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To be honest this is poor

He is not a proper Yoruba boy

The society is bad due to bad leadership.
Not much prospect so far.

Hopefully the incoming government will give more opportunities to the population.

Keep trying

You can do petty business like making puff puff or popcorn... throw away pride

Many Nigerians abroad are doing cleaning job and a good minimum wage supports their effort.

There is dignity in labour

A job is a job

No more Japa

EmekaA125:
If you afonjas no open Igbo thread, una go die ?? Mugus

Do you know that Igbo literally means Bush in Yoruba language

Go ahead with Afonja abuse

Remove eye from Yoruba business and focus on developing your region.

Agbero and Iyaloja is Yoruba way that does not need your lecture.

mrvitalis:
List top 15 pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria let's see which tribe owns the highest number abeg ...lets start from drugs

Definitely Igbo
This makes this a critical sector to regulate because people's lives are at risk if they take fake medicine.
Many have died without explanation after taking medicine

Phoen1X:
You dey see igbo for your hunger induced sleep \ dream,..abi ?

Wotowoto should be added to the dictionary

It is a common saying that Igbo people like money
However, an observation when you travel to countries abroad with a big Nigerian population such as the United Kingdom, Dubai, and The United States, you find that the majority of the Nigerian shops and businesses are owned and operated by Yoruba people.

While in Nigeria Igbos dominate the markets which are mostly informal such as selling
Medicine (Many chemists selling Fake drugs were tackled by the Late Dora Akunyili who was a distinguished Nigerian of Igbo heritage)
Pirated movies and music
Fake branded cloths
Used and modified Electronics
Hawking in the street
Car spare parts
and so on

The Agbero unique tax system which the Lagos government formulated out of the Federal government's restricted business environment is an exception but much complained about.

Gone are the heydays when there was order in the markets and shops like Leventis were the norm.
This begs the question: Why do Igbo businesses thrive in informal and Illegal markets

Onyiridike:
An average Igbo man is highly competitive, unlike the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani.

While the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani had kingdoms which enabled the British to infiltrate their territories easily, the Igbos on the other hand, had what could be called “Chiefdoms” (autonomous Communities). These structures made it very difficult to tame the Igbos.

It took the British just 9 months to tame the North and South West but almost 30 years to be able to tame the Igbos. The British had to send a team of anthropologists to the South to understudy the Igbo because, they (the British) acknowledged they hadn’t been up against a black race with such depth and intelligence coupled with the gut to confront the whites and learn from them so, so fast.

While a Tinubu, can have unrestricted influence over the Yoruba tribe, something you can only find mostly among blacks and some poor nations on earth today, an Igbo man can never be tamed by the ideology of one man unchecked, no matter how highly placed he or she is. That’s why the Igbos are very successful no matter where they find themselves. They don’t believe in putting limitations on their path. You can only find such similarities among the Europeans, the Americans, and developed Asian tiger nations.

A Hausa/Fulani man sees Kano as his world. A Yoruba man sees Lagos as his world. An Igbo man sees the world as his Village

That is why Igbo should enhance their system and use it to develop their land.

Igbos need to change their attitude.
They brag about the mansions they build in their villages
but abandoned their communal space

That is a sign of selfishness

Everything Lagos!!!
There has been little news from other states across Nigeria about their governorship elections.
Igbos voting in Lagos is now the most contentious topic.

Togo, Benin and Ewe people of Ghana are culturally and geographically closer to Lagos and all the surrounding areas are all Yoruba Land.

States and capital are the creation of the military and Nigeria is a British creation. So, picking out Lagos is like picking a hand or leg from a body.

Definitely, the continuity in the developments by the government of Lagos has brought progress otherwise thousands of Igbo people will not keep migrating there everyday border free.

Don't spoil it for them now.

To gain respect
Igbo people need to develop their region.

If Igbo people try to take Lagos governorship and fail, The Yorubas with the Presidency of Tinubu will definitely likely change some things such as:

1. Compulsory purchase of land acquired by Igbo people (Such has been used by the government of England and Wales across the United Kingdom to take back land)
2. Restriction in selling land to non-indigenes (Such as practiced in Igboland, Benin, and several non-liberal places in Nigeria)
3. The gentrification of Igbo areas like Alaba and computer village in a way that the government will build modern malls there and redistribute to Yoruba people while compensating the evicted Igbo shop owners.
4. change in the law such that people must vote in their local government or hometown.

