FKO81:


First west African to win Olympic gold medal not just in Nigeria
Chioma Ajunwa-Opara, MON (born 25 December 1970) – also known as Chioma Ajunwa – is a Nigerian former athlete who specialised in the long jump. After various setbacks in her career she achieved fame when she became the first athlete in her country to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and to date remains Nigeria's only individual Olympic gold medalist. [1] Ajunwa is also an officer with the Nigerian Police Force. [2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chioma_Ajunwa

Stop posting nonesense everywhere
Is that the topic of the thread, why re you guys behaving like an illiterate
Simple question you can't answer..if you don't have any reasonable facts or figures to counter the thread pls remain silent forever

FKO81:
Just Anambra list
Great sons and daughters of Anambra state, just imagin adding Imo state, Abia state, Enugu, Anioma and Ebonyi lists?

Anambra
Academias

Dr Pius Okigbo first Nigerian PHD in Economics

prof Philip emeagwali inventor of super computer

Prof Okoye first Nigerian professor of physics

Chike Obi first Nigerian professor of mathematicsa, Mathematician famous for his work on non-differential equations won the 1985 ICTP Price

Prof Kodilnye first Nigerian professor of medicine

Prof Chinua Achebe great writer

Cyprian Ekwensi MFR, a writer of international repute

Emeka Anyaoku first African commom wealth chairman

Prof Ben Enwonwu first Nigerian sculptor of international repute with artwork gracing the United Nations headquarters

Professor Samuel Okoye was black Africa's first PhD in RadioAstronomy who along with Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge discovered the radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star.

Chief Jerome Udoji a social reformer was the first African to be made a 'D.O' (District Officer) by the Colonial Administration

Chimamanda Adichie Novelist

Gilbert Kodilinye BA(Oxon) MA(Oxon) LL.M(Lond) Barrist -at-Law
Prof Dora Akunyili Pharmacologist

Oby Ezekwezili former world bank Charlady in Africa

Olisa Agbakoba first NBA president

Lieutenant-General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor, appointed in 2008 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as Military Advisor on UN Peacekeeping Operations.

Charles Soludo Economist and fromer CBN Governor

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE, a London-based visual artist. The first black artist to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II when commissioned to paint the official Golden Jubilee portrai

Francis Akpuaka - a renowned professor of plastic surgery

Ernest Ndukwe former NCC boss

Politicians from Anambra

Dr . Nnamdi Azikiwe first Nigeria president

Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme frontline Politician, Architect and the first executive Vice-President of Nigeria

Nwafor Orizu the first Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Dim Emeka Ojukwu - the leader of the secessionist Biafra Republic

Edwin Umezuoke former Chairman ANPP

Dr Chuba Okadigbo Oyi of Oyi former Senate president

Chukwuemeka Ezife former Governor of Anambra state

Chief Victor Umeh Apga nationa chairman

Chuka Umunna, a British Labor Party Member of Parliament for Streatham constituency

Chinyelu Onwurah, a British Labor Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central, becoming the first female British MP of African origin

Barrister Olisa Metuh PDP national publiclty secretary.


Business Tycoon

Sir louis Odiumegwu Ojukwu first Nigerian millionaire and also first Nigerian stock exchange persident

Sir Emeka Offor CEO Chrom Energy, Enugu disco etc

Dr ABC Orjiakor CEO Seplat Plc, Neimith pharmaceuticals etc.

Obi Okeke Fuson Motors US, Igbo car dealer that sold 39 exotic cars to Floyed Mayweather


Engr Ernest Azudialu CEO Nestoil, Century power generation, Smile Network etc.

Arthur Eze CEO Altlas Oranto petrolum

Ex Gov Peter Obi Fidelity bank, Next etc.

Andy Uba politician, Oil merchant

Cos Maduka CEO Coscharies motors, Abro motor products, Coched farm etc.

Emma Bishop Okonknwo CEO Ekulo group

Clement Ibeto CEO Ibeto group, Cement, Oil Merchant, Motor products, Real Estate, Farm and Hotels.

Ifeanyi Uba Capital Oil etc

Chief (Dr.) Alexander Chika Okafor CEO Chicason group, AZ oil.

Innocent Chukwuma Innoson Motors etc. first Nigeria vehicle manifacturing compay

Nicolas Ukachukwu CEO SNECOU Group of Companies Limited

SIR. Daniel Chukwudoze Dozzy Oil

Sir. Nath Okechukwu Chairman Inter-bau Construction Ltd

HRH. Igwe Alfred Achebe Obi of Onitsha Chairman Daimon bank and unilever Plc.

Sir Emeka Okwuosa Chairaman Oil serve group, Ekcel Farms Ltd

Nnetochukwu Azubuike Oil merchant, Genesis hotel and Genesis deluxe cinemas

Odumodu CEO May&Baker

Chief Poly Emenike Nero Pharmaceutical

Mrs. Stella Okoli Emzor

Nkechi Obi. Tchno oil

Ben Anakwe NIPCO oil,

Stella Odua Former aviation minister, CEO SPG

Dame Felicia Okoli CEO Armak group of companies

Uju Ifejika CEO Britannia-U

William Uzoma Anumudu Chairman Global motors Holding

Enukeme Linus Azubuike Chairman Tonimas Group

Obiajulu Uzodike Cutix wire plc

Chigioke Anumoka Chairman Cotech and Tummy tummy. noodles

Mike Ajegbo Minaj Tv, Cement and real estate

DA Nwandu Construction, real estate

Transporters

Young shall grow

Chisco group

Ekenedilichukwu trans

GUO Okeke

CN Okoli

Izuchukwu trans

PN. Omerua

FG. Onyewe


Religious leaders

Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi[/b] (born in Aguleri, Anambra State, in September 1903 – died in Leicester, England, January 24, 1964) was an Igbo from Aguleri in Anambra East. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937. He worked in the parishes of Nnewi, Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajalli and Aguleri and was later a Cistercian monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England. Pope John Paul II beatified him on March 22, 1998, saying "Blessed Cyprian Michael Tansi is a prime example of the fruits of holiness which have grown and matured in the Church in Nigeria since the Gospel was first preached in this land.

