Bastardlyrich:

Igbos and Yoruba Christians still love theirselves.
For example most igbos love macaroni,fals,femi kuti,olamide etc and most Yoruba Christians love pyhno, psquare,ckay etc.
The problem is those uglee derty afonja fake Muslim.

Well said

tayo60:
Igbos and Yorubas of then loved each other but reverse is the case now. But where did the hatred come from?

lol don’t allow nairaland to fool you o. They still love each other. One of my best friends is an Igbo , although delta Igbo . Although he get craze for head in some aspect but he’s the most intelligent person of my age I’ve come across ..

All the bastard bigots on this Forum should get in here and read this!

I feel tempted to mention monikers, but I will refrain.

Amb1045:
During the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, many Igbo people fled other parts of the country for the East because they were being killed and massacred wantonly and the government was doing nothing about it.

Many abandoned their homes, properties and businesses for safety. Of them, was a young Igbo architect who had a young Yoruba banker as a neighbour in Apapa, Lagos. He also abandoned his home and with his family fled for the East.

However, the young Yoruba banker, while the war lasted, rented out his neighbour's house and kept every kobo for him while he was in the East. After the war, the Igbo architect returned to Lagos and the Yoruba banker handed over the entire proceeds of the rent and also the house to the Igbo architect.

Some few years later, the Igbo architect became the Vice President of Nigeria and the Yoruba banker established a commercial bank, the first by a private citizen in the country's history.

However, he could not get a license to begin banking operations. Many people were against him because it was unheard of at the time.

At this time, the banker remembered his neighbour who was now the Vice President and tracked him to the Christ Church Cathedral, Marina, Lagos on a particular Sunday. He had tried to get appointment to see him in his office but without success.

He and his wife then decided to go lay ambush for him in Church but the security men did not allow them. They then decided to sit by the pew close to the aisle to beat the security in the hope that the Vice President would see them while he walked to the front row. Yet, he still didn't see them.

After the church program they positioned that he will see them on his way out. However, the people following him out and security blocked his view. That was when the banker's wife decided to take a risk and like the woman with the issue of blood, she pulled the Vice President's cloth to get his attention who then turned and saw his old friend.

The young banker then narrated his plight and told the Vice President how he had tried to see him and what he needed to see him for. He told him about his application for a bank licence.

“Don’t worry yourself. Just come tomorrow at the Federal Executive Council meeting which I would preside because President Shehu Shagari would not be there,'' the Vice President assured him.

By 3.00pm the next day, the Finance Minister called the banker on phone that his licence was ready. The rest they say is history.

That young banker was Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun while the architect in this narrative was one of Africa’s Elder statesmen and former Vice President of the Republic of Nigeria, late Dr. Alex Ekwueme. The bank is what is now First City Monument Bank.

- One good turn truly deserves another.

- It is good to love our neighbours as ourselves, and importantly - Honesty pays.

https://m./117080885033212/permalink/7081079108633320/

Could this be the reason FCMB don't hesitate to grant Igbo business people quick loan.
I'm a beneficiary. Kudos

My dad was the last born he was like 6years when the war started he had 2 direct older sisters and 5 brothers, naturally that meant they were all above 15when the war started, both my grandfather and his entire 5 brothers none did he ever see again after the war, even house destroyed, family was reduced to the barest form of poverty.

Igbos were fighting wars on 2 fronts, on one side as an Igbo youth especially of age if u refuse to join the war u were at risk, on the other side as an Igbo youth of age too if the Nigerian army saw u, u were also at risk whether u support Biafra or not.

Even if igbos can’t get the presidency, i as an Igbo person want them to give it to anybody from asaba, delta state. Every time I read what they went through just because of us it really pains my heart. That almost all their men and boys was lined up and massacred just like that, asaba people even in this life to the next, we owe u guys a debt that can never be repaid.

The same people still call Yorubas betrayals.

tayo60:
Igbos and Yorubas of then loved each other but reverse is the case now. But where did the hatred come from?

