Wollykayb:


They are taking our hospitality for stupidity.

Imagine an Igbo man telling an Hausa/Fulani man to their face about how they own Kano or Sokoto state ?

We all knw the magnitude of the sever consequences the Hausa/Fulani will hammer on them

kingzizzy:
As an Igbo man, I can say that it will be a great blessing when we Igbos dont have to share one country with Yorubas any more. Igbos and Yorubas hardly knew each other before the British came to 'rope' them both together into a colonial project called 'Nigeria'

So Im hoping we will all be 'unroped' very soon. It will be a blessing not to share the same country with Yorubas, same goes for Hausa/Fulani

Goodmarlian:
You Don talk your own kudos Now make I talk my own..

I was born in yorroberland shagamu precisely ,Yorrobers don't really love one Nigeria as you guys think, take a look at the Map of Nigeria look at the map of the southwest what do you observe? Yorrobers have all it takes be a great nation , of all the three major ethnic groups groups of Nigeria they are the only ones that do not need the minorities to survive,access to sea they have ,huge and fertile land they have ,they know this but what's delaying them is simple fear.the last thing the yorrober can never risk his life for anything in this life ,not even for money or his freedom and secondly yorrober love Fulanis.

Goodmarlian:


If ikwerres refuse to join igboland it wouldn't even show,nobody wants landlocked ikwerres all we want is any igboid groups in Rivers that wants to join us especially my obigbo then we are good to go.

tiger28:
Here WE GO with the foaming of the mouth already by these cursed folks! Are you REALLY ready to RELOCATE your Container Container business BACK to the East ONCE we go each other's way??Yorubas have NOTHING to lose in the disunity( I haven't in my over 40 yrs MET a Yoruba that lived in igboland or speak Igbo whereas I have seen millions of examples of the reverse. Remember that once you leave Yoruba land, all houses your in Yoruba will be HEAVILY taxed because you are NOW A FOREIGNER who will NEED A VISA in Yoruba land. And pls REMEMBER that ONCE we DEPORT you guys, the Northerners will AUTOMATICALLY do same because they Can HARDLY stand the igbos( they are known to Call their Host land a NO MAN'S LAND). The Igbos forget that being a Nigerian means you can have full access to anywhere in Nigeria BUT all places have, A CULTURE,A LANGUAGE, A KING etc . Same way I can't go to Onitsha and say it's my town because I live there.....the Igbo state govts don't EVEN hire other Igbos from other State( I remember a massive sack of igbos that are not from Imo). It is ONLY the Igbos OUT OF THE OVER 200 Tribes in Nigeria that are FIGHTING for INDIGINESHIP right with Other States in Nigeria.....ain't you proud of Una State?I have NEVER seen an idoma or Benin ppl saying they are from Lagos State or OYO state because they were BORN in that State.....an ABOMINATION in ANY DECENT Tribe.
Igbos BADLY need RE-EDUCATION!!!

AlfaSeltzer:
All these write up could have been summed up in one sentence: Yorubas are untrustworthy.

kingzizzy:
As an Igbo man, I can say that it will be a great blessing when we Igbos dont have to share one country with Yorubas any more. Igbos and Yorubas hardly knew each other before the British came to 'rope' them both together into a colonial project called 'Nigeria'

So Im hoping we will all be 'unroped' very soon. It will be a blessing not to share the same country with Yorubas, same goes for Hausa/Fulani

AlfaSeltzer:


We did that in 1967. You came to our land with British guns to force us back.
Decide what you guys want instead of double face and back-stabbing.

sirjamesjnr:
. You needed the Niger Delta oil hence the war. Exclude Niger Delta area from your map, do the needful and watch the magic.

sirjamesjnr:
. Are you a land grabber? Form your country with your 5 states

sirjamesjnr:
. I am a Niger Deltan so we will be glad to stay on our own.

kingzizzy:
As an Igbo man, I can say that it will be a great blessing when we Igbos dont have to share one country with Yorubas any more. Igbos and Yorubas hardly knew each other before the British came to 'rope' them both together into a colonial project called 'Nigeria'

So Im hoping we will all be 'unroped' very soon. It will be a blessing not to share the same country with Yorubas, same goes for Hausa/Fulani

sirjamesjnr:
. Are you a land grabber? Form your country with your 5 states

Yobabad:
The are very lazy people, especially the very few Muslims among them and members of YMM

AlfaSeltzer:

We did that in 1967. You came to our land with British guns to force us back. Decide what you guys want instead of double face and back-stabbing.

helinues:


Using Nokia 3310 to browse might be challenging though .... Cos that was not the epistle about.

HedwigesMaduro:
Default opposition to inter-ethnic marriages by Yorubas? What type of mushrooms have you been eating?! I've met more Yorubas that married from other tribes than other ethnic groups. I'm Yoruba and I'm married to a Nupe woman. And my younger bro married from Bauchi.

gomojam:
Are u from Ilorin?

kingzizzy:
As an Igbo man, I can say that it will be a great blessing when we Igbos dont have to share one country with Yorubas any more. Igbos and Yorubas hardly knew each other before the British came to 'rope' them both together into a colonial project called 'Nigeria'

So Im hoping we will all be 'unroped' very soon. It will be a blessing not to share the same country with Yorubas, same goes for Hausa/Fulani

helinues:


That sums it up.

Kudos to the writer

Their perceived neutrality towards Nigerian politics is really a ploy to be always on the winning side (because you only lose on the losing side).

