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[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8130076#msg8130076 date=1302833057]I won't retell the story. Instead, how about you tell me which aspects of the following description of its history you dispute:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enugu#Early_history[/quote]

In 1893 Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton on 15 August.[3] By then the population had swelled to 120,000. The British developed the new colony to facilitate their commercial activities in the area, and Ibadan shortly grew into the major trading center that it is today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadan

Awwwww.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8130052#msg8130052 date=1302832653]I prefer quality over quantity, personally. Give me a NYC over 20 Detroits. . . .[/quote]Sorry, if you're going to use analogy, use a right one. "20 Detroits" would only make sense if the eastern cities were . . . . at a stand still.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8130030#msg8130030 date=1302832280]Ibadan was founded by the white man ?!?!?!

LMAO[/quote]I would like for you to retell the history of Enugu and then tell the history of Ibadan.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8130002#msg8130002 date=1302831947]O ma se o.

Do you need statistics or a news article to back this claim up? At least be honest with yourself for once in your life

Then again, you are the one who seems to believe the cocaine networks to the US are also Igbo-controlled. Or that Igbos are exporting manufactured goods to other African countries  

Yes, in a country where electricity is moribund, and where China can produce anything you can make at FAR lower prices, millions of Africans are lining up to buy goods from Igboland. Goods that even my dad's illiterate Akwa Ibom employee derides as "Aba-made"  

God bless your amusing little hearts.[/quote]While you laugh at Aba, unfortunately, the only working city in your region is Lagos and we know the story behind that. You're at a stand still. Oh, and, I was talking about Nigeria when I mentioned cocaine.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8130019#msg8130019 date=1302832084]Enugui, a city founded by the white man?

LWKMD

Read about the history of your beloved Enugu. It is there on Wikipedia for everyone to see.[/quote]And what is Ibadan?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8129956#msg8129956 date=1302830928]Funny, but wrong  Igbo drug mules go to Europe. Here in the US, the cocaine networks are controlled by Hispanics.
Do you not know what an analogy is

The whole point made is that the region that sees the most immigration in Nigeria is the SW. The one that sees the most out-migration is the SE. If you all had gotten that to start with, nobody would have had to use more complicated analogies to convey the very simple point.[/quote]There's no statistics or even a simple news article to back the claims, and the analogy does not even make sense as millions of Igbo people are not waiting to go to South Western Nigeria.

You use at least one Igbo imported thing, even the cocaine you sniff, who do you think brought it here. Ohhh.

Eko Ile:
Why do you people spew obvious ignorant rubbish like illiterates?

Because you do the same like comparing Lagos to the United States.

Haha, this thread is getting NO more replies.

Andre Uweh:
The writer is a Rivers Igbo who once denied his IGBO Identity. But he is back in his senses now and supports everything Igbo.

This is the in thing now for communities who had people denying Igbo.

bashr4:
are you on drugs , go to any manufacturing company in the south east and tell me if you will see a single white man there. you think we are like you that bring in foreign companies cus you dont have the IQ  to manufacture them, we built oweeri airport from scratch without help from federal government or foreign companies.

The same people talking down about spare parts dealers, they now want to claim that they are doing it for fun with no profit.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8129824#msg8129824 date=1302828712]Isn't it better to have an asset worth 0 than one that will go bankrupt unless electricity arrives?

Anyway, some enormous amount of Nigeria's manufacturing industry is based in the Lagos-Ogun axis. So not quite nothing.[/quote]Haha, please go and sit down. [s]Although I think you've already done enough of that looking at this post.[/s]

Desola:
Ezeagu Ajani,

why are you letting yourself down like this now?

Look at those pictures closely and tell me how many of your brothers you see there.

Oyinbo man colonised you, Yoruba people are doing so in SW and now the Taiwanese have invaded your territory to take from you also? O ma se o.

You are all signed to a life of servitude.

Mmm, look at these Taiwanese.

[center]https://www.codewit.com/images/stories/resources/nollywood/Nnewi-town.jpg[/center]
http://www.codewit.com/business/nigeria-economy/2226

How dare their black selves take Nnewi peoples jobs.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8129792#msg8129792 date=1302828147]The Taiwan of Africa, yes?

Minus the cheap electricity, I guess

Must really suck to invest heavily in a business that isn't economically competitive[/quote]Must really suck to have nothing at all.