Cardinal Francis Arinze, once considered a potential Pope.

Bishop Mike Okonkwo

Music Industry

Osita Osedebe

Oliver dicoco

Moroco Nwamaduka

Ozoemena Nwazugbe

Chinyere Udoma

Gozie Okeke

Peter and Paul Okoye (Psquare)

Chinedu Okoli (Flavour N'abania)

Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson (Phyno)

Kingsley Chinweike Okonkwo (Kcee) Limbobo master

Oziomachukwu Favour Mojekwu (Osy bosco) youngest musician in Nigeria

Footballers

Amobi Okoye - Youngest American football player to play for the NFL (2004), currently plays for the Houston Texans

John Mikel Obi

Nollywood

Pet Edochie

Chika Okpala, aka Chief Zebrudaya

Obi Emelonye award winning producer

Bub-manuel Udokwu

Chidi Nmokeme

Chika Ike

Oge Okoye

Amachi Nmanago

Tony Oneweek

Rita Edochie

Yul Edochie

Ngozi Ezeonu

Steve Onu "Yaw WAZOBIA FM"

you didn't call those that are into oil drilling such as well tech drilling services the guy has been drilling oil years he is from my village in Nnewi south the same with chisco ..you did not call thousands of most of the business dudes in ICT from anambra from zoom data to others

you did not call me ....only we anambra can rival any west state

what about chimamanda what about those hot hands

only us in anambra can compete ....when we collate other igbos

hmmmmm what they should know Igbo got material and I thank lord I am anambra and Igbo



you did not call many names like vebon group et al

princdebola201:

Stop posting nonesense everywhere
Is that the topic of the thread, why re you guys behaving like an illiterate
Simple question you can't answer..if you don't have any reasonable facts or figures to counter the thread pls remain silent forever

these are the people contributing to Nigeria so tell us your people literate

the stupid op has caused problem for his people by opening a thread like this and so doing opening his peoples nyash.... one thing this op did not understand is that Igbo have been contributing positively to black race not to Nigeria and he has made the world see the laziness of his people ..one people that are brave and bring fight to ur door steps are the igbos ...so know that

too igbotic I am

tonychristopher:
the stupid op has caused problem for his people by opening a thread like this and so doing opening his peoples nyash.... one thing this op did not understand is that Igbo have been contributing positively to black race not to Nigeria and he has made the world see the laziness of his people ..one people that are brave and bring fight to ur door steps are the igbos ...so know that

too igbotic I am

Igbotic? With that Mars looking region you call home?

tonychristopher:
these are the people contributing to Nigeria so tell us your people literate

No time for trash talking
Answer the topic of the thread or you get lost..!!! Pls don't qoute me again if you can't counter the topic of the thread with basic facts and figures and the percentages of the contributions of the 5 south east states into federation account

princdebola201:

Stop posting nonesense everywhere
Is that the topic of the thread, why re you guys behaving like an illiterate
Simple question you can't answer..if you don't have any reasonable facts or figures to counter the thread pls remain silent forever

Son go and ask your father or Awo in his vault what Igbos are contributing since you and your likes are too blind, I thought your tribes men are claiming to be the most educated and most successful tribe in Nigeria, till today Igbos are leading. Ndiara!

FKO81:

Son go and ask your father or Awo in his vault what Igbos are contributing since you and your likes are too blind, I thought your tribes men are claiming to be the most educated and most successful tribe in Nigeria, till today Igbos are leading. Ndiara!

mr Flat head with Flat brain stop being an illiterate and answer the topic of the thread with basic facts and figures the contribution of 5 south East states in SE region and the percentage of their contribution or you Get Lost..!! And stop qouting me

Op and all Yorubas who have contributed to this thread should kindly go to there representatives in the NASS and compel them to cut igbos lose from the federation. Start an offline campaign, go to the streets and put your money where keyboard is.

Just 5% of Yoruba population can do it and Yorubas can also convince the Hausas on the need to let us go because we contribute absolutely nothing to this union. Am sure Hausas will agree.

Thank you

tonychristopher:


you didn't call those that are into oil drilling such as well tech drilling services the guy has been drilling oil years he is from my village in Nnewi south the same with chisco ..you did not call thousands of most of the business dudes in ICT from anambra from zoom data to others

you did not call me ....only we anambra can rival any west state

what about chimamanda what about those hot hands

only us in anambra can compete ....when we collate other igbos

hmmmmm what they should know Igbo got material and I thank lord I am anambra and Igbo

you did not call many names like vebon group et al

Bro forgive me, these are the ones I can remember, you can help me add let us teach lazy tribe that Nigeria dosen't start in Lagos and end in Ore.Udo!

