₦airaland Forum

Nefort:
That is the truth!!!

If you have a large Gold reserve in your backyard and it makes you wealthy then it is your luck and it doesn't change the fact that the Gold reserves made you wealthy.

Yorubas are lucky that the commercial capital of Nigeria is in Lagos which got developed as a result of the early colonial influence, Government influence, and then investment inflows from foreign and local sources. They are reaping the benefits and it doesn't change the fact that Yorubas are benefiting from it. This is why Yorubas dominate certain areas like IT, Banking etc.

Lagos is the commercial center of the Yorubas not of Nigeria and it is as a result of Yorubas concentrating their wealth there.

It has nothing to do with colonial influence, government influence, Foreigners.

During the colonial government only a part of Lagos island was the capital and only white people and Nigerian colonial government workers were allowed there.

The rest if Lagos was filled with dirt roads, forests, and underdevelopment. No University in Lagos, no teaching hospitals, no housing estates built by the British, no pipe borne water.

Yorubas are reaping the benefits of Yoruba wealth concentration.

So again, stop saying nonsense.

BloomingDale:
You guys should be fighting for your Oduduwa country then. I’m sure it will be the greatest country in Africa. We Niger Deltans want to leave.

How do you plan to leave?

Leave to form what?

tunjilana:
The first woman to drive car in naija, Fela mama...didnt drive her car in lagos.

Yoruba is one of the most gender-inclusive tribe in Nigeria...we dont have laws that set our women to fail.

No hefty bride price
willingness to accept them back when they face abuse in marriage
Equal share of their father's property
Traditional roles in rulership from pre historic times (Iyalode, Iyaloja) etc
Females can own land and do whatever they lie with it
Females dominate markets in yoruba land unlike other tribes where na men dey run market

So we have bn setting up our women for success since way back and what u see is just many generations of women running miles without any barrier

Nicely put.

codemaniacs:
Lagos is the commercial center of the Yorubas not of Nigeria and it is as a result of Yorubas concentrating their wealth there.

It has nothing to do with colonial influence, government influence, Foreigners.

During the colonial government only a part of Lagos island was the capital and only white people and Nigerian colonial government workers were allowed there.

The rest if Lagos was filled with dirt roads, forests, and underdevelopment. No University in Lagos, no teaching hospitals, no housing estates built by the British, no pipe borne water.

Yorubas are reaping the benefits of Yoruba wealth concentration.

So again, stop saying nonsense.

Yoruba wealth alone can NEVER make Lagos what it is today. Every tribe in Nigeria plus foreigners invested their money in Lagos. Hausas invested there, Igbos invested heavily there, Ijaws invested there, westerners invested there heavily and so on. Nigerians plus foreigners and the federal government collectively invested and made Lagos what it is today.

codemaniacs:
Igbos and other southern tribes have crude oil, gas, farmlands, population, coal, home advantage e.t.c.

They have much more than the Yorubas have and will ever have so stop saying nonsense.

Lagos was made capital of Nigeria since 1914. It's a long time to reap so much benefits as a capital area. The status of being a capital area enable it attract so much investment and companies over many years. Oil money alone can not make a city become like Lagos.

Nefort:
Lagos was made capital of Nigeria since 1914. It's a long time to reap so much benefits as a capital area. The status of being a capital area enable it attract so much investment and companies over many years. Oil money alone can not make a city become like Lagos.

Nefort:
Yoruba wealth alone can NEVER make Lagos what it is today. Every tribe in Nigeria plus foreigners invested their money in Lagos. Hausas invested there, Igbos invested heavily there, Ijaws invested there, westerners invested there heavily and so on. Nigerians plus foreigners and the federal government collectively invested and made Lagos what it is today.

England did not build primary schools, secondary schools, universities, health centers, hospitals, stadiums, technical institutes, vocation centers, maternity hospitals, pediatric hospitals, sports centers, housing estates, roads e.t.c. all over Nigeria between 1914 and 1960 and after..

they took the billions they made from Nigeria and other places they colonized and used it to build England they did not use it to build Nigeria and the other places they colonized. So foreigners and non-Yorubas did not add or bring anything to Lagos.

You build your origins when you have money.. it is the intelligent thing to do when you have money infact it is what you do when you have money..

Yorubas alone made Lagos what it is today..

codemaniacs:
England did not build primary schools, secondary schools, universities, health centers, hospitals, stadiums, technical institutes, vocation centers, maternity hospitals, pediatric hospitals, sports centers, housing estates, roads e.t.c. all over Nigeria between 1914 and 1960 and after..

they took the billions they made from Nigeria and other places they colonized and used it to build England they did not use it to build Nigeria and the other places they colonized. So foreigners and non-Yorubas did not add or bring anything to Lagos.

You build your origins when you have money.. it is the intelligent thing to do when you have money infact it is what you do when you have money..

Yorubas alone made Lagos what it is today..

You must be joking. No need replying you anymore.

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BloomingDale:
You guys should be fighting for your Oduduwa country then. I’m sure it will be the greatest country in Africa. We Niger Deltans want to leave.

Oduduwa Republic wey I go drag u go. Why u dey jealousy