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I thought so,


Ye ye people, all talk, no action.

Established by Obafemi Awolowo in 1949, the Nigerian Tribune is the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria.


For dede1  or any brave Igboan,  please Itemize what legacies your not grass cutting eastern elites left for future Igbo generations?


I keep telling you, we are not in the same league.

MINOR HOLDINGS .

Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State.

International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State.

Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos

Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State

Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State

Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State

Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos

SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos

Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos

U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos

Niger Delta Explorations & Production Plc,

Bitumen exploration & exploitation Co. Nig. Ltd.

SUNDRY HOLDINGS COMPANIES .

African Petroleum Plc

AIICO Insurance Plc

First Bank Nigeria Plc

Flour Mills Nigeria Plc

Intercontinental Bank Plc

Nigerian Breweries Plc

R. T. Briscoe (Nig.) Plc

Spring Bank Plc

PZ Industries Plc

S C O A Nigeria Plc

Union Bank of Nig. Plc

United Bank for Africa

Vitafoam (Nigeria) Plc

Ecobank Plc

NIMAPAK Nig. Plc

Con-oil Plc

John Holt Plc

Dede1:
What an arrant nonsense. I am sure you are better than this load of rubbish. With all due respect, Awolowo was cutting resident’s lawns in Essex, London to survive for a day when University College, Ibadan was founded. If you can not remember the legacy of WNDC in Ibadan, I suggest you quit writing about development, proceeds from Cocoa and Awolowo.

Well, the same grass cutter left so much in brick and mortar for his people and future generations of Yoruba people.

These are no defunct companies, they are all major players in today's Nigeria's economic realities.




O'net Telecomms

Incorporated in 2002 as Odu'a Telecoms Limited, (ODU'ATEL) now branded as O'net. Licensed for fixed wireless Operation on 3.5Ghz and 800Mhz frequencies deploying CDMA Fixed and Mobile Telephony and Internet as well as Broadband Internet for corporate organizations, Institutions and Research Institutes and Virtual Private Network Services for Banks and other Network organizations in all five South Western States of Nigeria and beyond.

Askar Paint Ltd.


Askar Paints (Nig.) Ltd. was established in 1961 to manufacture paints and it is well known for its brands-Durosyn and Polyplast. In addition to paints, the company manufactures other chemicals and allied products like glue, clear finish wood preservatives and red oxide.
Cocoa Industries Ltd.
Cocoa industries Limited was established in1965 and its Nigeria's first cocoa processing company. In addition to processing cocoa beans into butter powder and cake, the company also produces and markets Vitalo – a cocoa based beverage drink. The company also exports cocoa butter.

Epe Plywood Industries Ltd.


Epe Plywood Industries Limited is a major wood processing company. It was established in 1965 for the production of plywood, flush doors, veneer and furniture. It also engages in saw milling business.

Odu'a Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.

Established in 1956, Odu'a Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. is engaged in exercise books production, security printing, all business and office stationeries, maqazines, journals, annual reports, seasonal greeting cards, calendars, promotional posters & flyers, T- shirts, face caps & plastic ID card printing

Wemabod Estates Limited.

Established in 1963. Wemabod Estates Limited is one of the biggest property and estate in Lagos, developing companies in sub-Sahara Africa. Some of its famous properties are: Western House, Investment House in Lagos and Cocoa House in Ibadan, Oyo State.

ODU'A Farms and Services Limited.

ODU'A Farms and Services Limited was established in 1975. It engages in livestock rearing and arable farming. It has ranches in Upper Ogun, Ogbooro in Oyo State, Imeko, Ogun State, Akunnu in Ondo State, Oke Ako in Ekiti State and Ikoyi Ile in Osun State. The company is also gradually expanding into commercial farming.

Fisheries Services Company Limited

Fisheries Services Company Limited was established in 1973 to provide cold storage facilities, wharfage, bunkering and repair services to fishing companies operating at Ijora, Lagos State.

E & O Power & Equipment Leasing.

Established in August, 2005, the company's main business lines are sales, maintenance and leasing of Power Generating Set – 17.5KVA – 1000KVA & cooling equipments.

Western Hotel Ltd: comprising:-

Premier & Lafia Hotels Ibadan.
Western Hotels Limited is made up of two hotels. Premier Hotel with 87 rooms and Lafia Hotel with 60 rooms. The rooms are well designed and furnished to standard with swimming pools and a Casino. The two hotels engage in outdoor catering for all occasions .



Lagos Airport Hotel Limited.

Lagos Airport Hotel started business in 1942 as Grand Hotels and was later expanded and renamed Ikeja Arms Inn in 1956. In 1961, it became known as Lagos Airport Hotel. It is located on the popular Obafemi wolowo Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. It has a total of 277 rooms, three restaurants, a standard swimming pool and a number of conference rooms. The hotel also engages in outdoor catering for all occasions.

ODU'A CITY HALL.

ODU'A CITY HALL is situated within the Cocoa House complex The hall is for commercial letting for AGMs receptions, dance etc.

Onlytruth:
You are not fooling any Igboman with that line. We are already implementing our doctrine in the Nigerian nation.

