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Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, I just dont vonsider that a university nor the student undergraduates. I CONSIDER THEM BOTH LECTURERS AS BUNCH OF HOOLIGANS AND RASCALS DECIEVING THEMSELVES THAT THEY ARE IN UNIVERSITY. tell me one national award that a student of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma has gotten


RIP BABY

chigoizie7:
Just imagine me coming to ur papa mansion to fight u, using una mansion as the arena, during the fights, things are scattered ( the mansion gets burned down) . Abeg who go loose? Me wey carry only injuries or u wey go still carry injury + una mansion getting destroyed? I will fight u, destroy ur mansion,carry injury, and den go back to my own mansion untouched. What do u all think will happen to lagos state and its finances and infrastructures if a 2months serious riots should start? Of course the investors will diversify shapely leaving lagos a deserted land, please I am in no way advocating for those things to happen( I am just saying) igbos are hustlers, they came to lagos with nothing and made billions out of nothing, they can as well leave lagos with nothing and still make billions elsewhere. what I am saying is that anything with advantage has a disadvantage, the question will be, who will suffer it the more? The lagosians whose homes and lands will be destroyed or the igbos who will go empty handed to their homes un-tampered? Let us all be wise with whatever we clamour for.

Don't mind them ..if they want us to burn it down we will do it. The war will be here not east....who will lose ?

Thry should take a cue from us . We have been there done that


Somebody should petition the oba to icc and watch him denounce the dtatement

[qyuote author=Slym5 post=32417772]The victory of General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress over President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party was the perfect catalyst for the democratic rebirth of Nigeria. An incumbent was voted out by the people largely for non-performance and the message was clear; mess up and we will vote you out. It was the first true Presidential contest in this democratic dispensation and the world marvelled as this great Country (admittedly, an amalgamation of several nations), once thought to be a failed project, spluttered back to life. A new man was coming into office and he had promised to eradicate (or more realistically, reduce) that most vile of Nigerian vices; corruption. As a Nigerian who means well for this country, you could only harbour positive thoughts for the future. Unfortunately, this new wave of optimism is about to be traded for despair because the two tribes that constitute the brain box of this great country have once again managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with their constant bickering, the type only rivalled by insufferable housewives in a polygamous home.

On the surface, there really shouldn’t be any cause for such ethnic baiting and chest-beating. Both tribes have made their mark. In sports, the Yorubas have produced Segun Odegbami, Olapade Adeneken, Rashidi Yekini, Segun Toriola and others. The Igbos have produced Adokie Amaisemaka, Davidson Ezenwa, Emmanuel Amuneke, Chioma Ajunwa and a host of others. In Literature, for every Wole Soyinka, there is a Chinua Achebe and for every Ola Rotimi, there is a Christopher Okigbo. In Politics, for every Nnamdi Azikiwe, there is an Obafemi Awolowo and for every Ojukwu, there is an Obasanjo. In that fantasy world of the filthy rich, for every Arthur Eze, there is a Mike Adenuga and for every Emeka Offor, there is a Femi Otedola. In that vocal utopia of political word-smiths, the Igbos can point to Chuba Okadigbo while the Yorubas can point to Bola Ige. Both ethnic groups have shown remarkable resilience in a country largely dominated by the North (which has constantly played these two as pawns or more appropriately like that little girl that has two dolls and bashes them against each other at will).

I sometimes shudder at the potential earth shaking impact that a Yoruba-Igbo alliance would have. That remains a pipe dream however as each ethnic group seems to be more interested in emphasizing the faults of the other. Naturally, the Igbos perceive the Yorubas as lazy, conniving, stealthy, dirty, cowardly and as unrepentant tribalists. The Yorubas, in turn, see the Igbos as selfish, greedy, fraudulent and perhaps a tad bit domineering. The Igbos probably fuel this perception with their ‘in your face’ attitude. There is nothing wrong with that as I consider it to be self-pride. To a highly traditional society like the Yorubas however, where age is respected, an Igbo man is perceived as lacking respect.
The recent election has not helped matters as Buhari’s victory is now attributed to the Southwest while the Southeast is perceived as having miscalculated politically by supporting the incumbent who lost. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Yorubas did not return 1.4 million votes for Buhari and even if it is true that the Igbos supported President Jonathan, are we suggesting that they should go to the political wilderness because of that? Whither democracy and your right to vote for a candidate of your choice?

