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shugamummy:I've been to 4 out of 5 states in your region and I almost cried, your red mud potopoto erosion-ravaged shithole region is more barbaric than I think... You heathens can't build sane cities except from jumping on GIG buses and fleeing to Yorubaland. Ogun and Oyo state are a billion times far developed than your landlocked erosion ravaged cannibalistic potopoto shithole, Ogun ranks 2nd in HDI and Oyo has more VAT than the east combined,your region was already a poor shithole even before the war started by your flat headed Ojukwu,get that into your flat skull o. And before Louis Ojukwu there were already several billionaires in Yorubaland These are great Yoruba business people who pioneered business in Nigeria (before Igbos know what is called business at all) not oil and gas o. 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. 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. 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. 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. There were all millionaires in dollars https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/
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Painsoother:Based on all available indices, your region remains the poorest in Nigeria right alongside the NE which has been battling Bokoharam for over a decade. Check out the twitter handle @statsense and see how your region remains perpetually at the bottom of all development, infrastructural and economic indices in Nigeria. Wonder why my region remains the toast of the country and you poor bloody immigrants/refugees continue to migrate here at an alarming rate. It’s only going to get worse thanks to the madness going on over there with the terrorism and insecurity you all nurtured. When the insecurity you all encouraged reaches its peak, we will inform our leaders to prevent you refugees from flocking to our region. It’s only a matter of time 50 % of those left in that barren land would have no choice but to become refugees. We would setup IDP settlements for you at the border. We don’t want vermins amongst us. You cockroaches shouldn’t come and corrupt/influence our next generation with your criminal tendencies, uncouthness, and useless culture. Your flagship state which is supposed to have so many “billionaires” remains a shithole. Was looking at pictures and videos recently and I just kept laughing. You guys are finished. You have been left behind. Building mansions in the villages whose roads are unmotorable/erosion gullied, and death traps isn’t a sign of development or economic growth/viability you illiterate fools grin They say they build mansion for village, yet they can’t come together to fix the inner roads to the so called mansions. I reiterate, building monstrosities you call mansions in the village and container businesses aren’t a sign of economic development instead building industries, manufacturing, exporting finished goods, IT infrastructure, FINTECH, physical infrastructure, creating employment and so much more are signs of development which you all lack in your worthless region. Your region is so backwards, poor and underdeveloped, you all have to migrate to my region to prosper. Your region has nothing to offer it’s people, you are so ashamed of where you all come from…. It’s gotten so bad that you all have to come here to drag my region with its indigenes. grin Can’t you all see how shameless you all are? Be proud of where you come from. Like they say, a successful child has so many parents. I would have thought the state with so many “billionaires” would have had these same “billionaires” invest back all their “billions” in their flagship state. 90% of the rich folks from your region didn’t even make their money from the same region grin they had to migrate to my region and outside the country (trading, drugs and crime) to make their money. You guys have the lowest number of middle class in the south, low purchasing power, little population, zero industries, zero manufacturing coupled with insecurity, therefore no company (foreign or local) would invest in your region. Na only to open shop to buy and sell una sabi. Worst is that you don’t even manufacture what you sell. You simply import everything, thereby killing our economy, manufacturing and naira. You have zero intellect to start companies that leads to creation of intellectual property(IP) which is the future. My people are already doing just that and dominating in IT, FINTECH, programming languages and software. We have already set up summer coding language lessons for our next generation. We are intentionally nudging them with purpose towards programming, IT, software and FINTECH while you primitive fools continue to do boy boy and open shops for your next generation grin Even the SS have overtaken you folks. You are the poorest and least economically viable region in the south. Deal with it!! Hold your shame with pride! Worthless loud but empty zombies. Even your useless candidate didn’t make his money in his region. He governed for 8 years and still refuses to live there. He has zero investment in his state which is shameful and it remains an indictment on the economic viability of your region. When your rich folks have no confidence in your economy/region and they’d rather take their investment to other regions of the country especially my region.. it says a lot about the level of economic activities going on over there. Even the outgoing governor couldn’t wait to escape the shithole state he governed for 8 years and left for the airport right from the handover venue. Unfortunately EFCC was laying in wait for him. Absolutely shameful! You primitive people can continue your petty trading, while my people are dominating in value/critical sectors like manufacturing, IT/FINTECH, coding, software, entertainment, financial market, insurance, banking etc. Container business is your future. Your children will take over while we will pass on intellectually driven businesses to our next generation. Your container businesses can also be very easily targeted, so I’m excited for that. I look forward to that.
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Beverlyjean:that's so rich coming from a tribe that's ravaged with cannibalism, arm robbery, drug peddling, love peddling and even with all the crimes you commit your region still remains a shithole |
quentin06:Lagos is a glorified slum but it is the Obodo Yoruba of your tribesmen, you come from a shithole region that drags with the war-torn NE region as the poorest in the country. And btw none of the ports you mentioned there belongs to your tribe, your land is landlocked, it is a small dot |
fridayking:haha no you're the pained one, I just replied your fellow barbaric brother here when he insulted me first, your people are the one crying here na. And yes, I'm Yoruba first before I'm Nigerian, I have nothing in common with your kind |
Osariemen12:Stop projecting your generational family issues here lol, not everyone is like your mother and other dogs in your household |
Truthdeypain:hahahaha you are butthurt huh? ![]() |
nkwuocha:continue to project the degeneracy in your barbaric tribe, your region has the dirtiest shitholes in the whole of Africa.... I stayed in Enugwu for weeks, a place where there's no water and people defecate and bathe from the same water, dirty and disgusting lots, Abia and Onitsha is so stinky and dirty. I can't wait to separate from you cannibals so you can keep your barbarism in your landlocked shithole region.
