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CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 9:40pm On Mar 04, 2009
A whole Oba in Yorubaland eating a poor youthcorper grin
when is the next oro festival? tongue
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 9:39pm On Mar 04, 2009
Speaking of shrines and youthcorpers
Source: http://thepmnews.com/wpg2?g2_itemId=440
Dead Corps Member Found In Oba’s Shrine
July 28, 2008 15:53, 4,640 views

The police at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Lagos, made a shocking discovery when they allegedly discovered the body of a youth corps member in a shrine at the palace of the Onitire of Itire, Oba Lateef Abayomi Dauda.

The Chemical Engineering graduate of Lagos State University (LASU) was found tied with a rope around his neck. He was identified as Abiodun Seriki.

Police sources at SCID Panti told P.M.News that the report of the missing youth corper was initially lodged at the Itire police station three days before his dead body was found.

The parents of the deceased had also bought airtime on radio and television seeking information about their missing child.

A police source told P.M.News that a young boy of about 14 (names withheld), who had scaled the back fence of the palace to pluck mango fruits, discovered the dead body.
He immediately jumped back and rushed to Itire police station to report.

The police then mobilised and stormed the palace, where the dead body was recovered.

They promptly arrested the entire household of the Oba, including his two wives and seven children.

The Oba had visited the Homicide Department of the SCID twice and the police said he had made a useful statement.

An unconfirmed report indicated that the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) in charge of SCID, Panti, Mr. Oyeleye Oyebade, last Friday, ordered the detention of the Oba.

An irate mob attempted to burn down the palace, prompting the police to beef-up security around the premises.
A resident of Itire, who pleaded anonymity for obvious reasons, accused the Onitire family of murder.

“They have just finished their Oro festival. Each time they do this Oro of a thing, this is how they murder people. The police should not bungle this case as we are watching,” he said.

Contacted, Mr. Leye Oyebade, the DCO at Panti, said: “All I can tell you now is that a dead body was discovered at the palace. What we are investigating now is homicide. Investigation will reveal if it is murder, manslaughter or suicide.”
SOURCE
www.thepmnews.com/wpg2?g2_itemId=440



shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 9:35pm On Mar 04, 2009
beneli:
@Sauron
I am from Ngwa Ukwu in Isiala Ngwa.
I too have heard about this Cannibalism business that people, like you, claim we partake in.
But i can tell you, if it will bring you peace, that we don't eat human meat!

Are you satisfied?

It's actually a very laughable thing to think that informed Nigerians on this side of the 21st century, who have interacted with people from outside their villages, can continue to believe that rubbish!

And yes, i do go home often, so i know wetin dey.

Na wa for people!

Shaking his head and wondering why seemingly intelligent Nigerians can continue to be so prejudiced and ignorant when discussing people from outside their ethnic groups,
They've called me tribalist,Igbocentric,like I care.
The only reason I started this thread was to shut up the mouths of some of these my Yoruba friends who parrot silly stories handed down by their tribalistic fathers and grandfathers about easterners as a whole.
I've often told them that for any ritual crime story in Igboland,there are probably 24 in Yorubaland.
I've thrown out a challenge since 2006 that I've been on nairaland challenging even one of them to name one single crime or atrocity in Igboland that doesn't obtain anywhere else and no one has been able to meet that challenge.
Not even one!
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 9:28pm On Mar 04, 2009
Osisi is mixing money rituals with CANNIBALISM.
These people you have here bought skulls or dug em up in different graves. . . . .THEY DID NOT EAT THEM.
We are talking about HUMAN FLESH EATING IGBO PEOPLE here NOT money rituals.
Please, stay on the topic.
You are the one that went off to Okija shrine when you couldn't prove cannibalism in Ngwa
Everyone knows that shrines also abound in Yorubaland and the whole of Nigeria
I saw the skulls in the picture just like we saw a Yoruba man with nine skulls.

You read the human market story there in your backyard
were the breasts and arms also dug up from the grave?