These are highly unnecessary infractions which if unchecked could plunge the South into another unnecessary blood-letting orgy. I have in the past few days gone through websites and engaged in conversations with friends, acquaintances and colleagues from both sides of the divide and I have marvelled at the unguarded statements coming from supposedly educated people. Make no mistake, we are sitting on a keg of gun powder. When a supposedly educated Igbo man tells you that an Igbo man is superior to every Yoruba man, you simply must worry. When a supposedly educated Yoruba man dismisses all Igbo men as fraudulent cheats, you cannot ignore it. When a Yoruba man, who works in an Igbo dominated environment is regularly baited and finally forced to buy into the Igbo ‘superiority’ and denounces his own tribe, you know there is something sinister in the offing. Ditto for Igbos who work in a Yoruba dominated environment. In fact, the very worst characteristics of these two tribes come to the fore when they are in the majority.

The afore-mentioned examples had greatly disturbed me but by far the last straw was the news that the Oba of Lagos had royally coerced Igbos in Lagos State to vote APC at the forthcoming Gubernatorial Elections. I have not confirmed the authenticity of the report but I am concerned at the cyber heat that it has already generated. Yorubas and Igbos have found another avenue to vent their spleens. Yorubas see themselves as Omo onile and Igbos see Lagos as No man’s land. Whatever the case might be, no one can force anyone to vote for a particular candidate and I really hope the respected Monarch did not make that incendiary statement.

It appears to me as though both tribes do not wish to understand each other. They are unwilling to see beyond their prejudiced perceptions. In Lagos, the Yorubas see the Igbos as invaders while the Igbos see themselves as part of the family. For them, it is too late in the day for the Yorubas to complain. The phrase ‘laches and acquiescence’ comes to mind. The way I see it both tribes need to come to grips with the fact that they have been forcefully joined together. They must therefore learn to live together and get rid of some of these pitiful stereotypes.

In order to peacefully co-exist, particularly in Lagos, I believe Igbos and Yorubas need to imbibe these Rules of Engagement:

For the Yorubas,

1. The Igbos must be commended for their industry. Admit it, you admire them secretly. If you have bought substandard materials from one of them or have been cheated by one, chalk that down to inexperience and perhaps a tad bit of stupidity and move on. Next time, shine your eyes

2. Yes, the Igbo man is aggressive. Live with it. Blame it on the painful integration he has undergone since the Civil War ended. He thrives on competition and will remorselessly incinerate any competitor in his path. If you have an Igbo man directly below you in an organisation, rest assured, he is thinking of ways to edge you out. He is ambitious and cannot stay still. He does not rest on his oars and he is not going to look the other way simply because you are older than him. His mind does not work that way. There! Now you know! If you find yourself on the wrong end of the stick, gird your loins and compete! Quit whining.

3. Igbos are scattered all over the Southwest and they will always dominate certain localities and businesses until you are bold enough to compete. If you have a lot of them in Lagos, try and populate their own states too. Open a bush meat centre in Aba and sell! Better still, stop selling your properties to Igbo people. A lot of your problems are of your own making.

4. The Igbo man does not prostrate and he rarely bows. It is not a slight; it is just the way he is wired. The fact that we love to jam our bellies on the ground does not mean everyone has to like it. Stop frowning your face when he does not.

5. Not all Igbo girls are prostitutes and they are no less chaste than our Yoruba girls. Our girls are just better at ‘coding’. They will nack you and still call you ‘broda’. So please get a grip on yourself. You insult Igbos but go after their tall, light-skinned, beautiful girls and because they are less pretentious, you call them prostitutes? Who is fooling who?

6. Forgive the average Igbo man for always yelling and resorting to his fists when he cannot win an argument with his intellect, it is a hangover from the Civil War. Not all Igbos are like that by the way but it is important that when an argument gets rowdy, you walk away, because you do not have his muscles (ishan). Do not engage, I repeat, do not engage. If e nack you for ground, I no dey o.


7. Try and define who an omo onile is. Does that exclude other Yorubas in Lagos? What about Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Ogun? Why am I asking? They seem to populate the Government in Lagos.

8. How does an Igbo man differ from Lagosians who are from other states?

9. Where were you when Igbos were elected into the House of Reps from Lagos? Were you drinking beer and pepper soup? Were you eating eran igbe and drinking emu? Were you patting your round Amala tummy? You opened the door just a little but that is all an Igbo man needs. Soon an Okechukwu will contest for Governor of Lagos and what’s worse, he might win since we are so accommodating. I am waiting for the day an Olusola, born and bred in Onitsha will arise and say he wants to contest in Anambra. That is the day the Igbos will tell him that Amadioha is not Sango.

10. Finally, do not envy the Igbo man’s success, worry about yourself. You say you defeated him at the Civil War. You say he comes from Onitsha or Aba, with his thick Igbo accent and terrible English and yet he makes more money than you in Lagos! Haba! Something is seriously wrong with you! Some Omo onile you are!

