okigbojihad:


stop projecting your yoruba elite on us that all ended up worst than a discarded tissue paper from the likes of afonja who was tied up and rained thousands of arrows by his slave masters to mko abiola and to ur beloved banjo u ate his own faeces and was drowned in poverty and penury.

and for the likes of zik and achebe non your zebra looking ancestors ever came close your revered wole soyinka is a known failed writer whose novel couldn't sell up to thousand copies.

Your Achebe schooled in Ibadan. Soyinka won the highest prize in Literature which your Achebe is still crying about in his grave. Rest, Eboe animal.

Newton85:
Your Achebe schooled in Ibadan. Soyinka won the highest prize in Literature which your Achebe is still crying about in his grave. Rest, Eboe animal.

the most revered black writer achebe cry over laurette prize? that should be in your soured ewedu brains. to.even think u had the guts to mention wole soyinka the unknown novelist from ijbu ode. children born in 21st century are more vast with novels written by achebe than the white headed bmc prick.

okigbojihad:


the most revered black writer achebe cry over laurette prize? that should be in your soured ewedu brains. to.even think u had the guts to mention wole soyinka the unknown novelist from ijbu ode. children born in 21st century are more vast with novels written by achebe than the white headed bmc prick.

It's still a fact that The Nobel Prize in Literature is the highest academic prize in the literary world, and Soyinka won it, not Achebe. Secondly, Achebe, like many of your Eboe intellectuals (including Chimamanda Adichie's father) schooled in Ibadan, Yorubaland. More tears for you, Osu cretin.

Newton85:
It's still a fact that The Nobel Prize in Literature is the highest academic prize in the literary world, and Soyinka won it, not Achebe. Secondly, Achebe, like many of your Eboe intellectuals (including Chimamanda Adichie's father) schooled in Ibadan, Yorubaland. More tears for you, Osu cretin.

flawed analysis by an ewedu goblin. achebes novel was a curricular all over the world, translated to ove 60+ languages and sold millions of copy and to date he is still refered to as the father of modern literature a feat your bmc prick with white hairs can't achieve.

wole shuld be dragging his feat with chimamanda whose purple hibiscus is more popular than all woles achievement put together.

okigbojihad:


flawed analysis by an ewedu goblin. achebes novel was a curricular all over the world, translated to ove 60+ languages and sold millions of copy and to date he is still refered to as the father of modern literature a feat your bmc prick with white hairs can't achieve.

wole shuld be dragging his feat with chimamanda whose purple hibiscus is more popular than all woles achievement put together.

Soyinka won the highest prize in Literature, your Achebe didn't. Let it burn you forever!

Newton85:
You mean all those wretched Eboe sub-humans called NDI AYIYO are Yoruba? Bloody animal!

Igbo doesn't have word for "beggars"
"Ndi ayiyo" was coined up

I personally knew some people that lived in Ghana from 1920s, 30s onward. Many had many houses built in Ghana.

My father also lived there, he told us stories how they worked in gold mining.

BKayy:

Igbo doesn't have word for "beggars"
"Ndi ayiyo" was coined up

You're right, "Ndi ayiyo" was coined up by Eskimos.

bomb24:
It is not a misery nor debatable that the Yorubas were the first Nigerians to migrate to the gold coast ( Ghana) In the early 20th century till all other tribes started migrating into Ghana in the early 20th century.

so I have pondered for some time now since I came across a video of a young Ghana girl in 1957 who stated she saw Nigerians as inferior because they were mainly beggars in Ghana. who were the Nigerians in Ghana at that time? yorubas. and thanks to AbaLion whom just confirmed that.

The Yorubas were mainly paupers and beggars with no economic significance to Ghana but were mainly beggars that litered the streets of Ghana begging for alms to salvage their wretched existence.

this is a short clip of the video. skip to 1:40 of the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNPp_UzWWpA&list=WL&index=1

The early Yoruba migrants to Ghana were traders and business people. In fact some of them became really rich that they began to have influence in Ghanaian politics and wielded monopolies, which where some of the reasons leading to the mass Yoruba expulsion from Ghana in 1969 during the Nigerian Civil War. Below is a link to one of several scholarly pieces confirming that.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/2004/database/diaspora.html

Below are two excerpts from a scholarly article: The 1969 Ghana Exodus: Memory and Reminiscences of Yoruba Migrants1
Rasheed Olaniyi, Department of History,
University of Ibadan.