It seems no igbos on nairaland can answer the questions

WELL YOU GUYS RE FREE TO HIRE MADAM OKONJO IWEALA TO COME AND ANSWER THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD TO COVER UR SHAME

signz:
Op and all Yorubas who have contributed to this thread should kindly go to there representatives in the NASS and compel them to cut igbos lose from the federation. Start an offline campaign, go to the streets and put your money where keyboard is.

Just 5% of Yoruba population can do it and Yorubas can also convince the Hausas on the need to let us go because we contribute absolutely nothing to this union. Am sure Hausas will agree.

Thank you

stop blaming yoruba for ur misfortunes.
What is difficult for ur flat head brothers and sisters all over nigeria packing ur Bags and return to red mud region tell your senators not to sit in the chambers
And ur governors should stop collecting allocation
THEN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL TAKE YOU SERIOUS..!!

princdebola201:

mr Flat head with Flat brain stop being an illiterate and answer the topic of the thread with basic facts and figures the contribution of 5 south East states in SE region and the percentage of their contribution or you Get Lost..!! And stop qouting me

I repeat, cone head go and ask your father and Awo what Igbos are contributing since Ewedu and red oil soup has conjoined your thick skull and sick brain to see Igbos contributes alots more than your lazy ass to Nigeria economy

FKO81:


I repeat, cone head go and ask your father and Awo what Igbos are contributing since Ewedu and red oil soup has conjoined your thick skull and sick brain to see Igbos contributes alots more than your lazy ass to Nigeria economy

So rude. You Ibos lack common etiquette.

Kalvan:


So rude. You Ibos lack common etiquette.

Nkita lacha gi anya, I lack common etiquette? when you and your likes were asking sill.y questions did you expect to get polite answer? Idoitaa check your handle to see the rubbish you wrote under, Ewu Osun!

FKO81:

Nkita lacha gi anya, I lack common etiquette? when you and your like were asking sill.y question you expect did you expect to get polite answer? Idoitaa check your handle to see the rubbish you wrote under, Ewu Osun!

At least I'm not being rude.

princdebola201:
It seems no igbos on nairaland can answer the questions

WELL YOU GUYS RE FREE TO HIRE MADAM OKONJO IWEALA TO COME AND ANSWER THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD TO COVER UR SHAME

Igbo nation were the source of 80% Nigerian oil revenue for many years until oil was discovered elsewhere. Offshore exploration lead to the decline in onshore oil interests.

On industries there are equally sizeable industries that contribute so much. These include but not limited to

1) Innoson motors Nnewi which is the only local car manufacturer in Africa

2) Glass Force industries Aba which produces majority of bottles used in Nigeria. It is the largest glass industry in Africa.

3) Aba sorghum malting plant owned by NBL. It is the largest in the world.

4) Sabmiller brewery Onitsha which is the largest brewery in Nigeria alongside NBL Enugu and NBL Aba which are 2nd and 3rd in Nigeria.

abagoro:
Download this and read when Igbos started contributing to oil industry. The conspiracy to hide Igbo contribution started from colonial era after oil was discovered and deliberately declared dry. However pipelines were layed from there to Bonny for shipping.

http://www.arabianjbmr.com/pdfs/OM_VOL_2_(11)/4.pdf


Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review


(OMAN Chapter) Vol. 2, No.11; June 2013     As such, they were not willing to relinquish government control over resources that would come to them when they took over from the colonial authority at independence (NAI, 215/50625/Vol II).  

We therefore stress that despite opposition to the 1945 Oil Mineral Ordinance, the oil exploration by Shell/D’Arcy in Ijawland continued relatively unabated after 1947 (NAI, 216/50625/Vol III; 217/50625/Vol IV; 218/50625/Vol V; 219/50625/Vol VI; 220/50625/Vol, VIII; 221/50625/Vol, VIIII). More importantly, on its return to Niger Delta, the company retained the concessionary rights it had enjoyed before the War (Orubu, 2002). Shell-BP intensified its search for oil in the eastern Delta of Nigeria in 1947, conducting an extensive gravity survey of southern Nigeria from 1948 to the early 1950s.

Its geophysical activities were successful through an expansive coverage of the Niger Delta by aerial photography in 1951 (NAI, 22/1290/1952). The latter was made possible through a further land concession by the British Colonial government, whereby Owerri in eastern Nigeria was added. Shell-BP had by 1951 successfully explored and drilled its first oil well at Iho Town in the northeast of Owerri, but it was found to be dry.

The company’s further exploration led to the discovery of more oil wells in Akata by 1953, although the oil was not of commercial quantity (NAI, 180/1/No 1580; NAE, 1168/15; Annual Report, 1953-54).  

Discovery of Oil in Oloibiri   After shifting its exploratory focus to the tertiary area of the Delta, Shell-BP struck oil of commercial quantity in January 1956, at Oloibiri in the Ogbia District of Ijaw area, at a depth of 12,008 feet (Pearson, 1970).

It should be noted that after the Second World War in 1947, Shell D’Arcy resumed exploration under a new name as the Shell-British Petroleum Company (Shell BP). This site, according to Korvenoja (1993) and Allan (1994) was located about 72 kilometres (km) west of Port-Harcourt in the Niger Delta.

