₦airaland Forum

EmekaMD:
how many Yorubas are fair in complexion?
My question sounds crazy because it's out of the context of our discuss right?

That's exactly the same way I feel about ur question..
Discuss the issue I raised and stop digressing dude

As numerous as we have successful igbo business men, you can not name five in context of my question even after telling you to CONVINCE me that you writeup is factual. Your inability to answer shows Igbos don't even allow co-Igbo from another state/area to be successful in their domain. How much more of other tribes?

It's only when you are successful in your business in a particular place that you think of owning properties/investments there. Even wealthy Nigerians (Dangote, Adenuga, Dantata and others) will not think of investing in SE because they know what will come of it. Have you thought of the reason why an Igbo man would prefer to leave his state for another region rather than neighboring S/Eastern states? even Evans (with no legal business) left Anambra for Edo(SS).

EmekaMD:
and I can't believe I even gave response to this question.

This is the dumbest I've ever came across in this thread..
Maybe u didn't see where I stated that this thread was for the intelligent and the informed?

I wish there was a practical way of vetting ones IQ so I could select who not to reply..

I will not quote/reply you in an abusive manner cos it will never give me the answer to my question, even as I'm tempted to do so. The post has not said you are lying or whatever but only want you to convince me more about all you have said.

Now back to the question but in a modified way cos it is obvious you did not get it earlier even as little as the post is. Tell me 5 successful Igbos business men/women that started outside his/her state e.g. a successful Enugu business man that started his business from Anambra, not the one that extends his business to Anambra after being successful @Enugu.

I know Igbos own almost all (if not all) the investments in 'igboland'. Thanks

EmekaMD:
Baseless lie about property in Igboland

By Azuka Onwuka

There is a baseless lie many Northerners and Southwesterners have repeated for long that they now believe it to be true, and they have continued to pass it on to their children. That blatant lie is that the reason they don't have much property or businesses in Igboland like the Igbos have in other parts of the country is because Igbos don't sell property to them or rent shops to them.

The Arewa Youths repeated that lie in their letter to the Acting President thus:

"And since the Igbo have virtually infiltrated every nook and cranny of Northern Nigeria where they have been received with open arms as fellow compatriots, we strongly believe that the region is no longer safe and secure in the light of the unfolding threats and the fact that for a long time, the Igbo have gone to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that in their domain in the South East, Northerners and Westerners are as much as possible disenfranchised from owning any businesses whereas in Kano alone, they own not less than 100,000 shops across all the business districts."

I have thrown a challenge many times on this but nobody took up my challenge. I made myself available to help anybody buy property in Nnewi and give that person a signed promise that nothing will ever happen to that property and also make my children take over that pledge when I am gone. Mind you, a storey building sells for as much as N200 million in some parts of Nnewi. So don't think it is some place where nobody wants to buy from.

The simple question to ask those who make this baseless claim is, if Igbos don't sell property to them, don't Edos, Efiks, Ijaws, Ur hobos, etc in the South-South sell to them too? How many lands and shops do Northerners and Westerners own in Calabar or Benin or Uyo or Warri, etc?

How much property and stationary businesses do Northerners own in the Southwest outside Lagos (former capital)?

How much property and businesses do Yorubas own in the North outside Abuja?

So what is the reason for that?

I have urged some Hausas and Yorubas in Nnewi to buy property but some of them smiled knowingly and kept quiet, while some told me plainly that they can't take such a risk with the way things are in Nigeria.

The problem is simply fear of the unknown. Most Nigerians - minus the Igbos - have this fear that there will still be trouble in future. So they go into any state outside their region with a bag to do their business and leave when they are done. Many don't even go with their wife and children for fear of the unknown. They believe that it is only the former FCT (Lagos) or present FCT (Abuja) that is less risky to invest in.

Most people don't understand what drives Igbos in their business and investment decisions. Igbos don't buy property in other parts of Nigeria because of any special treatment given to them by their hosts. They buy property in spite of all that goes with property and the risk involved. They lose their money to fraudsters and omonile regularly in the Southwest. They lose their property to government demolition of property. Yet they invest in property because they see property as a profitable investment, and they hate to continue to be tenants forever. An Igbo man wants to be his own master (landlord) as quickly as possible.