So far we've only seen the mad man Clifford Orji and several Yoruba flesh eaters whom you called Igbo and you're still here arguing.
I threw you a challenge to prove your youth corper story and you became desperate.
You haven't started grin
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 9:22pm On Mar 04, 2009
Okija_juju:
I thought the objective of this thread was to shine light on Mr. Orji's accomplice??  huh
Yes
and to destroy the Yoruba myth that Igbos are cannibals.

There's no evidence whatsoever from all the stories posted that Igbos as a nation of people would kill and eat humans
Of course there are cannibals everywhere
There are sick cannibals in every nation
In the USA,In Yorubaland,In Igboland,In Calabar.
Is cannibalism a cultural practice
Sauron is yet to prove it
and you pride yourself of being smart?
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 7:05pm On Mar 04, 2009
Desire to build new house pushed me into sale of human parts,
says man caught with 9 skulls
By MATTHEW DIKE
Thursday, October 2, 2008
• Ogunyemi
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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A grave digger in Lagos who was arrested recently for being in possession of 9 human heads said it was the desire to build a new house that pushed him into the illegal act. Tunde Adenuga, had been exhuming corpses from the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos, chopping off the heads and other vital parts for sale to ritualists, before he was nabbed by the police.

Adenuga, 42, had severed the nine human heads from bodies that were resting in peace at the Atan Cemetery and concealed them in two bags before eagle-eyed detectives from Sabo police station intercepted him.

“We needed to build a house, that was why I went to the cemetery again to get human parts,” Adenuga said.
After his arrest, the suspect spilled the beans as he disclosed to the policemen that he was not alone in the human parts business. He mentioned the name of[b] Suleiman Ogunyemi, 31, as his accomplice.[/b]He told the police operatives that Ogunyemi was buying each of the human heads for N3, 000.
Adenuga, however, claimed digging up human bodies from Atan cemetery four times.
He confessed that besides personally using the human parts for money rituals, Ogunyemi, a herbalist, bought them to prepare concoction for his customers, who wanted to make quick money.
The suspect, a native of Ogun State said he usually scaled the cemetery fence at very odd hours to exhume dead bodies.

His words: “I would remove some part and used them to bath. The medicine works. I've done it four timesMeanwhile, Ogunyemi, a native of Oyo State, has denied buying human heads from Adenuga. He admitted that they were bosom friends, adding that he lent him some money and not in exchange for human heads.
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 7:03pm On Mar 04, 2009
Thursday, September 25, 2008 Printer Friendly Version

Police arrest two men with nine human skulls

By Olalekan Adetayo


Policemen attached to Sabo Police Divisional Headquarters in Lagos have arrested two men for allegedly being in possession of nine human skulls.

Olalekan Adetayo
L-R: Tunde Adenuga and Suleiman Ogunyemi, on parade by the Police, for alleged possession of human skulls, in Lagos on Wednesday

The suspects, Tunde Adenuga and Suleiman Ogunyemi, were arrested at about 3am on Wednesday at Atan cemetary, Yaba, where the skulls were suspected to have been severed from dead bodies.

As at the time of their arrest, the skulls were carefully concealed inside two cement bags. Another suspect, who drove the car that conveyed them to the cemetary, however, evaded arrest as he reportedly sped off with the car when he sensed police presence.

Forty-two-year old Adenuga told our correspondent at the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, that he resorted to supplying human skulls to those who needed them to earn a living after he lost his grave digging job at the cemetary.

Displaying the stinking skulls, the suspect, father of seven children, said that he sold a skull at the rate of N3,000 each.

He identified Ogunyemi, a herbs seller at Awolowo Market, Babalosa, Mushin, Lagos,as his major customer.

Adenuga said that anytime Ogunyemi was in need of the skulls, he (Ogunyemi) would call him and they would agree on when and where they would meet to deliver the items.

He said, ”Since I have worked in the cemetary before, I know where the security men normally sit, so I always take the other way. I always arrive there around 12am and head straight to the temporary cemetary section.

”You know that they normally exhume decaying bodies and replace them with fresh ones in that section of the cemetary. So what I do is to collect the heads of those bodies that have already been exhumed and sell them to Sule.

