garri_gangster:
Mungo Park, you dont get it do you? When your grandfathers were still living under trees and thatched houses at Afikpo, Ibadan people were already living in storey buildings with iron roofs. Those brown roofs you see are a result of Ibadan's early civilization.
We cant demolish such houses to satisfy numbskulls like you. Even in London, u would still see 11th century houses and they are the most expensive.

dayokanu:

Andre uweh Kedu.

You are now a graduate of OAU?

Abeg which department you finish from in OAU and what year did you graduate

demmy:

What an imbecilic troll. Asking me for names of manufacturing industries in Ibadan!!! The i.d.i.ot was told there are 3 industrial estates yet he is asking me for names. Stop wasting my time with your inferiority complex. Go play your tribal war games somewhere else I am busy.

demmy: ^And also this:

Biafra rep: Now you have confirmed to me that you have a very low IQ indeed. Does it make any difference to you that Aba has 5 functional industrial estates without folks there coming online yap and hype over it? I can mention up to 100 medium and large scale enterprises operating in Aba, ditto Nnewi and Onistha if you ask me. So i ask you again, can you name the plethora of firms that made Ibadan so industrialized?

geez*:


Well Oyo state's GDP is higher than the GDP of any state in the SE. Doesn't this tell you that the state produces a lot more more than any SE state?

Biafra rep: I hate bland statements like the one above, please for the umpteenth time, what is Ibadan producing? petroleum? Manufacturing firms like PZ? Good i know about Ewedu, block industries, pure water industries, Gbegiri, Babalawo et al as Dhemmy listed but are they what makes Ibadan industrialized?

tolulinks: I get rather fed up with Igbos and there rivalry with the YORUBAS much like Achebe fancies himself better than Soyinka ( Pipe dream). I believe the only recognisable igbo city is enugu with their highest storey building, a government house! Don't be deluded igbos-PH and Calabar are not urs. An igbo student oF UI FRom eNUGU once remarked dumbly "
Ibadan fine oh after a trip to New Bodija. I laughed pitifully at him. Ogun is more industrialised than the entire east! No sane person wants to go to the east except the nomadic igbos themselves. Ibadan has potentials to develop into a Lagos and this is coming from someone who shuttles between the two cities. Ibadan is still the largest city in WA...correct me if I'm wrong. Igbo will always be in the shadows of yorubas! If you don't like it pack ur bags like fasholas subtley telling you and go to ur villages!

Biafra rep: [s][/s] Your ridiculous write up does not merit a reply but the sake of the uninformed ones, i will dissect your naive post.
Enugu is not the only great city in the SE, in terms of population and industries, Onitsha and Aba is ahead but Enugu is the political capital and Owerri as the summer capital.
Fact 2; Onitsha has the largest concentration of high rise buildings of 4,5 and 6 storeys in west Africa.
Fact 3; Aba has more industries than any SW city bar Lagos.
Fallacy; Ibadan is the largest city in WA! gosh are you an illiterate?
Fact 4; Lagos, Kano, Abidjan etc are far more populous than Ibadan.
Fallacy; You concluded that Ibadan is fine because you went to Bodija estate? Now its either you are a kid or you possess a very low IQ.
Fallacy; Igbos are under the shadow of Yorubas! Igbos are actually ahead in many spheres of life.
Please don't insult our sensibility with your ignorance.

Biafra rep: [s][/s] Your ridiculous write up does not merit a reply but the sake of the uninformed ones, i will dissect your naive post.
Enugu is not the only great city in the SE, in terms of population and industries, Onitsha and Aba is ahead but Enugu is the political capital and Owerri as the summer capital.
Fact 2; Onitsha has the largest concentration of high rise buildings of 4,5 and 6 storeys in west Africa.
Fact 3; Aba has more industries than any SW city bar Lagos.
Fallacy; Ibadan is the largest city in WA! gosh are you an illiterate?
Fact 4; Lagos, Kano, Abidjan etc are far more populous than Ibadan.
Fallacy; You concluded that Ibadan is fine because you went to Bodija estate? Now its either you are a kid or you possess a very low IQ.
Fallacy; Igbos are under the shadow of Yorubas! Igbos are actually ahead in many spheres of life.
Please don't insult our sensibility with your ignorance.

