₦airaland Forum

seanwilliam:
My man

Like I said before
I’m always ashamed to admit it but I like this guy die

TheMensch:
Me I don't know why I tend to like Portable and Naira Marley

kane10:
Imo state
So far he has successfully completed two major roads the Owerri to orlu road and Owerri to okigwe road, the other 2 he promised is still under construction which are the Owerri to mbaise road and Owerri to Aba road. Workers salaries are been short paid even my moms own too.

freeborn02:
Lagos doesn't belong to yorubas. It belongs to the Benins.

If anybody should determine who should stay in lagos, it should be the Benins

rummmy:
They are just noise makers....
They can't do anything..
Do any how and get it two folds...

Ojukwu won’t feel this way. You know why? Benjamin Adekunle, the scorpion & his battalion squad chased biafra soldiers together with Ojukwu in SE. Imagine a Yoruba man chasing Ojukwu on it’s on land. A while so call Biafra war lord..

Imagine a Yoruba man coming to your land. Only for your so call warlords to start running away right from their secure houses..

Ojukwu had to apply quadratic formula by dressing like a woman .. If a Yoruba man can come to your land to make all that happen, imagine what he can do to you on his own land..

Don’t mess with what you do not NO!

eyezik3:
Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria .
It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.
The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall .
The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports and ship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur. The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange.
Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up with us on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly.
When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics.
Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka. So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field.
When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu.
Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island , the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there.
So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira.
Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State .

Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing
FROM AN INDIGENOUS TRUTHFUL YORUBA MAN...

Geminiivory:
No one is your slave and dont ever think you ve the right to dictate who to vote for.. okay?

Ishilove:
The hard truth is it is majorly non-indigenes that developed Lagos. They can argue with their keypads all they want, but it won't change the hard, cold facts

cococandy:
It does matter how many you met if you’re going to making ignorant generalizations.

Explain what you mean by the above

cococandy:
Explain Yoruba liberalism.

And how many igbo people have you met and how many of them told you Lagos is a no man’s land?
Let me indulge you and assume that every igbo person you’ve ever met said that to you, you’re telling me Yoruba should be offended by that because Lagos belongs to them.

So then do you support Biafra?

GeneralPula:
Victimization don start. Their usual style..

You called Ilu-awori a No Man’s land and you expect them to be convenient with such unfortunate statement?

The statement has brought up a lot of issues..

That Yoruba are liberal doesn’t mean you should disrespect them..

BigYash:
Where are you from and how old are you? Nigeria get people o.. Chai

cococandy:
There’s no place on earth that’s no man’s land. That’s just nonsense. Lagos is a major city in Nigeria so belongs to Nigerians.

NIGERIAisComedy:
Watch as people come to blame Obi and Atiku that are in no way afilliated with this government.

Yet they exalt Bulaba, that brought mad hardship to Nigerians in the form of BuBU, all because of EMI LO KAN.

Bulaba brought NEPA bill herdsman ex coup plotter and the people rejoiced, singing, praise you Bulaba, for you have brought us BUBU.

Sane minds were and still are befuddled, perplexed, disoriented, bemused, but most importantly, they were/are CORNfused at how Nigerians will chose characters like BuBU and BuLaBa.

Nigeria is a Comedy and the joke is on us.

mikelopez:
Show any videos where Igbos called Lagos a no man's land

Yorubas are just tribalistic bunch

mikelopez:
Can you drop any video of where Igbos are asking Yorubas to leave Southeast.

I have watched several videos of Yorubas asking Igbos to leave Lagos including Yoruba pastors.

So Yorubas are just tribalistic bunch

HardBishop:
Never forget the yorubas will be their next target in the south east

5starMan:
You call Nigeria a country and same time call Lagos a foreign land to Igbos. Are Igbos from Ghana?, because the last time I checked Lagos is a state in Nigeria and Igbo tribe is one of the 3 major ethnic nationalities in the so-called one Nigeria.
I like how this election is showcasing the fact that Yorubas have long been the most tribalistic in Nigeria.

cococandy:
So Lagos is a foreign land?
That’s means you must believe anyone who’s isn’t Yoruba is not a Nigerian? Correct?

SpearHead:
You're the greater dullard who doesn't know that bvas snaps results and sends it to INEC server in realtome. The operators now take out the figured and key in. But the scanned images are there for proof.
Also, sent copies are stored locally on the machine too. Go get ICT knowledge,I forgot you're an urchin

princeade86:
But yesterday placed her as winner na.