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agbameta: You are 45% in a place where you are nothig politically, nothing socially, nothing culturally, nothing in the grand scheme of things....

Obviously, somebody is spinning tales by moolight..

Joe Igbokwe, ACN chief and Lagos State Government official said that. Now if you trust him to be in your govt, you gotta trust his words, yes, no?

Yoruba man (Festus Adedayo) was a top govt official in Enugu under Nnamani (LONG BEFORE AN IGBO MAN BECAME ANYTHING IN LAGOS)
Anther had been in Abia (I forgot his name now??) under Orji Kalu
An Edo man (Chief Tito Asekhame) was there in Imo under Ohakim
A Yoruba (Pst. Bunmi Babs - Special Assistant) were there until the recent sack of everyone by Okorocha

Thanks Chris-OD for providing this information and making this qualifying statement

People come and people go. Then (and until recently) it was Yorubas/Edo in Igbo govts. Now its the reverse (Ben Akabueze in Lagos). Do you know what will be tomorrow? Will Ben be there for ever?

https://www.nairaland.com/1398073/igbo-pastor-lagos-commissioner-economic

Duh!! That is an open secret. Bribe the Lagos press, get publicity.

agbameta: You are the ignorant party here because Jo Igbokwe is the General Manager, Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance & Regulatory Agency, LASIMRA.

No big deal. That is a ratty position, and besides Igbos make up 45% of Lagos, according to the same Joe Igbokwe.

"THE NORTH AND YORUBA HAVE CONSPIRED TO KEEP THE IGBO OUT.” - Sanusi

"This nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalization of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.

After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems." Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.


The Yorubas are a people choking in the vomit they have created with hatred and fear of the Igbos. They envy the Igbos who have done the impossible – standing up to their enemies; and exercising their inalienable rights to self preservation. As cowardly and sheepishly docile as Yorubas are , Yorubas are a spineless people unable to stand up for a justifiable cause other than to fish in troubled water in search of decomposed leftovers. They are overjoyed the Igbos lost the Biafran War which afforded Yorubas the opportunity to scramble for “abandoned” Igbo belongings and misplaced Federal pieces of property they quickly pilfered with the blessings of Awolowo whom the Yorubas consider god of money, but whom I crown with title “Devourer of Dead Children.” Yorubas cannot fight but would run into juju shrines with human body parts in search of protective charms. What a group of superstitious bushmen!
What concerns me the most about the Yorubas is the degree of trade in human body parts that goes on in the West. Have you read the news of two Yoruba brothers who killed their third brother and were selling his body parts piece by piece? Their mother had been missing for three years and neighbors believed the hideous boys had eaten Mom or sold her parts, including suckling bosoms and womanliness, to witch doctors for the making of ogwu ego (medicine for money). Had the two brothers not been arrested, one would eventually kill the other, so the winner would attempt to beat the Igbo in accumulating the largest amount of money the world could only imagine. Hey, did you read about the Yoruba man who died in a London hospital and whose joystick and scrotum sack were found missing? The Yoruba nurses were up in arms when questioned “Where de joystick and basket?” The parts were neatly sliced off and flown out to Ijebu Ode to be cooked and mixed in some ola-kassimous (made-up word for strongest) charms). Chai.
The Yorubas invented the Ogboni Society for Nigerian illiterates eager to own more money than God. I hear Ogboni members are required to sacrifice family members or chosen others to stay protected and in wealth. If Yoruba charms really work, why don’t they protect them from being arrested while marketing human body parts? Why don’t the jujus give the Yorubas the smartness and acumen the Igbos used to turn N1,000 given shortly after the War into billions a few years later? Why didn’t the charms clean the gutters, sanitize the squalor, and cure malaria and small pox infesting Yorubaland? Why don’t they fare better in WAEC papers without being the purveyors of Expo? Why? Why? The Yorubas are a conniving people; they have conspired with the Hausas to rob and marginalize the Igbos. Sanusi of the Central bank of Nigeria states:

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Igbo women are better than others- Femi Fani-Kayode

I do not mean any offence to Nigerian women by asking the question that I am about to ask or by making the assertions that I am about to make in this note. However this is an important question that I have not been able to answer myself for a number of years even though I have tried my best to do so. And the question is as follows. What precisely is it about igbo women that has made them excel in public office, business, politics, the arts, the sciences, religion, leadership and social activism in just the last 12 years when compared to their counterparts from other parts of our country?