Igbos have lost their property and businesses to burning, destruction and looting repeatedly in riots in the North. They have even been killed repeatedly. Yet they return to rebuild.

A few years after the abandoned property saga in Port Harcourt, Igbos returned to Port Harcourt and began buying property again like crazy. Even when they are warned of the possibility of a repeat of 1970, they still go ahead to invest in property.

Obasanjo has had some land in Enugu since the 1970s when he was head of state. He has not developed the land till today. Buhari said in his asset declaration that he has some land in Port Harcourt (probably given to him free of charge). He doesn't even know where the land is, not to talk of developing it. Yet these are heads of state who fought for the unity of this nation and are always talking about one Nigeria and need to believe in Nigeria. Yet they don't even have faith in investing outside their regions or FCT.

Igbos believe that crisis and loss will not make one not to make an investment decision. Their thinking is: "What if I don't invest and nothing happens eventually to the businesses or property around? Will I bring back the hand of the clock? But even if I invest and it is lost, life goes on. Life is a risk."

It sounds like a crazy way to think but that is how they are. No other Nigerian ethnic group thinks like this. That is why some people who don't travel assume that the reason Igbos live in large numbers in other ethnic groups and even return to places where they are killed is because Igboland is not developed. Even if you have never travelled to Igboland, please Google the CBN report of the six states that control 90% cash transactions in Nigeria.

The simple reality is that Igbos are wierd risk takers when it comes to business and investment. Other ethnic groups don't have such a trait. People are different.

The reason we do these intermittent interventions is to ensure that things are put in their right perspective, for those who care for the truth; for it was such falsehood that was spread in 1966 and used as a justification for the genocide against the Igbos that year.

Shops are available in Igboland, if you have the money and have the thick skin to compete. Land is available for purchase in all parts of Igboland, if you have the money. Igbos are business-oriented. They sell or rent their property to the highest bidder. And once the transaction is done, it is done. No stories.

Just keeping the record straight.

OP pls do me favor by listing 5 successful Igbos business men/women that made their fortunes in igbo land outside their state of origin.

The Way this guy is fighting everybody enh, I wonder who will help him after he has been framed.

only in Lagos you can hear this. I just hope the power won't be sent to national grid at the end.

bonarhyme:
Correct yourself brother.

Thanks man

Go back to primary school if you can't use the phrases above properly

Dannys85:
[sub][/sub] LASU security guards carry pump action guns.

maybe the school is a criminal hideout. It's normal in an environment like that.

Kogi is on a long thing

lol....... baton is a better option cos he's not expected to carry a gun in such environment.

Turkish?

lol @ the guy above the person above me.

The Ajekun iya crooner won the best senator of the year 2016 with motions like this.
What would the Senate declare in Benue, Bornu and Rivers if it declared state of emergency in Kogi because of you?
This guy has turned the Nigerian Senate to something else

Ayam coming

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Different articles/statement against the Kaduna declaration. Does this really means Northern Nigeria is Superior to Southern Nigeria? I have never read/heard numerous reactions to any statement/declaration from Afenifere, OPC, IPOB, MASSOB, IYC, Ohaneze and all other sociocultural group in the southern part of this country like this before.

Calling for the arrest the said youths is the real call for war (the same mistake buhari made with Kanu's arrest), as Northern Elders would not be coward to show support (publicly) for their own, like the Eastern Elders are doing.

But why is emphasis on call for Igbos to leave north and not other issues in the declaration?

Good for him

If this is true, then Igbos are truly chest beaters. Just one statement from the Arewa youths has brought about different meetings.

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Just saw this in another article, it is real.
The guy above me, don't worry he will not speak to you, he will command the person that has your remote control to press the needed control to reset your brain.

ok ooo

hmmm

Gourdoinc:
majority of biafrans? who conducted such polls, *many are disenchanted with buharis govt and that goes beyond tribe*. but to say that a majority of biafrans according to you want biafra is a fallacy. conduct a poll and see the outcome. forget about the protests and sit at home. those are being expressed as they ought to

Bros they want it, particularly those in the southeastern states.

