ujoinme: just googled modern mud houses, am shocked it seems the indians and middle easterners have advanced with this technology there is a hotel in india built out of mud http://www.mandawahotels.com/index.html

Rossikk: lol.. I wonder what Dangote will have to say about that.

ujoinme:

Am pretty sure he will like the idea as long as it uses only Dangote cement and not the competition. I already read recently where he is advocating the use of concrete for road construction in nigera. that dude is a smart son- of- a -gun
Can you imagine the profit that will accrue to him if that idea catches on?

Those are the kinds of business men we need in Nigeria ! am a Fan of his.

Rossikk: ^^^ You better believe mud-built houses can have staircases, as shown by this traditional 2 storey house in northern Nigeria:

Abagworo:

Don't believe what you read on Nairaland. There are rich people everywhere in Nigeria and there are as much opportunities. I legally made more than a million Dollars at 25 without having anything to do with Lagos. As we have Young Shall Grow in Lagos, so did we have ABC in Owerri, Ekenedilichukwu in Onitsha, Agofure in Benin, Chidiebere in Aba and so on. Ogbuawa is based in Nnewi and has always based there. I believe Rivers State has much higher middle class in ratio when compared with Lagos.

tonychristopher:


THANKS FOR PUTTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT.... THE MAN WAS SO ANNOYED THAT IBADAN WITH ALL THESE YEARS AS ONE OF THE OLDEST CITY IS STILL RUSTY ALLOWING NW TOWNS TO OVERTAKE THEM ECONOMICALLY ..... HE EVEN SAID THAT THE SHOPRITE IS CLOSING DOWN AND WHAT PEOPLE GO THERE TO DO IS JUST SNAP PICTURE. HE TRIED COMPARING THE SHOPRITE THAT IS IN IBADAN WITH THE NUGU OWN. HE FELT SOBAD THAT NEW TOWNS LIKE OWERRI,ASABA UYO THAT WAS MADE CAPITAL AFTER TH WAR HAS OVRTAKEN THE OLD IBADAN.

YOU DO NOT NEED ANYBODY TO DEVLOP OR INDUSTRILIZE THOSE OSHOGBO,IBADAN ROUTE, I THINK YOU SHOULD UNDERSTUDY NNEWI,ONITSHA AND ABA, THEN LOOK AT CALABAR,PH AND UYO

IT THEN MEANS THAT WHEN THE IBADAN GUYS DOES THIS, GOOD BUSINESS CAN BE ATTRACTED BUT FOR NOW..... IBADAN SEEMS NOT TO BE INVESTMNT HEAVEN OR HAVEN.... WHAT IS YOUR TAKE

ngozievergreen:

....as long as it uses only dangote cement and not competition?
....so dat he sells one bag @ 10000!
Dats not d kind of biz men i like. I despise selfishness and hatred-for competition with all my urine.
OBJ wey dey do dat kyn thing wit him don hand over.
Say no to monopoly

ujoinme:

Monopoly is every businessman dream but only few attain it. Even dangote does not have monopoly of cement business in Nigeria.
Competition fuels innovation and dangote has proven himself in this regard, hes a good competitor. remember before his entrance into the cement biz in Nigeria there were other more established cement manufacturers in the country, he competed and beat them all. He was not intimidated by them! those are the kind of business men that Nigeria needs at the moment real pioneers and above all patriot!

By the way you misconstrued my earlier statement about dangote t'was just a joke.and i can tell you didnt get it.

anulaxad: Look at what people are praising,a country that has enough money to have 1st class infrastructure,not even in somalia will this be classified as first classed.

mandarin:


Permit me to disagree with you on this.American retailer Wal- Mart could not succeed in Japan, that did not imply that Japan was a poor economy or that Japanese were poorer than Americans.
Shoprite not selling in Ibadan, if its true anyway and performing well in Enugu is not to infer that Ibadan is poorer than Enugu. I think ranking production in Nigeria will put Ibadan behind only Lagos,Ogun and may be Rivers(i doubt)
Population play a huge part in economic development and the city have got it and of course culture which i think its what will keep any such business at a low ebb in such a city. Majority of residents are conservatives and the city has a well defined traditional network of markets and plenty of shopping marts. Remember for every shoprite you buy your stuffs you throw some of your income out of Nigeria. There is no city in Eastern Nigeria with economic output as Ibadan and i think only few can beat that city in Nigeria.

mandarin:


Permit me to disagree with you on this.American retailer Wal- Mart could not succeed in Japan, that did not imply that Japan was a poor economy or that Japanese were poorer than Americans.
Shoprite not selling in Ibadan, if its true anyway and performing well in Enugu is not to infer that Ibadan is poorer than Enugu. I think ranking production in Nigeria will put Ibadan behind only Lagos,Ogun and may be Rivers(i doubt)
Population play a huge part in economic development and the city have got it and of course culture which i think its what will keep any such business at a low ebb in such a city. Majority of residents are conservatives and the city has a well defined traditional network of markets and plenty of shopping marts. Remember for every shoprite you buy your stuffs you throw some of your income out of Nigeria. There is no city in Eastern Nigeria with economic output as Ibadan and i think only few can beat that city in Nigeria.

GooseBaba:

Bros.. Did you use the word "competition and Dangote". He is no pioneer. He got his wealth through favored monopoly aided by his paddy in government. I do not emulate Dangote.

