₦airaland Forum

pricklewane:
Stay there n be fooling your father n his age mate. No wonder thag Igbo senator whatever is name was against buying Innoson at the NA.

you are a useless bastard without father. Animal of the lowest order. I deal with ndi butere Ike not nobodies like you.

That serves him right

Arrewa people are very very wicked. The whole world na learner when it comes to arrewa wickedness! Tufiakwa!

lalasticlala:
It's an interesting topic but the OP failed to list the names of the celebrities with more pictures. Not everybody will watch the video.

eziokwu nwanem ! Dalu

Was she raped or starved in any way? Someone ran away from home, a good Samaritan saved her and helped to change her life for the better but no, Muslims must heap all sorts of lies just to nail an innocent man of God. Evil people. Tufiakwa!

Do you blame IPOB for clamouring for Biafra

Is that why he sent some low class igwes to nail the same Obiano at Buhari's feet. In igboland, we settle our internal squabbles ourselves and not disgracing one another outside.

Leave him with his jeans Biko. His way of dressing shouldn't interfere with his work. As long as he is paying salaries, constructing roads , paying pensioners and doing what he was elected to do, he can go naked for all I care

Get well soon dear and I wish you good luck I heard the social distancing observed during this waec is really huge. May God help some people o

Trump must continue! I myself will be praying for him to win the election .

Igwe Mbaukwu is a no nonsense igwe. One of the very few igwes I respect in my Anambra state. Igwe Mbaukwu was asked to stop bike as a means of transport in his community, he simply told Obiano to build factories in Mbaukwu so that his people can be gainfully employed , then he will happily obliged his request. Igwe , iga di o.

Oyibo people have white witch craft, see them with better things and ideas like aeroplane, jets, televisions , computers etc but you see this black witchcraft of Africa, ordinary to construct road, you must sacrifice for them, and sacrifice and continue to sacrifice. They love sacrifice like their lives depend on it. Give their worshippers knowledge to produce something good, they will not. And they Sabi dirty eh! Tomorrow, somebody will come and tell me, sm worshipping the white man's God , yet the difference is glaring. No one should quote me this night. I haff headache

Lalasticlala, Biko Bata oso, something is happening here. I hope by mere reading this news, I won't see my self floating in the air at midnight . Awon iya won soronga!

Cosbyrich:
YORUBAS HAVE BEEN DOING REAL BUSINESS BEFORE IGBOS OPEN EYE .



It is not difficult to imagine that the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, wakes up in Africa, has his breakfast in Asia, lunch in Europe, dinner in America and sleeps in Australia.

You may also conjure the image of the richest woman on the continent, Folorunso Alakija, attending a conference in North America, meeting with female entrepreneurs in Africa, signing a multimillion-dollar deal in South America, going shopping in Asia, and attending a wedding party in Antartica.

The duo may be the richest man and woman on the continent today, but Nigeria’s ability to create billionaires did not start today. Before Dangote and Alakija, the likes of Da Rocha, Ojukwu, etc. were known for their fame and fortune.

Just for this thread, I am picking out only the Yoruba business people because they have the largest number.


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/

all these long story is for what? I get am before no be property. Though an igbo man was Nigeria first billionaire. Who is measuring dick with you when I already bought up the entire Lagos State including eco atlantic. The day you wrestle Lagos from my hands that's the day my respect for yorubas will start. For now, you remain a tissue paper. Good night

Lalasticlala nwanem, Biko bia. The truth is that , igbos were destined to succeed and bring good fortunes to any community they find themselves. Innoson, you will continue to soar and make us proud. When one door closes, the other one opens. Ndigbo, don't give up

perdollar:
who English help. how much dey ur acct. nonsenses

tell them nwannem.

Cosbyrich:
Is this all you have got,poor soul?
Only Alakija will buy up Igboland and all the audio billionaires you claimed you have.

Ask her to dare. You are not even ashamed of yourself. Hiding behind wrapper as usual. Yoruba women feeding Yoruba men since 1600

Cosbyrich:
What is there to envy in your poverty state?
You remain the poorest in the South.Who would envy poverty?

real people are talking, father's that would rather sit their lazy arse at home , send their wives away and rape their daughters also want to get noticed? 90% of Yoruba men are agberos. The rest are drivers. I should be having this argument with Hausa hardworking guys not with dumb ritualists. Any day you learnt what hardwork means, come back let's talk

kcnwaigbo:
What do you know about Anambra politics? Anambrarians will rather vote in a monkey than vote for APC

APC should forget about Anambra state. On the very election day, even APC party faithfuls will pay people not to vote APC.

NGpatriot:
It didn't take long for the low self esteem and inferiority complex village anambra ipobs to pop up their ugly and insecure heads.

Who gives a shit about your worthless village gathering center. ?

Bunch of anti social nuisance,

full blown madness ! Any madness caused by jealousy can never be cured. Rest in pieces

KenModi:
Story! Please remind me, what happened to your guy who has the ‘final say’ when he was being nailed to the cross for disturbing public peace?? Oh, I remember now! He kept wishing his daddy in the sky could save him.

you are still a baby, you know nothing, when you grow up, come back let us talk. For now, face your feeding bottle

Kondomatic:
The video ruined my yesterday. I saw it on someone's status and I honestly regret viewing it

I can imagine

God help us o. I can't even click Biko. No get mind for such.

Jisike nwanna. Am proud of you as well

No be lie my dear. We have bad leaders. Ndi ohanaeze too are not helping matter. The group that wants to donate 500 bullion for Igbo presidency should start thinking towards that aspect

Hangulsaram:
It is well, I tried sending you pm. Can you check ur inbox please?

try and resend. I cant find it

If you call her perfect, what will you call my own body shape? Oyibo people, enter Africa for once and stop saying rubbish

leofab:
keep basking in the euphoria of your delusions.

you know nothing.

Na so. The whole world must hear about Jesus