₦airaland Forum

Emergingnation:
If Biafrans scientist can achieved this during war time, what will then happen in peace time and when enable environment is being created...... The major reason we're seeking for Independent is that, the great potentials which we're endown with, is being held down in this contraption...

onumadu:
Mumu, he meant dangerous to the crown, ie. dangerous to the colonialist power, i.e. dangerous to colonialism.
Simple English semantics, you cannot even understand it, yet you want to rule.
And you wonder why they termed you "gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community".

SlyDev:
Continue believing it, imagination is not reality

Igboid:
Thrash.
PH port was set up for easy transport of newly discovered coal in Enugu to the sea coast and then transport to Europe.

unshakablejihad:
lol dumb fool!

Investigative:
In the handover note from Fredrick Lugard to his successor, there is something he said about the three nations in the contraption known as Nigeria which was established by him and his mistress, Flora Shaw. Take notice of his emphasis about the IGBO.

Fredrick Lugard was the governor general of Nigeria between 1914 and 1919. Earlier he was the governor general of Hong Kong between 1907 and 1912.

Sir Frederick Lugard handed over as governor general in Nigeria to Walter H. Lang on the 25th of September 1918, and by 1919, he finished his administrative duties in Nigeria.

Follow up please about his note on Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. This will tell you exactly how they view us.

Hausa
The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler.
He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself

Yoruba

Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland.

I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the Westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met

Igbo

These people of predominantly Eastern Nigeria are fiercely rebellious with no regard for authority. Though industrious and religious, in deference to the objectives of her majesty and the crown, they are highly dangerous to be trusted with power

They know all this thing and chose to give the power to the north so that it will be easier for them to indirectly rule others in proxy.

For those who believed they were nothing before the colonists came. Who told you? Igbo were already independently developed in their own world. They fought the British for over 30 years through the Ekumeku. They didn't want anyone to come and order them around. Igbo enwe eze. Ị bụ chi m? Are the philosophies guiding ndị Igbo. The British know this. The world know this. Igbo have their own republican and democratical system. The ụmụnna system unite the Igbo. If you try to impose ideologies and western leadership on Igbo, they must be rebellious to you.

Come to think of it, Lugard said: "though industrious". Don't you think this is the major reason some lazy folks hate on you? Industriousness is a follow come on every Igbo.

Being rebellious to the authority of the western world is not a new thing. The Igbo worldview is different. We worship no human. We lick no ass. We don't throw ourselves on anyone cos he or she has power. How can people from a different nation come to control us, tell us what to do in our own land whereas we were doing things, doing business with them; all of a sudden they decided to be forcing us to take those things we sell to them by force, then we begin to pay them tax over what we produce? Mbanụnụ.

A typical Igbo man will rather commit suicide than succumbing to any negative authority and subjugation.

When the Igbo like you, they massively like you. They don't hide it. If they hate you, they don't hide it. It's massive. They have the eyes on good market. Once they deduce bad market, they don't care...they back out no matter what you promise. They hate incompetency. Recent elections in Nigeria and their candidates can be used as a typical example of this.

I really wish some know who they are. Igbo anaghị eme nkụja
. It's even referenced on Vanguard Newspapers

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/was-the-amalgamation-of-northern-and-southern-nigeria-in-1914-a-mistake-2/

I paused.

© Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro

Emergingnation:
So pics I show to is imagination...... You need a brain check

unshakablejihad:
so it is actually true, the yorubas of lagos were slaves that were actually freed and dumped in lagos. that means the benis were right about this claims.

Firstlieutenant:
"I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the Westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met"

Afonjas what have you to say please?

christistruth01:
The reason Lugard didn't like the Yorubas was because the educated Yorubas of Lagos fought so hard against his Amalgamation Plan that he even had to set up a new Sea Port in Port Harcourt to get away from their influence because they were trying to frustrate his Amalgamation Plan in every single way

Many of them were ex Slaves who had been Sold into Slavery or had Parents that had been Sold into Slavery as a result of the Fulani Jihads invasion of Yorubaland and Collapse of Old Oyo , so why would they agree to an Amalgamation with the very same People who had turned their Lives Upside down

It was still too fresh in their memories

Some Lagos Yoruba People like Herbert Macaulay went as far as Writing the British Government in order to have Lord Lugard replaced

Firstlieutenant:
"I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the Westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met"

Afonjas what have you to say please?

Emergingnation:
Yes, we are very industrious, when imminent desintegration take place, within 10yrs South East will turn to Japan of Africa

kingawothefirst:
Even though I’m not an afonja, this is fake and propaganda. Luggard never said none of those things, at least I haven’t been able to find the legit quote, so please cite is legitimate source that shows that this is a direct quote from Luggard.

Till then, the OP along with the propagandist need to stop posting fake news!

Emergingnation:
Says marauding fulani Muslim, where their head no dey fit carry science and technology ....... Go to ABA and Nnewi see things for yourself

kingawothefirst:
Even though I’m not an afonja, this is fake and propaganda. Luggard never said none of those things, at least I haven’t been able to find the legit quote, so please cite is legitimate source that shows that this is a direct quote from Luggard.

Till then, the OP along with the propagandist need to stop posting fake news!

ScamHunter:
The key adjectives are Hausa-Fulani: Immoral, pleasure loving and depends on luck or chance

Yoruba : Betrayal, disloyal, backstabbing, treacherous, controlled by lust for money and greedy

Igbo : Hardworking, industrious, religious, can't be pushed around and fights oppression

A hundred years later, we can see the reason the country is moving in circles without progress. So when people ask you why the last time there was progress in these parts was when the colonialists were around, the reason is that the country has been governed based on luck like a game of chance by a particular group.

