laudate:

False, in what way? What year did Henry Fajemirokun buy his Rolls Royce, and what year did Louis Ojukwu buy his own, since you claim he had one?

mofewilkie:


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fajemirokun
read this article, you'll realize that Fajemirokun only entered private business in 1955 ( he even took a loan).
This was 3 years after Queen Elizabeth visited.
It's logic

MayorofLagos:


This is the foundation for the article. Everything here is embellished and spawn in falsehood.

The first Nigerian billiionaire was a shipping magnate by name Henry Fajemirokun. The first to own RollsRoyce was Kano Emirate, followed by Fajemirokun. Sir Ojukwu never had a Rolls.

laudate:

Wow! And you just had to dish out this childish, clueless response. Now, why am I not surprised? It shows the level of your reasoning.

laudate:

Is that what you read in black & white in my post, or are you just being mischievous or hypocritical, and you want to put that spin on it? Which one?

XKZ:


You said, in black and white, that Forbes has an editorial policy
You also said, in black and white, that an article published by Forbes was poorly researched and is a fluffy PR piece

How else should your post be summarised?

obiezed:

My level of reasoning shouldn't be your problem,I wasn't talking to you either,LOL,so who is childish and clueless now ??,amarabae,please continue pouring iodine on this Blockhead's butthurt.he wimpers exquisitely.

laudate:

You answered the first part of the question. Now answer the 2nd part. In what particular year did Louis Ojukwu buy his Rolls-Royce, assuming he had one?

laudate:

My post should be summarised thus: "Errors such as the one the writer made, turned an article that could have been a well-researched intelligent record, into a fluffy PR piece." Now, is that too hard for you to understand, or do you still feel the need to twist it to suit your own selfish perspective?

NaijaEfcc:
The Small Town Of The Super Rich
By Forbes Africa 5 min of reading August 7, 2017



-Written by Eromo Egbejule
https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

XKZ:
You're the one who seems to be pushing a perspective
And your summary conveniently ignores Forbes and its editorial policy
Any how enjoy yourself

aonag:
Any Yoruba person willing to take the trip, I would fully sponsor a tour around Nnewi or better still Osumenyi, a county within the town of Nnewi to show you what you have not seen even in VGC before. Igbos use houses as competition and not clothes and Jewelries as others do.

MayorofLagos:


This is the foundation for the article. Everything here is embellished and spawn in falsehood.

The first Nigerian billiionaire was a shipping magnate by name Henry Fajemirokun. The first to own RollsRoyce was Kano Emirate, followed by Fajemirokun. Sir Ojukwu never had a Rolls.

laudate:

Weren't you the one who copied my post while addressing your remarks to someone else? What were you trying to do? Show how clueless and childish you truly are? Anyway, thanks for letting us know that you only know how to whimper.... Keep it up.

aonag:
Any Yoruba person willing to take the trip, I would fully sponsor a tour around Nnewi or better still Osumenyi, a county within the town of Nnewi to show you what you have not seen even in VGC before. Igbos use houses as competition and not clothes and Jewelries as others do.

laudate:

Nobody is saying that Forbes does not have an editorial policy. What is being said is that the writer failed to do adequate & comprehensive research on certain aspects of his article, before going to press. Was the article libellous? No. So nobody is going to sue. But errors such as the one the writer made, turned an article that could have been a well-researched intelligent record, into a fluffy PR piece.

MENELIK1:


Haba, Osu, 80% powder you mean to say

NaijaEfcc:
The Small Town Of The Super Rich
By Forbes Africa 5 min of reading August 7, 2017

Obiajulu Uzodike: Nigeria is one of the foremost cable producers in the world due to many indigenous manufacturers across the southeast. One of the top cable companies is Cutix Nigeria, whose founder, Obiajulu Uzodike, cut his teeth in the business as a staff at a US-based aircraft and military wires and accessories company. By 1982, the Harvard Business School alumna and civil war veteran set up Cutix with N400,000 ($1,200), nurturing it to eventually become the first indigenous firm in the southeast to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.



