gidgiddy:


Pls stop talking nonsense. It doesn't matter hw u demarcate people, wether Region's, States, Provinces, Local governments if those people are in one country, they are in one country!

The point is that the British should not have have brought Igbos and Yorubas together in one country in very first place. They should have been in two different countries from the very start

As soon as the British left in 1960, both tribes have been fighting politically to this day, and will fight forever

It is people who are similar in ideology, thinking and value system that should be coming together to form countries, not people who are vastly different, such as Igbos and Yorubas

The mistake has been made. However, God will be merciful and divide Yorubas and Igbos into different countries in the future

Igbos and Yorubas have no business being together in one country

FreeStuffsNG:
What I learnt from Yoruba land




https://punchng.com/what-i-learnt-from-yoruba-land/

jmoore:


I don't do tribal fights here. Therefore learn to use common sense before quoting me..



This picture makes you superior, abi?

yom2:
enumerate d areas of superiority sir?

WizardOfNG:



Unintelligent Igbos and predictable whataboutism. Tribal marks were a way of identifying children to even their communal home in the past.

How can that, by any sensible person, be compared to societal enslavement of Osus and shameless discrimination against your own people and women also?

Is all these remnants of your backward and shamelessly discriminatory culture not even still visible today whereby Bianca Ojukwu is barred from contesting a political role in Anambra yet all Igbos want to be political leaders in the land of others?

Just accept others are superior and learn from them. There is no basis for comparing Yoruba and Igbo culture same as only a lunatic can claim light and darkness are similar.

WizardOfNG:


They're not even intelligent enough to note how dullardly their arguments that "Yorubas dont travel" sound.

The most progressive and opportuned nations in the world, the true test-beds of progressive economic migration, Yorubas are there dominating Igbos in the loftiest professions. This proves, correctly, we are intelligent and selective traveller unlike desperado and shameless "developers".

How many British footballers do you see leaving the English Premier league when they already play in the richest, most universally glamorous, most syndicated, most followed, most watched and most sponsored football league on Earth?

Yet foreign players yapa for the English Premier league to make better pay and have better lifestyle. That is how Yorubas are in Nigeria explaining why the SW is full of economic migrants from all across Nigeria while Yorubas mainly remain in their region which is the best by far in Nigeria.

Logically, sophisticated and well-educated Yorubas, never as desperate as the money-obsessed IPOB folks, are not going hustling in Abia or Somalia anytime soon when Canada, UK, USA etal remain better and attainable economic migration destination.

The IPOB lot just lack the intellect and emotional maturity to note folks are laughing at their blind defence of their desperado and vagabond lifestyles that even leaves them dragging market stalls with Ghanaians in Ghana.

What makes them even more foolish is the desperation to shade yorubas as flawed because we know our worth and have pride in ourselves to not be interested in scavenging in Mali, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Zimbabwe etal as the shameless IPOB lot are ever ready to do.

FreeStuffsNG:
Even though I had spent two years in Ondo State as a child, it was when I arrived in Lagos during my post-university National Youth Service Corps scheme that I was mature enough to study the way of life of the Yoruba people.

When I get into a new environment, I study the way of life of the residents, in order to understand how and why they do things. Whatever I consider admirable, I copy it. Whatever I don’t consider special, I don’t copy.

This is the responsibility of everyone and it is taught from the home and beaten into your ears in most Yoruba families. If you're outside Yorubaland, the counsel of your parents and family will be ringing like a bell in your ears so you constantly remember that they are waiting for you at home.

You just want to mind your business and appreciate your host. We are very very careful not to get involved in the local politics of our hosts outside our region in the country. There's a reason why. Our progressive approach to politics and governance is completely different so there's no point getting involved in the politics of your host who are not familiar with your kind of progressive politics. If you want to do politics, come back home to your Yorubaland and do your progressive politics.

Btw, at Yoruba events, we love to share branded souvenirs and wear prescribed colour of wears and/or aso ebi too. That's a Yoruba event signature too with the plenty music and food , some non-Yoruba think that we are being wasteful but don't understand that we do these to preserve the memories of momentous events.

This is a brilliant write up by Azuka. I have always loved his column. I remember his column protesting how people write their home address by inserting comma after the number in a wrong way. Thank you Azuka.

