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7lives:
Igbo people are in Ekiti and Osun for pilgrimage and tourism, at least this is what they've been struggling so hard to tell anyone who care to listen.
Let them continue to live in self denial, the truth is that some of them living outside their enclave can't spend 2weeks in that place before bailing out again. Only the old ones will agree to stay in the homeland the young ones will rather escape to God knows where, honestly speaking these indeed are strange people.

am sure u have never been to any SE state before......let me speak from what I know.....there are men and boys,who are millionaires and billionaires in Nnewi and Onistha who do not know what lagos looks like or any south western state.....they make their money in the SE....serious money....and they won't want to do business anywhere else.....an average igbo man would want to be engaged.....evenn if it means crime.....he wants to have something to do....so there fore,if opportunities exist else where,he would make his move.....notice that in Anamabra and Abia state have the largest markets.....these are business people....enugu and imo...have basically the office people or civil servants if u like......most of yall do not understand why igbos do what they do...or who they are....u just listen to tales by moonlight stories told by people who r ignorant...

raumdeuter:
But there are more Ibos in Ekiti than Yorubas in the entire SE
Why would these Ibos be leaving their developed land for poverty lands like Ekiti and Osun

they see opportunities the people there fail to see....its strictly on a business level.....an igbo man would even live in somalia provided it is good for business.....I am igbo....and was abit surprised when my fellow igbo friend was talking about business in Vietnam....I was like...seriously?? That its more lucrative than china....was surprised though....because you have a sizable population of igbos even in the remotest of places in the SW doesn't mean that there isn't development there........if the federal govt should make onitsha FCT and develop the place faster thÀn Dubai, we would still have igbos in Ekiti and Ilesha....

ibedun:
These Igbo bastards must be returned to their papa land which scares the hell out of a lot of them. I am sitting in front of one as we speak. Pity the guy

sometimes I laugh @ these dudes that say we igbos can't stay in our region.....so the igbos that are in the east came from mars? Most of the igbos who have been here in the SW are as a result of the nature of jobs our parents where into.....there are many states in the east that even most SWners would go to and won't want to come back.......wonder what the big deal is about SW.....was born here,schooled here......and the only state I can live which is habitable is lagos......

iceberylin:
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çђęçķ oųţ ƒęw oƒ pђęmoŋş lįŋęş
"I gat a chick CV for a Bl0w j0b"
"Am a Star follow me like the three wise men "
"Spitting on Bars like pregnant chicks in detention "
"Your so broke,hehe,i hear Echos in your Bank account "



Sometimes i think Phenom is better than even M.I but nobody better than the #chairman

. Phenom better than Mi?? Thank God u said its just a tot

oduaboy1:
Buhari does not need ibos votes.And the southeasterners are not voting enmasse for Jonathan because he is the lesser of the two evils as I said in my earlier post the only driving force is their clannish sentiment,"na our son mentality".

its funny how our SW brothers think on certain issues.......instead of you to try and change their mind on why they shotuld not vote PDP and vote APC,you are calling then names......as someone said earlier....they would vote the lesser evil....

Why r these people so upset?igbos where killed.... Igbos wanted to leave,they said no.....they came back ,wahala.....we live with others peacefully,problem.......all I hear is red mud gully erosion.....we were happy living in our gully erosion lands but una no let us sleep......and for those who think about arewa and oduduwa republic,its not going to happen in the next 200 years....open your eyes and see that Nigeria is run by cartels who have everything to loose if we split......my brothers from the SW wake up...

T8ksy:
Abeg, stop sounding like a kid. what chance will that be? Don't tell me you are referring to the time when ojukwu believed it's the right time to take his people out of nigeria? would you have prefer us to suck up to ojukwu and his ragtag BLF?

That is simply why you ibos hate yorubas so much because somehow your fathers convinced and indoctrinated you lot that, were it not for the yorubas, ibos would have been the one dominating the country, now.

the mistake most yoruba dudes make is to believe that igbos hate yorubas.....far from it....igbos have their reservations about yorubas.....but it is not hate....if most people have their eyes wide open,they would know who the igbos don't really like....not because its natural,but because of atrocities committed against them....how yorubas got into the picture beats my imagination......would have preffered if the SW stayed out of the war in 1966.....but why they took part is baffling to me.......even though the igbos knew who their enemy was,the yorubas spoke about the war like as if they actually had a score to settle with the igbos.....and the so called enemy,showed their hatred for igbos through actions.....which we saw and over came.....one good thing about the war was that it gave the igbos the opportunity to know who was a friend or foe....

