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Miscellaneous.

I got some other angles OP.

mrvitalis:
U are really obsessed with the igbo tribe.....
.. U people are the least travelled in this country yet u claim u know a whole lot. .. .. . It's pathetic

Look who is talking about another being obsessed? ? No be you mention Yorubas? Abeg why you drag Yoruba into your igbo matter? ? You can go and hang if you like because Yorubas refuse to travel to your region that even your own people are avoiding/fleeing. If you mention me again thunder will fire you there. Anu mpama.

mrvitalis:
Please what's ur business on this trend

Any unflattering mention of my Yoruba race is enough invitation to me. I don't care about the issue of this thread as long as you all don't start scapegoating my people as usual.

mrvitalis:
Hypocrisy is when u claim you have Yorubas in Kogi and Kwara but claim ikwerre and aniomas are not igbos

Guy, why are you dragging Yorubas into this matter na? You people should sort the issue amicably amongst yourselves and leave Yorubas out of it. Thanx.

Fantastic.

warripekin:
Pls, I don't argue. These are what I saw on the ground. That yuguda appointed a Yoruba man his Chief press Secretary has not added to Yoruba population there. Question is? If yorubas are that large in bauchi , how come u don't see them around so easily. At least I spent a week in bauchi and I traversed the entire state. From the emirs palace, to government house, zaranda hotel, to banks and even outside the walled part of bauchi that belongs mostly to indigenous Christians u will hardly see yorubas around. Where are they, what occupies them ? 170k Yoruba population in nasarawa state? Really? And they are not ubiquitous? And are not noted for any particular thing? From mararaba, to keffi, to aqwanga, nasarawa eggon, to lafia, you will not encounter up to 100 yorubas on the road or any of those communities but I am sure u will find igbos in their numbers. I know these places, my company did an extensive research work and projects in these environment in conjunction with UNICEF/undp. So I know what I am saying

I don't get you bro. Are you insisting that I accept your word, purely based on your experiences as you stated? ? Bro, at the end of the day your opinion isn't any more valid than others who have expressed quite the opposite on this same thread so it's your word against there's, which really doesn't amount to much at the end of the day coz they are based on individual anecdotes and experiences. On my part I have presented at least some independent evidences that can be verified, and that at least buttresses my position, so it is left for you and others that share your view to accept or reject them. Learn to treat your opinion as just that -- an opinion. You can never impose it on another person who may feel differently, no matter how convinced you are that you are right.

MrAnalyst:
Don't be silly Mister. There's hardly any Yorubas in SE states talk less of a "community head". Your claims are quite comical.

Ok.

MrAnalyst:
You said there's a Yoruba community head in every community,even in SE and SS. Sir,with all due respect,that's rubbish.

For goodness sakes, why are you igbos like this? ? Very unstable lot! You doubted my statement and I provided evidence, here you are shifting goalpost again. You people are insufferable! Jeez!

lolzzzz:
you argue like a demented person. Your argument lacks relevance and its totally unreasonable. What nonsense are you using as a yardstick to justify your claims?

O.k, at least I have presented evidence that can be verified. Where's your own evidence? Sorry but I deal with FACTS! Abi we are supposed to just accept your word? The fvck out of here~

warripekin:
I don't believe there are more yorubas in the north than igbos. From my personal experience, I was able to traverse the entire north and I went from abuja to kano thru yo be to bauchi then jos. The Igboman as usual is everywhere. In kano, the whole of sabongeri, nomansland are dominated by igbos. Even kurna, France road, bompai, they are there. From my lodge in prince palace hotel in nasarawa, to Beirut where u find a lot of lebernese, Igbo are still there. Yorubas are kano especially Yoruba Moslems but they are not much and a lot of them have blended into the hausa community and majority are from kwara like I got to find out from my lawyer. In Bauchi, Igbo are ably present as usual in fact some of the cooks at the government house are Igbo. I met only one Yoruba deeper life pastor in bauchi. In jos, they are so much that an entire area in jos is known to belong to Igbo in fact my idoma driver speaks Igbo because he grew up there. Birom people will tell u, apart from hausas, the next largest settlers are Igbo, then idoma and tiv. Uhrobos in jos are even more than yorubas in population in jos. The same undp program, took me to Adamawa, nasarawa,Benue and taraba. And all these places, u have a large Igbo population and u can hardly see yorubas except corpers. In Kaduna,from kafanchan, penbeygwa, Zaria , to the entire southern Kaduna, Igbo are every where. Yorubas are in good number in kawu and northern Kaduna areas but they are mostly Moslems and many are in there third generation families.

