Sloan:

Really? Is it not empty gloating when ibos keeps lying to themselves that the people who whooped them leading the starving are cowards? Imagine Germany as respected as they still are calling the US cowards? LMAO...but they are definitely smarter than the people who were in the same situation! Whooped hard and guess who the coward is? The man who showed-up in your house, whooped you so hard until your leader ran away for 12 years! LOL.

Who whooped who? Are we not the ones whooping you guys in Lagos now? I know of Igbo landlords who have thrown out their Yoruba tenants into the streets when they couldn't pay up. So who is whooping who now?

NL hasnt done any harm. It has done d good of making us know various mindset that prevails in this nation..
It has serve as eye opener to many things even if they arent acknowledged publicly..

@ least, I now know that some people still bear the grudge of the past and I no longer get carried away by their friendly gestures physically.

NL has done jst more than good, even beyond social-political issues.

Mynd_44: When I come to NL and see things like Igbo and Yorubas fighting, I can't help but laugh my backside out. Not because the insults are funny (which they are) but the ignorance being displayed.

I grew up in different parts of Nigeria. I have lived in the north, south east, port-har-court, Lagos, Ibadan and Ekiti and I can say that I have not seen one case of tribalist until I got to NL.

The closest thing I have seen about tribal ish is when friends gather and mock each other's culture and tradition and no offence is meant. I have had Igbo neighbours and still do. But I have never seen them as different neither they see me like that.

I told a friend that the issue of tribalist is due to poverty and joblessness which is true. If you look at the Ladipo incidence some weeks back where people on NL were talking like the Igbos and Yorubas were killing one another. I went there with a friend and it was as peaceful as anything else with Igbo/Yoruba and everyone else was doing their business and making money.

When there is money to be made, Nigerian don't care where you are from. If you are Igbo but you have something anyone needs, they don't care but when one person is poor, he looks for who to blame for his woes and he creates enemies.

Go to the bars and clubs at night and see how people of different tribes are together drinking and spending cash while broke people and people who probably have not spent a day in Nigeria talk about a tribe anyhow.

I personally know a lady on NL who cannot point at her state on a map of Nigeria(she is yoruba) yet she is always insulting Igbos

Na true u talk jare my piend

dr dams: NL hasnt done any harm. It has done d good of making us know various mindset that prevails in this nation..
It has serve as eye opener to many things even if they arent acknowledged publicly..

@ least, I now know that some people still bear the grudge of the past and I no longer get carried away by their friendly gestures physically.

NL has done jst more than good, even beyond social-political issues.

You should not allow the few cowards here who are fanning the flames to fool you. Like I always say it is in the leaders best interest to keep us divided, so they can chop money, wipe mouth and laugh at us for not holding them accountable. Trust me out of 1 million people on NL no more then 20 are bad people, they will pay one day for this hatred they are spreading, no doubt about it.

Nairaland is a comedy site...as i only come on this site to laugh at nigerians and their stupidity!! Slowpoke bigots!!

I wasn't going to post on this thread - however, after reading the over 100 stupid comments on the thread. I think I need to call you lot out. I don't know if most of you are ridiculously dumb, feigning it - or it's just your 2nd nature to live-in-denial.

Firstly, if you're born and raised in Nigeria - please don't tell me that crap that NL made you a tribalist. You've always been innately tribalistic. However, I'll would call it suppressed emotions, due to tolerance and co-existence. Only those of us born and raised abroad can claim that we became more conscious about the divides in Nigeria - via nairaland, and that's to an extent. Because most of us were raised as Nigerians and black Africans. I won't say I didn't know the ethnic differences, but I never knew it was this deep, till I joined NL.

Secondly, the most tribalistic and bigoted ones among you lot are the snakes who never say anything on here - but are full of hate outside nl. Most won't say nothing but the eye in which they view everything is laced with ethnocentrism. Those are the most wicked ones. The ones who would support the most devilish person on this planet, to the detriment/progress of Nigeria, just because he/she is from their ethnic stock. The ones who would vote for the worst qualified official to the detriment/progress of Nigeria, just because they're from the same ethnic group. Those are the ones that should be shot down and their carcass thrown where the sun don't shine.