-Written by Eromo Egbejule
https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

StOla:


I don't even contest that there are mercantile rich men in Nnewi or from Nnewi.

My singular argument is that a town many wanted to force down our throats as a city in past discussions about Anambra, has now been duly assessed as a small town by Forbes.

InvertedHammer:
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The most important part of the article is the part about £20 to every Igbo man irrespective of bank account balance. No tribe in the whole world can replicate what the Igbo people did. £20 x 10 == £200. Seize Otedola, Dangote and Adenuga's assets and money...givr then £200 each and in 1000 years they can never replicate what the Igbo business people did. Not just £20, the money was given when everyone hates every Igbo because of the war which ensured no government patronage was guaranteed. It is remarkable how quickly the wealth gap closed. The people that thought they had it were so broke in a few years that they sold almost all their lands to the ones that got pittances. Yet they have the effrontery to whine about it. Life is one complex adventure, I must admit.

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allrightsir:

you are a slowpoke, I never said it was an official site. You can engage in a shouting and insult match or you can deal with the facts. The facts are there for those who are interested in facts. The car was so historically significant, SLS had it restored.
http://www.chrislees.co.uk/restorations.htm
https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/news/general-news/2013-08/image-of-queens-rolls-royce-takes-exhibition-centre-stage/
people who deal in facts say the car belongd to the late Enir of Kano, then I beleive them over a bunch of people whose history has always been based on an unexposed people sitting down by the fire in their remote village telling lies to their children. Ojukwu jnr for instance was a bastard child...it's there in the British intelligence files on Nigeriahttps://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/02/26/americas-secret-files-on-ojukwu-2/he (Ojukwu) suffers from Hitler-like megalomania”Akinjide explained to Strong that as a child, Ojukwu was rejected because his father strongly denied that he was solely responsible for the pregnancy that led to him, arguing that other mysterious force or forces may have been at work as well. His mother, claimed Akinjide, was a mistress his multimillionaire father, Sir Louis Ojukwu, acquired on one of his business trips to the North. Being a devout Catholic, Sir Louis refused to keep the boy in his house in Lagos, preferring to send him back to the North, where he was born and where his mother made a living as a trader. Ojukwu, like Nnamdi Azikiwe, was born in Zungeru, in the present day Niger State."
"As the boy grew up, friends of the business mogul prevailed on him to recognise him as a son. According to Akinjide, Sir Loius agreed to do so, but the boy became something of an embarrassment to him, the reason for which he sent him to school in England, where he made it into Oxford University."

For instance, Sir Ojukwu’s personal driver at the height of his fame and fortune in Lagos was one Sunday, a Yoruba man. His appointed auditor for all his business interests till he died was Mr. Akintola Williams, the first Nigerian certified accountant who is also a Yoruba man. And when Sir Ojukwu became pioneer Chairman of the Nigerian National Shipping Lines in 1956, the first indigenous Managing Director he appointed was also a Yoruba man called Mr. Nathaniel Oyesiku. Further establishing Sir Ojukwu’s broad-mindedness, at the first visit of Queen Elizabeth to Nigeria in 1956, his Rolls Royce was the official car used to convey the British monarch

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/08/in-quest-of-perpetuity-the-ojukwu-nigerians-didnt-know/.

When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in 1952, the Nigerian government couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce, so they borrowed this Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB from Sir Louis Ojukwu, father of President Odimegwu Ojukwu.

http://dailymail.com.ng/when-queen-elizabeth-ii-visited-nigeria-in-1952-they-borrowed-this-rolls-royce-silver-wraith-lwb-from-sir-louis-ojukwu/

plaetton:

It's either you are being deliberately mischievous or you are stricken with complex ignorance, the very worst form of ignorance.

In Nigeria, in fact, in the world, there are a lot of towns, both big and small, that have evolved and grown into cities over the last several decades.

Take Abuja, for good example. Has Abuja always been a city ?
Is Umuahia a town or a city?
Is Asaba today a town or a city ?