When I was growing up, I often wondered why older Igbo never speak well of Yoruba. If it was because of Biafra, were they the only ones that fought against us? Even the pogrom was mainly in the north. Everything started making sense to me in 2015 and also during End Sars protest. These are not people you can trust and not get disappointed according to Mr Lugard.

This is why every sensible person knows the tribe that has what it takes to make the country move forward, but envy, jealousy and hatred won't let these tribes see the source of their redemption.
This is the same reason they're afraid of Igbo exit. Less than a generation after Igbo exits, we would be competing with Europe while you guys will still be having national discourse on cattle and colonies of cattle.

Thank goodness, the analysis is from those who formed you guys into a country.

FallenShitHole:
The above bolded goes to confirm what we all know about the afonjas. The most corrupt people on earth. They ran down every nigeria institution they handled through massive corruption. All the institutions they inherited through the 1972 indigenization decree instituted by awolowo after making sure that Igbos are out of the equation because of the 20£ to any amount we had then on our bank accounts. The yorubas bought every nigeria company then at peanut prices and still ran them aground. Do you want to talk about the nigeria airways? The most brutally murdered institution through corruption by the afonjas.

Yoruba

Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland.

I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the Westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met

engrchykae:
I am Igbo but I know that British problems started with the colony of Lagos.
King Dosunmu fought hard.
Later Herbert Macaulay formed ncnc and handed it over to zik.
Later the motion for independence by Anthony enahoro also came from the West.
I can understand why lugards hate the western region.
Also it was awolowo that wanted secession clause in our constitution.
All these will make the British to hate the Yoruba but some foolish yorubas may think the British want the Yoruba to run Nigeria alongside the North but that's not true,the West (, USA and UK)also ensured that mko didn't become president,ibb and obj are CIA agents and they will always do the bidding of their masters.
We need to wake.
Osinbajo is brainy but our presidents are chosen in no 10 downing street.

SlyDev:
It means Igbo served the colonial master more than any tribe. Igbo are industrious to them because they use them as labourers in their plantation field and they obey like obedient servants

Yoruba see themselves as equal to white but ibo see them as Lord and savior because they introduce civilization to them

PROUDIGBO:
I believe the word you’re looking for and confusing with INDUSTRIOUS is SUBSERVIENT! Calling one or a group industrious is an accolade while calling them subservient is demeaning! I believe Lugard had sufficient grasp of the use of english to know which word to use!

Going by his description, it’s safe to say both of you have divergent opinions regarding whether the Igbo saw anyone as their ‘Lord and saviour’, so don’t put words in his mouth!

oyatz:
1) Corruption is not about tribe.

2) Companies fold up from so many reasons , beyond corruption.

3) The companies were run by peoples from different tribes.

4) Even Igbo companies like African Continental Bank (ACB), Savannah Bank (Nwobodo's bank), Zik's West African Pilot Newspapers, Champion Newspapers of Nnwanyanwu, Ekene DiliChukwu Transport all folded up due to mismanagement.

DOTian:
You are comparing apples and oranges..
Nigerias airways, Nigerias shipping line, first generation banks! Leventis them. Insurance companies.. Even government parastatals flooded with your people post 1966 were all ran down with corruption! INTEL, NEPA, REFINERIES. Even The NNPC, an oil monopoly was declared bankrupt! The northerners didn't have the graduates then. The easterners were chased out. You hyjacked all these and ran them down. That's the history of how we got here..

DOTian:
You are comparing apples and oranges..
Nigerias airways, Nigerias shipping line, first generation banks! Leventis them. Insurance companies.. Even government parastatals flooded with your people post 1966 were all ran down with corruption! INTEL, NEPA, REFINERIES. Even The NNPC, an oil monopoly was declared bankrupt! The northerners didn't have the graduates then. The easterners were chased out. You hyjacked all these and ran them down. That's the history of how we got here..

oyatz:
That you somehow believe this IPOB propaganda that one tribe, the Yorubas which is just one out of the 300 tribes in Nigeria were the only ones working and running public corporations owned by the whole Nigeria shows the level of your education and intelligence.

Even if you haven't been born when NITEL, Nigeria Airways, Nigeria National Shipping Lines were in operation but relied on IPOB propaganda as the gospel truths , why not ask educated Nigerians who are above 50years if Yorubas were the only Nigerians working in those Federal Government companies.

DOTian:
IPOB propaganda? Honestly, I never listened to any IPOB stuff. Just telling you what I Know as a good student of history. . Upto the mid 90s, NITEL and the managerial staffs of major government banks in the east were dominated by the Yorubas! It seems to me like that you guys are way too young to even understand the enermousity of the havoc caused by your forbearers. When one tries to educate you, you start calling him IPOB. It's crazy.

Post war , The Yorubas headed most of the parastatals while the northerners controlled the armed forces. Answer this: how many graduates came from northern Nigeria at independence? Compare that to the figures from your South West and the East. The north had little or none. By 1976, the Yoruba corruption of the civil service has become so bizarre and insane that even Murtala started a mass sacking of civil servants! That was how his "action President" status came to be. You know nothing. ...

SlyDev:
Cap


Religion: Brought by the whites to subjugate igbos
Deference : (Dictionary) great respect ; willingness to carry out the wishes of others (Oyinbo)
Objectives: goals and order of the whites
Majesty and Crown: British Queen and colonial masters

So try again

oyatz:
You aren't well informed and already drown in the pond of your bigotry laced with ignorance, so there's no need to continue to discuss this matter with you.

onumadu:
Mumu, he meant dangerous to the crown, ie. dangerous to the colonialist power, i.e. dangerous to colonialism.
Simple English semantics, you cannot even understand it, yet you want to rule.
And you wonder why they termed you "gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community".