”I do not use any juju for the operation. I am always emboldened by this horoscope thing that says that those born on November 19 like me will achieve success through grave digging.”

Adenuga confessed that before he decided to be collecting the skulls in commercial quantities, he usually picked ”small ones”, burnt them into ashes and mixed them with black soap which he used to take his bath.

This concoction, he claimed, attracted fortunes to people.

Adenuga said, “I usually go to Awolowo Market to burn the skulls. That was how I met Sule (Ogunyemi). He told me that he was interested in the skulls, too. That was how I started to supply him.

“Before I was caught, he even deposited some money with me on Tuesday in anticipation of the next supply.”


http://odili.net/news/source/2008/sep/25/421.html
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 7:01pm On Mar 04, 2009
Inside human parts market in Lagos.
Sunday, February 15, 2009

More Stories on This Section
Jankara market is self- effacing and deceptively ordinary. Located close to Idumagbo area of Lagos Island, the market is just a stretch of an old street.

Ears on the ground
Like other streets and markets, canvassers and touts hang around the place pitching for customers and mugus (gullible people). Though low in reputation,touts are an essential segment of this time – honoured market. Over the years, the place has come to be known as a place where any thing goes. And so, the touts come handy here.
They have their ears on the ground, and therefore know all the goings-on.

Book and wait
A week ago, our reporter posed as a juju priest who was in dire need of human body parts for urgent rituals. After about four hours of waiting and being passed from one “contact” to another, and played around like ping-pong, the reporter got a dealer who “booked” him. The rule here is, if you want a fresh human body part, you book and wait. If your order is for dry parts you get instant delivery.
But you must be an expert in human anatomy to decipher the parts you want from man’s closest animal relations – gorilla, chimpanzee and monkey.

Dark secret
But don’t jump to a hasty conclusion, there are genuine traders and honest businessmen and women at Jankara.They perhaps don’t even know that the place also habour a dark secret. A police post even looks over the place. A signpost calls it Oko Awo Police Post. An office on the counter there stared at our reporter angrily when he asked him if the police know about the wheeling and dealing in human body parts in the area: “What kind of question be this? I beg go, no be for here—o” the police officer retorted angrily.

Menumo
This expression when translated literally means “seal your lips” in Yoruba. The term is said in whisper and hushed tone — menu…mo .When you say the first syllable, you pause, look around to be sure there’s no third party or curiosity cat eaves dropping. When a deal is struck, you will be taken to some dank shanties and courtyard for your consignment.

The business is all about raw cash. A fresh human head has a street value of N250, 000. Fresh internal organs like heart, lung, kidney, and so on go for 500,000 a piece.
Other vital parts like penis, vagina and breast costs N50,000 each.Fresh tongue is sold at N100,000.
Sunday Sun learnt when a tongue is “ritualized and jujufied” that it “works well” for traders and people who apply for visa to go abroad “when well prepared, no one go question you for embassy and even your working place”, a dealer whose alias is Baba Ibeji revealed.

Toe and finger, Sunday Sun further learnt are good for travelers and business people. “ The toe is for traveling without falling.
The finger is to make money. Any thing you touch turns to money”, Baba Ibeji said.
Fresh toe and finger goes for N50,000 each.

Ritual animals
Even animals considered endangered species are not spared in Jankara. Herbalist beside the area’s butcher shop openly sell a wide range of animals. Imprisoned in wire-mesh cages are live animals like eagles, tortoise, chamellion, alligator and so on. A live eagle goes for N10,000.
Dead and dry one costsN500,000. Live Tortois costN5,000 while ordinary empty one is sold for N2,500.
Live chamelion costs N2,500. Dead and dry one goes for N2,000. The lizard-like creature, Sunday Sun learnt, is in demand by Advance Fee Fraudster —419. “When the thing is worked”, it means the more you look, the less you see, you will never caught,” one of the dealers who declined to give his name said.

