₦airaland Forum

00FFT00:
Go and reside in Anambra, make a meaningful impact in the state such as Igbos have in Lagos, and come back to defame Igbos. By the way, Governor Soludo has a non-Igbo in his cabinet.

You can't sit in your village in Oyo state and expect to be appointed or elected into positions of leadership in places you've only heard about on TV. Igbos deserve what they get in Lagos and much more. It is Igbos who live, work, and pay taxes in Lagos, that voted for the people you are praising your tribal kinsmen for. They have the voting strength in Lagos and are constitutionally granted the right to exercise their civil rights.

If you are in any doubt, watch how Lagos will vote in February. E go shock both you and your ancestor, emi lokan

derecho:
Yawns... Is it difficult to understand why Nigerians won't vote APC?
All these nonsense won't work.
Maybe if na Osinbajo,Yorubas fit reason am

lastcall:
Peter Obi giving them high blood pressure

Abdul05:
Ibos are not friendly .. ;



They don't really like stranger..

gadgethead:
How will Yorubas be there? When you are even hostile to them in the southwest, how will you be to them in the southeast?

00FFT00:
How about Tinubu who disenfranchised Igbos from registering to vote in Lagos?. Was he also right to deploy his thugs to snatch ballot boxes and intimidate voters in Igbo-dominated polling units?.

aikyg:
The man is a director. That's like the highest level in civil service.

tctrills:
I don't have a shop in computer village so you tell me. Just so you know, I started a small so called 2x2 drug store in Lagos after NYSC. Today it's more profitable than a gym I own. You guys don't do business, what would you know.

paramakina202:
That one na history,today they are in different state and should be allowed to rule over themselves.
History has it that the founders of Asaba came from Nteje in Anambra state and Isu people of Imo state founded Ibuzo in Delta etc should we go and occupy them?

toneroforever:
I beg to differ,I'd rather say that apart from neighbouring tribes from the SS,most other tribes don't live in the SE as much as the Igbos live outside of the east. The SS tribes, Hausas, Yorubas, Benue, Ghanaians, Camerounians etc that live here, the locals treat them in a friendly manner. We relate well with strangers.
One thing u should have asked about is why don't those non-Igbos buy land & build houses in the east like Igbos do elsewhere outside Igboland. When people say Igbos don't believe in one Nigeria I laugh because Igbos took risk & invested outside their own homeland which other tribes rarely do. It's not the fault of Igbos that other tribes don't buy properties in Igboland, maybe their fears could be a fallout of the civil war.

00FFT00:
Nobody prevented Yoruba from staking a claim anywhere in Igbo land. In fact, I attended secondary school with a Yoruba kid whose mother sold animals for fetish practices in the east. The reality remains that Yoruba cannot prevail against a very competitive and astute Igbo in just about any field.

While I sympathise with our brothers from the Southwest, they need to quit blackmailing Igbos in their attempt to cover their lack of will to adventure and grassroots retail entrepreneurship.

This is exactly what enabled Igbos to dominate Lagos in the way and manner you witness today, and they continue to make inroads into more places in the region. Channel your anger into heading east and staking a claim in the region by beating Igbos in their game on their turf as they did you.

You did not allow Igbos anything. They pushed their agenda through by sheer hard work and painful determination, denying themselves basic luxuries until such a time that they can afford these things without negatively impacting their capital base.

Learn from them if you can.

00FFT00:
Lagos was our capital, and our collective commonwealths mostly from the south-south and southeast regions financed its infrastructure and human development.

Igbos single-handedly developed vast areas of what is Lagos today, and this is evident in their migration and dwell patterns. 30 percent of Igbos in Lagos are landlords, and another 55 percent pay rent to Igbo landlords, besides other ethnic groups, including Yoruba.

Let that sink in.

Transform Oshogbo to another Lagos, and I will lead the campaign to deport all Igbos from Lagos. Until then, we are one Nigeria. We built Lagos to what it is today with all other Nigeria ethnicities, and we will remain and prosper in Lagos, and indeed anywhere in Nigeria.

00FFT00:
You are at liberty to remain another man's slave. Who gave the Igbo man anything?. Are you sure you reside in Nigeria?.

00FFT00:
The constitution is clear regarding how to qualify to run for office. The Igboman worked hard and qualified. No one prevented your people, including yourself, from qualifying to run for any position in the southeast.

paramakina202:
I asked you guys a question which no one have given answer to it.
Is it only in Lagos state that you all practice one Yoruba?
Can Ekiti man be governor in Osun state?

00FFT00:
Oga,

Why e dey pain una say others dey also do well in lagos?. Since when did lagos declare independence from nigeria?.
Are the Igbos being fed free in Lagos?. Are they not sweating it out like everybody else in lagos?

What is it with Yoruba and jealousy?. Una be enemies of progress abi wetin?. No be anybody force una sell una lands give people wey the matter come dey look like say una dey regret. And una still dey busy sell much more.

