newgroom:
Paul C. Nwabuikwu, Special Adviser to the former Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has taken to his Facebook wall to appreciate an unknown Yorubaman who at a great risk to his life hid his father from the mob searching for Igbos in Kano, in 1966.

See what he wrote:

TRIBUTE TO THE UNKNOWN YORUBA MAN

At great risk to his life, a Yoruba neighbor on Sanyaolu street, Sabon Gari, Kano, hid my father from the mob searching for Igbos in 1966.

I still don't know your name, sir, but my prayer is that God will bless you and your descendants today and always.

Your sacrifice is one of the reasons why Nigeria, in spite of many disappointments, continues to retain some meaning for me.


Lalasticlala

blueseacats:
I always be careful what I post online about tribes, I try as hard as I can not to generalize my post about any tribe. There are bad eggs cowards and betrayers in everytribe. The only bravery that surfaced in the cowardly assassination of aguiyi ironsi was a Yoruba man by the name of Fajuyi.

When I first got to London, a Yoruba guy who used to be my enemy in school housed me for 3 months.

Anytime my flight touches down in New York a Yoruba friend always takes me to his house where I settle down before taking my next action.

Are there bad Yorubas ? yes, those that are mostly online too lazy to work inciting violence so that ibo can abandon their property for them. And their ibo counterpart who has no jobs and has not done anything for themselves thinking Biafra will better their life.

manikspears:

well said bro, but did igbo history appreciate Fajuyi?

jasperism:
The same way we attack those that hate we the Igbo's same way we acknowledge and appreciate those that have helped us in way or the other. Biafrans pure heart.

blueseacats:
Not really, some of them are youngsters that don't think it's their responsibility to read and understand history

manikspears:

mention two ways that you've appreciated adekunle fajuyi in the east?

pazienza:


Why should Fajuyi be appreciated?

For being killed. by the North because he was mentor to Nzeogwu and co and also did lend them advice on the Jan 1966 coup?

You can as well ask us how we have appreciated Awolowo and the black Scorpion.

Antoeni:
I like d speech of d new Ohaneze Ndigbo President. Pls read objectively.
In my own opinion, d enemy of Ndigbo is Ndigbo itself. I remember a time in this country when all d 6 ministers in Jonathan's kitchen cabinet were all Igbo's. Ayim Pius Ayim was SGF, Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla was in charge finance, Emeka Wogu was in Labour and productivity, Berth Nnaji was in Power and Energy, Dieziani Madueke was d powerful minister for oil. The 6 of them outside d Federal Executive Council would meet and decide what and what not to be discussed at d larger FEC. Whatever they decided would eventually be d position of government. In 6 years, this was d situation. Okiro and Onovo had d police under their control. Ihejerika and later Minimah controlled d Army. These powerful Igbo's could do and undo. Nigeria was in their pockets.
Rather than care about d poor Igbo chaps scattered all over d country, they were busy diverting billions of naira into their accounts at home and abroad. D 2nd Niger Bridge, they didn't do. They shared d money. The Lagos/Calabar rail lines passing through 9 States, 3 of them in d SE, they were not bothered. They refused to pay d Chinese d Counter part fund. They shared d money. Enugu/Onitsha, Aba/PH and other roads of economic importance to their fellow Igbo's, they abandoned.
Who is to blame? Who is marginalising d Igbo's?


You had your chance, you bungled it. There was only 1 Yoruba minister worth mentioning at d time, Akinwunmi Adesina. He was in Agric. His budget was less than 1% while Emeka Wogu in Labor had over 10% for his ministry, Ayim had unlimited access to d treasury for d benefit of himself and family members. The poor Igbo guys meant nothing to him. If an Igbo becomes President tomorrow after Jonathan, will there be any difference? The Igbo man will marginalise his fellow Igbo people.

Maduawuchukwu:


Lol. I have a similar story. In year 2000 Sharia crises in Kaduna our Hausa neighbour hid us when mobs been dey go round. My mum told me that the pastor living across us was butchered straight up. Person don see things.

xnsandrxns:


Go back and check history

Most properties were reclaimed

But this time, you are leaving for good and you are leaving empty handed

Henryyy:
The yoruba tribe is the most accomodating, homely, tolerant and peaceful tribe.A Yoruba man will put his life on the line to protect his neighbour not caring where he comes from. You can slander us all you want but the world knows the truth.
----------- Proud omoluabi

hammer6:
YORUBA SHOULD STOP ALL THIS PRETENCE, WAT ABOUT THE YORUBAS THAT WENT ROUND LAGOS KILLING IGBOS?
U WANT THE WORLD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ONLY HAUSA, I THINK NOT.

mekuzi09:
Its high time this nonsense tribal war come to and end on this forum. Its not healthy and its doing no good. Even if we all go our separate ways, we are still going to be neighbors. Yorubas, Igbos and others, please, sheath your sword. Tribalism and hate is not Godliness.

