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| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by pansophist(m): 7:30pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa: You might need to check your estrogen levels, and pump in some testosterone if necessary, many emotions running in one single post. Tufiakwa. You keep yapping about billionaires, but at the ground level, the guys collecting owo-ile are not the Igbos or those NURTW touts that oppress petty traders are not the Ijaws either. To determine the wealth of a people, you have to come to the ground level. With all your Yoruba billionaires, Dangote's, and the north even being the political powerhouse of the country, the north still is by a far gap, the most poverty-stricken region in the country and the world at large, with the UN predicting food crisis soon, how about that? Also, I do not understand what you mean by ''being grateful''. Are there no Yorubas, Northerners, and other ethnic groups in the east? A Nigerian should not, and can not be grateful for moving to any part of the country to hustle. Freedom of movement is a constitutional right guaranteed to all Nigerians. Telling the Igbos to be grateful makes no logical, legal, constitutional, and common sense. If you do not want them, then pull out of Nigeria let everyone go their separate ways. Same thing Igbos are crying for, but Nigerian refuse to give them Biafra. They actually want to go from Nigeria. Imagine the audacity they have, they sure for themselves die. Ogbeni, respect yasef.  Igbo Amaka. 14 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Dikebuka: 7:35pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa: Do you know who they call Late Sir Louis Odimegwu Ojukwu who was the first Billionaire when you currency was the same value with pounds. 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nigeriabiafra80: 7:39pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Christistruth00:According to what panel or investigation? Abi na gossip mill be your source? So tell me how endsars protest became fault of ipob Or is obigbo the only place attacked Benin Lagos Calabar Abuja Enugu Ondo Ogun Ebonyi IMO Etc Do you mean it was cause by ipob How did you arrive at that gossip |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Obamaofusa: 7:39pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
pansophist: If you are good,you are good.If you are rich,you are rich.Yorubas have always, always been richer than your ancestors just like we are still richer than you now.Your narratives or lamentations cannot change that. You cannot give what you don't have. These are verified Yoruba billionaires authenticating the fact that Yorubas are very more richer than you Igbos who world bank,undp and NBS have authenticated as the poorest in the South.. Tayo Amusan Seriki Williams Abass Dapo Abiodun Doyin Abiola Moshood Abiola Samson Abioye Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Segun Abraham Michael Ade-Ojo Segun Adebutu Silas Adekunle Adedeji Adeleke Mike Adenuga Kunle Adewale Segun "Aeroland" Adewale Taiwo Afolabi Salami Agbaje Bode Akindele Akinola Maja Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan Olatunji Ajisomo Alabi Ralph Alabi Demola Aladekomo Adeyemo Alakija Lanre Alfred Kola Aluko Ayo Animashaun Chief E. O. Ashamu Adekunle Ayeni John Olatunde Ayeni Tayo Ayeni Olawale Ayilara Wale Babalakin Ade Bajomo Mobolaji Bank Anthony Alani Bankole Richard Beale Blaize Talabi Braithwaite Bankole Cardoso Folorunsho Coker James Pinson Labulo Davies T. A. Doherty Fela Durotoye Shafi Edu Tunde Eso Joseph Fadahunsi Luti Fagbenle Henry Fajemirokun Samuel Fawehinmi Antonio Deinde Fernandez Tunde Folawiyo Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo Charles Joseph George Keji Giwa Jimoh Ibrahim Oladipo Jadesimi Tunde Kelani Kase Lukman Lawal Alaba Lawson Olufemi Majekodunmi Akinpelu Obisesan Jacob Odulate Akin Babalola Kamar Odunsi Adeola Odutola Chris Ogunbanjo Adebayo Ogunlesi Temitope Ogunsemo Ayo Ogunsheye Olufemi Oguntamu Wole Oguntokun Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Adekunle Ojora Alex Oke Molade Okoya-Thomas Razaq Okoya Habeeb Okunola Bukunyi Olateru-Olagbegi Duro Olowu Femi Olubanwo Olalekan Olude Ade A. Olufeko Otunba Fatai Olukoga Jide Omokore Lawrence Omole Oluseun Onigbinde Patrick Oriyomi Femi Otedola Oba Otudeko Gbenga Oyebode Olateju Oyeleye Samuel Herbert Pearse Femi Pedro Candido Da Rocha John W. Rogers Jr. Herzekiah Andrew Shanu Mohammed Shitta Bey Biodun Shobanjo Ernest Shonekan Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Olalekan Sipasi Taiwo Olowo Temidayo Isaiah Oniosun Olusola Teniola Bosun Tijani Adewale Tinubu Lanre Towry-Coker Ade Tuyo William Vivour Akintola Williams. |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by pansophist(m): 7:43pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa: You are just gathering names like a class prefect. se won ti se epe fun e ni? If you still want a reply from me, you should stop running