Putinofrussia:


I am talking about abroad not Nigeria where you will say na govt make them rich.

So Bayo Ogunlesi who bought Gatwick airport deals in oil,abi?

You dey whine yourself?
You said both in Nigeria and outside, and I said let's start within

The Bayo Ogunlesi served as an advisor on Nigerian gas projects so I don't know the shit you dey yarn
Anyways, what is his source of wealth,then?

Okonandmary:
Igbo people are like women, they need constant praise and validation to be happy, once you stop it, they start feeling depressed and start nagging

At last someone is getting it!!! You can easily substitute many traits of women with igbo men and you won't be out of place, that is why if you know any man that is good with women, he will successfully tame an igbo man ( that is the fact)......they are not wise just cunning

Pinklygul:


You dey whine yourself?
You said both in Nigeria and outside, and I said let's start within

The Bayo Ogunlesi served as an advisor on Nigerian gas projects so I don't know the shit you dey yarn
Anyways, what is his source of wealth,then?

Advisor on gas projects?
Prove that sir.

Pinklygul:


LMAO

Multi billion dollars all gotten from ONE Nigeria?
Let's start within here first,all dollar billionaires from your tribe have oil/gas as their source, right?
How many dollar billionaires are from Niger Delta that owns and breeds this wealth?

Enjoy your fraudulent contraption and quit yarning dust

Mention one ibo billionaire that didn't/doesn't owns an oil well or enjoy(ed) Government's patronage.

-Okoro bufo

OkoroBufo:

Mention one ibo billionaire that didn't/doesn't owns an oil well enjoy(ed) Government's patronage.

-Okoro bufo

This stupid boy again!
Eish!!!!!

Igbos don't have dollar billionaires
No quote me again, thanks

Why always north, vs IGBOS?
North vs Yorubas??
North vs other southern tribes??

Fulani will kill people, and when you kill back it turns you are killing northerners??

Just look at the politic the fulanis are playing in Nigeria, using the name northers to dominate Nigeria politic,
In Nigeria today we have
South East,
South west,
South south,

North East,
Middle belt,
North West,

But the fulanis have made every body to believe that there's nothing like middle belt,
North East or north west,
The are always (the north)

But fools down here in the south are making everything possibly to show the world that they deferent people,
It will always be South East vs (north),
South south vs (north)
South West vs (north until the south understand the game fulanis are playing with them the south will always remain fools.

Barryseal:
Anyone who claims Reno was not bashing Igbos on this particular tweet is smart by half. The man has been bashing Igbos and Peter Obi over the past few weeks and out of the blues he's coming out with this blather.
Well, the good thing is that Igbos were smart enough to catch the sub. We are not one of the smartest tribes in black Africa for nothing.

You are actually the dumbest tribe roaming sub Saharan Africa!!! Did Reno even mention your tribe? Please don't pass this evil trait to your children because they will just be a laughing stock amongst their peers, to think most of these childish behavior are perpetrated by adults above 40 is sickening,

Have you ever seen yorubas go berserk when Reno exclusively praises igbos? No, because we know our worth with or without validations from outsiders, that is why we are big brother to you in all spheres of human endeavor.......we even translated the Bible to your igbo language when your ancestors were still living on trees.

Putinofrussia:


Advisor on gas projects?
Prove that sir.

Prove? I should prove what exactly?
You dropped a name,I googled,got the information

You are a confused HUMAN!

YORUBAS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BLESSED PEOPLE WITH BILLIONAIRES EVEN BEFORE IGBOS KNOW ANYTHING CALLED BUSINESS.
IGBOS ARE GREAT PEOPLE TOO BUT THEY SHOULD STOP THE ENVY AND HATE.
WHY?

These are great Yoruba business people who pioneered business in Nigeria (before Igbos know what is called business at all)
not oil and gas o.
Timothy Odutola (1902-1995)

On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola.

The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region.

Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960.

Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932.

By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil.

An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation.

“The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said.

Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.



Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.





Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.



Shafi Edu (1911–2002)

In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries.

Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club.

At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959.

He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives.




Ade Tuyo

Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.”

“The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said.

Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953.

The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country.



Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959)

Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction.

Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively.

An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning.

Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years.

Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking.

“His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes.


At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH.

How wealthy was Da Rocha?

“I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained.



Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.”

Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank.


Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011)

Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi.

He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963.