Guy, unfortunately for you, your opinion isn't fact. The same Bauchi where you claim (in your experience) igbos are more than Yorubas in number, the former governor Yuguda made a Yorubaman his Chief Press Secretary

http://www.9jabook.com/forum/topics/a-yoruba-becomes-chief-press-secretary-in-bauchi-state

http://www.yankarigamereserve.com/bauchi-yoruba-community-honours-yugudas-cps/

You say Yorubas in Kano are not much yet they vie for political office in Kano

https://www.nairaland.com/104822/revealed-igbo-yoruba-politics-sabon


In Nasarawa a group of no more than 170,000 Yorubas based in the state endorsed the PDP governorship candidate

http://www.blueprint.ng/2014/04/14/yoruba-group-backs-nasarawa-pdp-candidate/

Host state governments officially recognize local yoruba communities you claim not to have come across. Now, you are entitled to your experiences but they're just YOUR experience and are in no way a true measure of the reality on ground.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/11/yeo-hails-yoruba-community-living-peacefully-groups/ - Kaduna ex-governor commends Yoruba community.

http://205.234.252.102/~enownow/news/story.php?sno=2387 - Jos Yoruba community demands compensation

Yorubas even have a monarch in Adamawa representing their community and interests:

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=68545

The Yoruba monarch in Adamawa, Oba A.G Abdul Ganiyu thanked the Governor for the good gestures done to the tribe and charged all Yorubas to be law-abiding.

My point is that your opinion is your opinion. But it's not enough.

meforyou1:
this opc tout, can u just present go back to your mai guard work. Is there any single yoruba in the North east, whether soldier or civilian?

When a buffoon can't argue constructively, he resorts to verbal attacks and invectives. I refuse to dignify you with a response. Mention me again and you won't get a response from me.

IGBOPRINCE:
yorubas re the owner of kwara state but the hausas use their scaring power to usurp the emir of ilorin which is a yoruba man and installed an hausa man there. Till date ,a yoruba man just kept quiet without doing nothing.

So my brother, I am not dragging kwara with you cos the yorubas re like indigenes there. But when we talk of kano,kaduna,sokoto and jos. No go there. Even abuja the indigenes confirmed it that ndigbos re the highest in population who occupied 73% of lands in abuja.

You and kaakulator4 should open this link to cure your ignorance

www.nairaland.com/54751/el-rufai-igbos-own-73-abuja

Let's even assume that the el-rufai statement is an indicator of igbo predominance in the FCT population (which it isn't), do you have any evidence that remotely suggests that igbos are more than yorubas in Kano, his, kaduna, sokoto etc? ? Unless you do your postulations/assertions remain in the realm of speculation and nothing more.

Your comment about ilorin betrays your ignorance bro. Yorubas are in firm control of ilorin and kwara by extension without any shred of doubt. Virtually all the governors (whose powers trump those of the religious emir whom they can even dethrone on a whim) are Yorubas, including the current one. One of Afonja's descendants sef don be governor in the not too distant past (Muhammed Lawal). I hope say you don receive sense now.

Bump.

IGBOPRINCE:
www.nairaland.com/54751/el-rufai-igbos-own-73-abuja

Provide ur own evidence

On a lighter note , El-Rufai did admit that at least a sizable number of those landed property were demolished coz igbos were most affected by those demolitions back then during his tenure. Besides, like I said up there, the more than three million strong Yoruba populations in Kwara and Kogi already settles it, after all both states fall within the North . Unless you wan shift goal post again.

IGBOPRINCE:
aburo na true talk even one hausa man don confam am sey we don buy all the lands for abj yet una dey there dey claimed una plenty
Kwontinu

Hahaha. Even if Una claim the entire population of FCT minus every other tribe, that still wouldn't change the fact that Yorubas have lived (and still do) and traded (and still do) with the Northerners for centuries, long before Una even see one single mallam biabia. Also, Don't forget that kwara and Kogi, two states with predominant and significant (respectively) Yoruba populations numbering in the millions, are located in the North [central].

lolzzzz:
you are dumber than I thought. Well, it doesn't add up to anything if I convince you, I better save the energy for something else.

