₦airaland Forum

donb06:
am a niger deltan and bliv me we were taught to bliv dt yorubas are highly educated and the igbos also highly educated, are good economists....... these facts i found to b true. if you look at the set of people dt made nigeria proud in pre-independent and immediately after independence era - are yorubas and igbos.am from rivers and if you come over to P.H we realy envy these two tribes. almost all the competitions are won by them, entertainment dominated by them, sports, business world, religion, what i dont understand about this fight is.... is it a battle for supremacy? or is it a curse on nigeria, that the two set of people thats supposed to champion the nigerian course are busy hating themselves. the most disturbing part is that this hatred is championed by the future leaders. am here to say confidently that the biggest loser in this igbo and yoruba rift is neither of them but NIGERIA as a whole.

Thank you for the comment: Here is simple explanation for the strive:

We the Igbos are very great people and maximum risk takers. The Yorubas are also great people.

We (Igbos) belief the best place to crack the egg is that at the Big End (we love to hit it big), but the Yorubas say they are very sophisticated. They think the egg should be cracked at the small end, they like playing small little tricks. But we have refused to do it their way, and they refuse to do it our way.

So we continue to fight!

GuyWise:
The Oba is a patroitic nigerian and should be respected for speaking the very bitter truth.

The Oba at that point distinct himself from Lair Mohammed. He spoke the truth.

globemoney:
I've been hearing the bold for over 10 years now, question is when exactly will these shopping malls and online market take over?

I'm waiting too. I haven't seen one on my street in Lagos yet! How long more should I wait, cos I'm also evolving...

ProWalker:
Well, you are free to get crazy, it’s your right

Now you are getting it. You are beginning to understand my freedom of ___

We are making progress.

Now do you see why I say "Lagos is No Man's Land"?

laudate:
Oga, cut the crap. You people say Lagos is a no man's land, simply because you want to spite the indigenes of Lagos, their cultural siblings and other ethnic groups living there.

And by saying so, you create enmity between the indigenes, those who share cultural affinity with them and others from different ethnic groups like mine, who have lived there for ages. This is because the Lagos indigenes and Yorubas, then end up viewing the rest of us from other places with hostility and suspicion, even though we have nothing in common with Igbo people like you, who make such asinine statements! Don't make life difficult for others, with your clueless remarks biko. Can you repeat this trash about Lagos being a no man's land in the heart of Olowogbowo, Ikeja or Isale Eko?

I don't see people going about offline calling Lagos No Man's Land. Most of these banters are online. Most Lagosians can handle a joke, except simpletons like you who take everything to heart and over-analyze issues. Personally, I don't care if your ox is gored. If people suspect you it's simply because you have not carried yourself well. You should start improving yourself and face things within your control.

What I do online and offline is not within your control. Learn to compartmentalize; let what happen on cyber remain on cyber! You will suffer undue heartache agonizing over my action. I'm sorry, but your cyber existence is of no consequence to me. Bros, you do not matter, you are a text!

Gotze1:
Abi, just like I like calling enugu n anambra a no man's land. Just as you said, it is to make yourself happy. So case close.

Bros, feel free to invest and own a part of Enugu and Anambra. Don't forget Owerri, statues are on offer for strategic investors there.
You can call it no man's land, but we won't even notice provide it advance our course.

Gotze1:
We don't want unity with igbos simple.

As arrogant as we are, and as insecure as you feel, we are each other's hope.
Bro, we need to understand our difference so we can work together.

Igbo won't change, neither would you. So let's leave this matter and face the future together. The common enemy love this squabbles, but we are smarter than that. Let's move forward.

ProWalker:
Igbos will die on top lagos matter
Why are these people so crazy over Lagos ?

Anyone who has problem with our craze over Lagos can relocate to Osun or Kwara!

ola6:
Then leave please. Let it fold!

