proeast:
This is a very simple issue. Since the drug Baron and his band of theives have decided to be eating where they did not sow, the Igbos in the market who constitute an overwhelming majority of businessmen there can do the following:

1. Resist the payment by any means necessary even if it means forming your own task force to counter their own task force.

2. If for any reason, option one above is not feasible, then by all means, relocate the Computer village to Onitsha and make Onitsha the hub for all computer needs in Nigeria. Don't tell me that it is more convenient to use Lagos due to the proximity of the Port. You can still send your containers straight to the East, offload them there and redirect your customers to be making orders to Onitsha. Push whatever extra cost due to the logistics to the end user.

3. If you can't do the two options listed above, please pay whatever dues or levies the drug Baron and his theifing children and minions are demanding and stop disturbing our peace.

We hold the four aces in this yet you are making it seem like you're handicapped. This should be a wake up call to you. For God's sake, call a meeting, reach a consensus and by all means move that market to Onitsha and turn a nasty situation into a win-win situation for us!!

Modified****
Someone should copy and paste this on the front page already.

tiredoflife:


Sorry we have all the prime real estate
We left the lagoons for u lots
We bought all the good lands
We took advantage of ur drug infested youths who sell their birth rights at every flash of naira and some igbo and jedi jedi
I guess u too are in one hole in tolu area of ajegunle or abule egba

Cry not ok
We are not giving the land back
If you want it
We will only sell at 10 times the price
Stop crying like a baby
The land is ours for life

Openbusiness:
Na children fill this thread! Before you start talking rubbish, always endeavor to know history. My grand ancestors moved to Lagos as far back as the 1920's. My great grandmother was a trader, most of my ancestors were market women and men. Iyaoloja ish has always been part of Yoruba markets structure and culture, it's the way they organize their trading businesses. No government can stop it, no court can ban it, it is fully legal. They better call their selves to order. All this media trial and hate will only makes things worse for outsider traders. Even the Yoruba people there pay the money, so what's your stress? People should try to learn about their hosts, instead of this show of shame, dancing naked in the market.

Enyimbafc:
Yorubas are lazy bastards,lagos is a no man's land we will continue to increase price of goods.

Yabatechspecial:


I see, and please can you tell me the who dominate the slums in lagos, i mean places like Ajegunle, Ijora badia + Ijora olopa and most of the slumps in Ajeromi/ifelodun Lcda....bro you claim what you dont have....how many igbos are in Ikoyi, VI,LEKKI, MAGODO compared to the wealthy hausas and the host YORUBAS.....the places we have much igbos here are Festac, Navy town and Maryland bud still cant be compare to the numbers of Yorubas there......my hometown is OJU OLOBUN on the Island and i stay in Maryland.

elmas:
It beats my imagination for people to say that one should wake up one morning and relocate his business to the east, I mean a business you have been nurturing and building for years and run to the east just like that without proper strategy, besides not all business owners over there are Igbos, we have other tribes there like igala, idoma, ibibio, Esan and more, I'm not from Igbo.

My problem with Iyaloja market organization isn't a modern implemented market union, of what functionality is Iyaloja and babaloja? What are the levies being used for? Why should we have thugs, touts and tribalistic criminals as law enforcers?

Is there Iyaloja or Babaloja in Newyork or Dubai?

tiredoflife:


tiredoflife to his useless homosexual father:

Ur parents said they didn't give birth to a fool
I think they are doubting it now

Ezmans:
how I'll it be powered?

FrLukas:


So why are you rushing to their region in droves like refugees?

elmas:
It beats my imagination for people to say that one should wake up one morning and relocate his business to the east, I mean a business you have been nurturing and building for years and run to the east just like that without proper strategy, besides not all business owners over there are Igbos, we have other tribes there like igala, idoma, ibibio, Esan and more, I'm not from Igbo.

My problem with Iyaloja market organization isn't a modern implemented market union, of what functionality is Iyaloja and babaloja? What are the levies being used for? Why should we have thugs, touts and tribalistic criminals as law enforcers?

