babyosisi:


Where are you coming from?

You have made very solid points I must confess. Just that you may not really understand what is going on here since you live in the USA. Here in Lagos, over the years, I have observed the arrogant way most of our people behave. I have seen Igbos pointing at Yorubas and telling them that we (Igbos) own Lagos and that we are the ones feeding them and sustaining Lagos. I have had to call some to order sometimes when I feel it is too much. They say it in buses and in public that Lagos is no-man's-land and with such arrogance and attitude. Yes, we agree that Lagos is cosmopolitan and that various factors have contributed to it's development and not just the Yorubas but the question is why is only our people that always shout no-man's-land to the Yorubas?

I think our people should just calm down and stop pointing fingers at the Yorubas in Lagos; it is just not civil and provokes the people. Yes, we pay our taxes and work for our living, we should allow peace continue for the good of all. I know that Yorubas have their own issues and you can see that I started by condemning what the Oba said.

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EUROBOMBER:


Please try and understand where I am coming from can you?

Honestly, I personally don't see where you are coming from. I've read your OP over and over again but still fail to see the point you are trying to make apart from making excuses for someone that threatened genocide.

Did you hear that the ICC wrote PEJ when she threatened that her supporters should stone anyone seen shouting 'Change'?

I fail to see your point honestly.

babyosisi:
If you don't realize that your constant stewpidity and cries over Igbos this and that is the reason some choose to send you over the cliff by claiming they own your land then I can't help you
At least they got something that enrages you as much as the things they hear you say
It is called an eye for an eye
You don't run amok issuing threats and expect your opponents to sit in a corner and cry

If they got one word that will send you to drink acid they will use it
Seems this one is working quite well

sum 9jerian pipul....know der history and that history speak for them.....u as a human have no leg to stand on....ur record over d yrs here speak...under ur different names...u r evil n u know it...... ...wen ur pipul did d same before n suffered....mankeys like u shd have learnt....but u continue.......... ...I hope u send ur family members to d next war front n don't do a ojukwu...

EUROBOMBER:
The recent happenings in Lagos have created so much tension between the Igbo and the Yoruba. There is so much bitterness and hate talk flying around and this will not do us any good.

When you try to break a wall using a sledge hammer, you need to apply several blows before it gives in. You might need to apply a 100 blows but one thing to note is that it is not the 100th blow that breaks the wall, it is a combination of effects from the very first blow. This brings me to the recent statement credited to the Oba of Lagos to the Igbos. I condemn the statement and I believe every right-thinking person should do the same in the interest of peace and civility. What I want to tell my Igbo people is that the Oba's outburst is not just as a result of the forth-coming gubernatorial election in Lagos but a combination of factors. I hear some of our people calling Lagos a no-man's-land and this is just too bad; this is the height of arrogance and disrespect. How can we move into a Yoruba land, enjoying God's blessings and prosperity only to turn round and tell the people that their land belongs to nobody, that we feed them, and that they cannot survive without us and all the other rubbish and provocative stuff??

Clearly the Oba has been harbouring this anger as a result of the arrogance and provocation of our Igbo people and just could not contain it this time and lashed out.

My Igbo brothers, can we sit down and ask ourselves why we have been so aggressive towards the Yorubas? What have they done wrong to us to deserve this provocation and arrogance? The Yorubas are a very peaceful people and we turn round to call them cowards and all sorts of names. What do we want the Yorubas to do to prove to us that they are not cowards, rise up and go on a killing spree? These Yorubas even returned all our properties to us after the civil war something even our close neighbours in the SS didn’t do!

What does it take to respect your host and do as they wish my people for Christ’s sake? We are prosperous in Yoruba land and are enjoying the land and have no problem with the people, all they are for is for us to know our limits and give them their respect is this too much to ask from us? Let me ask my people one honest question, why are we not shouting that Kano is a no-man’s land The Yorubas have been very nice and taking all these insults from us and we turn around to point our fingers in their noses and call them cowards! Jesus! We claim to be Christians and worship God, is it not written in the bible that blessed are the peace makes for they shall be called the children of God?

