Comments on: Things I hate 2: Nigerian styled importation

By: Oj

Oj — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:59:21 +0000

I found the analogy at the end funny

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Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:09:39 +0000

[...] Nigerian blogger, Trae, concluded a two-part piece of things he dislikes about his country Nigeria in Things I hate 2: Nigerian styled importation I hate the importation craze in Naija; yes I really do hate it. [...]

By: snazzy

snazzy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:39:03 +0000

You are looking at it from the perspective of the producers. Look at it from the perspective of the consumer. If you were living on a salary of 25k a month and you had two products; one foreign that costs N200 and one domestic that costs N500 would u buy the domestic one? Imports make economic sense, and ultimately that is what drives business decisions.

The sad fact of the matter is that the domestic business climate is atrocious and it makes domestic production for most things impossible. The big businessess will thrive, as will certain niches like pure water (even though that is not as lucrative any more) but the majority of manufacturing will not be viable. If the business climate became favorable you wouldn’t have to be asking people to start businesses, you couldn’t stop them. The offshoot of this is that we are developing a pretty robust services industry almost as an unintended consequence of the manufacturing issues.

By: BJ

BJ — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:41:45 +0000

Hahahaha, liking the way you “entered’ those radio talk show people. Their own too much.

On the topic at hand, you shouldn’t expect anything different from a country that hasn’t developed its manufacturing sector. We are not giving enough focus to export products. Ever since oil was discovered, agriculture has been given the back room and while growing up, I was unfortunately made to think farmers are poor, illiterate and have no future. Now I know better…

It starts with the government and an educated citizenry…

By: Tayo

Tayo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:08:30 +0000

This is so true. Our people are not being encouraged well enough, that’s why we keep having to import. We have lots of manpower if only we could have more factories in Naija. It also will some lots of unemployment problems. I hope the government will do something about this.