You be comedian too?

asha 80:
At least that ignorance has been cured  

Like I said, in your mind.

Onlytruth:
You only fight people whose hands are tied and you never fight alone. Next time you will fight alone, prove your gallantry.

I understand how your people think, that is why I am almost certain that a day will come when you will cry out in Nigeria, and we will be waiting.  

Abeg that one don wear out, bring new material.

asha 80:
that would be difficult to do under the present arrangement.

The difference is that i corrected you.

In your mind, you did.

asha 80:
haha yes eastern and northern regions were dumps before the coup   self delusion.

Before and after, it makes no difference.  This was way way before any coup or civil war, there's no need to blame your short comings on something as usual. We saw clearly what each region was capable of.

Onlytruth:
I hope you are not dreaming of seceding. I have told your stu'pid dirty brother babapupa to shelf any plans of secession because una go hear nwii for that country. We are Nigerians and that is how it will stay.

And I told your irrational and clueless self that Yoruba people don't do follow follow like zombie, we are not foolish people, we don't jeopardize the lives of our people over some silly and selfish adventure. We pick and chose our fights.

We are strong enough to compete inside and outside Nigeria, we are not a bunch of sissies always siting on their hands and for ever blaming other people and excusing away their inability to perform and deliver.

olabukola:
Oga babapupa

Please can you help me on my question above. I need to know where i stand on this issue as am skeptical on this our qyest to live together with this ibo noise makers which i think is not paying us.

The fact is, inside or outside Nigeria, Yorubas are OK. Our will and capacity to thrive and prosper is and has never been in doubt.

We displayed what we're capable of doing and achieving back in the old western region and we're still capable of doing the same thing. Other regions had the same opportunity to show what they are made of, but they fell short and are still falling short.

Either way, we'll be fine.

asha 80:
Wrong it was the eastern house of assembly that time that gave Ojukwu the mandate to declare biafra.http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/biafra.htm

What difference does it make?

asha 80:
My friend na u wey get your head wrapped up about igbos.na only igbos complain about lagos forthis thread.Look at the names of the early posters for this thread.No worry we no dey leave lagos for you and moreover na yoruba peeps wey get the stereotype of dirtiness so no matter how u yarn here e don stick

Sorry my friend, our communities were clean and thriving communities before you guys show face with slum and ghetto living.

And who else cries and display bad bele over anything Lagos? lol. abeg stop.

Babapupa, answer this question. Would you prefer Igbos to be part of Nigeria or to form their country Biafra? Give reasons for your answer. I just wonder why Nigeria does not want the Igbos to go. What fun is in one Nigeria where  tribal or religious crisis is  the order of the day. Since we are incompactible, don't you think Hausas and Yorubas would be better of without the Igbos. I believe and every one that tells the truth know that the problem of Nigeria is as a result of the incompatibility of the religions and cultures of the citizens. Let's stop decieving ourselves. That is what I mean by I stand for Biafra. I bet you, in the future you will pray for the division of this country. May be you are comfortable with the situation now.

Very good and fair question.

A decision was made by solely Ojukwu to leave Nigeria hence the civil war, but in wars, there's got to be a winner and a loser. And like I said before, Ojukwu rolled the dice and lost.

About staying or leaving, you need to ask your elected and appointed leaders because it's their job to make decisions like that for you, not me. Right now, your leaders are not interested in your Biafra worries, they didn't care back then and they still don't today, it wasn't deep conviction or worth dying for by the man who started it, the man who I still believe should be held accountable for risking and sacrificing the lives of so many because he reached a conscious decision that his life was more precious than the lives of so many that was killed during and after the war so he ran off to look after his own skin.

Now, the question is, why keep bugging us with biafra talk all the time when your leaders don't give a s@hit, when the man who lead your people to the battles filed didn't and still don't give a s@hit?

Why keep trying to guilt trip and blame the rest of the country for decisions that was made and carried out within your borders?

Why keep blaming Yoruba people for losing a war that even a day old baby knew who the winner and loser was gonna be before the start of the war?

Who started the bloodletting in 1966 right after independence?

We had the opportunity to rule ourselves and take care of our individual destinies via regional governments with little or no federal interference and my question again is, who disrupted that?

And Igbo people have been doing business with Hausa people since day one with ZIK, then Ekwueme and still prefer to do business with them today, even though most of the issues you have with Nigeria starting from the killings in the north, the civil war and it's aftermath, real and perceived marginalization are with Hausa people, abi have they not been ruling the country for the most part? Have you guys not been doing business with them instead of Yoruba people? Have you not been carrying their water bottle for them?

Outside of Igbo land and way way before independence, Lagos has the highest number of Igbo people and till this very second, there is nothing on record about any ill will, fights or clashes between both cultures, but you'd rather do business with the North, the same North you accused of slaughtering our brothers and sisters.  

What have they ever done for your?

One thing we all know is the fact that, the North don't give a dam about you, your leaders are boy boy and ablution water carriers, you'll never come out on top doing business with them.