In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate.




https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/

Putinofrussia:


And for your info, you can't be well traveled than the average igbo man,igbos are everywhere in every continents of the world just like the Chinese and indians.

lol
Yorubas have been travelling even before Igbos know what is called travelling.The first set of travellers are the Yorubas and Benins.
Yorubas are the ones you can see anywhere in the world because they are great travellers but not petty traders like the Igbos.
There is no place in the world you will not see a Yoruba person even in the coldest part of the world.Yes,no Igbo or any other African.Only Yoruba.



Meet the Nigerian man teaching Russians Chinese in the coldest place on earth
Mildred Europa Taylor May 14, 2019


https://www.google.com/amp/s/face2faceafrica.com/article/meet-the-nigerian-man-teaching-russians-chinese-in-the-coldest-place-on-earth/amp



What ever Yorubas achieved today, igbos have achieved more of it without making noise about it. yorubas are the ones below igbos in everything both home and abroad.

The facts are..

Before Nigeria,Yorubas were Empire owners like Britain,China etc but Igbos were not.

Before the war,Yorubaland was still the richest,most developed and first in almost everything.Igbos were very well behind.

Yoruba had a lot of millionaires...self made as Igbos always say
and businesses.
Igbos have only one person....Louis Ojukwu.
After the war and till date,Yorubas are still the known richest Nigerians at home and abroad

Lmoa, you are now beginning to lie. Go out and ask who is the most traveled ethnic group in Nigeria, Nigeria is known everywhere is cause of igbos. You and I know that, but you just wanna lie on the internet. You just brought out one link to buttress your useless points, if I start bringing out links, you will take your heels.

Yorubas had no empire even the small useless empire they claimed to have had was ran down by Fulanis and Dahomey women.
The only known empire today I'm southern Nigeria is Benin empire and everyone knows it.

Before the war, igbos were the most progressive and developed part of Nigeria.That was why they were so many envy even the ahmadu bello claimed they were colonizing everything in Nigeria due to his envy.

Yorubas in Nigeria are lucky to be in Nigeria, without Nigeria and the oil in Niger delta yorubas would have been unfortunate like their brothers in Togo and Benin republic.

Go to benin republic and Togo and your brothers suffering there. Yorubas with their Fulani brothers inherited the spoils of the war and have been enjoying Nigeria since.

This is what one of the billionaires have to say about Yorubas.. he knows yorubas won't survive without Nigeria

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/05/10/nigeria-breakup-yorubas-will-lose-south-west-has-thugs-fake-pastors-olu-okeowo/%3famp=1

Kikikiki kikikikiki

Someone has gone mental from hallucinations and insomnia
Now derailing the thread with irrelevant unnecessary epistles,so much for "we no dey chest beat"

I'm outta here

Shawnnn01:
Apart from not seeing anything in what he said, can you see how pathetic, foolish, bigoted n sentimental the responses of your foolish Igbo tribesmen are. That is why he made that statement to show the true nature of every miserable Igbo. Your pathetic life is riddled with nothing but endemic hate.

You must be a fool and a stupid one at that.

Have yorubas not said worst about igbos.

Have your oba not threatened igbos with genocide. Many of your prominent people have said worst things about igbos but I'm yet to see where any prominent igbo son or daughter have come out openly to insult yorubas

Btw, see what your yoruba brothers said about Yorubas

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/05/10/nigeria-breakup-yorubas-will-lose-south-west-has-thugs-fake-pastors-olu-okeowo/%3famp=1

Pinklygul:


Prove? I should prove what exactly?
You dropped a name,I googled,got the information

You are a confused HUMAN!

lol
Lamentations
Even Ibadan is more developed than the entire Igboland

Putinofrussia:

YORUBAS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BLESSED PEOPLE WITH BILLIONAIRES EVEN BEFORE IGBOS KNOW ANYTHING CALLED BUSINESS.
IGBOS ARE GREAT PEOPLE TOO BUT THEY SHOULD STOP THE ENVY AND HATE.
WHY?

These are great Yoruba business people who pioneered business in Nigeria (before Igbos know what is called business at all)
not oil and gas o.
Timothy Odutola (1902-1995)

On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola.

The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region.

Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960.

Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932.

By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil.

An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation.

“The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said.

Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.



Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.

Because yorubas don't chestbeat does not mean we are not the most blessed black group, most countries can not rival great people of Yoruba extraction doing wonders worldwide in every aspect of life.

