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AndroBlaze:
The guy is just a fool, of all the stories he could use this Friday to attack Yoruba... it is this one which only shows again how accommodating we are.

My grandmother (of blessed memory) could not speak English and was a typical core Yoruba landlord who always preferred to rent her flats to people she felt had good manners. She was from Ife, so she mostly preferred people from her place in particular.

When I stayed with her for a while, I saw the easiest way to confuse her was to pretend to have manners, bring your personal problems to her to solve and so on. So many of her Yoruba tennants did this before still eventually falling out with her as she was a shrewd woman.

One day she wanted to do a general renovation of her property ...all the tenants as usual started to bring in their contractors with silly quotes since they knew Mama cannot go to the market to verify anything. I was getting angry until she told me she already had a plan. She told me she would call one of the best tennants she ever had ( who happened to sell building materials) that would never cheat her.

So one fateful day I came back from work, saw a strange car in front of the compound and I guessed she had a visitor. When I got to the parlour I saw her laughing with someone who was clearly struggling to speak Yoruba but understood what she was saying. In short, it was a typical Igbo businessman who in a million years I would have never expected to be the tennant she had praised so much as being honest and industrious.

He was clearly a big man and one could see this job was too small for a big man like him to come all the way down. The quote he gave was almost half what the others had proposed and far more extensive than all I had seen. My grandmother did not even look at it....it was like her main aim of calling him over was to gist and reminisce. His boys started the work the next day and this was one of the few times my grandmother did not have any complaint or anxiety. The renovation stands till today.

Everyone has biases and prejudices, but in my experience most Yorubas don't allow that to stop them from knowing people should be ultimately judged individually for their unique personalities. Which is still what Osibanjo and his landlord actually did.

I stay in Surulere now and I can tell you that a lot of Surulere landlords that happen to be Igbo still prefer not to rent their flats to fellow Igbos.

Prejudice is part of life, its if you allow them to rule and control your life, that's what ultimately matters.

Warrior99:
Exactly how it should be!

I don't rent any of my properties to IGBOS as well.

You can't determine who a property owner should let HIS property to.

You can go elsewhere; besides IT'S NOT A MUST TO LIVE IN LAGOS OR ANY PART OF THE SOUTH WEST.

EOD!

AndroBlaze:
The guy is just a fool, of all the stories he could use this Friday to attack Yoruba... it is this one which only shows again how accommodating we are.

My grandmother (of blessed memory) could not speak English and was a typical core Yoruba landlord who always preferred to rent her flats to people she felt had good manners. She was from Ife, so she mostly preferred people from her place in particular.

When I stayed with her for a while, I saw the easiest way to confuse her was to pretend to have manners, bring your personal problems to her to solve and so on. So many of her Yoruba tennants did this before still eventually falling out with her as she was a shrewd woman.

One day she wanted to do a general renovation of her property ...all the tenants as usual started to bring in their contractors with silly quotes since they knew Mama cannot go to the market to verify anything. I was getting angry until she told me she already had a plan. She told me she would call one of the best tennants she ever had ( who happened to sell building materials) that would never cheat her.

So one fateful day I came back from work, saw a strange car in front of the compound and I guessed she had a visitor. When I got to the parlour I saw her laughing with someone who was clearly struggling to speak Yoruba but understood what she was saying. In short, it was a typical Igbo businessman who in a million years I would have never expected to be the tennant she had praised so much as being honest and industrious.

He was clearly a big man and one could see this job was too small for a big man like him to come all the way down. The quote he gave was almost half what the others had proposed and far more extensive than all I had seen. My grandmother did not even look at it....it was like her main aim of calling him over was to gist and reminisce. His boys started the work the next day and this was one of the few times my grandmother did not have any complaint or anxiety. The renovation stands till today.

Everyone has biases and prejudices, but in my experience most Yorubas don't allow that to stop them from knowing people should be ultimately judged individually for their unique personalities. Which is still what Osibanjo and his landlord actually did.

I stay in Surulere now and I can tell you that a lot of Surulere landlords that happen to be Igbo still prefer not to rent their flats to fellow Igbos.

Prejudice is part of life, its if you allow them to rule and control your life, that's what ultimately matters.