For the Igbos,

1. Yorubas value integrity more than money and they often wonder how money can be a man’s sole motivation. They also abuse people and gossip a lot. The less you say when you are with them the better. So when you beat you chest and brag in that loud voice about the number of containers that you have on the high seas or how much money you have, they are more amused than jealous and you are the news item for that day.

2. Stop saying you developed Lagos. If you did, Aba, Onitsha, Abakaliki and the likes would have been developed too. In fact, try and fix your homeland with your wealth. The rate at which Uchennas and Ifeanyis berth at Lagos every second is scary.

3. Lagos is a Yoruba state. Ask the Dosunmus and Agbajes. You do not insult your host all in a bid to lay claim to his property. If you have a stake in Lagos, then Yorubas have a stake in your oil. Seriously, once again, do not insult your hosts. Yorubas have accommodated you. Appreciate the fact that they have not given you the ‘aboki treatment’. It is this domineering attitude that motivates the unforgiving Northerners to kill Igbos at every opportunity. It is a good thing the Yorubas are not that savage.

4. Try not to be so aggressive all the time. The Civil War ended 45 years ago. No one is coming to get you. Stop poisoning your children’s minds. Let them discover the new Nigeria by themselves. Stop the hate message. That argument can be settled verbally without recourse to Ishan Igbo. No be fight. The fact that your colleague from the office has refused to do business with you and has done so with someone else at a lower rate (obviously) does not make him your enemy.

5. While acquiring wealth, tell your guys to acquire a little education on their way too. All that money and no education... The way many of them butcher English... Yeah, we know Yorubas and their ‘Yoruba English’ but yours is just priceless. This fuels the perception of an igbo man as one who is after money and nothing else. Happily, I have met several educated Igbo people but there is still an overwhelming number of rich but uneducated and unrefined Igbos.

6. Not all Yorubas are dirty or lazy and they like their oily stew. Ororo ati epo. They know you don’t joke with your soup and yes, they go after your ogbono soup but biko, leave them with their oily soup.

7. All that talk about Lagosians starving if you leave Lagos is mere hogwash. Your empty shops and supermarkets will be filled and very quickly too. You are a part of Lagos but you are not indispensable.

8. Not every Yoruba is a jazzman! Some of them are good Christians. They also know a lot of you profess to know God more than anybody else and still engage in all sorts.

9. The Yoruba man secretly admires you. He wonders how an Igbo man can come to Lagos with slippers, a T-Shirt and shorts and 5 years later, he is made. We know you are still astounded at how easy it is to make it in Lagos and how easily your brothers have colonised Alaba Maket and Ladipo Market. Blame the Yoruba man. He too dey fear competition. He thinks his age or seniority will save him.

10. The Yoruba man likes the way you have developed Lagos. Could you please try and develop Yobe or Borno State as well? They are just DYING to be developed.

Know these rules and follow them by heart and get along with your Igbo or Yoruba colleague, friend or acquaintance. I believe conflicts arise when we break them. The Yoruba and Igbo tribes are the thinkers who drive Nigeria forward with their ideas. Unfortunately, this mindless competition for relevance has on several occasions threatened our very existence and is doing so now. It is imperative that these stereotypes and lazy assumptions are eradicated so that these two great tribes can go back to what they do best; thinking for Nigeria.[/quote]

My own is that I will kill the man on spot but the lady will die by installement.

xtervaganza:
If you f*ck my wife in my house you're dead.




I will kill you, but not in that spot

A man in America caught his wife cheating on his bed he drove straight to the in laws house shot the girls parents and handed himself over to police

Man is a jealos man ..we hate our women cheating ..we just can't stand it

nma24:
Too bad

nma24:
Poison her because he created her abi? he gave her life and has the right to snatch it because of mere emotions... better keep ur psychotic jabs to yourself