Just a page?? Just as I expected.....but if its GEJ,u have 36 pages....or if its yoruba vs igbo..u see 50 pages of dumb comments......

These children won't cease to amaze me.......wonder what these kids gain with all these my tribe is better than yours....disgusting....hope yall have something to do....

daveP:
THE MOST OBJECTIVE COMMENT SO FAR!! A THOUSAND LIKES FOR YOU. YOU FORCED ME TO POST

Osufia is a better comedian than saka.....I have watched the two.....have been following saka right from when he features in most TV comedy programme....this has nothing to do with the language they speak or tribe....as far as I know,saka does most of his comedy in english so does osufia.....apart from osufia u have sam loco....these are people who make you laugh with out breaking sweat.....after all,sunday afolabi aka papi luwe was a yoruba comedian and he was loved by everybody.....so this has nothing to with tribe abeg.......if u are funny ,u are.....osofia is better

majekdom2:
yea ,I hear the story . the fact the he was barred from Uk doesnt mean allegations are true ...a country like uk will do whatever to stop what they feel doesnt favour its own people .... obviously , oyedepo's church is not briton its african .... we have not woken up to the reality a white man will never want a black man's business to make more successes in his country than his is doing.

like seriously? Are we this gullible in Nigeria

I Like that Gani guy,Idiagbon,Ojukwu,Fela........Sam mbakwe,Jakande....to mention a few..

Gullible Nigerians as usual......so the terrorist who The Us Sponsors would come out and say the US sponsors them? Or the terrorist that israel sponsors to check met the other teRrorist group would come out and declare that they are sponsored by israel. Well provided its an igbo man its fact. When el rufai and co where named and suspected,nothing was done. When Femi Fani Kayode said that Boko haram was the military wing of the APC,they where allegations.....what I can say is that Boko haram is winning the propaganda war.....we are just to inactive for my liking.......

Its funny how we disrespect our president even to the outside world....if we where so smart why would we have a "Dumb" and "Clueless" "Retardeen", as our leader? Beats My imagination....it only shows how dumb and foolish Nigerians are....if he is Dumb,then All Nigerians Are equally dumb...has Nothing to do with if you support APC or PDP.....in the eyes of the out siders, we have a foolish president with an equally foolish followers(Nigerians)....Do the maths...

abachas wife is the prettiest of them all.......she would make a dead man ressurect

wish we would just apply a little bit of common sense to this matter.......and leave sentiments

It is said that truth is the first casualty of war. Here are some lies that have been spread about Israel in recent weeks – and the truth behind these slanders. Only by clarifying the facts can we look forward to a realistic solution to the tensions.
(1) Israel started this war, using the murder of three Israeli teens as a pretext.
In the first half of 2014 – prior to the outbreak of fighting – Hamas launched nearly 200 rockets at Israeli civilians. When the three Israeli teens were brutally kidnapped, Israel went looking for them in the West Bank; they were later found murdered. To divert attention from Hamas accountability, the terror group launched hundreds of rockets at the length and breadth of Israel, sending 80 percent of the Israeli population scurrying into bomb shelters.
Israel responded by rooting out the rocket sites in Gaza – in the process fortuitously discovering a vast network of terror tunnels that Hamas reportedly planned to used to stage a single day of mass kidnappings and murder of Jews.
(2) Fighting Israel is the only way Hamas can build a better life for its people.
If Hamas were serious about building a better life for its people, it wouldn’t have violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2006 and suppressed all future elections. Instead, Hamas imprisons and kills political opponents with impunity. Hamas “morality police” punish women for smoking and wearing “un-Islamic” clothes such as jeans and t-shirts. Honor killings of women are punished lightly, with as little as six months in jail.
It takes millions of dollars, tons of cement, and a year’s worth of labor to build a tunnel from Gaza into Israel. In the past two weeks, Israel has uncovered 30 such tunnels – representing millions of dollars Hamas could have spent on the population of Gaza, but instead spent on fighting Israel.
If Hamas truly wanted a better life for Gazans, it wouldn’t have spurned trade and development in favor of terror and dictatorship. In 2005, when Israel removed all Israeli residents and soldiers from Gaza, Hamas and other looters destroyed 3,000 greenhouses donated by American Jews to help build their fledgling country – leaving a sorry symbol of Hamas corruption and terror.
(3) Hamas is trying to minimize Palestinian casualties.
Instead of minimizing human casualties, Hamas seems to be courting them. They have launched thousands of missiles at Israel from locations adjacent to or within schools, mosques, hospitals, and residential buildings: a staggering 11,000 since 2005. Far from building bomb shelters to protect their population, as Israel has done, Hamas has deliberately used the entire civilian population as human shields.
Hamas has turned Gaza's largest medical facility, Shifa Hospital, into a military command center – knowing that Israel's higher morality makes it a safe haven from Israeli fire.

