I just think some rich men wish Igbo youths would grovel and crawl after them like seen in some other parts of the country. I don't know any Nigerian ethnic group that is half rich let alone mostly rich. What Igbo youths need is opportunity, their attitude including individualism and self-confidence has not stopped Igboland having the highest human development in rural areas, instead of trying to encourage the government to support these young kids some people are trying to break their spirit and trying too hard to seem 'objective'.

timsTNA:


If your father knew how to read, he wouldn't have followed the condom instructions wrongly and that would have saved us the stress of dealing with an imp like you

I love it when an average ipod lose is cool. It shows he's defeated

Don't worry my father is fine boi

Twistaray:

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I love it when an average ipod lose is cool. It shows he's defeated

Don't worry my father is fine boi [/s]

Lmfao. Lose my cool over a piece is fermented amala ball like you? I can see you are 50% dumb and 50% delusional. 4ck outta here

timsTNA:


Lmfao. Lose my cool over a piece is fermented amala ball like you? I can see you are 50% dumb and 50% delusional. 4ck outta here

Eyah poor thing

This is a big joke

Nigerian Billionaires and top 20 Richest People (Entrepreneurs) in Nigeria
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars

MrEverest:
What is Leo Stan talking about? Igbos have the largest middle class in Nigeria. Absolute poverty is almost inexistent, if he is talking about rich !diats that pauperised the country through graft and exploitation like Danjuma, Dangote, Abacha, Obasanjo, Babangida etc then he is right, Igbos dont have them but if he means honest, hard working and grass to grace rich men, then Igbos have them in abundance!!!

He is a silly man who doesn't Know what he wanted to say.

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Opakan2:


wrong!

Hausas are the richest, followed by yorubas, then SS before coming down to igbos

others don't brag or intimidate themselves like igbos do

What are your prove for this....

Igbo's beat other tribe in housing and structure..
Igbo's beat other tribe in education....

is it d brown roof all over youruba land that you classify as rich...
OR is it d mud hut all over Hausa land you classify as rich...
YOU MUST BE THINKING FROM THE ANUS

disumusa:
bro pride is the main reason all tribe hate them

And blackmailing is d reason y all tribe hate afonjas

PhilemonObende:
Mr leo stan ekeh, can you also tell us why our poverty-stricken yoruba fathers in Oshogbo that prostrate 100 times per day cannot see even iron beans to eat and survive? Is it because of pride too? How come with all our 'humility' in yorubaland we can't change a single leaky brown roof in Oshogbo and Ibadan? Abeg explain because #AyamNotUnderstanding.

Forget that fool, he has no answer for ur question. meanwhile, may ur allah bless u for ask this honest question. it is hard to see an honest yoruba person.

Twistaray:

I doubt you read the link I provided above.. mtcheew Read una no go hear.
RIP to nigeria education system. Please where is your own stats,thought you said ibo are richer?
Receive sense abeg

Lagos state is just covering the shit in afonja land...
This is a typical afonja land...
Is this what you classify as wealth

We can't afford to be docile and humble....that pride is epitome of Igbo man.that pride will not make you depend on your father's property


That pride will make you leave your father's house in your teen to hustle

That pride will make you to come back to the town to showcase to your people

pride will make you go to your in law and do the needful

That pride will make us to understand that failure isn't needed in our land



That pride is Igbo
That pride is me
That pride spurs us


Leo Stan is trying to be politically correct

omonkiti:


What are your prove for this....

Igbo's beat other tribe in housing and structure..
Igbo's beat other tribe in education....

is it d brown roof all over youruba land that you classify as rich...
OR is it d mud hut all over Hausa land you classify as rich...
YOU MUST BE THINKING FROM THE ANUS

I wonder how they classify riches


Is it one person having the wealth of millions in Hausa land and Yoruba land that others will come to Prostrate tgag makes them richest


Igbo don't do that

PhilemonObende:
Mr leo stan ekeh, can you also tell us why our poverty-stricken yoruba fathers in Oshogbo that prostrate 100 times per day cannot see even iron beans to eat and survive? Is it because of pride too? How come with all our 'humility' in yorubaland we can't change a single leaky brown roof in Oshogbo and Ibadan? Abeg explain because #AyamNotUnderstanding.

it's funny how those flat heads cannot make ends meat unless they run to the so called poverty stricken Yoruba to hawk gala or fayogo


That means, if Yorubas are poverty stricken then igbos are poverty doomed..

Stan Eke was right all along
Ibos are'nt rich but talk like a leaking basket

obaloppelujo:
Nigerian Billionaires and top 20 Richest People (Entrepreneurs) in Nigeria
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars

Out of 20 over 8 are Igbo


That's having a chunk of the list


Did you say £20 were given to Igbo just in 70s


Unbelievable.


No wonder the are proud...they are proud if their achievement

MayorofLagos:


No igbo has ever succeeded without touching feet in Yorubaland. None!

It shall remain so l'agbara Oduduwa!

You know nothing about Igbos. Maybe you somehow wrote based on your lack of exposure. Igbos succeed everywhere from Kaura Namoda to Azare to Birnin Kebbi to Ugep to Ughelli to Ikirun to Afikpo to Bori to Cotonou to Banjul. What Stan Ekeh said about humility is understandable but the caption of this thread is deceitful.

PhilemonObende:
Mr leo stan ekeh, can you also tell us why our poverty-stricken yoruba fathers in Oshogbo that prostrate 100 times per day cannot see even iron beans to eat and survive? Is it because of pride too? How come with all our 'humility' in yorubaland we can't change a single leaky brown roof in Oshogbo and Ibadan? Abeg explain because #AyamNotUnderstanding.