My Igbo people please see a sample of what is making the Yorubas very angry with us:

1. I WILL ELEVATE EZE NDIGBO TO THE STATUS OF OBA OF LAGOS - JIMI AGBAJE.

2. IGBO WILL DETERMINE WHO RULES LAGOS- IFEANYI UBAH

3. LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND.- IFEANYI UBAH DURING TAN CAMPAIGN.

4. IGBO DEVELOPED AND CONTROL LAGOS- JIMI AGBAJE DURING GEJ CAMPAIGN IN AKWA IBOM

5. WE MUST PRODUCE THE NEXT DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF LAGOS- EZE NDIGBO

MY QUESTIONS TO IGBOS,

1. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT ALL THE ABOVE MENTIONED?

2. CAN EMIR OF KANO ACCEPT ....?

3. DO YOU HAVE ANY SINGLE TRIBE IN YOUR CABINET IN THE EAST?

4. CAN ANY TRIBE CLAIM ONITHSA OR ABA TO BE NO MAN,S LAND?

5. CAN OBI OF ONITHSA ACCEPT THE ELEVATION OF SARKIN HAUSA IN ONITHSA TO OBI STATUS?

[size=16pt]I want to use this medium to appeal to well-meaning Yorubas to forgive the childishness and foolishness of our people. Please drop any plans of violence being planned against our people and all other diplomatic ways of punishing our people in your land including Lagos.

We recognise that LAGOS IS A YORUBA LAND and will respect that. Please I appeal for calm and understanding. I am inviting some Yorubas I respect on this forum to help reach out to your people to be calm, I have personally decided to start a campaign to reorientate our people as God helps me in my own way to change the way we think.

Even God told Moses that if he could find just 10 righteous people he will not destroy Sodom & Gomorrah. Igbos like me are far more than 10 in Lagos and other areas of SW. Please do not bring out the beast in you and and please allow better judgement prevail over emotions.[/size]

Scatterboss

Superstar1

Desola

Ilugunboy

Gbawe

Jarus

EURO.WANKÈR! YOU SPEAK FOR YOURSELF AND YOURSELF ALONE !! mumu

kendrick9:
guy,u are foolish..abia,imo and recently anambra are major producers of oil in this country

Funny thing is that oil in Ondo state was stolen from Delta state hence the constant clash between Ijaws and the yorubas there. The Ijaws actually want to return back to delta to be alongside their brothers. Yoruba have always been an oil thievery community since beginning of time.

At least you agreed with me that no oil in iboland. Good for you that you didn't include any ibo state in Niger delta. You left Yoruba states out your list but Yoruba states will never be left behind, ibos leaving there land for mine is a testament to that. You have heard of Ondo, a Yoruba state that is very important to the survival of any ibo living and unborn, cos you have to get there before getting to your London that's in my backyard. Edo have Yoruba part and delta have Ugbo people not to talk of The Itsekiri.


Backward Cannibals can't tell the truth, many years of eating fellow human beings have stunted your ability to reason and be truthful!

oikechukwu:


OMG didn't need a Jesus to know you are yoruba. IQ is less than that of a inaminate object so e no surprise me that this ediot didn't know their indigenous lands in delta state that belongs to igbo. See yoruba double standard. Buff00n crying that people are calling yorubas "no mans land" yet are equally trying to rewrite history. Ewu gambia.
The difference between us and you lazy touts is that despite una constant rewrite, noone cared to cry out or even pay you touts mind. Why? Because we actually still hold control of our lands while for una, everybody is taking a huge chunk here and there. una precious lagos is being slowly taken away from una by nonindigieous till the point your oba is crying like an agbero buffoon. Your people in Ibadan threw temper tantrum on foreigners taking over. Even illorin belongs to the fulani. Ha illorin Emir would be proud. Ha!!!!

While I'm at it, you still have not answered my question. What part of ND do yoruba make up? I don wait. Is it delta, rivers, akwa ibom, cross rivers, edo, etc? Which one is it?
If can't name it, you are nothing but a downright thief.

shaboti:
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babyosisi:
If you don't realize that your constant stewpidity and cries over Igbos this and that is the reason some choose to send you over the cliff by claiming they own your land then I can't help you
At least they got something that enrages you as much as the things they hear you say
It is called an eye for an eye
You don't run amok issuing threats and expect your opponents to sit in a corner and cry

If they got one word that will send you to drink acid they will use it
Seems this one is working quite well

You get time for some slowpokes who would rather apologize to outsider for insulting his own father! God! I can't believe that a true son of Igbo could open such a stupid thread just to pacify one section of the country and demonizing his own.

