ODVanguard:
Lol. That writer has obviously spent way too much time around igbos so much that he is throwing around unsubstantiated stats like akara, like they are known for.

ASL33:
You better give us the best stats otherwise people will hold on to the one the see/read.

B4 now people hold on to anything the see on CNN not until other news media came on board to give a different version hence people with brain will analyse and know which of the news made sense.

Give the correct stats pls.

In his paper, Bello categorized Nigeria’s economy, post Obasanjo’s reform, into four, namely, South West, South East plus Delta, North and South-South minus Delta. The South-West with an area of 76,852 square kilometer and a population of 25.2 million, he said, owned or controlled 60% of the nation’s industrial capacity, 40% of its banking assets and 67% of its insurance assets. The region also housed the nation’s deep sea port of Apapa, Tin Can Island and Roro, the busiest international airport in Ikeja, and three thermal stations at Egbin, Papalanto and Omotosho.

The South-East plus Delta (what Bello called “their (Igbo’s) cousins across the Onitsha bridge”) controlled 20% of the country’s industrial assets, 50% of its banking assets and 21% of its insurance assets.

oduastates:
The writer is as ignorant as he is local.
My guess is that he surrounds himself with losers.
70% of manufacturing concerns in Lagos ?
Where did it pull that from ?
Where exactly are those 70% located?
He said all Yoruba billionaires are in oil and gas apart from Adenuga . Adenuga is in oil and gas as well( con oil) .
Ever heard of those in banking , insurance,legal, airlines , construction,PR and real estate to name a few .

I can give the names of 100 start-ups and brands started in the last 5 years, by omoluabis below the age of 35 .
The writer had better taken a trip to Yaba to get reorientation.
One player( below 38) just got $25million seed money 2 days ago . Guys are making things happen and this one is sitting down writing crap .
Abi you want to tussle with China for $1 t-shirt ni?
Even the apprenticeship he advocated for is backward . Get the technical schools up and running again , followed by proper apprenticeship in proper set up like Elizade .
Nigerian examination bodies ? I would not take the ranking seriously. Not to say that education has not deteriorated . The A,B and C team do not school in Nigeria anymore.
The one that annoys me the most is his beef with the hyper markets and malls . Those malls are the foundation on which a future supply and domestic omoluabis value chain will be built on products we have comparative advantage.
THE ONLY LETTER YOU NEED TO WRITE TO TINIBU
SHOULD BE ABOUT LEADING THE YORUBA NATION OUT OF NIGERIA .THAT WAY , WE CAN UNLEASH THE PENT-UP ENERGY

ODVanguard:

Excerpts from http://www.gamji.com/haruna/haruna291.htm
In other words, all his talk about Aba,Onitsha, Nnewi industrial capacity is nonsense coz SW about triples SE industrial capacity as at 2009, not to talk of today. A prominent Nnewi based industrialist recently lamented publicly that the town is fast deindustrializing. Yorubas must be doing something spectacular to continue attracting so much FDI.
cc: OmoAjowa7

ODVanguard:




Excerpts from http://www.gamji.com/haruna/haruna291.htm



In other words, all his talk about Aba,Onitsha, Nnewi industrial capacity is nonsense coz SW about triples SE industrial capacity as at 2009, not to talk of today. A prominent Nnewi based industrialist recently lamented publicly that the town is fast deindustrializing. Yorubas must be doing something spectacular to continue attracting so much FDI.

cc: OmoAjowa7

oduastates:

I understand where he is coming from
These are the people who have been left behind.
They are the ones tussling with migrants from other parts for low - paying jobs( buying and selling ) ,and to whom no one is paying attention. He does not have the skillset and mindset to tackle the ever changing nature of SW economy .
His mentality is based on his surroundings and he cannot see what is happening around him
The worst thing is that he is spreading that mindset the same way the likes of Odumakin and Femi do as well.

For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.

ODVanguard:


I don't fault those thinking he's Igbo because they are the ones with that penchant for throwing around stats without any basis of fact to back them up. He obviously has been listening to some of them and bought their fables hook, line, and sinker. Till today if you ask them to name this Igbo owned Big Businesses in Lagos and the rest of the SW that are holding the region hostage, they can't. Yet they keep going about spreading their fables of owning 90%, 75%, 85.6%. How?? Where?? Where are these Big Businesses that have no name??