Oh, you're copping out because I have practically rubbished your false premise. You can't convince me because you lack any shred of evidence asides your unreliable anecdotes, assumptions and fantasies.

lolzzzz:
not because I said so, but because its the truth. I'm currently in the north.

Are you foolish? Did the census board provide any data for tribe population distribution? Why are you this foolish? Another place you can tell me yorubas are much outside southwest is port Harcourt ( they are majorly the bus and taxi drivers along rumuokoro/rukpokwu/igwuruta/elele/choba/emohua axis) ask tonyebarcanista if you think I'm lying (if he will tell you the truth) or ask abagworo. Apart from PH and maybe abuja, yorubas are not really outside southwest.

You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. You igbos are fond of shifting goal posts when situations don't favour you. If the census doesn't favour your tribe or region you reject it and come up with all kinds of ridiculous excuses. At least there's official data of states population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population

Why una all no relocate en masse back to your region to boost your numbers and help yourselves during the census? You are just bitter at the mere idea that Yorubas actually do outnumber you all in the North, in spite of all your vain noises. Your real grouse is that of all the regions in Nigeria, the SE is the only region which Yorubas relatively shun. Whether you believe that there are Yorubas in significant numbers up North is irrelevant at the end of the day because you are a non-entity in the overall scheme of things.

lolzzzz:
there are more igbos in the major cities of the north. The nature of my job takes me to at least one city in the north in a month. You barely see Yoruba's in kano, Kaduna, Jos, bauchi and sokoto. Before you see one Yoruba in abuja, you would have seen five igbos.

And we are supposed to believe you coz... You said so? Come on you can do better. No data evidence? Not even census?

kaakulator4:
I've mentioned 4 major towns in the north where there are more Yorubas.Let any Igbo person here prove me wrong

Last year we went for a seminar in Tudun pawa.Do you know how many Yorubas we met?

No mind them. For their mind na Dem plenty pass even for the whole Africa, yet Dem no fit prove am. As long as they believe it in their little minds then it must be so/true. Awon jokers gbogbo.

Rayhut:
Let the TRUTH be told, Igbos are more visible in any state you go to in Nigeria. I am not defending Igbo, But they are the Largest ethnic group in Nigeria. Yorubas are not known for travelling outside their domain in mass like that, in reality you cannot compare the population of Igbo people in the North to that of Yorubas, unless if just want to be telling yourself lies, even in Lagos the population of Igbos is nearly equal to population of yorubas in Lagos.

lol. Guy, your "truth" is merely an opinion that isn't grounded in facts or empirical evidence. There is a Yoruba community head in every community in the North, including even your SE and SS. Personally I don't deal in assumptions but rather in facts. Official census data has settled it but you are free to believe otherwise of course. Or do your people not return to the SE during the census to help your numbers? If they don't and are undercounted as a result, whose fault is that? ? I repeat that your opinion has no basis in facts.

kaakulator4:
How can you say there are more Igbos than Yorubas in the north.Are you okay?

Lets wait for the Northerners here to come settle this

I don't need to say much.Mind you this is someone who's very familiar with the North so be careful before you tell lies

The truth is that Yorubas in the North blend in and assimilate easily thanks in part to shared cultural and religious norms -- they wear kaftans as well as the Hausa hats (like they do at ilorin) wear turbans, speak the local dialects, etc, which often makes them indistinguishable from the native Northerners. This explains why some erroneously assume that the more ostentatious igbos with their red caps, apoches, etc, are more than Yorubas up there.

@IGBOPRINCE: Yorubas and Northerners have been in contact for much longer than can be said between igbos and the North. That Yorubas in the North outnumber their igbo counterparts in that part of the country shouldn't be in doubt.

See wickedness!! Too many fake 'men of god' in Nigeria. God will continue to expose them and their evil works.

All these 419 blogs would be better off churning out Nollywood scripts than cooking up and peddling fake news.

Adebowaletunji:
dude am just stating the obvious....though am back to abuja

seems u expected me to lash them....but u were disappointed

Dude, all I'm saying is that you can say the exact same thing you wrote up there and still have an audience without using a Yoruba moniker coz you're not even Yoruba to begin with and have been busted severally for your mischief. Seriously, you don't need this coz it only distracts from your message.

Guy, you no dey tire? How many monikers you alone get? You don't have to use Yoruba moniker to validate your point you know?

