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Nothing wrong with it, such houses can be found in scandinavian countries looking attractive and elegant. It is an individual choice.

Nigerian won terrorist lost.

I am interested in it but can you reduce the price

Tony Spike: I think this author entirely missed out the issue of operating costs in the first place. Like someone mentioned in one of the comments above me, there could be more economic and operating bottlenecks for SA companies here in Nigeria than in their country. Not ruling that out, I put the blame on the successive government for killing off our local Nigerian companies of the 70's, 80's and 90's. If these companies had been nurtured till date, we won't be blaming South Africa or even the Chinese. Our successive governments were silly enough to cripple the economy by stagnating the power and telecommunication sectors, completing ignoring our public infrastructures, encouraging corruption on a grand scale and lastly, allowing the importation of everything and anything, including matches and toothpick. Building and sustaining a brand isn't easy and exporting it to neighbouring countries is very risky. Isn't it disheartening to know that more of than 85% of our local companies operating outside Nigeria are service-based e.g Banks and Telecomms? This simply shows that we have almost zero industrial capacity in Nigeria. This is where our problem lies and the solution should start from there. Let us stop blaming SA for trying to give us what we don't produce in our country. I rest my case...

Oil, bauxite, gold, diamonds, gas, uranium, agro products...,Are in nigeria but 80% are still starving

But some nigerian fools continue to die at sea trying to reach Europe where they get subjected to modern day disgust treatment and sex slavery.

Nigerian women get dragged by white men across oceans to play the roles of sex slaves, Nigerian are so hungry and the FG governments are sucking up to Rhodesians and white South Africans to move to the shithole call nigeria to work the land and feed the lazy hungry nigerian people, why can't these human prototypes who die at sea and those who are involved in scams, drug and prostitute...work the land and feed themselves and the general population?

The white south african and chines are in nigeria to steal and feed starving weakminded and lazy nigerian who cannot fight for democracy, feed themselves or smart enough to start something and make use of all the abundant recouses the land has been lying fallow for decades whilenigeria were all over the show carrying begging bowls begging for food and kissing anybody ass with dollars. If this is the price Nigerian have to pay for their involvenent in slave trade descendants of slaves can sit back and laugh out very loud.

The curse of ham can be seen in the laziness and weakminness of Nigeria and that is not about to change, not in this lifetime.

After decaded of decolonisation Nigerian still CANNOT feed themselves, rather talking bullfuck typing shit on public forum and playing victim to their neighbor instead of the curse fg government. Nigerian have no shame and are weakmindedness, stupid and spinelessness., this attributes tell you of cursed people who will NOT live to see development in their country. Bunh of crook nigerians. gian ot africa my foot.

Thats what happens when people fail to fight for democracy in their country, they get reduced to nothing but internet scammer, drug dealer, fraudster and sex slaves. Africans have a long history of weakmindedness, stupidity and spinelessness. In your Nigerian shithole whites and chines and all other pale skin people are treated like God.

It is easy to govern monkeys just throw some banana and you are good to go. Animal with khaki skin enough to surfer for eternity, very handicap savages no wonder the useless shithole country.

Useless country with foolish citizens. Awon olofo oloahi eyan ti won ko ni ironu. Eku iya aje pe.

Abdul murtalab the underwear bomber

Me! look out for me.

