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xtrorse:
See the exact picture of a typical Yoruba person as pictured by one of your own. Enjoy and relish it...




Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article
titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for
Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful
state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the
nation is still rated as the third destination of
investors and one of the fastest-growing economy
in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden
land of numerous opportunities for those who are
resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative,
inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising,
hardworking, focused, visionary and, most
significantly, disciplined.
Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to
question the role(s) of Yoruba youths in the current
fight against unemployment, starvation and
poverty in Nigeria. 
This question was necessitated
by my discovery through indirect observations that
Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and
egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today.
I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba
youth has overshadowed his intellectual
judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity.
Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their
resumes to multinational corporations eight would
be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the
Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the
abundant opportunities that litter the streets of,
say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth.
The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans
and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the
control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable
number one centre of success, excellence and
opportunities.
The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken
over by the Easterners. The data that I got from
the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of
those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa
Wharf are Igbos.
More so, data collected from licensing office
reveals that owners of 56% of commercial
motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and
Easterners. The lucrative transport business has
been hijacked from the Yorubas.

Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths
on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and
charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their
motorcycles to make cool cash from their land.
Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour
firms operating in Lagos are owned by the
enterprising and hardworking Easterners.
The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing
hardworking people transacting their legal
businesses in the name of collecting charges and
dues for the local government. I also discovered
that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial
motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained
automobile engineers that have abandoned their
workshops.

Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode
motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly
in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths
are in the market collecting dues for their local
government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of
Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba,
Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the
Easterners and Northerners who are
predominantly youths.
Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo
youths are now becoming more prosperous in the
entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths.
Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the
Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television;
rather, they watch some other movie channel that
show English movies with actors and actresses of
Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies
are short of creativity.

I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and
executive directors of commercial banks operating
in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the
age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom
politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they
assist each other with an amazing ease.

Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-
three. According to the National Universities
Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have
the highest number of professors and doctorate
degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states
that used to top the list have been demoted to
number four and six respectively.
In 2014, the reports of the West African
Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National
Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the
Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in
terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state
known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in
2013.
The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector.
The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles,
Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers,
other national teams are dominated by the Igbos
and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of
Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran
national team by some columnists and social
commentators, including myself.

Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united
than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015
presidential election is a point of reference. The
Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the
APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for
Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.

Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the
election. Jonathan’s inner circle members
are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s
expected defeat. Victorious Buhari’s
teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas
contributed little or nothing to the success of their
kinsman.

In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the

Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to
act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is
hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in
strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our
leaders only think for themselves and their
children.

www.naij.com/441183-yoruba-youths-have-lost-influence-respect-of-nigerians.html

basilo101:
do u kw the meaning of Niger Delta at all? Abia and Imo are niger delta. Edo and Cross River are not Niger Delta, if u kw the tru meaning of delta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

Historically and cartographically, it consists of present-day Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States. In 2000, however, Obasanjo's regime included Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River State, Edo, Imo and Ondo States in the region. Some 31 million people[2] of more than 40 ethnic groups including the Bini, Efik, Esan, Ibibio, Igbo, Annang, Oron, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Yoruba, Isoko, Urhobo, Ukwuani, and Kalabari, are among the inhabitants in the Niger Delta, speaking about 250 different dialects.

chuna1985:
3 igbo States are oil producers in Nigeria.

ahaz:
mugu leave tjebigbos out of this.the op knew what jes talking about.after all three Igbo States produce oil compare to one in ur region.so why should you cry over the igbos.we nija deltans knew the igbos are not parasites like u

menabadoo:
just corrected it, face the topic.

menabadoo:
I don't leave in lagos and lagos is no man's land. Lagos is not yoruba land.

menabadoo:
I don't leave in lagos and lagos is no man's land. Lagos is not yoruba land.

PenSniper:
Yet, nyanmirins would rather die in yorubaland than go to Enugu ?
You suffer from twisted logic and a warped sense of reasoning that are common in ibos.

Ask yourself, why are nigerians trooping to Europe and America rather than the other way round ?

Fact is, yorubaland is ibos' Europe and America in Nigeria.

menabadoo:
thank God you agreed, any other thing you are saying is inconsequential to the aim of the thread.

finniblinks:
we are coming to make you tenants in ur land.

menabadoo:
stop derailing the thread, FYI, appendicitis is not a microbial infection.
Does enugu have better roads than all yoruba land or not?

simpleseyi:
You are right. That is why all Biafrans want to die in Yoruba land. You run away from your erosion ragged and cursed Biafra land and claim Lagos is your father's land and developing hypertension for another man's issue.

explorer250:
oga stop embarassing your jobless life. You want me to believe your yoruba media propaganda? Thesame way your media said osun has the highest IGR than the entire south east combined?
You boast of ogun industries but the question is how many industries are in Ogun? Are they upto a thousand? How many are owned by yorubas? How many yorubas are employed? Do the general yoruba populace have a good standard of living?

Your same media said that cocoa generate billions of dollars which was later debunked

according to cbn south east have highest literacy rate, lowest unemployment rate and highest middle income class.

Do you know that Abia and Anambra state alone has the highest SMEs(small and medium scale industries or enterprise ) do you also want to doubt that it is SMEs that drives emerging economies not few heavy industries?

On the issue of trading. So because a single disgruntled man said that rivers state is overtaking igbos in trading you believed him? How pathetic of you. Dont you know that the first five largest market in africa is in south east? Main market(onitsha) Ariara intl market(aba) new market (aba) building materials and obosi market. So to you rivers state is more commercial now abi? Btw i am from Rivers state so even if Ph is highest trading hub it is still our land and in the hand of igbos. It is a win win situation.