Thirdly, I'll cite examples of why most of you are in denial. Nairaland never told all those Northern youths who kill Southerners to do what has become their second nature, did it? Nairaland didn't tell Igbo's to always go around asking for services in Igbo language in regions out their own region and protest if they don't get their way, did it? Nairaland never indoctrinated people to label Yoruba's as oily soup and dirty, did it? Nairaland never labelled Igbo's flat-heads, short, cannibals and hairy, did it? Nairaland never labelled Northerners as backwards and all the names you lot call them, did it? Nairaland never told Igbo leaders to always pull the ethnic card whenever they're critiqued or under scrutiny, did it? Nairaland didn't tell most Yoruba's to be cautious about how they migrate to Igboland, did it?

Heck, we can also take it back to the politics. In my young life and travels around the world, I've never seen a country where politics is ethnicized/tribalised as it's done in Nigeria. Igbo's vote for Igbos. Yoruba's vote for Yoruba's. Ijaw's vote for Ijaw's. Hausa/Fulani vote for Hausa/Fulani etc.. It's all about when is someone from my ethnic stock is going to occupy power and marginalisation with you lot, yet you claim there's no tribalism in Nigeria - STFU!! We can even go way back to your founding fathers and comments credited to them, from Nnamdi Azikwe, to Akintola and to Ahmadu Bello.

Lastly, tribalism is Nigeria - and Nigeria is tribalism. It's there in the average Nigerian psyche and you can't blame nairaland for what has always been part of you. Stop living in denial and be truthful for once in lives.

PS: how the hell can someone choose a handle called, "Biafranqueen" - yet claim she's not a tribalist. Do you even what "Biafra" signifies in the history of Nigeria? You're not tribalistic - yet you would be on the next thread declaring support for the next Igbo official accused of corruption. You aren't just tribalistic. You're clannish as well - with the way you've been supporting the utterly corrupt Peter Obi and his chosen candidate, just because you know him.

Leave nairaland out of your madness!

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Shymexx, speak for yourself.

Most nigerians are too primitive to understand the concept of a functional union and the need to live together as an entity irrespective of tribe,creed,gender,race and natural orientations.

It is sickening that people who have not stayed a cumulative of 2 years in Nigeria all their life would come to NL to write crap about tribalism in Nigeria.

Ogugua88

Perhaps English isn't your forte. If you also aren't tribalistic, you definitely wouldn't be vying for the eze ndigbo trash.

Go check your dictionary about tribalism and brush-up your understanding of the use of English.

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Very well said shymexx: ogugua take note.

shymexx: Ogugua88

Perhaps English isn't your forte. If you also aren't tribalistic, you definitely wouldn't be vying for the eze ndigbo trash.

Go check your dictionary about tribalism and brush-up your understanding of the use of English.

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One can be Igbo and Nigerian simultaneously. It's a collection of tribes that makes Nigeria what it is anyway. There's nothing wrong with one taking pride in his or her tribe and the plethora of positive culture that comes with it. Do I love my tribe? Yes I do. Am I a bigot? No and I never will be.

I was nominated for and became the eze nwanyi of Nairaland's Igbo group. You'll also remember that I refused to tolerate bigotry and I also refused to become a tribal bigot myself and appease some of them by ridiculing people from other tribes, which is why I was cyber-bullied by fellow Igbos for days on end. So don't make it seem like I'm a pro-Igbo, anti-other tribes person as that's never been me.

There's nothing wrong with having tribal pride. Everything is wrong when those who claim they are prideful start spewing lines and insults like "kwashiorkor" and "ofe mmanu".

JMOI: You are a confused element, just like your fellow Yorubas.

Bigot !

What's 'eze nwanyi' ?

Queen.

I'm riding with Shymexx on this one.
Preach bro!

Laja Laba: which yeye love this one is talking about?think straight stop being emotional

you can't control your hate. it boils you to see us.

ogugua88:

I stayed in the SW region for nearly a month during my last visit and experienced absolutely no hostility.

Even if one person abused me, be it verbally or physically, that wouldn't have been enough for me to write off an entire tribe. Tribal bigotry can never be tolerated or understood by me and it's certainly not something my children will ever learn.

I've experienced more intolerance or prejudice from whites (and it's nothing compared to blacks/Africans living in say Texas or Mississippi) and I've never had anything against them. There's no way I'd discriminate against my own countrymen or countrywomen. Tolerating and/or encouraging such is only another step towards regression.