OmoAjowa7:


I tire oooo. I told one of dem pure-wattah sprinters to open a thread and mention the so-called Gigbo businesses in Lagos.The Olosh ran away.
I've told them as long as people like us are online, we go continue to dey use pankere on them. They should keep that garbage
in their Biafra facebook pages or continue selling it to the ignorant Yorubas not people like us. They keep "tetra-paking"
those 2x2 stores as businesses and as the engine of the economy

The Youngest Billionaires in Nigeria, 2 are yorubas, the third one is half Yoruba. Sujibomi Ogundele- Sujimoto group
Ladi Delano- Bakrie Delano and Igho Sanomi

Forbes list. 3 yorubas feature out of the 5 on the list

http://venturesafrica.com/meet-the-five-nigerians-on-forbes-world-billionaires-ranking-2016/

They said they have more middle class yet SW has the least poverty rate in Nigeria.

http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/

They claim they have more SMEs yet Oyo has more SMEs than all SE states. Infact, Oyo is second
after Lagos

http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf

They're the only ones who believe their lies and some dumb yorubas who chat dust because they just pressed one
random Chinasa’s bobi

OmoAjowa7:


I tire oooo. I told one of dem pure-wattah sprinters to open a thread and mention the so-called Gigbo businesses in Lagos.The Olosh ran away.
I've told them as long as people like us are online, we go continue to dey use pankere on them. They should keep that garbage
in their Biafra facebook pages or continue to selling it to the ignorant Yorubas not people like us. They keep "tetra-paking"
those 2x2 stores as businesses and as the engine of the economy

The Youngest Billionaires in Nigeria, 2 are yorubas, the third one is half Yoruba. Sujibomi Ogundele- Sujimoto group
Ladi Delano- Bakrie Delano and Igho Sanomi

Forbes list. 3 yorubas feature out the 5 on the list

They said they have more middle class yet SW has the least poverty rate in Nigeria.

http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/

They claim they have more SMEs yet Oyo has more SMEs than all SE states.


http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf

They're the only ones who believe their lies and some dumb yorubas who chat dust because they just pressed one random Chinasa’s bobi

OmoAjowa7:
Abeg odvanguard and twistaray edit your posts. I posted the wrong link for the smes. I've edited it

09xtr99r:
To the mischievous fellows that are pointing accusing fingers at the Igbos, take a look at the pics of the sensible fellow in Yorubaland that wrote the timely article on his FB page:

ODVanguard:


Folks like us are fully on ground to terminate their fables and lies. They can keep repeating it amongst themselves if it makes them feel good about themselves, but the truth is like pregnancy that can't be hidden for long. We will keep exposing them. Awon oniro oshi.

09xtr99r:
To all the elenugboros of Yorubaland parading on NL:

[size=14pt]Yoruba Youths Have Lost Influence, Respect Of Nigerians[/size]

Writing for Naij.com from Magodo, Lagos, Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye says the Yoruba youths are no longer making their valuable contributions to the political and cultural life in Nigeria. What can the Yoruba people do to restore lost influence?

Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the nation is still rated as the third destination of investors and one of the fastest-growing economy in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden land of numerous opportunities for those who are resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative, inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising, hardworking, focused, visionary and, most significantly, disciplined. Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to question the role(s) of Yoruba youths in the current fight against unemployment, starvation and poverty in Nigeria. This question was necessitated by my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today. I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity. Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their resumes to multinational corporations eight would be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the abundant opportunities that litter the streets of, say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth. The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable number one centre of success, excellence and opportunities. The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken over by the Easterners. The data that I got from the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa Wharf are Igbos. More so, data collected from licensing office reveals that owners of 56% of commercial motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and Easterners. The lucrative transport business has been hijacked from the Yorubas. Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their motorcycles to make cool cash from their land. Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour firms operating in Lagos are owned by the enterprising and hardworking Easterners. The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing hardworking people transacting their legal businesses in the name of collecting charges and dues for the local government. I also discovered that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained automobile engineers that have abandoned their workshops. Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths are in the market collecting dues for their local government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba, Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the Easterners and Northerners who are predominantly youths. Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo youths are now becoming more prosperous in the entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths. Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television; rather, they watch some other movie channel that show English movies with actors and actresses of Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies are short of creativity.