Is there Iyaloja or Babaloja in Newyork or Dubai?

omoharry:


Omoharry to his father :

Na you remain poor at heart...

Are you originally from Lagos? Your papa, grand parents and great grand parents , are they all from Lagos ? People from Osun , ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Ogun state will all be claiming lagos .. una nor get village again but Lagos is now ur state of origin. Oga make tribalism no kill you . This is the reason why you will remain poor at Heart becos you see what is wrong and hail and encourage it.
Tinubu collect so much from you and give you crumps only during election and you are here thinking that that is where life end . If feel sorry for people that reason like you.
Tinubu and his dynasty are feeding off from the hard working masses including your own peiple and u are here supporting him. I feel sorry for you .I am not Igbo but I know when I see something that is wrong I say it the way it is and do not allow my hatred for other tribes to cloud my sense of judgement .
Remember you people are all over the country .So Lagos is not the only state ur kin leaves in.Please stop throwing stones around in the market place .It might touch someone you know .

Kwashiman:

I very mush doubt you've lived or been to those areas, otherwise you won't be asking how many Igbos Iive in Lekky, VI, Ajah, Magodo etc compared to Hausas? Igbos aside from Yorubas and other Nigerians probably have the highest numbers of residents in those areas you mentioned. Any true Lagos boy that has lived in those areas for a considerable amount of time will know this.

Taye4j:


Continue to spew trash. Are you deaf that appointing an Iyaloja is part of Yoruba's culture. That is why you need to learn about the culture and tradition of your host community before settling in their midst.

Whether you like it or not, it has come to stay. You are asking what are those levies used for? Maybe you should also ask the Federal Government and your state Governors what they do with the taxes collected.

Chrisbella24:
The money these people charge road side traders is so Alarming.


The first day I tried selling on the road, those people collected all my profit from me.

AmazingELixir:



If you're not sick in the head you would have realised that Afonjaz also have a very healthy population down south and in other part of the country...but I don't expect you to know that certainly not when you're holed up in that your brown roofed shack with mentality as dull as mud.

SmartPolician:


Yourba people cannot trade at all.

An Igbo man doesn't need to attend a business school to become successful in his business.

How do you know this?

Attitude!


For instance, if you underprice the goods of a Yourba woman, she may even insult you.

Do it with an Igbo man or woman, they will smile and tell you, "Bros, you tried but e no reach the cost price. If you come back tomorrow and you no see me again, you go like am?"

He is simply saying that if he continues selling at that rate, it will run him down.

This is no tribalism; this is a fact!

Pacesetter123:
Wow,dats so saddening my sis ater.Sorry abt dat.De people are heartless.God will help us all.

Chrisbella24:
The money these people charge road side traders is so Alarming.


The first day I tried selling on the road, those people collected all my profit from me.

tiredoflife:
I grew up with these people
I know them too well
If u think afonja people likes u
U are joking
They are worst then tape worms
Lower than amoeba
The bitterness since pre independence where upon all awolowo did he was reduced to a mere western region premier
While Zik and tafa balewa got governor general and prime minister is still causing them pain
That's why u see this hate for igbos and any tribe after Ore Ondo state

They are not to be trusted
That's why they play the politics of anything that will hurt the better south is fine
Just see how they are wanking on this post
Useless people

tellwisdom:

Kingspin:
Under the coronavirus pandemic.
Some people have not worked for the last three months.


In a sane world government and agencies are offering tax holiday and other incentives.

Because this season is a trying time for everybody

brownemmanuel43:
Afonjas, lazy set of people, always eating where they did not sow

Ahmeduana:
If a child doesn't resemble the mother, the child will definately resemble the father! DEVIL WILL SURELY GIVE BIRTH TO DEVIL

Yabatechspecial:


Igbos are not even up to 15% of the residence there and you can argue that yorubas dont occupy like 55% of those places.