A young bride visiting her inlaws usually doesn't experience hostility. I have also stayed years in Lagos and everybody respected themselves. However that's not the point. The thing is try and do something over there like join a govt department or start a local association or something, you will soon be reminded that you are tolerated and that one nigeria is just a tool for resource exploitation.

How naive can obodo oyibo make somebody?

birdman:

Keep deceiving yourself. You are living in your own head, making stuff up to justify your hate.. Every region in Nigeria has some strain of tribalism. The Southwest though is by far the most liberal. Hasua, Igbo, etc all settle in the southwest, own businesses and get so comfortable they identify with their host states just as much as their home states. If the SW was as nasty as you say, you would have left by now. Interestingly, you seem to conveniently ignore your brethren (and other Nigerians) being slaughtered any time there is some wahala up north.

Younger Nigerians in diaspora understand they world they live in. All the civil war and tribal baggage parents keep trying to foist on their kids melt in the face of reality: being a black man, of any ethnic group, anywhere in the world is hard. Division gets you nowhere.

see this one. this is the typical yoruba misrepresentation and distortion. If you think a few disgruntled illiterates blowing themselves up will stop Igbos from travelling and setting up new businesses, think again.
Southwest is the most wicked but the fulani first militarily dominated you people and then Igbos administered your institutions first and built the economy called Lagos. It has nothing to do with your goodness.

Younger nigerians in diaspora are living a fantasy country. Why are they refusing to come back to nigeria and face this your touted reality? You claim that being a black man is hard but perpetuate in a subdued slavery by accepting a country imposed on you by a white man.

Sloan:

Really? Is it not empty gloating when ibos keeps lying to themselves that the people who whooped them leading the starving are cowards? Imagine Germany as respected as they still are calling the US cowards? LMAO...but they are definitely smarter than the people who were in the same situation! Whooped hard and guess who the coward is? The man who showed-up in your house, whooped you so hard until your leader ran away for 12 years! LOL.

Oladipo Diya.

Sloan:

Either madness or deceitfulness had eaten your brains out! You said you are doing the Yorubas a favour by "developing" their land while your ancestral lands remains a red earth, scorched wasteland? When and where did Yorubas write an invitation letter to Ibos to come and develop their lands or you think we don't know that without our lands, starvation and plagues will wipe you out completely? So the spare parts seller eking out a living in Lagos is doing it not to feed himself and family (avoiding certain death from starvation) but because he loves the Yorubas so much and their cars?? LWKMD!

Well, this is ONE of the BIGGEST reasons we need a national conference and one of the biggest changes is regional governments. You will learn better after everyone is required to live in their father's land and not be parasites on others!

Subsidised beggars calling others parasites. SMH

Alfa Seltzer:

see this one. this is the typical yoruba misrepresentation and distortion. If you think a few disgruntled illiterates blowing themselves up will stop Igbos from travelling and setting up new businesses, think again.
Southwest is the most wicked but [s]the fulani first militarily dominated you people[/s]and then [s]Igbos administered your institutions first[/s] and built the economy called Lagos. It has nothing to do with your goodness.

Younger nigerians in diaspora are living a fantasy country. Why are they refusing to come back to nigeria and face this your touted reality? You claim that being a black man is hard but perpetuate in a subdued slavery by accepting a country imposed on you by a white man.

False.
Do further research into history because apparently, you can write good English but oblivious and illiterate to history, credible history and quit touting the attempt of fiction writing specialist's attempt at history.

First bolded: If it was Igboland the Fulani ravaged liked they attempted with Yorubaland before they were whipped back, take it from me that you people's story would have been different today because you lots claim to be brave but the Hausa/Fulani have continued to slaughter your ilks continuously since 1960s till date and there's no end in sight.

Second bolded: Your ilks who administered UI did when NCNC/Zik were running the 'show'. And I pray ye tell if you have that much fine Univ admins as you've claimed how come majority of your ilks still run to SW universities even state Univ for education when your made-in-heaven admins could have morphed the schools in the east to world class standard?

Third bolded: Lagos keeps giving your ilks hard-on. In a nutshell if truly you built Lagos why can't you people replicate it in the whole of the East.

Lastly, Nigerians in diaspora coming back is far-fetched - it is a better life out there. The question should be: Why thousands of Igbos keep trooping out of Alaigbo and refusing to return?

Everything is a case of doing it once before and shouldn't be difficult to repeat, abi?