It is a thing of great shame that After years of civil war, 20pounds and indigenisation policy not being in power still the average igbo is fairing better than the average yoruba. We are more educated than you peepz. Even if you claim that anambra is a home of miracle centers what about imo cuz the last time i checked imo being second after anambra still ranks higher than any yoruba state.

http://businessdayonline.com/2015/02/ogun-ikeja-top-manufacturers-investment-destinations-in-2014/

Ogun State and Ikeja Industrial Zone recorded largest investments from manufacturers in the first half of 2014, data from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have shown.

While Ogun, which is now Nigeria’s industrial hub, recorded N377 billion worth of investments within the period, Ikeja returned investments worth N39.86 billion.

Ogun State’s represents 78 percent of N483 billion worth of investments made in the whole of the manufacturing sector within the period under review, while Ikeja shares 8.3 percent.

....

and those of Oyo/Ondo/Osun/Ekiti as N19.2 billion within the period under review.


and Anambra/Enugu that had N5.5 billion worth of investments.


Imo/Abia were estimated at N309 million.

finniblinks:
Yorubas Are Jealous of Ndi-Igbo because
we are more successful and build Mansions
on their Lands.
"Typically, an Igbo comes to a place like
Lagos for example with an almost empty
bag. He starts with a kind of menial job.
After some time, he puts a kiosk
somewhere, and in not too long a time, he
builds a mansion and stays in front of his
mansion exuding apparently more
confidence than the original owners of the
land. What do you think the original owners
of the land will do? How would they feel?
They will feel resentment. I tell my people,
‘look they are not resenting you, but they
are comparing you with themselves. They
get annoyed with you and start being
jealous of you. If in addition to your
success, you talk about your achievements
with pride, like a typical Anambra man will
do, that will make the host community even
more resentful and jealous"
---- Chukwuemeka Ezeife (former governor
of Anambra state)

"Igbos clearly are deluded. Their delusion disorder is shown in their pursuit of grandeur and accompanying sense of persecution."

"Igbos attack other people by insulting them and when in self-defense those they insulted counter attack them, they forget their initial attack on them and see themselves as innocent victims of others attack."

Igbos tell you how an Igbo was the first in everything in Nigeria and has done everything better than other Nigerians.

"Igbos make outrageous claims if that makes them seem important, such as claiming that the slave, Olauda Equano who while living in England wrote an autobiography of his life in the late 1700s was an Igbo; that claim makes Igbos seem important for he was the first negro-African to write in the English language and Igbos must be first in everything."

"The Igbo that calls you mad is as mad as hatter. What going to psychoanalysts does to people is help them understand themselves so that they stopped externalizing what they see in them to other persons."

"The more they boast about their imaginary superiority and accomplishments the more those around them detest them. Igbos are, perhaps, the most loathed people on planet earth! No one wants to be around them (do you like to be around boastful people, of course not). An hour of being around Igbos drives me up the wall; I must leave their presence so as not to be subjected to their perpetual boastfulness, their vain glory seeking life style, and yes, their delusion of grandeur."

jemir000:
What is my business with that...So in your darkest mind, you feel whoever comes to speak against arewa and odudua is Igbo? So south south is no longer in the opposition? haaaaa..I laugh....I'm not concerned about SE for now...Just do the title of this thread..

explorer250:
why do u attack igbos. Igbos was balkanised into south south which means in other worlds igbos feed Nigeria. Obigbo LGA in river state(where i come from) has the highest number of oil well per LG.
Stop relying on southwest media propaganda that lagos has oil. I have been hearing that since 2010 but not even a single drop of oil have been drilled in lagos.

For those shouting that the north feed the east pls dnt forget that the agrictultural produce is bought with money,it is not distributed free of charge unlike our oil.
Even if the north and west stops farming today they will die of hunger and we wont because we have the money and we can always import or buy from neighbouring cameroon.

jemir000:
You get sense so? When has Lagos become the entire south west? Our Lagos contribute..The rest are parasites...





Or r u from Lagos cos I know ALL yorubas seem to come from Lagos on nairaland.

jemir000:
Its sooo funny how you yorubas are hypocritical in nature...My yoruba landlord in Lagos will always call me "chukwudi", "nnamdi", "uche"...any Igbo name at comes to his mind... Even when he knows I'm not Igbo...So now, you can differentiate between igbos and south south?

jemir000:
our oyel money dude...

jemir000:
They are our cousins...And they are hard working...unlike the oil soup eaters...haaaaaa

jemir000:
We feed you guys...So the least the yorubas and hausas can do is to be thankful and be eternally grateful to us. Though, we don't know for how long we would allow the grace to flow..

menabadoo:
owerri

QuotaSystem:
Dont tell me you are resorting to posting Hotels

You're joking...more KD for comin up for ya!

FrankAba1:
They are hoping on the no-man's land(Lagos), as you may have noticed they all claim to come from Lagos. They don't visit their villages and eternally wait for government to develop their towns & villages. I once sent folks to ekporo ekiti and illaje, the pics they sent were disgusting.

cjrane:
[size=15pt]I'm just wondering when will yorubas begin to seek their own best interest instead of simply supporting anything they believe is anti-Igbo. When the southsouth quit being anti-igbo and squarely demanded that their own issues be addressed, they have leapfrogged everyone else (including the northerners) in physical development of the region.

Just look at northern cities. Even Potiskum, Damaturu or Dutse is more developed than the Yoruba regional capital, and it doesn't bother them at all. All they are interested is being used in every anti-Igbo scheme.
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