engaging in another unprogressive electoral process of installing another "One Nigeria" political pretender like Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu or Peter Obi as president when they should be pushing for a national referendum on country's unity that will lead to sovereign national conference to reset or dissolve Nigeria.
Everyone knows that there is no genuine unity in Nigeria, as a result of this a section of the country remains perpetually marginalized and denied their right to self-determination, everyone knows that Nigeria runs on a military constitution that have been in existence since 1999, a constitution that should've been dissolve if truly it was a real democratic country. Everyone knows that the indigenous people within Nigeria did not create Nigeria as it is nothing but a symbol of British colonial conquest and subjugation that shouldn't have ended in 1960 if those that negotiated it's independence had the genuine interest of their people at heart.... As long as Nigeria exists, the masses will continue to suffer as a direct consequence of it's systemic injustice and retrogressiveness. If the Scotish people that enjoy a better country can exercise their right to self-determination by demanding for independence I see no reason why Nigerians suffering and are worse off under a hopeless British colonial experiment cannot demand for their freedom.....
In conclusion, I will once again reiterate, no matter who wins the 2027 presidential election, no sustainable national progress can be achieved unless a national referendum is done that will lead to a total dissolution or decentralization of Nigeria.....
NO. Nigeria will never let you corner our oil and gas resources in the name of "self-determination".
You tried it before and you failed. So stop dreaming.
MONEY247: Rail transport and rail network are huge business opportunities for private investors. If rail transportation is opened up to private entities for development it would ease transportation and logistics and attract many foreign investors.
It will probably happen at some point.
But we need to expand the rail network first to make it worthwhile. That's the government's role.
To actually lay the tracks and build the stations, nationwide.
Then private operators of train services can be looked at.
For now, we're still in the railway expansion stage.
UzorIyke: So Red and blue line can now reach PH, Owerri, Aba, Ibadan. In other developed countries that have more means and comfortable transportation they're still there. This Omokery no get sense, at all. Once you enter or support APC, your brain will be changed with a goat one.
LAGOS IS THE BIGGEST CITY WITH THE HIGHEST GDP, SO IF THEIR PROFITS THERE ARE THREATENED, THEY WILL LEAVE.
THEY WON'T STAY BECAUSE OF OWERRI AND ABA. MERE VILLAGES.
THAT LAGOS U ARE ALWAYS DRAGING, ONCE WE EXIT, IT IS ALL YOURS.
WE WERE NEVER DRAGING IT WITH YOU BUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES MEANT U CANNOT CLAIM YET.
Talk is cheap.
Vote with your feet.
You've been saying this stuff for years, yet each year, more of una dey pack go Lagos plus Kano plus Kaduna plus Jos plus Benin, plus even Sokoto. Una still full there.