9jacrip:

False.
Do further research into history because apparently, you can write good English but oblivious and illiterate to history, credible history and quit touting the attempt of fiction writing specialist's attempt at history.

First bolded: If it was Igboland the Fulani ravaged liked they attempted with Yorubaland before they were whipped back, take it from me that you people's story would have been different today because you lots claim to be brave but the Hausa/Fulani have continued to slaughter your ilks continuously since 1960s till date and there's no end in sight.

Second bolded: Your ilks who administered UI did when NCNC/Zik were running the 'show'. And I pray ye tell if you have that much fine Univ admins as you've claimed how come majority of your ilks still run to SW universities even state Univ for education when your made-in-heaven admins could have morphed the schools in the east to world class standard?

Third bolded: Lagos keeps giving your ilks hard-on. In a nutshell if truly you built Lagos why can't you people replicate it in the whole of the East.

Lastly, Nigerians in diaspora coming back is far-fetched - it is a better life out there. The question should be: Why thousands of Igbos keep trooping out of Alaigbo and refusing to return?

Everything is a case of doing it once before and shouldn't be difficult to repeat, abi?

Don't expect us to become lazy like you people and stay in our villages. Tufiakwa.

I swear on the head of whoever that a relation of yours have already sold land to an Igbo man. Probably you father or uncle. Just remember that any Igbo man buying your land started with less than 20 pounds. Think about that and bow.

What a funny thread,there is nothing wrong with being an ethnic tribalist,being a bigot is the main problem,Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. It is a precondition for members of a tribe to possess a strong feeling of identity for a true tribal society to form.

Alfa Seltzer:

Don't expect us to become lazy like you people and stay in our villages. Tufiakwa.

I swear on the head of whoever that a relation of yours have already sold land to an Igbo man. Probably you father or uncle. Just remember that any Igbo man buying your land started with less than 20 pounds. Think about that and bow.

You've evaded my questions, please attend to them.
I guess the Americans/Canadians etc are not traveling because they're lazy? Your East is a cursed land this is why you lot troop out en-masse.
you can buy the land but when the D-Day comes please peel the lands and take them with you . And no, my relatives have not sold lands to your ilks even though you lot are much in my hometown - my family land as huge as it is, is solely reserved for its members both at home and diaspora so no need to swear.

Alfa Seltzer: A young bride visiting her inlaws usually doesn't experience hostility. I have also stayed years in Lagos and everybody respected themselves. However that's not the point. The thing is try and do something over there like join a govt department or start a local association or something, you will soon be reminded that you are tolerated and that one nigeria is just a tool for resource exploitation.

How naive can obodo oyibo make somebody?

Well, that's your experience. No one has ever wronged me. Even if someone did, I wouldn't hate a whole region or tribe because of the actions of one or a few. My parents raised me better than that.

redsun: Most nigerians are too primitive to understand the concept of a functional union and the need to live together as an entity irrespective of tribe,creed,gender,race and natural orientations.

Just because you want to go your own way doesn't make you primitive. Sometimes its about standing on principle. I don't know about you, but marrying under-aged girls and trying to pass a law to make it legal is a deal-breaker for me. A whole section of the country, both progressive and otherwise voted unanimously for that bill. While I respect their right to vote their values in a democracy, you should be able to understand why I am hesitant to be part of a country where pedophilia almost became legal. Its one thing to respect all ethnic groups. Its another thing to imbibe destructive values.

shymexx: Ogugua88

Perhaps English isn't your forte. If you also aren't tribalistic, you definitely wouldn't be vying for the eze ndigbo trash.

Go check your dictionary about tribalism and brush-up your understanding of the use of English.

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so when you read this in 2011 what did you do http://nigeriafilms.com/news/12969/4/

Does Biafra mean that all Other tribes suck? Did Biafra go to your town bombing and slaughtering your people. I know the history of Biafra my Dear, it was a time that Nigerians came together to protect the land and protect the Igbo people, it is a philosophy of ethnic pride not of hatred of other people in Africa. I will give you credit to say that I am tribalistic when it comes to the definition by English standard, because I am proud of our culture, heritage and I do have a strong sense of pride for my Igbo culture. But that does not give me the right to spew filth about other tribes and to stereotype them in negative ways. That is what we are discussing here the negative hateful energy that you and others continue to practice, it is not necessary to show pride in your tribe to put down other tribes!