made in nigeria products are going places;shoe plaza, a shoe factory in aba produces over 10,000 pairs of shoes in a week. at shoe plaza, a shoe factory in aba, thousandsof nigerians transform basic raw materials into impressive footwear. shoe plaza produces over 30,000 pairs of slippersweekly. it takes them 3 to 5 days to finish buildingpair of shoes, but slippers are done within a day. one of the guys rocking the shoe factory inaba is paul andras chidieber. he is an information technology student atfederal university owerri (futo).
paul andrasm a current futo undergraduatesstarted learning at shoe factory in aba in 2013, during asuu strike under ex-presidentgoodluck jonathan. paul andras makes close to n40,000 weeklymakings shoes at the shoe factory in aba. paul andras has registered with niit to learnjava and python in order to advance in his it career. he also has plan to learn computer networkingso he can go for his maters degree in united states or india. made in nigeria products has an image problem,samething with made in aba shoes. we nigerians look down on made in nigeriaproducts as we consider folks who wear made
in aba shoes to be poor. but, the truth is some of the prada and designersshoes 'rich' nigerians wear are made in aba. maybe if we start appreciating made in nigeriaproducts, shoe factory in aba, among other great things made locally can get better inquality and make us proud.