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Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Pinklygul: 10:59am On May 25, 2022 |
Putinofrussia: 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? 1 Like |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by realestate99: 11:04am On May 25, 2022 |
Okonandmary: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 11 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Putinofrussia: 11:05am On May 25, 2022 |
Pinklygul: Advisor on gas projects? Prove that sir. 4 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by OkoroBufo: 11:05am On May 25, 2022 |
Pinklygul:Mention one ibo billionaire that didn't/doesn't owns an oil well or enjoy(ed) Government's patronage. -Okoro bufo 12 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Pinklygul: 11:12am On May 25, 2022 |
OkoroBufo: This stupid boy again! Eish!!!!! Igbos don't have dollar billionaires No quote me again, thanks |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Chimaraymond455: 11:13am On May 25, 2022 |
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. |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by realestate99: 11:14am On May 25, 2022 |
Barryseal: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. 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Pinklygul: 11:15am On May 25, 2022 |
Putinofrussia: Prove? I should prove what exactly? You dropped a name,I googled,got the information You are a confused HUMAN! |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Putinofrussia: 11:16am On May 25, 2022 |
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/ 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Afonjakid: 11:20am On May 25, 2022 |
Putinofrussia: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 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Pinklygul: 11:24am On May 25, 2022 |
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 |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Afonjakid: 11:24am On May 25, 2022 |
Shawnnn01: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 |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Putinofrussia: 11:31am On May 25, 2022 |
Pinklygul: lol Lamentations Even Ibadan is more developed than the entire Igboland 10 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by realestate99: 11:36am On May 25, 2022 |
Putinofrussia: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. 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by 9gerian: 11:36am On May 25, 2022 |
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: 8 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Nobody: 11:41am On May 25, 2022 |
9gerian: 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, .. |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Nobody: 11:45am On May 25, 2022 |
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Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by realestate99: 11:46am On May 25, 2022 |
[quote author=jerseyboy post=113157706][/quote] Yes!!! Emotional vulnerability is an obstacle in applying wisdom seamlessly. |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Reality3080: 11:49am On May 25, 2022 |
NigerianSage:igbos are naturally insecure Once it’s not about them it shouldn’t be about another person 8 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by emerged01(m): 11:51am On May 25, 2022 |
Mooh247: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. 5 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by 9gerian: 11:57am On May 25, 2022 |
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: 6 Likes |
Re: Reno Praised Yorubas On Twitter. See How Igbos Reacted. by Afonjakid: 12:02pm On May 25, 2022 |
9gerian:You are not making sense, your links are just Nigerian groups in USA and UK. What of other remaining countries nko |
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