E b like say u nor wan graduate from that prestigious university abi? If dos evil women sabi say u dey do this kain legal move underG....omo!!! Even ur mama nor complain , na u wan carry am put for head abi.....is okay carry ON

YOUNGELDER1:


True but you can’t reside at Ajegunle & do petty business elsewhere.
Transportation alone will eat all your profits.

True but find a way.

With deep thought there is always a way out.. Why not open two more stalls one with you.. One with your sister..

OP, I forgot to commend you for helping your mum in the market. Some slaykwins will claim their mum is a bursar in ABU, whereas the poor woman is selling onions to pay their fees.

Keep it up jare.

Please i need onion where in boundary is ur shop i stay at wilmer

Blessamaka:
My post might be lengthy but I'll try my best to be brief but please read to the end.

I'm in my early twenties (20's) and currently a student in one of the prestigious university in Nigeria.

Before I got admission, I usually help my mum to sell onions in Ajegunle market aka boundary market in Lagos State.

Ever since schools were shut down due to the pandemic I've been scared of helping my mum because of the despicable rules or laws guiding the business which i might not be able to keep to it thereby putting my mum in trouble and that's the only means of survival for me and mum for now.

My mum belongs to a group of people that sells same product and they are usually referred to as Union and the leaders are the one dishing out those annoying laws.

Examples of such laws are:

1. You don't buy more than the quantity of goods apportioned to you else you will be fined and suspended from selling but the so called leaders go contrary to these laws

2. They tell you when to buy goods i.e before buying new goods, you sell your old goods for 7days not minding if the quantity apportioned to you is enough or not. My self as a case study, we were apportioned 3 bags of onions and I sell 3 bags in 3 days so me and my mum would stay at home for 4days before going to buy new goods.

3. They tell you when to start selling which is 10:00am everyday excluding Sunday and this law was before the pandemic

4. They tell you how to sell i.e the size of onions you are to sell for a particular amount as if they borrowed you money or they are the one giving you money always to buy goods.

And many more of these unimaginable laws. Right now I confused! I don't know the best way to go about this and I really do wish to start selling because I'm broke and I've so many responsibilities to care for financially.

I need legal help, advice on how to go about this until I get something else to do or probably a work or a different business.

The reason for going into business is to make profit and save for rainy days but the reverse seems to be the case here.

Please help me move to front page to get more reviews in regard to this

Haba!! Babe try and get restaurant work in your area. You have advantage of eating while being paid.

Leave the onion sales for your mom to handle and also to use to cater for herself.

If you thrive well in the restaurant business you can eventually open one for yourself in a street corner and sell at your own rules.

Restaurant business is usually profitable.

Blessamaka:
My post might be lengthy but I'll try my best to be brief but please read to the end.

I'm in my early twenties (20's) and currently a student in one of the prestigious university in Nigeria.

Before I got admission, I usually help my mum to sell onions in Ajegunle market aka boundary market in Lagos State.

Ever since schools were shut down due to the pandemic I've been scared of helping my mum because of the despicable rules or laws guiding the business which i might not be able to keep to it thereby putting my mum in trouble and that's the only means of survival for me and mum for now.

My mum belongs to a group of people that sells same product and they are usually referred to as Union and the leaders are the one dishing out those annoying laws.

Examples of such laws are:

1. You don't buy more than the quantity of goods apportioned to you else you will be fined and suspended from selling but the so called leaders go contrary to these laws

2. They tell you when to buy goods i.e before buying new goods, you sell your old goods for 7days not minding if the quantity apportioned to you is enough or not. My self as a case study, we were apportioned 3 bags of onions and I sell 3 bags in 3 days so me and my mum would stay at home for 4days before going to buy new goods.

3. They tell you when to start selling which is 10:00am everyday excluding Sunday and this law was before the pandemic

4. They tell you how to sell i.e the size of onions you are to sell for a particular amount as if they borrowed you money or they are the one giving you money always to buy goods.

And many more of these unimaginable laws. Right now I confused! I don't know the best way to go about this and I really do wish to start selling because I'm broke and I've so many responsibilities to care for financially.

I need legal help, advice on how to go about this until I get something else to do or probably a work or a different business.

The reason for going into business is to make profit and save for rainy days but the reverse seems to be the case here.

Please help me move to front page to get more reviews in regard to this

Start selling onions online. Break all their rules. Make stickers and paste it everywhere, napep and all. Stupid people

Are you forbidden to sell in more than 2 to 3 markets around the area? If not, then shift your selling bases as needed. When you've met a sales quota in a market move to another one.

Option 2: tell your customers to meet you at home for extra sales. Have something printed with your contacts details. Buy the onions and keep them in a safe place of your house or store.

Doing these wouldn't allow you break their laws.

Look for holes in the law and explore,that’s what education will help u do,if u need help let me know I will send u 10bags of onions from jos.
Where do I keep the onion by the end of business,do they monitor how many u take in or how many u bring out?

Those people incharge are hardened witches and stark enemy of progress.

You need to leave that market if you want to prosper.

Blessamaka:
My post might be lengthy but I'll try my best to be brief but please read to the end.