I do not understand the constant reminder of being a visitor when most of these slowpokes are living in another man's country. The silly EUROBOMBER even called for revocation of two seats won by Igbos in Lagos just to appease some never do wells.

Very soon, when Igbos goes to restaurant, they will be asked to sit outside because they are visitors, or we will have apartheid state like in SA.

These dumb fools are the same who will cry racism when a whiteman ask Africans to go back to their country. You really have their time sister.

Nobody born or a woman can make the Igbos leave Lagos, we are here to stay and there I say, after Jim, an Okechukwu is the next governor of Lagos,... and we are coming for other states. All these good for nothing, outcast Igbos should continue licking the Yourba's butt for all I care

eempire:



Have you ever asked yourself why one would never hear any negative report on YORUBA'S leaving outside yoruba land??.
»» They are respective pple
»» They will never go pass their boundary
»» They deal with matters intelligently rather than aggressively
»» They value their peac of mind and you will never see them doing things that would jeopardise their feauture and that of their kids and many more.

But the IGBO's are direct opposite of the above

why?

Are you serious? So the yorubas filled in UK jails are what?
Yorubas in FBI most wanted list are what? Mind you there have been more yorubas in FBI most wanted than any other ethnic group from Nigeria
The Nigerian 419 rung with 34 Nigerians involved and out of the 34, 33 were yoruba were what?
The yoruba that decapitated that politics e officer in UK are what?
The yorubas found molesting kids in UK were what?
We can go on and on if you like.
Are those people not "negative" report?
Wtf is una constant rewrite of things. Mtchewwwwww

EUROBOMBER:


You have made very solid points I must confess. Just that you may not really understand what is going on here since you live in the USA. Here in Lagos, over the years, I have observed the arrogant way most of our people behave. I have seen Igbos pointing at Yorubas and telling them that we (Igbos) own Lagos and that we are the ones feeding them and sustaining Lagos. I have had to call some to order sometimes when I feel it is too much. They say it in buses and in public that Lagos is no-man's-land and with such arrogance and attitude. Yes, we agree that Lagos is cosmopolitan and that various factors have contributed to it's development and not just the Yorubas but the question is why is only our people that always shout no-man's-land to the Yorubas?

I think our people should just calm down and stop pointing fingers at the Yorubas in Lagos; it is just not civil and provokes the people. Yes, we pay our taxes and work for our living, we should allow peace continue for the good of all. I know that Yorubas have their own issues and you can see that I started by condemning what the Oba said.

Unless someone is mad,I don't see anyone walking to anybody and telling him they own their land or are feeding them
I can imagine that coming up in a banter or in an argument
It happens here all the time so I suppose that is the same thing you are referring to
In the town I grew up and all over Igboland there are sections called ama Awusa where Hausas own properties and live in
I don't feel threatened by them
They have every right to be there despite killing my people in their places
Yorubas should quit being threatened by people who have not disenfranchised ,harmed or physically assaulted them
Hausas and Fulani pillage and kill and ra,pe them at will and not a whimper
Yet all their cries are over Igbos
What nonsense

Your mother the crowned fool is the one you are referring to.
We are not talking about oil in the sky or politics now, we are talking about real oil. We have asked you millions of times where the oil are located in this places but, you guys refused to say!

Ibos have no oil.

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kendrick9:
guy,u are foolish..abia,imo and recently anambra are major producers of oil in this country

EUROBOMBER:


You have made very solid points I must confess. Just that you may not really understand what is going on here since you live in the USA. Here in Lagos, over the years, I have observed the arrogant way most of our people behave. I have seen Igbos pointing at Yorubas and telling them that we (Igbos) own Lagos and that we are the ones feeding them and sustaining Lagos. I have had to call some to order sometimes when I feel it is too much. They say it in buses and in public that Lagos is no-man's-land and with such arrogance and attitude. Yes, we agree that Lagos is cosmopolitan and that various factors have contributed to it's development and not just the Yorubas but the question is why is only our people that always shout no-man's-land to the Yorubas?

I think our people should just calm down and stop pointing fingers at the Yorubas in Lagos; it is just not civil and provokes the people. Yes, we pay our taxes and work for our living, we should allow peace continue for the good of all. I know that Yorubas have their own issues and you can see that I started by condemning what the Oba said.