[quote author= post=42618171]I don't give a shit how you think about us, so far it doesn't stop us from progressing.
Ogun state is backward

When you attain this level then I will take you guys serious[/quote]Lol. You people are the ones with the insecurities, always feeling like you have a point to prove. And you just had to pull up those ugly a$$ pix. Smh. If Anambra is all that, you won't have to make so much noise about it. Me I'm moving on.

anomsodi:
Dis is jus to counter d ogun thread
nawa for u ppIe
cnt u jus ceIebrate wit ur neighour

You sef noticed how they just couldn't resist invading that thread to derail it? I don't get why they feel so insecure.

[quote author= post=42605833]Only

Anambra list
Academias from Anambra state:
1. Dr Pius Okigbo first Nigerian PHD in Economics
2. prof Philip emeagwali inventor of super computer
3. Prof Okoye first Nigerian professor of physics
4. Chike Obi first Nigerian professor of mathematicsa, Mathematician famous for his work on non-differential equations won the 1985 ICTP Price
5. Prof Kodilnye first Nigerian professor of medicine
6. Professor Kenneth Dike a pre-eminent scholar of African History and was. the first indigenous Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and founder of the National Archives.
7. Prof James Ezelio first Nigerian professor differential calculus
8. prof Chinua Achebe great novelist
* Cyprian Ekwensi MFR, a writer of international repute
9. Emeka Anyaoku first African commom wealth chairman
10. Prof Ben Enwonwu first Nigerian sculptor of international repute with artwork gracing the United Nations headquarters
11. Professor Samuel Okoye was black Africa's first PhD in RadioAstronomy.
who along with Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge discovered the radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star.
12.Chief Jerome Udoji a social reformer was the first African to be made a 'D.O' (District Officer) by the Colonial Administration
13. Chimamanda Adichie Novelist
14. Gilbert Kodilinye BA(Oxon) MA(Oxon) LL.M(Lond) Barrist -at-Law
15. Prof Dora Akunyili Pharmacologist
16. Oby Ezekwezili former world bank Charlady in Africa
17. Olisa Agbakoba first NBA president
* Lieutenant-General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor, appointed in 2008 by UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as Military Advisor on UN Peacekeeping. Operations.
18 Prof Charles Soludo Economist and fromer CBN Governor
19. Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy MBE, a London-based visual artist. The first black artist to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II when commissioned to paint the official Golden Jubilee portrai
20. Francis Akpuaka - a renowned professor of plastic surgery
*Prof Ernest Ndukwe former NCC boss
* Prof Laz Ekwueme
Politicians from Anambra
22. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe first Nigeria president
23. Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme frontline Politician, Architect and the first executive Vice-President of Nigeria
* Nwafor Orizu the first Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
24. Dim Emeka Ojukwu - the leader of the secessionist Biafra Republic
25. Edwin Umezuoke former Chairman ANPP
26. Dr Chuba Okadigbo Oyi of Oyi former Senate president
27.Chukwuemeka Ezife former Governor of Anambra state
28 Chief Victor Umeh Apga nationa chairman
29. Chuka Umunna, a British Labor Party Member of Parliament for Streatham constituency
30. Chinyelu Onwurah, a British Labor Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central, becoming the first female British MP of African origin
* Barrister Olisa Metuh PDP national publiclty secretary.
Business Tycoons
* Sir louis Odiumegwu Ojukwu first Nigerian millionaire and also first Nigerian stock exchange persident
31.Sir Emeka Offor CEO Chrom Energy, Enugu disco etc.
32. Dr ABC Orjiakor CEO Seplat Plc, Neimith pharmaceuticals etc.
33. Engr Ernest Azudialu CEO Nestoil, Century power generation, Smile Network etc.
*Dr. Godwin Maduka is the Managing Director and founder Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Centre, which is the largest and most comprehensive pain treatment practice group in Nevada, United States of America.
* Arthur Eze CEO Altlas Oranto petrolum
*. Ex Gov Peter Obi Fidelity bank, Next etc.
* Andy Uba politician, Oil merchat
* Barrister Allen Onyema CEO Air peace
*Chief Umeofia The CEO of Erisco Foods Ltd., the fourth largest tomato past in world
34 Cos Maduka CEO Coscharies motors, Abro motor products, Coched farm etc.
35. Emma Bishop Okonknwo CEO Ekulo group
36. Clement Ibeto CEO Ibeto group, Cement, Oil Merchant, Motor products, Real Estate, Farm and Hotels.
37.Ifeanyi Uba Capital Oil etc
38. Chief (Dr.) Alexander Chika Okafor CEO Chicason group, AZ oil.
39 Innocent Chukwuma Innoson Motors etc.
40. Nicolas Ukachukwu CEO SNECOU Group of Companies Limited
41. SIR. Daniel Chukwudoze Dozzy Oil
42 Sir. Nath Okechukwu Chairman Inter-bau Construction Ltd
43 HRH. Igwe Alfred Achebe Obi of Onitsha Chairman Daimon bank and unilever Plc.
44. Sir Emeka Okwuosa Chairaman Oil serve group, Ekcel Farms Ltd
45. Nnetochukwu Azubuike Oil merchant, Genesis hotel and Genesis deluxe cinemas
46 Odumodu CEO May&Baker
47 Chief Poly Emenike Nero Pharmaceutical
48. Mrs. Stella Okoli Emzor
* Obi Okoye Fusion motors Los Angeles US
* Nkechi Obi. Tchno oil
* Ben Anakwe NIPCO oil,
* Stella Odua Former aviation minister, CEO SPG
* Dame Felicia Okoli CEO Armak group of companies
* Uju Ifejika CEO Britannia-U
* William Uzoma Anumudu Chairman Global motors Holding
* Enukeme Linus Azubuike Chairman Tonimas Group
* Obiajulu Uzodike Cutix wire plc
* Chigioke Anumoka Chairman Cotech and Tummy tummy. noodles
49. Mike Ajegbo Minaj Tv, Cement and real estate
*. DA Nwandu Construction, real estate