i nave Said my mind

MayorNaija:
Fellow Nairalanders,a problem shared they say is a problem half solved,on that faithful morning,my friend left for work in a hurry cuz he was already late,after about thirty minutes he discovered that he was not with his tablet"phone",he had no choice but to go back home to get his phone,on getting home the first thing he discovered was that the door was locked which is unusual at that time of the day as his wife was supposed to be busy preparing the children for school before going to her shop,he rang the door bell but it took sometime for his wife to get the door,even when she did she wasn't her usual self and that raised his suspicion because of what neighbors have been telling him about his wife but he chosed not to believe.
He told his wife that he came back because he forgot his phone,his wife offered to fetch the handset but he followed her inside,the children who ought to hv taken their bath were still sleeping,since it was a room and parlor the guy entered the bedroom and behold the intruder was hiding beside their wardrobe.
without making any trouble he asked the guy to leave his house which he did.
My friend left for work but have not returned to his house till date,my friend always complained of his wife starving him of sex,he also told me that for the five yrs of his marriage his wife has never for once initiated sex,anytime he makes the move she always have one excuse or the other.their marriage is blessed with two kids,a boy and a girl,he has been sending money for the children's upkeep but now his mum and family members are sueing for peace,he said he left his house for the woman because of his children whom he said ll be better taken care of by their mother since they are still very young,he has also vowed never to marry again but now his mother is mounting pressure on him to forgive his wife and go back home,what should he do?go back to his wife or go ahead and get another apartment for himself?the woman in question said it was the devil that pushed her into it but have not shown deep remorse for her action,each time she calls my friend its always about the money for the children's wellfair.
Nairalanders the ball is now in your court,pls matured advice if needed.

I wonder what is going on...both of hoisted.madness and crazy .....the parents are stupid for begging ....
How can u ask such

Poison her its just simple

This is the mess we found ourselves in courtesy...of APC monkey

I am not expectin anything from a waecless man

UGLYS:
Who are these they?

Those that hate anything igbotic

BizBayo:
thats the problem we Africans are having with international media. I remember the case of a man that invented goggle technology to detect cancer cells. With the goggle you would be able to see cells infected with cancer. The name of the man is Samuel Achilefu. Believe me my brother, US took the credit. Nigeria was not mentioned at all. I hope our media in Africa will wake up to these things.

And that man is igbo...same way that they said mungo park discovered Niger river

youngmonie:
IN THE END IGBOS ARE JUST A PAWN IN THIS GAME AND POWER STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHIER OLABODE GEORGE (A YORUBA MAN) AND ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU (A YORUBA MAN). IF YOU THINK JK WOULD OFFER ANYTHING SPECIAL TO THE IGBO COMMUNITY OR ANY SPECTACULAR POST, YOU MUST BE JOKING. I JUST CANT GET IT HOW YOU PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE BEING USED.!!!!! IN THE END, JIMI AGBAJE, OLABODE GEORGE, TINUBU, OBANIKORO ARE ALL LAGOS BOYS, THEY WIL NOT KILL THEMSELVES OVER IGBO PEOPLE

That doesn't mean that they are like that .....we will just make a statement with that

We have been focusing on that but nigerian won't let us be

Jk210:
Then by all means focus on the existence of Biafra and let us have some peace biko.

Okeikpu:
It's cool bro...Agu nna! Udo kposa.... Peppyluv n'agba ajo speed, ya na agbagodi, na nsogbu adiró. babyosisi bu umuaka

Okeipku papii dalu rinne

Jk210:
You're right. He can't stop them.
But that's because of the current laws guiding Nigeria which ensures all Nigerians can freely move about across all states.

I don't think the law condones divisiveness and stoking of hatred though. I was one of the mild mannered folks who saw no big deal in Igbo's winning HOR seats since it was only a reflection of the makeup of the areas they won from. It was only logical but with the chest beating it seems there is an ulterior motive. I never thought that I could say this and I actually think I need to take time off Nairaland before it messes up my head but what exactly is the problem of the Igbo's?

We have African's, Indians and Chinese rising to enviable political posts in Europe and America but I certainly don't see their ethnic groups going around taunting their hosts even though most of them are citizens. Indians and Pakistanis are almost half the population of some UK boroughs and run most small businesses there but we never read of their youths going around to taunt the white British in such neighbourhood that the area and was now "no man's land".

All these talk of Lagos being no man's land is just plain inciteful and one would wonder what the Igbo's hope to achieve with it. Pogroms like happened in the north years back?

I don't want to believe the Oba made those utterances but if he did then it means like most other Lagosian's and Yorubas he's also got fed up with the garrulous nature of the Igbo's. You hate Yoruba's and yet still populate their cities. Does it not make sense for you to completely stay away from them?