Igbo and Yoruba's hatred for each other started from the civil war... And it has been ongoing eversince. Don't let any fake love fool you, the hate is still burried underneath... Since 1967.

Coldie:
Nigeria is not moving forward cause Nigeria owes igbos a debt. Nigerias problem is not just leadership it’s also spiritual, yes there was a war no doubt and therefore according to some Nigerians igbos must pay for it.

But igbos have paid for it in full, from 3quarter of the Igbo population being wiped out, to our properties being seized to over 50years of marginalisation, how long would igbos continue to pay.

Like the story said nobody knows tomorrow, from Massob being quite peaceful then ipob came being not quite peaceful, should we wait until the next Biafra group comes that’s more organised and willing to do sth dastardly that will shake Nigeria?

Should we wait until there’s a Biafra group that will one day get in possession of a nuclear weapon and launch it towards Nigeria for revenge?

Nigerians let’s do the right thing, Obasanjo was in prison he was released and made president just to pacify the yorubas, Goodluck Jonathan was made president to pacify the Niger delta but y is the case of igbos different?

Don’t we need to be pacified too?

If Nigerians want to be fair and want to be justifiable even u reading this low-key in your mind know that yorubas don’t deserve 2023 presidency, between 1999 till now u have produced president 8years, Vice President 8years again and u want to be president another 8years while in same south a region hasn’t even seen vp slot, is it fair?

u have said everything right

but i sincerely think the unity of the igbos is the first thing to achieve after that everyother thing comes freely

Bastardlyrich:

Igbos and Yoruba Christians still love theirselves.
For example most igbos love macaroni,fals,femi kuti,olamide etc and most Yoruba Christians love pyhno, psquare,ckay etc.
The problem is those uglee derty afonja fake Muslim.

You last sentence is very rude, stop casting aspersions on people because of the rubbish people post on line. Faceless people for that matter.

Conner44:
Wow! This is truly touching.

Big shout out to all igbo indigenous people who fled their places of abode during the civil war and returned back to find out that their ‘neighbors’ had taken over their lands and houses and left them nothing but £20 pounds instead.

God bless you and your future generations.

who is this being for Goodness sake

You should be thankful for the Yorubas who assisted you guys during the civil war

My father friend always appreciates the yorubas who secure his properties in Lagos during the 4yrs he was away in the east,he came back to southwest and met his properties the way he left it .
While do you think we accepted you all into southwest as refugee during the civil war??
Why didn’t you all run to the north for safety??
But yet,you still hate the yorubas for nothing

Kiliwuwu:
hunger never much for naija den....na y he return d money b dat

People earning little still do these acts of virtue today in this same country...

tayo60:
Igbos and Yorubas of then loved each other but reverse is the case now. But where did the hatred come from?

We still love ourselves till today

Don't be carried away by what you read online coming from political jobbers

Bonaventura:
Awolowo was not honest

When he was released from Calabar prison on the negotiations that he'll relay the plight of the Easterners and help end the war, due to his presidential ambition, he rather advised the then Federal Government to use hunger and starvation as a tool for war against the Igbos.

He never was the president

Someone should remind me how he died again..

this is where your old one gives you wrong narative , try to meetup with a good non bias igbo people they will narrate what really go wrong ...... Awolowo has a meeting with Ojukwu in enugu because Awolowo was never a military man, dialogue is the best Ojukwu accept the plea but before will get to Ondo just some hour drive from Enugu ... Ojukwu start the war...

akinremiayomide:
who is this being for Goodness sake

You should be thankful for the Yorubas who assisted you guys during the civil war

My father friend always appreciates the yorubas who secure his properties in Lagos during the 4yrs he was away in the east,he came back to southwest and met his properties the way he left it .
While do you think we accepted you all into southwest as refugee during the civil war??
Why didn’t you all run to the north for safety??
But yet,you still hate the yorubas for nothing

some of them Yoruba be their problem whereas naa them be the traitor from onset

Just do the right thing.

Not because of a possible future benefit, but because it is the right thing to do.