Shell-BP’s exploration activities led to more oil discoveries at Afam, 40km east of Port-Harcourt, and the Bomu and Ebubu (Ogoni) areas of the Niger Delta (Augustine, 2006; OPEC, 2000; Jaspid, 1995). The discovery was a great success for both the company and the colonial government. More importantly, it encouraged development of a petroleum sector, especially by foreign multinational companies that would become major role players in the upstream oil sector of the Nigerian economy.  

Geological survey reports between 1955 and 1959 revealed that a total of 229,032 feet of exploration drilling and 185,379 feet of appraisal drilling were completed during those years. For instance, in Oloibiri about 16 wells were completed, of which 11 started production, while others were left up to the end of 1958 (Colonial Annual Report CAR, 1958-59).

To facilitate the production and exploration of oil in Oloibiri in 1958, Steyn (2009) summits that a network of pipelines had to be laid between 1956 and 1958, between this region and the oil port at Port-Harcourt.

We argue that Shell BP was prepared for oil exploitation because about 6-10 diameters welded steel oil pipelines was built and laid across the land from the Umualogu village, Egbema village and Obeakpu village to Port-Harcourt where the refinery was located.

Infrastructural facilities for effective operation and transportation of crude oil were put in place and about 8,500 tons of crude oil was exported to Rotterdam by 8 March 1958, while the Oloibiri oilfields yielded a daily production average of 5,000 barrels (CAR, 1958-59).

trapQ:
Lmao!! Compound fool. Uncircumcised gorilla. Continue basking in your foolishness. Trail me all you want, doesn't change the fact I'm SS. Maybe the baby factory insanity has clouded your memory making you reason like an infant.

This is the last time I'm replying, I don't converse with jobless, irrelevant, morons like you.

bastard daughter of an uncircumcised Philistine. You product of busted condom and failed abortion. Your mother made a mistake by dumping you in the bush instead of killing you ugly inconsequential bitch. Since you derive pleasure in mouthlashing my people, so will I in bursting your propaganda

tonychristopher:
the problem is that most of u non Igbo r stupid and ignorant about Igbo culture we are not like u that have no roots we always visit home
that is it wait till Xmas

see dis mumu. We don't need to go home for Christmas, we are already home!!!.Na only una dey perambulate all over Nigeria up and down like busy bodies everywhere. Can't you guys do business in your erosion gullies?

tonychristopher:


you didn't call those that are into oil drilling such as well tech drilling services the guy has been drilling oil years he is from my village in Nnewi south the same with chisco ..you did not call thousands of most of the business dudes in ICT from anambra from zoom data to others

you did not call me ....only we anambra can rival any west state

what about chimamanda what about those hot hands

only us in anambra can compete ....when we collate other igbos

hmmmmm what they should know Igbo got material and I thank lord I am anambra and Igbo



you did not call many names like vebon group et al

80% of those on that list are criminals at night....I can guarantee you that. Shebi na igbos nau!

tonychristopher:
the stupid op has caused problem for his people by opening a thread like this and so doing opening his peoples nyash.... one thing this op did not understand is that Igbo have been contributing positively to black race not to Nigeria and he has made the world see the laziness of his people ..one people that are brave and bring fight to ur door steps are the igbos ...so know that

too igbotic I am

with all the executions of Igbos all over Asia?have you seen the YouTube videoeven the Thai police investigator knows about the igbos more than me. From his words "why are you igbos smearing the name of Nigeria everywhere? ?"

even if they are assumed criminals at night, it is not easy to wake up and do crime in dead of night


bro do you know why many people are poor, they have a very terrible attitude to life and that is what you have displayed here..I will love you to know that you should consider this response an honor to you...I dont reply your type son


ANY HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, MAKING MONEY AINT EASY SO GIVE RESPECT TO MEN THAT ARE ON TOP, FROM PABLO ESCOBAR TO COSCHARIS TO CAPITAL OIL...THEN IBETO THOSE ARE MY ROLE MODEL...That is how we roll in Anambra


Can you do me a favour...Dont reply nor quote me again


have a great day

azzima:
80% of those on that list are criminals at night....I can guarantee you that. Shebi na igbos nau!

azzima:
with all the executions of Igbos all over Asia?have you seen the YouTube videoeven the Thai police investigator knows about the igbos more than me. From his words "why are you igbos smearing the name of Nigeria everywhere? ?"

I know that you come from the land of saints, the land of those that killed british police same brothers, maybe those adewale brothers are igbo or maybe those hausa guys that got caught in india-pakistani border that are joining the ISIS are still igbo or that Yoruba girl that joined ISIS is still igbo...i know that your land is filled with saints no harms no sins, but the question is why are you obsessed with IGBO...Igbo doesn’t know you or gives a damn about you or your people, what the average igbo man wants is just to making money off you and that is what they are good at doing, just like jews respect them

And if you feel that they are smearing your image, that is if you have any image....then please carry placard and support BIAFRA ..the question is that ..will your confused mental state just like that of your fathers allow those that you love to hate go? Those that you hate to love, will you allow therm go? IGBOS ARE ENIGMA ..that is why they are talked about in Nigeria the way the jews are talked about in middle east

Maybe that phone that you are browsing with was sold to you by an igbo man, what about the cloth, what about the plate that you eat will...we are here to dominate

Must you call me name, yes you are home but you are rootless, even USA citizen visit their land of birth for thanksgiving and christmas, people recognise their ancestry but you have non or you have jettisoned yours, we are fond of going home and I know my village...do you know your village...oh I forgot every yoruba man is a logosian ...lol