Goodnewsforlife:
my father has 11 houses n he told the agents loud n clear that there are 3 sets of people the agent should never give house to

Igbo
Police
Lawyer

An Igbo man will always give u problem, he will prefer to take u to court n delay payment than paying u your money.
Imagine in 2010, cos of 120k house rent this Igbo guy took my father to court cos of broken kitchen pipe even when he was not around n they can't break his door to fix it.

They don't like peace n they are proud, in tenants meeting they will always want their wish to stand even if it's against that of others n it's wrong.

Police, him n his wife will always cause problem cos they know they can take u to station n frustrate u.

Lawyer, he will always look for loopholes n lapses so he can take u to court n not pay rent

advanceDNA:
This tribal thing and nairaland..!!!


Oga seun ...u need a special mod to tackle tribal post and topics....


Its too much

Goodnewsforlife:
Igbos are naturally greedy, it just took long for yorubas to know

The northerners know that since n they have learnt to deal with them

An Igbo man is not satisfied until he takes what belongs to others.

Imagine there are 3 things n 3 people n an igbo wants to take 2 out of 3, he doesn't care if the last person doesn't have any.

The same Igbos who will never allow an imo man become anything in anambara let alone a stranger is celebrating that an Igbo man is made king in Bauchi

That's d life of an Igbo, your own is our own but my own is my own.

OKOATA:
So just because you had one troublesome neighbour then that means all Igbos are the same. So if skull mining is prevalent in the SW and I accuse you of being a skull miner does that also make sense? Stop generalising and stereotyping it will do you know good. Even Yorubas take their landlords to court so I don't understand your wrap mentality. Don't sha carry this thinking inside grave cos that's where it will end.

mightyhaze:
Why the old lawyer dey fear Igbo Man na



No dey fear igbo jor..them be man like u. Forget their impressive build and intimidating mental and physical strength.. imagine ,u have arsenal to deal with any erring tenant except the Igbo


I see some young able men on the thread here also quaking in their boots at the mere mention of Igbo...what's happening here pls🙄

motymop:
What about the tribal one going on Twitter

There is more tribalism and brain rot write up on Twitter than on nairaland

DesChyko:
And they are not stopping anytime soon. Now Civic Education textbooks by their kinsmen are spreading tales to school kids that Igbos invaded, kidnapped, and sold Yorubas into slavery prompting the intervention of Moremi of Ife. No historical records backs this proof; just tales from dark hearts.

Igbo hate cannot be what will be used to advance Yoruba nation as a united front. Just like our hustle, this has now become our business. And we must speak against such lies whenever we see it. Look for other common goals to advance your unity.

Nomercie:
@bold, you must be mad if you don't see anything bad in Zik becoming premier of Southwest

ElSudani:
Hubris, probably another reason some people wouldn't rent their property to you.
Intimidating physical bla bla bla. You are more annoying than scary.

mightyhaze:
Cry louder with more phlegm


That's what the post was meant to achieve eleribu

ElSudani:
Your father.

ElSudani:
Your father and his father before him.

mightyhaze:
What about him, Eleribu?

AndroBlaze:
The guy is just a fool, of all the stories he could use this Friday to attack Yoruba... it is this one which only shows again how accommodating we are.

My grandmother (of blessed memory) could not speak English and was a typical core Yoruba landlord who always preferred to rent her flats to people she felt had good manners. She was from Ife, so she mostly preferred people from her place in particular.

When I stayed with her for a while, I saw the easiest way to confuse her was to pretend to have manners, bring your personal problems to her to solve and so on. So many of her Yoruba tennants did this before still eventually falling out with her as she was a shrewd woman.

One day she wanted to do a general renovation of her property ...all the tenants as usual started to bring in their contractors with silly quotes since they knew Mama cannot go to the market to verify anything. I was getting angry until she told me she already had a plan. She told me she would call one of the best tennants she ever had ( who happened to sell building materials) that would never cheat her.

So one fateful day I came back from work, saw a strange car in front of the compound and I guessed she had a visitor. When I got to the parlour I saw her laughing with someone who was clearly struggling to speak Yoruba but understood what she was saying. In short, it was a typical Igbo businessman who in a million years I would have never expected to be the tennant she had praised so much as being honest and industrious.

He was clearly a big man and one could see this job was too small for a big man like him to come all the way down. The quote he gave was almost half what the others had proposed and far more extensive than all I had seen. My grandmother did not even look at it....it was like her main aim of calling him over was to gist and reminisce. His boys started the work the next day and this was one of the few times my grandmother did not have any complaint or anxiety. The renovation stands till today.