"As traders, Yoruba in Ghana contributed to the spread of Islam and Christianity.
Migrants from Ogbomoso town in particular established branches of Baptist Church in both the rural and urban areas of Ghana. By 1948, they had formed Baptist associations reporting to the
Baptist Convention until 1964 when they formed their own Ghana Convention.
In the 1940s equally, Muslim traders from Ogbomoso established Nurudeen Society for the spread of Islam in Ghana. They established Mosques in Tamale, Accra, Secondi, Suhum, Koforidua, Tarkwa, Tema, Kumasi and others."

"From the early 20th century, Ghanaians and Yoruba migrants were mutually engaged in economic and social intercourse that benefited the two groups. Sudarkasa notes that Yoruba in Ghana were allowed to operate due to their intermediary roles, which facilitated the movement of goods between urban and remote rural areas. Yoruba migrants immensely contributed to rural economic development and transformation. They equally provided revenue in form of taxes and gifts to the state and traditional authorities."

There is no scholarly or reputable documentation on Yoruba migrants in Ghana that labelled them as beggars. Former President Mahama of Ghana grew up in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria because his mother re-married a Yoruba man. If Yorubas were destitutes and beggars as erroneously claimed, which Ghanaian woman, more or less the mother of a future Ghana President, would marry one of them and follow him down to Nigeria as need be?

You people should spend your time on Nairaland engaging in useful, factual and developmental discourse instead of peddling lies and insultive misinformation!

Newton85:
You're right, "Ndi ayiyo" was coined up by Eskimos.

Exactly

bomb24:


balderdash asking me for proof when all the facts you need are on this thread. Richest tribe my anus when your inferior ancestors were actually worthless sub-humans who plied their trade begging every Ohema and Appiah for pennies and fed on crumbs given to them.

your Oyo puny-empire only exists in your soured ewedu brains, your Oyo history is shrouded in slavery and humiliation. your people were beaten blue-black by Dahomey teenage girls and were captured as slaves as their black asses were exported to brazil while the remaining yaribanzas had to hide on rocks to avoid the fury of Dahomey fighters. tour kingdom was sacked by the nupes and your people taken as slaves, you were suyanized by the Fulanis and till date, your people are still slaves and their generation unborn will continue to Roth away in Ilorin as slaves. let me remind you that your people in present-day ondo and ekiti were slaves to the oba of benin. history has it a certain yaribanza king was beheaded for flouting his orders.

Yorubas have always been the richest Nigerians even before the advent of Nigeria when Igbos were covering their yansh with their bare hands and living in huts were Ijaw,Igala and Binis took them as slaves.

Yorubas had Empire and were taking tributes from countries like Dahomey etc.
Igbos are still slaves till date.

BKayy:

Exactly

Babinski:


The early Yoruba migrants to Ghana were traders and business people. In fact some of them became really rich that they began to have influence in Ghanaian politics and wielded monopolies, which where some of the reasons leading to the mass Yoruba expulsion from Ghana in 1969 during the Nigerian Civil War. Below is a link to one of several scholarly pieces confirming that.
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/2004/database/diaspora.html

Below are two excerpts from a scholarly article: The 1969 Ghana Exodus: Memory and Reminiscences of Yoruba Migrants1
Rasheed Olaniyi, Department of History,
University of Ibadan.

"As traders, Yoruba in Ghana contributed to the spread of Islam and Christianity.
Migrants from Ogbomoso town in particular established branches of Baptist Church in both the rural and urban areas of Ghana. By 1948, they had formed Baptist associations reporting to the
Baptist Convention until 1964 when they formed their own Ghana Convention.
In the 1940s equally, Muslim traders from Ogbomoso established Nurudeen Society for the spread of Islam in Ghana. They established Mosques in Tamale, Accra, Secondi, Suhum, Koforidua, Tarkwa, Tema, Kumasi and others."

