Amumaigwe:


What is 'off' is that there are free allocations and government patronage based on ethnicity in the West and North. But nothing like that in the East. Lovers of quotas and free allocations naturally avoid East.

BabaRamota1980:


We were begged to take it. We were ready to tear this country apart. That was an appeasement to calm us down from doing damage. Nothing was given to us.

BabaRamota1980:


Market draw people in, not other way.

When people are not drawn to a market there is problem.

Market and diversity go hand in hand. If you want market to grow and pull poeople in you encourage diversity.

BabaRamota1980:


1. 2nd Niger Bridge
2. Inland port at Onitsha
3. Akanu Ibiam Intrnt'l Airport

uba1991:
if u say igbos love themselves, WHY DO IGBOS STILL PRACTICE THE OSU NONSENCE? the same igbo blood cannot inter marry,the same igbo blood cannot eat together, ebonyi are considerd inferior to anambra and u said they loves each other. some osu that are considerd slaves in their land when they come to the north they become kings because of the simplicity of the northerners. the fact remains IGBOS ARE MORE HOSTILE TO THEIR VISITORS COMPERED TO HAUSA AND YORUBA

izombie:
no one said yorubas don't have shops in other parts of nigeria. The igbo guy was responding to the comment of the hausa guy concerning doing business in the east. That hausas or yorubas do not own a lot of shops in the east does not mean that the igbos refused to sell to them. The igbo guy even gave an example, no hausa man will be brave enough to buy a shop in main market onitsha if he's told the price but an igbo man will buy it and make it work. The response was epic and i have nothing more to add to that. Igbos buy or build whatever they have in other parts of nigeria. If you want to do business in the east come and buy or build shops or industries in the east. Its very simple.

freeze001:


This disrespect thing is very funny. What exactly do you call disrespect? Doesd Igbo man suddenly refuse to greet d landlord or does he go to attack him and forcefully take over his property? What really? Explain please

BENARI:


Mr Stereotype that's not true. Whoever tells Igbos hate themselves is only deceiving you.
We hate ourselves and yet we remain the only people insisting Unitedly for self determination in spite of all we stand to loose?

Stop being an idi*t please.

EmekusTHEgreat:
The truth is that the SE is too competitive for an average hausa man to come and strive in, very few can successfully adapt from the relaxed and calm business environment of the north to the fast-paced environment of the SE. I've seen yoruba's in awka and onitsha who have done it, but hausa's rarely do become highly successful, although I remember a hausa fellow who now has a car in awka. But that guy was born and bred in the east.

Amumaigwe:


A very poor debater you are. What is OSU? You barely can expexplainksun incisively what it means. I explained to one of my Yoruba friends and he openly admitted their fundamentally wrong perspective. This thread is not about that anyway. Just go ahead and refute the claims of the OP with facts and stop running about like a headless chicken.

paramakina202:


Time will come when you all will beg us to take it too but it might be too late for you hypocrites.
Your answer have proven that you didn't compete fairly to get there but rather out of appeasement.

BabaRamota1980:


Its the desire for appeasement that makes you shout "marginalization" at every opportunity.

Either way a Yoruba will emerge the President in 99; if it wasn't Obj it would be Falae. What is not fair here?

luvmijeje:


Have you been to the west? if you have, you will know there's nothing called free allocation when it comes to market space. Money for hand, space will be made available.

But you are all avoiding the question. Is there no market outsiders comes in to trade?

Amumaigwe:


Pull people in by allocating free shops to them. The same way they allocate admissions into unity schools, civil service jobs, etc thereby giving everybody 'sence of belonging'. His has it helped Nigeria to grow?

BabaRamota1980:


The market is backbone of economic activity. It has an attitude. You can expand or shrink that market with rules. In an open economy open competition is assumed and this is what attracts diversity and success. Diversity in the sense that the market is insensitive to your status, it welcomes everyone into exchange.

A market is situated in a land that is acultured.

So there is, so to speak, a building block model which starts with...the land and its culture as foundation to accomodate a market.

If the rule of the land forbids cultural diversity, the market will wear this attitude and shrink down to those limits.

Culturally, East does not practice diversity. Amongst you are people that cannot buy land or own properties or intermarry...these are taboos on the land. Your market wear these "tabooed" attitudes and is unwelcoming to certain social statuses. Free exchange is limited.

If certain social class in your land cannot own property or marry freely unless they move out, what makes you think other people not even related with you would come in?

If Yoruba culture or Hausa would exercise a caste system that forbids certain set of their own people from living freely on the land, would your brothers in East that came to Lagos or went to Kano hungry and clutching all he owns in one nylon bag have succeeded in a market culturally "sensitive" to outsiders?

Change your non-diverse culture, wear new attitude on your market, operate an insensitive exchange and people from other places will be drawn to your land.

Make a change!

Amberon11:
I know you're igbo and will definitely support your people but it is a known fact that igbos hardly sell land to outsiders and even when they do, the entire process seems frustrating to the person concerned.

You people keep talking about the cost of shop and/or land in onitsha. Pray tell, is land more expensive in igboland than in Lagos, Abuja or even PH? Then again you bring the issue of competitiveness as though business in the aforementioned cities are not more competitive than anywhere in igboland.