Patience bro, patience. We are not doing milking it yet.

oodualover:
Why should we help you get Biafra? I thought you are the most intelligent, richest, beautiful and mist admire tribe in Nigeria. Why should Yoruba people help you get Biafra? Unless you are telling us you are not what you claim to be.
The only way Yoruba people can help you actualize Biafra is by deporting your parasitic asses back to your forsaken land. And if we decide to do that, Na cry cry una go dey cry.
Biafra today, presidency tomorrow.
Confused lots!!!

You should help, if you indeed want to reclaim Lagos. We are the only one standing in your way as apparent from your obvious consternation. Alas for all your claims of sophistry and long term planning, you fail to see how Biafra can give you back your Lagos! Such a shame. Well, we await your deportation plan. It's appears to be taking too long coming? Don't you think it make sense today rather than tomorrow when we send in another million migrants.

Time is ticking. Sooner or later, having Biafra will no longer be fashionable for Igbos. What happen then, my dear suffersticated friend?

oodualover:
Oil money is spent where? Don't iboeland receive federal allocation? Be looking for excuse everywhere. The oil is not yours. It is owned by the minority southern tribes.
Nomadic tribe!!!
Fuccking parasites!!!

Ah! So no Igboland oil money swell the federation purse?
Hmm, for telling so obvious lie, we are ferrying another 10,000 bus load of Igbos to Lagos in coming week.

Zuluhead:
Young man, am from the east and a red cap title holder (an nze). Just because a place was a former capital doesn't make it no mans land and it be of an advantage to the yoruba because of the mindset you keep developing lagos and neglecting the east. Try and check the meaning of no man's land.

Bro, abeg leave stories for the god. Anyone can claim Nze or any title online, with doggy proofs. If truly you are what you claimed you are, you'll know being and Nze does not elevate your voice far and above others in gathering of Umunnas. So please keep your title under your armpit, it's of no consequence here in cyber.

As per matter at hand, anyone can call any city whatever he feels especially under the anonymity of cyber. Situation on ground may be differ, but you cannot rob a man of his opinion because it threatens your interest.

Again my dear 'Nze', Lagos is "No Man's Land." I have goggled the meaning, but I do not care. Calling Lagos No Man's Land to the consternation of some simpletons is a way of telling them that I reserved the rights to exercise my freedom of speech without let or hindrance.

I don't have to be politically correct cos someone feels his ox has been gored, when it aint so.

oodualover:
Try and develop these places in iboeland before making noise

We have heard you. We will try.
That's why we are milking Lagos since our oil money is spent there. Try and be patient, we'll soon milk Lagos dry and then we'll move on.

Alkanoicacid:
It is U igbos that think you're better than any tribe and hate us.

Anyone who is busy making money has no time for hate. It's rather yoruba who hate our guts, our audacity, and outspokenness. Fortunately, we give it back to you as Newton stated : Action and Reaction are equal and opposite!

oodualover:
Yoruba's never claim they made Lagos but IBO's did. Why can't you make another Lagos in your land instead of forsaking your land?

But we made Lagos!

Yoruba made Osun and Ibadan. And failed to make Kwara!

Do you need our help? We are developers!

oodualover:
Is Lagos not bankrupt? Why won't Yoruba land be bankrupt when your parasitic animals won't stay in your land? Why won't they be bankrupt when you use our infrastructure and evade tax? Lazy parasitic pigs like you cannot stay in your land, but will rather stay in our land, use our road, send your useless and ugly children to our government schools and won't pay tax. The givernirs then will have to borrow money to build mire schools, employ teachers( who will receive salary), create more chairs and tables. How then will the states not be in debt when your parasitic IBO's monkeys flick to our land?

As Nigerians, Lagos is our land cos it's part of our country. You have 10 years to help Igbo achieve Biafra. Otherwise, Lagos will be lost forever to Yoruba as a Yoruba city! 10 years, after which we have no need for Biafra again!

oodualover:
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You IBO's own nothing. You like to make noise a lot. I'd you feel Lagos will collapse when you leave, then what is stopping you all this while. Are you not tired if the insults from Yoruba people? For years you have been repeating this crap. Go and let us see who will suffer most.
Bloody parasites!!!

