₦airaland Forum

Irony1:
Oga evidence boku. So let us stop lying here

Tallesty1:
Abeg shut up already. Igbos are bigots but yorubas that rejected their own son because he has tainted blood are what? patriots? In the last election, Yoruba voters that look fresh, clean, fair complexioned and speak good English where not allowed to vote because they resembled Igbos but Igbos are the bigots.

Irony1:
I am telling you that it doesn't work that way. If PO enters APC his career is dead. But ironically you guys did worse in 2014, any Yoruba man in PDP was an alien and treated as a yoruba saboteur. Stop being a hypocrite abeg.

kettykin:
If these people had put up their property for sale after the elections, would they have sold?

If all igbos in Lagos put up their property for sale in Lagos, the Lagos economy bubble will be very loud.

If all igbos plan relocation of their children to Eastern schools , some schools will go bankrupt in Lagos.

If all igbos withdraw their money and banks owned by yorubas and move them to banks owned by igbos , liquidity issues and cash crunch will be the order of the day.

If igbos stop going to yoruba churches and move to igbo churches Christianity will not end but there will be wailings.

If igbos proactively decide enough was enough, enough will be enough.

farem:
Who Developed Lagos?

By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles. The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Osogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before Igbo citizens, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and in 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams, a Ijesaman, was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa, all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation ever trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba man from Osogun, Oyo, Oyo State) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While an average Lagosian or Yoruba does not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe, for we do not believe in racial superiority; trust us not to also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over us or others.

Source:
Igbimo Asoju Yoruba
February 2023.

kingsways:
There is no reasonable reason why university should have a quota of just 50 students

CrossRhodes:
It's a modern wonder of the world that 8 LGAs called a state cannot even save themselves from poverty despite hooooge resources at their doorstep

Afamed:
Among all the listed states here, Delta remains the worse, nothing nothing nothing to show.
The old Warri of 70s remains the old Warri.
Effurun remains the same, Jarpha, Enerhen all remain the same

FlawlessKarl:
Because typical Batist like you is an illiterate hence you can't see why people are mocking her and celebrating her death.

The vileness exuded by that woman and the comment she made when Dr. Chinelo was shot and was crying for help is more reason I am so happy that the fool is dead and gone to hell and his asshole will be screw by the devil.

plaindealer:
Now, do you see why they say this crooked and corrupt man is looting Abia dry?

What kind of refreshments are they eating every second of the day that superseded public schools many times over?

Are they eating imported refreshments or just regular Ugba or Samosa and metapie?

And the people rejoice and celebrate this looter for dashing them JB concrete sign.


This is just too sad.

Pakute:
But na here we dey when German Vice Chancellor been visit Nigeria and spend 3 days. when illiterate ipobs dey embarrass their lineage because dem been think say na one head of university come dey visit Nigeria. Abeg, wailers make una try dey use una brain small.

Kafirbigot:
See a person that hibernates on Taliban Twitter accounts talking Nonsense.

Yoruba Christians..you are finished.

Oyo needs an EMIR sharply...

HardBishop:
They know what igbos can do...
fear fear people 😆😆😆😆

Bestmanfornow:
Otondo

Ttalk:
Good to see Lagos is not doing badly as an oil-producing state as its contribution is higher than Abia and Imo put together.

Though some haters would spit venom because it didn't favour them would not change the fact about oil-producing states in Nigeria.

Swiftgrp:
Nice statistics. Add the source to your original post as well to enlighten these ignorant creeps.

vannessa7:
I wonder o, they must always rain on Yoruba parade, it makes them feel pain hearing good things about Yoruba, they just have to do everything to bring it down, talk of inferiority complex, smh

Shevchenkko:
Take Lagos out, the rest of the southwest Nigeria is shithole

Shevchenkko:
Without Lagos, south west becomes empty

OloYeOfEgbE:
Shatap with this stinking lies

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