₦airaland Forum

chrisagyei:
so we shouldn't enforce our laws because some Ghanaian product is being sold in Nigeria by Nigerians.We don't support the attack of Nigerians buh our laws in Ghana clearly states that no foreigner should engage in retail business because it's reserved for only citizens except you the foreigner has a minimum capital of 200,000 US Dollars.

those laws should not be applicable to citiZens of ecowas countries

Don't you are how other unions like the EU and the SADC operate?

For those outside the ECOWAS, yes that could be applicable
But not to Ecowas citizens

But then, is it not Ghanaians
we know you people very well

wristbangle:
See what has befall us in Nigeria. If this money can be channelled into something productive, more jobs will created.

A useless show that will keep lazy youths busy for next couple of months yet we are shouting bad leaders, bla bla.

Maybe I would put in prayer that this pathetic show will not be aired.

nothing pathetic about the show

The priorities of Nigerians are just wrong
that is just the issue

Other shows should also get the same hype, if not more than big brother e.g. shows like Dragons den, etc

But Nigerian folks got theur priority wrong
the organisers are only putting out there what the populace like to see most, due to theyr wrong priorities

Gratefulheart01:
I wrote but then, i deleted everything. I'm too pissed to write about this shiiit-dominated country where mediocrity and worthless elements are being celebrated.
That's why we're still stuck in 1919 while the rest of the world has advanced past 2019.

I personally like to get snippets of big brother from time to time tho (don't avec the time nor the station to watch it)

It's not about the show, you guys should not get it wrong

it's about the PRIORITIES that are wrong in this NIGERIA

Ideally, there are supposed to be shows like this, in addition to A WODE BOUQUET if other shows from Sciences to tech to business and lifestyle and all that.

but the undue priority given to shows like these that is wrong
nothing wrong with Big brother itself

Gentlewarrior1:
Exactly what is wrong is surely wrong.

But Nigerians are hypocrites.

And the judiciary is a sham. The president barely even adhere to rule of law

We need to reorientate the entire country

GOFRONT:
And they say "Black is beautiful?".....Nop....BLACK IS NOT BEAUTIFUL HERE

on what basis are you concluding that they are not beautiful?

Via Eurocentric lenses?

Sirjamo:
You don't need a visa to relocate to Burundi, you can leave tonight, Buhari remains the president here

huh?

just so you know

I'm not a Nigerian resident

I spend at most three months a yr in Nigeria

You who are based there seem to be happy with how he is running the country to the abyss

MChaze25:
No mind am. Another big problem with Nigeria right now is illiteracy.

Serious illiteracy

tactius:
It is a good thing African teams are losing .....because really if we did well,

huh?

Sirjamo:
Who negotiated the release of 150 Christian Chibok girls?

You are a useless religious bigot

Defending the useless fool we have as president unfortunately as usual....

When the presidiot cannot guarantee the security of his country, and still insists he will remain president, and have millions that still want him to be president despite is obvious failure, then you know some thing is seriously wrong somewhere

Daboomb:
True talk!

Nigeria has been suffering serious MORAL DECAY since the late 70's and early 80's when the "Shagari politicians" started behaving like Nuisance.
Decay does not suddenly happens, it is a gradual process and Nigeria has suffered close to 40yrs of continious and progressive decay.
The rot is our moral fibre is what has resulted into the barbaric acts manisfested in things like "Stealing Pants, removing body parts, etc, for MONEY RITUALS (there has always been one or two of such things within five years, in the past but not as prevalent and openly as today and it is usually among the "illiterate and elderly". )

Imagine, when Senators, people who are in position to make laws for the "wellbeing of this country of almost 200million people" behave like this?
The other day, it was Dino melaye, now it is NED.

I am patriotic and love Nigeria but l can tell anyone for free that this trajectory that we currently on, will eventually lead to a savage implosion of this country. I have said it before and people scuffed but if we look keenly around, all the killings, slaughter of pregnant women, head-hunting, Yahoo++, etc are rampant and becoming "normal" in our environment and that shows that we are drifting into anarchy.

When we glorify evil, impunity, debauchery, satanism as a society, we should know and expect that there would be repercussions.

you have spoken well

Elder0001:
Before now Ned was never in the news but now he now follows Regina everywhere she goes and also snap pics with every Tom dick and Harry .

I bet this dude doesn’t have more than 10billion naira but he shows himself more than billionaires in dollars

N10b is a lot of money o

just saying

Odingo1:
The best is to restructure Nigeria like UK, China, Canada

exactly

Dreew:
You sound really desperate like your life line depends on this sham called Nigeria. Mind you, I'm yoruba.

Nigeria is a failing country

but WHAT do you think failed the country

And you really think dividing the country will make things better?