You are not only a slowpoke but efulefu at that.. tell me the offence of the Igbos in Lagos? The Igbos in Lagos have contributed more positively to the growth of Lagos than most Yoruba's shouting here. Have any Igbo stolen the land of a Yoruba person? what is all this so called no man's land. The Igbo pay top money to buy land in Lagos, they build their own house, in most Igbo dominated areas, they provide their own amenities because the Government have abandoned the area... Just tell me one reason the Igbos should be grateful to the Yorubas.

How many Yorubas living in the US and UK are worship the owner of the land? why would the Igbos start worshiping Yorubas? You should be very ashamed of yourself for this silly post of yours. bye

whitecat1:
Your mother the crown fool is the one you are referring to.
We are not talking about oil in the sky or politics now, we are talking about real oil. We have asked you millions of times where the oil are located in this places but, you guys refused to say!

Ibos have no oil.

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u are an emberassment....
go and check oil producing states in nigeria.... thats an assignment for u.

oikechukwu:


Are you serious? So the yorubas filled in UK jails are what?
Yorubas in FBI most wanted list are what? Mind you there have been more yorubas in FBI most wanted than any other ethnic group from Nigeria
The Nigerian 419 rung with 34 Nigerians involved and out of the 34, 33 were yoruba were what?
The yoruba that decapitated that politics e officer in UK are what?
The yorubas found molesting kids in UK were what?
We can go on and on if you like.
Are those people not "negative" report?
Wtf is una constant rewrite of things. Mtchewwwwww

Don't mind them
Adebolajo and his brother that slaughtered a British soldier on the street are from okigwe
The Yoruba alqueda and ISIS member are from Mbaise
the Yoruba gangsters terrorizing the UK populace are from ikeduru
The clique of Yoruba credit card fraudster and insurance dupes all over the USA are from the moon

Someone says yorubas are specialists at projecting whatever evil they do unto Igbos hoping it sticks
They will lie and make up stories to buttress a point

Is like most pple don't know the history of Lagos. The name Lagos was given to that geographical space by the early Portuguese traders who were trading with the ijebu's, awori and co. Then came the British to the shores of Lagos from the Atlantic Ocean and at that time the people there mainly people from Yoruba extractions had a king there called Oba Dosumu he worked with the British he didn't resist them. The british used Lagos as a point to colonize the rest of Yoruba land, igbo land , Hausa land and the rest of Nigeria. When the British were leaving they already developed that land called Lagos so the Federal Govt felt comfortable to situate the capital there before IBB moved the Capital to Abuja.
To the point of the Story, Lagos was developed by the British first of all before the FG, many igbos didn't move to Lagos until after the Civil war in the 70's.
London is the most cosmopolitan city in the world with a lot of Arab investments there and you can never ever hhear anybody say London is a no man's land ofcourse it belongs to the English but they ve allowed contributions from everyone who chose to live there and call it their home.
So yes everyone is welcome in Lagos to call it their home but do not forget the Land belongs to some people before the British came in and the FG made it Capital. So igbos of all the other tribes in Lagos, you came in last into Lagos. Other tribes have been in Lagos before you came.
Igbos did not develop Lagos, most of you are into trading, do you develop a city with trading. The real pple developing Lagos are the white, Indians and chinese Foreigners in Lagos who pay huge taxes to the state Govt.not petty tax they collect from igbos trading.

write2obi:
.With all due respect, i disagree with most of the things you said here,
I will try to answer some of your questions, but before I do, let me remind you that Lagos was a state capital and was developed with Nigerians money, so it belongs to all of us, Lagos will not be what it is today if not for all our efforts. Nigeria should develop Enugu as much as they developed Abuja and Lagos and let's see if we would not move back home, give us an international airport and a standard seaport
*Kano is not called a no mans land because it was not once a state capital,
Let me ask you,
*how would you feel if someone wakes up tomorrow and start telling you that Abuja belongs to his father or grand father ?

As an Igbo Man myself, I'm so glad someone sensible from my own tribe wrote this. When the chips are down, Ifeanyi Uba will jump on the next plane abroad, but the idiots on nairaland and other media fanning this embers of hate will have themselves to blame if they're lucky to get out alive. Ndi Igbo malu nu ife! Ifeanyi Uba is fending for his pocket.

Pathological liars, ibos don't produce oil! You only claim what belongs to others!

For years I've thrown it at you ibos to just tell us the name of villages with oil wells and the companies that are drilling them, but up till now you think your lies will stick.

kendrick9:
u are an emberassment....
go and check oil producing states in nigeria.... thats an assignment for u.

