Rhino.5dm:

Why the sudden hype about the HAUSAS?

I thought they a illiterate dirty  stinking almajiris.
A popular hausa proverb.

"kuna muna kallon biri muna muku kallon ayaba".

which can be translated as. . .
"una dey  see us as monkies while we see una as bananas"

No need to get excited, we're talking about 0.00000001% of the Hausa population, who also see other Hausa as Bananas.

This is NOT true, at all. Not in London. What do you actually take Yorubas for as far as the UK is concerned?


Hausa will NEVER NEVER match Yoruba shoppers in the UK.; even if they rule for 200 years!


Now, let me explain the reason you have more Hausas in Edgware Road:
This is an Arab enclave in London; where you find Muslims and women in Burka. As a result, Hausas too prefer to mingle there.

Go to Oxford street, Convent Garden, that's where you will likely meet rich Yoruba dudes.

How many are these Hausas? Debenham probably googled Nigeria's major language and, maybe Hausa came up.

I don't think that all the these Hausas buy more suits that Yoruba surgeons alone in the UK. Get your facts right, guys.

@ topic

good for whoever is shopping there.

Never heard of the place since i aint a moneybag.

And, is Debenham really expensive?  It is just a collection of labels.

A T-Shirt at Debenham goes for around 25 - 50 pounds max. Not really posh, is it?


In fact, you won't see a lot of rich Yoruba/Igbo dudes there.


I don't have millions of pounds, thousands sef I never get, BUT, I have picked up one or two T-Shirts there before. And, I always buy my perf from Debenham.

Hehe, Debenhams? Na im be sey you never see shopping by some Nigeria-based dudes before.

I mean 10, 000 pounds - fiam, just like that at Selfridges. Abeg, money dey Naija.

ola olabiy:

And, is Debenham really expensive? 
I have picked up one or two T-Shirts there before. And, I always buy my perf from Debenham.

Hehe, Debenhams? Na im be sey you never see shopping before.

I mean 10, 000 pounds - fiam, just like that at Selfridges. Abeg, money dey Naija.

See confession

Bros, so you be government contractor 

Chopping our money Yanfu Yanfu , chop remain for us o

Well done o

Kilode?!:

See confession

Bros, so you be government contractor 

Chopping our money Yanfu Yanfu , chop remain for us o

Well done o

Hahahaa 
I wish.

Me ke. Na those Naija-based people oo. Dem too get moneeey.


Na so dey go carry plenti bags.

Kilode?!:

See confession

Bros, so you be government contractor 

Chopping our money Yanfu Yanfu , chop remain for us o

Well done o

But, you try well ooo.

Se how you cleverly joined my post together sef. GEJ needs your skills oo

Hrm. In light of these posts. . . Northern leaders truly are shameless, evil, and selfish b@stards.

We'll see an article like this today, then read another one tomorrow about millions of almajiris in Kano, despite its substantial federal allocations

Imagine, living like an oil sheikh while your people suffer.

Sad stuff

@Olabiy as long as GEJ can dash me oyel block, me sef wan shop for Dedenhams.

Better still, I can help GEJ increase revenue, by suing Selfridges, Saks 5th Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Harrods and other luxury goods stores for encouraging corruption and wasteful spending.  J/k

The same way we jail folks selling cocaine and heroine to incurable addicts. I think those companies can be liable too, for encouraging corruption and causing the death of millions.

GEJ needs to start talking to some greedy smart lawyers.

Mostly kidding  

Guys the article was referring to shoppers from outside Britain not those living in Britain.
@ola olabiy, Debenhams have a collection of expensive labels. Debenhams own products may be cheap but those other labels are as expensive as anywhere else.

agabaI23:

Guys the article was referring to shoppers from outside Britain not those living in Britain.
@ola olabiy, Debenhams have a collection of expensive labels. Debenhams own products may be cheap but those other labels are as expensive as anywhere else.

Do they produce their plane ticket before buying stuff there?

denzel2009:

Do they produce their plane ticket before buying stuff there?

They ask for vat receipt or vat reclaim forms.

agabaI23:

They ask for vat receipt or vat reclaim forms.

Lol, Mallams don't do that. It's the ijebus and Ibo boys that go through that stress.

agabaI23:

They ask for vat receipt or vat reclaim forms.

VAT receipts? And, they are rich?


I read it when they were about to launch this campaign. All Debenhams wanted was major languages from China, Korea, Japan and Nigeria. Etc.


It has nothing to do with Hausa shoppers. Their campaign is about NIGERIAN shoppers.

Kilode?!:

@Olabiy as long as GEJ can dash me oyel block, me sef wan shop for Dedenhams.

Na im oo.

The only thing I need now na my own oyel block.

I hope GEJ dey read this. Hola!

agabaI23:


@ola olabiy, Debenhams have a collection of expensive labels. Debenhams own products may be cheap but those other labels are as expensive as anywhere else.

Like how much are you talking about here?

Let me give you an example:

The perfs I mentioned are not theirs.
However, the difference between what they charge and what high-street stores like Superdrug, Perfumery and The Perfume Shop charge is plus or minus 1 pound max. These perfs are sometimes cheaper at Debenhams sef.

Go and check this.

The same Debenhams where a friend bought a 'heater' for 13 pounds?

This is Debenhams.