I'm in my early twenties (20's) and currently a student in one of the prestigious university in Nigeria.

Before I got admission, I usually help my mum to sell onions in Ajegunle market aka boundary market in Lagos State.

Ever since schools were shut down due to the pandemic I've been scared of helping my mum because of the despicable rules or laws guiding the business which i might not be able to keep to it thereby putting my mum in trouble and that's the only means of survival for me and mum for now.

My mum belongs to a group of people that sells same product and they are usually referred to as Union and the leaders are the one dishing out those annoying laws.

Examples of such laws are:

1. You don't buy more than the quantity of goods apportioned to you else you will be fined and suspended from selling but the so called leaders go contrary to these laws

2. They tell you when to buy goods i.e before buying new goods, you sell your old goods for 7days not minding if the quantity apportioned to you is enough or not. My self as a case study, we were apportioned 3 bags of onions and I sell 3 bags in 3 days so me and my mum would stay at home for 4days before going to buy new goods.

3. They tell you when to start selling which is 10:00am everyday excluding Sunday and this law was before the pandemic

4. They tell you how to sell i.e the size of onions you are to sell for a particular amount as if they borrowed you money or they are the one giving you money always to buy goods.

And many more of these unimaginable laws. Right now I confused! I don't know the best way to go about this and I really do wish to start selling because I'm broke and I've so many responsibilities to care for financially.

I need legal help, advice on how to go about this until I get something else to do or probably a work or a different business.

The reason for going into business is to make profit and save for rainy days but the reverse seems to be the case here.

Please help me move to front page to get more reviews in regard to this

What coincidence! onion and union.

Sell In another markets too

They will surprise you. Their witchcraft is legendary. It is best for her to find another market sell

Okayla:
Look for holes in the law and explore,that’s what education will help u do,if u need help let me know I will send u 10bags of onions from jos.
Where do I keep the onion by the end of business,do they monitor how many u take in or how many u bring out?

BigTableShaker:
You want to break the system abi?
You must be Igbo.
Ajegunle market is not Ariaria or Onitsha market pls.
SMH.

You don’t have sense and I’ll not blame a bastard like you!!!

Omo ale jati jati

Lol. How many bags are the leaders buying at a time?

2loadedguy:

A lot of times we are quick to criticize but don't think deeply on the reason some rules are laid down in business. Onions are perishable goods and the union knows that if u have surplus u will be forced to sell at lower price because u won't want them to perish hence the reason for the rationing. Your mum too is benefitting from these rules because if other sellers have surplus they will sell at lower prices that will push your mum out of business since she won't be able to compete and the cycle goes on.
My advise to you is to abide by the rules in that market then look for another market to be selling in days u don't have rations to sell at that market and to the fool that quoted if we have onion sellers here and those that liked his comment. Never you make mockery of someone else's means of livelihood else hunger will be your portion in life.

You are quite silly. There are many non-Igbos that have tried this and some had to align with them because of threats of witchcraft.

It is one of the reasons our market women (Yorubas) don't like Hausa foodstuff sellers in some markets

BigTableShaker:
You want to break the system abi?
You must be Igbo.
Ajegunle market is not Ariaria or Onitsha market pls.
SMH.

SeriouslySense:
I like that, although he has the constraint of supply

Oh i see, but i thought the constraint was based on selling in the market. Guess you mean the number they can buy per week. If that is the case, they should look for another means of buying else where, nobody should limit anybody's purchasing power.

Blessamaka:
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I wish to start same business there because I've gotten enough customers but I'll join their union where as the law the union is dishing out is not favourable to me. There's no good reasons for their law.. the law is only favourable to the leaders. If I'm to sell clothes in that same market I'll also join a union. Every business has it's union. I'm not trying to do this to hurt my mum but to break free from these bondage called law

If there is no law in place it amounts to chaos, there is a reason why most of this laws are put in place and why others follow. You need to do a research why these laws came into existence in the first place.

Blessamaka:
My post might be lengthy but I'll try my best to be brief but please read to the end.

I'm in my early twenties (20's) and currently a student in one of the prestigious university in Nigeria.

Before I got admission, I usually help my mum to sell onions in Ajegunle market aka boundary market in Lagos State.

Ever since schools were shut down due to the pandemic I've been scared of helping my mum because of the despicable rules or laws guiding the business which i might not be able to keep to it thereby putting my mum in trouble and that's the only means of survival for me and mum for now.

My mum belongs to a group of people that sells same product and they are usually referred to as Union and the leaders are the one dishing out those annoying laws.

Examples of such laws are:

1. You don't buy more than the quantity of goods apportioned to you else you will be fined and suspended from selling but the so called leaders go contrary to these laws

2. They tell you when to buy goods i.e before buying new goods, you sell your old goods for 7days not minding if the quantity apportioned to you is enough or not. My self as a case study, we were apportioned 3 bags of onions and I sell 3 bags in 3 days so me and my mum would stay at home for 4days before going to buy new goods.

3. They tell you when to start selling which is 10:00am everyday excluding Sunday and this law was before the pandemic

4. They tell you how to sell i.e the size of onions you are to sell for a particular amount as if they borrowed you money or they are the one giving you money always to buy goods.