"From the early 20th century, Ghanaians and Yoruba migrants were mutually engaged in economic and social intercourse that benefited the two groups. Sudarkasa notes that Yoruba in Ghana were allowed to operate due to their intermediary roles, which facilitated the movement of goods between urban and remote rural areas. Yoruba migrants immensely contributed to rural economic development and transformation. They equally provided revenue in form of taxes and gifts to the state and traditional authorities."

There is no scholarly or reputable documentation on Yoruba migrants in Ghana that labelled them as beggars. Former President Mahama of Ghana grew up in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria because his mother re-married a Yoruba man. If Yorubas were destitutes and beggars as erroneously claimed, which Ghanaian woman, more or less the mother of a future Ghana President, would marry one of them and follow him down to Nigeria as need be?

You people should spend your time on Nairaland engaging in useful, factual and developmental discourse instead of peddling lies and insultive misinformation!

Nairaland will be better if mentally deranged people are filtered off from the forum.

People like OkigboJihard and Bomb24 fall into the category.

Lalasticlala and Mynd44 would pretend as if they don't see this thread but if another person open a thread exposing ibos, they would quickly delete the thread and ban the poster. Calling Yoruba a begger is not a lie and insult, according to the bias moderators of Nairaland. Tueh!

Seun, your moderators are doing well. If a poster opens a thread that ibos are beggers, they would quickly delete the thread and ban the poster with a speed of light. Seun, politics section is becoming too dry. Thanks to your moderators.


- erase the dot

oyatz:



Nairaland will be better if mentally deranged people are filtered off from the forum.

People like OkigboJihard and Bomb24 fall into the category.

This is a rebuttal to a thread one of your brothers opened insulting Igbos... None of you deemed it fit to caution him, rather the ones that came encouraged him and urged him on... Although the guy was annihilated in his own thread.
if this was not a rebuttal, I would have cautioned this OP as a cautioned the first attacker of the other thread but was remanded by your brother while they urged him on.

Obamaofusa:

We call Northerners Ndị Ugwu in Igboland. Does that make them Igbo?

Begging is a Nigerian(Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani) thing. It doesn't concern Ndigbo. We don't do such.

A Northerner/Yoruba begging in Igboland doesn't mean that Igbo have beggars.

Commentor:
If to say I never go Onitsha and Abakaliki before I for dey believe the lie say Igbo beggars no dey.

Dem full ground.

Hello oga Linus!


Which part of Abakaliki did you see beggars?
The only place you can see beggars in the whole Abakaliki,is in front of St.Theresa Catholic cathedral,ogoja road.
Make una dey lie small small.plus this beggars are not more than 10 there and are people with impairment/retards/disabilities

Newton85:
Soyinka won the highest prize in Literature, your Achebe didn't. Let it burn you forever!

Hahahaha, you are a bad nigga, you gonna make that OSU cry.

Where Achebe abi whatever won steal an with all his rubbish books

BKayy:

Igbo doesn't have word for "beggars"
"Ndi ayiyo" was coined up

BKayy:

We call Northerners Ndị Ugwu in Igboland. Does that make them Igbo?

Begging is a Nigerian(Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani) thing. It doesn't concern Ndigbo. We don't do such.

A Northerner/Yoruba begging in Igboland doesn't mean that Igbo have beggars.

Yeah hahahahahahah Ndi Ayiyoooooo

NawtyC001:






Hello oga Linus!


Which part of Abakaliki did you see beggars?
The only place you can see beggars in the whole Abakaliki,is in front of St.Theresa Catholic cathedral,ogoja road.
Make una dey lie small small.plus this beggars are not more than 10 there and are people with impairment/retards/disabilities

But why you sef dey lie like this?

Ogoja Park no get beggars?