Everyone has biases and prejudices, but in my experience most Yorubas don't allow that to stop them from knowing people should be ultimately judged individually for their unique personalities. Which is still what Osibanjo and his landlord actually did.

I stay in Surulere now and I can tell you that a lot of Surulere landlords that happen to be Igbo still prefer not to rent their flats to fellow Igbos.

Prejudice is part of life, its if you allow them to rule and control your life, that's what ultimately matters.

ElSudani:
What about him?
He is the quintessential eleribu just like his father before him and you obviously.

Goodnewsforlife:
if I start listing what Igbos have done in my father's house then we won't leave here

There's one police station in Ibadan called adelubi police station (u can Google it). My brother was d one that dealt with that Igbo guy when my dad was tired of him, he sold that Igbo guys properties to pay his house rents n accumulated NEPA bill n still lock him up.

U can go n verify

Same with lawyers n police, rent house to d 3 at your own peril.

An Igbo man will have a car n every night when people are sleeping that's when he will start playing his village music in d compound n when they tell him to reduce d volume he will tell u he's not oweing u so he can do anything

What about pounding fufu upstairs?
N they won't even see any big deal about it, they will say they have paid n can do anything, I fear Igbo men but I fear their women pass

Those ones are heartless, I pity those who marry them

Penguin2:
I will ignore the insult and recognize that you made valid points.

But unfortunately the present generation of your tribesmen, especially those on this platform, seem to lump Igbos together and judge them without looking at individual characters.

That’s what irks some of us who would have ordinarily wanted to be decent.

Penguin2:
After winning majority in free and fair election?

Goodnewsforlife:
Igbos are naturally greedy, it just took long for yorubas to know

The northerners know that since n they have learnt to deal with them

An Igbo man is not satisfied until he takes what belongs to others.

Imagine there are 3 things n 3 people n an igbo wants to take 2 out of 3, he doesn't care if the last person doesn't have any.

The same Igbos who will never allow an imo man become anything in anambara let alone a stranger is celebrating that an Igbo man is made king in Bauchi

That's d life of an Igbo, your own is our own but my own is my own.

DesChyko:
And they are not stopping anytime soon. Now Civic Education textbooks by their kinsmen are spreading tales to school kids that Igbos invaded, kidnapped, and sold Yorubas into slavery prompting the intervention of Moremi of Ife. No historical records backs this proof; just tales from dark hearts.

Igbo hate cannot be what will be used to advance Yoruba nation as a united front. Just like our hustle, this has now become our business. And we must speak against such lies whenever we see it. Look for other common goals to advance your unity.

Penguin2:
Just so you all know that the bigotry and Igbo hate didn’t start today.

It started since Awolowo planted it on the night of the inauguration of Western Regional Assembly when he convinced Yorubas that were elected on the platform of NCNC to defect to AG so that AG can become majority and he (Awolowo) and not Azikiwe, can become Premier of Western Region.

Since then, that region has not recovered from Igbophobia and bigotry. With some exceptions of course.

motymop:
What about the tribal one going on Twitter

There is more tribalism and brain rot write up on Twitter than on nairaland

Penguin2:
Just so you all know that the bigotry and Igbo hate didn’t start today.

It started since Awolowo planted it on the night of the inauguration of Western Regional Assembly when he convinced Yorubas that were elected on the platform of NCNC to defect to AG so that AG can become majority and he (Awolowo) and not Azikiwe, can become Premier of Western Region.

Since then, that region has not recovered from Igbophobia and bigotry. With some exceptions of course.

OKOATA:
Ok I hear you but if we are to look at it critically we Yorubas too have our own for body. I remember when I was working as a 988 operator working for Lafarge. We transported some machines to Kano from Ewekoro that year and most of the Hausas too hated Yorubas with passion saying they are cunny and greedy. We had to stay at a hotel around that area before they accuse us of Blasphemy. So if Igbos are worse, we yorubas also have our own for body and that's the fact.

Goodnewsforlife:
oga when did u become Yoruba?

Warrior99:
God knows what Yoruba landlords (and even Igbos) have seen in the hands of Igbo tenants in the South West.

This gaslighting thread disguised as a victim's plight is DEAD ON ARRIVAL!