Malawian:
i think the problem was awolowo making them think the igbo are their rivals. i will explain.
with the end of the war, as well as the imporvishment of the igbo, they did not feel any need to bucle up.
then there is the indigenization policy that just gave them money on a platter, i wonder if they even repayed the loans they used in buying up thoses multinationals then.

they settled down to party and to drink.

the thing with kids, they are only good at learning by observation. the present generation of yoruba youths learnt their trade by watching their fathers party away with abandon.

igbo youths on the other hand learnt the dignity of labour form their parents hell bent on recovering. my father made money so fast, we never lacked anything, in fact we even had a measure of luxury but he taught us stuff. i mean, they will deliberately starve us until 3pm on some days before we eat breakfast. some other times, we had to even 'work" for our feeding (by making us stay in my mamas shop - and we only eat after we have sold a certain amount of money). we are talking about the 80s when we already had a number of buildings to my fathers name, when he was already driving a V-Boot (a luxury car then) and my mother a 505.

they taught us fairplay. we were all made to eat from the same bowl. it was turn by turn all six of us (then) gatered around a mass of eba and soup. they will deliberately put only 4 piece of meat in the soup spo that we will share. the rule was who ever does the sharing of the meat will pick his/her piece the last.

those things are deliberate parenting skills they unleashed on us, in fact i was at a friends place only to see the guy using the same "agabari" for his children.

accross the fence, we will see even the mothers of our yoruba neighbours calling mama put to buy food for their kids.

i shudder at what the next generation of yoruba youths will be like.

hoobs:
I remember those days when my pops used to refer to me as "Nwokem",nwokem bia here!!!

YUSUPH1986:
[quote author=StephanieEzeh post=39053408. U av lost the pride of a woman! Basic character deficiency. O she

Malawian:

my father had these solid french shoes with extra hard wooden soles (he used to trade with gogefa and soxemes or something like that) most of those shoe, he brough back on his trips. men those shoes are hard!!! and our buttocks were so soft.

the man terrorized us to the point that if he comes upstairs, we will all port down stairs and vise versa. he did his job though.

Malawian:
i think the problem was awolowo making them think the igbo are their rivals. i will explain.
with the end of the war, as well as the imporvishment of the igbo, they did not feel any need to bucle up.
then there is the indigenization policy that just gave them money on a platter, i wonder if they even repayed the loans they used in buying up thoses multinationals then.

they settled down to party and to drink.

the thing with kids, they are only good at learning by observation. the present generation of yoruba youths learnt their trade by watching their fathers party away with abandon.

igbo youths on the other hand learnt the dignity of labour form their parents hell bent on recovering. my father made money so fast, we never lacked anything, in fact we even had a measure of luxury but he taught us stuff. i mean, they will deliberately starve us until 3pm on some days before we eat breakfast. some other times, we had to even 'work" for our feeding (by making us stay in my mamas shop - and we only eat after we have sold a certain amount of money). we are talking about the 80s when we already had a number of buildings to my fathers name, when he was already driving a V-Boot (a luxury car then) and my mother a 505.

they taught us fairplay. we were all made to eat from the same bowl. it was turn by turn all six of us (then) gatered around a mass of eba and soup. they will deliberately put only 4 piece of meat in the soup spo that we will share. the rule was who ever does the sharing of the meat will pick his/her piece the last.

those things are deliberate parenting skills they unleashed on us, in fact i was at a friends place only to see the guy using the same "agabari" for his children.

accross the fence, we will see even the mothers of our yoruba neighbours calling mama put to buy food for their kids.

i shudder at what the next generation of yoruba youths will be like.

hoobs:
I remember those days when my pops used to refer to me as "Nwokem",nwokem bia here!!!

homosapien:



I think the current problem is that igbo have a problem. if yoruba youth are lazy please how does that affect the igbo's you claim yoruba are envious and jealous. but the question is what are they envious or jealous of. tell me one achievement of an igbo man and I will list ten yoruba men who achieved same without any fuss of seeking attention.

tonychristopher:


Oga nobody is measuring dick..the facts are there..apart from Lagos ..go to other Yoruba cities and compare them with east

Lagos was developed by all Nigerians

homosapien:



You don't have to say all Nigerians. simply tell me Lagos was developed by the igbo's. now which facts are you guys referring to? you mean to tell me all the Yoruba youth's are into omonile or all the mansions is own by igbo's or igbo's are the most hardworking tribe in the world. please if you want me to take you serious quote me with facts not fictions created by the igbo's to make themselves happy.

hinwazaka:
Hogwash. Yorubas are all lazy, their sisters are lazy, their wives are lazy, their sons are lazy, their daughters are lazy, their mothers are lazy, their fathers are lazy, their grandfathers were lazy, their greatgrandfathers were lazy, in fact their entire lineage, past, present and future are lazy, were lazy and will always be lazy. Alongside, their good for nothing cousins, the Hausa/Fulanis, the Yorubitches are the laziest, most good for nothing tribe that ever occupied a region, in the state of Nigeria. Progressive, my foot.

tonychristopher:


Yesterday as I was driving home ...I saw many Yoruba kids doing conductors ...to be honest with you..I am not yabbing but I have seen so many Yoruba's here in Lagos that can't understand simple pidgin don't even think of Ibadan


I feel the problem with Yoruba is that I get am before mentality

Lagos just like abuja is developed by all Nigerians and no tribe can lay claim of that.

There was a thread about eastern neighbourhoods and we saw where the Igbo leave but when they showed Yoruba places it was .......hmmmm


So forget Lagos
Now do you know that I respect aboki in business

They are making impact in haulage ,foreign exchange and gold business ..what are the business and niche market Yoruba's are known for?

Let's be objective here for once


To be honest ..this Igbo bashing you see in nairaland is based on envy


And I wonder how you allowed people that fought war to surpass me

tonychristopher:


So it happened to you..my own case was dad will tell you that as a man you have to work during holidays in primary school he will take us to work with his staff we will work, we were kids though we might not do anything but we will not play balls ..we will stay in his 504 GL Till evening guarding the instruments... When he was paying his staffs he paid us


We also learnt trading and business from mum ranging from hollandis etc

So you experienced that



This was 80s

Malawian:

honestly, i wondered if they did some kind of town hall meeting and planned that for us.

Malawian:

honestly, i wondered if they did some kind of town hall meeting and planned that for us.

Malawian:

honestly, i wondered if they did some kind of town hall meeting and planned that for us.

homosapien:



Seriously! so tell me the igbo's selling gala, viju milk, ice cream are far better than the Yoruba's doing conductor. I was taught as a child that, "there is dignity in labour" in as much as you not stealing.


It is only in the mind of you and your fellow igbo's that Yoruba's are not excelling economic activity. do you know how many professionals, successful businessman/woman I have just in my family alone not to talk of other families who are even more successful than we are. and thus is just a microscopic view of the Yoruba race.

to be honest with you, the bashing you see on the forum is not as a result of any envy or whatever you conjecture. the bashing is simply a transfer of aggression from the problems bewildering Nigeria as a country.


did anybody put gun on your head to fight war? surpassed. I reserve my comment. please note that if we are to go with your logic, Yoruba's are lazy, poor. so who patronize all your so called investment in south West? hope you won't say is those gala sellers.

Now let me educate you a little, all society's starting from feudal Lords, to socialism, communism and now capitalism is always divided between two stratum . the haves and those who don't have, the rich and the poor. so for every pictures coming out of the eastern part of Nigeria showing Yoruba's living in the ghetto, there also will be enough of such pictorial evidence showing igbo's living in the slump. so my brother is not a tribe thing, rather a Nigeria problem which you and I should look for solution and not all this meaningless discussion of one imaginary person envying or been jealous of whatever you think is your achievements.

hoobs:
the difference between yorubas youths and biafrans is this....YORUBAS HAD EVRYTING HANDED TO THEM.....so over time they became lazy!!!!
1)The capital (then) was in there region,xo there region was developing at a fast rate
2)They have the only viable seaport in the country,which attracts foreign investors and increases IGR
3)Awolowo used mony he stole from Biafrans to sponsor free education for them
4)Awolowo used mony gotten Biafrans dead and alive, to buy shares for the yorubas
Awolowo practically handed evrything to them
I myt not like Awolowo but I respect him,he is the only yoruba leader that worked for his people
This thus back fired and made them LAZY
But when you come from biafra where all your seaports are closed,with oil pollution evrywhere,u practically have nothing from where u come from when u get to a place like lagos where business is booming mehn,u would try to conquer evrytin u see and when you get to the top,you do evrytin possible to stay there by empowering your kinsmen to the detriment of the locals
That's fact,life is a biitch,itz survival of the fittest

tonychristopher:


Same with my dad..he will call nwokem or enyia and I hated him for that I never knew he was making us strong.. Dad rest in peace


He was thorough ...he will tell me then when I was in university just a simple advise

I came from Nnewi south he will tell me if I know Chisco,ekendilichikwu, izuchuilukwu and other top rich men and I will say yes sir ..he will say ..that if those men made it in life and they did not go to university that I don't have any excuse not to make it...


That advise stick till today


In short in anambra and Igbo land ...life is a constant competition between you and your peers ...you must measure up.


So help us God and by the grace of God we aint doing badly

tonychristopher:


This was written by a fellow Yoruba man sir not an Igbo man ....Igbo are just buttressing it


I think you need to channel this submission to the author. Sir

tonychristopher:


This was written by a fellow Yoruba man sir not an Igbo man ....Igbo are just buttressing it


I think you need to channel this submission to the author. Sir

homosapien:


I have lived in the life long enough to know people that hide behind social media to write gibberish. And am telling you to stop buttressing myopic view of one person who claim to be yoruba. as an adult you should be able to make empirical deductions devoid of sentimentality.

tonychristopher:


And you feel that a Yoruba man can't periscope and see the folly of his people

Oga. The way you people think sometimes is worrying


I know they will say Igbo man wrote it

But the man said the truth

homosapien:



One funny things about the brain is that you see only what you what to see as an individual. what research did your so call yoruba man conduct that made him come to such conclusion. Oga before I entered trade fare I usually think is only igbo's that own stall/shops there that is based on the some many lies and false information your folks dish out to people who are not on ground to see things themselves. I

however when I started going there to get thing's, I noticed there are as much Yoruba's as igbo's who own stores there same thing with Ojo Alaba, and Alaba international. yet you come online to peddle ridiculous lies and conjecture of envy or jealous. why should I care of one igbo's man with a store doing petty trading. respect my culture, pay your tax and mind your business. if you default that when we put you where you belong. yoruba is too busy to hate one inconsequential tribe.

when ever there is a news about one igbo man caught stealing, or any anti social behaviour, does that mean all igbo are guilty of that offence? hope you get my point and if you don't then am afraid I can't help your ignorance.

list what igbo's man had achieved that a yoruba man has not achieve before him, you can't yet you keep ranting about one articles written by someone who called himself yoruba.


Now am starting to believe that some igbo's who believe that article is not capable of logical reasoning.

homosapien:



One funny things about the brain is that you see only what you what to see as an individual. what research did your so call yoruba man conduct that made him come to such conclusion. Oga before I entered trade fare I usually think is only igbo's that own stall/shops there that is based on the some many lies and false information your folks dish out to people who are not on ground to see things themselves. I

however when I started going there to get thing's, I noticed there are as much Yoruba's as igbo's who own stores there same thing with Ojo Alaba, and Alaba international. yet you come online to peddle ridiculous lies and conjecture of envy or jealous. why should I care of one igbo's man with a store doing petty trading. respect my culture, pay your tax and mind your business. if you default that when we put you where you belong. yoruba is too busy to hate one inconsequential tribe.

when ever there is a news about one igbo man caught stealing, or any anti social behaviour, does that mean all igbo are guilty of that offence? hope you get my point and if you don't then am afraid I can't help your ignorance.

list what igbo's man had achieved that a yoruba man has not achieve before him, you can't yet you keep ranting about one articles written by someone who called himself yoruba.


Now am starting to believe that some igbo's who believe that article is not capable of logical reasoning.

tonychristopher:


What are the percentage of Yoruba in trade fair ? But wait how can you think it's only Igbo that own shops there ? Are they the only ones in Nigeria ..its Igbo that own 78% of shops