There are, of course, some equally notable and brilliant non-igbo women in our country as well who are doing, and have done, a great job in both our private and public sectors and who have also done great things in their local communities and in our nation. However when I ponder on this issue and I consider the names that are on my list of distinguished Nigerian women that have been outstanding in their various fields of endeavour over the last few years, the overwhelming majority of them are igbos. A few names will serve as an illustration of what I am trying to say and let me assure you that I have had the distinct honour and privilage of either knowing most of them quite well or working closely with at least a few, so I am speaking from an informed position. They are all well-educated, forceful, strong-willed, focused, creative, disciplined, passionate and decisive characters who are almost ''German-like'' in their work ethic and in their pursuit of excellence and perfection.



They really don't take any prisoners when it comes to their work or calling and they all do their jobs, or whatever it is that they are doing, with an almost ''messianic'' zeal. I am talking about people like Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala (the former Minister of Finance and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria who is now the Managing Director of the World Bank), Obi Ezekwezile (the former Minister of Solid Minerals and former Minister of Education of Nigeria who is now the National Vice Charman of the World Bank), Dora Akinluyi (the former Director- General of NAFDAC and the former Minister of Information for Nigeria), Ndidi Okereke-Onyiuke (the former Director- General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the person that was credited with buliding it up literally from scratch), Roz Ben-Okagbue (a leading pro-democracy activist in Nigeria and one of the conveners and leaders of the Save Nigeria Group), Violet Yough (a successful, wealthy and well-respected industrialist and business woman of many years standing),



Stella Chinyelu Okoli (the Chief Executive and founder of Emzor Pharmaceutical, the most successful and largest indigenous pharmaceutical company in Nigeria), Irene Iroche (the Chief Executive of Finbank), the late Genevieve Onyuike (one of the most versatile and brilliant lawyers in Nigeria and the former President of the Oxford and Cambridge Club of Nigeria), Joy Ogwu (the former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria and presently the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations), Evelyn Oputu (the Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Bank), Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (a well respected and notable writer of international standing and repute and the author of the international best-seller titled ''Half A Yellow Sun''), the late Flora Nwapa (the poet, writer and essayist who was the author of the Nigerian bestseller titled ''Efuru''), Akachi Ezeigbo (a highly respected Professor of African Literature of international standing and repute) , Stella Oduah Ogiemwonyi (the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sea Petroleum and Gas Group of Companies and who is one of the biggest players in the Nigerian oil and gas industry), Genevieve Nnaji (a leading Nigerian actress), Amaka Igwe (the respected film producer and director and a key figure in the Nigerian movie industry which is known as ''Nollywood'), Bishop Peace Okonkwo (the wife of Bishop Mike Okonkwo and the co-founder of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission TREM, one of the largest and most respected Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria), Arunma Oteh (the Director General of the Securities Exchange Commision) and so many others.


However in the last 12 years the igbos seem to have taken over in this respect and are now well-ahead of the rest of Nigeria. Just a few years and look at what they have achieved. It really is quite remarkable. Can anyone tell me their secret or why this is so? What could be responsible for their doggedness, their natural drive, their tremendous energy and their great strength of character? What is it about these strong-willed eastern women of bantu and igbo extraction that now and all of a sudden sets them so far apart?

https://www.nairaland.com/965707/between-igboyoruba-other-women-femi

Yorubest: nuisances [/b]

See grammar now. Nuisances ko, Nunu ni, Complete stark illiterate

bashy_demy: Oga can you please give us the list of the convicted yoruba man who are facing trial? name one past ACN Governor who is facing trial for curruption. The guy Fani Kayode is a PDP member and only follow the rule of if you can't beat them you join them and when his conscience is asking him to stop he quit and follow the progressive.

Ikuforiji Lagos House Speaker
Tinubu, King of Yorubas

bakynes: So yorubas are a minority in lagos state abi?

Ask APC.

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bakynes: Where did you get ur own 45% from?

From APC. https://www.nairaland.com/1383852/igbos-45-lagos-joe-igbokwe

bakynes: We no want old man.

He is not good enough for you and you think he is good for Ibos?

bakynes: Dream on broda not in this lifetime will lagos produce an Igbo deputy Govenor,when non-lagos indigenous yorubas don't attain deputy govenor.Bt if he decides nt to employ any igbo person into his cabinet there is nothing anyone can do.Pple wld vote based on his works in the state and not based on if he has an igbo person in his cabinet

Please take Ngige, Ibo dash you for free

Sunny_bobo: And you people have since upgraded to more serious political game of murder. Check out the stats in this current dispensation;

-------2003, Dr. Ayo Daramola, a PDP gubernatorial aspirant in Ekiti State, and a consultant on Social Protection and HIV/AIDS to the World Bank Country Office in Abuja was murdered in his bedroom at his hometown, Ijan-Ekiti. A nutritionist who recently joined the race, his death is linked to the intra-party crisis, which has thrown up political enemies after the death of the third term agenda in the state. He was stabbed, shot and hacked to death.