I had the misfortune of walking through a South African owned shop in Lagos recently. Mr. Price to be precise. I had just returned from a trip to Johannesburg and looking for cheap gifts i had forgotten to pick up for my hangers on when i returned. There was a piece of sweat shirt I had made a mental note to purchase at Mr. Price and decided to get it at the Nigerian store. This was a piece of item placed at their “priced to go” racks at N1,800 (R114.74) per piece. I have a long, retentive memory and i could still recall that this same piece of sweatshirt sells for N784.24 (R49.99) in South Africa. And if you factored in my 14% tax rebates, that sweat shirt did in fact come to me at N669.34 (R42.99). That’s some 269% increase over and above the marked prices inside South Africa. This huge price differential is typical across board on most south african owned consumer products in Nigeria. From Shoprite to Chicken Republic to Massmart (Game), Mr. Price, Woolworth and Truworths. It is a tale of undue exploitation of Nigerians by South African Businesses. Before i am crucified for being xenophobic, it is important to understand that the criticism of South African companies have persisted as a consequence of their approach to business in Nigeria, which has often been characterised as predatory and mercantilist. South Africa’s foreign policy towards Nigeria and indeed, towards all of Africa is not based on any Pan-Africanism or anti-imperialism; it is rather based on promoting South Africa’s expanding business interests on the continent. It is an expansionist agenda that South African corporations and parastatals have successfully implemented in a one-sided hegemonic relationship. As echoed by Foluso Phillips, the chairman of Lagos-based Phillips Consulting, a business consultancy of branding advisors, “There is much that South Africa can offer Nigeria, but there has been a problem of attitude and lack of trust as well as divergent objectives by both parties,… however, there must be a strong spirit of win-win, as the track record and perception makes it all look one-sided in South Africa’s favour.”
Believe me, I am a fan of South African business in Nigeria. Rightly or wrongly, the economic boosts our country has experienced in various sectors of the economy, in particular, retail and telecommunication, through the interventions of South African businesses have helped to redefine the consumer experience here. They have brought healthy competitions and quality alternatives to other product offerings. They have been open about their desire to conquer the consumer market and have in turn created employment opportunities for thousands of Nigerians. They saw the potential of the middle income groups in Nigeria and positioned themselves to tap into it.
My grouse however, is that this competitive positioning cannot and should not be exploitative in nature, which is exactly what is happening today. It shouldn’t happen in a market of 170 million people in which, 40% of the population describe themselves as middle income earners.
This target group alone represent a market that’s still larger than the entire population of South Africa! Worse still, this should not be happening in a country that allows businesses to repatriate 100% of entire profits back to home. And it definitely shouldn’t be happening in a country that has massive disparities in incomes with it. Some comparative economic data will suffice here:

Nigeria Population: 170 million South Africa 52 million
Gross Domestic Product:$268.7 billion $375.9 billion
GDP per Capita $1,657 $7,257
Exports (1st Quarter, 2012) $750 million . $150 million


How does it happen that the earning power of the average south african is more than 4 times that of his Nigerian counterpart and yet, Nigerians are made to pay almost 3 times for the same quality of goods. The reality is, South African companies are making a dangerous killing in Nigeria and we are helpless to do anything about it. There is evidence that South African companies have been involved in blatant profiteering and looting in Nigeria.
For a very long time, MTN charges in Nigeria were the highest rates in the world for cellular phone calls. And despite its massive profits, MTN has really only created about 500 permanent jobs. Most of its employees are casual or temporary workers, and just like other South African corporations, denies all of its workers the right to join a trade union. Something that would be most unheard of in their own country.
And do not be deceived by the trade surplus in Nigeria’s favour. Of the 750 million dollars worth of Nigerian exports to South Africa reported in the first three months of 2012 by The South African Revenue Service, 740 million dollars worth are made up of mineral products, mainly oil. That means, other than oil, Nigeria have absolutely no stake in South Africa’s economy.
Compare that with MTN owning 52% of Nigeria’s mobile telecommunications market; franchises like Nandos, Chicken Republic and St. Elmos, etc owning 50% of the international fast food market worth US$2.5 million per annum; DSTV accounting for 90% of the viewers that watch satellite TV in Nigeria; SASOL playing major roles in Escravos with Chevron; and Entech and Broll managing prime estates and properties including the development of the Bar Beach (Eko Atlantic) and management of over 600 fuel stations and malls across Nigeria respectively. This can’t healthy.
There is a reason why such unequal trade relations exist between Nigeria and South Africa. The bilateral agreements signed by both governments since 1999 allows this to happen without hinderance to operations. South African companies’ investments in Nigeria are heavily protected from any interference at any level by the Nigerian government. It is a license to grow as they please without consequence. Added to this, there are substantial tax rebates for companies operating here through agreements on eradicating double taxation.
South African companies that paid tax in Nigeria are protected from paying taxes back home and can repatriate the entire profits. Now, imagine the US$5.3 billion MTN had earned after tax in the 10 years of operation from 2001 – 2011 finding its way back to the South African economy tax free! Why wouldn’t the Rand be stronger than the Naira at any level?
When the foundations of this country was laid in the fight against imperialism, it was not envisioned to have it substituted with another form of neo-colonialism. The activities of South African businesses in Nigeria have been abrasive to Nigerians and the Nigerian economy.
There is a siege mentality they have on this country that needs to be addressed. They have created opportunities not to develop the Nigerian economy but to exploit its resources. We experienced that with the British, endured it with the Chinese and now, it’s the South Africans that are our new colonialists. This is not the sort of relationship we should be aspiring to at this time. The sooner our government addresses these imbalances the better.