Please tell me the cost of the most expensive shop in onitsha and let's compare with the most expensive in the aforementioned cities and see which ones cannot be afforded yet yorubas and hausa in those other cities can afford them.

The reason people hardly think east when business is involved is due to the east not being economically viable and not because non-indigines can neither afford nor compete with the igbos in igboland.


In saying the bolded you have just explained that it's not that Igbos don't want non indigenes to trade in their region, only that our area is not viable enough for business. So EOD. No hostility towards non Igbos.

Amberon11:
I know you're igbo and will definitely support your people but it is a known fact that igbos hardly sell land to outsiders and even when they do, the entire process seems frustrating to the person concerned.

You people keep talking about the cost of shop and/or land in onitsha. Pray tell, is land more expensive in igboland than in Lagos, Abuja or even PH? Then again you bring the issue of competitiveness as though business in the aforementioned cities are not more competitive than anywhere in igboland.

Please tell me the cost of the most expensive shop in onitsha and let's compare with the most expensive in the aforementioned cities and see which ones cannot be afforded yet yorubas and hausa in those other cities can afford them.

The reason people hardly think east when business is involved is due to the east not being economically viable and not because non-indigines can neither afford nor compete with the igbos in igboland.

Amberon11:
I know you're igbo and will definitely support your people but it is a known fact that igbos hardly sell land to outsiders and even when they do, the entire process seems frustrating to the person concerned.

You people keep talking about the cost of shop and/or land in onitsha. Pray tell, is land more expensive in igboland than in Lagos, Abuja or even PH? Then again you bring the issue of competitiveness as though business in the aforementioned cities are not more competitive than anywhere in igboland.

Please tell me the cost of the most expensive shop in onitsha and let's compare with the most expensive in the aforementioned cities and see which ones cannot be afforded yet yorubas and hausa in those other cities can afford them.

The reason people hardly think east when business is involved is due to the east not being economically viable and not because non-indigines can neither afford nor compete with the igbos in igboland.

Dunkofia20:
Pls someone should send this thread to front page let the world see

luvmijeje:


Have you been to the west? if you have, you will know there's nothing called free allocation when it comes to market space. Money for hand, space will be made available.

But you are all avoiding the question. Is there no market outsiders comes in to trade?

Ikenna0b:


Listen to this girl and keep quiet


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyx3YQPyYM

This is an igbo girl that was born and raised in the North.
I have never lived in the North but my mother did, her description of her years in the North matches what this girl said. Every Igbo that lived in the North can testify what this girl said is the truth. Hell the last time I visited and one of my brother's friend came to see us, dude came looking like a straight aboki. According to him, the bank he works for transferred him to North. He started dressing like y'all just to blend in so he can survive because every little thing, y'all niggas pop off and start killing people. Y'all are psychopaths

The North is the least accommodating. There's a reason why Igbo consider each Igbo residing up north till this very day as suicidal.

Almaiga:


If the North is what you claimed, why didn't all Igbo's leave the North when the Northern Youths gave them quit notice last year?
One common thing with Igbo's is Propaganda. 90% of the Igbo's in the North will never go back to the East no matter what it takes. They will prefer to stay and do their business in the North peacefully.

nwabobo:


Why haven't the white Europeans left South Africa since the blacks have been giving them quit notices.

nwabobo:


Why haven't the white Europeans left South Africa since the blacks have been giving them quit notices.

BabaRamota1980:


The market is backbone of economic activity. It has an attitude. You can expand or shrink that market with rules. In an open economy open competition is assumed and this is what attracts diversity and success. Diversity in the sense that the market is insensitive to your status, it welcomes everyone into exchange.

A market is situated in a land that is acultured.

So there is, so to speak, a building block model which starts with...the land and its culture as foundation to accomodate a market.

If the rule of the land forbids cultural diversity, the market will wear this attitude and shrink down to those limits.

Culturally, East does not practice diversity. Amongst you are people that cannot buy land or own properties or intermarry...these are taboos on the land. Your market wear these "tabooed" attitudes and is unwelcoming to certain social statuses. Free exchange is limited.

If certain social class in your land cannot own property or marry freely unless they move out, what makes you think other people not even related with you would come in?

If Yoruba culture or Hausa would exercise a caste system that forbids certain set of their own people from living freely on the land, would your brothers in East that came to Lagos or went to Kano hungry and clutching all he owns in one nylon bag have succeeded in a market culturally "sensitive" to outsiders?

Change your non-diverse culture, wear new attitude on your market, operate an insensitive exchange and people from other places will be drawn to your land.

Make a change!

Almaiga:


If the North is what you claimed, why didn't all Igbo's leave the North when the Northern Youths gave them quit notice last year?
One common thing with Igbo's is Propaganda. 90% of the Igbo's in the North will never go back to the East no matter what it takes. They will prefer to stay and do their business in the North peacefully.

luvmijeje:
Unnecessary braggado. Una go just deh brag on top nothing. The Igbo man didn't respond to the the question. List the markets that has other Nigerians trading there was the question rather he went on a bragging spree.