Rubbish , entrepreneurship has notting to do with tribe,every region has intelligent business people
this are some yoruba entrepreneurs .

Arisekola Alao
Harry Akande
Chief Rasaq Okoya: Eleganza Group
Folorunsho Alakija – Famfa Oil (Oil & gas)
Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards (Insurance, Security, Technology, Food retailing)
Femi Otedola – Forte Oil and Gas (Oil & gas)
Fola Adeola – GTBank (Banking)
Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet (Insurance, transportation, oil & gas)
Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Globacom (Oil & gas, Banking, Telecom)
Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria, Pivotal Engineering, Airtel (Manufacturing, oil & gas, telecom)
Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group (manufacturing, pharmaceuticals)
Bode Akindele – (Modandola Group).
Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies (Automobiles)
Fola Adeola: founder GTBank
Subomi Balogun: Chaiman, FCMB
Mobolaji Bank Anthony
Stanley Jegede =Telecom
Deinde Fernandez = Petro Inett
Yinka Folawiyo: Folawiyo Group
Wale Tinubu -- Oando
Otunba Bola Kuforiji-Olubi
Chief Ade Ojo of Elizade Motors
Wale Babalakin (bi-courtney)
Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan = Obat Oil
Jide Omokore
Wale Ajisebutu
Makanjuola of Caverton Helicopter & Caverton Marine
Bolaji Balogun = Chapel Hill Denham ,securities trading, investment management,
Olusola Adekanola =OA Consulting Ltd, Consolidated Management Consultants Ltd, Henrisol Properties Ltd, Seedvest Microfi nance Ltd
Tayo Amusan =real estate ,he owns the Palms in Lekki,
Arisekola Alao
Stanley Jegede =Telecom
mrs florence Seriki =Omatek ventures Plc.
Alex duduyemi= Bolex Holdings Limited, Manucom Fishing Company ,EquityPetroleuServices

Ariani:


Still talking trash! Who are the "they" you are referring to? Never knew that Ademoyega was an Igbo man.

The Origin of the coup means nothing to me.
As the coup to the best of my knowledge was not in favour of the Igbo political agenda as spare headed by Okpara and Osadebey.


Don't quote me again, if you can't make use of your brain for once.

Your hero should should have been arrested and prosecuted for using children young as 13 as soldiers
shame on you for defending him

Ariani:


Trash! Uwaechue is entitled to his own opinions, but hardly are his opinions facts.

Unless you tell me you are now to believe everything Uwaechue says, cause he said lots of other things I know that you won't accept.

Ojukwu couldn't afford to be a tyrant. He had not the wherewithal to be such, Biafran was lacking in weapons, all she had working for het was the patriotism of her people that were willing to die for her.

Your hero fled the country with over 3000 pounds of personal
luggage and his expensive Mercedes Benz leaving the igbos to go f themselves

gidgiddy:


This thread is about Ojukwu and not Ironsi or Zik. Ironsi was never an Igbo leader. Ironsi was just an Igbo who happend head of the Nigerian army when mid level officers conducted a coup and the resultant effect was him becoming head of state unexpectedly. Whoever told that Ironsi destroyed regionalism? The four regions were existing months after Ironsi died. So how could Ironsi have destroyed it? It was Gowon that came in and dissolved the regions, created states and introduced unitary rule which we still have today

according to your reasoning:

Ojukwu was not a leader the igbos chose them selves,he was appointed by the military after the coup,they
relied around and depended on him because he was the man in power during the crises.
and that is why he had no political experience and he f u guys in the but....ops

Ariani:


Lol! You do realize that Ironsi favouring the unity government seen as Igbo plan to control everything to you, clearly cancels the "Igbo wanted the Niger Delta oil" to themselves, you Yoruba greedy people propagate?

Unity government meant that the proceeds from the Eastern region will be shared amongst all regions by the FG.

Seeing as the Igbos are greedy and wanted the Niger Delta crude oil, like you proclaim, don't you think that the way to go by Ironsi was to reinforce regionalism and increase the autonomy of the region's, to make sure that the Eastern oil wealth which would have made her 100 Times richer than the FG and the North and West, remained within the East?

I mean is the petty jobs the East could have gotten in the West and the North, after the unification of the regions, measure one-day thousandth to the petroldollars boom the East would swim in, if she reinforced the regional government and paid peanuts as taxes to the FG?

Is this not clear to any body with an ounce of brain that Ironsi unity government proposal were not only anti Igbo, they were his personal decisions, driven by his naive personal misunderstanding of Nigeria structural and ethnic complexity?

dont act like your ignorant ,his point is that Ironsi’s actions lead northeners
to have a counter coup .

igbos refuse to acknowledge the origin of the war.
they killed Northern ,yoruba,and midwestern leaders,while their own was spared
and the northerners do not joke with their leaders and decided to take revenge on the
ibos living in the north.

this is whey ojukwu lead your people to their graves........... ignorance

Ariani:


Lol! You do realize that Ironsi favouring the unity government seen as Igbo plan to control everything to you, clearly cancels the "Igbo wanted the Niger Delta oil" to themselves, you Yoruba greedy people propagate?

