₦airaland Forum

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.

All the mango heads in nairaland would be saddened by this revelation.

Apc

Protecting thieves since the times of tifnubu.

God know una house address o

Yoruba People, planning evil against Igbos since the times of the commissioner of suicide awolowo.

proudlyhandsome:
I wouldn't want to use normal Yorubas on our streets to drive home my point cos it might be difficult for us to get the real statistics. However, i ll use Yoruba celebrities and politicians to drive home my point.

Can you tell me how many Yoruba politicians and celebrities are married to Igbo wives? None. Do you now see how stupidd you sound?

Read and read for your own good, Yoruba parents hate to see their children getting married to Igbos but the children of 21st century have changed the whole game now.

I have dated many Igbo girls right from my secondary school days and i didnt even know they were Igbos until we started dating. 98% of Yoruba guys u see with Igbo girls were not probably aware that these Igbo girls were Igbos until they started dating.

There are thousand Igbo girls out there in South West who were born and raised in South West; these girls can speak Yorubas better than bonafide Yoruba ladies/guys. And you won't even suspect they were Igbos until you start dating them. These Igbo girls could even speak Yoruba dialect of their place of birth in South west.

Oh what a flat point from a flat head.

How come awusas are extraordinarily ugly?

theenii:
I can see through you fool,your tribal comments are all over culture and politics section,you are the least person to give advice in this situation,you hate Yorubas with passion but who cares anyway,i wonder what they see in your hairy sisters anyway

What your dirty sisters lack, is what my hairy sisters gat. And that's why my sisters are all in high demand from Urhobos to Isokos to Igalas to Tivs to Idomas to Yorubas to Ijaws; they all want my sisters and would do anything make sure my sisters agree to marry them.

Don't you notice that any yoruba who marry Igbo woman is specially respected amongst his yoruba kindred? It is a sign of being a strong man because only a strong man can achieve it.

Now you either deal with it or die with it.

searching4lovee:
lalasticlala rule 2 broken. do the needful

Oaf
You think I give a Bleep about your mods? No I don't.
I just speak the truth. Your lots bed anything with a hole in it.

Yorubas!


They can bed anything from goats to daughter-in-law.

You can't fight them.
Just join them or they'd disappear you & there'd be no trace.

Good

What about a port in the south east?
This is marginalisation.

I envy you bro!

The entire hausafulani clan did.

But its good. After all, Adaka Boro & Saro Wiwa fought alongside hausafulanis during the war.

Abi na who dem help?

Lol
Pls tell us more.

Boko harams all.

Hausafulanis planted hausafulanis reaping.
No Case.

MrCork:
..BRO AM A LONDONER AND WE WATCH THE ELECTION...80% PEACE FULL AND SATISFACTORY UNTIL THAT BUSH IBO MAN WIT COWBOY HAT HELD EVERY ONE TO RANSOM AND DISGRACE NIGERIA GLOBALLY...ALL BECUZ HE WANTED TO MAKE HIS FOOOLISH POINT.. THE EDDDIOT SAT ON THE FLOOR SAYN HE WOUDNT LEAVE.. MUSS IBO PEOPLE ALL WAYS ACT LIKE NIGERIANS TO DIS GRACE OUR NIGERIA?

...JONATHAN HAD HIS TIME...IBO PEOPLE SHUD PLEASE KEEP QUIET AND LET NIGERIA LEAVE IN PEACE...WE DONT NEED IBO BOKO (no Ofense)

You live in London & your head must be their refuse dump.

Yorubas don't like to hear us leaving.

Sophisticated cannibals

chichukwu:
Let me and you engage in intellectual debate. It seems you have some complexity.

If indeed I have to engage crab in a fight let the crab bear its true identity.

You're from a cockroach yoruba tribe, let your nairaland name reflect your miserable yoruba tribe and I shall engage you.

I am Igbo & proud.
And never shall I trade my tribe for your shitty yoruba tribe.

Bat.

chichukwu:
You have hate filled with your heart . pray to be as great as Zik in your next 10 lifes

Goat, why are you following me about, go eat some grass.

I said I hate Zik.
How is that a business of a goat like you? Find somewhere and indulge your misery.

Great Man!

Unlike that vermin awolowo, who committed suicide to end his miserableness.

RIP
Don't know him & never had of him though. And fact is, I hate ZIK.

chichukwu:
You don't wanna start with me, one on one I will finish you I swear.

Accursed Goat, before you start bleating change your nl name to reflect your miserable tribe.

Yorubbish cockroach usurping people's identity. Give your nonentity self such an identity that would reflect your misery rather than stealing Igbo names.

Once you're done, fall out for field.

chichukwu:
Mod are you not gonna ban this eediot?

Calling for mods, shoulda called your slavemasters.
One on one and I'll take your slavemasters back to Senegal whence they came.
Miserable cockroach!

xtervaganza:
e no go better for you and all those sons of wh0res who liked your nonsense

Accursed oaf.

Your progenitor awolowo committed suicide, do the same and relieve yourself of that abject misery.

OgagaMic:
lolz, bros point of correction we re nt miserable ... we re blessed...
long tym ooo, were u enter na,, ?

I bin dey lagoon ooo. Those useless yorubbish mods ban their papa for pointing out their uselessness.
Anyway, I am here to put cockroaches where they belong, including mods & all.
Nairaland go close for me.