I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and executive directors of commercial banks operating in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they assist each other with an amazing ease. Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six respectively. In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013. The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector. The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles, Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers, other national teams are dominated by the Igbos and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran national team by some columnists and social commentators, including myself. Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015 presidential election is a point of reference. The Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP. Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the election. Jonathan’s inner circle members are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s expected defeat. Victorious Buhari’s teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas contributed little or nothing to the success of their kinsman. In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our leaders only think for themselves and their children.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

Twistaray:
To all the frustrated elenugboros of Yorubaland parading aimlessly on NL:

Yoruba Youths Have Lost Influence, Respect Of Nigerians... Maxwell A Adeleye
https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

09xtr99r:
To all the elenugboros of Yorubaland parading on NL:

[size=14pt]Yoruba Youths Have Lost Influence, Respect Of Nigerians[/size]

Writing for Naij.com from Magodo, Lagos, Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye says the Yoruba youths are no longer making their valuable contributions to the political and cultural life in Nigeria. What can the Yoruba people do to restore lost influence?

Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the nation is still rated as the third destination of investors and one of the fastest-growing economy in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden land of numerous opportunities for those who are resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative, inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising, hardworking, focused, visionary and, most significantly, disciplined.

Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to question the role(s) of Yoruba youths in the current fight against unemployment, starvation and poverty in Nigeria. This question was necessitated by my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today. I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity. Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their resumes to multinational corporations eight would be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the abundant opportunities that litter the streets of, say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth. The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable number one centre of success, excellence and opportunities. The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken over by the Easterners. The data that I got from the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa Wharf are Igbos. More so, data collected from licensing office reveals that owners of 56% of commercial motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and Easterners. The lucrative transport business has been hijacked from the Yorubas. Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their motorcycles to make cool cash from their land. Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour firms operating in Lagos are owned by the enterprising and hardworking Easterners. The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing hardworking people transacting their legal businesses in the name of collecting charges and dues for the local government. I also discovered that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained automobile engineers that have abandoned their workshops. Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths are in the market collecting dues for their local government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba, Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the Easterners and Northerners who are predominantly youths. Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo youths are now becoming more prosperous in the entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths. Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television; rather, they watch some other movie channel that show English movies with actors and actresses of Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies are short of creativity.

I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and executive directors of commercial banks operating in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they assist each other with an amazing ease. Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six respectively. In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013. The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector. The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles, Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers, other national teams are dominated by the Igbos and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran national team by some columnists and social commentators, including myself. Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015 presidential election is a point of reference. The Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP. Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the election. Jonathan’s inner circle members are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s expected defeat. Victorious Buhari’s teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas contributed little or nothing to the success of their kinsman. In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our leaders only think for themselves and their children.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

Twistaray:
To all the frustrated elenugboros of Yorubaland parading aimlessly on NL:

Yoruba Youths Have Lost Influence, Respect Of Nigerians... Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye

"...my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today. I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity...."

https://www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

oduastates:
The writer is as ignorant as he is local.
My guess is that he surrounds himself with losers.
70% of manufacturing concerns in Lagos ?
Where did it pull that from ?
Where exactly are those 70% located?
He said all Yoruba billionaires are in oil and gas apart from Adenuga . Adenuga is in oil and gas as well( con oil) .
Ever heard of those in banking , insurance,legal, airlines , construction,PR and real estate to name a few .

I can give the names of 100 start-ups and brands started in the last 5 years, by omoluabis below the age of 35 .
The writer had better taken a trip to Yaba to get reorientation.
One player( below 38) just got $25million seed money 2 days ago . Guys are making things happen and this one is sitting down writing crap .
Abi you want to tussle with China for $1 t-shirt ni?
Even the apprenticeship he advocated for is backward . Get the technical schools up and running again , followed by proper apprenticeship in proper set up like Elizade .
Nigerian examination bodies ? I would not take the ranking seriously. Not to say that education has not deteriorated . The A,B and C team do not school in Nigeria anymore.
The one that annoys me the most is his beef with the hyper markets and malls . Those malls are the foundation on which a future supply and domestic omoluabis value chain will be built on products we have comparative advantage.
THE ONLY LETTER YOU NEED TO WRITE TO TINIBU
SHOULD BE ABOUT LEADING THE YORUBA NATION OUT OF NIGERIA .THAT WAY , WE CAN UNLEASH THE PENT-UP ENERGY

PAINGAIN:
you want tinubu to lead you out of nigeria and yet you ridicule ipob and trash talk biafra. The writer of that letter and as well as every other non nairaland yoruba person know that igbos take the lead in nigeria. I like yoruba people and none of them has ever wronged me but i still don't understand why they still want one nigeria when they could easily pitch tent with the igbos and leave hausas in their nigeria.