egift: Why can't they go get their own?

Danka7777:

99.99999999999999% of all Ojukwu's properties were inherited from his late billionaire father, Louis Ojukwu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu

Ojukwu never own anything through out his existence. Let's be realistic here: Name me one established business owned by Ojukwu while he was alive? Name me one, just one? I can assure you: you will not come up with one. Why? All he had was from his Billionaire father. And his children want a piece of that too? Is there anything wrong with that?

nkem Kalu: That person called Bobo Yekini is nothing but EWU GAMBIA........OMONILE DON SELL HIM PAPA LAND FINISH TO THE IGBOS AND THEM COME BACK COME DEY CRY FOUL......SORRY FOR UNA......WE WILL SOON START BUYING YOUR GOVERNMENT HOUSES...AND DON'T FORGET...OJO LOCAL GOVERNMENT WAS ONCE BOUGHT BY AN IGBO MAN FOR ...ONLY N500,000,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED MILLION NAIRA) IF U DOUBT ME GO AND ASK PEOPLE IN ALABA INTERNATIONAL....BUT DON'T ASK ME WHAT HAPPENED LATER COS THE MAN JUST DECIDED TO LEAVE IT WHEN IGBO ELDERS ADVICED HIM TO LEAVE IT. BUT SOONER OR LATER.....WE WILL START BUYING YORUBA SECRETARIATES.......HAHAHAHAHA ... ALAUSA INCLUSIVE

manosteel: For some people accusing Ikemba ignorantly, you should know that as a young man growing up, he had everything rich man son was suppose to have in life, yet after his education in London, he opted for a lowly community service job in the rural village of Udi and Military recruit instead of joining his Father's business empire. Suffice to say that his selfless service continued even during the war, where he used almost half of his father's wealth to fund the war. He went to exile with nothing, but with the help of the president of Ivory Coast then, he started a construction company and a lecturing Job in the University, and became rich once again. Love him or hate him, he set a standard that will be difficult for anyone to erase.

Sun of god:

You make some valid points but the issue is more complex than appears at first sight.

Ojukwu married more than once and has offspring from several women.

His first born son is not from Bianca - So i'm sure he has a say in things.

And everyone is assuming Ojukwu's fathers wealth was willed Odumeguu - it may be the case that he was put in charge of the wealth and took care of his other brothers and sisters. I dont see him as a man that would abandon them for money.

If Ojukwu didn't leave a will then he has left behind a major mess!

Bianca is looking out for the interest of her children - But the Ojuwu family extends beyond them.

Desola:

Left to me, i'll contract with boko haram to plant bombs at Alaba and your little pockets around Lagos and shish kebab all of you. You are just terrible sores on the face of Lagos and Southwest at large.

What do we have in common to be jointly called Nigerians, anyway? Ole barawo banzas! Na other people land una dey open your greedy beady eyes to. Awon oloshi dede.

marvel10: @ Desola is extreme but right to a certain extent.
I don't think that most of the properties in Lagos should belong to non indigenes/residents. If, for example, Chinese or Indian folks own more than half of the choice properties on the Island, the first thing they would do would be to ban Nigerians from renting even if they are able to afford it.
These sort of buying patterns are doing more harm than good for community spirit. In this day and time, Yoruba landlords are rejecting non Yoruba tenants. And, sadly, even Igbo lawyers who act for landlords are in agreement that Igbo tenants can prove troublesome.

I have stood for Igbos in all other arguments but not for housing matters. They are doing more harm than good with the acquire, acquire mentality.

Intrepid!:


Your 'thought' is obviously influenced by cheap, substandard drugs bought on credit from uncertified, diseased street walkers. Please get out of here and go harass your parents for spawning a worthless fart like you.

Antivirus92: And why are the yorrobbers the burden-bearers in this thread?

BoboYekini: that 32A Commercial Av. Yaba is the WAEC building right? Hmm..i thought in the aftermath of the civil war properties of igbos in lagos were usurped by the landowners? So this coward ojukwu had preferential treatment even then?

marvel10: @ Desola is extreme but right to a certain extent.
I don't think that most of the properties in Lagos should belong to non indigenes/residents. If, for example, Chinese or Indian folks own more than half of the choice properties on the Island, the first thing they would do would be to ban Nigerians from renting even if they are able to afford it.
These sort of buying patterns are doing more harm than good for community spirit. In this day and time, Yoruba landlords are rejecting non Yoruba tenants. And, sadly, even Igbo lawyers who act for landlords are in agreement that Igbo tenants can prove troublesome.

I have stood for Igbos in all other arguments but not for housing matters. They are doing more harm than good with the acquire, acquire mentality.

Desola: Fashola needs to deal with this shi.t! A warlord owning properties in choicest areas in Lagos? A Biafran? Omo men...awon omo Igbo yii ti balu je men...

Da infamous: ojukwu had everything in life,he lived it,enjoy it,even when he was in oxford university he had his rolls Royce and his birthday he buy Rolex watches to all his friends,the money is too much,the shares sir Louis bought from big multi billion foreign companies is more than his landed properties even when sir louis died different chief executives,directors,Ambassadors from different countries even companies like john Holts,PZ group of companies which Sir louis is the biggest share holder till date they use their private helicopter to transport sir Louis to his final resting place in nnewi...

