Onlytruth:

As long as I bought the land fair and square, as long as I am a Nigerian living inside the territories of the federal republic of nigeria, I don't give a damn with what the custom is. If you cross near my property, I will defend it with the last drop of my Okoro blood, and if I have to bring more Okoros from Onitsha, Nnewi and Aba to fight, I would do so. So get that into your two timing skull.  

EzeUche:

We will never see eye to eye on this issue.

Anyone from the East knows that Awolowo is the most hated man in the East and rightfully so. Ask any Igbo, Ibibio and any other group who fought on behalf of Biafra. This man was horrible.

I hope God has mercy on his soul because I know I wouldn't!

EzeUche:

We will never see eye to eye on this issue.

Anyone from the East knows that Awolowo is the most hated man in the East and rightfully so. Ask any Igbo, Ibibio and any other group who fought on behalf of Biafra. This man was horrible.

I hope God has mercy on his soul because I know I wouldn't!  

sjeezy8:

I dont even think people pay attention to the EAST.

sjeezy8:

Its no big deal with the way youre talking now its as if you enjoy Lagos more than your own state? Stay in Lagos we didnt ask you people to leave.

you people no get shame at all lol

I dont even think people pay attention to the EAST.

sjeezy8:

Its no big deal with the way youre talking now its as if you enjoy Lagos more than your own state? Stay in Lagos we didnt ask you people to leave.

you people no get shame at all lol

I dont even think people pay attention to the EAST.

Katsumoto:

I know what you might have been told as a youngster but I need you to articulate what Awo did that was out of tune. When you use the starvation argument please say how.

Onlytruth:

Believe me, I don't live in any part of western Nigeria (can't stay more than one day in Lagos). I own properties ONLY IN THE EAST. My brothers and other relatives own properties in Lagos, much like Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba's father) owned half of Lagos.

I can't stop any Igbo from buying properties in Yoruba land. I would fight in the defense of their properties though if need be.

Onlytruth:

Believe me, I don't live in any part of the west (can't stay more than one day in Lagos). I own properties ONLY IN THE EAST. My brothers and other relatives own properties in Lagos, much like Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba's father) owned half of Lagos.

I can't stop any Igbo from buying properties in Yoruba land. I would fight in the defense of their properties though if need be.

[size=15pt]Africa: The Nigerian Millionaires[/size]

Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is[size=13pt] Alhaji Sanusi Dantata [/size] 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. [size=13pt]Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, [/size] knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet of "mammy wagons," the trucks that carry Nigerians (including market women, which gives the trucks their name) from place to place.

In today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. [size=15pt]Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, [/size] 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. [size=13pt]Emmanuel Akwiwu, [/size] 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. [size=15pt]Chief Shafi Lawal Edu,[/size] 54, who is president of Lagos' chamber of commerce, has built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He owns a silver-blue Rolls-Royce, but usually drives around in a Mercedes—thinks it is less ostentatious.

No Need to Clash. Many Nigerian businessmen have taken advantage of the novel opportunities that inevitably accompany broadening prosperity. [size=15pt]Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola,[/size] 63, a onetime farmer, developed a business to produce bicycle tires for the growing army of bikes, has done so well that he is adding a $1,700,000 plant, plans eventually to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. A former office worker,[size=15pt] Ade Tuyo, 63,[/size] cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name—De Facto Works Ltd.—was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business

[size=15pt]Bayo Braithwaite, [/size] 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash."

So, it is, too, with Nigerian business. The Nigerians feel that they and their onetime white masters need never clash. "The time is coming," says [size=15pt]Timothy Udutola, [/size] "when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets" Against that time, Nigeria is seeking joint ventures in Europe and the U.S., has also concluded negotiations for eventual associate membership in the European Common Market. Already it exports more to the Market than to its old master, Britain.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842145,00.html#ixzz0pv8sWP3L

Justcash:

In one Nigeria? The same Nigeria that two men from Ogun state (Obasanjo and Awolowo) Fought to keep as one? Dn't worry, one day you will wake and discover that the Igbos own everything that makes you boast of Lagos state and other Yoruba states! Nonsense!

sjeezy8:

Since when did he own half of Lagos- make sense and stop telling lies.