around circles. I do not do those childish games. I repeat, for the umpteenth, and the last time, the number of billionaires does not mean a group of people are rich. For example, the average American live paycheck to paycheck, have over 35k USD in personal debt, can't even afford to travel out of US without going bankrupt, even though the US economy is bigger than the whole of Africa x10, with a population the size of Nigeria x2. Does it mean the average American has a good quality of life than a Finnish man? Nigeria is still classified as poor even with all its yoruba billionaires, so what is your point? How can these be so hard to understand? or you just forming dumb? come on bro. Iceland and Portugal have only one billionaire each, but the countries are light ahead of the whole of Africa, does it mean Yorubas are more successful folks than them? If you want me to teach you economics, please let me know, instead of forming intellectual, but bringing weak arguments. Get sense abeg. Igbo Amaka. 12 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by mightyhazel: 7:44pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa:Whats with reeling out these random yorobanames? Who do this clown like this? ok lets assume these random mostly unknown names are feeding well,what about the tens of million slum dwellers, under bridge tenants and the ever ubiquitous owomida mob? 7 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cantonese: 7:50pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Badonasty: You need to visit Igbo land to determine the level of development. Thereafter you can make your comparison with other states and cities. 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cantonese: 7:52pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa: Otimkpu identified. Where is your father's name or family member's name in the list you quoted? 1 Like |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Christistruth00: 8:19pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Nigeriabiafra80: Listen carefully to Nnamdi Kanu giving IPOB orders to kill Police and destroy Police Stations in Oyigbo. He even took a phone call on live Radio updating him on the Carnage he ordered in Oyigbo,Rivers State. He went as far a telling IPOB they must also behead the bodies of any Police they slaughtered and burn the bodies But when Gov Wike accused IPOB of killing 20 Security Officers on live TV IPOB never denied it. The SE Gov went to meet Wike and warned Igbos to avoid IPOB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSIw2mJXiQg&t=141s |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nigeriabiafra80: 8:29pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Christistruth00:Asari dokubo is now a source of kanu news Now I know where you gather your propaganda A known hater to kanu is circulating a doctored kanu audio So do you mean kanu order ipob to destroy the whole south Well this is kanu post on Facebook
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| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Christistruth00: 8:37pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Nigeriabiafra80: Kanu put that Rubbish out after Ohaneze Panicked when he Claimed that IPOB was responsible for the destruction in Lagos and Oyigbo that is his Voice on the Audio giving the orders the Audio is authentic. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/endsars-ohanaeze-ndigbo-disown-nnamdi-kanu-on-destruction-of-yoruba-assets/amp/ 1 Like
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| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Obamaofusa: 9:00pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
mightyhazel:When there are a lot of billionaires and millionaires in a society,like the Yoruba society,they are pronounced as the richest in Nigeria while Igbos with very lower number are pronounced the poorest.Igbos are competing with the North.Ask UNDP lol Your Igbo poverty esteem dey worry you. |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Obamaofusa: 9:07pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Cantonese: Did you visit USA,China etc to know that they are developed? People swarm developed regions like bees...just like Yorubaland has the highest number of migrating Nigerians,Africans and foreigners. People run away from undeveloped places like Igboland. |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nigeriabiafra80: 9:09pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Christistruth00:So you mean ipob destroyed Lagos,Benin the whole southern Nigeria? 1 Like |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nobody: 9:17pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nobody: 9:19pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
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| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Dovegrey: 9:47pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
i can see my yoruba muslim brothers crying everywhere chaii painment.