Tough-skinned
The dealers know their terrain and the world they inhabit.They smell and sense danger in the air all the time. They are inclined to do business with you if you mention and have a prove of a regular Juju priest and customer. Even at this, they will still carry out a check on you. There’s no physical search. Under the pretex of “bringing your thing”, they will call your guarrantor and run a check on you. Any discovery of falsehood, they will cancel the deal and melt out of sight, leaving you to wait forever

Where missing people go
Jankara might be the possible place where missing persons in Lagos resurface but reduced to faceless, liveless body parts. As though to corroborate this, the managing director of Lagos State waste Management Authority (LAWMAN), Mr Ola Oresanya told Sunday Sun in an interview that hardly a day passes in the city without street sweepers and refuse collectors picking dismembered corpses and body parts.

“The corpses and body parts may be the handwork of ritualist and hit-and-run drivers”, he said.
Meanwhile Sunday Sun learnt that the morgues in the city are brimming with unclaimed dcorpses.There’s no more land for mass burial. So cremnation is the only option,” the source said.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/feb/15/national-15-02-2009-01.htm
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 6:55pm On Mar 04, 2009
tamme:
igbos=cannibals
Read the original story and the place mentioned was Calabar.
Please go read up on Mary Slessor before commenting
I don't think any Calabar person should say anything on this thread
If I were you,i'll be silent here.
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 6:52pm On Mar 04, 2009
~Sauron~:
These pictures were taken somewhere in the South East of Nigeria
There must be 1000 human skulls in these pics.

https://www.aiainc.org/a/i/news/a_Skull_of_Death_2.gif

https://www.aiainc.org/a/i/news/Skulls.gif

https://www.aiainc.org/a/i/news/a_Skull_Factory2.gif

AND A 7 YR OLD BOY IN A CASKET:

https://www.aiainc.org/a/i/news/a_Skull2.gif

IF CANNIBALISM IS NOT A STANDARD PRACTISE IN THE IGBO LAND then i have a white ASS. grin grin
You've spent 48 hours on this thread and all you came up was a shrine in Okija
where is the evidence of cannibalism?
So they ate the humans and deposited their skeletons at the shrine?
There's currently one human parts market known in Nigeria and it exists at your end
The name gbomogbomo is a yoruba name that existed before we knew what kidnappers were
There's also a human sacrifice stall that was recently discovered in Ife area

I warned you earlier that any crimes you come up with in Igboland had already been perfected with style in Yorubaland and you refused to listen.
You're beginning to be desperate and I love it grin
PoliticsRe: Igbo Frenzy Nairaland by osisi2(f): 6:47pm On Mar 04, 2009
Maybe they really want to smoke Igbo' and end up hating on Igbos  grin
FashionRe: Whats Your Favorite Lotion Or Creme? by osisi2(f): 6:40pm On Mar 04, 2009
Jergens ultra healing or Jergens aloe vera
FashionRe: Whats Your Favorite Lotion Or Creme? by osisi2(f): 6:39pm On Mar 04, 2009
presido1:
IDE AKI  OR ELO AKI grin grin grin
home made, from palm karnel. If you use it during dry season, u go dey shine like star.

Then STELLA PORMADE during rainy season. The shape of the container na figure 8.
I recomend it for YOU as u read this. cool cool cool
ROFL
anyone remembers Nku cream? that was mom's favorite back in the day
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 6:08pm On Mar 04, 2009
~Sauron~:
Stop playing smart. Ngwa is not in NY or London where documents are well kept.
We have an appaling way of not paying attention to archives n stuffs in Nigeria.
If u go back to ur Uni in Nigeria today, i doubt they would be able to bring out ur transcripts.
So does that mean you never took those tests or exams??
Are you a vast bureaucratic that believes what is not on record does not exist??
Cannibalism is a standard practise in the EAST!!!!
and I've just proven to you that the same thing obtains in the Ondo,Oyo and Lagos states by sick psychotic individuals
You saw the story where a man Folorunsho killed and ate his neighbour's intestines to cure an ailment at a babalawo's recommendation
Is that standard practice in western Nigeria?
Did this babalawo do his apprenticeship in the east ?
Is he the only babalawo giving out such a prescription?
Do you suppose that this was his first  and only client?
How many other people could have been eaten at the recommendation of babalawos?