Mykevp2p:


You get time for some slowpokes who would rather apologize to outsider for insulting his own father! God! I can't believe that a true son of Igbo could open such a stupid thread just to pacify one section of the country and demonizing his own.

I do not understand the constant reminder of being a visitor when most of these slowpokes are living in another man's country. The silly EUROBOMBER even called for revocation of two seats won by Igbos in Lagos just to appease some never do wells.

Very soon, when Igbos goes to restaurant, they will be asked to sit outside because they are visitors, or we will have apartheid state like in SA.

These dumb fools are the same who will cry racism when a whiteman ask Africans to go back to their country. You really have their time sister.

Nobody born or a woman can make the Igbos leave Lagos, we are here to stay and there I say, after Jim, an Okechukwu is the next governor of Lagos,... and we are coming for other states. All these good for nothing, outcast Igbos should continue licking the Yourba's butt for all I care

I am glad that when they make their mouth there are able Igbos that can respond and send them crying
Anyone that has a political clout should win
That is democracy
If an Indian and Pakistani can win a seat to be an MP in the UK, so can an Igbo man who lives and pays taxes in Lagos
Oyibo people have not died that foreigners with different colors and features are councillors and mayors in their lands and own property there but a Yoruba oba wants to quench over a local election where people were democratically elected
Let him quench
If Nigeria was Half way decent he should have been shackled and jailed for making hateful comments ,threatening and inciting violence

whitecat1:
At least you agreed with me that no oil in iboland. Good for you that you didn't include any ibo state in Niger delta. You left Yoruba states out your list but Yoruba states will never be left behind, ibos leaving there land for mine is a testament to that. You have heard of Ondo, a Yoruba state that is very important to the survival of any ibo living and unborn, cos you have to get there before getting to your London that's in my backyard. Edo have Yoruba part and delta have Ugbo people not to talk of The Itsekiri.


Backward Cannibals can't tell the truth, many years of eating fellow human beings have stunted your ability to reason and be truthful!

My God can you stop displaying your craze srupid1ty. Just because you are uneducated evident by being a Yoruba agbero does not mean you actually have to prove you an slowpoke. It's not a competition whose the dumbest between you and a worm. You've already proven you beat it ten times fold.
Ondo state was NEVER an oil producing state. Your OBJ deliberately sectioned off a portion of Delta oil producing areas to Ondo in order to give you people an "oil producing title". This is a well known secret in delta state and something ppl are actually fighting to fix. Imo, Abia and Anambra are oil producing states, not to talk to Anioma included.
Spare us the self delusions of being an oil producing region. Your people are thieves. Nothing more, nothing less hence that area will never know peace as it still don't till this day.

ROTFLMFAOOOO @iteskiri being Yoruba. ROFLMFAO. Don't even make me fucking laugh. Only on NL and yoruba Newspaper are that BS reality. Anyone born and bred in delta knows if you dare call an Itsekiri man a yoruba, he'll chop your f2king head off for the insults. This ediotic man. I dare you, Infact I quadruple dare you to head to delta and call an Itsekiri man a yoruba and see if you'll come back alive.
Ha. So you lazy clown are still claiming Edo state indigenous as yoruba. I laugh in Chinese. The Edo have told you thieves repeatedly they are in no way, shape or form Yoruba. Rather you were their slave, nothing more, nothing less. Why don't you baboon looking clowns get it through una head.
The only place yoruba can lay any claim is Lukumi in Anioma and even then you f00l migrated there. My people decided to be nice and give a small portion of our ancestry territory to you ungrateful lots [that's actually the definition of ACCOMDATING that you imbeciles clearly don't understand]. That's the only yoruba area in delta state. And even then it's predominately igbo speaking, majority claim igbo heritage and only a handful actually try to retain their yoruba origin. When you go up there, you won't for a second know those people used to yoruba. Even when we accomodate you lazy lots, gave una free lands, we still dominated you monkies. Btw: since your Lukumi ancestors didn't pay one dime for any of the lands they inhabit today, the property still belong to all Aniocha community that donated lands to them so they can be kicked out back to SW and you people won't have any claim to any delta area but since they denounced their heritage excluding a handful, we let them stay.