Souce: http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/SA-ripping-Nigeria-off-20130624

CAMEROONPRIDE: May the Gods reward you here and after your death.

people like you are becoming rare..thanks for showing me that i'm not alone. Africa Strong African strong

God bless you too bro... You are never alone there are great thinkers in africa we just need to enforce the right character and laws to preserve our cultural identity and heritage in order to stop our women/men from been misled. Whose gonna save moter africas when our women still believe anything pale is superior mainly for economic and self hate reasons.

As a nationality i believe people are free to preserve their heritage, free to move and free to do things in the interest of their cultural identity. I detest skin bleaching, fake hairs, all types of plastic surgery with faced worned out like a murfucker, speaking ill of one culture and people, race and cultural traitor should be gassed .

CAMEROONPRIDE: i'm not even surprised coming from nigerians. 77% of nigerian women bleach so ..no wonder such threads can reach +5pages .pages of self hate , of pure hate ..hating on yourself , on what you are , the OP is so disgusting

it is mostly ignorant and lack of awareness of the beauty and pride of africans that cause the whole shitts we are dealing with, most of this self hating africans never been out of africa to see how blacks are treated with disgust in europe, australia,asia and america. And the amrican hollywood has succeeded in brainwashing the whole negres into the white supremacy agenda the never ending fairy atale of the white prince charming hollywood movie and the black male been projected as criminal, murdererr, drug dealer and assasin. the only time they show african in what they term as positive is on Discovery channels or national Geo with monkeys, baboon and other animal as our acostum.

https://www.nairaland.com/42124/best-skin-lightening-toning-soap

check them drooling like puppy on a skin bleaching thread and you expect them not to go for anything pale? there is whole bunch of page dedicated for the pro bleachers. self hate is a fatal disease

CAMEROONPRIDE: thanks bro, your words make me stonger. it is a shame that they so much hate what they are, like for real look at that ugly dude in the pic, smh. we need you to spread the word , say no to such abomination.

Dont blame them whoress how do you expect them to reason and be a pan africanist when they are busy buying skin lightening creams and kissing anyone asss up for the dollars maybe because they love HIV/AIDS? such as the story of a pale faced devil shoting african girls in sex with a dog i would think twice before i sleep with this self hating negress in fear of HIV/AIDS which they are the instrument been used to destroy us.

Eleven Kenyan women and a foreigner have been arrested in Nyali, Mombasa after they were found shooting a pornographic movie with a dog. The women and the foreigner who police identified as a Swedish national were arrested last night in at an apartment in Nyali . Cameras used in the shoot were also confiscated from the scene. Kisauni DCIO Shadrack Juma said the apartment operates as a brothel and police raided the place last night following a tip off. He added that the Swedish national arrived in the country as a tourist two days ago and is believed to have been engaging in the pornography business. He said the eleven women and the foreigner arraigned in court today where they will be charged with engaging in unnatural acts.

News Courtesy of The Star.

CAMEROONPRIDE: so much for your live and let live. I will personally slice your throat when we have our way.

Lol@ I chat sh1t about black women lmao. More like dumb Nl women .anyway these are my views no matter how you gang me up these comments are there to stay and you ain't making change in what I believe: in the name of Zamba you people self hating African will never rest

keep up the gospel son. them self hating negres need some attention too we all know is mostly for economic reason bunch of lazy ass whoress

micklplus: AFRICANGLOBE – For those of you who heard of it, this is an article Dee Lee was reading on a New York radio station. For those of you who didn’t hear it, this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.

“They Are Still Our Slaves”

We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.

Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.

We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%).

Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.

They would rather buy some new sneakers than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them “Status” or that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.

With the help of BET, and the rest of their Black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn’t want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They’ll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.

SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture.”Talented Tenth” he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some “form” of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn’t read that the “Talented Tenth” was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life.

