Pattey:

Listing random countries doesn't mean anything. . . Tell us how it relates to the post; I.e. Yoruba's being in detention in those places. . . Aye mate?!

zenatta: Poor, poor, Nigeria; its citizens at loggerheads with one another and it's peoples, mutilated mercilessly outside it's shores.
"Everyone hates Nigeria" is no longer a chant, a lullaby, but a ravaging epidemic.
What did this political entity do to deserve this. Be it as it may, what next. Should we go on, taking these insults laying low; pretending that as long as it is an isolated experience, life can go on. Or should we in our small corners start a revolution - to better the name of this great and always will be great country.
I used to hide behind my other country when Nigeria is being maltreated, shrugging non-chalantly and accusatorily but no more.
And I think you non-Nigerians on this thread, heaping insults on a prone giant, have a nerve. This giant will stand it's full height again. No condition is permanent.

ayswags: Ibos are economic nomads,like what the Bleep are they looking for in botswana,a country even godforsaken nigeria is better than a million times

bakynes: With respect to Igbos but you guys need to stay back home and stop going arnd and exploring the world.Even if you must do that learn from Indians and the lebanese who give due respect to their host,respect their culture and tradition.The same thing happening in Lagos,you call the Yorubas all sorts of names,you do not care abt their culture and tradiditon yet u value yours.Its getting to much and the FG needs to do something abt it under the Authority of the Foreign Minister b4 the world labels us as something else.

Ikengawo: The ignorance on this thread is record breaking

Botswana has the highest standard of living in Africa and is rated as the most stable government.
This is a result of neglected education for the generation of nigerians that are now old enough to travel. Nigerians have an extremely dim understanding of the rest of the world and themselves and will find themselves crawling the globe to humiliate their own lives. I don't believe it's primarily igbos by far that are leading this global foolishness, but before we start saying it's and igbo problem we have to realize it's really a national one.

Igbos are ambitious, nobody will take that from them but it's almost impossible to convince them what they own is better than what they can possiby own or have and that's what leads to their desperate nature.

Yorubas are fearful, nobody will take that from them either. A yoruba person is not going to risk what he has, even if it's very little, no matter the reward and don't typically think outside of what's theres. Many yorubas don't know there was a civil war in Nigeria.

The reason I point this difference out is because the igbo ignorance is manifesting in travelling the world blindly and becoming a nuisance and the yoruba ignorance is manifesting in not being able to think or look outside of the very narrow box they already have, hence poverty and a total ignorance of anything outside of their family and region. They typically don't want more because they don't know there's is more out there and would rather brag about whats been done that complain about the need to do more. the root of the problem is ignorance. While igbos are developing and even destroying other places, their homeland is neglected, and while yorubas are boxed in by fear their homeland remains stagnant. This is why the two regions of africa that should be the most developed, aren't.

ignorance mixed with our respective cultural nature isn't doing anything for us.

Hezron Lorraine: come off that hoogar's hat madam.Google is your friend,I ain't gonna write a long epistle to explain something you already know.

[s] ttp://www.globalresearch.ca/nigeria-and-the-african-continent-under-the-brunt-of-western-imperialism-and-the-free-market/26828&sa=U&ei=BIYNUpPjEKir7AaJooGABg&ved=0CDYQFjAI&usg=AFQjCNGpIar0jVMN8fW1FQDt3SYFaLxd-A

http://www.opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/why-nigeria-isnt-ready-to-lead/

www.nairaland.com/1367194/nigeriastatistics-race-superpowerdom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11429067&sa=U&ei=BIYNUpPjEKir7AaJooGABg&ved=0CBkQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNFzH-z6s7GkYuvR_lH5nV-0rKJLng

www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8363.htm

www.trademarksa.org/news/nigeria-poised-become-africa-s-most-powerful-nation

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/new/a-hegemon-in-a-peripheral-region-the-future-of-nigerias-foreign-policy-2/

Tony Spike:

I'm trying to make a sense of what you wrote up here. I'm a Yoruba and I don't generally agree that we are fearful. The difference between a Yoruba and an Igbo is basically between temperamental attitude and cultural programming. I won't bother explaining the concepts, but in the long run, a Yoruba is your typical calculative risk-taker, deep thinker, law-abiding, not necessarily over-ambitious, practical, quiet achiever and considerate. Temperamentally, the Yorubas are like the British, while the Igbos are like the Germans. Those two countries are always at loggerhead...hey, I'm not racist!

Based on my premises above, you can guess why Igbos are likely to be affected by any immigration laws wherever they are.

femmyb: Operation Nigerians must go lol

Doff_Man:

I laugh when I see people make ethnically motivated sweeping generalisations on nairaland, just like you did. The condescending manner in which these statements are made is mind blowing. Just for the sake of scoring cheap ethno-political points, you throw away education and sound reasoning?

Aigbofa:

There are probably Yoruba everywhere you find Igbo, you are just more likely to find the Igbo in the detention.

bakynes: With respect to Igbos but you guys need to stay back home and stop going arnd and exploring the world.Even if you must do that learn from Indians and the lebanese who give due respect to their host,respect their culture and tradition.The same thing happening in Lagos,you call the Yorubas all sorts of names,you do not care abt their culture and tradiditon yet u value yours.Its getting to much and the FG needs to do something abt it under the Authority of the Foreign Minister b4 the world labels us as something else.

Tony Spike:

I'm trying to make a sense of what you wrote up here. I'm a Yoruba and I don't generally agree that we are fearful. The difference between a Yoruba and an Igbo is basically between temperamental attitude and cultural programming. I won't bother explaining the concepts, but in the long run, a Yoruba is your typical calculative risk-taker, deep thinker, law-abiding, not necessarily over-ambitious, practical, quiet achiever and considerate. Temperamentally, the Yorubas are like the British, while the Igbos are like the Germans. Those two countries are always at loggerhead...hey, I'm not racist!

Based on my premises above, you can guess why Igbos are likely to be affected by any immigration laws wherever they are.

Gorrbachev:

or being stabed or thrown out of buildings by taxi divers and petty criminals. case being Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia.

THE AMAKA:

The only Igbo state mentioned in that article was Imo State. Now why is it that you skipped over Edo, Delta, and Rivers to talk about Igbos?

What is wrong with you people? SMH

Idi Amin: La#zy and silly creature. Na so jealousy go kill una. Its only in Y#oruba that a man of 25yrs still dey chop "mama thank Ma" whereas his mates in Igbo don dey hustle dey pay him broda school fees. Make good use of your time, man.

Blessmira: U see wat baba Fash...iola has caused. He started d deportin @ local level. Now it s Botswana's turn.
Chai! Chai!

ayswags: Ibos are economic nomads,like what the Bleep are they looking for in botswana,a country even godforsaken nigeria is better than a million times

bloggernaija:

Stop that crap.
Yorubas are not scared of jack bit.
In fact ,we are being held back.
Why are the other regions afraid of true federalism.
That is what is on the table right now.
I will tell you why?
Because they will be left behind at warp speed.
From the corporate tax to vat(which is the main revenue source for normal countries),from manufacturing to agriculture ,tourism etc
Cut the SW from the national grid and I can assure you we will be generating 20000MW within 10yrs


We have consistently shown that we have no time for gradual incrementalism of the conservative forces and their followers.

Jonathan is the only mistake my people have ever made.however osun state held the line.