Dangote attained Monopoly grandeur during the military era. He did not beat the existing competitors, he cheated his way through government intimidation and Nepotism. How can you use the word "competition" when one man has the sole rights to sell a particular products to a country of over 100 million customers.

ngozievergreen:


Economic output in ibadan and most of SW is not done by the indigenes. That is y d shoprite biz fell.
Mostly foreigners and other Nigerians own d production lines, so u shdnt use this as an index.

ngozievergreen:


Economic output in ibadan and most of SW is not done by the indigenes. That is y d shoprite biz fell.
Mostly foreigners and other Nigerians own d production lines, so u shdnt use this as an index.

tonychristopher:


THANKS FOR PUTTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT.... THE MAN WAS SO ANNOYED THAT IBADAN WITH ALL THESE YEARS AS ONE OF THE OLDEST CITY IS STILL RUSTY ALLOWING NW TOWNS TO OVERTAKE THEM ECONOMICALLY ..... HE EVEN SAID THAT THE SHOPRITE IS CLOSING DOWN AND WHAT PEOPLE GO THERE TO DO IS JUST SNAP PICTURE. HE TRIED COMPARING THE SHOPRITE THAT IS IN IBADAN WITH THE NUGU OWN. HE FELT SOBAD THAT NEW TOWNS LIKE OWERRI,ASABA UYO THAT WAS MADE CAPITAL AFTER TH WAR HAS OVRTAKEN THE OLD IBADAN.

YOU DO NOT NEED ANYBODY TO DEVLOP OR INDUSTRILIZE THOSE OSHOGBO,IBADAN ROUTE, I THINK YOU SHOULD UNDERSTUDY NNEWI,ONITSHA AND ABA, THEN LOOK AT CALABAR,PH AND UYO

IT THEN MEANS THAT WHEN THE IBADAN GUYS DOES THIS, GOOD BUSINESS CAN BE ATTRACTED BUT FOR NOW..... IBADAN SEEMS NOT TO BE INVESTMNT HEAVEN OR HAVEN.... WHAT IS YOUR TAKE

django1:

Ngozi are you high on dog shyte? Which shoprite fell? The one I went to yesterday and had to turn back because of the check out queue?

Lol @ foreigners owning businesses in ibadan. Ibadan was already a commercial town before the lebanese or chinese set foot on the african continent, try another mudslinging technique.

mandarin:

One of the indices ,for measuring economic performance is energy consumption,Ibadan is the next after Lagos in Nigeria.Its that a surprise? well I do not base discussions on assumptions but economics. Thanks for your comment though.

ngozievergreen:

energy consumed by foreign firms nah.
Am talking of the private investment of indigenes.
And forget all those talk abt coming to Ibadan and seeing tnz for my self.
My Coming to ibadan again will probably only happen due to some exams.
Many igbos are well travelled within d country, so dont bother thinking anybody has tym for hearsay.
am sure wat am saying abt indigenous ownership of enterprises in d SW.
Energy consumption, GDP,etc are mostly thanks to non-yoruba investments.

ngozievergreen:

energy consumed by foreign firms nah.
Am talking of the private investment of indigenes.
And forget all those talk abt coming to Ibadan and seeing tnz for my self.
My Coming to ibadan again will probably only happen due to some exams.
Many igbos are well travelled within d country, so dont bother thinking anybody has tym for hearsay.
am sure wat am saying abt indigenous ownership of enterprises in d SW.
Energy consumption, GDP,etc are mostly thanks to non-yoruba investments.

django1:

MY GOD!!! I've been wasting my time arguing with a secondary school student

ngozievergreen:

pls, help me explain this to ujoinme.
I was dangote's fan till i understood his tactics with govt esp OBJ.
Yar'Adua even tried reversing d trend bfr he died.

I blame d 'partial' govt for dis.
Monopolising businesses to only one person in order to cripple those already in d biz will just weaken our middle class.

GooseBaba:

People just dey yarn anyhow. Have you been to Somalia..?? Besides, the rot in Nigeria did not start over night. Therefore, you can't have positive growth overnight. Na small small. You forget that first class infrastructure demands first class sustainability.

Anvaller:

Smart observation, I failed to observe that, I wouldn't have replied her comments. Sometimes nairaland gets unattractive when u realize that u might be chatting with some kids in their teens.

mandarin:

One of the indices ,for measuring economic performance is energy consumption,Ibadan is the next after Lagos in Nigeria.Its that a surprise? well I do not base discussions on assumptions but economics. Thanks for your comment though.

Anvaller:

What indigenous enterprise are u talking about? I hate to argue along tribal lines but u guys are always pushing one into that direction due to ur ever arrogant, egocentric, self eulogizing mentality. Apart from 2nd hand clothing business and electronic appliances, what more do u sell out of a thousand other businesses that are in Ibadan? And u can not tell me that there are no several indigenes that do the same business that your ppl do. At least before I left Ibadan in the early/mid 2000s, the most popular and successful boutique in Dugbe which was Emerald Emporium was owned by a Yoruba guy (not sure if he is still there). U guys like to believe that u are doing those business because indigenes don't know how to do it. U never appreciate the fact that the indigenes are accomodating enough to allow u to do it without having a problem with it. Do u allow any non Ibo person to run any form of business in Onitsha?

Once again, just like someone has told u here, u ppl like to tell urselves anything and believe it. Stop deceiving ureslves. And cut down on that arrogance, I have Ibo friends but they are humble ones and they themselves do not like the typical arrogant ones, they make the Ibos look bad.

django1:

MY GOD!!! I've been wasting my time arguing with a secondary school student