DerideGull:


The perception of being a fence sitter is nothing but cowardice. He who stands for nothing falls for every thing.

sirjamesjnr:
�To onlookers, the Yorubas almost seem homogeneous and to put up a united front,but that would be a mirage. There are definitely intra-ethnic scuffles which seek to undermine their reputed front of solidarity. However, this solidarity is real among Yorubas, in whom we have the most tribalistic people of the major ethnicities in Nigeria.

Yorubas have long developed a sense of nationality, which they guard jealously (as seen in their default opposition to inter-ethnic marriage and their strong grasp upon their cultural indexes such as language, names, dressing, cuisine, etc). While it'd be normal for you to see an Igbo or Ijaw person named Johnson Rawlings, hardly would you find a Yoruba person without some ‘Ola’ or ‘Oluwa’ affix to their names. And what Yoruba person doesn't eat amala? Haven't seen any yet.

The solidarity of the Yoruba is a blessing to them (and, most times, to them alone). There is this ‘us’ versus ‘others’ mentality that has glorified itself in their land, so they rally round their own for the benefit of their own. Their perceived neutrality towards Nigerian politics is really a ploy to be always on the winning side (because you only lose on the losing side). This has worked for them and has ensured the stability of the Yoruba land through the various undulating episodes of Nigeria's journey,often to the chagrin of the Igbos, who earnestly desire a unity of the South against the North. But that unity is never going to be because, you see, the Yoruba will always win anyway. This is a smartness that the Igbo man, in all his astuteness, will never comprehend. However, for the purpose of building a better Nigeria, this attitude seems to be counterproductive, as it seems to reflect that the Yoruba are okay with Nigeria the way it is.

That said, I'll talk about the beauty of the Yoruba people. Aside being in close terms with their culture, the Yorubas are also very hospitable to and accommodating of other ethnic groups. They are perhaps the most tolerant of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria. Like I said, a lot of Nigerians grew up in Lagos, a Yoruba land, and they often feel more at home in Lagos than in my own hometown. The same applies in varying degrees to other cities in Yorubaland. As a matter of fact, there is consistently a large Igbo population in most Yoruba cities (although it's hard to say whether this is as a result of the hospitabiltiy of Yorubas or of the sense of adventure ingrained in the Igbos). When I visited my aunt who is a Yoruba woman, she would treat me just like her own kid. Nevertheless, she also expected me to understand their culture and follow it like I was a Yoruba person, forcing me to learn the language subconsciously. (Don't greet an old Yorubas woman in English - it's disrespectful). Intellectualism reigns among the Yoruba and they are ready to experiment and to be open to new ways, as long as it doesn't affect their cultural indexes. (A Yoruba friend of mine who was a Muslim used to follow me to church just to see what it felt like, and another friend of mine who was born of Muslim parents started attending church just to have more religious options).

But if you ask me, i have a deep respect for this tribe, they may not be perfect, but they are one of the most jovial tribe of people, who enjoy the pleasure that life and people have to offer them.

Goodmarlian:
You Don talk your own kudos Now make I talk my own..

I was born in yorroberland shagamu precisely ,Yorrobers don't really love one Nigeria as you guys think, take a look at the Map of Nigeria look at the map of the southwest what do you observe? Yorrobers have all it takes be a great nation , of all the three major ethnic groups groups of Nigeria they are the only ones that do not need the minorities to survive,access to sea they have ,huge and fertile land they have ,they know this but what's delaying them is simple fear.the last thing the yorrober can never risk his life for anything in this life ,not even for money or his freedom and secondly yorrober love Fulanis.

AlfaSeltzer:
All these write up could have been summed up in one sentence: Yorubas are untrustworthy.

DerideGull:


Nobody needs any foolish minority to have access to the sea. Even Islamic Republic of Arewa will have access to the sea. The Yoruba are very cunning people. They perceived the current situation and configuration of Nigeria favors them. The money from the so-called Niger Delta is massively being spent on Yoruba land while Yoruba continue to bamboozle cretins from Niger Delta. Of course, Yoruba love Fulani because both joined together to make the journey into today's Nigeria.

DerideGull:


Arrant nonsense!!! I lived in Yoruba land and I can say unequivocally that Yoruba are not hospitable and accommodating as the writer would want us to believe. The Yoruba are very tribal in nature therefore their is no link between being irredeemably tribal and hospitable. The sense of hospitality is because of prevailing conditions beyond their control. Yoruba can only be close to none Yoruba only if a none Yoruba can speak Yoruba or there is something the none Yoruba controls or has monopoly or a thing Yoruba person needs to sustain life.

DerideGull:


The perception of being a fence sitter is nothing but cowardice. He who stands for nothing falls for every thing.

sirjamesjnr:
. Grow up in a Port Harcourt gra, have friends mile 3 and PH main town. So watch your mouth.

wizzakosh:
[s][/s] Outright junks from a lowlife worthless soul.

You Igbos are not cunning when you evil race was holding Nigeria then, shouting you are born to rule. That made your cunning tribe to end regional system of government and changed it to central because it was favouring you idiots.

What made your worthless Azikiwe went against secesion clause if not your cunning way of life.

Now that your evil plans on other came back to hunt you idiots down, you are shouting yorubas.

Very wicked race.

myobjective:


Sincerely speaking, the first time I went to PH for my NYSC, I really taught the Igweres were indistinguishable from other Igbos.

As a Yoruba all I can see are Igbos. They speak Igbo language, bears Igbos name and eat and socialized like Igbos. Bu after sometime I begins to see the enimity between the core Igbos and the Igweres.

I think most of these enimity stems from the discrimination the Igwere people face in the hand of the Igbos during the time of the old eastern region. Also, the tendency 0f the Igbos to always beat their chest and called their host name when they are given a small opportunity.