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Agapeunit:
Igbos shld av stayed in dere region jst lik d yorubas! Ur meaningless txt wld't av been needed

gidgiddy:


We should have done better than that and stayed in seperate countries

It was a big mistake to bring Igbos and Yorubas together in one country in 1914

But that mistake will eventually be corrected seperate ways

YorubaLord:
We lead; those okoro bastards follow!

tete7000:


But the guy didn't tell igbos to discard their ways fir the Yoruba own. He simply shared his experiences and infact wrote that no culture is superior to another and people should learn what they consider admirable from others. If you have objection, you could have simply wrote your own article rather than bashing his.

Armaggedon:
They take life easy by using their people's body parts for ritual but when an Igbo man prospers more than them they begin to envy him.

They show off the most by doing owambe at any slightest meeting but when an Igbo sprays money, they are thrown into mass envy, questioning his wealth and tagging EFCC again him.

The most ethnic minded people I've come across, yet they do not love one another. The fiercest celebrity rivalry and spat usually happen amongst them.

The biggest farmers of hate and injustice. Whoever is unpopular among his people becomes their closest ally and whoever is born among them learns to hate his people until he grows up to meet his people and learns the truth.

yom2:
is treachery and backstabbing a virtue? Been searching for a universal answer.

Armaggedpost=130064845:
They take life easy by using their people's body parts for ritual but when an Igbo man prospers more than them they begin to envy him.

They show off the most by doing owambe at any slightest meeting but when an Igbo sprays money, they are thrown into mass envy, questioning his wealth and tagging EFCC again him.

The most ethnic minded people I've come across, yet they do not love one another. The fiercest celebrity rivalry and spat usually happen amongst them.

The biggest farmers of hate and injustice. Whoever is unpopular among his people becomes their closest ally and whoever is born among them learns to hate his people until he grows up to meet his people and learns the truth.

post=130068621:
This is a very good piece.
Interesting to read.

For emphasis sake,
Here we go....

IGBO/BIAFRA VS TINUBU/YORUBA:
TOLERANCE BECOMING A CRIME
By Dr Chinedu Akabuike

1. Why do we hate Tinubu?
What for?

2. Tinubu never worked with federal or Eastern Nigeria let alone stealing money from Ndi Igbo.
He never worked as Minister or taken any Federal Appointment!

3. He never joined APGA let alone sabotaging our Party's interest?

4. Tinubu didn't meddle in Igbo internal affairs either!

5. Why do we call him thief?
What did he steal?

6. We call Yoruba "slaves".
We never reflect on what it means to be slaves in the true sense of the word.

7. We are putting mouth in Lagos politics without caution, yet we have a proverb that says it is the foolish housefly that follows the corpse into the grave.

8. Can Yoruba man become an Association or Local Government Chairman in the East? Let us be sincere with ourselves.
Yet, we enjoy all these privileges here including Assembly Membership!


9. Why asking for what we can't give?

10. We are here helping the "slaves" to develop their land. Who then is a slave?
10b. You call their city a no man's land so that we can further be enslaved slaving to develop it, and our generations are wasted gloating over mere privileges.
Who is a slave?
Do we actually think?

11. Can Yoruba tell Okorocha "o to gee" in Owerri?
He doesn't even need it.
He is too intelligent to die for a pot of ofe manu or nothing.

12. After the civil war, for many of us who were old enough to have witnessed it, the Yoruba were the first to open their arms to receive and accept us as we were, crude savages in search for means of survival.
It was regardless of what we equally did to them before and during the civil war. No party to the civil war was innocent!
I also remember not paying any rent among Yoruba guys without a penny for my first 3years in Lagos and another 2 years in Ibadan.

13. Can we survive Yoruba attack in Yoruba land if they actually mean to?
Will an Mbaise man cooperate with the Nsukka or Afikpo, or the Imo with Anambara?

14. If we all decide to relocate at once, Babangida send me home phenomena is still in the memory of some of us who survived the incessant and uncontrollable spate of robbery across the Onitsha bridge.
How many people will want to go in spite of our empty pride?

15. If Yoruba people are as foolish as we foolishly think, why agitating?
How will agitating be to our benefit?

16. Why not "O to gee" in Abia, Enugu or Owerri?

17. Can a man from Aba become a Commissioner or Perm.Sec. in Enugu State Civil Service?
Yet it happened here!
Why not be careful.

18. We adopted APGA and but "wisely" voted PDP.
How was Tinubu our headache.
Was he the cause of our downfall?
Why always blame others for our inabilities and want to take glory for any small thing we think we have done well and even overblow it?