Ghana already did one of these self-preservation methods when they made a law that Nigeria (mostly Igbo) shops must pay 1 million dollars to be able to open their shop in Ghana and compete with Ghanaians in the same market. This led to the closure of several shops and redistribution to Ghanaians who the Igbos ran out of business and took over their market.

So Igbo people need to develop their land and be proud of it. That is the only place no one can dictate to them how to run their affairs.

Igbo Kwenu!

Anyone that opposes the views of Obidients gets attacked with abuses
Before this escalates into physical attacks

Should they be stopped and proscribed?

FLASHBACK: Tinubu’s role in the democracy we enjoy today


Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) spoke in an interview conducted by TheNEWS magazine many years ago. He narrated his pro-democracy struggles and how he suffered

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
When were you arrested?
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖.
I said we would continue to struggle until we had democracy. We had a group of 30 senators called the G-30. The G-30 was determined to actualise the mandate on the floor of the Senate. Suddenly, Abacha came and General Oladipo Diya and Babagana Kingibe were also running around. Diya was one of the most respected and credible military officers then, and he later approached us that there might be change in government. Abiola was around. General Chris Alli met us and said there would be a change of government, which would be in favour of June 12, because they were tired of the shenanigans of the ING. That night, Abacha changed the government. He outsmarted everybody. They met with me, Dele Alake, Segun Babatope and Doyin Abiola. We were asked to write the terms and conditions, which they would broadcast after a change of government. We wrote it and gave it to Diya. They are all alive.
On the night the government was to be changed, Abacha outsmarted everyone and installed himself. These people I mentioned are all alive to testify to what I have said. I can say categorically that I was even called to leave my office because, as they claimed, that night was a dangerous night for them and that everyone’s life might be in danger. Abiola was told not to sleep at home until the broadcast had been made. We were all fooled! Big time deception.
When we heard the broadcast the next day, there was no mention of June 12 and no proclamation of Abiola. I was mad, but was still determined. I rushed to Diya and he was still saying that there was no problem and that they were planning to announce the cabinet containing eminent June 12 people. Abiola said what? I said no, announce Abiola’s victory.
Diya told me that I didn’t know the military and that things were not done like that in the military. But I insisted that it was deception. I said I know the military. I called Okadigbo to my office in Lagos and I put the plan before him that we had to confront the military and we had to declare Abacha himself illegal. I got members of our group together; we wrote the script declaring Abacha’s government illegal. Since we could not get to the National Assembly, we opted to hold our session at the Tafawa Balewa Square. We had gotten Dele Alake to be the media coordinator. We told him to get the CNN and other foreign media ready. I put the coat of arms on a rod! That was the mace. We created our own mace.
We reconvened the Senate here in Lagos and declared Abacha illegal before the international media and others. My colleagues had scattered. After we assembled, and having drafted the resolution, they still didn’t know where we would hold the session. I told them to relax, this is Lagos. After the broadcast, everybody took off, because the SSS and other security agents were combing everywhere for us. I went underground, using the 090 mobile phone. I was still granting press interviews to foreign media. The military people were mad. I became a thorn in their flesh and they arrested some of my colleagues, including Abu Ibrahim, the late Polycarp Nwite, Ameh Ebute and Okoroafor. I was still underground, holding press conferences. The military declared me wanted.
Suddenly they granted bail to the arrested senators. I thought I would be a beneficiary, but I was not. Then, there was a manhunt for me by the police and the SSS. Meanwhile, my late uncle, K.O Tinubu and the present Oba of Lagos, Oba Akiolu, who was then a police officer, were pressuring me to disclose where I was. My uncle called to ask where exactly I was. I did not disclose my whereabouts. I told Akiolu that even though he is my relative, I would still not tell him where I was since he was a police officer! He said: ‘Ha!’
My uncle advised that the military would kill me if they found me underground and no one would be able to locate my whereabouts. He said it was better I surrendered myself because he wanted me to be alive. I told him that I would call him back, that I was to hold a press conference at the time. And he shouted in amazement: ‘You are holding press conference when your life is in danger.’ I told him I would surrender, but would not tell him when.
I disguised perfectly, dressed like a malam, and went to the police at Alagbon. The officers didn’t even know me when they saw me. I went in, deposited my phone and my charger. Senator Abu Ibrahim was with us. The officers were wondering why I, a Mallam, could not speak Hausa! I removed my turban, showed up at the front desk and declared that I had come to surrender. And there was pandemonium among the officers, as to how I got there.
The AIG then was very nice and they put me in the cell. They poured water into the cell room and said, ‘sleep there’. That was the nastiest experience I had within first 48 hours that I was there. It was on a weekend. I told them I would embark on a hunger strike. The late Anthony Enahoro was on the stairway and Beko Ransome-Kuti was at another angle on the stairway. They brought me out repeatedly for interrogation. They asked me to renounce but I said no, I would not recognise Abacha. They took me and my colleagues to court. People who were supposed to meet their bail conditions were stopped from doing so immediately they saw me. They cancelled everybody’s bail because they could not isolate me.
They gave an order that we should be taken out of court, but kept in the police custody at Alagbon. They kept about eight of us in a photocopying room, an eight-by-eight room. We were sleeping across one another. It was a matter of the first to sleep would maintain the position. If your head was this way, your leg would be there and so on. It was a nasty experience.