 ------   Engineer Funso Williams, PDP gubernatorial aspirant in Lagos State and chairman, Board of Directors of Nigeria Maritime Authority (NMA) was murdered on July 27, 2006. Police are still investigating this assassination. Forensic experts were invited from London to assist them. The police arrested PDP gubernatorial aspirants in the state and some members of the NMA board. They were held for about three weeks. 

-------- On July 16, 2005 unknown gunmen killed Alhaji Lateef (alias Lati Osogbo) a close associate of the strongman of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adebibu, in Ibadan. 
     
--------- Alhaji Sulaimon Olajokun, a Lagos-based businessman and one of the 'financiers' of the group, Oranmiyan was murdered on his way to Lagos from Ile-Ife Osun State, in a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on May 15, 2005. He was a chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). 
       
---------  On December 23, 2001, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige, was killed inside his bedroom at Ibadan, Oyo State. The police declared one Olugbenga Adebayo, ( a.k.a. Fryo) wanted in connection with the murder. The trial of suspects took many twists and turns; several judges resigned from the case, and Ige's wife died after one of the futile hearings to trace the killers. The Oyo government withdrew the case from the court in 2004. 
       
---------- Mrs. Emily Omope (a.k.a . Thatcher), an AD member, died on March 3, 2003 at the UCH Ibadan after an acid attack in December last year by unknown persons. 
       
 --------- Unknown assailants in Lagos killed Dele Arojo a PDP gubernatorial aspirant on November 25, 2002. 
       
 --------- On December 19, 2001, Mr. Odunayo Olagbaju, a member of the Osun State House of Assembly, was killed in front of the Moore police station, Ile-Ife, Osun State. 

 --------- Ahmed Sardauna, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State also fell to the assassin’s bullet in 2003

Yoruba buru gan (Yoruba bad no be small)

Sunny_bobo:
Just to whip your memory back into place;

SEP 1962 – Diary Of Western Nigeria’s Political Crisis – As parliamentarians in the Western House of Assembly riot, some MPs seek any means of exit. This record of the crisis in Western Nigeria serves as a reminder that we must never again allow political difference to get so disastrously out of hand. ( Photograph by Matthew Faji ©BAHA)

Is that Mr Awolowo running from wetie?

agbameta: See ibo cannibalism. Must you throw uncle Ben under the bus as a token appointee when in fact the man was not only hired based on his credible credentials, but also because he's the best in his line of work as a banker which was what Tinubu saw when he hired him and what Fashola saw when he decided to keep him for 8 more years..


You people need to get out of this hate and bigotry business if you want to move progress and move forward in life...

Good you acknowledge that an Igbo man is the best banker in Yorubaland,

agbameta: Thugs don't vote and unlike you people, we don't need thugs to speak for us or determine or leaders and elected officials.

Lagosians peacefully walked to the polls like enlightened and civilized people and gave Fashola a landslide victory..

Who killed Funso Williams and Bola Ige?

What is the meaning of wetie wetie?

agbameta: Enlightened and civilized people let ballot boxes decide, not violent thugs, emotional and irrational people like you.

Looks like you people are still decades behind civilization..

Look who is talking about thugs. Was Tinubu not training and using thugs that helped to elect Fashola. Does Fashola not have a horde of thugs that he will deploy for his own errand boy in 2015? Yoruba=thugs.

This is fp mat. No?

tankoemmanuel: You are critically insane. They drink garri at night but they produce the best legal luminaries, the best journalists, the best accountants. A yoruba man lives in a 2 bedroom, rusted roof house but his children are studying in Manchester university, in Princeton, in Oxford university. Your Ibo father lives in a duplex situated in an isolated hinterland, but his children don't go to school! What are we Igbos doing in Lagos? Lagos is feeding us, yet you castigate and make vitrioloc attacks on the region. It seems you didn't suck your mother's breast milk at all.

Dream of the century. Lawyers, accountants? Others (Igbos) produce Engineers, doctors, global economists and enterprenuers. What do lawyers contribute to the economy?