Say whatever you like.

The fact is that we are deeply integrated into Lagos grid that even a master surgeon cannot excise with asphyxiating the city. You lot pride yourself as thinkers, that's for thought.

If Yorubas are tired of seeing Igbo in Lagos, my kind suggestion is that Yoruba relocate away from the city. If you like insult Igbos from now till thy Kingdom come, it will only motivate us.

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femolii:
Shup up, ode get sense go and see aba how aba look like now very dirty is only old people u can found now in their villagies all their youths are carrying drugs up and down in india is too late for u people osus.

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Try something else. This line is overused and stale.

oodualover:
Normadic tribe!!! IBO's must leave their land in order to survive. There must so much poverty in that land. If your land is developed, I see no reason why you must travel en masse out of it.

I guess by this analysis, the European who left their lands to colonize Africa did so because they were poor and their land undeveloped?
Keep looking for reasons why we travel, while we target other yoruba cities to colonize!

EponOjuku:
That's the difference between Yorubas and most Igbos. We're analytical while Igbos are emotional.

You're looking at it from the angle of 'e pain am', I'm looking at the next 99 years when your C of Os would expire.

Bla bla bla. Analyze my black arse. Keep fooling yourselves, as suffersticated.

You analyze your city into 'No Man's Land', and analyzed yourself into Buhari's scrotum. Keep analyzing!

99 years indeed. What about those that have expired as we speak? Or is Lagos less than 99 years old? Do you even have an idea what "change" can cause tomorrow?

Mayor21:
Who ever brought this thread to front page is a very very big fool. SMH

What can we do?

We play with the cards they deal! We are but mere mortals. The MODs are like gods; all knowing!

sicobamty2:
come 2019, if u will av any lawmaker.

We might have more. You'll never know. You aint God!

oodualover:
Why won't they run away from their land when it is poor? See how the adults are desperate to leave iboeland

We don't mind; we encourage them.
There are exercising their freedom of movement. They are not constrained by time and space. They won't give excuse for not succeeding.


"Look ooo look oo.
Left right,Left right,
Left right, Left
One thousand Igbos dem dey come!"

sicobamty2:
just leave dem, before we used to give them commissioner, but wen they started this madness, what happened? Do we av any igbo's commissioner again? I just don't know why larger percentage of a tribe would be so senseless as this people.

No please. But we have something better - Lawmakers !

oodualover:
Yes you are right. This is osun

You see those children running in the picture, they are warming up to storm 'No Man's Land'

Gotze1:
Abeg why is this place not developed? Because I no understand why our land will look like dump site and we keep crying of developing another man's house.

Time and chance.

We are milking Lagos for the development of our lands. The law gives it!

hotwax:
Chinese have more investment in lagos than Igbo, they didn't call it no man's land. Dubia is base of investors all over the world, nobody is calling it a no man's land. The lagos no man's land word is birth from jealousy. Igbo wish they have a place lagos.
They forgot they can anambra another lagos

The Chinese and what have you are not Nigerian, they have no right to join in our local banters. They have no right to call yorubas Afonja or Lagos No Man's Land. If they do, we'll tell them their own history. So rest assured that's not gonna happen.

I don't know what the Chinese or others call Dubai, but I bet it's not as cool as "No Man's Land."

Yoruba's are for Igbos to taunt, these are some little mercies we thank goodness for.

oodualover:
This is how industrious you are

We don't mine skull, nor do yahoo yahoo, and badoo, these are Yoruba's forte.
The vice you mention, all Nigeria share. So what's your point?

GodIsBiafran:
My people lets stop saying this nonsense. Orji Kalu started this rubbish - as a political plow to distract from his abysmal failure in Abia state. If you like say this thing a million times - It does not change the reality that Yorubas run Lagos. Have you lived in Lagos? I lived there for many years, so I know what I am talking about.