Village of Nnewi.

[center][img]http://1.bp..com/_VfdGlmUwjFQ/TPxcC-mykGI/AAAAAAAAGjU/JwX716Zcar8/s1600/innoson.jpeg[/img][/center]

Eko Ile:
The fact that millions of Nigerians are lining up to go to America doesn't mean Nigeria is going to be empty,

You and your crazy logic sha,

Somebody just compared Lagos with the United States. And since when were people queuing to get into south western Nigeria?

From this:

[center]https://subversify.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/biafran-refuges.jpg[/center]

To this:

[center]https://innosonivm.com/uploadfile/20100420221827582.jpg[/center]

"Sux" to be Igbo for real [s]suck all the wealth out your land and build mansion in Nnewi[/s].

aribisala0:
i heard dat when u guys go home at xmas u impress d village girls by speakin yoruba true?

What answer do you want?

Eko Ile:
Keep working hard and keep paying dem taxes, we got many roads, schools and bridges to build with your money.


Y'all are like immigrant laborers,

Are you Igbo, because I heard 70% of the people enjoying Lagos of Lagos is Igbo. 'Immigrant laborers', I like that, reminds me of the Jews that took over America.

This thread is not even sweet any more, no more serious tribalism. What happened? Come on guys.

Eko Ile:
Funny enough, ibo people brought slum to Lagos and they live in the same slums like Ajegunle, Alaba and Orile.

And their dirty spare parts shanties they call stores? Utter trash,

At least they're actually working.

Desola:
Where is their rightful place? Right now, the whole of SW Nigeria is happy to accomodate them but they need to understand who the master is, that's all i'm asking. Don't overstep your boundry and just be content that we are fair master and don't agitate us.

Its all about tactics, darling. We use soft power not hard power. You have to be smart to use them and not make them know it. Let them feel relaxed basking in their mirage of taking over Lagos. As long as they continue to pay taxes and bring those containers through Apapa, we're cool. We don't mind them so long as we can use them which gives us the ability to globe trott. You get me?

Don't fall too far into your internet fantasy, you may not be able to get yourself back. Soft power, look at doti colonial power.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=646145.msg8129261#msg8129261 date=1302821685]OK, substitute "better than anything else you'll find in naija or West Africa", if you prefer.

That is not the question being asked. It is either a slum, or it is not. If it is a slum. . . then it says a lot about the SE that people would leave it in large #s to move to a slum. Then again, this isn't true alone about Lagos. . . for some reason, Igbos don't seem to enjoy living in this SE zone. I wonder why. . .[/quote]How many Igbo people are there in Lagos? 5 million? The Federal government counted 25 million people in the 5 Igbo states, and even then they gave Aba a population of 500,000 which is rubbish so there's even more, so where does the notion of people not enjoying the south east come from? Slum? If south eastern Nigeria is a slum, the rest of Nigeria is for rubbish.

Desola:
The keyword in your comment is "IF". However, that would not happen in your life time. Igbos would never achieve in Nigeria. If they successfully secede, perhaps but for as long as they remain in the entity, they would always be divided to commence rehabilitation of their land. They are just too greedy a stock to want to work together. We have seen that weakness and are thriving on it. It will not be beneficial for us for them to be in accord.  We have a bounty on their head.


Hehehe, I am scaring myself.

Yet the Igbo have the most amount of working cities. Port Harcourt doesn't exist again. more fairy tales. . . . . .

Desola:
You can never go because we are not done with you yet. You will continue to cry tribalism just as the migrants in all western countries cry racism. Go forth and multiply we need your strength for labour.

The only thing left to do it seems, is to start imagining stories to make yourself feel better.

Desola:
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I love Igbos because they are like modern day slaves in Lagos who are allowed to make money. See, we have to build infrastructures and we need you to bring your money to the SW to build our economy. All your talk of being individually rich means jack because when you're done increasing our revenues, we take the praise for it all.

Today, when you look on the internet and search for information on Lagos state, it tells you of it's geographical location which dare is say is Southwest Nigeria, a Yoruba state. It wouldn't say that thanks to the Igbos, the state has become a success story but rather, it mentions Fashola as the man who oversees the affairs of the state. Who takes the cake, ehn?