Oh and for your information Ondo is NOT ND. If we include you Yoruba snake way of dragging your useless state in ND then going by that logic, Imo and Abia were equally included as ND by that reconstruction definition of ND buffoon. Pick up a f2king book and read before making a fool of yourself.
The real definition of ND are the SS states and I ask yet again, where in ND are you clowns found? Not claiming etnic groups and states that are bot Yoruba in una greedy attempt to steal as usual but actual real territories.
I can accurately call myself a ND until my people are separated from delta state. You and the rest of your yoruba people are NOT and will NEVER be part of ND no matter how desperately you people try.

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/fg-designates-anambra-oil-producing-state/
@whitecat1... come to abia and imo and see some works done by nddc..

All star fraud !!!

The oil jonathan and your fish-eyed minister tried to steal for Anambra from Kogi and many have lost their lives? You ibos can't even go near the oil place after begging Kogi!

NC is an oil producing state before SE!

kendrick9:
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/fg-designates-anambra-oil-producing-state/
@whitecat1... come to abia and imo and see some works done by nddc..

The claim that the igbo helped to develop Lagos is hogwash. The
major institutions of the south-west were developed by the
diligence, hard-work, industry and sweat of the yoruba people.
This is a historical fact, the facts are clear and the records speak
for themselves. I will go no further than that because it is about
time that Nigerians learnt to do their own research and studied
their own history. I will not allow the mob mentality or emotion
becloud my thinking or intimidate me into distorting the truth.
The igbo had little to do with the development of Lagos between
1890 uo till today and that is a fact. Other than Ajegunle, Computer
Town, Alaba and buying up a few market stalls in Isale Eko where
is their input? Meanwhile the yoruba and Lagos were very
gracious to them and not only allowed them to return after the civil
war to claim their properties and jobs but we welcomed them with
open arms and allowed them to flourish in our land. This is
something that they have never done for our people in the east.
Now some of them have the effontry to call our land and the land of
our forefathers (I am half Lagosian and was brought up in Lagos)
''no-man's land'' and others have the nerve to assert that up to 50
per cent of the development in Lagos came as a consequence of
the input of the igbo. This is utter rubbish.
Those that do not know any better ought to go and learn rather
than vent their hostilities and ignorance against me here. I am not
a tribalist but a great believer in Nigeria and a historian. I will not
distort the facts of history just to keep some people happy. The
history of the yoruba and of Lagos particularly is very well known
to me and the fact that Lagosians and the yoruba generally are so
generous and accomodating in their ways and to non-indegenees
that settle in their territory should not be mistaken for stupidity or
weakness. We know our history, we know who we are, we know
who and what developed our land and made it into what it is and
we urge thosethsat yearn to be like us to go and emulate our
efforts and attitude to non-indigenees and hard work in their own
state of origin.
I have nothing against m fellow Nigerians from other parts of the
country and I have proved over and over again that I love Nigeria
and that I am a Nigerian before anything else. However if, in the
twisted imagination of some speaking the truth about the history
and development of Lagos makes me a tribalist, then tribalist I am.
Servants of truth do not fear such labels and are often hated and
misunderstood. If I was worried about what others though of me I
would have stopped writing essays long ago.
Meanwhile permit me to recommend to all and sundry to read and
learn from the following words of an insightful aburo by the name
of Mr. Sina Fagbenro-Byron. He has had the courage to analyse
the matter in a very honest, clear and forthright manner and he has
spoken the truth. Let us hope that those that have no knowledge of
that truth are humble enough to learn from it. He wrote-
''It has become a recent habit by a number of our young Igbo
brethren to refer to Lagos as a 'no-man's land. The great Zik,
Mbadiwe, Mbonu Ojike, Ajuluchukwu, Opara etc would never have
made such statements as they knew better. It is not only unfair but
in extremely bad taste apart from the fact that it is historically
false. How can you call a land that has had over 400 years of
traditional rulership and cultural definition as a no man's land.? It
shows contempt for the indigenes, ingratitude of hospitality and a
betrayal of ones host. The late Herbert Macauley( a Yoruba
Lagosian) on his dying bed endorsed Zik as successor leader of
the NCNC because of his nationalism, intellectual sagacity and it
was endorsed by a group of Yoruba elders and not by any Igbo
population who is anycase were infinitesimal as at the time, for
Chinua Achebe records in his book, and we can roughly confirm
that there were not more than a few thousand Igbos in Lagos
before the civil war. So after having been received, accomodated
by their host Yorubas since the 1940s a generation that is ignorant
of history and careless of historical relationship refer to Lagos as
no mans land, this attitude is the cause of the perenial Jos crisis
amongst others. When the military stopped the teaching of history
in schools in the 1980s, we knew that by allowing them we courted
confusion, but it was deliberate. Up til1968 , Mushin, Apapa, Ikeja,
were all part of the Western Region. The English treaty was with
the Oba of Eko Ile,(Lagos). Lagos traditional families all are
Yoruba and the founder of Eko was Ogunfunminire who migrated
from Ife before the 16th century. Lagos traditional Obaship was
confirmed on behalf of the Oduduwa dynasty. If we consider it
unfair to call Igbo property 'abandoned property' after the civil war,
why should they refer to another mans backyard as no man's land.
Lagos had been the commercial nerve center of West Africa befor
Nigeria was created and this was attributable to the welcoming
attitude of coastal Yorubas, which was first betrayed by the
Portugese who introduced slave trade, the Kiriji war and the 100
year Yoruba civil war of 1769-1869 also saw a huge population
from the other Yoruba Hinterland moving to Lagos to procure salt,
guns,seek out their frred slave brethren etc and these led to the
growth of Lagos. Since independence and after the civil war other
Nigerians have made Lagos a home for themselves , but none have
been so unkind as to call Lagos a no mans land. Igbos who say
this and claim credit for the development of Lagos shouls
remember that the first Industrial Estate in Nigeria was built by
Awolowo in Ikeja as Premier of the West and the Western house on
Broad street has significant historical importance. I would urge my
Igbo brethren not to make true the words of Sardauna when he
described the Igbos as having a tendency to come in as visitors
and seek to claim ownership to the excusion of indigens, if Onitcha
or Abakaliki is not no mans land why should Lagos be. Imagine
how our Niger Delta brethren will feel if we refer to their space on
God's earth as no mans Land?''
Fagbemi-Byron has hit the nail on the head and I wholeheartedly
commend him. Frankly I could not have put it better myself. How I
wish that more of those that are in the younger generation today
would indulge in the type of research and scholarship that this
young man has obviously done. He, and those that value truth and
knowledge like him, are the true Nigerians and thankfully there are
many like him in every tribe and nationality in this great country.
May God grant them the courage to speak out and cure the
ignorant of their ignorance."