Transporter and haulage biz
50. Young shall grow
51. Chisco group
52, Ekenedilichukwu trans
53. GUO Okeke
54. CN Okoli
55 Izuchukwu trans
56. PN. Omerua
57. FG. Onyewe
* Ifeanyichukwu transporttransport

Religious leaders
54.Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (born in Aguleri, Anambra State, in September 1903 – died in Leicester, England, January 24, 1964) was an Igbo from Aguleri in Anambra East. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937. He worked in the parishes of Nnewi, Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajalli and Aguleri and was later a Cistercian monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England. Pope John Paul II beatified him on March 22, 1998, saying "Blessed Cyprian Michael Tansi is a prime example of the fruits of holiness which have grown and matured in the Church in Nigeria since the Gospel was first preached in this land.
55.Cardinal Francis Arinze, once considered a potential Pope.
* Bishop Okonkwo

Music Industry
56. Osita Osedebe
56. Oliver dicoco
57. Moroco Nwamaduka
58. Ozoemena Nwazugbe
59. Chinyere Udoma
60. Gozie Okeke

61. Peter and Paul Okoye (Psquare)
62. Chinedu Okoli (Flavour N'abania)
63. Azubuike Chibuzo Nelson (Phyno)
64. Kingsley Chinweike Okonkwo (Kcee) Limbobo master
65. Celeboo
66. Oziomachukwu Favour Mojekwu (Osy bosco)

Footballers
67. Amobi Okoye - Youngest American football player to play for the NFL (2004), currently plays for the Houston Texans
68 John Mikel Obi

Nollywood
67.Pet Edochie
68. Chika Okpala, aka Chief Zebrudaya
69.Bub-manuel Udokwu
70. Chidi Nmokeme
71.Chika Ike
72. Oge Okoye
73. Amachi Nmanago
74.Tony Oneweek
* Rita Edochie
* Yul Edochie
* Ngozi Ezeonu
* Steve Onu "Yaw WAZOBIA FM"[/quote]Smh. Why are you Anambra people such a bunch of low self-esteemed folks? Wetin consign Anambra with Ogun matter? Even amongst your fellow igbos you people can be so obnoxious and irritating. You are better off arguing and measuring deeks with your fellow Ebonyi, Imo, and Abia. Ogun is competing with the likes of Lagos, not a market state like yours, sorry.

snika:
Wait OP lemme show you the real "beauty of Lagos"

Lagos slums are child's play compared to Nairobi's Kibera slums - the largest urban slums in Africa, even as Nairobi fine reach. Even SA has worse slums where the blacks were formerly confined to during apartheid. Google Alexandra, Diepsloot, Ponte City, and Khayletisha slums at Joburg and Cape town. Those slums still stand till today.