Inferiority complex and pride

An Igbo man is advising Igbos, instead of facing him you decided to insult the Yorubas.
Well, I'm not playing your arrogance game.

The Leo guy is right after all, and I'm not surprised you can't comprehend it.

Leo Stan Ekeh , Zinox group.

This guy is not an ugwu exporter.... clean money .....we can see where it is coming from like Aliko and Alakidja nothing hidden.... Unlike other make believe eastern billionaires with no tax clearance......

obaloppelujo:
Nigerian Billionaires and top 20 Richest People (Entrepreneurs) in Nigeria
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars

igbooooo or ibooooo are to problematic and full of pride, they realy don't understand the different of rich and wealthy.

omonkiti:

And blackmailing is d reason y all tribe hate afonjas

who,what is afoja

I dont know what Leo means by Pride but i think A man should pride himself in what he does no matter how little. To prostrate to someone and still go home hungry is not better than to bullshit one and go home rich.

Abagworo:


You know nothing about Igbos. Maybe you somehow wrote based on your lack of exposure. Igbos succeed everywhere from Kaura Namoda to Azare to Birnin Kebbi to Ugep to Ughelli to Ikirun to Afikpo to Bori to Cotonou to Banjul. What Stan Ekeh said about humility is understandable but the caption of this thread is deceitful.

why not they are all over high way hurking and picking the dump

ezeagu:
I just think some rich men wish Igbo youths would grovel and crawl after them like seen in some other parts of the country. I don't know any Nigerian ethnic group that is half rich let alone mostly rich. What Igbo youths need is opportunity, their attitude including individualism and self-confidence has not stopped Igboland having the highest human development in rural areas, instead of trying to encourage the government to support these young kids some people are trying to break their spirit and trying too hard to seem 'objective'.

Your post is quite apt. Our youths need opportunities to grow and become wealthy. Grovelling or kowtowing is not our culture and we don't need to adopt what is alien to us just because others do it. But in spite if this our culture makes room for respect for elders but also accommodate such openness where people are allowed to speak their minds. The man Leo Stan is an eminent business man and one cannot discount him. I truly admire his strides in business. At a time the only laptop I used was his Zenox laptops and they were terrific. .. and he is building capacity as well. So we can leave him with his opinion. It will not hurt.

orimsamsam:
proof pls. Don't just make noise

Go and check the Lagos chamber of commerce and industry. Go and ask El Rufai. Go across Nigeria and check around since you don't know this obvious fact!

omonkiti:


Lagos state is just covering the shit in afonja land...

This is a typical afonja land...

Is this what you classify as wealth

How does that change the fact that SW is the most richest region and the least poverty region?

Why are you IPODS this dull sef

Anyway, thanks for the OLD skool picture as I can as well say same thing about ABA being the most dirties state in nigeria..

Don't throw stone if you live in a glass house bro.

MrEverest:
Go and check the Lagos chamber of commerce and industry. Go and ask El Rufai. Go across Nigeria and check around since you don't know this obvious fact!

gbenu soun. U guyz just manufacture fact just to soothed ur over bloated ego. Are u telling me majority of the people working in Lagos chamber of commerce and industry are igbos

orimsamsam:
gbenu soun. U guyz just manufacture fact just to soothed ur over bloated ego. Are u telling me majority of the people working in Lagos chamber of commerce and industry are igbos

I said you should go there and request for the data of industry and business owners in Lagos. Also do same for Abuja, P.Harcourt & across Nigeria. Aside Dangote & few other alhajis & former military generals, who really controls the economy of the north The Igbos control the economy of the SE by 99%. The Igbos are dominant in Lagos & Ph, while they are runners up in the rest of the country. Will they be able to make such exploits if they are not dominant middle class

MrEverest:
I said you should go there and request for the data of industry and business owners in Lagos. Also do same for Abuja, P.Harcourt & across Nigeria. Aside Dangote & few other alhajis & former military generals, who really controls the economy of the north The Igbos control the economy of the SE by 99%. The Igbos are dominant in Lagos & Ph, while they are runners up in the rest of the country. Will they be able to make such exploits if they are not dominant middle class

Kikikikikiki

He should go there?
Yeye dey smell

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MrEverest:
I said you should go there and request for the data of industry and business owners in Lagos. Also do same for Abuja, P.Harcourt & across Nigeria. Aside Dangote & few other alhajis & former military generals, who really controls the economy of the north The Igbos control the economy of the SE by 99%. The Igbos are dominant in Lagos & Ph, while they are runners up in the rest of the country. Will they be able to make such exploits if they are not dominant middle class

[/s] u really need to stop listening to the bed time tales of uncle chinedu. Everything uncle chinedu is telling u is a lie. Uncle chinudu will fail to tell u he sells bottled water in Lagos traffic

Businessideas:

You are still not embracing knowledge because you are young and impatient. All you need to do is click the link and know that the caption is given by Vanguard not me. Meanwhile, I will advise you to focus on the message and ignore the messenger. And there's no wrong in copying and pasting for as long as you credit the write up appropriately as that of the right owner(this condition has been met if you patiently read the original post) .Not everyone is your mate

You have shown your true habit as a Nigerian with the above post. Sometimes Nigerian assume to know everything while they know absolutely nothing. The act of "copy and paste" has nothing to do with copyright. There is a hidden embarrassing feature in copy and paste. It is a not dumb act to caption it, "Vanguard: Why Igbo Are Not Rich -Leo Stan". It is equally dumb that the caption of the thread on this forum did not appear as a quotation.