There were a lot of interrogations, with a lot of carrot and stick. I can never forget the role and determination and sincerity of a compatriot at that particular time. They made an exception to uphold the earlier bail granted to Senator Abu Ibrahim. He was asked to go. He was the only Hausa-Fulani man with us. The late Hassan Katsina had intervened. But Senator Ibrahim said he would rather stay, except every one of us was granted the same bail conditions. He said he would not leave his colleagues behind.
He is a courageous and a detribalised Nigerian, who had a vision of what Nigeria should be. He refused to accept an isolated bail. They started sending emissaries to us in detention, offering us all sorts of appointments and opportunities to renounce our positions, but we refused. The judiciary was still very courageous then. We went to the Court of Appeal. An incident occurred at the lower court. Market women turned out hugely to support us when we were brought to the court. The day they refused my bail, some of the market women appeared naked and so they stopped taking us to the court. The court sessions were usually interesting for us because of the scenes. At Alagbon, we bathed in the open between 4 and 5 a.m.
The condition started improving when they began to bring officials of the failed banks. Those ones contributed money to repair the generating set at Alagbon and we started enjoying electricity a little longer than we used to. It was during the time that the protest became intense. Nigeria was playing at the World Cup then. Italy defeated Nigeria and the security people lied to us that it was otherwise. Eventually, the Court of Appeal courageously granted us bail in enforcement of our fundamental human rights. Our passports were confiscated and deposited with the court. Later, the High Court ruled that our passports be released to us. That night, they finally announced our bail and conditions attached to it. The presiding judge then is today the Emir of Ilorin, Sulu Gambari. We heard that they put so much pressure on him (Clement Akpamgbo was the Attorney-General) not to release us, but he ordered our release. They were going to re-arrest me and I suddenly went underground to continue my protest.
They would throw bombs and say it was us. Mobil called me to come back to my job, but I refused. They bombed my house, but luckily, my wife and children had been evacuated. I would not want to reveal how they were evacuated because there was a diplomatic involvement. They told me that my life and those of my family were in clear danger.
Suddenly, they announced that I was wanted again. They alleged that I was going to bomb the NNPC depot at Ejigbo. Ah! I was still being tried for treason, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and I was again accused of trying to bomb an NNPC depot. I couldn’t go back because my photograph was all over the place that I was wanted. A diplomatic source advised me that I should leave the country if I wanted to continue the struggle. Dan Suleiman, Alani Akinrinade were in danger. We asked Bolaji Akinyemi to leave the country and promote the struggle at the international level.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
That was the National Democratic Coalition then…
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
Yes. I was at the forefront of the struggle at that level. When I went to see my uncle, K.O Tinubu, at home, he shed tears that night. He said he didn’t want to lose me and that I was about to be killed. He begged me to leave Nigeria and affirmed that, being a former police officer, he was sure I would be killed.
He said that I couldn’t return to my house since they had bombed it. I went to a friend’s house. Before then, there was an incident that made them believe that I was at Ore Falomo’s hospital. They went to the hospital to look for me. Eventually, I left Nigeria for Benin Republic by NADECO route.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
How did you make it across the border?
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
I disguised with a huge turban and babanriga and escaped into Benin Republic on a motorbike. My old Hausa friend gave the clothes to me. In fact, when I appeared to Kudirat Abiola, she didn’t know that I was the one! I gave her some information and some briefing. I left at 1 a.m. While in Benin Republic, I was still coming to Badagry to ferry people, organise and coordinate the struggle with others on ground. We put a group together, ferrying NADECO people across. It was a very challenging time. I can’t forget people like Segun Maiyegun and other young guys in the struggle. I would come from Benin to hold meetings with them and sneak back. The military created a whole lot of momentum around me. They took over my house, guest house and carted away all my vehicles and property to Alagbon. That is why today, I don’t have old photographs. They took eight of my cars away.
My wife and my two toddlers were dropped in a bush; nowhere to go. Beko and the diplomatic missions came to our aid and ferried my wife and kids to the United States. I was still in Benin Republic. Besides, I didn’t have a passport and couldn’t have been able to travel. At a stage, they discovered our routes, because they had spies all over, including Benin Republic. Twice I was caught and I fortuitously escaped. They traced me to one dingy hotel I was hiding.
The day they came for me at the hotel, I had gone out on an Okada to buy amala at a market, where Yorubas are dominant. I was also to meet Akinrinade and the rest of them. The spies went to the hotel and as I was approaching, I saw two people wearing tajia (skull caps) at the front desk, asking questions. The man attending to them at the reception (I had been very nice to the receptionist) winked to me and I turned back. I contacted a friend in Benin Republic, who was an architect, and had very strong sympathy for us. Professor Wole Soyinka and Alani Akinrinade, who lodged in a better hotel, were fortunate to have escaped that night, too. The people on their trail pursued them to the hotel, but fortunately missed them.
Then the British High Commission got proper information through the Consular-General that my life was in danger. He stamped a visa on a sheet of paper and did a letter, authorising the airline to pick me from Benin Republic to any port of entry in Britain. I didn’t know how they got to me. A lady just walked up to me and handed me an envelope. She said I had been granted an entry into the United Kingdom. She said I could be killed if I failed to leave in the next 48 hours. It was Air Afrique that took me from Benin Republic to London. Meanwhile, my wife was still in the United States. I landed in Britain and worked my way back to Benin Republic. I picked up my passport from somewhere. I went to an African country and through their connections, they gave me a diplomatic passport as a cultural ambassador.