Oya let's go there...... All of una wan get independence Oct. 1st but no wan do with Nigeria...... can't stop laughing

PastorAji:
I appreciate your discourse
But Brexit Bill was presented before Tessy May called in for the polls.
The bill is accessible even to high school students that wants to have access to it.

Even if it written in the Beautiful and Rich Igbo language, there should be a copy of Biafraexit Bill I can have access to

Akpamuomenka
Muyibaba222
Ragiluhivo
Ekoonibaje4life

Let the referendum take place first like it happened in Brexit

Gourdoinc:
if you know this blueprint as a biafran you are. thousands of biafrans do not know it. so kindly share

I'm not a Biafran and I don't have/know of any blueprint. Majority of Biafran don't think of what the future holds, all they want is to stop anything that associate them with the Hausas. They have the right to whatever they want/believe.

That shouldn't bother you OP. Biafrans should be the ones concerned with that.

Sahara Reporters again. make I sidon hia jeje

MedicalSamwise:
What's the diff btwn high blood pressure and hypertension

If you must know, you can only be hypertensive when you have High BP. In a nutshell, you can say 'HBP is the disease that causes hypertension'.
Google is your friend

akthedream:
NO more Biafra?... Funny souls everywhere..

So my post sounds like that of a Biafran to you? Get a life and leave Biafrans with their struggle before high BP gives you hypertension at the mention of BIAFRA

Good development. They should appoint a credible person as their Publicity Secretary so he/she will not be victimized by the government just like they have done to Metu.

Chrishertz8:
Pls I filled 9 different subjects but still having the same issue....I am using two sitting though

Have you been able to resolve it? Pls share the solution with me to save a friend.

Bobbybenard:
I've been having UNABLE TO SAVE RECORD (whenever I try to enter o'level details) issue for couple of days now. Please someone should help me

pls were you able to resolve the Issue and how? same here with a friend

babyfaceafrica:
Okay ,then what next?

Make further research with it.

baddest handler

At Exactly 10:07 , Saturday June 3, 2017 The
Federal University of Technology Akure , FUTA ,
made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket
launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats
belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and
Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space
Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code
name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and
owned by The Federal University of Technology
Akure (FUTA) in collaboration with National Space
Research and Development Agency (NASRDA),
Abuja, Nigeria, and Kyushu Institute of Technology
Japan. Mr. Ibukun Adebolu of FUTA’s Department
of Mechanical Engineering is the representative of
Nigeria on the project. The initial launch scheduled
for Thursday June 1 was aborted due to adverse
weather condition.
The satellite is expected to dock at the
International Space Station, ISS on Monday June 5
at 10:30 AM Nigerian Time .
It is the first ever University satellite to be
launched by Nigeria. From the International Space
Station the satellites will be deployed into lower
orbit during the last week of June 2017.
The major objective of NigeriaEdusat-1 is capacity
building, i. e. domesticating the satellite
technology in a Nigerian university, FUTA, and
making the technology a common business among
staff and students of the university in Nigeria for
the purpose of research, resources and
environmental management and sustainable socio-
economic development of the nation. The satellite
technology development in the long run shall have
spillover effects on Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education
that is an essential tool for a country industrial
development.
Adebolu who is involved in the Structure
Configuration Design, BIRDS Project gives details
of his role on the project,
"My role in the Birds’ Project is Structure Design.
Drawing on my background in Mechanical
Engineering, I am saddled with the task of
ensuring that our satellites have sufficient
strength and rigidity to survive the rigorous launch
and space environments. In order to achieve this, I
have to ensure that all payload and Bus System
are properly accommodated within the 10 cubic
centimeter structure. I find this very challenging,
because it involves a lot of optimization and trade-
offs. In the future, I hope to work more on other
aspects of satellite design"
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Joseph Fuwape, said
with the successful launch FUTA has shown the
capabilities of Nigerian scientists and would build on
the success to concretize its leading position in
cutting edge researches and scientific
breakthroughs.

source: https://mobile.facebook.com/futacommunity/posts/1492888604065043?_rdc=1&_rdr

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