₦airaland Forum

It's so true.
Outside of Nigeria no one cares what tribal origin our criminals are from but many Yoruba nairalanders at various times have accused Igbos of being the main criminals in Nigeria
and that criminalisation of the Igbo nation is what I would not let anyone get away it.
Nigerians commit crimes,that's it.

I've heard this Igbo this, Igbo that too many times and it's plain annoying.
This old article may throw some light.
Nigerians commit crime and the criminals are from all the tribes.

One of the earliest known cases of drug abuse involving a Nigerian was the fate of one Iyabo Olorunkoya, who was sentenced to jail in the 1970s following an attempt to smuggle marijuana into the United Kingdom.

In the mid-1980s, during the General Mohammadu Buhari-led regime, two Nigerians, Messrs Wahab Ojuolape and Bartholomew Owoh as well as a third victim were executed under a peculiar decree drawn to take retroactive effect. Curiously, even this law and other draconian measures devised to deter drug traffickers, appeared insufficient, for about that same period, one Morenike Fausatu Lawal almost made it into history books as the first woman to be killed by firing squad for drug trafficking in Nigeria. Then came the Gloria Okon saga, where a suspected drug courier believed to have died in prison custody, ressurected overseas.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2005/july/28/travels-28-07-2005-001.htm

Bankole01:
Correction, I didn't say Igbo in Lagos claim to be Yoruba. You can be Igbo and still be from Lagos State. A person could be Yoruba and live in Umuahia and claim to be from Imo State. Nothing wrong with that.

That never happens in Nigeria.
Everything is down to state of origin ie where your fathers came from.
We don't have an Emeka Okolo from Ogun State or Olujimi Akinloye from Abia state.

Bankole01:
Just because a person says he is from Lagos State does not make him a Yoruba. A lot of Igbo guys born in Lagos claim the State and speak fluent Yoruba.

Show me your proof.
An Igboman born and bred in Onitsha whose parents are from Enugu would never claim Onitsha as his hometown.

Without being tribalistic, most drug trafickers are of Igbo persuasion, followed by the Yoruba

show me your proof!

Bankole01:
Correction, I didn't say Igbo in Lagos claim to be Yoruba. You can be Igbo and still be from Lagos State. A person could be Yoruba and live in Umuahia and claim to be from Imo State. Nothing wrong with that.

You are a bald faced liar.
You and I know that no Igbos in Lagos say their state of origin is Lagos state.
I was waiting for someone to come make this claim.
There was some other Yoruba tribalist that sais Igbos commit the most crimes but that has been proven wrong time and time again.

Can I also say the ones from Imo could be hausas in Igboland?

From the statistics above

11 of the drug dealers were Yorubas

5 were Igbos

3 were Edo.

I heard someone earlier saying Igbos commit all the crimes in Naija.
The culprits seem to be distributed.
From now on,I'm Calabar

You see, up until now, you guys have not been able to offer any sane answers to that request. I sympathize with you. . . because as a former Muslim, we were told to view such attacks as reprisal attacks and wars fought in defence. I held unto to that idea all my Muslim life; but when the chips and facade began to fall, you could imagine my shock that we had been gooned all along with a false premise. Hard to acknowledge - but such was life.

There are a number of Muslim websites with articles about claims of those wars as "defences", though. Craftily written. . . almost convincing and hard to controvert, etc. But again, such articles made me work hard to go back to the real gist in Muslim sources and dig out the truth. I was ashamed to discover that quite the opposite was the truth. Muhammad launched those attacks on the Jews and Christians for nothing at all other than his belief that the world belonged to him and his 'Allah'.

Are you aware that Muhammad made that claim at all - that the earth belonged to him and 'Allah'?  If you study the real events that made him declare such, you will find the truth of what I am sharing with you.

The above quote from a former muslim deserves a requote.

:p

I barely made an observation but didn't know it fit michelin to a T.
Need I say more.
I guess you didn't learn proper language to use in public either
kpele!

michelin89:
What the hell are you talking about?

I am trying to get why there seems to be a contraddiction between these two verses and here you are giving me the child with a difficult childhood crap. Please keep your opinions to yourself, when else you decide to insult other people claiming you don't mean it as an insult.

I might not have had the most wonderful childhood but that doesn't mean I should drink everything those who came from a lovable family say.

To hell with you and your lovely family. 

No wonder you made your utterances.
It was clear what your problems were.
If you don't seek to work through them,you'll end up with an abusive man and raise angry and confused children just like yourself.
This is your time to break that chain.
You have my utmost sympathy.

We are all a product of our upbringing.
Someone who saw her father batter and bruise her mom would see marriage different from someone who saw a supportive caring father.

A child who grows up in a polygamous home where the various wives bickered and clamoured for the "kings" attention in the midst of palpable hostility will view marriage differently.

But God is able to heal those wounds.

michelin89:
eh? The bible says the two shall become one but still one go rule on the other?

How can one rule on himself?

Please don't take this as an insult but anyone who grew up in a loving and stable home with a mother and a father that deeply cared and loved one another would understand that concept.
One does not even have to be a Christian to get it.

Is a man the head of his home, YES

Is a jobless man,actively looking for employment  the head of his home, YES


Is an irresponsible,abusive and jobless man,watching Jerry springer and playing ludo the head of his home, The jury is out on that one

The osu thing thank God is nothing like it was in the olden days.
I heard that back in the darker ages they were treated very badly
They couldn't even visit,sit with or associate with the so called freeborns
That is not the case today.
It's a culture that ought to be totally dead and buried and there is hope.
It is not as rampant as people say but one is one too many.
Why do I say so it's dying.

1. I lived most of my life in Igboland and NEVER knew anyone or family designated an osu.

2.Never was told not to play or associate with anyone because they were osu

3.It's important to note that the Osu thing is not in all of Igboland.We don't have it in my hometown for instance,it's worse in parts of Owerri,Mbaise and Enugu state areas.

The only way for it to go away completely is by people refusing to listen to those "traditions" that designate some people as inferior to others.

Whether their forefathers dedicated themselves to idols or ran to the idols for shelter,that was then,this is now.