We make money elsewhere and repatriate them home...that is the game

We are not people with where belle face na home...we APTLY UNDERSTNAD WHERE WE ARE COMING FROM AND WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING...but you...you dont know any of these, and i will not lecture you cos it will be waste of time


Have you ever wondered why wise men always have a way of coming from the East...AKA igbo sense


Dont die yet...I am too igbotic for your liking...now get a job, got some to do here


Bye

azzima:
see dis mumu. We don't need to go home for Christmas, we are already home!!!.Na only una dey perambulate all over Nigeria up and down like busy bodies everywhere. Can't you guys do business in your erosion gullies?

azzima:
with all the executions of Igbos all over Asia?have you seen the YouTube videoeven the Thai police investigator knows about the igbos more than me. From his words "why are you igbos smearing the name of Nigeria everywhere? ?"

Your brothers are international terrorists

Micheal Adebowale your kinsmen that beheaded British soldiers in broad daylight
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee
I guess they brought honours to Nigeria?

FKO81:


Senior Advocate of Nigeria

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is a title that may be conferred on legal practitioners in Nigeria of not less than ten years' standing and who have distinguished themselves in the legal profession. It is the equivalent of the rank of Queen's Counsel in the United Kingdom, from which Nigeria became independent in 1960 (Republic 1963), as well as in South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Canada (except Ontario and Quebec). Several countries use similar designations such as Senior Counsel, State Counsel, Senior Advocate, and President's Advocate. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria is said to have been admitted to the "Inner Bar", as distinguished from the "Outer", or "Utter", Bar, consisting of junior advocates (See Call to the bar).

The conferment is made in accordance with the Legal Practitioners Act 207 Section 5 (1) by the Legal Practitioners' Privileges Committee, headed by the Chief Justice (as Chairman), and consist of the Attorney-General, one Justice of the Supreme Court [1]

(chosen by the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General for a term of two years, renewable on one occasion only), the President of the Court of Appeal, five of the Chief Judges of the States (chosen by the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General for a term of two years, renewable on one occasion only), the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, and five legal practitioners who are Senior Advocates of Nigeria (chosen by the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General for a term of two years, renewable on one occasion only).

The title was first conferred on April 3, 1975. The recipients were Chief F.R.A. Williams and Dr Nabo Graham-Douglas. As of July 7, 2011 344 lawyers had become Senior Advocates of Nigeria. [2][3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Advocate_of_Nigeria

Yorubas and lies, propaganda are like bread and beans

It was just a question and you have answered this one rightly but is there any need for that last statement?
]

Kalvan:


Igbotic? With that Mars looking region you call home?

Professor Emmanuel Obiechina and his charge to the Igbo as it concerned politics and economics. He had a message for the Igbo that never seeped through the labyrinth of suggestions that crowded the Igbo political space till he died. It read like this: seek yee first the economic domination of Nigeria. He emphasized domination

And I totally agree with prof....we must dominate them economically from the phones they use, to the clothes they wear to even the plate they w eat with and the drugs they take...there must be igbo hand in whatever they use in Nigeria...that is our quest as IGBO and we must accomplish that before we can go home...they must have one thing or the other to do with our business....Igbo must first seek economic domination


Let them keep hating, while their masters keep bombing, we will keep moving our economic frontiers to the full length and breadth of Nigeria and Africa...we are doing a great job in ECOWAS and our footprints in other countries are noted.


Igbo must first seek economic domination





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FKO81:


First west African to win Olympic gold medal not just in Nigeria
Chioma Ajunwa-Opara, MON (born 25 December 1970) – also known as Chioma Ajunwa – is a Nigerian former athlete who specialised in the long jump. After various setbacks in her career she achieved fame when she became the first athlete in her country to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and to date remains Nigeria's only individual Olympic gold medalist. [1] Ajunwa is also an officer with the Nigerian Police Force. [2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chioma_Ajunwa

Did i say the first Nigerian to win a gold medal or the first to win a medal?

Yes, Chioma Ajunwa is the First Nigerian to win a gold medal for Nigeria but she is not the first Nigeria to win a gold medal. fact]

This piece was prompted by what I saw as benign ignorance amongst some of our Ibo folks and because such ignorance is music to the ears of some other people and Yoruba in particular. In more than one occasion my friends and other Ibo have advanced the argument that if Ibo was that smart, how come Yorubas dominated the commerce industry in Nigeria? What they meant were the domination of Yoruba in the banking, insurance industries, Coco Cola and some other surviving industries. In one particular occasion a friend revealed to me that he recently discovered that the reason why some Yoruba are so wealthy is because they were smart enough to invest their money in corporate stocks and bonds (not realizing that Yoruba actually stolen those corporations) while Ibo is busy engaging in buying and selling. The Yoruba will like people to continue to believe that story, that it was because they were smart that they were able to do all these great investments in the commerce industry. One relevant question that I always managed to ask my interlocutors is whether they were aware of the indigenization decree of 1972, master minded by Awolowo and the Yoruba and the ramifications of that policy, as will be expected, the answer ranged from, I have heard of it but does not understand what it actually meant to I have not heard of the policy. Listening to this ignorance induced perspective from my friends made my heart to skip a beat, realizing that the task of bridging this information gap is not going to be a child’s play. What is disconcerting is that some in their benign induced ignorance believe that the effect of indigenization is inconsequential at this time because it happened about forty years ago. This piece is therefore for those that are educable and for those that have the capacity to appreciate the magnitude and most importantly for those that can relate that gigantic economic event that reshaped the economic foundation on which Nigerian economy settled on after the British/Biafran war and as well as relate our present economic malaise to that economic foundation engendered by indigenization.