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fridayking:you are a stupid low IQ animal, idek you come from a useless minority tribe... When Yorubas had successful kingdom and empire your ancestors were cannibalizing themselves and killing twins in Calabar, walking around naked until the British colonized and civilized your kind... Your gov is literally a slave to the north and to the Yorubas, Ayade is a slave to Tinubu and he promised to win your state for him, imagine the effontery of your kind to insult Yorubas and call them slaves when your state receives a lot of FAAC more than all Yoruba states apart from Lagos and still can't build sth tangible with it... I don't give a damn about nigeria or APC, I'm a Yoruba first and if you insult my ethnicity you'll find yourself to blame... What's your tribe?? |
Painsoother:the jealous ones are the akpu smelling miscreants who have to leave their erosion-ravaged potopoto shithole region to come and make it in the Yoruba country, you even speak Yoruba lol.. . sick disgusting ipob terrorist. |
DaveDGreat:we don't have anyone in Benin Republic, focus more on the ipob terrorists and UGM using your poor parents as target practice in your region. You can continue to deny how Ben Adekunle dealt with your forebearers but it will never change the fact that if you take his picture to your grandfather today he will have PTSD ![]() I don't care about Diya because we don't see him as a great person here, but your highly revered Ikemba fled to Abidjan like the coward and loser he is, while Nlamdi Kanu fled to UK before he was brought back land chained in kuje where he now eats watery ewa loool |
Beverlyjean:you are a deluded mentally ill ipobian, Kano and Kaduna are centuries ahead of your erosion ravaged shithole region, take your investment and development back to your region, I thimk your region needs it more..... Comparing your economic refugees of a people to the rich Chinese and Hispanics in NY, Cali and Florida shows how insane you are. Anambra is the only state in your shithole richer than Ondo, and Ondo is the 4th richest in SW, Ogun and Oyo are centuries ahead of that barren dot you called iboland
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nkwuocha:the people there are ogus not Yoruba.... Your region is the dirtiest in Nigeria, only in Enugwu I saw people bathing and defecating in the same water/river, everywhere smelling akpu... You brought that barbaric culture from your shithole region to Yorubaland |
DaveDGreat:continue to hide your pain under emoji, Black scorpion adekunle gave wotowoto to the losers you call grandfathers.... Bravery and yeebos can never be in the same sentence, your Ikemba dressed like a woman and fled to Abidjan, just like emperor kanu ![]() |
quentin06:it's just facts, I'm not lying, I mean just look at your shithole region. |
nkwuocha:Enugwu is the first place I saw people defecating in the same place they ate, they don't bath there for days, dirty stinking akpu smelling biafran |
fridayking:you are deluded and mentally retarded, you were still living naked in your forests and cannibalizing yourselves when Yorubas were building empires, you were nothing but slaves throughout history.... If nigeria ends, your kind will be queuing to get visa into Yorubaland |
DaveDGreat:Cowardly tribe and still Benjamin adekunle gave it to your losers of grandfathers wotowoto ... Cowards but na your ikemba fled to Abidjan after he was defeated mercilessly |
quentin06:Lagos without Igbos is a peaceful, serene, less-crimes, no fake substantial goods and civilized less dirty city, take your development back to your region |
KingOfTheDamned:Next to Satan is the Edo witches and wizards..... There's no reason to share the same country with your kind, you should focus more on how the British contraption can disintegrate so we can go our separate ways. There's nothing as ironic as a edo miscreant like you talking about rape and hooliganism when your shithole state reeks of nothing but cultism, hooliganism, sex trafficking and rape. |
Osariemen12:Your Oba and all of you are product of incest and prostitution, I weep for Edo men, it must be very hard to come from a bitchy tribe smh |
BloomingDale:You must be from one of those irrelevant minority tribes |
Painsoother:Your hatred for Yorubas will lead you to your untimely grave you stupid low IQ animal, Omo ofo Omo iranu |
BloomingDale:oloriburuku if them born your papa well, tell me which ever cursed tribe you come from |
tobidipity:you are a useless animal... I'm a full-blooded lagosian and yorubas are yorubas everywhere, those cannibals from the east are the problem |
Christistruth00:can you explain in full details the massive potentials pls. |
RestructureNig1:yes it was other ethnic groups that clothed the igbos, |
Hahaha I'm glad Ivhit a nerve ....your women dominate both international and national, even in the most rural poverty stricken villages we'll still find edobors doing oloshoism, kai your shameless dogs of women are cursed,even the married ones are still sleeping around.Lowlife? Lol you must think I'm your father?... Focus this energy on your Oba that breeds like a caged rabbit to save your shameless women, they are a shame to the black race, because of your women, black women are now getting called bella in Italy smh, you Edos are cursed Osariemen12: |
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