I'll bathe you with okoro commonsense today grin
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 5:01pm On Mar 04, 2009
~Sauron~:
It was not documented. . . . . .All the media houses in Nigeria were not online as at the time of these incidents so no records/
However, it does not mean Isiala Ngwa is innocent of these crimes.

Other Igbos must hate Ngwa people to label em cannibals then.
Can u hear yourself??
what is your proof again ,I say?
It could just be stereotype since neither you nor I have anything to buttress that.
How could this major "known incident" be undocumented (in your own words)
If cannibalism was the order of the day in Ngwa,wouldn't there be constant news from that region about it ?

this was you in a thread last year

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Quote from: ~Xerxes~ on June 07, 2008, 07:00 AM
@ Sheniqua,

The guy using people for peppersoup was CLIFFORD ORJI not Moyinoluwa Pataki. 
Babes, u will have to convince me CLIFFORD ORJI is from Abeokuta or Ekiti(Cadet's hometown


and this was my response

I am telling you that Clifford Orji and Adeyinka adeleke are in the same business.
You better watch yourself when you venture out.
I don warn you be that
now,am I right or am I right?
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 4:51am On Mar 04, 2009
~Sauron~:
Need i say more??
Your hypocrisy has beclouded you in leaps n bounds.
An Igbo guy on the previous page admitted these things happened in the East and you still want me to show proof??
I still ask you for proof
and you've failed woefully
Not hear say
prove it!
especially the story where[b] a whole village[/b] gathered and killed and ate youthcorpers
isn't it documented?

I have heard other Igbos also accuse Ngwa people of that
where is the proof?
Is this too hard to prove?
CultureRe: Re-visiting The Clifford Orji Story , A Decade Later. by osisi2(op): 4:48am On Mar 04, 2009
spoilt:
grin grin grin
True story. We were shocked to see her back same day. Apparently they were already dividing her ample body parts while she still had breathe in her. shocked
nothing like fresh meat ma dear
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 3:00am On Mar 04, 2009
:p
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:58am On Mar 04, 2009
I'm too much
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:57am On Mar 04, 2009
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:51am On Mar 04, 2009
~Sauron~:
Osisi. . . . . . .Stop wasting bandwidth. . . . .Do i need to take you to JSS3 to get this simple task.

Copy the embed on the youtube page.
Reduce the jargons to a http URL link(i.e edit the other nonsense)
Apply the flash tab
change the 200,200 to 425,400 and send.
God punish you
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:47am On Mar 04, 2009
Chineke God
I'm about to scatter this stupid laptop grin
somebody stop me
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:46am On Mar 04, 2009
http://[flash=425,400]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwb25c5K_Dg[/flash]
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:44am On Mar 04, 2009
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:42am On Mar 04, 2009
I didn't get it grin
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 2:42am On Mar 04, 2009
PoliticsRe: Uk Citizens: Why They Are Emigrating To Nigeria En Masse! by osisi2(f): 1:57am On Mar 04, 2009
DaPhoenix:
I'm uncomfortable with this part.
why?
do you know someone in the big house?
let them come to Nigeria and serve out their terms jo
let them come and have a taste of the real prison system
PoliticsRe: Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President? by osisi2(f): 1:48am On Mar 04, 2009
grafikdon:
Lol. . . reminds me of my mother who was the biggest female hustler I've ever seen. From manufacturing bar soaps (pretty good aromatic yellow bar soap, who needs joy and Lux and Imperial Lather  grin grin) in our apartment to plastic bag manufacturing (you'know those, wotapruuf), Kunu, amala, bread. . . she made them all, especially during those ridiculous ASUU strikes. The woman just didn't buy the idea of folding her arms waiting for a salary that wasn't coming. It got to a point where we had to beg her to stop embarrassing us with all these hustler business and remember she is "Onye Nkuzi". . .but since we don't have any alternative and didn't like the idea of smoking gari with water and palm kernel, we all had to STFU and let the woman do her thing.  cheesy