KoshCAD:

Abobaku your propaganda is stale.
We are not the same. So we don't have beggars like you Afonja Abobakus

Ekealterego:


This is a rebuttal to a thread one of your brothers opened insulting Igbos... None of you deemed it fit to caution him, rather the ones that came encouraged him and urged him on... Although the guy was annihilated in his own thread.
if this was not a rebuttal, I would have cautioned this OP as a cautioned the first attacker of the other thread but was remanded by your brother while they urged him on.

I don't have brothers that insult people and i don't know which threads you are talking about.


All these silly and childish inter-tribal threads on Nairaland are one of the main reasons why this forum can NOT advance beyond Nigeria and become a global site like Quora or Reddit.


Most of the topics are opened by kids, drug addicts and mentally deranged fellows.

BKayy:

Abobaku your propaganda is stale.
We are not the same. So we don't have beggars like you Afonja Abobakus

I heard you Ndi Ayiyooooooooooooo hahahahahahah

I will prefer to be Abobaku than be an OSU( A human animal used for sacrifice to a deaf and dumb god) hahahahaha.

I am a proud Abobaku cos I enjoy everything the king enjoys.

But I dare you and your father to come and boldly say you are OSU and you are proud to be OSU

BKayy:

We call Northerners Ndị Ugwu in Igboland. Does that make them Igbo?

Begging is a Nigerian(Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani) thing. It doesn't concern Ndigbo. We don't do such.

A Northerner/Yoruba begging in Igboland doesn't mean that Igbo have beggars.

I have been to Igboland and I know that after the Hausa/Fulani almajari,Igbos have the highest Igbo almajaris in Nigeria.
There is a place at upper Iweka where we ply buses going to Obossi,you will see a lot of Igbo almajaris just like we see them in Lagos.
There are a lot of Igbo beggars in Lagos now but they are mostly deformed Igbo almajaris and blind Igbos going in groups beggingg from one place to the other.
They are in Ondo, Ekiti etc in the SW plying their trade

Obamaofusa:
That poverty stricken Igbo flat-table head,vampire face coward called bomb24 has fled like lady ojukwu of Ivory Coast...ah ah ah

Horllamideh:

100% true
Ogbomoso people are among the earliest Yoruba to venture out if the Southwest enmass to do business in other lands. So many Ogbomoso people are in Jos for nothing less than 7 decades now. I can't count the number of Ogbomoso indigenes I have met whose Dad or Mom have stayed in Ghana or have relatives in Ghana for years now.

Yeah. Ogbomosos are travelers, adventurers and business people. Probably the most traveled subgroup of the Yoruba.

Sergio101:


.

Nice one bro, you really nailed it.

At the mention of "Chief Louis ojukwu"........ All olaconeheads prostrate.

Odogwu no be guy name.
Igbo no be una mate.

@obamaofusa, tell me any of your millionaire that went half the worth of Louis ojukwu back then.

you can also search for the richest Nigeria in pre-i dependence.

Give the upper hand to Igbos.......... we no dey have mercy

These are Yoruba billionaires and business people in the olden days when Igbo ancestors were learning how to wear clothes in their Ijaw masters slave fields.
Sometimes I laugh when petty traders call themselves business men....lol
Igbos have always been povertystricken even till date.Ask World Bank... grin


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/

juman:
I personally knew some people that lived in Ghana from 1920s, 30s onward. Many had many houses built in Ghana.

My father also lived there, he told us stories how they worked in gold mining.

True. Many old mansions (for that era) in our towns and villages were built by those who went to Ghana to trade mostly in gold and cocoa. Some were farmers, miners and artisans. Ogbomoso, Offa and Ejigbo (more of Ivory Coast for these ones) people were successful in business on the West Coast. Many of our Community Schools were built partly from their contributions. I know some families who still have homes in Ghana to date.

delpee:


True. Many old mansions (for that era) in our towns and villages were built by those who went to Ghana to trade mostly in gold and cocoa. Some were farmers, miners and artisans. Ogbomoso, Offa and Ejigbo (more of Ivory Coast for these ones) people were successful in business on the West Coast. Many of our Community Schools were built partly from their contributions. I know some families who still have homes in Ghana to date.

You are right.
I lived in a house for about half a year, built by money from Ghana business. The man got many houses in Ghana.