Nigerians have been thoroughly conditioned to the idea that doing the right thing must come with some reward.

alphaconde:



u have said everything right

but i sincerely think the unity of the igbos is the first thing to achieve after that everyother thing comes freely

Igbos have always been united, though right now the east is split between igbos who want Biafra and those who don’t. But Nigeria keeps making us that don’t want Biafra look foolish and those who want Biafra look right everyday. Unknown gun men killed an army man in imo state, army came didn’t ask for list of those who support Biafra or not the razed down the houses of everyone within sight shot and killed those they can took away their bodies and nothing happened. My brother is it right?

U and I know if that kaduna train incident had happened in the east by now every village around where it happened would have gone up in flames

While this was happening in the West, Ken Sarowiwa and his brothers were busy declaring Igbo investments in Rivers State abandoned properties, selling and appropriating the choice ones.

Nevertheless, today, all these players have received their rewards accordingly.

What a moral lesson!

Bastardlyrich:

Igbos and Yoruba Christians still love theirselves.
For example most igbos love macaroni,fals,femi kuti,olamide etc and most Yoruba Christians love pyhno, psquare,ckay etc.
The problem is those uglee derty afonja fake Muslim.

oh I see that is KANU is preaching hatred against Yoruba pastors

Story with morals, however today can we still find such virtue in that bank?

A man works so hard to live a good virtue only for strangers to destroy everything, and life goes on as if nothing ever happened.

tayo60:
Igbos and Yorubas of then loved each other but reverse is the case now. But where did the hatred come from?

June 12 man!! Conception of the thought of blocking food to the East during the war, perhaps, was the source...
Imagine the disaster afterwards...
Many regarded it as betrayal..

Freestainworld:
I didn't mention the name of any traitor

My bank and I....are slow

That was then not now, now Afonjas are now skull mining and blood sucking demons they learn the trade from their Fulani brothers,

So, OP that will not end the beef between Igbo's and Afonjas on nairaland, OK.

Bonaventura:
Awolowo was not honest

When he was released from Calabar prison on the negotiations that he'll relay the plight of the Easterners and help end the war, due to his presidential ambition, he rather advised the then Federal Government to use hunger and starvation as a tool for war against the Igbos.

He never was the president

Someone should remind me how he died again..

Ratek.AKA. Rat poison.

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Not only politicians... Parents too program their kids to hate other tribes.

No vex o, so you spent time writing this epistle with such an appealing wordplay because of useless FCMB?

Much as I understand the moral of this piece is centered on the very necessity of honesty and goodwill, FCMB has depicted none of those qualities in their daily dealings with the banking masses.

An utterly useless bank with very poor services that takes pride in pilfering users' bank accounts and serving as a domain for thieving politicians and internet fraudsters!

If I had known the subject matter of the piece was FCMB, I for no bother to read even two sentences of this your story.

OP, Ogun go kee your papa!

Bonaventura:
Awolowo was not honest

When he was released from Calabar prison on the negotiations that he'll relay the plight of the Easterners and help end the war, due to his presidential ambition, he rather advised the then Federal Government to use hunger and starvation as a tool for war against the Igbos.

He never was the president

Someone should remind me how he died again..

So because of the thing you "alleged" that Awolowo did, you now hate all Yorubas... Even parents program their kids to hate Yorubas because of what they feel ONE Yoruba man did over 50 years ago. SMH

Story with morals, however today can we still find such virtue in that bank?

A man works so hard to leave a good legacy only for strangers to destroy everything, and life goes on as if nothing ever happened.

kcdendelo:
if you tell the yorubas will they agree? they keep on hating on the igbos. let peace rain

And Igbo love Yoruba,right ? Continue fooling yourself !

Honesty is bloody more than it cuts. Lol.

Unfortunately, some of these bigots abusing everybody because of Tinubu(Yekini) don't know the meaning of omoluabi.
Well, I'll like to call them Yoruba almajiris because they refused the good home training omoluabis are known for.
Always behaving like tearaways.
McOluomo wannabes