My father took his hoe(ogu. . . it is a farm implement) the farm and provided all everyone with humongous tubers of yam as big as Okocha's legs, maize, pineapple, every specie of mango imaginable, guava, apples. . . all in commercial quantity. Heck he was running a small scale poultry farm in our home town. . . with plenty chickens, 'torotoro'. He had rabbits, pigs, goats(ngwo ngwo anyone? tongue). . . we survived those grueling strike days because of the hustler couple. . .  grin grin grin
LOL @ wotapruuf or wotapluuf in Enugu grin some say na wotaprove sef
Our parents could hustle o

Mom would be running her sewing machine into the night hemming bedsheets and making pillow cases for sale after her regular job o
and she also had sweet mouth for business.
chei
our tenants knew that landlady would be selling them chicken for sunday dinner so they didn't bother buying one elsewhere
PoliticsRe: Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President? by osisi2(f): 1:36am On Mar 04, 2009
St.Funmi:
Distance makes the heart grow  lipsrsealed lipsrsealed.

Did you visit your aunt living at Ibadan when he nabbed you?. Are you sure Ade is not Olabowale?
May you be swept up by the Osun river grin
which Olabowale ?
Abasi !
My Olabowale? grin
is he from Oyo state?
PoliticsRe: Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President? by osisi2(f): 1:30am On Mar 04, 2009
nuzo:
Mpkabu m dikwa ocha.
LOL
mine too

St.Funmi:
How did you skip enugu to get a boyfriend in Oyo?. Your waka na die.  grin grin grin
Isn't it one Nigeria again?
How about you that left Osun and going from Imo to Abia to Enugu,Ebonyi and Anambra including parts of Rivers and Delta?
Yoruba men are very cool and romantic
It's the women that are fire grin
PoliticsRe: Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President? by osisi2(f): 1:21am On Mar 04, 2009
St.Funmi:
Because you were busy chasing Femi around while others suffer. Why worry when Femi can foot your bills?   tongue tongue tongue tongue
You mean Ade my first love from Ibadan.
Wonderful guy
perfect gentleman
I often wonder where he is
How he's doing?
I hope he's happy
He always wanted to be a college professor,I  hope he made it.
He may even some top prof at UI or OAU
PoliticsRe: Can Nigeria Afford an Igbo President? by osisi2(f): 1:09am On Mar 04, 2009
spoilt:
Those hating on the igbo man's financial success and business acumen need to be reminded of one thing. If you ever saw the devotion that an average igbo man puts into his business then there would be no reason to hate. They arrive at their 'sheds' first and leave last, they drop out of school to pursue the thing that they think is important to them. He will lay down his life to defend his business. Their devotion is fodder for many stand up comics' jokes but its little wonder their businesses thrive! Instead of hating why not just learn a few things and buy a clue?

Besides why blame the whole igbo race? Not every igbo man is street smart or even successful. What has tribe got to do with a suitable presidential candidate?  huh
People think you sit around "dancing Michael jackson" and wealth will come.
My grandfather told us how he carried his bails of okirika with his servants and travelled on foot from one market to market to cater for his family
Before he could afford to hire a pick up .
My own brothers while in the university always thought of what business to do.
They bought electric clippers and barbed hair for a fee
They hired pick up vans and transported goods for traders including nama from the train stations to slaughter houses on weekends
they made so much money that dad eventually helped them buy a pick up van of their own.
During the many strikes,they would follow gwongworo to northern Nigeria,buy bags of beans and dried pepper and sold to traders and on ocassions would be in the markets themselves selling the pepper.
They bought frozen chicken in boxes and sold to local restaurants and bukas.
They bought okirika from Aba, laundered and ironed them and sold to class mates.
My sisters also sold things while in college.
My brothers and male cousins worked in my dad's building sites with labourers carrying cements
and these are children from college educated parents
I'm the only one in my family with absolutely no inclination to buying and selling or any sort of business

Mom ( a professional woman)  has sold everything from bedsheets to soy milk and make up

People shouldn't be hating on the Igbo man and his desire to succeed in business.
it's akalaka (The gift of God)

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