Biafra war cost him so much he used his fathers wealth mostly his shares from the first bank which Sir Louis is the biggest share holder..how many igbo man can use his wealth to fight and protect his people?

I think the children should know that the wealth belong to all of them...

stagger:
I am not Igbo but I believe in Igbo culture, it is the firstborns who are given the right of inheritance in a family.

Danka7777:

99.99999999999999% of all Ojukwu's properties were inherited from his late billionaire father, Louis Ojukwu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu

Ojukwu never own anything through out his existence. Let's be realistic here: Name me one established business owned by Ojukwu while he was alive? Name me one, just one? I can assure you: you will not come up with one. Why? All he had was from his Billionaire father. And his children want a piece of that too? Is there anything wrong with that?

stagger:

My friend stop talking rubbish. These are properties owned by the late Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu which were seized by the Federal Government after the civil war and only returned in the 90s. Professor Ojukwu is the first born in that family and it is simply unthinkable that the Ikemba would now usurp the authority of the first-born of that family to decide who would manage what.

There is a popular accounting firm that has been in trust of the late Sir Louis's properties. Bianca therefore has no right to determine how properties that belonged to her husband's father are shared, especially when he is not the firstborn.

I am not Igbo but I believe in Igbo culture, it is the firstborns who are given the right of inheritance in a family.

nkem Kalu: That person called Bobo Yekini is nothing but EWU GAMBIA........OMONILE DON SELL HIM PAPA LAND FINISH TO THE IGBOS AND THEM COME BACK COME DEY CRY FOUL......SORRY FOR UNA......WE WILL SOON START BUYING YOUR GOVERNMENT HOUSES...AND DON'T FORGET...OJO LOCAL GOVERNMENT WAS ONCE BOUGHT BY AN IGBO MAN FOR ...ONLY N500,000,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED MILLION NAIRA) IF U DOUBT ME GO AND ASK PEOPLE IN ALABA INTERNATIONAL....BUT DON'T ASK ME WHAT HAPPENED LATER COS THE MAN JUST DECIDED TO LEAVE IT WHEN IGBO ELDERS ADVICED HIM TO LEAVE IT. BUT SOONER OR LATER.....WE WILL START BUYING YORUBA SECRETARIATES.......HAHAHAHAHA ... ALAUSA INCLUSIVE

nkem Kalu: That person called Bobo Yekini is nothing but EWU GAMBIA........OMONILE DON SELL HIM PAPA LAND FINISH TO THE IGBOS AND THEM COME BACK COME DEY CRY FOUL......SORRY FOR UNA......WE WILL SOON START BUYING YOUR GOVERNMENT HOUSES...AND DON'T FORGET...OJO LOCAL GOVERNMENT WAS ONCE BOUGHT BY AN IGBO MAN FOR ...ONLY N500,000,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED MILLION NAIRA) IF U DOUBT ME GO AND ASK PEOPLE IN ALABA INTERNATIONAL....BUT DON'T ASK ME WHAT HAPPENED LATER COS THE MAN JUST DECIDED TO LEAVE IT WHEN IGBO ELDERS ADVICED HIM TO LEAVE IT. BUT SOONER OR LATER.....WE WILL START BUYING YORUBA SECRETARIATES.......HAHAHAHAHA ... ALAUSA INCLUSIVE

danjohn:

I have seen many dumb posts on nairaland but this is a new low. This is by far the worst post I have ever seen on nairaland. I was fortunate enough to grow up with some Igbo people and I can say unequivocally that most Igbo people do not think like you. Most Igbo people simply want a chance to live peaceful lives. They want to start businesses and trade goods and services without being harassed; they want to have an equal chance of getting a job that they are qualified for; they want their children to have a better life than they had; and they want to retire with dignity and respect. The list goes on and on. Like most Nigerians, the Igbo people I meet want good roads, good schools, and good hospitals. You are an ignorant bigot and you should be ashamed of yourself. I refuse to believe that most Igbo people think like you.

danjohn:

I have seen many dumb posts on nairaland but this is a new low. This is by far the worst post I have ever seen on nairaland. I was fortunate enough to grow up with some Igbo people and I can say unequivocally that most Igbo people do not think like you. Most Igbo people simply want a chance to live peaceful lives. They want to start businesses and trade goods and services without being harassed; they want to have an equal chance of getting a job that they are qualified for; they want their children to have a better life than they had; and they want to retire with dignity and respect. The list goes on and on. Like most Nigerians, the Igbo people I meet want good roads, good schools, and good hospitals. You are an ignorant bigot and you should be ashamed of yourself. I refuse to believe that most Igbo people think like you.