There is no doubt that most people, particularly those that do not have either basic or international economics background are overwhelmed by the subject of INDIGENIZATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES IN NIGERIA because of their inability to understand the economics of it and the efficacies to make the necessary connections and relate it to the present economic doldrums, some simply brush it aside or worse, simple minimize its far reaching implications particularly on the Ibo. In so doing, majority of us dabble into analysis of how terrible Ibo has managed their affairs since after the civil war, while leaving out a huge chunk of the elements that need to be factored into their analysis. The unspeakable effect of the policy of indigenization on the Ibo was wicked and dastardly. The economic damage on the Ibo is impossible to calculate. The psychological toll on the Ibo is still reverberating amongst the Ibo today and creating identity crisis. Some folks will argue that we should drop the subject because it happened forty years ago, which is equivalent to saying that because slavery, Jim crow and the holocaust happened years ago, and for that reason, they have no relevance in today’s analysis. How can any credible analysis of American history not include slavery and its implications, or how can any Jewish history not include the holocaust and its implications and effects, but that is what some folks want us to do, to avoid or forget one of the most devastating economic policies that changed the economic landmark of Nigeria, second to the genocide of more than a million Ibo committed by the same man, Awo, and still arrive at any meaningful analysis. I believe that the incredulity that any ethnic group is capable of visiting such devastation on another is still an obstacle that the subject is struggling against and must overcome. It is not that most people do not know what happen, it is simply that they do not what to believe that it happened because it is mind bending. I also believe that if we do not tell the story over and over, the Yorubas will not tell and neither will the Hausa tell it, as a matter of fact they always wish that it will go away. So whether they like it or not, we must continue to broadcast what happened until people start to understand the effect of the policy not only on the Ibo but on the nation as a whole. Suffice to say that after Awo and the Yoruba succeeded in executing the indigenization decree and became overnight millionaires, many Ibo packed their bags and left Lagos to the east –ala Ibo, where they shortly died out of heart break because some of them also suffered the deprivation of their properties due to abandon property policy in Lagos and Port harcourt.

WHAT ENGENDERED THE INDIGENIZATION POLICY?

It is no more news worthy to point out that before the civil war that Ibo out of their capacity for honesty, to work hard, to produce, to innovate, to manage, create and persevere were able to penetrate all facets of Nigerian endeavor, when the British used merit as a yard stick. It is an irrefragable fact that even Yoruba would not dare challenge that fact, if not, what started the Yoruba hate, envy and jealousy against the Ibo in the first place, Yoruba and Hausa claimed that Ibo was dominating everything in the country but what they will not acknowledge publicly was the fact that the British were making the decisions about who to hire by their own standard and not by Ibo standard and that Ibo was good at what they did and better than them. The Yoruba and Hausa wanted not only equal opportunity they also wanted equal outcome regardless of effort and everyone knows that that is impossible.

There is one very important fact in my analysis that I want everyone to get, and that is that before the civil war, Nigeria as a nation did not have an economic of its own. Let me say it again, that Nigeria as a nation before the British/Biafran civil war did not have an economy of its own. I emphasized that point in other to say that whatever seemed like Nigerian economy were British owned. Put differently, if you excluded few of the regional cooperatives and some joint ventures businesses which were mostly British engineered to make buying raw materials easy for the British, ever y other aspect of the economy were owned majorly by the British, even the military, given the fact that almost every military supply came from Britain. It is then save to say that British investment in Nigeria amounted to a great totality of Nigerian economy or that Nigerian economy was at that time synonymous to the total investment of the British.

Below, courtesy of Africa today are the list of some of the companies that constituted Nigerian economy before the war that the Yoruba stole in one swoop, spanning the insurance companies like Lloyd’s of London and all the banks in Nigeria owned one way or the other by the British. This is but a partial list of what constituted the British investment in Nigerian economy.

“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge ],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State. Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State Wema Bank Plc, Marina, Lagos West African Portland Cement Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State Great Nigeria Insurance PLC, Ikoyi, Lagos State Glanvill Enthoven & Company Limited ◦Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. ◦International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State. ◦Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos ◦Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State ◦Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State ◦Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State ◦Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos ◦SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos ◦Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos ◦U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos etc.

The necessity of inserting this partial list of the companies/assets that existed before the war was to give the reader a sense of the extent of what the issue is all about and who owned what and when. The Yoruba hardly owned much of anything or any of these assets listed above except in some regional joint cooperative ventures with the British.

The story went like this, before the war the Ibo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when British/Biafran war started, Ibo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the east, the Ibo land. After the end of the war, the Ibo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Ibo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Ibo abandoned their positions and do not deserve their position back, reminiscent of the abandon property thievery in Port Harcourt River State and Lagos. However, a dynamic developed as Ibo every morning dressed up and went and occupied the lobbies of their different offices that they used to work in. Tell me, if this is not manifest bravery of the highest order ever exhibited by any group in Nigeria and we are talking about days and weeks immediately after the war was declared over. But the final say as to whether or not the positions that Ibo left for dire life was going to be declared abandoned rested on the British that owned these companies. As the back and forth went on, the British started angling to make an economic decision because they understood the difference between the Ibo worker and the Yoruba worker and the three years of the civil war made that difference even more crystal clear to the British, if not, why would the British bother to accommodate the Ibo after such a long time? What became clear to the Yoruba was that the British were willing to make extra provision to re-absorb the Ibo any way possible. Yoruba was not ready to tolerate any of that because they knew that it was a matter of time before the wheat will be separated from the shaft that Ibo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Ibo into these British owned companies, the corporate Yoruba decided to solicit the help of Awolowo who was then the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council.

