₦airaland Forum

KoshCAD:
Go and ask how your fore fathers perished wishing yoruba bad. That is the path you are following, yet you will last last come to hawk gala in yoruba street till you perish na ni.

KoshCAD:
That thing dey surprise me too.


One of them is currently begging me for money.

Sonyboom765:
A lot of your Igbos are born foolish n will perish of foolishness.

So from the intelligent discuss the Yoruba guy had in the clip the bigotry your father nurtured your miserable soul with from the womb was the only thing you can open a thread about..lol.

Obamaofusa:
Remove Osu people from SW and skull mining which originated from alaigbo will stop.
The ritual killing happening in Igboland especially in their baby factories all over Nigeria is 100x anywhere in Nigeria.
I bet that Ghanians are still pursuing your parents as they did in the olden days.
That everybody has seen.

Obamaofusa:
These are Yoruba billionaires and business people in the olden days when Igbo ancestors were learning how to wear clothes in their Ijaw masters slave fields.
Sometimes I laugh when petty traders call themselves business men....lol
Igbos have always been povertystricken even till date.Ask World Bank...


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/

Obamaofusa:
Where is your proof?
Yorubas have always been the richest Nigerians even before the advent of Nigeria when Igbos were covering their yansh with their bare hands and living in huts were Ijaw,Igala and Binis took them as slaves.

Yorubas had Empire and were taking tributes from countries like Dahomey etc.
Igbos are still slaves till date.

SlyDev:
Yoruba have never left their developed region to beg, not in 1600 or 2021, we were rich from the beginning of time.

Ibos were practicing osu, the osu people graduated into beggers

Tell me alaigbo man, tell me why most e-beggers are Ibos? Was that not what Bello El Rufai said?

LegendHero:
Awon didinrin plenty for Nairaland.

Ask why Nigerians were expelled from Ghana and you will know how the Yorubas dominated Ghana trade which led to the expulsion.

Nigerians in Ghana then are traders, cocoa farmers, farm labourers and farm contractors, factory workers as well as menial workers in construction sites and there was a huge influx of Nigerians into Ghana between 1931 and 1960.

The present is always a key to the past and it is only a mentally deranged person that will say a Yoruba person will be doing begging as a tribal trade in Ghana in the 50s.


All those domination of Nigerians was why Ghana started the policie of “Aliens Compliance Order” of 18 November, 1969 . That order wasn’t only about Nigerians tho, it affected other countries like Togo, Ivory Coast and etc. but Nigerians are the majority of the victims and you have over 140,000 Yorubas expelled from Ghana out of 191,000 Nigerian immigrant in Ghana then.

All this info are online. But I know Agbari Ojuku people cannot comprehend.

obehi247:
lol...

the Yoruba people can never beg...

the people of Southern Nigeria can never beg...

we all know the beggars in Nigeria...


remove the south from the north and see the meaning of begging

Topleague:
another arrant posting from the other side of the niger. Their place would have been better if they can concentrate all this their idea over there. Always trying to talk down on other tribe no wonder erosion has eaten all their available land.

obehi247:
i did not bother to watch this video now because i have watched it before, the topic was on pred

the girl never said the Yoruba people were beggars

the girl said Nigerians are beggars in her country, ghana.

if we are to critically view the subjected matter, we all know she is talking about bambi-allah, who are people from the northern part of nigeria in our formative years and even till this very day, are still in existence and scattered all over Nigeria.

Please, let's say it, as it is.

DubaiLandLord2:
Shey be nah all of Una(some Igbos like you and Ijaws like the OP on Nairaland politics section) dey play the game together? You never see a thread opened by an Igbo claiming there is igboland in Bayelsa?

Why are you now getting tired of your Ijaw brothers master

Reflect7:
Another ignorant and dumb post. It IS compulsory in many foreign 'educational systems' as I just showed you where some American parent is moaning that their kid HAS to read the book! Plus it is NOT ''only a few schools'', and it is not ''to make themselves seem exotic or different from the rest''. Not sure why you feel so damn inferior.

''Things Fall Apart is usually studied in the Australian curriculum under Area of Study 1 - Text Response.''

https://www.vcestudyguides.com/blog/things-fall-apart

Does THAT sound to you like ''only a few schools who want to show they are different and exotic'', or whatever rubbish you typed?

US report from 2008:

''50 years later, ‘Things Fall Apart’ is still required reading''

https://dailyillini.com/features/2008/02/14/50-years-later-things-fall-apart-is-still-required-reading/

LILTJAY:
Igbos mentioning ojukwu and azikiwe lol.. Wizkid is the most influential

Efewestern:
Noted, made corrections to my earlier comment.

I meant no harm and I wasn't trying to derail.

MelesZenawi:
Na Akwaibom people I dey see here

All these their Ekpe stuffs

Akintundexxy:
I'm from Okitipupa, I don't agree with most of the things you wrote up there. I know well the history of our land.
So you should think who needs to do the shutting.

Akintundexxy:
Easterners always trying to say they were everywhere. Flat headed adopted sons of Jews.

Ibadan was close to routing Fabunmi & Ogedengbe’s forces until, apart from the rocky terrain providing cover, returnee Ijesa slaves began supplying them with automatic rifles and these same returnee slaves enlisted as snipers.

They were firing bullets that went through more than one person’s body. One shot, multiple kills.

The battle ended at a stalemate, Ibadan could not advance & Ekiti could not dislodge Ibadan.

cryptotech:
They are the most smart, successful and intelligent black ethnic group in Africa and the world, go and ask England they will tell you. People that have invented talking drum to the amazement of the European and to strengthen their defense, they have organised system of government in ancient times, the Oyo empire.
They just got it honestly, let them withdraw their intellectual contribution to present day Nigerian as a country and see how Nigerian will look like, is it the almajiri of the north (Boko Haram) or the trader from the East (ipob) that will fill the gap in education, engineering, technology, industry, housing, entertainment, tourism, ICT and civilization.

Aderewah:
Amen. They still won't catch up. Oyo is more developed than all SE put together.