19. We claim we were so creative during the civil war.
Now history.
We also claim every made in Nigeria is from Aba.
But go to Oyo and Osogbo to see what "lazy" mechanics are doing quietly in the automobile industry, yet we make noise that other ethnics are either mumu or lazy except we (alagbara ma mero baba ole; the most hardworking humans who cannot develop their own land unfortunately).

20. Why looking for avoidable problem? Why?

21. It was you in the North being attacked, in Malaysia being killed, in Gabon and Ghana being molested. 99.9% of Nigerians killed in South Africa are of Igbo extraction, and sometimes by fellow 'hardworking' Igbo. Why?

22. We choose Kanu and he dictates to us without consultation with any one of us. They choose Tinubu who becomes a hero among them by bowing to or adopting the choice of their majority.

Why are we angry?
We chose Azikwe and they chose Awolowo.
How are they more mumuish followers than ourselves?
Zik became a President and we gained from it, Awo was only a Premier, but we are only struggling to beat their records in all ramifications including education till today.
How are they mumus?
We chose APGA and they chose APC, why agitating?

Yoruba are yet to say Tinubu is their problem why do we want to die for nothing?
Why working in APGA but planning to collect salaries in APC?

I pray for the success of Biafra, but do we still remember that as Igbo we will automatically become foreigners on the streets of the Lagos we call a no Man's land?

How many of us will actually want to relocate home, should Biafra actualises or if citizenship is on the condition that you relinquish all other citizenship in Africa?

I leave that answer to the individual.
Nwayo nwayo biko unu.

drsmut:
See pain🤣🤣🤣

Christistruth00:



It was because the British knew exactly what they were doing that they deliberately put them in different Regions

WizardOfNG:



Unintelligent Igbos and predictable whataboutism. Tribal marks were a way of identifying children to even their communal home in the past.

How can that, by any sensible person, be compared to societal enslavement of Osus and shameless discrimination against your own people and women also?

Is all these remnants of your backward and shamelessly discriminatory culture not even still visible today whereby Bianca Ojukwu is barred from contesting a political role in Anambra yet all Igbos want to be political leaders in the land of others?

Just accept others are superior and learn from them. There is no basis for comparing Yoruba and Igbo culture same as only a lunatic can claim light and darkness are similar.

FreeStuffsNG:
[b]What I learnt from Yoruba land[/b]hosnestly , this poster should have just stated his observations without comparison with Igbos , it shows how unintelligent and uneducated the writer is




https://punchng.com/what-i-learnt-from-yoruba-land/

d142475:


Yorubas and Igbos should have been in different countries
You got this one wrong. Modern states are not about blood or ethnic affinities. Modern States are about a people coming together to advance common interests. Moder States are based on social contract, which is an agreement on how a group of people organize their society and govern themselves. People who are different in orirtentaion and ideology can come together to form a country, because in spite of differences, uniting makes them stronger. Modern States are not homogenous!

FreeStuffsNG:
What I learnt from Yoruba land




https://punchng.com/what-i-learnt-from-yoruba-land/

yinkabeauty:


Is it the British that put you in different regions ? No!
That's was their respective homelands where British "invaders" met them.

gidgiddy

Christistruth00:



The British created 3 Regions as was agreed in the London Conference which Awolowo Azikiwe Sardauna and other Political Leaders attended

yinkabeauty:

So if you create regions does that mean ,they will now remove you from your ancestral land or home and be moving you about? Creating region is like state creation e.g we can divide Oyo state into two today by creating ibadan state , it doesn't remove the people from their land, it just says these region/state or place will be known as this or govern like this , that's it.

duality:



Your take on the aspect of politics is primitive and born out of fear.

Also, no one is dragging politics with you. If a person has the right to vote and be voted for in a country as stated in the constitution, that's paramount. He or she can exercise such right. Anyone against such right is myopic and unexposed.

It is normal to see plurality of culture in a cosmopolitan environment. Lagos is the best example in the South West, that's the reason you find people of other cultures express themselves, even politically.

Other less cosmopolitan areas of the south west do not experience such level of expressions because they are not as exposed. When they grow to that level, they will experience it.

The assumption that anyone who say things like this, is from the south east, is also foolish.

Christistruth00:



The Regions grouped Tribes of related Ancestry together and Languages