Onlytruth:

Some of you keep mixing up the Abiola riot incident with real war. You expect Igboman to help you fight Abacha?
After your years of treachery?

You would know the difference when it becomes clear to us that you have declared war on our people and their assets in Lagos.

Negro_Ntns:

Ordinary fulani herdsmen marched into yoiur heartland and slaughtered people and took young ibo women with them into the bush, they canme out without wrapper and your boys to street with placard protesting harrasment. Two ddays or so ago, Massob followed their footsteps and marche in protest to police harassment and even begged human rights to intervene. . . . .and efulefu like you is here making mouuth for war with Yoruba. Ahh! Lol!

Why did you run in '93 andd '02 when you saw blood?
Ewu!


Promise you will not call UN or human rights for help when we start with you.

Negro_Ntns:

Armed robbers have been Desecrating and killing Nigerians for decades and they are mainly based in lagos/West.
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Yorubas used to do all night owambes with no problem until after war and broke Ibos and survivors of starvation started flooding into West. That was the last time we enjoyed safe night parties.

When Yoruba got here somebody was on the land and we took it, but then lost some of it. We would have lost more but we recovered. The fulanis that we caught became slaves on our land.

We are talking about your mouth for shouting war and bragging war. You are no war material. Why didn't u fight war when fulani violated your women. Which warrior do you know that carry placard in the middle of street?

You should have pursued and slaughtered the raiders and confiscate their cattle and donate to the families of those violated and killed. That's what warriors do. Not march in middle of street carrying cardboard "HELP, fulani violated our young women". "Where is human rights, we need you, SOS".

Go siddon!

okunoba:

Biafran war history needs to be thought from a early age at our schools so we can learn from the mistakes of the past. The killings of Igbo people after the Nzeogwu coup had more to do with the humiliation your average Northerner felt after the killing of their prominent leaders by Igbo Army, after which Igbos in the North went out on the streets celebrating and mocking their death. We the younger generation seems to have learnt nothing from these events of History. Today we still have the same people quick to belittle and humiliate those that have welcomed them in their home land and given  them a sense of belonging. People that leave you to do your business without anger or jealousy you are quick to belittle and tell them you are more hard working, smarter, richer, that you own all the businesses in their land and that your intention is to dominate and belittle them after all the love and affection they have shown you over the years. The same pattern is developing of creating hate and resentment when there should be non. Why is there the need to feel superior to your host and even if you are superior do you have to poke our eyes with it.

The Hausa Fulani that have ruled and dominated Nigerian politics have never come on this site telling us how much smarter and better they are to the rest of the population because of their political and military dominance in fact they play it down. If the Igbo`s were in their shoes from all the chest beating we get from some of them on Nairaland, they probably would  be telling us to our face they are the superior race hence the reason they have ruled for so long and will continue to do so. Humility is golden but some of our brothers seem to lack this basic principle.  

Many of us Nigerians, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and the rest of us live in countries where everyday we are fighting to be respected and treated as equals because of our color, we fight not to be seen as inferior to other groups that feel superior to us, yet we are more than happy when it comes to our fellow black brothers to play the superiority game and to belittle other ethnic groups. Why do we keep on doing things to others that we don`t like done to us?

At the end of the day there is nothing wrong with an Igbo person ruling Lagos as long as he can do a good job and loves the state as he would love his home, but if the idea is to rule so we can be told how much smarter and that you are better than every other ethnic group in Nigeria then no one will want an Igbo as Governor of Lagos or even as  President of Nigeria.
If you believe in the superiority of your ethnic group over others then you should believe in the superiority of every other race over the black race. After all we are at the bottom of development in the World today. Next time the Arab or White man calls my Igbo brothers monkey he should just accept his faith as a second class citizen since he believes in the superiority of one ethnic group over the other based on material wealth.

I do not subscribe to that believe, no ethnic group is superior we are all struggling to raise our head above water.

Before[b] we knew it, Biafran troops were in Benin City and en-route to Lagos. The Republic of Benin was created and it subsequently became the shortest Republic that ever was. Before we knew it, all our Igbo friends and neighbors started saying “Kedu” to us. When you turn around to look at him in surprise, he would say, “Ah, unah, you never begin learn? Na wa. I’m sorry oh.” The big question was: Learn what? Do you mean Igbo is becoming the lingua-franca in “Benin Republic?” Biafran troops were in control and from all practical purposes, the people were being intimidated, etc. Basically, Benin Republic was functionally a colony of Biafra. [/b]

Consequently, “Operation Igbo must go” was lunched. All efforts to liberate Bendel from Biafra was lunched. They were speedily losing the confidence, trust, and cooperation from the people. Major Ogbemugia, by now, was already in Lagos, planning under the command of General Murtala Mohammed, Commander of Second Infantry Division, on how to liberate Bendel State from Biafra.
It is important to note that most Igbos in Biafra were kept in the dark by Ojukwu and his cohorts on the status of Biafra across the Niger bridge for fear of revolt. He did it very successfully. All the University of Nsuka students in military uniform and the military equipment that crossed the Niger bridge never made it back to the East.

okunoba:

[b]Biafran war history needs to be thought from a early age at our schools so we can learn from the mistakes of the past. [/b]The killings of Igbo people after the Nzeogwu coup had more to do with the humiliation your average Northerner felt after the killing of their prominent leaders by Igbo Army, after which Igbos in the North went out on the streets celebrating and mocking their death. We the younger generation seems to have learnt nothing from these events of History. Today we still have the same people quick to belittle and humiliate those that have welcomed them in their home land and given  them a sense of belonging. People that leave you to do your business without anger or jealousy you are quick to belittle and tell them you are more hard working, smarter, richer, that you own all the businesses in their land and that your intention is to dominate and belittle them after all the love and affection they have shown you over the years. The same pattern is developing of creating hate and resentment when there should be non. Why is there the need to feel superior to your host and even if you are superior do you have to poke our eyes with it.