Nigerias first millionaire out of the 8 - 5 are yorubas and Lagosian at that - So when did ojukwu father own half of Lagos? Why do some igbo people like to lie- its sooooooo annoying really

babapupa:

I know this is the delusional rhetoric you guys spew all over the place.

The question is, where is the sense and wisdom in developing other people's land wile yours remains crap, in shambles and getting swept of by erosion?


Is it by force not to apply common sense when you speak?

EzeUche:

Everyone knows that Ojukwu's father was one of the RICHEST men in AFRICA.

And the RICHEST man in Nigeria.

So shut up and stop trying to be a history revisionist.

Dumb a ss Yoruba.

[size=15pt]Africa: The Nigerian Millionaires[/size]

Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is[size=13pt] Alhaji Sanusi Dantata [/size] 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. [size=13pt]Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, [/size] knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet of "mammy wagons," the trucks that carry Nigerians (including market women, which gives the trucks their name) from place to place.

In today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. [size=15pt]Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, [/size] 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. [size=13pt]Emmanuel Akwiwu, [/size] 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. [size=15pt]Chief Shafi Lawal Edu,[/size] 54, who is president of Lagos' chamber of commerce, has built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He owns a silver-blue Rolls-Royce, but usually drives around in a Mercedes—thinks it is less ostentatious.

No Need to Clash. Many Nigerian businessmen have taken advantage of the novel opportunities that inevitably accompany broadening prosperity. [size=15pt]Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola,[/size] 63, a onetime farmer, developed a business to produce bicycle tires for the growing army of bikes, has done so well that he is adding a $1,700,000 plant, plans eventually to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. A former office worker,[size=15pt] Ade Tuyo, 63,[/size] cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name—De Facto Works Ltd.—was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business

[size=15pt]Bayo Braithwaite, [/size] 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash."

So, it is, too, with Nigerian business. The Nigerians feel that they and their onetime white masters need never clash. "The time is coming," says [size=15pt]Timothy Udutola, [/size] "when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets" Against that time, Nigeria is seeking joint ventures in Europe and the U.S., has also concluded negotiations for eventual associate membership in the European Common Market. Already it exports more to the Market than to its old master, Britain.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842145,00.html#ixzz0pv8sWP3L

Onlytruth:

Let me help you figure Igbo thinking here a little. A famous writer -Mark Twain -said, "Buy lands, for they ain't making more of it".

When we are done with your land, we then turn to ours.  

Onlytruth:

I can't believe these folks are taking this literally. Shakes head.  

~Sauron~:

It's obvious you cannot cope with the pace of the discussion.
Duh. . . .It was Ojukwu that wanted to secede. . . . .Was that supposed to be a war uniting Nigeria?
Onlytruth should be OnlyFALSE.

Everyone knows that Ojukwu's father was one of the RICHEST men in AFRICA.

Onlytruth:

Let me help you figure Igbo thinking here a little. A famous writer -Mark Twain -said, "Buy lands, for they ain't making more of it".

When we are done with your land, we then turn to ours.  

babapupa:



I addressed your delusions already,

Like I asked,

Is it by force not to apply common sense when you speak?

babapupa:



I addressed your delusions already,

Like I asked,

Is it by force not to apply common sense when you speak?

EzeUche:

Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo looted many of my people's bank accounts  and gave Igbos 20 POUNDS!  Which damaged our economic strength!

That 20 Pound policy will always go down in infamy. That treacherous naughty person. I would spit on his grave.

EzeUche:

And this is why Nigeria will never progress.

Yorubas are always at war with the Igbo while the Hausa-Fulani sit back and laugh.

Foolish Yoruba!  

Onlytruth:

We really don't need to have an accord with these people, we need to conquer them. And we can do it if we understand their thinking. I believe we are already getting there, which is why some of them (like becomrich) are planning to secede. Na dat time dem go hear am!

Onlytruth:

We really don't need to have an accord with these people, we need to conquer them. And we can do it if we understand their thinking. I believe we are already getting there, which is why some of them (like becomrich) are planning to secede. Na dat time dem go hear am!

Onlytruth:

It is not delusion. It is happening as we speak and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.