God in my next life i want to be an igboman. IGBO AMAKA 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Christistruth00: 10:16pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Nigeriabiafra80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0xIp5yH6A&t=115s |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cantonese: 10:41pm On Nov 27, 2020 |
Obamaofusa: Hahahahahahaha. "The taste of the pudding is in the eating". If other people did not physically visit the USA how would people like you ever have known how developed it is? "Yoruba land has the highest number of migrating people". Is it not because Lagos is the capital and money from the east was used to develop Lagos. Aside from Lagos and Ibadan mention any other area that is properly developed. "People run away from underdeveloped place". Because you have glued yourself to your Yorubaland you have failed to travel to see your people thriving with joy there in the east. Go there and see Yoruba people with huge tribal marks on their faces speaking Igbo language and going about their daily businesses unmolested. Yorubas in the east do not want to leave the area. Why do some of your people prefer to eat eba Igbo? How many cities in your Yorubaland have industries enough to match the east? I know the most painful part for your people whose minds were polluted by your leaders is that Igbos own so much properties in Yorubaland. Most of the big industries in Yoruba land are owned by Igbos. You people find it difficult to believe that an Igboman owns Innoson, that's why you all disparage it. If Igbos and money made from the oil of the Niger Delta did not help you out in your cities you'd not be here rubbing shoulders with Igbo people. 5 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cherez: 2:06am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Kestolove:Lol 1 Like |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cherez: 2:18am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Badonasty:If only you knew the truth you'll know they've done well at this too Imagine the billions donated/spent on the NE during GEJ & now just to feed & support the NE due to the BH crisis. Now imagine another region was bombarded for 3good yrs by federal power backed by UK-US alliance & other world powers then, after which they were handed 20 currency bill each(NB: I'm not against this entirely, maybe cos we engaged the war) & hardly with any support from the FG till date. I'm from Anambra & over 30yrs old but the 1st FG project I know was built in my state by OBJ in 2004 or so (Onitsha-Owerri expressway & rural water projects) & the road is still ok till date; reason why alot of Onitsha-dwellers love OBJ. Imagine we grade our roads in the villages in Anambra. I used to stay somewhere in Lagos 3yrs ago where the street road was bad, it took me till I left there pleading with fellow dwellers to contribute money & do the roads cos they never imagined what we readily do in the east. Bros, no Nigerian region has been bombarded like the East, it's prime educated population died in the war but today from Primary to University level you can tell the story yourself In all indexes of growth the SE is either average or at the top Are we not supposed to be the lowest since we rebuilt our region with no help? However, we Igbos need to do more in our states, with a seaport at Onitsha & railways linking other parts of the country you'd see more 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Cherez: 2:26am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Standing5:Cut out oil money from govt, Bros the average Northerner will have serious issues, that's the reality Cut out FG support my guy it won't be easy oooo You say for Igbos dem.go.say customer no gree come, right? So the food Hausas sell aren't to customers? You'd say food is essential right? Bros the world has evolved that I can bet you some people will rather buy data or even common cloth to trend on IG & starve for weeks telling you the essentials for living have changed over time |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Uchek(m): 4:30am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Is that all your brain can come up with? reactman: |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Uchek(m): 4:34am On Nov 28, 2020 |
What is wrong with you? Economic success is not a zero sum game. Economic development is not a mutually exclusive phenomenon Obamaofusa: |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Nigeriabiafra80: 5:24am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Christistruth00:Simple polar question of yes or no You still posting propaganda Was it ipob that destroy benin,Lagos,calabar,ogun,ondo etc? 1 Like |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by PreyingMantis(m): 7:04am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Badonasty:Funny enough, that Igbo homeland you're referring to is much more developed than wherever you come from 2 Likes |
| Re: Why Igbos Prosper Under Bad Economy - Reno Omokri. by Obamaofusa: 9:58am On Nov 28, 2020 |
Uchek:Go and sleep.Yorubas have always been more business savvy and richer than the Igbos.Continuous false narrative cannot change that fact. Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959) Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction. Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively. An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning. Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years. Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking. “His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes. At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH. How wealthy was Da Rocha? “I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained. Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.” Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank. Timothy Odutola (1902-1995) On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola. The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region. Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960. Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932. By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil. An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. “The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said. Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991) Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group. Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine. After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline. He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then. Shafi Edu (1911–2002) In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries. Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club. At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959. He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives. Ade Tuyo Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.” “The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said. Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953. The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country. Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011) Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi. He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963. In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate. https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/ |
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