(4) The rate of Palestinian civilian deaths is alarmingly high.
Hamas claims that 75% of those killed in the current conflict in Gaza are civilians. Israeli sources found the overwhelming majority – two thirds – are males between the ages of 18 and 60, despite that demographic accounting for only 20% of Gaza’s population.
During a brief humanitarian ceasefire on July 24, Hamas executed 25 people without trial, accusing them of spying for Israel. These 25 were later added to the tally of people killed by Israel, and hailed as “martyrs." In the words of Bassem Eid of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, Palestinian casualties are ultimately "in the interest of Hamas."
(5) Israel’s actions are contrary to international law.
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of “violations of the laws of war” and the United Nations has opened an inquiry into alleged war crimes by Israel – though not of Hamas, which deliberately targets Israeli civilians as an ongoing policy.
In attacking legitimate military targets lodged among civilians, international law places full responsibility for any civilian deaths on the fighters who've embedded themselves. (The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Caught in the difficult situation of responding to rocket fire from within civilian areas, Israel’s army has taken unprecedented actions to limit human casualties, calling the cell phones of people near or in targets to warm them of imminent bombings, and dropping Arabic-language leaflets warning civilians, as well as the “knock on the door,” whereby Israel fires a small round to warn people to leave an area before a strike.
Alarmed that this might reduce civilian casualties, however, Hamas has forced Gazans to act as human shields for the many rocket launchers imbedded in private homes. The New York Times dramatically described the recipients of one such warning, who quickly marshaled family members – including children – to enter the targeted building, forming a human shield.
(6) Israeli actions are "disproportionate."
Brazil has recalled its ambassador to protest Israel’s “disproportionate” response to Hamas rockets and terror tunnels. But proportionality isn’t measured in terms of death toll on either side: Israel, which has invested in bomb shelters for its citizens, in anti-rocket ammunition to protect its cities, and which doesn’t place its rocket launchers in civilian areas, has protected its people; even playgrounds in southern Israel have been ‘missile-proofed’ with millions of dollars of reinforced steel. Should Israel be blamed for properly protecting its citizens?!
In World War Two, 67,000 British civilians and 12,000 American civilians were killed, compared to the Nazis who lost over one million civilians. Clear responsibility for these deaths rests on the Nazis who started the war. More recently, in the 2004 urban warfare of Fallujah in Iraq, the U.S. killed 800 civilians and destroyed 9,000 homes. Did we hear cries of "disproportionate"?
As military analyst Colonel Richard Kemp concludes: "I don't think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare when any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of innocent people, than the IDF is doing today in Gaza."
(7) Hamas is a humanitarian organization.
Hamas bills itself as a "humanitarian organization," yet it’s anything but. As the people of Gaza endure high unemployment and limited economic growth, Hamas’ leadership skims off profits, collecting ruinous taxes on business transactions, and stealing international aid outright. Ismail Haniyah, Hamas’ leader, reportedly owns numerous homes throughout Gaza, and in 2010 paid $4 for a beachfront home in Lebanon. His deputy, Khaled Mashal, controls a $2.6 billion fund donated to Hamas by the governments of Qatar and Egypt.
If Hamas were truly fighting for the rights of ordinary Palestinians, it also would hold elections, ensure human rights, and stop pursuing political opponents. But it chooses to spread terror.
( Hamas just wants to live in peace.
Gaza's leaders encourage violence, allowing Islamic Jihad to run “terror summer camps" for children as young as six, where kids learn hate and practice kidnapping Israeli soldiers. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon calls Hamas’ indiscriminate firing on Israeli civilians “a violation of international law.”
The Hamas Charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the death of Jews around the world: “the Zionist plan is limitless” and “our struggle against the Jews is very great... until the enemy is vanquished.” Who can doubt that, if given the chance, Hamas would inflict mass casualties on Israel and Jews? Given this existential threat, Israel has no choice but to try to demilitarize Hamas and destroy its tunnels.
Ironically, in 2013 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh boasted that Hamas had acquired new rockets that were capable of hitting Tel Aviv – at the very time that his own granddaughter was being treated in Schneider Children’s Hospital near Tel Aviv!
(9) All the Gaza casualties are Israel's fault.
Many of the rockets Hamas has launched into Israel have fallen short, hitting targets in Gaza instead; often, Israel is blamed for these hits and their resultant civilian casualties. One high-profile case is the UN-run school bombed on July 24 with 16 casualties. Israel categorically denies bombing the school when anyone was present, and has produced aerial footage proving its case.
Four days later, a Gaza park was bombed, killing nine children and an adult. The Israeli army explained that the incident was carried out by Gaza terrorists whose rockets fell short and hit the Shifa Hospital and the Beach (Shati) camp.
Further, at least 160 children were killed in constructing Hamas' extensive terror tunnel network.
(10) Israel must stop occupying Gaza, denying humanitarian aid, and committing genocide.
humanitarian aid into Gaza, and allows humanitarian access at the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza. The Israeli military also operates a full-scale hospital at the Erez Crossing, treating Palestinians from Gaza. Both crossing points are under a steady stream of attack every day from Hamas forces.