Guestlander:
Agbakoba did not say divide Nigeria. Restructuring Nigeria is not the same as dividing the country.

Dividing the country will not change anything
What was suggested here was good

but what will really change Nigeria is th REORIENTATION and MASS EDUCATION of Nigerians

without these two

break Nigeria into 100
Somalia go better pass

stagger:
I watched that interview myself. At no time did Olisa Agbakoba ask for Nigeria to be divided. He simply reiterated the resolutions of the 2014 National Confab which asked for devolution of powers to either the states or to 6 or 8 regional units.

These newsmen are highly mischievous in their reportage and regularly twist people's statements.

no mind nairalanders
many are illiterates

sarrki:
Nigeria will remain as one entity
Nobody will divide us
There is strength in unity
We say big NO to our haters
Nigeria won’t be divided
Cc mynd44
Cc lalasticlala

did you or any of you read the article at all?

Ayatullah:
I will not be sympathetic to Iran if Iran is doing the wrong thing. I will never do that.

When I was a Christian, I did not allow my love for Christianity then to blind my conscience from seeing the injustice these so-called Israelis were doing to the people in the occupied West bank and the Gaza strip who are made up of Muslims and Christians. Today, prominent christians are still condemning the Israelis for their wicked acts.

I am therefore discussing the facts without any sympathetic consideration for Iran or any
sentiment attached.

Indeed some Arabs are animalistic, just as some Americans and Jews are, it is these animalisic set of wicked souls that are beating the drums of war, ironically they have forgotten that they are not immune to all the war machineries when put in action.

Arabs are largely animalistic in thinking and behaviours

I have dealt directly with a good number of them and I have seen this first hand

still the only group that rationalise slavery even in 2019

*spits*

MrCuteking:
I must marry oyibo. The mixture is awesome

well that is not a crime

just don't be superficial about it

Aurielfinizu:
Chioma my neighbor he used to come sneak out from her father house in Jos..

so is he obliged to marry her, assuming what you typed up there is true

Wettoid123:
U leave it or u take it America are the world police there is nothing u can do about it,,,
Go and read ur encyclopedia,if not 4 America north Korean nuclear missile would have been launched and u know what that means.
Travel and know what is happening don't just sit one place and be typing nonsense.

that is not the question I asked


I'm not asking if they are or not

the question is

WHO MADE THEM THE "WORLD POLICE?"k

Benson616:
father lord release my brother from this bondage

there is no bondage here nwanne..

Aurielfinizu:
Which one is his world self..

Enyema, Ndidi, and iwobi married their childhood frnd..

But u Mikel dumped Chioma in Jos after tearing her Toto finish and go to marry Russian billionaire daughter..

Your world my feet..

which chioma?

Aurielfinizu:
Abeg, on a normal day Anambra man can never marry other tribe in Nigeria let alone white pawpaw... Na money mikel follow jooor

who told you that?


coscharis son wey marry Yoruba geh is from nnewi

there are many other examples
especially if you were born and raised in Lagos

maybe it's the men who grew up in anambra sha
but igbo guys out there are getting hitched to different people

budaatum:
"Nigerians are VERY price sensitive people" because we like to eat our cake and have it. We have unrealistic dreams and expectations but have little resources (money, ability, power, knowledge, etc), with which to fulfil them but want to have them fulfilled anyway.

I can only suppose 'praying' must work or we would have adopted more realistic expectations by now.

you have given a very valid reason....

I think the ride of social media in Nigeria also coincided with the explosion of unrealistic expectations in Nigeria

Now the youths all look up to that standard in the media as the standard to guage their lives

Gentlewarrior1:
As painful as it sounds you are absolutely right

I have said this before

The yahoo boys are the lowest of criminals in this shameless contraption of a country.

The money one single politician even as low as councillor embezzle or loot is bigger than 100 yahoo boys

We need to stop being hypocrites in this country

Only the truth shall set us free.

People are suffering some people are forced to be yahoo boys; even some their parents even knowingly pushed them to be fraudsters .

Its a shame but its the truth

A country as wealthy as Nigeria how can basic 24hours electricity be Rocket science in 2019. Its a big shame .