There was a thread some years back when these "busy body people" were boasting about their people doing wonders abroad when the yorubas made a rebuttal, it was an overkill !!!
T.B Joshua ( may he rest in perfect peace) at a point was responsible for over 60% of tourists/foreigner coming to this country.

How many igbo people are billionaire in dollars?

How many igbos are Grammy award winners?
Most Pastors in Nigeria that command respect worldwide are Yorubas

The entertainment industry is ruled by yorubas

The tech sphere is ruled by yorubas

In politics, we are still there.

The economy of this country is tied to South west ( Yoruba land)

But do you see us chestbeating? No, because excellence is a minimum requirement for an Omoluabi. When an okoro opens a 2*2 shop selling okrika and eventually buys a used Camry, he goes to a beer parlour and start chestbeating that he is a billionaire while belching gaseous "hero beer" with reckless abandon.

A group that has non existent semi skilled labour, that all people are just into trading can not rival the yorubas in any front.

So was Reno influencing Igbos when he commended them for specific attributes in recent past? Also bear in mind that yorubas lose no sleep when Igbos are commended.

This looks to me like deep inferiority complex, because only Igbos seem to get seriously triggered when Yorubas or others are commended or given awards (whether local or international).

Not a good outlook imo.

Thinkam:
Reno knows he can no longer influence Igbos and northerners, his only option left is yorubas...

I don't even know why people pay him any mind

9gerian:
So was Reno influencing Igbos when he commended them for specific attributes in recent past? Also bear in mind that yorubas lose no sleep when Igbos are commended.

This looks to me like deep inferiority complex, because only Igbos seem to get seriously triggered when Yorubas or others are commended or given awards (whether local or international).

Not a good outlook imo.

Have you gone through the comments on the so call pro Igbo threads of reno..

The fact it's reno is becoming an expert in ethnic politics, a person with 1.1M followers, can still be able to respond to individual comments to create rancor and provocation.
Shows majority of the divisive comments on this page is created himself to drive conversations..

I know there are foolish people in all tribes in Nigeria, I don't believe any tribe is better than another, they are all drawn from the same biological cesspit, ..

[quote author=jerseyboy post=113157706][/quote]
Yes!!! Emotional vulnerability is an obstacle in applying wisdom seamlessly.

NigerianSage:


He did not even say anything about Igbo people, his comment was 100% about Yoruba people.

igbos are naturally insecure

Once it’s not about them it shouldn’t be about another person

Mooh247:
this guy should not involve yorubas in his issue with Ibos

He should not commend Yoruba because one tribe wont like it? Reno is not in any way wrong here,people that took tweet offensive should be examined.

Most travelled? Not true.

Why not rely on available statistics whether direct or indirect (by inference):

https://www.nairaland.com/6846026/check-out-largest-west-african

https://www.nairaland.com/2805574/igbo-youruba-academic-exploit-uk

Hope this helps to correct the impression that you have.

Afonjakid:

Lmoa, you are now beginning to lie. Go out and ask who is the most traveled ethnic group in Nigeria, Nigeria is known everywhere is cause of igbos. You and I know that, but you just wanna lie on the internet. You just brought out one link to buttress your useless points, if I start bringing out links, you will take your heels.

Yorubas had no empire even the small useless empire they claimed to have had was ran down by Fulanis and Dahomey women.
The only known empire today I'm southern Nigeria is Benin empire and everyone knows it.

Before the war, igbos were the most progressive and developed part of Nigeria.That was why they were so many envy even the ahmadu bello claimed they were colonizing everything in Nigeria due to his envy.

Yorubas in Nigeria are lucky to be in Nigeria, without Nigeria and the oil in Niger delta yorubas would have been unfortunate like their brothers in Togo and Benin republic.

Go to benin republic and Togo and your brothers suffering there. Yorubas with their Fulani brothers inherited the spoils of the war and have been enjoying Nigeria since.

This is what one of the billionaires have to say about Yorubas.. he knows yorubas won't survive without Nigeria

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/05/10/nigeria-breakup-yorubas-will-lose-south-west-has-thugs-fake-pastors-olu-okeowo/%3famp=1

9gerian:
Most travelled? Not true.

Why not rely on available statistics whether direct or indirect (by inference):

https://www.nairaland.com/6846026/check-out-largest-west-african

https://www.nairaland.com/2805574/igbo-youruba-academic-exploit-uk

Hope this helps to correct the impression that you have.

You are not making sense, your links are just Nigerian groups in USA and UK.

What of other remaining countries nko