There's no free meal for anyone in Lagos, including the Igbo. They paid their dues like everyone else, and then some. Quit crying jor. No one owes you anything. Lagos belongs to all Nigerians. We built it together.

Ibadanpikin:
LAGOS is a no mans land.

leokid866:
lol because when God dey create Nigeria he talk say na only Igbo go dey do business... because it is only the tax from their 2x2 shop, pharmacy and gym that is generating 50Billion monthly IGR per month in Lagos..... .........you've still not told us whether you pay tax.....yes your business is profitable......have you played your tax? Granted you might be making less that 25M per year and be considered an SME but when last did you do a filling to FIRS? LIRS? or the CAC?.......you don't pay tax, you wear out available resources then dare come online and declare your host land as no man's land......be like say you want make Ogun Keeeeellll you Dere.....

tctrills:
Did you read what you wrote because it does not make sense. Now let me educate you fool. In Nigeria, trade (buying and selling) makes up a larger percent of your GDP than oil and gas and manufacturing. Those so called 2x2 shops are creating more wealth that the multinationals. The problem with you kids is that you only watch movies. You don't know how your world operates. Fool.
Again, go and look up how much your non oil imports are adding to GDP then you would know the contribution of the 2x2 boys to Lagos. I know they don't teach this in school but you can educate yourself.
As far back as 2013, computer village was generating over $2 billion, please verify. That small market in the heart of Ikeja was the most productive area in terms of generating wealth in Ikeja.
Because you don't trade, you have no idea. All of us can't be area boys like you. Some of us needs to produces wealth and pay taxes.

akinremiayomide:
oga shift
2x2 shops does not add to GDP of Lagos

tctrills:
You don't read, what do you know. But I can tell you that area boys don't add to Lagos economy.

00FFT00:
Lagos was our capital, and our collective commonwealths mostly from the south-south and southeast regions financed its infrastructure and human development.

Igbos single-handedly developed vast areas of what is Lagos today, and this is evident in their migration and dwell patterns. 30 percent of Igbos in Lagos are landlords, and another 55 percent pay rent to Igbo landlords, besides other ethnic groups, including Yoruba.

Let that sink in.

Transform Oshogbo to another Lagos, and I will lead the campaign to deport all Igbos from Lagos. Until then, we are one Nigeria. We built Lagos to what it is today with all other Nigeria ethnicities, and we will remain and prosper in Lagos, and indeed anywhere in Nigeria.

OGHENAOGIE:
idiot was Calabar lokoja not capital before... Una de mad... Kuku say 70 percent of landlord in Lagos are Igbos shebi obi ll win Lagos... Foolish arrogant tribe that think Nigeria must contor their useless agenda

drealcivilceno:
It is a lie... I have seen yorubas in the east and they are okay. Una no dey come from una land!

Abdul05:
Ibos are not friendly .. ;



They don't really like stranger..

leokid866:
we are not pained you are doing well in Lagos, we appreciate you for coming and ask that you tell your family and friends about our wonderous state.....what we don't like is your lack of disrespect to us your host by calling a Land we have cared for since before your father's knew to call themselves Igbos as no man's land......if it is sure for your father that Lagos is no man's land why didn't your people wait when the civil war started? Shebi it is easy to shout no man's land now why una no wait that time defend the land?

leokid866:
bit Akeredolus wife ran for office on her state and was denied because she no longer belongs to them....in fact they did not let her and her crew into the hall the primary election was taking place.......

00FFT00:
Nigeria did not attack Lagos, they attacked the east. Our papa dem went to do what men do.
Igbos will defend Lagos today if it comes to it. They are too invested in the city and will lose as much as anyone otherwise.

00FFT00:
Go and reside in Anambra, make a meaningful impact in the state such as Igbos have in Lagos, and come back to defame Igbos. By the way, Governor Soludo has a non-Igbo in his cabinet.

You can't sit in your village in Oyo state and expect to be appointed or elected into positions of leadership in places you've only heard about on TV. Igbos deserve what they get in Lagos and much more. It is Igbos who live, work, and pay taxes in Lagos, that voted for the people you are praising your tribal kinsmen for. They have the voting strength in Lagos and are constitutionally granted the right to exercise their civil rights.

If you are in any doubt, watch how Lagos will vote in February. E go shock both you and your ancestor, emi lokan

leokid866:
lol....this is the true nature of the Igbo man....who gave you anything? Before the civil war you guys controlled practically everything from economy to military but the rest of us did not care cause we could freely chose our leaders to represent us and we were contented......but you people's greed drove you to say you want more.......you slaughtered others and then sought to consolidate power at the centre which was controlled by Ironsi till the north slapped you guys back to the dark ages.......you dont remember you had everything but decided to throw it all away you now dare come online to say no one gave you anything

leokid866:
Aregbesola was a commissioner in Lagos before becoming a governor, currently there's a senator who is from Ogun and has run two terms as a senator in Lagos and his currently seeking his third term on a ticket from Ogun state so what rubbish are you talking about? We the Yoruba see ourselves as One "Omo Iya Kan" we don't segregate......