This is where a plan was hashed to wrest the control of these companies, consisting of banks, insurance companies, corporations of different kinds and types from the British. The best way Awo and his cabal found fit was to convince Gowon and the military leadership who in all probability have never had the word indigenization in their lives to promulgate the INDIGENIZATION DECREE in 1972 that stipulated that every foreign owned venture must transfer majority ownership to Nigerian indigenes within a year of the promulgation of the decree or they will forfeit the assets of the company to the Nigerian government. (Emphasis within a year) As expected, the British were caught off guide, not understanding the motive behind the policy, the British thought it was a dream or a joke that will go away, particularly given the fact that they just won the war against the Ibo for the Yoruba and Hausa. After exhausting six months out of the one year in their bid to reverse the decree, the British became frantic and concluded that they could not reverse the decree and went about trying to salvage whatever they could. What was worst was that the British did not even have enough time to evaluate the worth of their ventures because of the limited time the decree allowed, courtesy of Awo and cabal. The situation gave chaos a new name because the British were in chaos. So the first problem the British ran into was limited time that they couldn’t figure what the value of majority of their ventures were, they could not tell how much to sell them for. Mind you that this was happening within a year after the end of the civil war. At this time the Yoruba was running every conceivable federal ministries, departments and agencies plus all the corporations listed above and more that the British owned. It is important to point out that the north had little or no presence in the commerce economy of the country before the war and after the war except in the military leadership and infantry. The economy of the country was dominated by Ibo first and Yoruba second before the war. In order to solidify the economic dominance that the Yoruba attained during and after the war and to make their position even more potent in acquiring the British spoils, Awo as the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council and his Yoruba cabal decided to economically emasculate the Ibo understanding

a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatals

b) That Yoruba was running every conceivable corporation that the British owned or had majority ownership as listed above.

c) That Yoruba was managing all the Nigerian banks, insurance corporations, National shipping line, Nigerian airways, Nigerian’s Ports authority, Nigerian Railways and all the ministries, Departments and Agencies conceivable.

Decided to destroy whatever was left of the Ibo and putting a finishing touch to it by

a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Ibo had in all the Nigerian banks

b) Offering every Ibo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.

c) Militarizing every part of Ibo land.

d) Rendering every Ibo without exception a pauper.

e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Ibo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

When that day of infamy arrived for the British to start selling their assets, Igbo having been disenfranchised and emasculated in any and every way stood on the sideline watching the Yoruba in their glee as they scrambled to obtain loans from their Yoruba dominated banks to make the most minimal of offers to the British as there were no competitions. The British had no choice but to accept any offer as the alternative was losing everything to the federal government. The British lost pretty much all their investment to the Yoruba whose stock in trade is robbing and stealing any and everything they can get their hands on. Thousands of Yoruba became millionaires overnight and there was jubilation and owanbe all over Yoruba land. Yoruba had parties day and night and weekends. They closed streets to display their new found wealth as they partied. That day marked the economic death of Nigeria, that day marked the death of Nigerian’s aspiration to join the civilized world. The implication was enormous and it sent a shock wave throughout the Ibo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Ibo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic , social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingering today within the Ibo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Ibo good and the country as well, he brought the Ibo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Ibo has never recovered from that one blow seven akpus in any appreciable way but Nigeria as whole is worse off for it. I believe that what was more devastating was that Ibo had no place or body to turn to. To be blunt, Awo decapitated the Ibo leadership and through Ibo into great confusion.

It is important to note that by this singular act of INDIGENIZATION DECREE engineered by the Yoruba, the Yoruba de facto constituted the new economic foundation, the sole owner and manager of Nigerian economy without any rivals. So, for those that have wondered why Ibo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Ibo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Ibo buy any shares of these corporations for decades following the heist. Now, some people without the capacity to comprehend the full seismic implication of this economic shift and restructuring will want us to believe that this does not matter and I will beg to disagree because it is like everything else, the foundation of everything matters and determines the success or failure, be it a house or business. As time has revealed, Yoruba stealing and forming the economic foundation for Nigeria was a bad idea and a monumental disaster. For the ignorants, all things being equal (in a fair fight) the Yoruba knew it, the British knew it, the Ibo knew it and the world knew it that the Yoruba did not possess the capacity, creativity, drive, perseverance, hard work and the competence to do what some are crediting to it if they did not conspire to steal not only from the British and Ibo but from everybody else that had any assets in Nigeria. The apparent dominant control the Yoruba has on the economy since after the war was not out of great honest smartness or creativity or innovation or hard work or competence but out of share robbery of the British and Ibo sweat and hard work. I believe that the question that the benign ignorant should be asking going forward is what did Yoruba do with all these assets and corporations that they stole? How did the country fair under the Yoruba management of the Nigerian economy? How did the Yoruba managed economy relate to today’s economic malaise. Hope they can make the connections.