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
What country was that?
𝑻𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒃𝒖
No, please! The African country that helped us with the diplomatic passport was showing gratitude for the help Abiola had done to its president before. So, you can make your deduction. Then, I was shuffling and coordinating our activities in the UK, Benin Republic and Cote d’Ivoire. I used the passport to travel to Cote d’Ivoire to hold meetings at the Hotel Continental, because we were planning to make another broadcast that would be aired in Nigeria. By the time I returned to the hotel, the military assailants had broken into my hotel room and taken away my briefcase and diplomatic passport. They dropped a note, saying: ‘You cannot be twice lucky.’ I was taken over by panic. Fortunately, in my back pocket, I had the photocopy of the sheet of paper on which the British had stamped a visa for me to travel out of Benin previously. I took that to the British High Commission in Abidjan. They listened to my story and asked me to come back at night. They did all their verification and found my story to be true. I returned to them and they gave me another sheet of paper and wrote the number of the flight that would take me out of that country.
But I had no money. Somebody suddenly drove in. The person is a well-known name I don’t want to mention. I met him and explained my condition. He had a traveller’s cheque, but the money was not enough. I went back to the British High Commission and the woman said she could assist me with her own personal money to bridge the shortfall in cash.
We founded and coordinated Radio Kudirat and Radio Freedom and we continued to organise. I didn’t see my family for two good years. They were in America. Bayo Onanuga, who also was part of the struggle, joined us there in December 1997. The law of political asylum stipulates that your first country of landing and acceptance is the safe haven, so it’s not transferable. That was how Cornelius Adebayo was stuck in a United Nations camp. My wife had to invoke a family clause that exists in America to fight for her husband to join her before they granted me a special privilege to leave UK to join my family in the United States