Nnewi, A town , just to use that word, that is today home to the greatest concentration (per capita) of both the middle class and super rich, with the indigenous Industrial capacity surpassing or tied to Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, can hardly be described today as a town.

However, for you to use this innocuous bit by a foreign writer to downplay the import or significance of the article is nothing but 'Sour Grapes' or in local parlance, BAD BELLE.

louqas:
False News
ijebu has more billionaires than any other town in Nigeria.

Proudly yoruba

allrightsir:

Your source is Nigerian newspapers, when did Nigerian journalists become a dependable source of history?Your source is Nigerian newspapers, when did Nigerian journalists become a dependable source of history? What sources did they site? did they give the chasis no or they day the car was built? Just a claim based on stories told in the east to people who never left the east.
foreign sites have traced the provenance of this vehicle to the Emir of Kano and you are there arguing....foooool Your brains cant comprehend that you have been lied to and your heroes are not what they sold you.

For instance, Sir Ojukwu’s personal driver at the height of his fame and fortune in Lagos was one Sunday, a Yoruba man. His appointed auditor for all his business interests till he died was Mr. Akintola Williams, the first Nigerian certified accountant who is also a Yoruba man. And when Sir Ojukwu became pioneer Chairman of the Nigerian National Shipping Lines in 1956, the first indigenous Managing Director he appointed was also a Yoruba man called Mr. Nathaniel Oyesiku. Further establishing Sir Ojukwu’s broad-mindedness, at the first visit of Queen Elizabeth to Nigeria in 1956, his Rolls Royce was the official car used to convey the British monarch

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/08/in-quest-of-perpetuity-the-ojukwu-nigerians-didnt-know/.

When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in 1952, the Nigerian government couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce, so they borrowed this Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB from Sir Louis Ojukwu, father of President Odimegwu Ojukwu.

http://dailymail.com.ng/when-queen-elizabeth-ii-visited-nigeria-in-1952-they-borrowed-this-rolls-royce-silver-wraith-lwb-from-sir-louis-ojukwu/

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration

https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/

allrightsir:
I have no more to say to you. Ojukwu may have a rolls but it's not the one the queen rode in, if it is I would advise you to go and find it and restore it. Because Sanisi Lamido Sanusi understands the significance of the car he has and shipped the car back to England to be restored.
As for Forbes, sometimes you have to know when common sense takes over in the face of overwhelming evidence.
Like I said you can tell a falsehood over and over that it begins to be taken as fact.....it does not mean it is.
The car the queen rode in was owned by the late Emir of Kano, the car is curreltly owned by SLS.
Believe your myths, I have nothing more to say. If there is one thing I know about you people it is that you are not interested in facts.and you can go on and on being pedantic, insulting and evading the real evidence. All you have is biased hearsay. I have independent verified facts from different independent sources.

For instance, Sir Ojukwu’s personal driver at the height of his fame and fortune in Lagos was one Sunday, a Yoruba man. His appointed auditor for all his business interests till he died was Mr. Akintola Williams, the first Nigerian certified accountant who is also a Yoruba man. And when Sir Ojukwu became pioneer Chairman of the Nigerian National Shipping Lines in 1956, the first indigenous Managing Director he appointed was also a Yoruba man called Mr. Nathaniel Oyesiku. Further establishing Sir Ojukwu’s broad-mindedness, at the first visit of Queen Elizabeth to Nigeria in 1956, his Rolls Royce was the official car used to convey the British monarch

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/05/08/in-quest-of-perpetuity-the-ojukwu-nigerians-didnt-know/.

When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in 1952, the Nigerian government couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce, so they borrowed this Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB from Sir Louis Ojukwu, father of President Odimegwu Ojukwu.

http://dailymail.com.ng/when-queen-elizabeth-ii-visited-nigeria-in-1952-they-borrowed-this-rolls-royce-silver-wraith-lwb-from-sir-louis-ojukwu/

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration

https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/