source:
By: Femi Fani-Kayode

whitecat1:
All fraud !!!

u really need to travel out.. stop being in that hut u call a house... u sound lyk an illiterate.mumu..
even a kid knows the oil producing states in this country..
Just so u know,ondo's oil isn't even quarter of whats in imo or abia.

What an epistle! Check your spellings below and see how educated you are, junk yard spare parts dealer! An imbecilic son of village iddiotts put together!

Ibos have no oil. Yoruba have oil in every part of Delta they are native to and all the oil wells in Ondo. You will never get your ibotic hands on the oil. See how you were chased in Kogi when you try to steal oil from there, thieves!

oikechukwu:


My God can you stop displaying your craze srupid1ty. Just because you are uneducated evident by being a Yoruba agbero does not mean you actually have to prove you an slowpoke. It's not a competition whose the dumbest between you and that a worm. You've already proven you beat it ten times fold.
Ondo state was NEVER an oil producing state. Your OBJ deliberately sectioned off a portion of Delta oil producing areas to Ondo in order to give you people an "oil producing title". This is a well known secret in delta state and something ppl are actually fighting to fix. Imo, Abia and Anambra are oil producing states, not to talk to Anioma included.
Spare us the self delusions of being an oil producing region. Your people are thieves. Nothing more, nothing less hence that area will never know peace as it still don't till this day.