Biafra rep: I hate bland statements like the one above, please for the umpteenth time, what is Ibadan producing? petroleum? Manufacturing firms like PZ? Good i know about Ewedu, block industries, pure water industries, Gbegiri, Babalawo et al as Dhemmy listed but are they what makes Ibadan industrialized?

ngozievergreen:
Guy, leave dese ppl, dey only feel inferior. I was trying to tell dem dat referring to d east abt dis topic was unecessary but dey kept on typing like cows. @first, no igbo person commented on dis, but all of a sudden, some bigots started relatin d topic to d east.same thing dey wil do if d post is abt Aba. Dey dnt knw Aba, nnewi n Onitsha(wch are nt state capitals) have been on d watch since years n here dey are, making a fool of demselves cos ibadan is yet to b watched. Live with it: igbos,foreigners n fed govt own more tnz in Lagos(n west) dan yoruba individuals.
2) poverty is relatively unknown in d SE.

Ufeolorun: Progressive politics has kept Lagos alive and there's a direct correlation between the retrogression of ibadan and its politics.
Probably,when Lagos was out of reach for our fathers at the beginning because it was designated fed. capital,they sought to recreate it in Ibadan and they did to an extent:while there was no tv station in lagos, Ibadan already had one but when Eko fell back into our hands we left ibadan to ibadan people.
Ibadan is a Western asset,the Western government invested a lot of money in there hence re-energising the city should be an SW agenda,it should not be left in the hands of the indigenes alone,just like Lagos isn't.The way an average SWner of today feel a sense of bond and ownership of lagos was the same way most of our parents felt about Ibadan. Lagos was frittering away but Tinubu, to his credit brought life back into it,we can do same for ibadan.

i pray the present state government see this enormous asset.In fact, rebuilding Ibadan should be one of the core goal of the ACN .This should be the starting point for integration.

Desola:

do you feel better now that you have got it off your chest?

We accept, you'r di.ck is bigger than ours.

Hope that makes you sleep better tonight.

dayokanu:

Andre uweh Kedu.

You are now a graduate of OAU?

Abeg which department you finish from in OAU and what year did you graduate

Desola:

do you feel better now that you have got it off your chest?

We accept, you'r di.ck is bigger than ours.

Hope that makes you sleep better tonight.

ezeagu: Using GDP to asses human development means little in a country dominated by the black market.

geez*:



Even if you check the NBS, you will discover that poverty and unemployment in the SE is far higher than what obtains in the SW and human development without capital development isn't development

geez*:



Even if you check the NBS, you will discover that poverty and unemployment in the SE is far higher than what obtains in the SW and human development without capital development isn't development. What I've realized about this forum is that people come here and say whatever they like but no matter what you say or refuse to acknowledge, it doesn't change how much I have in the bank, neither does it make the states, tribes or institution you come here to rubbish any less than they really are. So keep ranting, Ibadan will continue to be an investment haven as well as the SW. Your posts can't change that. They can only make you feel good about your illusions

ngozievergreen:
Guy, leave dese ppl, dey only feel inferior. I was trying to tell dem dat referring to d east abt dis topic was unecessary but dey kept on typing like cows. @first, no igbo person commented on dis, but all of a sudden, some bigots started relatin d topic to d east.same thing dey wil do if d post is abt Aba. Dey dnt knw Aba, nnewi n Onitsha(wch are nt state capitals) have been on d watch since years n here dey are, making a fool of demselves cos ibadan is yet to b watched. Live with it: igbos,foreigners n fed govt own more tnz in Lagos(n west) dan yoruba individuals.
2) poverty is relatively unknown in d SE.

ezeagu:

You can believe that if you want, but for me I've never seen a beggar from eastern Nigeria. The guys selling gala on the motorway, or even spare part dealers aren't listed in the GDP along with people who may be millionaires, and I don't even know if they (along with farmers) are listed as employed since these 50% figures are making question whether 50% of Anambara and the rest of the population of south east states are sitting at home starving (even when thousands start hustling at 10 years of age). But we all have our own beliefs.



I wasn't ranting against Ibadan, I was correcting incorrect evidence.

Eko Ile:

Ibo people are like migrant workers in Yorubaland. Working your azzzz off and paying taxes in other peoples land to develop other people's land while your own ibo land stagnate is nothing to beat chest with. What are you going to hand over to the next ibo generation? A bunch of slave workers working in Yorubaland like dogs and paying taxes to develop Yorubaland? You can not take Yorubaland back to your ibo villages.

You people need to bury your heads in shame because the joke is on you. You are once again the loser. Ibo people are dumb sha...

tomakint:
the day u tell me the numbers of tribal marks on ur cheeks I will tell you my course of study i tot u said u knew me at U.I Oponu so 'we nu, omo eran now u know my alma mater, can u tell us urs? *Greatest Ife*

geez*:


To the average easterner, traveling to Lagos is like traveling to London. You need to see the excitement on their faces when they arrive their airports to board Lagos bound planes