It would be easier for two camels kissing to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a muslim to Love israel......no where in the history books have we ever heard of "Palaestinians"....and do not mistake Philistine to palestine.....palestina is a latin name give to the land to spite the jews.....before the declaration of the state of israel,both the arabs and jews where given land by the british....but the arabs wanted it all and that began the genesis of their wahala.......the hamas charter specifically calls for the total destruction of israel......and the OP quoting BBC and some newspaper in america only worsened his stance because these people have always been biased towards israel....and am sure the OP would love to be a part of the gaza comunity and leave us in peace....

jerseyboy: Foolishh list. Many of these guys will be declared bankrupt in a proper society.

well we are not in a proper society........

banega: we want figures, How much are they exactly worth please?? plus where is Folorunsho Alakija? I can't find her on that list!!

well if you want figures then you would be embarrassing the rest billionaires.....at least let there be a little respect......u and i know the worth of dangote and adenuga....the gap would be too much for the rest...

Nigerians representing....

The few Nigerians that have the list are Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola.
The list of top 21 Richest Nigerian billionaires has been based on:
The value of their shares held in quoted companies, the size and market share of their companies, the number of companies they own and its assumed value, the market value of their company’s brand and the impact of their companies on the Nigerian economy.
Despite the harsh terrain and business challenges involved with starting a business in Nigeria; the successful entrepreneurs listed below held their ground and fought their way to the top.
In a country with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time.
Check out the list below.
1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world
2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom
3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas
4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group
5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group
6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee
7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone
8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank
9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria
10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group
11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group
12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group
13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.
14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group
15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,
16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group
17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies
18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas
19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer
20. Fola Adeola – GTBank
21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars


http://www.informationng.com/2013/02/top-21-richest-nigerian-billionaires.html

OrlandoOwoh: I know what google said. I've read about nsibidi and done research on it. I'm only concerned about your giving it an Igbo colouration. I don't have anything against Igbo people. They are my friends. Ndigbo adigho mma.

you are obviously not igbo my friend....even if you have lived amongst them,there are things and informations you can never get by research or even living among the igbos.....you have to be an igbo person to understand that....you might be informed than many igbo guys,but the advantages are his parents who can tell him who he is or his relatives like uncles and aunts......quit this attitude of trying to tell us you know who we are when what you know is beer parlour gist........u have scrapped the top.....still far away from the bottom....

in the name of the lord,let us stop these comparison....they dont do us any good please......

please oh!! since when did hausa people have more population than the igbos?? someone should do a break down of the norths composition.....

yuck

Am really surprised that some people here had the time to join issues with this GPA or whatever his or her name is......we all know that what he says isn't true....the post is about a new complex built with 50Billion and he came up with that ridiculous statement......I have never seen him comment or make any reasonable or matured statement on this forum other than ibo bashing.....wonder what pleasure he gets from that.....am sure he is just a little boy in his twenties.

adeyrule: Lo. Berey lowo baba e omo ale Igbo aye e ma baje ni

guy calm down na......wetin ibo man do u?