In any case, I think it's time Igbo's were given their Biafra and those that wish to come to their businesses in Lagos, Kano and other parts of Nigeria obtain visas to do so. At least we'd be free of their pervasive hatred

Lagos is no man land till the biafran state emerges

Even the oba of lagos is of edo ancestry ..do the research

heavenstorm:
@babyosisi u see d ethnic sentiments u grasshoppers are wiping up.... Can u see d anger and needless caustic friction u and ur paid cohorts are causing within my tribe on a Yoruba site in a Yoruba soil... Do u want to run mad at these dead of the night? The land my forefathers fought against foreign invasion is what you dingbats wants to be marauding over... I wish I can push for a motion over settler indigene quotas in Lagos.. But I will still make use of associations available to me... But know these no matter how much you and your cohorts are paid to cause ethnic war between my people it shall be used to invite calamity in ur household.... Useless ibo shylotic membrane

This is to show ur quota mentality..somethin that suprises me ...ur just pathetic

Okeikpu:
We lead while others dey sleep Igbo kwenu! （⌒▽⌒）Very soon una go hear my own breakthrough may Lucipher punish the tribes that replaced a phd holder wt an abysmal, immoporial illiterate ⊙︿⊙

All I csn say is. Gbam

Nna Kedu ije..ana aku

Kedu maka peppyluv na babyosisi

Ama na udo di?

What breeds tribalsm that an igbo did well and I should not congratulate him or that i should deny his been igbo or that I should not state my igbotic nature or that I sh9uld not extoll our quality

Or is it not a facthat we are hated ..tell me which one


I am so proudof our achievement as igbo pls deal with it




The more thet they hate the more we soar

DrMoffy:
I urge ur fellow kinsmen who have better exposure and understanding about life to erase ds kind of mentality from Igbo race. This is d kind of mindset dat breeds tribalism and hatred. If d older generatn made d same mistake of polluting minds then we all need to work hard and eradicate it in our own generation because of innocent kids....

Talk is cheap

If pdp wins. It will make the oba useless ..he doesnt understand that igbo no de see any oba. Face


Igbo are republican

UGLYS:
Why are Nigerians aversed to remarkable achievements like this?

If its ten signs she wants to have sex; professors, savants and dons will flood the topic to register their thoughts, shameful.

You don't understand ..the case is that they expect igbo to be down but to their dismay igbo keep suprising them ..tour correct they will envy instaed of congratulate



That's nigerian for u

dhtml18:
How I wish most igbos are like this, and not. . . . .

God has been with us. Education we surpass business we are good sports you know it naa then crime we outsmart u...just African Jews

But they say we don't go to school yet we produce finest

Happy birthday me

knightsTempler:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/04/pf/college/immigrant-accepted-all-ivy-league-schools-harold-ekeh/

For the haterd of igbo keep hating for the guy congrats and lord be with u and to my fellow igbo lord is with us. They might not want us to be president lord has made us special in nigeria and lord has blessed us. harold you are a rolemodel to my kids


If been president will make us behave like them lord pls let us not be..we thank you lord for our life and achievements...above all our christianity

The honest truth is
How can u msrry such woman she will remind you one day that she have started driving car before you manage to buy one

To avoid future insult stay away from her

Intelligent post

Demburrows:
They can rant all they like, this gives a strong position that igbos are not cowards they are known for the integrity of never back stab whom ever it chooses to align with "that is trust'' it commands respect and accolades which will take them to the greater sphere of the political realm in no distant time.
The north came out en mass voted for north cos its north, the south east south south came out en mass voted for south cos its south, that integrity leaves on.

janus05:
The 2015 electoral map looks pathetic. It would have been more so if the South East had abandoned PDP/GEJ. Looking at the map, GMB will know that there's work to be done.

Weare not yorubas that abandon our neighbours rhen we dorak with one voice ...that is a statement

pazienza:
Chai! I am moved to tears! such a well written article. GEJ remains my hero. God bless you, GEJ!

to be honest ..: ur one guy I admire ...I thank lord I am igbotic .we Stand by our word

9jvirgin:
You are a woman of easy virtues, your opinion and association is crass, classless and caseless. You don't represent a responsible African woman and your contributions to the yoruba race CANNOT be traced.

Go and die!!!

Buhari we know.

I know her but I don't know you in short in your Yoruba your insignificant.I love the Yoruba women they are strong willed

Can't she live and love pdp why must you diss her cos she took a stand

lestat:
I don't think you are educated!!!! It's illiterate touts like you that make me ashamed to be Igbo!!!! My only joy is that smart people will know you don't speak for anyone but yourself

it is peeps like u make me ashamed and I must say the guy is correct

For rochas to be apc doesn't mean we should be silly

okeyvisafone:
He is the 4th president in 4th republic, contested 4 times with other 14 candidates in the 4th month of the year.
And it is believed that 4 has a numerical spiritual significance.
Guys what do you think?

And he might not last in the next 4 yrs and maybe the 4th nigerian prsident to die on throne (lord forbid lol )

Melahou:
What kind of advice are you seeking for?
The deed has been done it's left for her to pray that the husband doesn't send her packing

most men can't comprehend the act of cheating and I am one of em

she will go but I will forgive her but I can't trust her so go she must