Instead, that segment has created another class, Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance.

When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.

They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)

They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own , as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.

Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are “helping” their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don’t worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, ‘THEY DON’T READ!!!!

Now that you have read this, I want to get an ongoing discussion on the topic. I want everyone who reads this to post your opinions of this letter. Do you feel that is true. If so, in what ways? How can us as the African race get away from these stereotypes or accusations that are raised within this text?

The evidence is provided in this letter. Did this letter take you aback as it did to us? Let us know what you think. Tell your friends to read this also. Remember that in order to have progress you must address the issues pertaining to your people so please keep this in minhttp://www.conquerstressforever.com/?hop=thisisbestd and educate your friends and most importantly

Lasting Chang begin at the individual level the author of that pieces you wrote sound like genuine white dude preaching some sense to help the greedy, selfish and hateful black from our sorry state. We black are our own enemy. For example we hate each other for personal disapproval. Also kill and hurt each other for dummy reason, we brag about shitts and spend money on worthless thing without thinking of investing for our retirement. We derive pleasure in been praised for lavish spending and fortune squander. We don't have deep thinkers instead we rely on other people to write our own histor for us. We have no shame if been a consumer instead of producer. We shout racism when we can't get our way. instead of doing things that would make us stand out for each other we do things that make us kee each other down for ourselfishness and greed.

Awesome pieces of information are good to teach my young European student.

Awesome this pieces of information are good to teach my young European student.

When we are still trying to rehabilitate our mentally handicaped/brainwashed brothers and sister who are sank into the racist western religion/politic& education doom. They are now introducing their gayness human destruction and population control agenda which we the inteligent few know is a trick to turn African into homosexual haven mainly to kill out the negro population.

Have you ever wonder why Black Gay are the centre front of Gay marrage campaign?. Come 30/50 years later when they succeed in brainwashing the whole negro race into homosexual doom, they would then turn their back on us by been the same people to condemn homosexual telling us they now realize their mistakes and henceforth start to do a way with homosexual, then the only people practicing homosexual will be their older men and women just like case of religion in the western world today while their youth re-brand their selves to normal attitude. oh by then it would be too late for the black people because we are a one way street people anything introduce to us by the western people turn to addiction and destruction of the whole populace.

Savages i wont be going there anymore gotta cancel my vacation to the island

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Revolution like this is all we need to make a better society free of savages behaviour. Is there any Department in Nigeria free of corruption and barbaric behaviour? Why do many Nigerian abuse their power and use it to enslave, take advantage of others? Anyway all this are the product and reality of the Nigeria public when crime and corruption is highly praised and truth and discipline is neglected.

In the jungle called Nigeria it takes a revolution to make a solution!

CAMEROONPRIDE: ooo praise the gods...you should have called to pay the damn ticket.

Were is "the white men love black women and treat them good(as in better than black men)" crew

Realest Cameroonian black girls humping on white men na cuz of economic reason which we all know. Allow gold diggers to cling on who ever can foot the bills lol . Broke lady's be like I like white men but a realist black women be like the only people I could be happy with is the African king no matter what. The hoes clinging on white are not really happy because of the challenges they face in their relationship with white men and most of them na along bitters.

CAMEROONPRIDE: ooo praise the gods...you should have called to pay the damn ticket.

Were is "the white men love black women and treat them good(as in better than black men)" crew

Realest Cameroonian black girls humping on white men na cuz of economic reason which we all know. Allow gold diggers to cling on whoever can foot the bills lol . Broke lady's be like I like white men but a realist black women be like the only people I could be happy with is the African king no matter what. The hoes clinging on white are not really happy because of the challenges they face in their relationship with white men and most of them na along bitters.

ERASE ALL FORMS OF NEOCOLONIALISM !!! DON'T FALL FOR MERE DUPLICATION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE NAME OF SUPREMACY.
African resources and labour were used to develop Europe and its satellites.
The so call aid for AID/HIV help or debt is a fraud...Afrikan resources have been coverted by western societies for generations upon generations. Neo-imperialism is a deceptive,thieving,world resources.the earth need revolutionary&instincts;we have nothing to lose,stand up,rebel,revolt. Africans must find & investigate all parasitic individuals who gain wealth by selling their own people to imperialist interests.