My next piece will try to capture the mind blowing implications of that great heist as it relates to Nigerians and Ibo in particular and the flight of international investment from Nigerian for decades.

Fredrick.


http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/The-Biafran-War/The-Greatest-Heist-in-Modern-H/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-.html

FKO81:
Nigeria first Millionaira

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE, (1909-1966) was a Nigerian businessman from Ojukwus family of Nwakanwa quarters obiuno umudim Nnewi. Sir Ojukwu was the first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as well as President of The African Continental Bank. He was also either Chairman or on the board of directors of some of Nigeria's most profitable companies such as Shell Oil Nigeria Limited, Guinness Nig. Ltd, Nigerian National Shipping Lines, Nigerian Cement Factory, Nigerian Coal Corporation, Costain West Africa Ltd, John Holt, Nigerian Marketing Board amongst others. He won a parliamentary seat during the nation's first republic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Odumegwu_Ojukwu

[b]Ojukwu was the greatest businessman of what is recorded even by the Nigerian Government in our National archives. The fact that the Queen of England visited Nigeria in 1956 and was chauffeured by Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu’s personal driver and guess what car she drove in, his Rolls Royce. Mr. Abiefo was the chauffeur and only passed on a few years ago with the honour of having driven the Queen.

My claim of the humongous stature of Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu as a business mogul of his time is not just based on this feat. It is on record that he was the first president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, then the Lagos Stock Exchange. The record is there and his photograph today still adorns the Nigerian Stock Exchange gallery in Lagos. Under his Presidency of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, there was no rival claim or litigation on his Presidency as we see today. Stock prices were a true reflection of their value and there was harmony in the stock market.

Nigerian economy in Ojukwu’s era was an emerging economy but even at that, this great Nigerian carved a niche for himself by investing so much in blue chip Companies where he was either Chairman or Director. Amongst such Companies were Guinness, John Holt, Nigercem, Constain amongst others. In fact, due to his relationship with Mr. Constain, he, Mr. Constain became the guardian of Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu’s son, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu during his days as a student in Oxford University, England.

Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was not just a good and large hearted businessman, he was a visionary. At a time when a lot of people did not reckon with the real estate sector, he moved in from the Capital Market and owned several houses in Ikoyi, Lagos and other highbrow areas in Nigeria. He also encouraged quite a lot of his friends both young and old to invest in the markets where he excelled. He encouraged his politician friends financially without counting the cost and asking for anything in return but good governance. The likes of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. M. I. Opara to mention but a few were beneficiaries of his benevolence. This is a mark of a good leader, friend, patriot and trail blazer.

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu enjoyed the services of a number of lawyers including the late F.R.A. Williams, QC, S.A.N. He also enjoyed the services of other professionals at a time when his peers never believed in professionalism and were not ready to pay professionals for whatever reason. I can go on and on but I think the message is clear. Nobody did it better than he did. His educational foundation remains unrivaled to the glory of God.[/b]

Did i write first millionaire or first billionaire?
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[b] 1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group,
(Manufacturing, oil & gas,)
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Globacom (Oil
& gas, Banking, Telecom)- YORUBA
3. Femi Otedola – Forte Oil and Gas (Oil &
gas)-YORUBA
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group (Aviation,- IGBO
Shipping, publishing, manufacturing)
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group-IGBO
(Automobile, manufacturing)
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance,
Global Fleet (Insurance, transportation, oil
& gas)-Yoruba
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
(Banking, Telecom)-IGBO
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond
Bank (Banking, Telecom)-IGBO
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group
Nigeria, Pivotal Engineering, Airtel
(Manufacturing, oil & gas,
telecom)- YORUBA
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group (Oil
& gas, construction)
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former
Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin
Group (manufacturing, pharmaceuticals)-YORUBA
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico
Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken
Republic, Kings Guards
(Insurance, Security, Technology, Food
retailing)-YORUBA
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
(Trading, manufacturing, oil & gas)-IGBO
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar
Communication, AIT, (Entertainment)
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
(Pharmaceutical, oil & gas)-IGBO
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas –
Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french
companies
(Automobiles)-YORUBA
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas (Oil
& gas)-IGBO
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox (Computer,
technology) IGBO 20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
(Banking)-Yoruba
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig
LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars (Auto
retailing)-YORUBA
22. Abdulsamad Rabiu – Bua Group (Oil &
gas, manufacturing)
23. Folorunsho Alakija – Famfa Oil (Oil & YORUBA
gas) 24. High Chief O.B. Lulu Briggs –
Moni Pulo (Oil & gas)
25. Hakeem Bello Osagie – Etisalat
Nigeria (Telecom)
26. Sani Bello – Amni Petroleum (Oil &
gas) 27. Mohammed Indimi – Oriental
Petroleum (Oil & gas)
28. Sir Emeka Offor – Chrome Group (Oil
& gas, marine)-IGBO
29. Chief Arthur Eze – Atlas Oranto
Petroleum (Oil & gas)-IGBO
30. Vincent Amaechi Obianodo – Young
Shall Grow Motors, RockView Hotels
(Transportation, IGBO[/b]


We have more IGBOs in that than Yorubas, the first Yoruba man , Totit, that posted this list here cut the list at 21, to give the Yorubas more numbers, seeing there are more Igbos between 20- 30 of that list. The Yorubas treachery keep astonishing me.