ROTFLMFAOOOO @iteskiri being Yoruba. ROFLMFAO. Don't even make me fucking laugh. Only on NL and yoruba Newspaper are that BS reality. Anyone born and bred in delta knows if you dare call an Itsekiri man a yoruba, he'll chop your f2king head off for the insults. This ediotic man. I dare you, Infact I quadruple dare you to head to delta and call an Itsekiri man a yoruba and see if you'll come back alive.
Ha. So you lazy clown are still claiming Edo state indigenous as yoruba. I laugh in Chinese. The Edo have told you thieves repeatedly they are in no way, shape or form Yoruba. Rather you were their slave, nothing more, nothing less. Why don't you baboon looking clowns get it through una head.
The only place yoruba can lay any claim is Lukumi in Anioma and even then you f00l migrated there. My people decided to be nice and give a small portion of our ancestry territory to you ungrateful lots [that's actually the definition of ACCOMDATING that you imbeciles clearly don't understand]. That's the only yoruba area in delta state. And even then it's predominately igbo speaking, majority claim igbo heritage and only a handful actually try to retain their yoruba origin. When you go up there, you won't for a second know those people used to yoruba. Even when we accomodate you lazy lots, gave una free lands, we still dominated you monkies. Btw: since your Lukumi ancestors didn't pay one dime for any of the lands they inhabit today, the property still belong to all Aniocha community that donated lands to them so they can be kicked out back to SW and you people won't have any claim to any delta area but since they denounced their heritage excluding a handful, we let them stay.

Oh and for your information Ondo is NOT ND. If we include you Yoruba snake way of dragging your useless state in ND then going by that logic, Imo and Abia were equally included as ND you buffoon. Pick up a f2king book and read before making a fool of yourself.
The real definition of ND are the SS states and I ask yet again, where in ND are you clowns found? Not claiming etnic groups and states that are bot Yoruba in una greedy attempt to steal as usual but actual real territories.
I can accurately call myself a ND until my people are separated from delta state. You and the rest of your yoruba people are NOT and will NEVER be part of ND no matter how desperately you people try.

CHESSBOARD:


.... A true Igbo man do not make peace with a man who do not speak peace let alone apologize for his stewpid utterances.

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babyosisi:


I am glad that when they make their mouth there are able Igbos that can respond and send them crying
Anyone that has a political clout should win
That is democracy
If an Indian and Pakistani can win a seat to be an MP in the UK, so can an Igbo man who lives and pays taxes in Lagos
Oyibo people have not died that foreigners with different colors and features are councillors and mayors in their lands and own property there but a Yoruba oba wants to quench over a local election where people were democratically elected
Let him quench
If Nigeria was Half way decent he should have been shackled and jailed for making hateful comments ,threatening and inciting violence

The useless OP is in the league of those so called Ezes who were clapping in the tape.. I just couldn't get my head around it. If and Igbo man can be a shadow minister in far-away United kingdom, why not in his home country?

It is even funny that most Yorubas will come on Nairaland to talk about the Igbos, yet keep hating on UKIP leader for holding exactly the same opinion on immigrants as them.

We are in Lagos to stay and no force can alter that

Ibos have no oil and your rants won't change that!

kendrick9:
u really need to travel out.. stop being in that hut u call a house... u sound lyk an illiterate.mumu..
even a kid knows the oil producing states in this country..
Just so u know,ondo's oil isn't even quarter of whats in imo or abia.

babyosisi:


Don't mind them
Adebolajo and his brother that slaughtered a British soldier on the street are from okigwe
The Yoruba alqueda and ISIS member are from Mbaise
the Yoruba gangsters terrorizing the UK populace are from ikeduru
The clique of Yoruba credit card fraudster and insurance dupes all over the USA are from the moon

Someone says yorubas are specialists at projecting whatever evil they do unto Igbos hoping it sticks
They will lie and make up stories to buttress a point

Oh they really do. I remember seeing an article where two igbo arm robbers were caught in Lagos, after several background checks they ended up finding those boys were Yoruba. Even in my neighborhood, there was this Nigerian guy that kept using fake checks to buy groceries in the only African store around here. I'm going to assume the ediot did it not just the African store. I know it was the African store that reported him though. Why he did it multiple times knowing the check will bounce, only God knows. The Ghanaians that owed the store were pissed off, even promoted a reward for the assistant in the dude's arrest. Everybody was under the illusion the dude's name was Chukwuma. When he was finally caught thats we ended up finding out the niggas name was actually Femi and Chukwuma was just one of his "friends". That was the sickest of it all, the guy was using his friend's name for check fraud knowing fully well if anyone ever notice, the first person they'll blame is a Chukwuma. It's f2king sad. The only thing that said that igbo dude was the Ghanaians owners. If not for them being invested in the whole case, that nigg@ would have been rotting in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

As for their lies. Shebi you no see wetin I had to go through with one on this page. Despite evidence presented the dude still maintains his lies. Yoruba and lies na wa oo.

You Yoruba's are just making noise, tel ur oba not to trting Igbo's

You Yoruba's are just making noise, tel ur oba not to treathen Igbo's