And many more of these unimaginable laws. Right now I confused! I don't know the best way to go about this and I really do wish to start selling because I'm broke and I've so many responsibilities to care for financially.

I need legal help, advice on how to go about this until I get something else to do or probably a work or a different business.

The reason for going into business is to make profit and save for rainy days but the reverse seems to be the case here.

Please help me move to front page to get more reviews in regard to this

So the market union thing is so traditional but you are young. You are right about wanting more, but you won't get it by going head to head with those old men.

The real challenge here is sales point, how can you multiply your sales point? And still play the union game.

Here are my suggestions?

1. Register yourself as a seperate entity from your Mum. You double your quota.- I do not like this one either

2. Let your Mum participate in other markets, with a sales person. She doubles her quota

3. Re-strategize your business into a service. Use the market for its sales volume, but more importantly as customer aquisition point. Then gradually redirect your customers to your alternative sales point. You can start with your home if near, or graduate to a private shop in an accessible location.

Ensure your customers are in no doubt of getting better price and quality from your alternative shop.

Go further, take it online. Start with whatsapp, tell you old customers, to call, you will deliver from your alternative location to their house or their car parked when they come to market. As long as your price is same or lower than market, they will be calling. Take cheap photocopying paper and print your whatsapp number, call it a funky onion name - "Onion ChiChi" give the to customers you profile for repeated purchases.

Stop being frustrated or itching for a fight, rather Free the smart innovative Igbo girl that is inside you. Work hard, but smarter.

The union is defined over customers in the market. So over come the barrier by acquiring customers in the market, then take them out of the market. Operate in the market(your Mum- no brand), and still operate from outside( you - fully branded and online).

Cheers! Do let us know when you get results

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Am adding this after i read that your location is boundary, Ajegunle. Its a bit familiar.


Did you know that you have these offices in your area
Mobil- now 11 plc
Aiteo oil
Oando- OVH Energy
Total plc

And many others. These are all downstream oil companies with large workforce.

Women in these offices shop at the boundary market weekly or monthly.

So make an Aunty friend in each office. (a few free onion gifts can buy you some hearts)
through her publicise your service of delivering Onion to their cars while parked in the office.

Have you heard of shopping service? That's the other thing they lack. You can shop for them for a fee, many will patronize you as long as you do not inflate price of the items. They do not like visiting boundary market, but they like the cheaper prices. So sometimes they send cleaners and messenger, which is against office rules.

BlessAmaka, you are broke and you don't want to obey rules that is bringing sanity there? Smh

These people sha. Na wa o


As a young person, you need to think out of the box. Add other streams of income. If you can't, sell your bags of onions for 3 days and go to another market and sell for another 3 days. Ogun state markets for instance are usually 3 days on 3 days off. There are reasons for that. So the rural people take their produce to different markets.

You are broke, but you want to take up a legal suit against a Union. Seriously? Like someone said, you can try Ariaria market

yes exactly, i meant the weekly supply constraint

mofedamijo:


Oh i see, but i thought the constraint was based on selling in the market. Guess you mean the number they can buy per week. If that is the case, they should look for another means of buying else where, nobody should limit anybody's purchasing power.

This is the kind of thing that can cause untimely death and in such environment there will not be such thing as breakthrough. I will like you to look elsewhere or think out of box.

benzene00:
do we look like onion sellers to you

Goat

oglalasioux:
Such nonsense can never happen in an Igbo or Hausa market. These other people form unions in virtually every thing. Nonsense.

bros, its pure nonsense, I always buy my pepper , tomatoes and onions from Hausa people because those ones bring them plenty from mile 12 here, Yoruba people own are very expensive.
when Yoruba woman is still selling one basket of onions , the Hausa man don go come and on his 3rd basket . good turn over !
observe when next you go to the market.

I blame Buhari!

Blessamaka:
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I wish to start same business there because I've gotten enough customers but I'll join their union where as the law the union is dishing out is not favourable to me. There's no good reasons for their law.. the law is only favourable to the leaders. If I'm to sell clothes in that same market I'll also join a union. Every business has it's union. I'm not trying to do this to hurt my mum but to break free from these bondage called law

Do things differently. There are people selling onions and other foodstuff online. Many people now buy foodstuff by sharing cows, bags of tomatoes, onions et al online. You only pay a small delivery cost in addition to the total cost of items purchased.

I once read the story of a lady whose husband was transferred to the North and got involved in bulk Onion trade between the NW and Lagos ( I can't remember if it was here on NL). Mostly her transactions are online and I don't think she belongs to any union. She has no shop in the market anyway.

This market union thing has it's benefits and limitations. You can always choose a different approach provided you won't have a stall in the open market.

register under the union as an independent marketer. That way, you'll have your own assigned portion you can sell. coupled with Your mom's assigned portion, you can make more profits.

benzene00:
do we look like onion sellers to you

You could have simply ignored this thread

Purchase from different suppliers and sell elsewhere.

benzene00:
do we look like onion sellers to you

lolz...too harsh