The Hausa Fulani that have ruled and dominated Nigerian politics have never come on this site telling us how much smarter and better they are to the rest of the population because of their political and military dominance in fact they play it down. If the Igbo`s were in their shoes from all the chest beating we get from some of them on Nairaland, they probably would  be telling us to our face they are the superior race hence the reason they have ruled for so long and will continue to do so. Humility is golden but some of our brothers seem to lack this basic principle.  

Many of us Nigerians, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and the rest of us live in countries where everyday we are fighting to be respected and treated as equals because of our color, we fight not to be seen as inferior to other groups that feel superior to us, yet we are more than happy when it comes to our fellow black brothers to play the superiority game and to belittle other ethnic groups. Why do we keep on doing things to others that we don`t like done to us?

At the end of the day there is nothing wrong with an Igbo person ruling Lagos as long as he can do a good job and loves the state as he would love his home, but if the idea is to rule so we can be told how much smarter and that you are better than every other ethnic group in Nigeria then no one will want an Igbo as Governor of Lagos or even as  President of Nigeria.
If you believe in the superiority of your ethnic group over others then you should believe in the superiority of every other race over the black race. After all we are at the bottom of development in the World today. Next time the Arab or White man calls my Igbo brothers monkey he should just accept his faith as a second class citizen since he believes in the superiority of one ethnic group over the other based on material wealth.

I do not subscribe to that believe, no ethnic group is superior we are all struggling to raise our head above water.

Baawaa:

Igbo pple"Charity begins at home", !!

okunoba:

Biafran war history needs to be thought from a early age at our schools so we can learn from the mistakes of the past. The killings of Igbo people after the Nzeogwu coup had more to do with the humiliation your average Northerner felt after the killing of their prominent leaders by Igbo Army, after which Igbos in the North went out on the streets celebrating and mocking their death.

djustice:

The only reason the Igbos are feeling like they can start beating their chests is because of their unhindered commercial success in Lagos, despite their proclivity for ALWAYS selling substandard goods at the inflated price for genuine ones.

I HAVE OFFICIALLY STARTED A BOYCOTT OF IBO SHOPS AS FROM TODAY, and I urge all right thinking Lagos indigenes and Yorubas to stop buying Ibo. We kuku know the way to China and everywhere else where everything is manufactured, and we have enough of our own people in those businesses as importers and traders.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE DOMINATED BY IBOS, STOP BUYING IBO. STOP PATRONIZING THEM, AND THEY WILL SOON REALISE THE FOLLY OF THEIR AMBITION.

This is a campaign to impoverish Igbos in Lagos and the South West because if this stated intent to rule over us. E don start be that o!

At the end of the day there is nothing wrong with an Igbo person ruling Lagos as long as he can do a good job and loves the state as he would love his home, but if the idea is to rule so we can be told how much smarter and that you are better than every other ethnic group in Nigeria then no one will want an Igbo as Governor of Lagos or even as  President of Nigeria.

Onlytruth:

Posted by: okunoba
At last someone with some sense.

Personally, I don't think that Igbo in Lagos is out to "rule Yoruba" or any other group. They are simply there as Nigerians, and are exercising their constitutional right as Nigerians to aspire to political offices in their area of domicile. And if Nigeria continues to be one, they would do the same in ALL parts of Nigeria were they have the numbers.That is what One Nigeria is about. I lament the fact that some of your fathers fought against these same people you are scheming to oust from Lagos. When they wanted to go, your fathers refused and a WAR ensued which claimed the lives of 2 million innocent people. Now they are in Nigeria going about their legal affairs and folks are here fuming.

I also believe that Nigeria has not moved an inch forward since 1970 (everybody knows this). I believe it is because the winners of the war kept Igbo from Nigerian presidency. You may not agree with me about that, but is it evident that NOTHING has worked since then. So I wonder who loses from that.

Oh shut up. Igbo's are very good with propaganda. There maybe 10 Igbo's in one place, but the way they will shout you will think there are 10,000. If you are so passionate about Lagos, why do you go back to your state during holidays? There is still a connection to the east not so? Why not develop your state? One cannot have loyalty to both places. Pick one and change ethnicity otherwise, this is just lala land. A Yoruba can never be Ggovernor of an Igbo state, they will even be killed for suggesting such. Likewise, Yoruba will never let it happen. This is Nigeria afterall.

Onlytruth:

Posted by: 2mch
Tewmuch,

You are one of the goats I ignore in nairaland because of your orang otan IQ levels, but I would respond this once to you.
If a Yoruba does not become governor or any other thing in Igboland, it would be because he NEVER had the numbers to back him up.  There is a general agreement that Igbo are the next largest population in Lagos after Yoruba.
So, they would get their interest taken care of as part stakeholders in the progress of Lagos state.
BTW Lagos was a federal capital territory, hence it attracted other Nigerian groups, Igbo included.
Igbo did not go to Abeokuta or Ibadan or Ogbomosho.

Onlytruth:

As for boycotting Igbo business in Lagos, you should be careful about that because it will backfire.
Moreover, majority of those who make the difference as Igbo costumers are mainly from outside Lagos and SW. Infact a lot of their customers are from the East, North and OUTSIDE Nigeria (Africa). The type of money they control cannot be from locals. Understand that well.
And even if they don't do business, Lagos state loses tax money and infrastructure development would grind to a halt. Talk of one shooting himself in the foot.