Unity government meant that the proceeds from the Eastern region will be shared amongst all regions by the FG.

Seeing as the Igbos are greedy and wanted the Niger Delta crude oil, like you proclaim, don't you think that the way to go by Ironsi was to reinforce regionalism and increase the autonomy of the region's, to make sure that the Eastern oil wealth which would have made her 100 Times richer than the FG and the North and West, remained within the East?

I mean is the petty jobs the East could have gotten in the West and the North, after the unification of the regions, measure one-day thousandth to the petroldollars boom the East would swim in, if she reinforced the regional government and paid peanuts as taxes to the FG?

Is this not clear to any body with an ounce of brain that Ironsi unity government proposal were not only anti Igbo, they were his personal decisions, driven by his naive personal misunderstanding of Nigeria structural and ethnic complexity?

Dont bother reasoning with them ,there is a yoruba saying….
A dog that wants to get lost will not listen to the whistle of the hunter.

gidgiddy:
The OP made so many mistakes:

He said Ojukwu started a war: How could Ojukwu have started a war when it was Gowon that came down to east to start fighting?

He said that Ojukwu executed people like Victor Banjo, Ifeajuna, Alale and Mr Abam for opposing him: I would suggest to him to find a book called 'No place to hide: crises and conflicts inside Biafra' by Ben Odogwu. In this book he will read the ful text of how these four men were tried for plotting to topple Ojukwu and how they were secretly recorded planning their coup.

He said that Ojukwu didn't consult anyone before declaring Biafra when it is a historical fact that it was the Eastern Nigeria consultative assembly which was comprised of all the representatives and Chiefs of of the 20 provinces that made up former the eastern region that mandated Ojukwu to declare the Eastern region a separate country on 29th May 1967.

The OP said that Ojukwu rejected aid for his suffering people. Ojukwu never rejected foreign aid. What Ojukwu rejected was Gowon trying to control the distribution of the aid.

Ojukwu may have been highanded, brash and condescending but it was war situation. Hardley the time to be Mr nice guy.

The OP also failed to take into account that over 50,000 easterners were slaughtered in broad daylight and that Ojukwus signed a peace agreement in Ghana with Gowon which Gowon decided not to honour.

Ojukwu did what he had to do to protect his people and I commend him for standing up to fight northern Nigerian hegemony at a time when all others decided to be cowards and submit themselves to Nothern slavery.

It was okoro’s that stopped our young democracy with their coup just after the election
without giving the experienced politicians enough chance.
it was okoro’s that first started military take over,that eventually became the norm,that led to the
underdevelopment of nigeria that is going on today.
it was okoro’s that first changed our federal structure by taking power away from regional governments
there by concentrating more power to the centre,the same system okoro’s are complaining about now.
it was okoro’s that first killed other ethnic and other tribal leaders and expect that there will be no retaliation
and blame the northerns when the angry northern masses descended on them.
it was okoro that when the northern leaders were asking for severe punishment for the coup plotters and change of
decree 34,he ignored all the warning and instead flew around the country to beg and appease them.
it was okoro that when their inexperienced dictatorial appointed leader,lead 3 million to their deaths,chose to
blame other tribal leaders for his incompetence.
it was okoro that made the” follow my leader “northers that would not contemplate a coup because they revere
their leaders,made the northerners more conscious of what could happen if they don’t hold on to power
it was okoro’s that when obasanjo appointed all their kins men and women in to his government went to pack all
their people in to all the ministries,the way they packed them selves into the ministries before the war,
then one nigeria was good for the okoros and yorubas were ok.
when okoro’s they chop Ofe owerri soup under Jonathan they jolly,then one nigeria good for the okras

Yeo,Okoro,Nna. how many times i call you!!! ? 3 times
when will you power hungry,money hungry,egotistic,tribalistic,clannish people start accepting
responsibilities for your actions and stop blaming other tribes……biko

Hillzy:
Ipob yoots will surely come for ur head

Like felas song……follow follow them close them eye’s
close eyes pam pam!!!!!!!!

dapsonlou:


The op stated facts with proof and it's a well research piece. No hate in the piece what so ever. This is the most thorough Post on Nairaland still date. lalasticlala
obinoscopy Mynd44 Oya front page things

Thank you bro…
when the igbos were being led to their death like ramadan ram and christmas turkey
we yorubas swallowed our pride and might i add that we also swallowed jolof rice and
turkey,amala gbegiri and ewedu with assorted meats while we watched the drama unfolded
on the 1st television station in Africa provided by our great politically experienced leader
awolwo……