We need to stop all this nonsense and concentrate on building and developing the SE. All this time we have been shouting Lagos is no man's land where has it gotten us? Biko lets buy sense! If we concentrate our efforts and divert more of our resources back home, with 2 decades the SE will become the envy of not just other regions but of the entire African continent.

Mods, Please take this to front page so I can have this discussion with my brothers and sisters. Thank you.

Op, we respect your opinion, and we appreciate your candour and call for us to think home. We have heard you. Yet I doubt if there is any Igboman/woman who is not thinking home. Such must be the most foolish or lost not to think home, especially is this volitile Nigeria. East, West, East home is the best!

But thinking home; developing Igboland, or whatever way we coin it should not be exclusive of getting our fair share of Nigeria and by extension Lagos. It's a way on buying into the vision of one Nigeria in pursuant of calls by almost all Nigeria leaders.

I don't know what part of Igboland you hail from, but in my neck of the wood, our people are doing the best making homefront comfortable in several front. You should be doing you part, including this clarion call.

Yet again, Lagos is the largest commercial city in West Africa, it will be idiotic to abandon Lagos in the name of Yoruba city. That would be a mistake. It will also be a mistake to cower under the idiotic 'guest/host' insinuation being made by Yorubas. Lagos, Aba, Onitsha, Kano, PH, Abuja etc are all Nigeria city, you can't live like a guest in your own country.

It is the subtly and not so subtle push for 'guest/host' arrangement that is creating the reactionary "No man's land' response. Every Nigerian must see every other Nigerians as part owner of their City (Lagos especially) in every aspect. Failure to do this will continue to result in the several coloration/classification of the Nigerian and their cities in derogatory names.

oodualover:
This is how IBO's have been developing lagos

In war all is fair - Awolowo

EponOjuku:
On the contrary, I don't want Igbos to stop calling Lagos no-man's Land and I'll state my reasons.

Yorubas welcomed Igbos with an open hand and returned their abandoned properties after the war. Meanwhile, Igboid groups in present-day Rivers and Bayelsa states refused to return confiscated Igbo properties.

Nigerians from all ethnicities come to Lagos, live, trade, work, build and retire here. However, Igbos ignored the landowners and contributions of everyone and are selfishly but are foolishly claiming they developed Lagos.

The problem some Igbos have is that they have short memories. They've forgotten that as at when the Portuguese landed in Lagos, they had not yet finished trekking from Isreal or wherever they were downloaded from.

Yoruba are very welcoming and accommodating but won't tolerate nonsense. When these Igbos started this noise, we warned the liberal Yorubas but they said we were paranoid. Now, a lot of Yorubas are seeing the hate and bitterness that Igbos wish upon us and are now waking up.

During the last LG elections, all LG seats in Festac, Ojo Alaba, Amuwo and other areas with large Igbo population were collected and are firmly in the hand of Yorubas. In 2019, we're collecting our seats from those Igbos representatives and HOA members.

The environmental sanitation is presently political. When we're through with that, we move to other areas. By the time we ban gala and Fan yogo hawking in Lagos and the economy of a whole Igbo state crumbles cos of that, maybe you'll have sense.

Let Igbos keep calling Lagos No man's land, it serves to wake up the consciousness of liberal Yorubas. Mind you, the quiet Yoruba man is the most dangerous. The revolution would not be televised.

E pain am oo!

Saying Lagos is "No man's land" does not in anyway means we are neglecting the East/Homeland. The idea is to maximize the benefit of Lagos to develop the East.

We must not lose sight of our contributions in Lagos, yet we must capitalize on the gains of those contribution to develop our homeland. We can't just pack up and leave Lagos, nor can anyone run us out of our investments in the growth Lagos. That's why we say "Lagos is No Man's Land." And that's what it will remain in the foreseeable future if Nigeria continue to exist as it is now!