Vcblinks:
I think we need a president that heal this rift between igbo and Yoruba Yea I said some evil things on nairaland cursing the Yoruba's and to say the truth am tired ooh. Abeg we are all southerners abeg. In the north they is no such rift.we should put all hands on deck to remove those jihadist from power.Is those bastards Fulani I hate. This will not takes us anywhere

ibkgab001:
Those ungrateful people ...

I will rather come back to this world as a GOAT than to come back as an IGBO

IBUKUNOLU

augustine:
While I commend the unknown Yoruba man. I wish to state that this is an Isolated case that can be found in every tribe, even within the Hausa mobs'. On a wider scale and with far reaching national effect; a Yoruba man by name Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory as finance minister, supervised the intended pauperizing of the Igbo nation immediately after the civil war. He operated a policy that ensured that every Igbo person that went to the bank after the war, with valid documents to withdraw cash from their accounts to start life anew; cannot get any amount above £20.00 (Twenty Pounds) irrespective of having thousands or millions of pounds in such bank accounts.

newgroom:
Paul C. Nwabuikwu, Special Adviser to the former Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has taken to his Facebook wall to appreciate an unknown Yorubaman who at a great risk to his life hid his father from the mob searching for Igbos in Kano, in 1966.

See what he wrote:

TRIBUTE TO THE UNKNOWN YORUBA MAN

At great risk to his life, a Yoruba neighbor on Sanyaolu street, Sabon Gari, Kano, hid my father from the mob searching for Igbos in 1966.

I still don't know your name, sir, but my prayer is that God will bless you and your descendants today and always.

Your sacrifice is one of the reasons why Nigeria, in spite of many disappointments, continues to retain some meaning for me.


Lalasticlala

pazienza:
The accommodators are at it again.

“Myself and the same UNICEF representatives
went on to convey something of what lay
behind this intransigence: Among the large
majority hailing from that tribe( Yoruba) who are the
most vocal in inciting the complete
extermination of the Igbos. I often heard
remarks that all Nigeria’s ills will be cured
once the Igbos have been exterminated from
the human map.” (Dr Conor Cruise O’Bien, 21
December, 1967, New York Review).

“I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no
World Council of Churches, no Pope, no
missionary, no UN delegation. I want to
prevent even one Ibo from having even one
piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot
at everything that moves and when our troops
march into the centre of Ibo territory, we shoot
at everything, even things that do not
move” (Benjamin Adekunle, Commander, 3 rd
Marine Commander Division, Nigerian Army to
French Radio Reporter)

Mr Nwabuikwu, we understand that there exists good amongst the bad. But individual motives must be distinguished from national motives.

Even amongst the Nazi, there were good men,but the actions. of the good ones can never erase the fact the Nazi general policy was anti Jewish.

I'm sure some Nazi must have saved some Jews too.

It was Andrew Nwankwo( Ironsi ADC) Hausa friend named Bello, that saved him from the Northern junta, the same Northern military junta that killed many of Andrew Nwankwo Igbo Nigerian military compatriots.
https://www.nairaland.com/1076677/real-story-how-lt.col-fajuyi

We have nothing against good individual Yorubas, but the Igbophobic nature of Yoruba nationalism can never be watered down, and no amount of white washing would make us forget it.

God bless the Yoruba man that saved you and his descendants, if they haven't embraced the awoist Yoruba nationalism that is inherently Igbophobic.

Ozoemena. Fences make for good neighbors. Let's all get our own individual nations and become good neighbors.

7lives:


If not for Nairaland, I won't know what an average Igbo person thinks of me as a Yoruba.
You don't want people to know the truth?, only the truth can set us free.
Just like you, i wastes so much time trying to discourage tribalism but Nairaland changed that, God bless Nairaland.
Now let me tell you, the Igbo man that won the house of rep sit in Oshodi would not have succeeded if the voters in Oshodi are aware of the kinds of hatered Igbos have for Yoruba.
It is better for forums like Nairaland to exist so that all of us can know where we belong.

BLACKdagger:
and so what??... Has any igboman not helped yorubas before?
I recently helped a yoruba guy to secure a suretee he needed to get a job and he got d job

dont know why this rubbish should make fp in the first place.
It shows how tribalistic this forum is.

That yorubas are traitors and betrayers doesnt mean u cant get some1 good in entire yorubaland..

EVEN IN TIME OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH THERE WAS LOT.

Diademk07:


Will shut your thrash?

Why don't you tell us what the Ibos that were to be gunned down do?

Care to tell us the atrocities these men did in the Midwest, Rivers, Calabar etc? How they attacked the indigenous people, calling them saboteurs? Why did you think the Ogonis joined hands with the Military men against the biafra men?

Empty headed eediots always coming up with half truth and playing the victim card.