I am all for Igbos trooping in their thousands o, that's no biggie. Come, work, pay your taxes here and retire in your villages. Leave your children here and let them work here too, it's all dandy. At the end of the day, we come out looking good. While you sweat it out in Alaba we go about our faaji.

We need your manpower just as the White men found a good stock of Negros in Igboland, it's our turn to use you but we are fare because rather than just use you, we let you make money so we play fair. In England today, London is a secular city but guess who still rule the roost? You guessed it!

All your money without power is zilch. You see, money would open doors but power would break steel gates! Abiola was a stinkingly rich man but guess what, he died seeking power because it matters! Obama today isn't half as rich as Gates but guess who wheels and deals. Who can call the whole world to order? It's that man from Kenya who sits in white house!

Get it??

What a nice story. Did you come up with that yourself?

9jaganja:
you ain't saying nothing more than cha ching yet ain't nothing magical in your thoughts though?

That's because you don't know what you're looking at.

Eko Ile:
I'm not in anyway trying to diss you people, I just see a lot of shortsightedness and self inflicted problems and issues everywhere around Ibo people, the leaders are aimless, clueless and vision less, the young ones are so naive  and immature,

This doti Nigeria.

Orikinla:
No matter the stupidity of the political zombies of GEJ who are mostly tribalists from the South-south and South-east, the corrupt ruling party will be sacked and the revolution will be live on the CNN. The only reason the Igbo idiots are supporting GEJ is because he is GOODLUCK AZIKIWE EBELE JONATHAN and his wife's mother is from Umuahia. The fact is, if the devil had an Igbo name, the  Igbos would be falling over themselves to vote for him. Igbos have no conscience. They will never get the post  of President in 2015,  because they have sold their birthright to GEJ. Mrs. Dora Akunyili is already disgraced by Chris Ngige. Other Igbo hypocrites who worship Mammon while pretending to be "Christians" will be exposed  and disgraced. The political mugus in the South-south, after GEJ, what's next? Join the movement to sack the corrupt ruling party or be left behind sniffing and eating the rotten meat of corruption. You think GEJ is the one ruling? THINK AGAIN. But I promise you that the revolution will be live on the CNN.

[size=14pt]When the Igbo champion Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan wins, you can turn your frustration on yourself. Who told you he doesn't have an Igbo name.[/size]

Confused idiot. You want

9jaganja:
But then again that will be dumb since Nigeria is on her last life line and this may be the last election if things go too wrong. Maybe they really don't care about Nigeria that much to give a Fvck where it heads because they know screwing Nigeria bring them closer to BIAFRA? 

CHA-CHING!!!

Andre Uweh:
Hi Monkey, someone has done a good job by posting photographs of old here. Why not bring up photographs of your great grand parents and let's compare it with the ones here. Brain-dead monkey.

The person just had an ignorant moment. Certain people don't play with their ancestors and they should know that now.

[quote author=X-factoria link=topic=580197.msg8110299#msg8110299 date=1302616099]Meeeee, n, Igbo people wowo in those days oooooooooo!

Where did some of them get their 21st century beauty from?[/quote]And you think this is an appropriate thing to say about a group of peoples ancestors? Especially when you've taken a select few candid pictures to insult them all?

I think maybe it would have been better to say 'encouraging', (whether they wanted to or not).

I think 'convenience label' means a label for generalising hundreds of (closely related) cultures into one group. In Europe, the Igbo would be comparable to the Germanic peoples and the Igbo would have had several different nations in that environment, (which they did, such as Aro, Nri, the smaller kingdoms, etc). I don't agree that any Europeans 'laid down' any Igbo label, but this label was never as strong until the Europeans came.

That's the end. The Igbo identity was strengthened recently, but it has existed from time. Igbo is a 'convenience' label and also a 'survival' label, and anybody cutting themselves from it is their own business. If Igbo land was, for example, the size of Angola or Western Europe, the Igbo would not have created a bond as strong as it is now and groups would have formed separate nations (if not for colonialism) with their own Igboid languages.

Ask any Igbo person (including yourself), if your group had a population of 10 million and had land the size of Equatorial Guniea (which means you can be a country), would you really be interested in Igbo unity?

ifyalways:
Hahahaha,Ezeagu na nsogbu.

Ndi Igbo nma nma nu.

BTW,Ezeagu kedu ka keyboard gi siri nwe rikom elu na ala ?

Ọ bu shotkot. Tuo na google 'accent shortcuts'.