Danka7777:

[b]Go get their own what? What do you mean? Late Ojukwu was a useless man who married a young woman and ultimately destroyed a beautiful family. Look at all his children, very educated; Doctors, Lawyer, Engr., Arch., and many more. What could any man ask for from a family? You think they couldn't fed for themselves? Do you think getting these degrees in the U.S is a cake walk? You think they are stu$pid. Can you understand what is called: Family wealth continuation? If you never came from a wealthy family, you have no idea or sense of what I am talking about. It's like telling Kola Abiola or Paddy Adenuga to get his own because his Dad, Mike Adenuga or M.K.O Abiola foolishly married a young woman, close to being her daughter and who is bent on taking over everything? Well, for the record, Abiola did marry a lot of wives but Kola acted fast and rescued the family from shame and today continued the family wealth. Any son or rather children, who are sensible, responsible and reasonable will fight for every wealth of the family to maintain family wealth continuation.

If you are not close to this family or don't know his children personally, then you have no right to speak on this. We, who know this family personally shall continue to speak. These are lovely children who were so focused on making the family proud and continuing the legacy of their late grandfather, the patriarch of the family not Ojukwu. These children are still angry their dad, Ojukwu uselessly squandered the wealth of their Grandfather, Ojukwu's dad, Late Louis Ojukwu(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu)who was inarguably one of the richest men in West Africa then. These children are still in shock as to what happened to their grandfather's wealth. Sources have it that the properties they are fighting over was purchased with wealth from Louis Ojukwu. Why Ojukwu was sick, she(Bianca) constantly denied his children access to him, and even so while he was alive.

Please, I urge you all: before you speak ill of these children, go and find out what happened in that family. These children are in pain, pain caused by the stup$idy of their father, all in the name of having a young beautiful flower at the expense of his children and his first wife. Couldn't he have kept her as a mistress and allow is first wife and children to live in peace? [/b]

Danka7777:

[b]Go get their own what? What do you mean? Late Ojukwu was a useless man who married a young woman and ultimately destroyed a beautiful family. Look at all his children, very educated; Doctors, Lawyer, Engr., Arch., and many more. What could any man ask for from a family? You think they couldn't fed for themselves? Do you think getting these degrees in the U.S is a cake walk? You think they are stu$pid. Can you understand what is called: Family wealth continuation? If you never came from a wealthy family, you have no idea or sense of what I am talking about. It's like telling Kola Abiola or Paddy Adenuga to get his own because his Dad, Mike Adenuga or M.K.O Abiola foolishly married a young woman, close to being her daughter and who is bent on taking over everything? Well, for the record, Abiola did marry a lot of wives but Kola acted fast and rescued the family from shame and today continued the family wealth. Any son or rather children, who are sensible, responsible and reasonable will fight for every wealth of the family to maintain family wealth continuation.

If you are not close to this family or don't know his children personally, then you have no right to speak on this. We, who know this family personally shall continue to speak. These are lovely children who were so focused on making the family proud and continuing the legacy of their late grandfather, the patriarch of the family not Ojukwu. These children are still angry their dad, Ojukwu uselessly squandered the wealth of their Grandfather, Ojukwu's dad, Late Louis Ojukwu(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu)who was inarguably one of the richest men in West Africa then. These children are still in shock as to what happened to their grandfather's wealth. Sources have it that the properties they are fighting over was purchased with wealth from Louis Ojukwu. Why Ojukwu was sick, she(Bianca) constantly denied his children access to him, and even so while he was alive.

Please, I urge you all: before you speak ill of these children, go and find out what happened in that family. These children are in pain, pain caused by the stup$idy of their father, all in the name of having a young beautiful flower at the expense of his children and his first wife. Couldn't he have kept her as a mistress and allow is first wife and children to live in peace? [/b]

Nosa-Henry:

Those u are calling Doctors, Engrs,Archs are not his children but his brothers. The properties in question belong to their late father Loius. Emeka used his power and position to wrest the properties to himself, now that he is no more the family want the properties back but Bianca want to continue to assert the powers of late Emeka. Can she fight the family? We are watching.

omayyi :
you'd be surprise. The dude you believe is alone in that line of thought easily has the highest number of "likes" on this thread. You don't need a genius to tell u that some of his kins completely agreed with all he's typed. Wise words for all; stop selling your lands to igbos.

omayyi :
you'd be surprise. The dude you believe is alone in that line of thought easily has the highest number of "likes" on this thread. You don't need a genius to tell u that some of his kins completely agreed with all he's typed. Wise words for all; stop selling your lands to igbos.

Cyberknight: As usual we can't get very far without falling into mutual ethnic recrimination, Igob-Yoruba, Northerner-Southerner, or any of the numerous permutations or combinations of the ethnic divisions that so bedevil this our unlucky artificial construct called Nigeria. I think the Igbos had better wake up, open their eyes wide and read the signs, on this thread and elsewhere. Nigeria is NOT one country, unfortunately, and shall NEVER be one. I think that the Igbos and other non-indigenes buying property in Lagos are unwise, because there shall be another conflict, and just as it happened the last time, the Igbos shall have to run and leave behind those property to be claimed by others. It's going to happen, whether 10, 15 or 20 years down the line. I was born and brought up in Lagos, but I realize clearly that the experiment called Nigeria is not going to work, and am adjusting my plans accordingly. I would, in my own small way, advise everyone else to do the same.