https://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2022/12/11/flashback-tinubus-role-in-the-democracy-we-enjoy-today/amp/

Slynation:
But you saw Sowore on the ballot sheet and voted for Tinubu...

Werey dey disguise...!!

Tinubu is a hero.. and my preferred candidate

The strategists who knows that friends can betray and instead reached across the aisle and now see how he has won when the people he opened his home for, fed and accommodated betrayed him.

.

Sowore protested day and Night in the sunshine and rain in front of bullets and machine guns fearlessly and bravely giving people courage until Endsars protest started. He made personal sacrifice staying in Nigeria far away from his family in the United States to fight for Nigerians.

What did Nigerians do to repay him? They abandoned him and abused him.

Instead they Supported Peter Obi the Governor of the state were Sars committed the most atrocities were bodies were dragged out of the river.

Endsars morphed into Obidient movement.

It's like spitting in the face of your saviour and praising your abuser.

Of course Peter Obi did not on paper control the police but this same Obidients blame Governor Sanwo -olu about the conduct of the military when he does not also have control of the military.

Nigerians are Nigeria's problem.

dedonfranco:
Arisetv is unprofessional.

Talking about Rufai

Arise TV is blatantly biased.
This is free advice to APC to start or fund their own station called Awake TV
Arise has really contributed to the herd mentality of Obidients and it's now clear that Tundun Abiola must have been advised to leave due to her family's ties with Tinubu.

Yoruba does not describe their father's house with their left hand.

Common sense is missing or Very low IQ

Workch:
What do you mean respect the host?
We should be worshiping you?

Self-explanatory

Nigerians did not respect themselves in Dubai and UAE stopped offering visa-free and deported many

Basically stop selling fake drugs, clothes, and several items
Don't engage in illegal activities
And don't tell a people that their land is a no man's land and start meddling in their politics to take over power in their land.

Mindlog:
No Nigerian is a "foreigner" in Lagos.

As a country No.

But we did not create the country
None of us did, it was forced on us.
The best we can do is respect each other's space

AnyanwuSilas:
Lagos this Lagos that, why can't Yorubas let us hear word?
Why is other Yoruba States not developed like Lagos if truely Yoruba people developed Lagos.

You won't hear Gwari people threatening other ethnic groups in Abuja because Abuja is their land

All Yoruba states are developed as compared to other states in Nigeria

Igbos are the second majority in almost all of them

Oyo State especially Ibadan
Ondo with Igbo first Lady
Ogun
Ekiti
Osun of Governor Adeleke with Igbo ancestry

It's not a big deal though, but they should respect their host.

We are just saying to live peacefully with others and respect the host

Igbos in Lagos are not the only foreigners in Yoruba land but seem to be the only ones that want to overrun the city of the hospitable Omoluwabi people.

Lagos is a Yoruba land for all of recorded history before it became a major hub for trade and commerce during the colonial period.
Today, Lagos is a diverse city with a blend of various ethnic groups, cultures, and languages. The Yoruba language and culture still have a significant influence on the city's identity and way of life.

If not for colonialism,
Yoruba land originally stretches from parts of Delta State to Togo, Benin, and parts of Ghana where you have the Ewe people.

Trying to overrun another people's land will make people angry and can lead to social unrest.

Below is a Map of Yoruba Land for educational purposes

Tinubu is a master strategist. The Godfather

Colonial mentality is not easy to fix

Tinubu is a chance that Nigeria should not miss

It's like Nigerians are slaves in their own country

Nigerians in Nigeria should wake up and put pressure on these people. See how the UK just pressured Boris Johnson to resign.