Ultimately, Igbo people need to ask Igbo people these questions, not Yoruba people or Hausa people.

And if Igbo people still want their Biafra and are willing to pick up guns and go for it again, I wish you good luck from the bottom of my heart.

asha 80:
See person wey open thread once dey talk say anyone that jumps into a tribalistic post is a tribalist and that he also has repented 

as for the bolded even your grand child will wait till eternity for that to happen 

lol. Hey, call it tribalism, call it tribalistic, it's your choice. You can not keep running mouth about dirty Lagos when we all know who brought/started the dirtiness and slum living. That is a fact, not tribalism.

And about your bolded part, it's one of the ironies and sad bi polar tendencies some Igbo folks love to display, how do you go around bad mouthing the same place you can not do without? How do you go around and steady bad mouthing the same place you dirty up?

chuqudy:
I am for Biafra.

Nothing wrong with that, @ least in your dreams in case you forgot your ass got whooped and your weak, coward and sissy war commander ran off to go sip on some wine in Ivory Coast then returned to collect pensions from the same enemy/Nigeria he scarified the lives of his people trying to defeat.


Funny delusional people.

E.G.O:
babapupa W.D.F do u mean by f***d easterners watch your toungue b4 u loose your ability to speak, Tell your self the truth ARE IGBO'S THE PILLAR OF NIGERIA,

Ode, you put medicine for mouth? Abeg lay down the cheap crack or akpeteshi.

Lagos was clean before your people show face with their dirty and slummy behavior, they created all the slums in lagos starting with Ajegunle.

I sure can't wait for you guys to leave carry go with your dirtiness,

Timmi:
Those of you that are commenting on this thread have lost your credibility because your comments have no relevance to what Gowon said, but rather your comments are biased and are fallacious.  Reproduced below from the original post is Gowon's comment:

"FORTY years after the Nigerian Civil War former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has said the war was not  against  Ndigbo but against those that wanted to destroy the country.

Gowon made the claim on Tuesday at the special presentation of the TV series entitled,  “Nigeria: The Series” held at Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, Lagos.

He said, since the series is about telling the Nigerian story as it should be told it was pertinent to clear the air concerning the Nigerian civil war.
Gowon said the  war was not to fight Ndigbo but to find a better way to settle the rift in the country then.

“Nigeria as a country would have been a failure if the Igbo race had been allowed to leave the country Nigeria because they have contributed immensely to the growth and development of this country,” he said.

Gowon said it was high time Nigerians believed in their country and supported its project.  

What he said is factual and his comments on moving Nigeria forward is what every patriotic Nigeiran should follow.  Anything else are spurious charges and innuendoes.

Of course we all know Gowan didn't spew any fallacies, some Igbo people are just bent on re writing history and forcing their insecurities and paranoia on the rest of the country.  

They are obviously trying to have it both ways. An Igbo man was the president of the same country they tried to overthrow, they were part of the same rotten and corrupt system before and after the war, another Igboman was the vice president of the rotten second republic, Igbo men and women are ministers, governors and directors of government agencies and parastatals, they are major power brokers within the same corrupt system called Nigeria.

The fact is, only online foot soldiers are creaming and yelling about Biafra, you're equally dirty and rotten like the rest of the country, their leaders don't give a damn about Biafra, they didn't back then and still don't give a damn today, they are looting away just like the rest of Nigeria.


In wars, there's got to be a winner and a loser, you rolled the dice and you lost so shut da hell up and quit winning like we owe you something, we don't owe you a damn thing and you need to stop bugging us with your useless cry baby acts. If you like, roll your dice again, I'll be more than glad to wish you good look.

What if the outcome of the civil war was the other way around? Are you gona be sitting here winning or give a damn about Nigeria/Hausaland/Yorubaland. Knowing b1tchy and insecure you guys are, yd probably be shitting on us at will. I really can't help but thank God you guys got your ass whooped back to reality.


Who started the whole mess anyways, Igbo people of course. You guys set us on the dangerous path the country is in today with the first coup then the civil war. Now you're running around acting like little sissy victims and blaming everybody outside of their borders for decisions made within their borders.

And if they feel so bad and convinced that they're bad and got it like that, then spare us the tuff talk and go for it. It's your choice. But of course we all know their leaders don't give a damn about Biafra, just emotional online foot soldiers crying and yelling as usual.

mekusxxx:
Apart from Lagos built by Igbos, other Yoruba towns are not in reckoning. My father's duplex there is being guarded by an Yoruba man. lol

I dey comot, e be like say na delusional talk remain.

I don reply you here, why you dey avoid?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-397601.256.html#msg5514181

mekusxxx:
Lagos is 50% Igbo property.

Why do you guys keep swimming in this stupid and bogus delusions. And where is the pride and wisdom in claiming other people's land when your own towns and villages still resemble 17th century zulu settlements?


Shameless people, lol.

mekusxxx:
^^^^^
What of Ben Akabueze and Joe Igbokwe? Make I beg them too to leave Eko?

Please be my guest. Lagos is more than both of them put together and we have more than enough qualified folks to take their spots.