Nigerians are hypocrites some this people claiming moral high ground over yahoo boys are even thieves. From thieving government officials, thieving police forces, thieving civil servants or even children of thieving politicians and their ilks

I remmeber a lecturer back in my university complaining about the ypuths and how they wont go and work to earn a living rather than stupidly be defrauding people. Yet this same bastard lives way above his paycheck; he collects about 7k - 10k. Mostky 10k sef for every course he handles. His textbook is compulsory especially when you refuse to sort him with money. The man bleeps peoples girlfriend and his students thereby even making some of them to be prostitutes, yet the bastard who in one way or the other also push his students to be fraudsters and prostitutes has the effontery to talk down on yahoo boys and absolve himself from his own illegalities thereby claiming moral high ground and being a saint; forgetting that in saner climes, he is a bigger criminal and even deserves more jail time because a teacher shouldnt be forcing nor persuading his students for sex and also collecting money for grades; even boldly threatning to fail someone and nothing will happen irrespective of their grades, because flimsy stuff. To him he is a mini god. Lol

As bad and shameful as it is; fraudsters even contribute to our economy a lot, Nigeria receive plenty money into the country which a very high percentage of it is proceeds from fraud. Fraudsters in top level.

while our leaders loot our funds and stash it abroad. Buratai has estate worth millions of dollars in dubai yet nobody is saying anything. Efcc embezzles the money and properties retrieved from yahoo boys and thats why they intensify in hunting them down; the main white victims dont receive a dime of their money. Nothing nothing


The society is the problem from begining to end

I have never seen anybody that has moral high ground in this country.


Even the presidency down to every other position are all scammers

Nigeria is a giant shithole

So painful but its the simple truth

Me eh i dont judge anybody in this country provided they dont hold or use a gun or use any weapon at all, kidnap, rape or injure or kill someone; then i dont care nor have anything against them. Since Nigerians have decided to be misbehaving and deceiving ourselves. A situation by which a hard core armed robber and killer will participate and lead jungle justice in lynching a lesser thief . You go know say na mad people full this country. Naija na jungle

Nigeria matter tire me

Absolute bullshit!
What Is wrong is wrong

end of story

stubbornman:
You know ehn....... Nairaland is filled with idiots without brain..... Someone asked a very sensitive question that many people (like me) can learn from but what do we have?? some bunch irresponsible, Godforsaken, orangutan exhibiting their ignorance...... Some of you really disgust me on this forum.... we don't even know when to play!!!...that's why foreigners hardly stop by to comment on this forum!!!!

Sometimes I read people's comment here and I wonder what some of you look like in real life.

it's a shame what this space has become

budaatum:
The issue in Nigeria is competition and reminds me of the non-nego tomato seller at Ketu.

There used to be no Ketu Market in the early 80s when one woman set up a stall of one big tray of non-nego tomatoes and peppers. Her tomatoes were always the best quality and sold far too expensive for the likes of me who, considering the number of mouths I had to feed, sacrificed quality for quantity and went to aboki in Mile 12, but she piqued my interest. Right by her stall which she opens at 4 would customers queue to buy very good quality non-nego tomatoes and peppers, till one day, undercut woman set up her own stall of one big tray of very good quality tomatoes and peppers right next to nen-nego woman and priced her tomatoes and peppers slightly less than non-nego woman priced her's.

Not long after, considering the huge profit to be made as Ketu developed and grew, quality, price, location, customer care, big mouth, smile, flirt, rude, obnoxious all set up their own stalls of tomatoes and peppers and so developed Ketu Market where tomatoes and pepper sellers compete. Today, Ketu Market is a thriving nego-market for all sorts of people competing to sell all sorts of foods. And the customers have found a place to bargain because there's always someone prepared to undercut.

Those "different clime" people with a "different mentality" were not born with "get it right" genes as history shows their markets developed out of tomato selling in Ketu Market. The customers have learned and adapted to an environment of non-nego by price-checking all the negos and non-negos, buying from the one that best fulfils their needs. The smart trader is the one who knows to not only compete on price and so gets it right by adding value to every sale.

interesting analysis you got there.

Shayolevels:
Things are xpensive nowadays... Bills sef no carry last naija pple de struggle alot... Shout out to all the hustlers out there may God bless our hustle..
Just can't imagine how a family man with 4 kids de take survive with this kinda hustle

exactly

fetthu:
I would love to engage in discussion with you but i will not trade abusive words with you sir.....Have a lovely Sunday

That's okay

budaatum:
Buyers would try same online. But it does not seem to chase potential customers on non-negoprice Amazon and many other e-sites. Should make one wonder what they do right.

they are operation in a different clime, amongst people with a different mentality

that is what they seem to have gotten right

TellMeTheTruth:
Most Nigerian are accustomed to haggling before making payment...it's a default setting

Exactly

oelesin:
For a while now, I have been asking retailers, especially those driving their businesses through Instagram, if potential buyers after seeing prices on the posts still try to negotiate. The answers I got were all in the same direction - yes, they negotiate all the time.

The funniest was:
They negotiate all the time and when you ask them to pay, they run away.

That said, I would like you to share your thoughts on why we as Nigerians like to negotiate even when buying online. If you can, please shed more light on why you won't pay even if you negotiated a great deal.

Let the comments pour in


Lekan
Gramsquare.com - Nigeria's top Online Fashion Marketplace

it's the psychological nature of the Nigerian customer
no more, no less

Nigerians are VERY price sensitive people