Some T-Shirts go for as low as 6 pounds sef :

http://www.debenhams.com/men/t-shirts-polos/t-shirts

Shoes at Debenhams:

Casuals: http://www.debenhams.com/shoes/men/casual-shoes



Formal shoes: http://www.debenhams.com/shoes/men/formal-shoes



Trainers: http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Navigate?ps=default&storeId=10001&sfn=Categories&lid=%2F%2Fproductsuniverse%2Fen_GB%2Fproduct_online%3DY%2Fcategories%3C{productsuniverse_164101}%2Fcategories%3C{productsuniverse_164101_164165}%2Fcategories%3C{productsuniverse_164101_164165_164187_ms%2Cproductsuniverse_164101_164165_164188_ms}&catalogId=10001&sfv=Mens+sports+trainers





Na here you wan go find Naija billionaires, abi? I dey laugh oooo

southerners and their stupid ignorance and pride, with ur so called education and sense of accomplishment, the smelly hausa's have ruled u for over 35yrs and it took an uneducated yoruba man in obj to deliver u frm their rule, y nt ur educated profs n surgeons, technocrats, mtcheew, u guys r pathetic ignorants, over 80% of southerners dnot even know beyond the ehnic groups, i rather b a student of life rather than study all the books and end up writing petitions against my brothers, the average hausa dude have far more class than an average rich southerner, all they have is noise, so much talk and no substance

illiterates wasting our money

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HAUSA CAN BE WHATEVER THEY WANT TO BE THERE,
BUT NEED TO ADVICE THEM THAT WHERE THEY ARE NOW IS LONDON BUT NIGERIA,
SO NO KILLING OF CHRISTIANS OR CORPERS THERE OOOOOO
NO BOKO HARAM OR OSAMA BIN LADEN ATTITUDES

u guys are really funny oh and so so tribalistic. wats bad abt a hausa advert at debenhams?
am hausa and was der for some shoppin 2 weeks back so get off our backs pls and use all that energy abi hate to transform naija.

Shoes at Debenhams: http://www.debenhams.com/shoes/men/formal-shoes






Na this kain thing you wan show off?

Abeg, guys, no fall moi hands ooo

Infact; not until we begin to see 9jerians as one, ENVY & HATRED will continue to disintegrate us in this country.
what is so special in adopting Hausa Language by a London retailer? Maybe (to him) majority of his "money splasher's" are the Hausa's.
But; just imagine the castigations and condemnations, nonsense!!! Now an average foreigner reading this thread will begin to suspect
the stupendious attitute of Nigerians.
There we are fighting eachother on religion and tribal grounds; accusing the whites of RACISM; who be fool? Na una; ofcurz!!!

Abeg, is not about the price of items, it's about that fact that they decided to put Hausa language among only three other foreign languages in their stores. This means that the volume of spending by the Hausa is large, large enough for them to place them by the richest tourists. So what if a 20 pounds shirt is nothing to you? If a shop gets a hundred Hausa people buying 20 of those shirts each visit, then they are going to notice them and that is buying power.

Lazy calculation by the superstore. Hausa men in the U.K are very scanty, less than 5,000. Even the ones that come from Nigeria do not go about on suits. In a country where the Yorubas are about 60,000 and Ndigbo 50,000, it is abnormal not to include Yoruba and Igbo inscription that Hausa. Wrong move.

its sad shouldnt we be glad that we have one our languages up there, would u guys rather have the ghanian or zulu language upthere jus because its HAUSA.

I remember this display of ignorance when the 'ARABIC' latters were expunged from the naira that was too bad cos of the following

1. the english french spanish etc. languages might use a seemingly similar characters but each writing has its unique letters (u will agree)

2. The japanese chinese koreans also write seemingly similar, but trust me each of these writings are worlds apart in style and characters

3. Arabic Persian Hausa also share the same similitude but there are letters in the Hausa language not found in both arabic and persian

Bottom line we should be proud that even b4 the europeans our fellow African and consequently Hausa's have adapted and develpd a writing style comparable with any major languages then, yet maintaining writing styles and character unique only to the Hausa languge.

shouldnt this acheivement be celebrated rather than the usual colonial line of 'the africans had notting b4 the europeans'. How many of u know that there was a University in Africa b4 the europeans- in TIMBUKTU, MALI, and also the largest mud stucture ever biult.

common guys will we ever develop with this ethnic bigotry and hatred. THINK.

Andre Uweh:

Lazy calculation by the superstore. Hausa men in the U.K are very scanty, less than 5,000. Even the ones that come from Nigeria do not go about on suits. In a country where the Yorubas are about 60,000 and Ndigbo 50,000, it is abnormal not to include Yoruba and Igbo inscription that Hausa. Wrong move.

Thank you jare. Very lazy calculation, IMO.

They would have benefited more if it were Yoruba or Igbo. How many are these Hausas.


They thought Hausa was the widely-spoken lang in Naija. That is it.

Andre Uweh:

Lazy calculation by the superstore. Hausa men in the U.K are very scanty, less than 5,000. Even the ones that come from Nigeria do not go about on suits. In a country where the Yorubas are about 60,000 and Ndigbo 50,000, it is abnormal not to include Yoruba and Igbo inscription that Hausa. Wrong move.

There are more than a million Nigerians in the UK.